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Trials of Mana Demo Impressions Thread
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Ugh, I did not at all enjoy what I played of this with Riesz as the main character. I'm not sure if the intro is the same for everyone (I can't imagine everyone is the prince/princess of Laurent) but my goodness was that start rough. And now that I'm in the forest it's not much better. But holy crap there was so much wrong with just the Laurent section.
Ugh, I was excited for this game, but I might just watch some playthroughs on Twitch instead, this bucked me hard.
Why didn't Riesz just beat the two spies and quickly turn the wind back on with the key? Why did the bandits just randomly leave the entire fortress instead of using it for themselves (since they now had the key for the wind)? Why was nobody in Laurent looking after the prince? Why did the beast dudes just randomly leave the front gate unguarded in the second town?
yeah I started with her as well and it's pretty dumb.......but the combat is light and breezy and enjoyable enough.
in the original the pairings were
Duran/Angela
Kevin/Charlotte
Riesz/Hawkeye
for the most cohesive stories
Each character is from a different kingdom/town with their own backstory and reason to go seek the Pope guy. Give another character a shot
Everyone has unique intro's, maybe some of the other characters would be more to your liking? I'm starting with Angela this go round and hers was,while very short, at least a bit better.
I'm biased, but Duran and Hawkeye's intros are the best. Hawkeye's because he got that crew, ya dig
Hah i went Duran and Angela just cause i thought Duran would be easy to get into and i wanted a caster. I enjoyed that their stories just happened to gel together well.
So is this basically like... the main character and the first character you choose? Second doesn't matter?
No, it's which characters are "paired" for plot events of the game.
Each of those three pairs share a major villain and story focus, so if you make sure to pick one or the other of each pair, you are going to essentially get the full story in a single playthrough.
It helps me that Hawkeye, Angela and Charlotte are a trio I very much would like to start with!
You can pick whoever you wish, it's more a suggestion in case you don't plan on playing more then one playthrough.
Starting character technically leads the plot, but it's more about which character you wanna see the prologue for, and in what order you wanna meet your other partners.
I will amend this post if incorrect however, as I have very little personal experience in this, and more hearsay from friends.
Okay the demo is one of these games that make my PS4 Pro sound uncomfortably loud, I'll wait for the Steam release :/
Also if you want to do more than one playthrough, i would recommend to pick the two characters from a pair to see their full story each time, like duran and angela! Cause you won't see everything otherwise and it won't feel as complete
it's not a big deal of course if you don't do that, just a bit better
my Impressions (played both ps4 and switch version)
- game looks overall good but rough around the edges (distant islands have very low geometry for example).
- Hard mode isn't actually hard. Hope the patch in very hard.
- The menus look very clean and have good descriptions
- New talent/skill system
- Nice customization/settings for AI members. You can configurate how often they should use skills and items
- Switch version has lower framerate than PS4 version. Locked 30?
- Sometime some texture pop in during cutscenes
- option for old and new remastered soundtrack
- dual audio (english and japanese)
- combat ist fun with jumping and evading.
I prefer the PS4 version but switch plays absolutely fine aside from the framerate
- game looks overall good but rough around the edges (distant islands have very low geometry for example).
- Hard mode isn't actually hard. Hope the patch in very hard.
- The menus look very clean and have good descriptions
- New talent/skill system
- Nice customization/settings for AI members. You can configurate how often they should use skills and items
- Switch version has lower framerate than PS4 version. Locked 30?
- Sometime some texture pop in during cutscenes
- option for old and new remastered soundtrack
- dual audio (english and japanese)
- combat ist fun with jumping and evading.
I prefer the PS4 version but switch plays absolutely fine aside from the framerate
All good, I'm just somewhat surprised about folks seemingly stumbling upon this key difference between the versions while I personally had the impression it's been communicated from the very start quite clearly. Doesn't make your notion of it useless or anything, at least more people should become aware of it now.
Can't comment on the remake but in the original the two guards change into their beast forms because it's night when you leave
If you pick Angela as your main, you HAVE to pick Duran as one of your companion. (Kinda biased because I like one of Duran final boss)
The end-game will be much more impactful. It is indeed strongly recommended to choose one of the duo mentioned earlier, otherwise you might miss some cutscenes.
The end-game will be much more impactful. It is indeed strongly recommended to choose one of the duo mentioned earlier, otherwise you might miss some cutscenes.
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Skipped everything so I'd get to more combat as fast as possible, and I'm not really feeling it. Seems incredibly vanilla and, well, basic as far as action RPGs go and super, super easy even on hard.
But it seems like it could be a cute palate cleanser in-between all the humongous RPGs I play, so maybe I'll check it out on Steam at some point when it's like 50% off or something.
But it seems like it could be a cute palate cleanser in-between all the humongous RPGs I play, so maybe I'll check it out on Steam at some point when it's like 50% off or something.
Playing the demo on PS4 atm.
Game is a joy to play. Duran is my main, just met Angela and chose Hawkeye as 2nd companion. The remake music is really nice, very true to the original. I played the Switch release last year.
Game is a joy to play. Duran is my main, just met Angela and chose Hawkeye as 2nd companion. The remake music is really nice, very true to the original. I played the Switch release last year.
Still the really beginning, thing could get way harder later..... no?
edit: ok i've give it a go on hard, the game is a pushover... i've destroy eveything and the bosses just attack all the way with no need to avoid and heal. Sorry pre-order cancel for me....
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Just finished the demo. Took me 2 hours. Will replay it on Steam. PS4 base performance is solid.
A THOUSAND THANKS!
Man, it is every bit as awesome as I had imagined.
I didn't see anything about it but can you transfer your demo progress to the full game on Switch?
Playing as Hawkeye on the Switch (will play the demo on PS4 later as either Kevin or Angela) and really enjoying it. It's a bit janky but far less so than SoM remake that was rather shit. And this game looks really nice too.
A lot of backlog games. I'm going on fully completed game path. It's Ori time now :)
