Sword of Mana

Sword of Mana (2003)

by Brownie Brown, Square Enix, Nintendo
Genres:Role-playing (RPG)
Themes:Action
Game modes:Single player
Story:The Mana Tree Needs Defenders! The location of the Mana Tree - wellspring of all life - has long been lost to legend. Many centuries have passed, and the Granz Realm's Dark Lord is searching for the secrets of the ancient tree so that he can control the source of Mana. Now, a young hero and heroine must come together to defeat the evil that threatens both the mystical tree and the world itself. Choose your hero! Guide a battle-hardened gladiator on his quest to avenge the deaths of his parents! ...Or guide a young girl, one of the last survivors of the Mana Clan, as she confronts the past that haunts her. Experience the saga of these two heroes as their stories weave together and they join forces to protect the Mana Tree from the powers of darkness.Show more
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April 28, 2025
A Remake of Final Fantasy Adventure(which was actually the first Mana game, but localized under the FF name for reasons) for the original Gameboy, this Gameboy Advanced game does so much with what it had to work with. The plot is still largely the same, though with a choice of player characters providing a bit of a different starting point for the female character. However, it hits every point the old game did, and backports several developments of the series into this earlier iteration. Some of it works really well too, given some of those elements were, in fact, born of this game, just refined, so putting the refined versions in this one doesn't feel out of place. Beyond that, the combat system is fantastic, with multiple weapons and spells, which determine your 'class' as you level them up, giving you bonuses and effects, which you can then leverage into power. And with the 'Black/Dark' enemy system to keep you from grinding too much in one single area, as after 1000 kills of an enemy type, it transformers every instance of that specific enemy into a harder, sometimes stronger than BOSSES, variant. And yet, it doesn't forget to reward you for taking them down. A good game, a great place to enter the franchise if you want, and it would be awesome to see it in more hands.
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