Lufia / Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals (SNES)

Ignore what the title screen says; today's game is actually Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals for the Super Nintendo. They dropped the number for the European version as the first game wasn't released over here and they didn't want consumers to have the unnecessary distraction. To be fair, the game's a prequel so it probably stands on its own just fine.

People have been asking me to take a look at this one forever; so of course I ignored them all and played the original Lufia instead. But today I'm finally playing the one that everyone's been recommending to me. This is the good Lufia (apparently).

Lufia & The Fortress of Doom (SNES)

Today I'm going to be investigating Lufia & The Fortress of Doom, not to be confused with Lufia, which is what the sequel's called in Europe. You see this never actually got a European release so they decided to pass its name along to the next game along, as seems to have been tradition with classic JRPGs released in the West.

I've had a few requests for this one. Actually most were for Lufia 2, but I figured it'd make more sense to play the games in order... even though the second game is actually a direct prequel, so it should technically come first, maybe. I dunno.