Taito Announces Lufia I & II Collection For 2027
Clear River Games, which also announced a Terranigma remaster, is handling overseas sales, pointing to a broader push to bring 16-bit Taito RPGs to Western storefronts.
Key Facts
- Taito announced Estpolis Biography I&II on September 21, 2026, with a release set for 2027 on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Steam.
- The collection contains the 1993 RPG Estpolis Biography and its 1995 prequel Estpolis Biography II, both originally released for the Super Famicom.
- Series planner Masahide Miyata cooperated on port adjustments, and all dialogue in both games was reread and converted from hiragana to kanji.
- The Steam version supports Japanese, English, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, and Spanish, and the price is undecided.
- Figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu, who named Estpolis Biography II as an origin of his gaming, posted a reaction on X that Taito's official account replied to.
Reporting from 4 sources: 4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer, Automaton, Game Spark.
Taito announced on September 21, 2026 that it will release Estpolis Biography I&II, a package collecting the first two Lufia RPGs, in 2027 for Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Steam. The set pairs the 1993 original, about a descendant of a legendary hero and a girl named Lufia, with the 1995 prequel Estpolis Biography II, which follows Maxim and his companions. Pixel graphics are kept as they were, and Masahide Miyata, the series planner, cooperated on adjustments for current hardware. Miyata said the Super Famicom version used heavy hiragana because of capacity limits, so all dialogue in both games was reread and converted to kanji. Taito also opened a teaser site and a Steam store page, and Clear River Games is handling North American and European sales. Figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu, who had named Estpolis Biography II as an origin of his gaming, posted a delighted reaction on X.
Neverland Company developed both original games, which Taito published for the Super Famicom in 1993 and 1995.
- Estpolis Biography: a descendant of the hero Maxim and the girl Lufia carry the story, set 99 years after the Four Sinistrals were defeated in the War of the Void Island.
- Estpolis Biography II: Maxim leads Selena, Arty, and Guy against the Sinistrals, and the four also appear in the first game as legends.
The sequel's systems drew notice at the time, among them the Step Move System, Capsule Monster raising, roguelike bonus dungeons, and exploration that combined action with puzzles. The collection carries new features but keeps the original pixel graphics.
In the port there are multiple language versions: the Japanese release has Japanese and English, the Asian version adds Korean and both Chinese scripts, and the Western version adds French, German, and Spanish. The Steam release supports all of them, and player count is one.
Taito's production team described the two games as "two waves" born during the 16-bit RPG boom. Series planner Masahide Miyata said rereading all the dialogue for the kanji conversion brought back memories of development.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 4 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.