Definitely Playing Visions Of Mana Day one! LINKS: Twitch: / truekingsden Twitter: / kingsden5 Tiktok: / truekingsden2 #Gaming #content #News #commentary #Rpg #Jrpg #mana #finalfantasy I Cannot Wait For Visons Of Mana!
Most of the Mana games are formulaic plotpoint-wise,but otherwise the stories all vary in different ways. Usually, it involves the Mana Tree, which provides mana as a resource for the world, the Mana Sword, which is a conduit for the mana, isolated from any means of traversal that doesn't involve flying or opening a special portal, or both(except when it rarely isn't). The game starts at a time when Mana is either noticeably low(or threatening to destroy the very world it feeds in excess), and villains fight over the limited resource(or take advantage of the surge). The hero journeys to fix the problem, whether he has a choice or not, possibly with personal motivations in play. Long story short, the hero tends to fall short, possibly even speeding up the problem as he quests, usually with a villain working the hero's success into their plan. You might beat the villain, but their plan worked for the most part, their defeat not being considered by them, but not having derailed their plan either. Except for the part where they were supposed to rule. Then, either someone the hero knows dies as a consequence, stays behind to fix the problem wile everyone else has to leave, or the more common, has to act as a traditional sacrifice for the greater good, and its usually the love interest. That, or the whole problem will fix itself after a few lifetimes while everyone will suffer in the mean time, especially those whose magic was a way of life. And then there was Legends of Mana, which is a chore to complete quest-wise even if you know what you're doing from the very start, with three main stories and a few minor ones tucked away, with the tree and sword barely mentioned in them. But at least the bad guys lose before they can screw with the tree. That time, anyway. Still a fun game if you can put aside completion being almost as unrealistic of an expectation as completing the Pokedex in any of today's Pokemon games. The gameplay was fairly nice with tons of customization and a fair bit of linear control over it, too.
Im Liking What Im Hearing For The Most Part. I could Be wrong But from what you've written it doesn't seem to be a big bad which is a bit different than I expect. And from what i understand Val isn't even the Chosen Alm In this game It's Hinna Which I don't know if it's unique for the series but it's unique in rpgs for the MC to not be the "Chosen One" Legends Of Mana Sounds Like A Task LOL but I usually don't go for 100% in games anyways. Either Way I'm Hoping I'll Like This Game. If I Do I May Play Trials Of Mana Since It's On PS Extra.
@@RealTrueKingsDen Well, like most rpgs, you contend with both the bad guy and their army. In trials of mana, there were three bad guy factions you faced, and the one to come out on top with their forces depended on your lead character pick. In Children of Mana, the mana was so palpable that it physically manifested as The Mana Lord. Usually, when the sword or tree chooses someones, its not always the most capable person. Its usually a desperate situation for whomever is available, but they eventually earn that chosen title through story progression. Trials is pretty good. Its the DnD of the mana series. Pick a party of three out of six, and each character is fairly unique. And the remake has rebalanced things so that none of the cast suck. Duran can either be a big DPS or a balanced tank that can euqip shields and can do a little healing. Angela is the attack mage, with either hard hitting single target spells of which the dark ones get more power, or the other way around with multitargetting. They both have the Dragon Lord as their shared foe. But be warned, Duran's armor is the most expensive in the game. And the rebalancing for Angela throws her magic everywhere in her stat growth. Example: her fire spells are earned by building her attack stat. And most spells require having one of t 8 elementals to use. Kevin is the brawler with double attack power as a werewolf at night, plus extended combo hits. He can eiter deal raw damage or have a little more balance with unorthodox spells, including one that fills the class strike guage or one that makes you a werewolf in the daytime. his heals are better than Duran's. Charlotte is THE healer. No matter how you develop her, she can multiheal in the second class. She can either use support buffs or an uber powerful situational zombie killing spell with light magic, or learn soem dark spells and conjure monster assistants. They share the Masked Mage/Lich as their main antagonist. Hawkeye is a wellrounded thief, with abilities that help with getting item drops, which is very important as final class changes requires special items only dropped by certain ??? seeds, an once you get any seed, the item that spawns when you plant it is locked in. And both times class changing is branched. Hawkeye also gets combos like KEvins but doesn't get those heavy hits. Depending on how you develop him, he can do anything except healing or buffing, anything else is on the table. And Reisz has mid range physical attacks with her spear, and can either buff or debuff, but her buffs are more useful. she also gets one of four summons that in the original game multihit status effects upon enemies. Now, they deal big mutlitarget damage at the cost of the effects being rare to inflict. Hawk and Reisz share the Demon King, Leader of Mavolian Kind. To help with your fianl class changes, I recommend you revisit the second phase Benevodon dungeons, locate the chest in one that has a ??? seed, and dont save until after getting the class change item you want for any of your three characters. And finally there is a new postgame with original bosses to beat to unlock a new fourth class for each character that combines the attributes of both third classes and a post game final dungeon and boss too. And unless you like really terrible english voice acting, I strongly recommend using the japanese audio. That's the only bad thing about the game.
