Unlike other RPG's of the time, it was
an active-time RPG, that
had real time battles.
This game was revolutionary, and while
yes other games did have
real-time battles, none were like this
at all. However, one thing
not a lot of them had (at least from
what I can remember) this
game had a 3 character party, no big
deal right?
WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This game can be played by you, and two
of your friends at the
same time, on the same cartridge!
Yep, you heard me correct You need the
game, three controllers and
one of the SNES multitap devices and
you and two other people can
play the game at the same time. Each
person controlling a
character, and each character (and
person) able to do whatever
they want to, when they want to. You
want to use an item while
they heal or Vice versa? Go right
ahead!
That was one of the best things about
this game, and for some
stupid reason, not a lot of games have
done this.
The story of the game is, (you are a
boy living in this village)
you are out playing like you do any
other day. Next thing you
know, you hear a voice coming from a
waterfall, and notice that
there's a sword in a rock there. You
decide what could possibly
happen?
By the way, that's the worse thing to
ever say, trust me! Karma
will run you ovah!!!!!!!!!!
Once you do this though, you have since
awakened monsters, that
are ravaging different places, and in
doing so have you hated by
the village that you would live in for
removing the sword, and
ultimately kicked out of it. Now you
are on your own, but on a
mission to save the world.
I could go on, but I'd rather not spoil
anything in case people
have yet to play, see or let alone hear
about this game.
I said before that there are three
characters, and each of them
have their abilities and flair to them.
You have the boy, a
warrior class, able to learn lots of
different weapons.
There is the girl (who I call the white
magic class) she is
useful for healing and defense. Then
sprite, who uses black
magic, damaging magic onto foes.
You can play by yourself, and have the
AI take control of the
other two characters. however you are
really missing out on a lot
of fun when you don't have people to
play this game with you.
The "menu" system really
reminds me of how Dishonored has their
weapon/magic wheel menu. I love the
whole circle menu in my
opinion, I find that it's faster and
easier since you can really
move around in the wheel, vs a
traditional menu.
Each magic and each weapon have a skill
level attached to them,
the higher the skill, the better the
item(s) magic spell(s)
For weapons, you can charge up a
powerful attack, however please
keep in mind, that for each level that
you can charge your attack,
it takes longer to charge it up. So a
level 1 charge is nothing,
but a level 5, 6, y, etc. will take
longer and leave your
vulnerable to an open attack.
The graphics in the game, while not as
good as other games, feels
more inviting then the rest, it's
something you hardly see
anymore, sans Ni No Kuni. I guess that
doesn't surprise me, and
shouldn't surprise you, since some of
Secret of mana's graphics
looks like they were (at least to me)
hand drawn/painted. Which,
even if it wasn't and given the
illusion of that, makes it really
more inviting to play a game like this.
It makes me want to play a
game like that more since it shows how
much they care, not only
about their games, but about their
consumers as well.
The sounds and music fits the style of
the game, but the sound
effects could have been a bit better.
First things first, the
music describes the game perfectly, it
really melds well with the locales that you are in, when you hear the
music.
The sound effects on the other hand,
while not bad, are not great either. They are in a sort of happy
medium. Some of the sound effects get repetitively, and I really
don't know why they didn't take a little bit more time to work on he
sound effects, especially since it's on the SNES and there were many
games with better effects.
In the end, this game deserves all the
credit that it gets and more. Well it should get more since I believe
it was translated in a little bit more than a month, and they did a
great job in doing so.
I highly recommend this game to people
who want to enjoy a nice adventure with either nobody, or with up to
two of your friends.
I give this game a 9.8 out of 10
I really feel that the sound effects,
being so limited and that there are quite a few dry spots in the
story (ones that I won't spoil for you :P) hurt this game from a
perfect score.
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