Rick wrote:He knew enough to keep Rolf from returning home. Didn't even let the guy Nei Sword to refresh himself! Then teleports his friends there to a suicide mission.
Lutz didn't know about that until the moment Rolf wanted to return, though. He was as surprised as everyone else, because he thought it was just Mother Brain and Dark Force up there.
Rick wrote:I'm just trying to figure out WHY the Earthmen DarkForce was so important to Lutz. It wasn't even the right one!
He didn't know that. Remember, we're looking at this from an outside perspective with information Lutz didn't have available. We know there can be more than one DF at a time. Lutz didn't. We know when the seal is weakest. Lutz didn't. We know DFs can be defeated without special weapons. Lutz didn't (even Alis used a laconian sword, believed to have special properties).
Lutz just saw that was a Dark Force there and a threat to Algo. That was enough for him.
Rick wrote:When we boil down to it, the only damn games that follow 1000 years correctly are PS 2, 3 and 4 o.o PS 1 just doesn't fit!
Like I said, that's Lashiec's fault. He summoned Dark Falz outside of the 1000 year cycle.