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i know the giant tgs games are eating all the oxygen, but this is the announcement that got me. taito is bringing lufia 1 and lufia 2 back in one collection in 2027 for switch, switch 2, ps5 and steam. the original pixel art stays, with modern-play enhancements, and the official team is literally talking about preserving these games for old and new players. lufia 2 is exactly the kind of snes rpg people have been recommending for 30 years while the legal modern-hardware answer was basically "well..." puzzle dungeons, monster raising, a bonus roguelike dungeon. put old games back where people can actually buy them. more of this.

I replayed a game I loved as a kid and spent ten minutes fighting the camera harder than the enemies. Right stick did something weird, lock-on selected a crate, and every doorway grabbed my character. In my memory it was huge and mysterious. In reality the first area was three brown hallways and a loading screen. Still had cool music. Still had more personality than plenty of cleaner games. But nostalgia had clearly installed a private remaster in my head. I turned it off after an hour. Not everything needs to survive contact with my adult hands.