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Discuss. (Moved the info to another topic.)

Erm, this is for... Lufia 2? 1? That GBA piece of shit?

And... only the bosses are modified? Randoms, equipment, spells, etc remain untouched?

Oh yeah, I forgot to say it's for Lufia 2. I did add it in the description.

Random enemies are untouched with the exception of some later Ancient Cave monsters. However, the bosses are really hard now and you should know your equipment very well in order to stand a chance.

The spells are untouched, however there are a few equipment changes.

Two items now have another elemental properties. The Dual Blade now has its very own element and the Sea Ring has a slightly different element so that it isn't bugged anymore. (Now he's really effective against sea monsters.)

Besides, some items now have other IP moves. This is just so that some of the dummied out IP moves are at least available once.

Oh hai Artemis

I tried the Kureji Lufia patch maybe a year to two years ago. It's indeed very very hard. The thing that bothers me is that only the bosses are much harder, not the monsters. So you're basically forced to grind the same weak enemies that give the same amount of experience to gain a couple levels to stand a better chance against those bosses, and it doesn't feel very rewarding compared to other difficulty patches. Personally, I gave up in the second battle against Gades, because even though I read about a certain pattern on a topic on the GameFAQs board at the time, it didn't seem to work for me and I just couldn't survive it at all.

No offense.

I guess it would have been better if I played it on Retry mode, because while grinding was a solution after failing against a boss like ten times in a row, it was just making it less and less fun. I hoped to reach the Ancient Cave to have at least more diversity afterwards, but I couldn't reach it.

Maybe fix up regular monsters a little bit?

About the regular monsters... Somehow I don't like if even the ordinary monsters which are slaughtered within seconds during all the cutscenes give trouble. In my opinion it just disturbs the exploration of the dungeon if even these monsters are too powerful or too difficult to beat. Besides, it wouldn't work with the Ancient Cave so well because it would make the whole Ancient Cave runs way too tedious.

And yes, it's intended for Retry Mode. In the newer versions Retry Mode is even available right from the beginning. I think in Retry Mode they are only two situation where you have to grind for levels. The first time is the first Gades battle which is optional, anyway, and the second time is when Artea joins.

Therefore, I don't have intentions to change them.

Bosses on the other hand are very special encounters which should challenge the player and give them a unique feeling and therefore be special and memorable.

They don't need to be VERY difficult, just more difficult in the spirit of the mod?

Archael, on 24 October 2011 - 08:58 AM, said:

There isn't enough space for me to really change the monsters. And I think that just raising their stats would make especially the Ancient Cave more tedious and annoying.

Hello Artemis

I'll add a section for this tonight

Another hard mod for one of my favourite games? I need more time in the day.

This is one of my favourite games ever. Ever. Really.

I've had a few friends (besides the related ones that played along with me when I was kid) that enjoyed it as much but they were few. I feel like Lufia 2 is an extremely underrated game, although, it could be because of my literally best memories resides within it.
I've replayed it not much recently (a few years ago) and didn't go through all the sidequests, didn't really play it much but I don't feel like it had that need. I had a pretty hard time with some bosses (not with the caves, though) even without a need for rebalance, and seriously, the game is much more well-known because of its awesome puzzles. It might be because I didn't know much, I never got through ancient cave without savestates (I did get through all of it with savestates but as I was cheating, lufiagod felt I wasn't worthy and I couldn't beat the slime in the proposed time, so I had to cheat again and beat myself. I didn't felt really rewarded, but it was more for the sake of curiosity) and I felt it was a good game overall.

I still want to encourage you, and I hoped this had more fans and responses. I don't know if this mod is relatively new, but it deserves much, much more loving, for sure.

Good luck and keep up with the good work!!

I goddamn love that Ancient Cave. I've never beaten that slime, but I've cleared all the floors multiple times. Lufia style roguelike? More please.

Seph, on 09 November 2012 - 03:39 PM, said:

Thank you!

Well, the very first version was released somewhen in 2008 so it's not that new. And there was already quite some feedback at GameFAQs and Lufia World, so it's not so overseen as it may look.

It's been bugging me for a while, so I have to ask. Is your game's title クレジ? Like, courage spelled with katakana?

Kureji is a romanisation of crazy so I guess it would be written in katakana, yes. I would have thought that "kuresi" might be more accurate, but an online dictionary said "kureji".

Artemis, on 26 November 2012 - 11:45 AM, said:

The two are practically identical in pronunciation to the untrained eye ear.

Well, I guess I forgot that there isn't a syllable for "si" anyway. I meant "kurezi" instead which is indeed almost identical to "ji".

*looked at old sheet from my very first Japanese course*

But, really... After around 4-5 years speaking of "si" instead of "shi".

*prays that my teacher will never know about it*

Artemis, on 26 November 2012 - 12:27 PM, said:

I'm curious, how did you make the patch? Where did you get all of the information for editing enemies, their scripts, and everything else?