![]() Unlike Secret of Mana where the three characters were pre-chosen for you every single time, you have the option to personally choose which of the three out of the six key characters you want in your party. The first thing I've noticed is that once you press Start you're brought to a screen with six characters to select from. Eh, go figure, I really like it and it's one of my top favorite A-RPGs of all time, so I guess that makes me a critic.wait. Unfortunately it's one of those titles that falls in the trope where it's enamored by critics but has left the gaming audience polarized (sort of like Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and Kirby's Epic Yarn). It was re-released for the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console in 2008 and even remade for the iPhone in 2010 I'm not even certain how a touch screen version of the game would even work, but it sounds oddly fascinating. The storyline was enriching (despite a month's worth of translation by Ted Woolsey), the gameplay was great, the game could be played up to three players, the level of atmosphere was fantastic, Hiroki Kikuta's soundtrack simply rocked, the final boss fight was epic, and it introduced the ring menu system which would be used throughout the series as a result. Secret of Mana did incredibly well and received the most positive of acclaim, and for good reason. That sequel was Seiken Densetsu 2, or as many like to refer it to by, Secret of Mana, which is the title that picked up traction for the series (which coincidentally is likened to the equivalent of an action-oriented version of Final Fantasy, minus the ATB system of course). Naturally it did well enough and got positive praise, so SquareSoft decided to take it to the next level by releasing it for the Super Famicom/Super NES in 1993. Mana began life on the original Game Boy as Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden in 1991, which eventually got released in the West as Final Fantasy Adventure and Mystic Quest in America and Europe respectively.
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