#lufia iii

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Inktober #5 - Cion (Lufia III) G-pen & ink, markers and gelly roll pen. ~sketch and photo below~

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Hi there! You seem to be quite the fan of Lufia in general, including the cancelled game Lufia III: Ruins Chasers. It's been many years since I've really looked into this, and the amount of info is quite surprising. Foremost among them is the article written over at unseen64, the one where it talks about the Lufia III design documents at the Japanese Yahoo auction website. It frustrates me to no end knowing there is basically a roadmap to creating the true Lufia III out there (and knowing no Japanese, I can't even try looking into it). The article doesn't say anything else, and this has probably already been looked into, but still, I'd like to hear it from someone more in-the-know than I. Has this been looked into, maybe through contacting the seller or the buyer? Is there hope?

As far as I know the auction was put up twice, and both times it ended without a single bid (both the minimum bid and the buyout price were very expensive)

I think some people have tried to contact the sellersome time after the auction disappeared, but without luck. (it's unknown whether the seller doesn't want to respond or just doesn't speak English or any other reasons)

Also, the movie on Unseen64 that says "Spring TGS'98 is not actually the TGS Demo Movie at all. That one is a fanmade trailer made with art/text that's inside the Estpolis III promotional booklet from TGS. (Pretty much back in the 90's, the Lufia.net webmaster took it from a Japanese Lufia fansite without being able to read Japanese and then that movie is still being mistaken for the TGS Demo Movie by western fans, even today.)

While the TGS Demo still can't be seen online nowadays, here is a Twitter Thread of someone who took some photos of the E3 Trailer that someone took at Natsume's booth at E3 1999.

https://twitter.com/ferricide/status/1403189477384724482?s=20&t=xPoUv-g9epiqJ0qMJCLo-Q

Natsume's E3 trailer is the very same trailer that was shown at Tokyo Game Show, except for the screen with the release date and the fact that they put a Lufia logo on top of the Japanese Estpolis logo.

Some other old information I remember was that Lufia III didn't get as far the programming stages and that it would have a top down isometric view, with 2D graphics that'd be enhanced with 3D (I guess 3D effects or object.

Also,I think a 2010 magazine mentioned that Lufia III may have a chance if Lufia DS sells well (it did not). Writing this from memory, but I think the article mentioned that since Lufia III was supposed to be the final chapter of the trilogy, but since so much time has passed since Lufia I and II released (Lufia II was 15 years old in 2010) they would like to have the story of Lufia II and I reintroduced first - before Lufia III would have chance.

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Lufia: The Ruins of Lore celebrates its 15th anniversary today in America. Set 25 years before Fortress of Doom with a job system and monster catching.

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Cion from Lufia III (2017)

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I was lucky enough to find a bunch of Natsume E3 promo booklets on Ebay some time ago 💸 Especially happy with the Ruins Chaser in the 1999 booklet

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Cion from Lufia III, Tia from Lufia Curse of the Sinistrals, Dekar from Lufia II and Myra from Energy Breaker.

These are actually post cards I made as gifts for people when I went on my trip to Tokyo in 2019.

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(Added Cion's jacket after all)

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Some experimenting with colored line art, using Cion from Lufia III as test subject.

(I couldn't decide whether to make his eyes blue or red, so I made them purple because blue+red=purple)