IS THERE A PLACE TO SCREAM ABOUT THIS YET? IF THERE IS I'M SO SORRY. BUT. I just got punched by nostalgia for one of the best games I ever played. From the storylines to the art style to the music, just. All of it. Fairly simple game play, too. I love it so much. I remembered we have it on our ps3 and I gotta replay it again soon, because GOD DAMN I LOVE LEGEND OF MANA. I know there's lots of other Mana games but I've yet to play those for myself! so I must scream about the one I know and adore! ALL THE CHARACTERS, GOD. The entire concept of precious jewels as soul cores blew me away as a kid, led me to more thought on a very important OC to my heart and an entire species of critters. Just. Legend of Mana, man.
My favorite is Seiken Densetsu 3! I'm not sure it ever got published in the US? My partner and I played a fan-translated (I think...?) version of it.
Legend of Mana is my favorite Mana game, hands down. It's so beautiful, the characters are so interesting, and I love the idea of reviving the world one piece at a time. And just... all the weird little touches. Do you have a barrel in your soul? :3
I love the very vignette nature of the game. I've heard people complain about the lack of a strongly defined overarching plot and honestly that's one of the things I like about it. The stories are occasionally connected, but by and large you're working your way through a series of small, intimate stories with small, particular groups of people. Hell I don't even remember what the ending boss of that fucking game is, but by gods do I remember the dubbears and the jumi and the haunted hotel. It's a strange thing this way and I really love it because I don't like plot very much.
I loved the fact that depending on the order of the things you did, and WHERE you put items and when, you'd unlock totally different stories *o* Apparently you can't 100% it unless you do things very specifically on a VERY specific map layout. I have a bitch and a half of a time trying to trigger some of the storylines on time, but oh man.. Fighting the goddess wasn't even my favorite ending. The Jumi made me -bawl-. Like. The first time I finished their entire storyline I bawled like a baby and immediately started making a species that I still work with today and want to craft out and tell the stories of. Their entire fucking story. Just. -Christ-. THE TEARS. ALL THE TEARS. TURN ME TO FUCKING STONE, -THE TEARS-.
It's much more standard-RPG-like than Legend of Mana, but there's still some choice (three main plots, the one you follow is determined by the first character you choose). Combat's pretty similar, from what I remember of playing Legend of Mana, and the music and the art is great. I really loved the fact that a second player can control one of the characters in the party, so my partner and I could play together in battles. I want to play more of Legend of Mana, but I have no idea what computer I was emulating it on or where my save data is...
They don't need their own file if I recall. You just need to have a partner character with you and they'll play as that character. You can load in the MC of another file as the partner character from the house too though. But why do that when you have the option of playing as Nicolo I mean really?
totally misread when I replied before, whoops. eaten and gotten my brain straighter now @W@ I will say tho that like.. the fact that you can just pick up from anywhere is pretty neat for LoM. I think the only things I'd have missed in the past was some of the crafted weapons or golems I'd gotten attached to, but overall. :SHRUGS A LOT: I'm too easy to please, I'd play it from the beginning over and over like I did when I had pneumonia
Oooh, another SD3 fan! =D My sister and I played that game a ton Back In the Day. Before the fan translated emulator patch, actually, so we had to rely on a badly-translated walkthrough and invented our own plot half the time. We did learn a lot of elementary kanji, though. Although we were always sad that it didn't support a third player with a multitap, though, since the game itself was all "look at all of the 3s!" And Seiken Densetsu 2/Secret of Mana supported 3p.
just. the settings! and the little bits of other stories that you run into, and all the characters, and the MUSIC. I mean I love all the Mana games I've ever played, but Legend has a special place in my heart forever. The dragoons, and the Irwin/Matilda/Daena/Escad story, and the Jumi, and all the little side stories. The beaches with their crystal blue water and palm trees, and the harbor town made of shells, and the lamp town, and the road with its long emptiness, and the tower, and just. so much good stuff. I mean there's things i also really love about Secret and SD3 and Sword and even Children, like the bits of Secret where you use your weapons to get around the maps, and the Lamplight Forest and the mountains of Rolante, and Angela and Charlotte and Lise, and now i want to play Legend again, i wonder if i can still find the CD and an emulator.
THE CACTUS~ Also I'm thankful that it was cheap in the PS3 store, saves me the trouble of trying to wrangle the ps2 out at all. ;7;
reviving this thread to say that i have obtained two copies of the psx disc. because. y'know. i know would happen with my sole disc if i didn't. and i might make that one of the things that i treat myself by streaming on twitch because i need to experience the jumi storyline again and share that with at least one person.
ohhhhhh shit son congrats on the obtaining and good luck with the stream!! i hope whoever joins you is a newbie and gets to experience it for the first time and have their heart ripped out and thrashed by that like i did the first time i finished it :'D
