Square Enix released a new video of Estpolis, a remake or better put re-imagining of Lufia II as an action RPG.

Marvelous picked Daewon Media, the company localizing One Piece and distributing Nintendo hardware in South Korea, to handle Rune Factory. And they’re giving the game star treatment.

Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods is based on Lufia II, a console RPG with a party of characters to control in turn based battles. Estpolis is in real time, but still lets players switch between Maxim and Tia.

Square Enix had to save something new for Jump Festa ‘10 and that game is Estpolis. The first playable build of the Lufia II remake will be at the Makuhari Messe from December 19-20.

Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods is a remake of Lufia II, but it’s not the Lufia II you remember. The Super Nintendo game didn’t have dual screen boss battles.

A 2ch user decided to compare them, not based on either game’s story or gameplay – just on each game’s core features listed on the back of the box.

Rune Factory 3 is scheduled for an October 22nd release. Last week’s Famitsu also had details to share on some of the game’s heroines.

Effeminate or not, Mais is a hard working farmer in this trailer. He can fish, harvest crops, and use magic to make peppers suddenly sprout.

Let’s look at what potentially makes Rune Factory 3 good. That isn’t to say Rune Factory has ever been bad; just that the second one re-used too many concepts from the first game, and 3 seems to bring some fresh, promising features to the table.

Someone please tell me if I’m overreacting here. The only other time I can recall flipping out like this is when Nintendo made Retro Studios give Samus that horrendous anime makeover for Metroid Prime 2.

“We are the US publisher for Spectral Force Genesis,” Ajay Chada, President at Ignition Entertainment told Siliconera during an interview.

Four years ago Idea Factory took characters from Spectral Force and Generation of Chaos and threw them into a 2D fighting game. Taiwan based IGS, a company now remembered for Final Fight style brawlers, developed the mashup which appeared in…