Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods, the DS remake/reimagining of Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals, is headed to the US, but don’t start thanking Square Enix. Natsume is the company that will be delivering us Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals sometime in Fall, 2010. See the spiffy new name change? It really gets you feeling nostalgic.

If you’ve played the original Lufia II, then you know the story. The world is being plagued by the four Sinistrals, who want to destroy the world and such. Players follow a hunter named Maxim, who is initially researching the Wave Device. Eventually, he’ll be joined by five friends who’ll help him on his journey which could save their world.

While Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals will feature lots of puzzles, just like the original Lufia II, the basic gameplay changes…

Last week, Famitsu revealed that the next issue would reveal new information on the Lufia series of games, called Estpolis in Japan. This week, as promised, the November 19, 2009 issue of Famitsu revealed pretty much everything you’d need to know about Square Enix’s Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods.

First of all, it’s a DS game. So much for thoughts of an epic console RPG. It’ll be out February 25, 2010 in Japan, but a North American release hasn’t been confirmed or denied yet. Neverland, who created most of the original Lufia games and is well known for the recent Rune Factory series, is once again the developer, as Famitsu hinted at in its original article. Neverland is also making it an action RPG this time around, so it’ll be more like the Legend of Zelda or Ys games. Previous entries in the series were all turn-based.

1Up is also the first to report that Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods is a reimagining of the SNES game Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals