Lufia & the Fortress of Doom Hits Wii

The Taito classic RPG from the Super Nintendo, Lufia & the Fortress of Doom, published by Natsume back in 1993, is arriving on the Virtual Console for Wii, according to the latest ESRB update.

The US ratings website gives the following extremely generic description of what can be expected from the old turn-based role-playing release:

This is a role-playing game in which players must save a fantastical world from evil beings. Players travel across continents, interact with other characters, and engage in turn-based battles with a variety of small creatures (e.g., elves, goblins, frogs, wolves). Using a menu system, players select actions (e.g., Stun, Poison, Thunder) that result in colorful hit-point damage against enemies, which disappear when defeated.

The story of Lufia & the Fortress of Doom begins with a massive floating island with a large castle located on it emerging into the sky one dark day. Dubbed the "Fortress of Doom", this castle served as the base of operations for a group of all-powerful beings known as the Sinistrals, who planned to use their strength to bring the world to its knees.

In response, the people sent four of their bravest warriors: Maxim, Selan, Artea, and Guy, to infiltrate the dark fortress and destroy the Sinistrals before they could do any harm. The game begins with the player controlling these characters as they prepare to engage the Sinistrals, and eventually defeat them. However, after the battle, the fortress begins to collapse, with Maxim and Selan becoming trapped on the other side of a deep chasm that formed when the Sinistral throne room split apart. Unable to teleport them to safety, Artea and Guy left the falling island alone, and their trapped allies apparently perished when it crashed into the earth below.

Peace reigns for ninety years after the heroes' encounter with the Sinistrals, and the actual game begins nine years after that. The story is told from the perspective of a red-haired boy the player is in charge of naming, and along the way he gets caught up in a struggle to save the world once again from the newly emerged Sinistral army.