Lufia II - The Savior Of Those On Earth

[@gr33nmachine3000]

When I heard this theme after Selen died and Maxim pleaded with Iris / Erim to tell him how to stop the Fortress of Doom from colliding into his home and son, I was gifted with this song. Never in a video game has a song made me want to spring into action. Even though this wasn't a timed event, I still treated it as if a narrow clock was ticking without a single second to waste. I yearn for that experience to return.

[@someonethere1122]

Just... one... more... crystal... R.I.P. Maxim... This part of the game had me in tears

[@jordanyoung745]

What about the ending when Iris dies in the remake?

[@dd.primetime7449]

Just replayed this masterpiece... the placement of the door before breaking the last stone is absolutely perfect... you walk right by the door you would proceed through after breaking the third stone giving you that hope that after this is finished I just walk out... yet...

[@phenel]

@@jordanyoung745 the remake was a completely different story and whatever, it's fine to be that, but it's not this story and honestly, doesn't hold a candle to the sacrifice that selan and maxim made especially when you couple it with one of the best songs to ever come out of the system.

[@battheman777]

Oh man. Lufia, Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana. This truly was the golden age of RPGs. Thanks for bringing me back.

[@Imnever]

what about super mario rpg?

[@nikolaikolev9427]

@@Imnever The amazing rpg's of the snes era are a lot.

[@PowerUpJohn]

this is pure teenager nostalgia for me. Lufia 2 was extremely expensive in the 1990's around $80 brand new locally and is still extremely pricey to me as a used cartridge, but i hope to get a physical Lufia 2 some time soon.

[@saph100]

I agree as well, I already have about 20 SNES games, hopefully this will be one of the gems of that

[@saph100]

Modern & Classical Gaming! Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky

[@saturntime]

Lufia II is the only game i have ever heard of, where you go into the game knowing from the start that both of your lead characters WILL die by the end, and once you get there, there is NO reduction of the emotional impact. You will be crying.

[@saph100]

saturntime indeed, you know, i thought it was also Pokémon mystery dungeon 2 but Grovyle went back to the future with Dusknoir, rather than a dying sacrifice he was still never to be seen again

[@saph100]

I think I know why it’s like that, Pokémon mystery dungeon was made by Chunsoft, who is affiliated as a close neighbor of Square Enix

[@anthonecallender5719]

Crisis Core would like a word with you. :-D

[@saturntime]

@@anthonecallender5719 That's actually a nice observation. This came first by a dozen year, but that makes it no less accurate! of course, this is a response to a seven year old comment, so I might be a little miffed.

[@anthonecallender5719]

saturntime LOL Touché. You’re right, I meant no offense.

[@LEONINMusic]

When somebody composes a tune like that he know he is making part of the history!

[@On_You]

Oh yes! Its just epic

[@tseveudire]

I still feel like I can do anything when I listen to this song

[@steverobinson6581]

Not sure if this was intended, but I always thought that this scene wasn't in Lufia I because it was after Artea and Guy escaped so no one survived to tell the tale. Lufia II was where you saw what 'actually' happened.

[@donadavs]

This scene hit me SO hard as a kid, I was bawling.

[@WakashimazuLP]

I see the end of the Game, I cried.. Lufia 2 - The best Game forever! R.I.P - Maxim and Selan..

[@xebatansis]

Nothing gets more intense than this ending.

[@PaveLowaftel]

Lufia was the birth of the RPG-loving me. And I still play this game today 😍❤️

[@Ecthyr]

To those who haven't played the game, it may sound ridiculous, but Maxim and Selan sacrificing themselves for the future of the world, and then Maxim pushing forward through the loss of Selan to do one last thing to save their son... It hits me.

[@misterWAHI]

Ugh! Listening to this song just tugs at my heart strings. Go Maxim! You have to save Jeros!

[@PercebeFeo]

It's not over yet! Hang on, Selan! I'll save you as well as everybody, give me your strength!!!!!!

[@Justforvisit]

I just got goosebumps from reading this.....

[@Chronoic]

It was at this moment that I knew it was all over, that I would be in tears.

[@Soloong_Gaybowzer]

I remember playing this decades ago. First Nintendo plays the song Holy Victim to bring you to tears at Selan's death scene. Then they promote a sense of both panic, urgency and grim purpose in this song knowing that you have still yet to save your child.

[@Optimum45]

Relics of a time forgotten. When stories, and the music, mattered more than how pretty it looked. How many games since the dawn of the Playstation era have had the kind of power these did? This is one of 4 games that had a story powerful enough to evoke every emotion within me in it's strongest form. And all 4 came from the SNES. May those days live on. And may they one day return.

[@drascin]

We seem to actually be having a bit of a resurgence on games that actually try to engage the player emotionally. Hellblade, NieR, Undertale, and the like. Which is pretty nice!

[@cross25011990]

It will long live RPG

[@kevinhendriksjeuh]

Goosebumps, every single time!

[@wanwanDe-fm4dv]

I am amazed by the number of comments here. Great to see there are people still remembering and treasuring this game after almost 3 decades!

[@eduardoguajardo5436]

You knew this game was turned into epicness when this music started.

[@Justforvisit]

Best Start of a Video Game Final EVER! :)

[@HeatIIEXTEND]

Justforvisit oh my yes

[@Drachenxx]

Eduardo Guajardo This game is damn legendary

[@an3582]

I fucking cried when this came on. Hell i still get teary eyed thinking about it

[@porkyminch5131]

It turned into epicness at the end?

[@artoriaxabyss8246]

just finished the game again today and man ... i was Crying a lot again ... damn love this song

[@Absolutely_Nobody]

Good goddamn. What an incredible song to punctuate the greatest sacrifice.

[@Y.Moroboshi]

This. Most people who cared for and followed the game played the first one, and it's amazing that it still could emotionally impact the player despite already knowing what's going to happen to Maxim and Selan.

[@PercebeFeo]

Selan... I,m... Let me rest with you.... We did it........ Epic song, awesome part, best game ever

[@Ileffi]

While Chrono Trigger has the overall best soundtrack of SNES games in my mind, this piece is something incredible. I will never forget the feeling I had when I reached this point in the game for the first time. Pure emotion! :o

[@diamondlancer]

I think part of it for me was I had already played Lufia 1, so I knew what happened up to the point they show in Lufia 1. Just when I thought the game was going to end as I expected, it didn't.

[@HeatIIEXTEND]

Terranigma and Lufia got Chrono Trigger ggnore

[@SSJ555]

俺の最後の波動を受け止めてくれ、デュアルブレード！

[@pilotamurorei]

I tear up just listening to this song. This song alone is enough to make ANYONE cry.

[@dwarfstar5635]

Goosebumps! Remembering how he destroyed the stones and giving his life. 🥺 I loved it as a kid and will always love the snes era. Thanks for the Upload, man. 😭

[@trouthuang1959]

Yuzuru Hanyu~

[@stargazer8679]

I finally found this song, the video in the end of re_pray was genious🥺💕💕💕

[@a.12-07]

​@@stargazer8679he uploaded it on his youtube channel!

[@corjonbett]

If you played Lufia 1, you knew they weren't going to be leaving, but... you still hoped.

[@ravenfire5827]

Imagine the greatness if Sony remade this Lufia for PS4. The marketing would be off the charts

[@Justforvisit]

Well, "Taito" recently got renewed / revived by it's rights holder, so there is hope :D

[@LoZTwilight]

This nostalgic feeling is making me want to do a "little rant" on current day open world or RPG games. So, sorry in advance I miss the days of great story telling. Hints at greater plots you never know anything of or about, getting so much character development backed by maybe one of the best j-RPG soundtrack ever made. When you start off innocent not knowing what a absolute shitstorm you are entering, betrayal, romance and even good character development for the "bad guy's" only a few games manage to get me close to nostalgic tears. Chrono trigger, secret of mana, legend of zelda (link's awakening, link to the past and OoT) lufia 2, FF5 and 7 and even if it wasn't popular Secret of Evermore. Those games set a golden standard for gaming that is super rare now a day's. It's almost like game developers are totally out of touch with this game genre. They drop in too much freeplay possibilities or too little, either a clusterfuck of a story or a very linear one. Soundtracks that are basically just bombastic movie scores that forget that small and subtle shifts can set a tone. Character development that is just plain and predictable. The fact that action can bring a set of consequences that you have to face. Take the composer of Chrono triggers soundtrack, that man worked himself to near dead to reach what he thought would be a perfect experience, he had stomach ulcers due to being overworked and stressed. He made one of the most integrid intriguing and fitting pieces to lift the game to a new level (and lets not forget he had to make about 50% a new due to his hardware crashing..). Now we just ramp in a bombastic over the top soundtrack that is musically simple but easy to listen to (example the OST that uematsu composed for FF and the others except for FFVX), just for the sake of being able to release 5 games in 5 years. same with graphics, it's all the same for new release, just follow the one game that has made a breakthrough this or last year. Look at all those new Bethesda games or Ubisoft.. "Hey Fortnite hit a big time, maybe we should make a bleak environment and add in some fluorescent colors." And there goes Fallout and Farcry. They should stop holding gamers hands while playing with tips, tutorials, on screen question marks, repetitive puzzle solving etc. Make something a little hard again, stop spoon feeding the player what to do. Make them walk around a big world just to talk and play what you thought were random NPC storylines. But were actually the key to finding your next location, so they finally give you a random hint or key or something.

[@PowerUpJohn]

this should have been the final boss theme. it is a great song that only plays once in an area with no further bosses ir monsters to battle. a 1 on 1 maxim vs daos, all 4 sinistrals, Arek, or guard daos would have been interesting

[@ChaosMissile]

Well ..... Just play the Curse of the Sinistrals remake. Especially do New Game Plus, reach the end and surprise your ears... 😉

[@ChaosMissile]

If you play the Curse of the Sinistrals remake, there's apparently a special final boss you can only face at the end only in NG+. The fact that I'm bringing it up here: try to guess what song plays during that special final boss >_>

[@thebepisboi]

I'm so tired, Selan.

[@greatpartnerLz]

Deam dude :'v

[@akiro9635]

Selan: I aint marry no bitch get your ass back up

[@AntheaFera]

I just got goosebumps reading this

[@zhangjao6328]

Daos is so easy to hate. What a great villain.

[@sigurdtheblue]

Thinking of this song all the time....

[@Xzeros]

Only Lufia 2 and Terranigma ending hit me so hard...

[@FFXI_Addict]

Any time I try to explain the ending of Terranigma to someone out loud, I always start crying. He just wanted to see the world he saved and not receive recognition. What a hero.

[@krowxliteofficial]

That is true! Either way, its a brilliant game that is very underated compared to others. This game deserves as much praise as other classics, it had good gameplay, great storyline, and combined the style with puzzles to move on in the game. Definitely one of the best games I've ever been able to play.

[@sgucjaqgyfepdaue]

What it conveys for me, the track I mean... is _necessity._ You _cannot_ fail. You _must not_ fail. And... you _will not_ fail. Come what may... you _will_ see it done.

[@bloodyraz0r]

woah... memories of my childhood... Most epic game & music!

[@jayrock8711]

Jeros. Mom and Dad and Uncle Guy and Artea. Aunt Tia, Uncle Dekar, Lexsis, Aguro, and Aunt Jerin and Grandma Lufia 😉🖤

[@justusbowman]

Despite some silly sequences sprinkled throughout this game, a scene or two absolutely gutted me. I'd never played the first game or even read about it. Surprises, indeed. Another strong part of this game is the romance. They easily could have fumbled or gone for something cliché. They swung for the fences instead. Mad respect.

[@Arcadia000]

*Breaks the first Mystic Stone.* "Two more to go..."

[@ravenfire5827]

Maxim has become exhausted

[@dashadow231]

I remember this game from way back when.....now I am an old man

[@Optimum45]

Breath of Fire 2 is much darker than any of the others. Powerful stuff in that game, especially the ending quarter of the game. If you enjoyed Lufia as I did, you may also really like that game.

[@bramvanduijn8086]

I second this. Also, BoF2 has a fun city building element.

[@Arcadia1810]

"With my last breath..."

[@WakashimazuLP]

Indeed !!!

[@Riclo500]

Pure epic.

[@Juppes]

In memories

[@toycp]

You just know that it's all gonna be over soon when you hear that epic song.

[@Ambivular]

@WakashimazuLP I've replayed the game so many times, and I still cry at the end.

[@isabelleloche-x2o]

Ces thèmes ont été repris par LUI THE GOAT : Hanyu Yuzuru kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIe8aoeumph0fpo , la 1ère partie est : " lufia II THE PROPHET " 😍 🤩

[@xDragonInstallx]

Lufia 2 and Breath of Fire 2 are the only RPGs that actually made me emotional... I'm just a sucker for heroes who sacrifice themselves for others. Though it's hard for me to choose which one was more sad... Lufia 2 had such a happy adventurous team. Maxim saving the world getting married and then had a child. In the end his wife dies and he uses all his life force to save his child. Bof2 had Ryu who became an orphen at a young age with no idea what happened to his family since they just disappeared. 10 years later... in the end(canon ending) he kills his father, never realized his sister was Patty(no proper reunion), meets his mom for a brief time before she sacrifices herself to open the gates... goes and saves the world. Then after all that turns into a Dragon to sleep and protect the gates, as his friends try to stop him. God BoF2... to me the worst part is he never gets a proper sibling reunion even though they met countless times without recognizing each other. The closest thing you get is her screaming, "I want my big brother!" when she was about to be killed.

[@shadowmoses5347]

xDragonInstallx play 3 and four

[@smanly3274]

xDragonInstallx Alternate ending in BoF2: You save Ryu's father and he sacrifices himself by sealing the gates.

[@strombada]

So what I'm getting out of this conversation is that you don't understand that Lufia 2 is the very beginning of the series. As far as we know, this is the original appearance of the Sinistrals. There is no reincarnation of Erim in Lufia 2 because the Sinistrals have not been defeated and killed yet.

[@Warwipf]

listening to this song makes me feel really sad.. :(

[@larss182]

damn :'( they should make a new lufia...

[@Metaknightkirby2]

They did. It sucked. :/

[@DaVince21]

***** 3 and 4 weren't too shabby. Not great, but not too shabby. And then the remake of 2 arrived... :(

[@larss182]

:c

[@jacobdagun3670]

3 was actually great. A contender with 2, I would dare say. 4 was...well, actually, it was kind of a disappointment, but decent nonetheless. Curse of the Sinistrals was...well, if you're not comparing to the original, it was alright, but it did have issues...like using the soundtrack from the first game unaltered in some instances?

[@zapperil]

They should make Jeros the protagonist if they want to make new one. I mean , RoL is a perfect timeline for starting Jeros' story, but instead we got Eldin.

[@natescham]

Thanks.

[@TheColinOfficial]

seriously, there is no game that is anywhere near as good as lufia. and there never will be!

[@jordanyoung745]

Final Fantasy

[@jingle8963]

Lufia 2 wins

[@DanEiskralle]

the first game i cried @ the end :I

[@JJ-gd2hx]

SNES is still the best game system of all time, with a grand selection of favorite titles.

[@Athavania]

Selan dies. Maxim stands there talking to Iris, epic music begins. 0:23 ... let's do this. FOR THE SAVIOR!!!

[@mx-gaming87]

A Hero live in side you °!°

[@devarious5004]

*Non est salvatori salvator* *Neque defensori dominus* *Nec pater nec mater* *Nihil supernum*

[@stephendimitriou]

This shit better be on whatever the new weird SNES thing they'rre making is. LUFIA 4 LIFE!!!!!

[@HeatIIEXTEND]

bemp :]

[@dertyp6833]

When you write your final exams and think back.

[@Optimum45]

The other 3: Breath of Fire 2 - Final Fantasy 3 (6) - Chrono Trigger Probably no surprises there. :D

[@HeatIIEXTEND]

Good, I love being right :]

[@donadavs]

First Dekar dies, then Selan... Now Maxim? My heart can't take it.

[@GSSAGE7]

@spass904 And both have sequels that say "Fuck that, these guys earned their happy ending," in the form of "Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals" and "Final Fantasy X-2"

[@smilingme123]

0:25 Sonic Megamix: Metallic Base Act 2 =P

[@ViriuZ7]

this song should be orchestrated

[@sbarton275]

I bought the DS version hoping it was a remake of 2, I was extremely disappointed and haven't touched it past the first 5 minutes.

[@an3582]

sbarton275 i hope by now you did. Its honestly not a bad game. I had lots of fun. Nothing like the original though.

[@strombada]

Erim isn't Selan. Erim is Iris in this game.

[@NoNameAtAll11]

Song comes back in Lufia Legend Returns as To Doom Island!

[@xGolbezx]

When that part of Lufia: The Legend Returns happened, I just set my 3DS down, listened to the music for about a half hour while drinking beer. That game is pretty under-rated.

[@rainbowguyrs1694]

Lufia for smash bros maybe?

[@jordanyoung745]

Maxim

[@NateMcCloud]

Oooh, nice! Now that I think about it, I've never actually given Breath of Fire 2 a try.

[@Bennyjidude89]

100 likes, 0 dislikes. :)

[@Cecilff2]

May I suggest a look at Terranigma?

[@strombada]

Did you even play Lufia 2? Erim is very clearly not Selan in this game.

[@NateMcCloud]

I did, but my mother told me to turn the game off because she thought I was just getting frustrated.

[@donadavs]

OH THE TEARS OF ANGST!

[@NateMcCloud]

What were the other three games?

[@HeatIIEXTEND]

nah, its great

[@zhardisvalanaris4908]

Fuck this songs me cry Everytime -.-´

[@ISkateandlikeComics]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@joshuagenerous1064]

Potato * french * fries

[@krowxliteofficial]

If you play through Curse of the Sinistrals on DS twice, you get a special ending in which Maxim and Selan both return home safely. Either way, Lufia is an incredible series, and probly the best SNES game I have ever played.

[@jordanyoung745]

Iris dies 😥

[@sdmuro]

@DMZarox +1

[@HeatIIEXTEND]

Yasunori Shiono where u hiding -__

[@Riclo500]

One dislike, one death.

[@Zekonas123]

@AyrensRetroShow :'(

[@ilexgarodan]

AKA, "Maxim's Finest Hour."

[@HeatIIEXTEND]

bemp

[@daLuke93]

No dislikes? Ahh, I remember, the hater kids are by the Call of Duty videos

[@Chokoboh]

What has become of the humanity? People who spoilers like hell get now top comments? This makes me sad.

[@Cecilff2]

Don't you mean Hoochie?

[@TheScitz]

Like R.I.P Selan and Maxim doesend say enough. Dekar having a party and tia crying? wow what a spoiler. I mean yeah i agree its stupid but well i dont realy expect people to come here who have not yet played lufia. I mean why on earth would u go listen lufia 2 music if u have not played the game? But like i said, your right.

[@marcosantoniodasilva6632]

srw k

[@Agent1W]

Screw them, they're too young to chill with us lol.