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Game Overview

Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals takes the classic SNES RPG and flips it on its head—gone are the turn-based battles, replaced with fast-paced real-time combat that actually works surprisingly well on the DS. You still play as Maxim and crew, but now you're dodging attacks and chaining sword slashes instead of waiting for menus.

The story starts familiar—ancient evil gods, mysterious ruins—but then veers off in unexpected ways. Some characters get way more screen time, others less, and there’s this one dungeon redesign that completely threw me off if you’ve played the original. The puzzles are still here, just reworked for the new movement system. Honestly, it feels like a weird but fun alternate universe version of Lufia II.

If you go in expecting a straight remake, you’ll be confused. If you treat it like its own thing, there’s a solid action-RPG hiding under the familiar names and places.