History VideoGame / Lufia

* ArcherArchetype: Artea in terms of personality. However, he can wield other weapons like swords and rods. He [[TheGunslinger uses guns]] in the remake but retains most of his personality from the original.

* [[DropTheHammer Drop the Axe]]: Guy in the remake.

* BonusBoss: The Egg Dragon in ''Lufia II'', which requires a lengthy {{sidequest}} before you are allowed to fight it. Also, the Master Jelly at the bottom of [[BonusDungeon the Ancient Cave]].
** In ''Lufia: The Legend Returns'', both of these bosses return as Bonus Bosses, as well as a new one: [[spoiler: Iris]].

* {{Cap}}: The Egg Dragon, a BonusBoss in ''Lufia II'', has the largest amount of HP the game allows for. However, the developers obviously thought nobody would be silly enough to use a healing item on it, so they did not ensure that its HP could not exceed that number. As a result, you can easily defeat this boss--which normally must be faced in a NewGamePlus with the ultra-expensive equipment set--by using a low-level healing item on it, thereby causing its HP to wrap around, and then attacking it once. A pretty spectacular blunder in a game where killing bosses within a certain number of rounds would yield a nice item reward...

** ''Lufia II'''s version allows the player to start a new game where experience and gold received are greatly increased, speeding up LevelGrinding and making buying the ultra-expensive equipment and beating the {{Hopeless Boss Fight}}s (including the BonusBoss) possible. A third "Gift" mode limits the game to the Ancient Cave and allows the player to freely select party members.

* {{Sidequest}}s: Naturally. Notably, in ''Lufia II'', you can collect the various Dragon Eggs and bring them to the Egg Dragon to get a wish granted (selected from a list). One can keep doing this to get all the wishes, but each time a wish is granted, the eggs are randomly redistributed among ''all of the chests in the game''. In order to recollect them, one must get all the normal treasures beforehand and then use Sonar to find dungeons that suddenly have unclaimed treasure. Exhausting your wishes allows you to take the Egg Dragon on as a BonusBoss.

* {{Klotski}}: The "World's Hardest Puzzle" in ''Lufia II''.

* AllYourPowersCombined: The final battle is the same as the prologue battle up until you defeat Daos, the Sinistral leader. Then, as a surprise, he and the other Sinistrals ([[spoiler: minus Erim]])) [[spoiler: merge together to form Guard Daos, the final boss]]. They try to pull the exact same trick at the end of ''The Legend Returns'', too.

* ''VideoGame/LufiaTheLegendReturns'' (2001, GBC): The Sinistrals fail to stay dead; heroes attempt to correct this. This one was also localized by Natsume.

* FiveManBand:
** In Lufia II, the formation went like this:
-->TheHero: Maxim
-->TheLancer: Guy
-->TheBigGuy: Dekar
-->TheSmartGuy: Lexis
-->TheChick: Tia, Selan
-->SixthRanger: Artea
** The Sinistrals usually come in [[FourIsDeath Four]], but an exception is made in ''The Legend Returns.''
-->BigBad: Daos is the unquestioned leader of the Sinistrals
-->TheDragon: Zalbak in ''The Legend Returns'' is a powerful, but animalistic god.
-->DarkChick: Erim is the lone female.
-->TheBrute: Gades is the warrior of the group who [[BloodKnight loves combat]].
-->EvilGenius: Amon uses his brain and power to spread disorder among the many enemy ranks.

* ''VideoGame/LufiaCurseOfTheSinistrals'' (2010, NDS; known in Japan as ''Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods''): The re-imagining of ''Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals''. It was released on February 25th, 2010 in Japan and on October 12th, 2010 in North America by ''Lufia II''[='=]s original localizer Natsume. It's now an ActionRPG and the characters have been redesigned, which has led to some fans' complaining TheyChangedItNowItSucks.

* UnfortunateNames: In the remake, which has voice-acting, it's finally revealed that Gades' name is pronounced Gah-dess and not Gah-these. In other words, his name sounds exactly like "Goddess". It's exactly as distracting as it sounds.
** Then there are those who thought his name was pronounced "Gay-dees". "Gah-dess" is actually LESS distracting after that.

* CallReceivalArea: ''Lufia II''.

* CharacterExaggeration: The original heroes in the prologue of ''Lufia I'' speak much more formally than either the main characters or their own selves in the prequel, leading to a somewhat bizarre occurrence in the final dungeon where the party enacts a conversation that was fairly ominous in the first game but actually sounds somewhat silly in the breezier language of the prequel. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the prequel being translated by a different company to the original.

* NewGamePlus: ''Lufia II'''s version allows the player to start a new game where experience and gold received are greatly increased, speeding up LevelGrinding and making buying the ultra-expensive equipment and beating the {{Hopeless Boss Fight}}s (including the BonusBoss) possible. A third "Gift" mode limits the game to the Ancient Cave and allows the player to freely select party members.
** Curse of the Sinistrals [[JustifiedTrope justifies it in that]] [[spoiler: Erim goes back in time to change Maxim's fate]].

* ZettaiRyouiki: Tia and Selan in the remake.

* BadassGrandpa: Randolph of ''The Legend Returns.''
** [[spoiler: Dekar]] in ''Ruins of Lore''
** Guy in ''Fortress of Doom''. He stayed alive for ''years'' just [[spoiler:to tell Maxim's descendant about the threat to the world]]. In fact, he was willing to help save the world again [[spoiler: if it weren't for the fact that he died about a minute later]].

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: This is actually a plot point. The girl with the blue hair, in ''every'' game, [[spoiler:is Erim, the Sinistral of Death]]. Yes, that includes [[spoiler:Lufia herself]]. ''Never trust the blue-haired girl.''
** Subverted in ''Lufia II'', where [[spoiler:Erim's 'counterpart', Iris, actually has ''green'' hair]], and simply goes to the normal shade of Blue after The Reveal.
*** [[spoiler: Tia is the first girl with blue hair you meet in the 2nd game and is not Erim. Something of a RedHerring as she resembles Lufia from the first game.]]
*** [[spoiler: If you watch the introduction sequence for Lufia 2 carefully, you will notice when meeting Iris that she and Erim have the exact same hairstyle. So while the blue hair is a RedHerring, there's another distinctive tell.]]
** In addition, Dekar has pink hair in ''Curse of the Sinistrals''. In the original Lufia 2, his hair is dark blue with a bit of a pinkish/purple highlight.
*** Selan has blue hair as well (obviously done to [[RedOniBlueOni contrast]] Maxim's fire-red coif, and what with their blatant matching [[ColorCodedElements elemental affinities]]...) Of course, this isn't an issue in the original, where she has light green hair. Although to be fair, her hair in the first game has a shade of blue.

* AnimeHair: A few characters, but Dekar's SonicTheHedgehog hairdo is most notable.

* FiveBadBand: The Sinistrals usually come in [[FourIsDeath Four]], but an exception is made in ''The Legend Returns.''
-->BigBad: Daos is the unquestioned leader of the Sinistrals
-->TheDragon: Zalbak in ''The Legend Returns'' is a powerful, but animalistic god.
-->DarkChick: Erim is the lone female.
-->TheBrute: Gades is the warrior of the group who [[BloodKnight loves combat]].
-->EvilGenius: Amon uses his brain and power to spread disorder among the many enemy ranks.
* FiveManBand: In Lufia II, the formation went like this:

* AmbiguousGender: Artea in ''Lufia II''. If you try to look for official arts it won't help and it gets worse if you look at fan art.

''Lufia'', known as ''Estpolis Denki'' in Japan, is an [[AnachronicOrder anachronic]] series of role-playing games developed by Neverland that draw on elements from many other genres, including action-adventure, monster collecting, and especially puzzle games. The main antagonists of the main games are a group of evil {{Physical God}}s known as the Sinistrals.

* ''VideoGame/LufiaCurseOfTheSinistrals''(2010, NDS; known in Japan as ''Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods''): The re-imagining of ''Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals''. It was released on February 25th, 2010 in Japan and on October 12th, 2010 in North America by ''Lufia II''[='=]s original localizer Natsume. It's now an ActionRPG and the characters have been redesigned, which has led to some fans' complaining TheyChangedItNowItSucks.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: ''Lufia: The Legend Returns'' was riddled with typos, bad translations, and grammar problems galore. No surprise, considering the publisher's previous track record. ''Lufia II'' had a few gaffs, as well, such as completely forgetting to translate the Gratze Empire's name, leaving it in the text as the garbled "'3y Kingdom". Fortunately, Atlus's translation of ''The Ruins of Lore'' fixed that last one and the correction was implemented by Natsume in ''Curse of the Sinistrals''.

* QuicklyDemotedLeader: Selan is a terribly {{egregious}} example. Despite being a renowned general, no sooner does Maxim show up than she's ordered to partner with him, and by partner we mean follow. "Selan, this is your chance to experience being under another's command."

* ''VideoGame/LufiaTheRuinsOfLore'' (2002, GBA): GaidenGame set 20 years after ''Lufia II''. A GaidenGame and thus the only game not revolving around fighting the Sinistrals; instead, it involves an evil empire attempting to resurrect The Beast. Was actually not made by Neverland, but instead by the Japanese publisher of the first three games, Taito. Oddly enough, this game wasn't localized by Natsume, instead being localized by {{Atlus}} in North America.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: In Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals one can make a bit of unorthodox playing and whatsnot, and the characters react accordingly to it. The first example is in Tanbel Abandoned Mines, just before the part where Tia teaches you how to grab a box with her suitcase. If you move it beforehand, [[HilarityEnsues some interesting chat happens]].

* ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals'' (1995, SNES): The {{Prequel}} following the adventures of Maxim and the other original heroes above. Given a ForegoneConclusion by the prologue of the first. ''Lufia II'' is the most critically-acclaimed entry in the series. In North America it was localized by Natsume, which is probably best known for localizing the HarvestMoon games.

* CharacterExaggeration: The original heroes in the prologue of ''Lufia I'' speak much more formally than either the main characters or their own selves in the prequel, leading to a somewhat bizarre occurrence in the final dungeon where the party enacts a conversation that was fairly ominous in the first game but actually sounds somewhat silly in the breezier language of the prequel.