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Trials of Mana (SNES version) |OT| 24 years in the making
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Does that mean there'll be a de-hewwo'd edit of the translation available next week?
What a cool release. Trials of Mana is a landmark in 16-but sprite-work, and I'm stoked to see it get more exposure. It's also my favourite Mana game after Legend. I'm curious though if they ported it, or did a bona-fide rom translation that could run on original hardware.
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Dang, I should have known.
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It doesn't actually matter in the long run. Stats for each class have a low enough cap that you should be able to max out the most important ones and still have some points left over, and class changing automatically boosts all of your stats to the previous class's cap anyway.
As others said, it's about 25 hours long, but it has replay value by the wazoo. Your 3-member party can consist of any combination of the available 6 characters, all of whom play very differently, and all 6 characters have 4 classes they can evolve into by the end, each with their own skillsets and limit breaks. What's more, the game has 6 different introduction sequences (depending on who's your main character) and the game world is threatened by 3 rivalling factions, each with their own big-bad trio. By the mid-game point, one of those factions eliminates the other two (the one that wins out depends again on who your main character is) meaning there are also three different mid-game dungeons, final dungeons and penultimate/final boss sets.
It requires at least 3 playthroughs in order to see all the bosses and dungeons, though I suspect few people will play the 8 times it takes to see all the final classes.
I've never played or looked in to the Mana series, is Mana 2 also worth playing?
Thinking about getting the collection for a trip.
Thinking about getting the collection for a trip.
Secret of Mana is worth playing as well. I played it this year. Had very nice playability and music.
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Was gonna jump in on it with my wife yesterday.. quickly relized that Secret of Mana also didnt let you play co-op until later in the game.. how long in Trials before me and the wife can both play at the same time? :>
Yes, and Final Fantasy Adventure / SD1 is actually great, too. Obviously a bit more basic than the others, but don't overlook it.
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As soon as you get your second character when you are in Astoria. 1 hour tops? Maybe a little bit more. Just remember to press start when the other character joins so your wife can play!
Roughly 15 minutes after the opening credits roll, if you know what you're doing.
Ah great, currently chasing a blue light away from Astoria - should probably go back then hehe
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No no, keep following that blue light lol. Don't worry, just follow the main story line. You won't miss the other character.
This remake made me realize I've been looking at some the characters designs wrong all these years.
I'm torn between grabbing the collection or waiting for the 3D version since I already have multiple copies of the original Secret of Mana between my SNES Classic, Wii VC, and mobile, kinda wish they would sell the 2D one separately for a little cheaper.
Was the 3D version of Secret of Mana good? Would it be better to wait for the 3D version of this?
Was the 3D version of Secret of Mana good? Would it be better to wait for the 3D version of this?
I honestly wouldn't compare them. Both are great in different ways. Secret is more cohesive overall I want to say? If you're playing solo it's probably the most straightforward one.
My experience with Trials has only ever been a real shit fan translation that half the time would glitch out back when I was younger so my view on it may not reflect Trials accurately.
wtf, got a link? wife and i were looking forward to replaying the remake, why would they take multiplayer out? the secret of mana remake was still multiplayer.
In the original, a 2D game with a static top-down perspective, allowing a second player to assume control of another on-screen character is a quick and easy thing to do. In a 3D game where the camera is located behind and actively follows the primary character and where other characters may not even be on-screen the moment you flick whatever stick controls the camera, implementing multiplayer (which would either require split-screen or online play) is one hell of a lot tougher. The Secret of Mana remake was technically 3D, but its gameplay was 2D. The Trials of Mana remake has 3D gameplay.
It's disappointing, but it's not hard to see why they ditched it.
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Trials of Mana is gonna be so hard to get used to. I'd been calling it Seiken Densetsu 3 for so long and other people have been calling it Secret of Mana 2 for so long as well.
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Yeah no joke, I walked 2 screens to the right and there the second character was lol.
Man I have so many new games I should play...but I might just have to grab this. I'm going to be switching my commute from a drive to an hour-ish train ride so I might even have time to play it.
But yeah I've probably played through this 8 times, though the last one was maybe 2003. I vaguely remember Hawkeye and Riesz being stupidly op but Kevin was always my dude. I'll definitely give the remake a shot at least.
But yeah I've probably played through this 8 times, though the last one was maybe 2003. I vaguely remember Hawkeye and Riesz being stupidly op but Kevin was always my dude. I'll definitely give the remake a shot at least.
There's a little lag, but nothing that I would define as "crazy." It takes a second.
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Sorry for the scare, I've now seen it confirmed that there's both the PAL and NA versions of the games. You just need to select "English (US)" ingame to have the 60hz version.
edit: https://youtu.be/1PrNQxLxxAU?t=22
So if you choose UK you'll get 50hz right? But choosing US will get you the NA version and thus 60hz.
Ahahahaahahahaha,
I fucking love this game.
Even the badly implemented systems that doesn't make sense are fantastic.
It makes so much sense for this to have been implemented but nope.
This is such good news!
I get to play Mystic Quest again (because god knows beyond Wii VC no one ever actually cared to put the PAL version of games in their rereleases).
And I get to play SoM either in 60Hz like the SNES mini or like I remember in French back in the day.
The wide physical release means that I can focus on Last Remnant until Mario Maker 2 is released and get the physical release of the collection while salivating at you guys playing.
I waited over 20 years, I can wait 2 months
Correct.
I guess someone said "you only get 50Hz" because he tried the french or german versions (which only exist in 50Hz).
not really,
it's a full 3D game.
If they wanted to implement co op in a way that made sense like the original , it means implementing lan or online co op.
as split screen makes no sense for this.
They noticed us sempai!!!
Decades of whinning on the internet helped!
So guys, you know the drill.
Let's make Legend happen again!
There's nightmare mode to finish!
That is actually interesting.
Nintendo probably has the assembly version of all the games released on their platforms.
This means that there is a conservation effort at Nintendo and it's probably rather extensive.
You're completely right. I misread and thought it was for the original in the collection. Disregard. :)
It's ok, it made me read the article and I'm half of the mind of making a topic about it....
(especially the part about the source code being found at Nintendo)