Legend of Mana is the first, since the previous titles are unknown here in the Philippines back then. Good ol' times. Blacksmithing to create the most ideal Spear. Getting Rare Monster Eggs for my Ranch. Completing the entire Jumi race quest. Learning "DUDBEAR" language. 100% the Lil'Cactus Diary
@@YukitoOnline Legends and its Map mechanics was confusing as hell. The community back in the day had to come together to create a guide for it. There wasn't any clear explanation of how it works.
@@MugenLord Funny how I dunno the map mechanics but managed to somewhat understand the Magic/Musical Instrument creation. I was in the 4th grade back then. lol
It would be my Introduction. I think my biggest memory of anything Mana was the ad on the FF7 Manual. In retrospect I think I might be confusing it with some other game.. I'll need to check the manual to be sure
I was on a call at work when the trailer dropped so I had to cap my excitement, but once that call was done wound watching the trailer 3 times. SE loves to keep mana players starving for content and it's always a good feeling when they decide to feed us.
Dude I'm with you 100%. We need more two-player couch Co-op RPGs. Nothing was funner than playing Secret of Mana with my buddy. When we beat that game was the best thing ever
My dad bought Secret of Mana for the Nintendo Super Entertainment System back in the early 90s. Of course the PC players would get stuck and you'd have to back track to get them off of a bush.... But the music was incredible and the colors were so beautiful and the characters had a great look and feel. My dad also purchased Secret of Evermore and he convinced us it was the sequel to SoM. I was hooked. Years later my dad traded SoM and most of his older games and consoles for .... The SEGA Saturn.... Which I loved dearly, but my God... I missed the Super Nintendo.... Later on I rented SoM from Movie Stop, I used my lunch money and rented it long enough that the owner said I paid for that game.... But he wouldn't give it to me. Lol I emulated games that I missed and stumbled across Seiken Densetsu 3 or as fans called it .. SoM 2.... What was Seiken Densetsu...1?? It sent me down a rabbit hole and I eventually played every game in the franchise and owned them at one point....SNES Trials of Mana is the best! But Chrono Trigger is hands down the best SNES RPG.
The first Mana game I played was Children of Mana on Nintendo DS. It was a fun actiona RPG, it felt really charming. I got that LoZ: Alttp fix, that was later reinforced with Diablo 3, although it had a darker theme, a huge contrast from the Mana games. I've revisited Trials of Mana on Nintendo Switch. I really wish there were more online components.
I never thought I'd ever see the Mana series become anywhere the success it is right now. I used to think I was one of the lucky ones who knew of Trials of Mana and how great it is. I just hope VIsions of Mana is a hit and not a miss.
I'm glad that we're getting new games from long running series that have been forgotten. It was the same thing with Star Ocean. There's all kinds of new technology and I'm happy to see new games instead of the constant stream of remakes and remasters. Good on you, Sqeenix. 😃👍 That said, I've never really been a Mana fan. (PLEASE DON'T HIT ME!!!) Much like the Saga games, I feel like they don't really have a defining mechanic or style that you see and say, "Yep, that's a Mana game." Hopefully this will help establish that style for a new generation of fans. It's nice to see this smaller type of videos. You're an enthusiastic gamer, and when you're happy, it's good to share it with the community. Not everything needs to be doom and gloom. I know they don't get as many views, but you seem to enjoy making them. Good work!
I've never had any experience with the Mana games, but I did play the demo for Trials of Mana on PS4 some odd years back, and it was actually much more fun than I expected it to be. I had no expectations because I didnt know anything about the game. I just saw the demo and thought the art and gameplay looked cool. My PlayStation is bricked now, so I never ended up getting the full game, but I am looking to get a new gaming Laptop soon, so maybe I'll get it on there during a sale or something. Too many games in the current release schedule to play right now, but it'll be something I can jump into whenever because i am always looking forward to playing good JRPGs, and I definitely want to support the company. I been saying forever on here now, but I really do love Square Enix, and I want to see them succeed, so i will definitely spend so money on this. Now even though I grew up playing old retro games, I tend to find them difficult to go back to just because the lack of modern features and hardware limitations really diminishes my experience normally, so if I play any of those other games, it'd at least have to be the handheld remakes they did. I'd be happy to support the classic Mana collection they released on Switch in a perfect world, but these games are getting expensive, and i know I wouldnt play that. They still have a customer in me, though because I definitely want to play this new game. just the small bit we saw already looks awesome. I'm looking forward to them releasing real gameplay with the HUD, and start actually talking about the game.
LoM has and will always be my #1 favourite game in existence. And I'm gonna buy it on the Switch AND the old version too with the old PS too! I still have my old memory card. And the rest of the games as well.
The Trials of Mana remake is legit (a lot less fond of the Secret of Mana remake). I had played the original Trials of Mana back around 2000 when it got fan translated and yet I think that the remake is definitely the definitive version (unless two player is important to you in which case you'll need to stick with the original). Between it and the Star Ocean 2 remake last year, Square has made some really fantastic gold standard remaster/remakes. I give modern Square a lot of grief but to their credit, they still put out some really great stuff.
The Trials of Mana remake was one of my favorite RPGs in recent years, too bad they cut the co-op from it. I wanna see how the new characters are going look like and what they're gonna do in the new Seiken Densetsu game.
Mugen lord, other than the fighting games and Final Fantasy series I have been hoping and wishing for this! I haven’t played the mana series since the 90’s when my uncle introduced me to it. I was unsuccessful to find a PlayStation variance. I had friends that had them, but treasured them like gold. so I will definitely cop this new game day one I just hope they bring back the multi system and it could work as an online mode also.
i remember playing a fan translated rom of seiken desetsu 3. i didn't even know it was secret of mana 2, until i heard the music. it's among the best snes games. i hope that visions of mana will be good, especially the music. secret of mana music is fantastic.
Interestingly, I've been replaying Trials of Mana after the VoM trailer. I never did the No Future difficulty mode as I was burned out at the time, but am enjoying it again. I also changed to the Japanese voices to change it up. I'm not really sure I'm too hopeful of VoM changing it up, but rather, catering to the old fans. It still seems to try for the 90s aesthetic and I can imagine the story would still be very 90s. Not that that's horrible; blatantly evil guy (or faction(s)) must pay, near tunnel vision heroes focused mostly on getting stronger to defeat the bad guy with minor character development. But with SEnix's other titles having amazing writing, explaining the why the bad guys are evil, giving heroes many layers of complex backstory and character progression, I would love to see VoM go in that direction to show us that the series is growing, instead of remaining stagnant. I do wonder if couch co-op will ever truly come back for the series, that's what made the SNES versions pretty fun, but I'm just being too hopeful on that end. With this next one being more expansive, and seamless co-op seemingly being a new version of couch co-op (The elden ring seamless co-op mod and Lords of the Fallen come to mind), this may be something VoM may implement? Who knows. Can't wait in any case, but 17 titles? I'll need to find the ones I haven't played yet and finish those up first.
I know my Genshin bias is on display, but I do believe the success of the game is why we are seeing a revival of the action RPG genre. Look, I know Genshin has its own issues which I will not get into, but when I finally put my skepticism aside and picked up the game, I have never looked back since. In terms of gameplay and presentation, Hoyo knocked it out of the park. Then you also have to remember that Genshin was built with the mobile platform in mind, and while Genshin has console and PC ports, it has not yet fully tapped into the potential offered by much powerful graphics cards found within consoles. If a low poly-ish game (I datamined the 3D models, the details are in the textures) can look this good, what if a similar game decide to actually tap into the potential of stunning visuals. Granblue Fantasy Relink, a somewhat similar game in terms of gameplay, has set the bar pretty high in terms of presentation, and this game was designed with the PS in mind. Right now, the ball is in Square Enix's court to match what Hoyo and Cygames have brought to the table.
Preordered physical for ps5. I have all console and game pass but I'm a grown as person with a good job and I gladly support developers over a multi trillion dollar company.
The first time I heard abot the Mana series was when I received a Nintendo Power that have the game on its cover. Remember looking the screen shot and reading about it and getting really excited. However for some strange reason I haven't played the game ever. A few years ago I bought day one the Mana collection on Switch and still haven't played. Is a game that have been on my list to play for decades but there is always this other game. Right now Im over 30 hours on Tales of Arise, once I finish it will grab Secrets of Mana. Will also buy Vision on XBOX to support the Japanese games on that console.
here's hoping that its good one woe of gaining bigger appeal is they didn't get co-op back, something that made the series unique, a co-op jrpg adventure,i hope they don't try to make for mass market appeal, that's a death kneel to a series honestly
i use to play Secret Mana games on snes, and psx. But mobile games turn me off at times. Glad they bringing back Mana games. I never play ps2 one. Ps2-Ps3 had most best jrpg games at that time. Ni no Kuni and Eternal Sonata (which has not been remastered)
I recently beaten the TOM remake and enjoyed every second of it. While I'm sure this new one will be great i really wish Square Enix would cut ties with bad influences in the West.
Sure IF it comes to Gamepass. I'll probably get it regardless but Not right away. I really want to focus on my backlog this year, even thinking of letting my GP sub expire to focus on it, otherwise I'll never do it.
Imo the ys series shts on the mana series. I wish xbox would get in contact with that developer to bring all those games over but I do see them at least making an effort in getting Japanese games. I couldn't believe it when the persona and yakuza games were put on gpass.
I think we're getting the golden age of videogames back for us old time fans and hopefully generations to come as companies are now listening to us instead of pandering to joykilling crap smokers with an ugly stick up their bungholes turning our pastimes into liquid shit. I think Square Enix are beginning to relearn how to respect the fandoms of JRPGs and Trials of Mana is a good start to rigthing a lot of the recent wrongs at the studio.
Did you say it was a 1 to 1 experience, sounds like we could have had the 1 to 1 experience with the FF7 remake without alienating the original fan base?
While both Secret & Trials were definitely budget titles, Trials was way less than Secret. Played through it four times. Overall liked it a lot, but could not f*cking stand how useless the AI partners are, especially in boss fights, among other things. Hopefully Visions improves on everything and guarantees the series thrives. Anyway, regardless of your opinions on Square Enix, damned if they haven't been trying to appeal to some. Which is more than I can ever say about Bandai Namco. Can't even say the bare minimum for them. 😔
