Damn this still holds up! What a game! The story isn't dealing with anything special but the writing is really charming. The characters come across as friends in a way very few games even come close to managing. The battle sprites are all very cute and fun too. Soundtrack is an all-timer. Everyone loves Dekar. He's strong and stupid that's the ultimate character.

I could see some dinging it for being very easy, which is fair but in many ways Lufia 2 is more like a Zelda than an RPG. You get tools that you use to solve puzzles, after all. One of them is even a hookshot. And they're good puzzles, at least if you like puzzles of this type. Professor Layton would not be invented for some years but I kept thinking of it while playing. There's a whole Roguelike mode/dungeon in here too which is a little bit repetitive for my tastes but definitely has some of the difficulty you'd want.

I still love this game after all the years. Actually I think I like it more as an adult who can solve the puzzles without help. Now, to take a big sip of water and play any of the other games in the series, which are surely similar and good

Reviewed on Mar 30, 2023


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