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Trials of Mana PS4/Switch/PC (2020) and Mana Collection Switch announced
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If I buy this, I won't need to have played the original and the second game, right? Besides maybe having nods/references.
Dope. Thanks for the reply. Looking forward to it, as it has caught my interest. I'll eventually get a Switch, so I'll possibly be able to play the other two.
I've never played a mana game, but the trials remake looks dope and I'm very interested in getting it.
The release of the Collection of Mana was a nice surprise, and I figured it would be a good starting point for getting into the series. So I loaded up the eShop, and noped out at the asking price of $60 Australian dollaridoos. For a Gameboy game and two SNES games. Are Squeenix really that out of touch? Anyway, I'll just wait for a sale but otherwise I'd bite on the Trials of Mana remake at full price based on what I've seen so far. Looks great.
The release of the Collection of Mana was a nice surprise, and I figured it would be a good starting point for getting into the series. So I loaded up the eShop, and noped out at the asking price of $60 Australian dollaridoos. For a Gameboy game and two SNES games. Are Squeenix really that out of touch? Anyway, I'll just wait for a sale but otherwise I'd bite on the Trials of Mana remake at full price based on what I've seen so far. Looks great.
Basically as soon as a second character turns up in the storyline. In SoM, I think that's in the first major town past the intro (if I'm remembering the order of events). Maybe an hour first time through?
For SD3, that's somewhat dependent on which characters you pick, but I *think* they're all available by the time you hit the first proper dungeon.
It's been so long, all of this is filtered through my memory!
Here's a question, again leading back to the fact that it's been so long: With the whole structure of encouraging replayability, did SD3 have any NG+ options? I don't think it did, but I could be wrong. That strikes me as something that could well be a nice extra to include for the remake.
By the way, do they mention the framerate of the Switch version? It seems stable so far but I wonder about the exact FPS.
Am I the only one that thinks this looks exactly like DQXI? Even the font is similar. This isn't made by the same team, is it?
Well, both use UE4 so I suppose there's the similarity.
Most likely by different teams though.
Yea it does look like DQXI, thats a good thing tho as I think DQXI is beautiful!
Funnily enough I'm more interested in the SNES one than the remake, I've just always wanted that version. When they revealed the remake first I was actually like "Oh..." a little disappointed lol. But then they showed off the collection too so best of both worlds! :D
(other than the fact that I'm waiting for the physical release so I still have to wait longer for the damn thing). :(
Funnily enough I'm more interested in the SNES one than the remake, I've just always wanted that version. When they revealed the remake first I was actually like "Oh..." a little disappointed lol. But then they showed off the collection too so best of both worlds! :D
(other than the fact that I'm waiting for the physical release so I still have to wait longer for the damn thing). :(
UE4 and both went for the anime cell shading with the hint of a dark outline to define the characters
It looks great tbh
The game isn't coming out until next year, the framerate is very likely to have changed by then (either way), so most media won't comment on it this far in advance.
Keep in mind they had to actually do a lot of work to localize Trials of Mana into English, something that had never officially been done before. That involves finding an experienced SNES assembly-language programmer, something not easy to find these days, and the game is one of the largest SNES games ever released. I'd say a good portion of the price was to pay for that game's localization, as well as a "brand new game never seen before outside of Japan" (they didn't know about the fan translation or fanbase until the remake's development was already underway).
Honestly having no problem with them over here. Yes, there is slight conditioning needed to wrap your head around delayed sword strike spam and getting grips with the hit detection. But the internal logic exists and is not difficult to parse.
I'm a few hours into the GB game and just smitten with it. Each new weapon and spell introduced has been great to use. Haven't touched this game since probably '92 I think. Holds up well as an action adventure.
looked wildly variable to me. like it goes everywhere between 30 and 60 fps. they could probably put in some performance options
Not sure if old but new screenshots found in the Steam page.
They said DQ11 inspired them for this game.
They also called the last remake "underwhelming and looking like a low budget effort that did not translate the art of the original properly".
Sooo yup
I can stare at this forever.
You're talking about the remake of Trials ? It comes out 2020.
It's like Final Fantasy games you don't need to have played the others to understand the game.
It's a legendary game, they are modernizing it though so I think it's the perfect entry to check out ! It has a very cool unique narrative system where you pick 3 characters and the story adapts to who you picked, in which order etc... Every character has a different origin story and they have different main enemies which changes the story's third act entirely.
6 characters, each pair shares the same big bag (with different motivations), Hawkeye and Riesz, Duran and Angela, Kevin and Charlotte. It's really cool.
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God, I hope they give Secret of Mana another remake. The most famous entry in the series deserves better than what it got, even SE admits it.
They will not reremake it.
They already said they would like to make an original game after this.
Sure, that's the next logical step considering they already have the assets and formula for 3D Mana.
A new SoM remake could still happen later though.
it's not like they couldn't achieve this with Unity (let's not talk shit about Unity's toolkit now). I'm wondering if they're making the game through a different developer who's more accustomed to UE4
No it's the exact same team and done internally.
Unity is a lot harder to use. UE4 lets you build worlds that look good within literally one week.
LOL, you don't remember Pink Typhoon? (Angela's Sorceress special attack) That one was one of the most memorable techs in the game.
So, I played through the game with all the characters (using emulators and a fan translated rom) maybe twenty years ago (or around that, I know I was a teen at the time). Since Angela was never one of my favorites, any subsequent playthroughs have been with the characters I like more than her. Though, I AM a big fan of Pink Typhoon the song.
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Good to know then. Great even as I won't bother with 50hz SoM :P
Can you also change the language in the US version ?
Nah you'll have to play as the NTSC unfortunately. But it's there!
That's pretty cool. The price is still a bit steep for me, but it's nice to see they're putting in some work for the English speaking fans. As somebody who grew up in Australia loving Square games, I always felt like we were an afterthought and often outright ignored even more than the rest of the English speaking world. A lot of the games that were translated to English didn't see the light of day here, or came very late.
probably not worth the effort.
Multitap wasn't exactly a big seller back then and they probably required the extra time it required to implement to do something else.
Same internal production team (which is the mobile division now I guess) maybe but both the previous remakes had development outsourced to different companies (Adventures = MCF, Secret = Q Studios). Same as the Collection (M2).
I also think that game had some unfortunate design choice, beyond the ugly look, it plays worse than the original, sound was off somehow, and it was designed originally for Vita but came out when the system was already dead.
They said this time the original composer for the Mana series is working on this release (i don't think he was involved in the SoM remake) and they learned a lot from the feedbacks.
Colors are slightly more saturated than DQ XI, i honestly slightly prefer the look here (especially for the grass and trees), UI is obviously different but the rest is very similar to Dragon Quest XI, and for me that's a plus, Square Enix finally found a style that fits well to their classic series.
Secret of Mana doesn't just need a better remake because the last one was a letdown - it needs a better remake because the original game was itself a shadow of its planned SNES-CD self.
Very hard to put the pieces together when some of the ideas went on to become Chrono Trigger
I do agree it deserves a Trials of Mana remake with a 3rd person camera and revised combat.
Does Kevin still turn into a wolf at night and get crazy combos is the question
I think most people it's right before you enter the Cave to Wendell.
But if it's Charlotte it's a little later.
when you get the second player depends on who it is.
I think most people it's right before you enter the Cave to Wendell.
But if it's Charlotte it's a little later.
In the Uk we got all our hype from Super Play:
Wow, thanks for these scans!.
Electronic Gaming Monthly.
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Looks amazing! But hmm, not really feeling the new boss battle theme. Maybe I'm just used to the original
Does local wireless (two switches connected directly) work for Collection of Mana - Trials of Mana multiplayer? Might play the original since the remake has no co-op.
You can pre-order the game on amazon UK now. Ignore if this was posted before (I didn't see it/didn't have time to follow the thread 100%).
Guess that means that there is a euro physical version. Description says it contains a cartridge. It also has a reversible cover, also says it's a limited print run.
Guess that means that there is a euro physical version. Description says it contains a cartridge. It also has a reversible cover, also says it's a limited print run.
Yeah, this is like asking for the missing part of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess.
All these ideas were shuffled into future projects.
If you wanna play finished version of the missing WW dungeons, they're in Zelda TP.
You want that part of TP where you're fleeing from a gigantic spider?
That's in Spirit tracks.
There's a high chance that most of what was the initial plan for SD2 made its way into CT and SD3.
Yup. Plus, the scrapped parts of SD2 most likely only ever existed as draft documents and paper sheets, not actual programmed stuff. There was never a finished CD game that was complete and that Square deleted content and data from in order to fit into a cartridge. The CD game was canceled way before they had any significant programming done.