Visions of Mana Could Be 2024’s BEST RPG! 

I know the mana team said they'd be planting a bunch of trees depending on how many hours of the demo was watched on all platforms. So if nothing else i'm interested in the game for that, but also it looks really amazing!!!!

Just finished the demo a few minutes ago. I must say, it's pretty solid. The open areas are quite pretty, the cutscenes are leagues better than what we've gotten before, & the combat is fluid (minus the slowness you mentioned). I do appreciate the environment being more interactive, swimming, jumping, & every NPC speaks. Guess that's the compromise of not being able to enter houses. Also, I really appreciate the extra activities around the world. My summation: an adequate effort for those developers, I do hope they can iron out some of the issues most had with this demo, considering we're still a way off from release. Plus, I don't want this to get overshadowed by Star Wars: Outlaws.

My biggest concern was combat depth and weapon variety and I noticed the weapon shop actually had a few variations of unique weapons for each characters which is why i love SoM so much. Now I wonder how many different types of weapons there are in total.

open zone is what i like to call it and i love this game, cant wait to play the full game, huge fan of the mana series 4

Played the demo and I gotta say can't wait play this one glad I pre-ordered it

the orange pickups are giving me Jak & Daxter flashbacks lol

There are many nitpicks I have and a few thing I hope get's improved in the future... but there's One thing that i REALLY hated when I played the demo. Jumping while sprinting cuts the momentum and you revert to normal running speed while jumping. It's very jarring for me and it too a lot of joy. It's a small thing but it deffinitely took me out of immersion immediately. It made it change from Day-One-Purchase to just Must-Buy

Bro, you put this together so fast! This game looks absolutely beautiful, love the colours and character designs ❤

Seems classic, pre-ordered. Demo is convincing. We need to support such games...

I played it in quality mode. It ran quite well. I was 80% sold, this demo got me to 100.

Imma be trying out this demo this weekend 😊

So stoked for this game! Love the Mana series and OSTs so much

People say Xbox players don't like these kinds of games but I do

The game looks beautiful and a lot of fun. If they iron out some of the technical issues I'm hearing about then it should be an excellent game.

I played this on PC snd had concerns. Cutscenes looked awful in 30 frames and combat felt sluggish so these concern me

The "slowness" is intended, I don't know what games you're playing where things are instant, but usually you need to account for the speed of your attacks and any windup or recoil like in Monster Hunter unless you like playing speedsters. Trials of Mana also had casting times. The time ability increases your attack and casting speed and there will likely be buffs that increase your speed.

I'll be preordering it later in the month. Love a nice and cozy JRPG

Yeah this demo was amazing I never played a mana game first time on Xbox and I'm loving it so I pre-ordered the full game

If game like this have split screen will be awesome We can enjoy with mate

This game would be best rpg of the year if they didn't give up on end game content. But maybe I'm biased cause I was spoiled by DQ11's endgame. This was so close to being in the same ballpark, but it's obvious they got pressed for time by greedy corporate rats.

Looking forward to trying the demo. I bet some of those issues get corrected in the next month. Thanks for sharing.

Played it earlier tonight. This game is absolutely stunning to look at. So much attention to detail. Definitely play in graphics mode.

Honestly, i am really looking forward to this game, i dont want to judge the entire story based on just a little bit of fluff

Regarding the sudden demo: Steam made a new system where you can have a separate DEMO page outside of your regular steam page and that demo page can be promoted by steam separately too. I wonder if that at least partly impacted their decision for a sudden demo. Also this was already my most hyped jrpg of the year ^ _ ^

I really want this game to be good.

I can’t ever get excited about demos.. But I am excited about my preorder

I also love exploring in RPGs; it's actually one of my favourite activities. That's why it pains me greatly that you can enter any buildings in this game...

Already looks better than all the trash FF games that have been coming out

Somehow after trailer though it's corridor based. Open area looks amazing

I need to download this STAT!

This game releases pretty close to black myth so not sure which one I will be picking up first but I am impressed with what I’ve seen so far

I thought the casting was slow too. But I just chalked it up to to being low level and without a sufficient amount of points in the spirit stat. Maybe try trading some Grizzly Syrup for the limited item that boosts the spirit stat?

Ugh why late august 😔 gaming is really quiet- playing this would of been perfect

Played a bit of the demo and loved it stopped playing as want to go to it blind to locations and plot it’s so smooth my only complaint is that you can’t go in houses may be that was for the beggining area only

i mean its good, but insane ? kinda clickbaity

There's several elements from what I've seen here that remind me of Genshin Impact... No, this isn't a bad thing, I *literally* have Genshin on another screen as I'm typing this. But... If someone's interested in Genshin's gameplay, but absolutely HATE the gatcha mechanics... Maybe I could recommend this game instead? (...or possibly Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom. The the first of which Genshin itself was accused of copying.) Or, alternatively, maybe those who play Genshin and like it could consider giving this game a try as well? ^_^b

sadly i wont be picking up the full game day one , but Vom looks really good and i will try out the demo.

The red haired protagonist girl is pretty dorky looking.

Why does this reminds me of Trials of Mana? Is this the sequel?

Incredibly, your video is incredible. Incredible incredibility and incredibleness.

Good video. And I agree with the on-boarding... gotta look past that

The environment is stunning. The gameplay, a bit clunky, can't lie...

1 hour for the demo or the full game to complete?

we made a step back combat wise. trails had better combat. it shows it is a different team working on the game.

Welp sadly the demo was meh, it showed that few starting hours are boring and bad with clunky combat, it doesn't help that Metaphore comes only around 1 month later. So it's better to wait than have only ok experience (donno maybe later segments are better but if it is the point, something from these parts should be in demo). Tho I wish ppl who liked the demo will have fun with the game. Extra note those 30 fps locked cut scenes, it looks horrible and is annoying quite fast.

I enjoyed the demo but I am a little concerned about the story and how it involves protecting a girl while she makes a pilgrimage to sacrifice herself in a time honored tradition of her people…..and how that’s pretty much the exact same plot as I Am Setsuna, another Square game.

I like this demo a lot but can someone tell me how to get the little wolves back cause I dismounted them to fight some enemies.

Ff7 rebirth is the rpg of the year cmon lol

Wow its giving Genshin Impact vibes a bit in the environment and I love that

Not if it has handholding and arrows where to go, then it will be a flop.

Yeah we have waaaay difference in preference in jrpgs. On my preferences it just okay 😂 not big into findathons or exploring open world for hours

I was hyped for this game and planned to play it by the end of this summer but the demo completely broke all my expectations: Boring and sluggish combat, bland dialogues, surprisingly bad japanese voice acting, broken and half-assed animations, mostly empty and static world to explore, add to that a very questionable PC port and no banger music like all Mana games usually have. It has some positive though: Good 3D models and textures and a boring but efficient menu system. Want some good action RPG? Play Ys.

Sadly the controls felt janky and the combat unoptimized. The demo did not do it for me. Hype is gone :/ After playing almost 180h of FF7R this game just feels unfinished.

you said this game looks good, yes i agree, if you said its even above metaphor refantazio.. well.. thats a no.. lol

"things in the game aren't explained well......like there was elementite scattered around that I couldn't activate" yet earlier in the video i believe you mentioned you use Elemental Vessels to activate elementite that you find. Sooooooo if you can't activate one that you find......wouldn't you just figure out on your own "oh i need the right vessel.....clearly i don't have it yet" instead of saying it's a problem you have with the game?! Some things in games are just common sense dude.

Never played a trials game. I tried the demo, but the maximum res I could get it at is 1080p for whatever reason. And the framerate is awful. Also, there is no ultra wide support.

I loved everything about the demo as well exceeept the music which I am a bit surprised to say you find good. After trials of mana and legend of mana ive come to expect a lot better music but it sounded kind of generic to me. Game otherwise is amazing, so much fun and absolutely stunning world. I liked swapping between the characters. The story actually looks engaging too.

I must express that my opinion diverges from yours. I haven't experienced the PS5 version, but the PC version provided a sufficient glimpse into the quality of this upcoming release. Firstly, the voice acting in English is subpar, incomparable to the quality found in titles like Fire Emblem or Persona. The decision to give Careena a Southern accent because she speaks peculiarly in Japanese is baffling... I'll be sticking with the Japanese audio, just as I did with Trials. Secondly, the cutscenes! How can a reviewer like you condone this? In the year 2024, how is it acceptable to have 30FPS in-engine cutscenes? Not even AA or indie titles would attempt this. The only plausible reason for this is the game's release on PS4, and the realization that the console can't handle more, leading to the decision to limit all versions of the game just to ensure PS4 compatibility. It's jarring on PC, transitioning from 120FPS to 30FPS, with frame pacing that's erratic, as if the engine is struggling between an internal 60FPS and a poorly implemented 30FPS cap. Thirdly, the camera! The perspective is as restrictive as possible feeling almost claustrophobic. The camera hardly allows a view of your character's feet and doesn't zoom out during combat. Often, I couldn't discern enemy attacks amidst the special effects from other characters, making it impossible to see the enemies, let alone anticipate their moves. As a result, much of my combat experience devolved into button mashing and random dodging. Even Trials of Mana offered the option to adjust the camera's zoom, and it would pull back during combat to provide a better overview. My assumption is, yet again, that this was intentionally done to accommodate the PS4's rendering capabilities-if the field of view were broader, it would further strain the GPU of that aging console. I've been a hardcore fan of Mana since its first release on SNES. Trials was an enjoyable adaptation, but I'm a bit apprehensive about the final release's appearance. The dialogues, for the most part, seemed quite childish for a Mana game. Trials was significantly toned down from the original SNES release, and it appears they intend to continue matching the visual style with the story's tone. I just hope the final game will pleasantly surprise me in terms of the scenario.

Looks like Genshin Impact.

Not even 20 seconds in and it already looks abysmal. Gosh golly, another flat and empty world, which looks like a clay figure that's been left out in the sun for too long, with boring cookie-cutter gameplay.

I started the demo on PS5 in performance mode, heard the terrible voice acting, the long-winded dialog and poor writing, the abundant pop up tutorial screens, and the combat, at least with the character you start the demo with, the one that had the broadsword, it was slow and clunky. I love RPGs, they are my genre of choice, and I was looking forward to this game, however I deleted the demo and will not be purchasing this title. In this day and age RPGs are abundant and if a game can't grab me in the first 10 minutes then it isn't for me. When so many action RPGs nowadays have better story, voice acting, and the most important part stellar combat, it is hard to play a title that falls below the excellent standard, though I hope everyone else enjoys this title.

Came in here to say FF7 rebirth would blow this out if the water. Done.

I think this was a pretty bad demo and despite that I really fell for the game. The tutorials confused more than they helped and I really wished I could go back and read them somehow (maybe it was somewhere, but I couldn’t find it).

Could be, if the characters didn't look so bad, and uninspiring. That alone make this title an easy pass for me. The rest of the game just looks like a trials reskin, but the characters look far more boring, and lame.

The visual style is so mundane and boring. Really wish the character designs were also way better. Looks extremely mediocre visually, but the actual gameplay looks decent.

I'm choosing to boycott this at launch simply because of the scumbag behavior they're exhibiting by forcing us to pay $20 extra for "early access", which in reality only means they're deliberately delaying access for those of us wanting to buy the $60 standard edition. There's no way I'm showing full support for a developer/publisher behaving this way, so I'll wait until the game inevitably drops in price by 50% or so.

80$ no thank you.

Not really a fan of southern accents though. My only gripe. I did grow to like Ulrika in Mana Khemia 2 though. 😅

no wepaon leveling like secret of mana ormagic is ilttle cheap

I'm actually sick of all of these cutesy colorful jrpgs, give me dark sci fi jrpgs with deep thought, sick of all these baby games

The demo seems pretty unsatisfying. The combat is slow and the movement is choppy. The music is mid. The characters are annoying.

Ehhhhh. I love my RPGs, JRPGs especially, but after playing this demo I see nothing special here. Very generic cliche isekai anime story telling, same old character tropes you always see in these games, ok combat but kind of clunky too, music is also just kind of ok, while the world design is gorgeous I hate how the characters look, and the english voice acting is god awful. From the demo alone I see a pure 6/10. It was just ok. Its actually everything wrong with a lot of modern JRPGs. Its just lazy by the numbers cliches we've been seeing for 15 years now. No imagination went into this game. Just hitting check lists of what past JRPGs have done over and over again.

Coop removed? This is a massive let down.

I hear you bro...but denuvo is a fucking hard pass, maybe once they remove it down the line.

Really great video. I enjoyed this game so much more the more I kept playing it. I also found the mount slow to get off so I hope they fixed that by the full release.

Im just going to start off saying big fail intentionally keeping palamena out of the demo, character design on most characters is horrible, and it feels like I'm moving in water.

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Is squareenix buying up youtubers? Or am I just stupid? This doesn't look fun.

Nah, dawg, we played the demo. Click and engagement bait. Pause at 0 sec and downvote.

Click bait title. I understand you're trying to run a business but, yeeeeccccchhhh.

I hope the performance mode on ps5 looks pretty well couse the granblue fantasy is a disaster for me.

What clickbait trash This game looks mid AF. Might as well name it JRPG Simulator

Can they just STOP making action rpgs.

Music is ok for now not at the level of seijken 1 or 2. Combat need to be more reactive like YS series. More deep customisation with real graphic effect on result. least mario gameplay style and more FF style. NO woke needed at the end of making the game too.

Nah. This game looks like garbage. Atlus ftw

无聊至极呀，我连Demo都没打完。