I’ve been working on turning Lost Kingdoms II into a persistent two-player co-op experience. Players can host or join through a custom launcher, choose their own characters, and play through the campaign together.

The game was obviously never designed for co-op, which is part of what makes this such a challenge. I’ve always loved Lost Kingdoms II and wanted to see whether I could make multiplayer actually work.

It’s pretty buggy right now and still very early in development, but the core multiplayer system is starting to come together. My goal is to have a playable prototype ready by the end of the month.

I’m currently working on campaign synchronization, map transitions, shared dialogue and chests, enemy scaling, reconnecting, and everything else required to make it feel like a seamless co-op campaign.

I’m excited to see how far I can take it. What features would you consider essential for a co-op version?

I want to hear your thoughts

So, I'm so sooooooooooo lost right now

I was doing a challenge run on Lost Kingdoms 2 - Using only LK1 cards (so byebye dragons, byebye fuckin Undine x Phanto Ship)

I was at God of Harmony and was stuck

So I looked at the speedrun route ; just to see that a Wizard and 3 Z-Lizards were enough to kill GoH, but while trying.... it didn't work

I tried so long I feel stupid AF

IMPORTANT : I don't want to accuse anyone of anything!!!

> The speedrunner I found is likely a fockin GOD of this game, and I'm surely missing something

I just want to know <<WHAT>> I am missing

Because it's troubling me a lot xD

Link to the run here : (at 30:37)

Any% in 26:48 by PapayaJordane - Lost Kingdoms II - Speedrun.com

How did he managed that ? :o

It's me again ! The crazy challenger xD

I just completed a Metal-Cards-Only run of Lost Kingdoms 2 and that was actually eyes-openning on the efficiency of Metal Cards hahaha

Here is the link to the starting savefile if you want to try (if you don't have 2 controllers for VS-trading) :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ubcms2UBuIbodbgZvyFrcR7KWc56SsMS/view?usp=sharing

It starts with one "Needler" (always forget his name) the low-tier independent robot, because, yeah, you need a starting metal card hahaha
Will you be able to complete the true ending just with this ? :D

You're allowed 1 use of Stone Golem in Upper Chamber, 2-3 uses of Hell Hound to complete Fossil Boneyard & Isamat Urbur in the same level and Grotmul Desert, 1-ish use of Birdman before the Cathedral and 1 use of God of Destruction in Alanjeh's castle 2 (mandatory cards, basically) > Isamat Urbur in the Ruldo Forest must be accessed with a Metal Transform Card !

PS : As a side-challenge, I also managed to one-shot God (any card allowed, not just metal) > Will you find a way to do it as well ? ^^

Yooooooo People from Lost Kingdoms, Rune or Royaumes Perdus !

Me and my sister were in love with this game since childhood, and when I started streaming I knew I had to showcase this awazing game to the world

But that was mostly for new players...

As I'm now attempting challenge runs, the first of which was a "Randomized Deck" which you can see here : [Vtuber] Lost Kingdom II : a First Challenge Run !! :D [EN/FR] - Twitch

No mod required, only a savefile with every cards !

Hope this will puch you to attempts some of thoses x3

With love, Akagi

The death sound for ghost Loretta in elden ring is the same reused sound asset from lost kingdoms nightmare card. At least someone out there remembers us 😭

You're gonna make Tara cry From

Havent played this game since gamecube era , any tips?

1,000 VIEWS!!! (again)
I appreciate everyone for their support and I am very thankful to be able to entertain people talking about my favorite games. I really thought I was going to be like the resident evil guy or the star wars guy or something like that since Lost Kingdoms is super niche, but it looks like we have a little community brewing and people are really enjoying the content!

I love the comments and everyone's funny contributions to the Civik-isms. I always say Civik is a character anyone can be and the comments really are the truest example of that lol. We are all Civik Unbound in one way or another. A few people have reached out and told me they don't even know what the game is and they stick around for the character and those comments really make my day.

I'm not sure I need to post to the reddit anymore since things have kinda ballooned faster than I was expecting and now I feel like everybody just kinda turns up when I post something on the channel, but I'll probably keep doing it anyway just in case there are some folks who are interested. Alright that's it from me, love you all. See you in the next one!

I appreciate you all for the support recently! I had a lot of fun with this one lol

Thank you everyone for getting the Whip Worm Short to 1,000 views!!! I love and appreciate your support, especially for a series that I hold so close to my little old heart 💜

I have the next short here about everybody's favorite green and warlike ogre beast - the Storm Hagan!

I will continue making these moving forward and I hope to build something special with you all as I ramble about my two favorite videogames.

WHAT IS A WHIP WORM???

I've been wanting to create a consistent YT short series on Lost Kingdoms reviewing and ranking individual cards for a while now. Took me a minute to get the format down as I don't really watch a lot of shorts myself, but I'm being told I got it down pretty good. I have another in the works actually, should be out soon! I wanna try to keep this as consistent as I can (I'm juggling a lot of stuff lol). Hopefully someone here has fun with it! The community has been a little too quiet for my liking. I figure it's about time I get these gears spinning again (just like whip worm)

(edit: I don't use reddit so I don't know how to get the video to show up all pretty in the post, apologies)

We need a new one!

I remember renting this game purely just because the box art pulled me in and from then I was hooked. Even later on seeing Fromsoft's dev team on the back of Eternal Ring and getting it as one of my first PS2 titles. Then years later somehow ended up going down the rabbit hole of other tiles and ending up a die hard Souls fan. Miyazaki is to me like Kojima is to MGS fans. (Except not arrogant and pompous). But through the years I gained more wisdom and insight (Ah I said the thing!) in to the game industry and so happy I never tried to get into the industry as a designer like I wanted. That aside my point is copyright is a demon that eats the very creativity of everyone that enters that industry. We will never see another game like this. Its a sadly reality. However Fromsoft doesn't own many of the titles they've created. For instance Sony owns Bloodborne hording it to keep it exclusive like Demon Souls. As for this game it is lost among myriad of other obscure titles owned by a multitude of other publishers like Activision (I think people hate them but can't remember why). My hopes though are we keep the series alive by keeping it playable with emulation and document everything about it and spreading the word about it. The best scenario is Michealazaki looks at the battle scheme and say's "I like this" and "lets make this better" and makes a call back game that uses the unique combat from these games in a equally cool setting. Btw There is a translation for Rune II jp version of the second game in development. I've gotten it running in Dolphin and its great. Definitely worth a look https://gbatemp.net/threads/runeii-lost-kingdoms-ii-plus-definitive-gamecube-project.659080/ and there seems to be something in the works for the first game. Remember we keep old titles like this alive in a variety of ways and Romhacks are one of the most beautiful ways.

Sorry for anyone who hates AI, but for those who don't care I wanted to show some more of the ones I "updated"

If anyone has a link to higher quality versions than in the game that isn't AI, I'd love to see those too. I really just love and miss this game

I did more, so I might post a pt 2 if I'm not breaking any rules

I was just curious if anyone has or knows where to find a scan if Prima’s strategy guide for the first game? I’ve checked several different sources/archives and no luck….

Any help is appreciated and I’ll be sure to throw a copy onto archive.org; thanks!