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Trials of Mana is a modern revival of the 3rd game in the seminal Mana series. The game, originally released in Japan as Seiken Densetsu 3, has been fully rebuilt from the ground up in 3D.
Trials of Mana is a rpg, jrpg and anime game
developed and published by Square Enix.
Released on April 24th 2020 is available only on Windows
in 8 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 5,450 reviews of which 5,002 were positive and 448 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam with a 60% discount, but you can find it for 15.04€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows® 8.1 / 10 64-bit
- Processor: AMD A-Series 2.5GHz / Intel® Core™ i3 2.5GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 460 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 20 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 60 FPS @ 1280x720
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Great! I played Seiken Densetsu 3 when I was young, so this has some degree of nostalgia for me. I immediately recognized much of the music. The combat is pretty fun for an action RPG. The AI is middling in its ability to avoid AoE damage, but you can mitigate it. They at least aren't affected by environmental hazards. There's no multiplayer, which is a bit disappointing, but I wasn't expecting to play this with anyone else anyway. I will say that the dialogue is awkward. I know it's a remake of a Japanese-only SNES game, but there are still some strange choices.
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I never played the original, my only interaction with the series was Children of Mana (?) on DS which I enjoyed quite a bit. I'm going to assume some of the drawbacks are the result of it originally being a SNES game but I'll still state them plainly because this is a 50 dollar game when it's not on sale. The game is a pretty simple Action RPG, characters will play very similarly until you get your first class change, where you get some more interesting build variety. You can choose a party of three characters out of six, which changes how the story unfolds as well as how much of the story you see. I've done one playthrough so far as well as some of the post game, but the game is designed around multiple runs. If I didn't know this was based on a pre existing game, I would say it plays a bit like a gamecube era tales game, though there are a fair amount of convenient features sprinkled in. I think the visual style is one of the stronger points of the game, the art itself is pretty and the game stands out a lot on that front from other games of its kind. Enemy designs are great, there are a lot of weird little freaks for you to fight. Some of the designs remind me of Dragon Quest, it's not entirely Gameplay for the most part is pretty straight forward and samey until your first class change, the basic combo flow of characters is completely identical regardless of who you're playing, but they have access to different spells and buffs and their character skills can be pretty different. My first party was Angela, Charlotte and Hawkeye and Hawkeye carried, possibly because he had the best straight combat skills and I don't really like playing a spellcaster. The variable party is a neat idea on paper, but I don't know if it justifies playing the whole game again to see 10 percent new content. The other party members you don't pick just being around in the story world is kind of cool and I think it's interesting to see other plotlines resolve without you being a part of them. I think the biggest issue this format has is it really screws with the pacing. Almost all of Hawkeye's backstory (which for my money is the best of the three I picked) takes place over the course of ten minutes. It's very hard to feel for a character dying when you've known them for approximately 30 seconds before they do. Some of the mechanics, like the day night cycle, don't feel like they're ever paid off, they're just like tacked on as a feature for some reason. It mildly changes enemy spawns sometimes, or changes when a shop is open, all really superficial stuff. I also don't like the item ring much, mostly because you have to bind utility items to use them even outside of combat, I think a shortcut for the utilities or letting us use them from the menu would have been a better option vs losing a potential combat item because you need to fly somewhere. This game has a class change mechanic where most of the character building takes place, I think all the classes are strong and make sense and are well defined, but most importantly you get new outfits which are permanently unlocked for the character, so pick the cool one. This game isn't that hard. I do like that they add some level of exploration to the remake, as well as the seed mechanic, which is basically an item and equipment gacha. You actually need it to get your class items above the second class, but that's not as bad as it sounds, you get quite a lot, and it's always the correct ones for your party. One thing that isn't well defined are the stats, I still don't know wtf they do and the game doesn't explain it, there are reddit post that make guesses, but it would just be nice to know. Again, the game isn't hard, but there are harder difficulties where you may want to know what stats in an rpg do. The music is wonderful, I mostly played with the remake soundtrack but toggled the original every once and awhile and it sounds like it's trying to be completely faithful. I like the woodwinds and a lot of the dungeons have nice beats. Music loops are very short, and a lot of tracks are repeated but I think that works in its favour for situations like being in a town with cheery music but something isn't right with the locals. The story is by a country mile the weakest part. The most interesting part of it to me is the dub, which is famously pretty panned. I think Angela being a valley girl is really funny and people who don't like Charlotte's Engwish dub awe incapabwe of feewing joy. Hawkeye was largely competent. Some npcs are laughably bad, some sounding like they recorded their lines over discord. I don't think a better dub would save the story, it's just very paint by numbers. The only thing that stopped me from skipping half the cutscenes was to hear their delivery, which is sometimes stilted as a result of the narrative being pieced together with like 20 different potential party combinations (order matters too, leader determines the final boss) The plot justifications for backtracking are weak and I'd say the final chapter kind of just quits trying. It has the most interesting bosses but that isn't saying much. It's actually weird how none of them were used as the dungeon bosses, which are largely forgettable. I think this game was probably really groundbreaking and the story design being weirdly paced and fragmented was a necessary evil to try a new thing, but the game would have probably been better if you just had a party of six people and you experienced the whole plot. tl;dr Pleasing character designs, I like the modeling, the dub is funny, and the combat is okay. I think most tales games are more fun and have more interesting combat and story than this. This all sounds damning but I enjoyed my time with it, if I didn't I wouldn't have finished it.
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Angela from Trials of Mana is my entire personality, I love her so much, this game is worth it because of her
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I initially passed on this game because it looked a bit too childish and combat a bit too simplistic. But there's a lot more to this game than I had given credit for. There's quite a lot of flexibility to party composition and the game is just surprisingly fun on top of that, so it's a highly replayable ARPG with extra difficulty modes after you beat it, too. It also has a few tracks that just slap (and a few irritating ones, too), because it's renditioned music from an era when music was just about being catchy and fun. There's a few minor issues, ofc, certain bosses have a few issues and your companions don't dodge or contribute to the fight as much as they should, you'll end up babysitting them a bit too often, I feel. I wish the AI was a bit stronger here, but it's not a deal breaker. Also, some of the dialogue and story is fairly meh, but I guess there's some neat stuff on how they tie all the character arcs together. However, if group based ARPGs are your thing like they are for me then this stuff isn't enough to detract too much from the experience. Also the game doesn't really pick up in its depth until you get your 2nd and 3rd class choice. Once you get the 4th everything really starts to click. So don't write it off too early. I bought the game for $20, which to me is an insane deal for this. For that price alone it's an easy rec. It's not a game-of-the-year type game, but more of an underappreciated gem. If you do get it, you'll probably end up surprised how fun it is like I was, don't underestimate this one.
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I feel like if you play this is in short bursts then its a fun time with a decent "turn off your brain" combat system and a nice colourful art style. Very re playable thanks to the multiple character roaster for each play through (I believe you need to do the game three times to get all story routes) and is thankfully very short for a JRPG at around 15-18 hours. Overall, a solid IGN 7/10.
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Trials of Mana is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
Trials of Mana is currently available at a 60% discount. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Trials of Mana received 5,002 positive votes out of a total of 5,450 achieving a rating of 8.86.
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Trials of Mana was developed and published by Square Enix.
Trials of Mana is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Trials of Mana is not playable on MacOS.
Trials of Mana is not playable on Linux.
Trials of Mana is a single-player game.
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Trials of Mana does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Trials of Mana supports Remote Play on Tablet. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Trials of Mana is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Square Enix
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Release
24 Apr 2020
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