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DeathbyVolcano · Sep 13, 2006

I searched for this but didn't really get much progress. I'm sure this was posted in one of the last few days' Famitsu threads, but considering the importance of this, I'll post a thread for it anyway. Lock if you feel the need, I won't be offended. :lol

Heroes of Mana has been confirmed for the DS, awesome, awesome. Here's the details:

Real Time Strategy and RPG elements. Nice

Producer is Koichi Ishii

Scenario by Masato Kato (Chrono trigger, Seiken Densetsu 4). Kickass!

Character designs by Ryoma Ito (Final Fantasy Tactics Advance) and Akira Oguro (Final Fantasy X) Hoooray!!

Music is composed by Yoko Shimomura (Mana series, Parasite Eve)Hoorayx2

Sounds awesome for now, can't wait to see some scans for it.

superfly · Sep 13, 2006

Is there an ejaculation emoticon?

MMaRsu · Sep 13, 2006

I think there even was a seperate thread for this

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118879&highlight=Heroes+mana

Well now it's confirmed either way

Ngeist · Sep 13, 2006

The info has already been uncovered in the Japanese mag news thread, but...

Hoping it will be in full 3D

DeathbyVolcano · Sep 13, 2006

Figured. Of course as soon as I post this someone bumps the famitsu thread and I feel stupid.

Alex · Sep 13, 2006

Why would you want it full 3D on the DS? Mana games have such lush artwork, it seems like that'd be a waste.

Oh well, it seems like the series is climbing out of it's rut at least. The few people I talked to say Children of Mana was a pretty excellent little dungeon crawler. And being a whore for that little sub-genre, it's very much on my radar still.

Masato Kato is awesome. I still conted that FFXI, more notably it's expansions, had the best plotting out of any Final Fantasy game.

Ngeist · Sep 13, 2006

Alex said:
Why would you want it full 3D on the DS? Mana games have such lush artwork, it seems like that'd be a waste.

Oh well, it seems like the series is climbing out of it's rut at least. The few people I talked to say Children of Mana was a pretty excellent little dungeon crawler. And being a whore for that little sub-genre, it's very much on my radar still.

Masato Kato is awesome. I still conted that FFXI, more notably it's lush expansions, had the best plotting out of any Final Fantasy game.

You're right. Anyway, Square-Enix masters so much 3D on DS that it's inevitable...

Caaz · Sep 13, 2006

... OMG. OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG. And the first DS game is not even out in France! And a RTS... Wow, just, wow.
I love Seiken Densetsu.

tirant · Sep 13, 2006

I would kill for "Heroes of M&M" on DS... anyway...

Scalemail Ted · Sep 13, 2006

tirant said:
I would kill for "Heroes of M&M" on DS... anyway...

Me too!

Have you played AoE DS? Its pretty good.

duckroll · Sep 13, 2006

This game is set 19 years before Seiken Densetsu 3. So I guess it's part of that official timeline.

Scalemail Ted · Sep 13, 2006

duckroll said:
This game is set 19 years before Seiken Densetsu 3. So I guess it's part of that official timeline.

What more can you reveal?

Ranger X · Sep 13, 2006

Wishing for this game to be 3D in a unforgivable sin.

duckroll · Sep 13, 2006

Scalemail Ted said:
What more can you reveal?

The game's only 35% complete, so I don't think there's much in Famitsu aside from an introduction article.

demonkid666 · Sep 13, 2006

Where are the pics?

Scalemail Ted · Sep 13, 2006

demonkid666 said:
Where are the pics?

Theres probably just a small blip in the issue that this game is being made. I'm guessing no pics yet.

LOCK · Sep 13, 2006

keanerie · Sep 13, 2006

YESSSSSSS

AdmiralViscen · Sep 13, 2006

So much for CoM's ~300k sales constituting a bomb.

Looking forward to more details.

ethelred · Sep 13, 2006

AdmiralViscen said:
So much for CoM's ~300k sales constituting a bomb.

Looking forward to more details.

But Mono and LanceStern said it was.

I'm pretty excited by the news. While it's not what I had originally hoped for (I've wanted a new DS Mana ever since CoM, and I wanted this one styled after SD2 and SD3), it's still an intriguing idea -- a Mana real-time SRPG? -- and I'm cautious optimistic here.

Yoko Shimomura on music is all kinds of awesome.

KyanMehwulfe · Sep 13, 2006

duckroll said:
This game is set 19 years before Seiken Densetsu 3. So I guess it's part of that official timeline.

Neat. I wonder if I'll be able to re-visit some familiar locations.

Christian · Sep 13, 2006

This is a soggy dream come true!

Mr. Pointy · Sep 13, 2006

RPG with RTS elements? Maybe it's like an RPG version of Pikmin?

EmCeeGramr · Sep 13, 2006

why are you all getting your hopes up again? Dont you know better?

Mithos Yggdrasill · Sep 13, 2006

Ngeist said:
The info has already been uncovered in the Japanese mag news thread, but...

Hoping it will be in full 3D

Ngeist ?!?!? What are you doing here ?

jj984jj · Sep 13, 2006

It's an RTS?

ethelred · Sep 13, 2006

jj984jj said:
It's an RTS?

No, real-time strategy RPG. That's not so bad -- there have been plenty of really great real-time SRPGs. The Growlanser and Ogre Battle games prominently come to mind.

Oichi · Sep 13, 2006

Scalemail Ted said:
Theres probably just a small blip in the issue that this game is being made. I'm guessing no pics yet.

No, actually, there's a huge two page spread for the game, complete with tons of pictures.

jarrod · Sep 13, 2006

Reno said:
No, actually, there's a huge two page spread for the game, complete with tons of pictures.

Sharing is caring...

Fourth Storm · Sep 13, 2006

I think people really underestimate the importance Hiroki Kikuta had on creating the feel of the Mana games. His style cannot be replicated. I always loved how he used percussion too, especially in the field/dungeon themes - it really got you into the action. Is he still doing hentai? I read in EGM he directed Shadow Hearts 3, but I don't know if that was reliable.

Square, get back Kikuta if you want to recapture the Soul of Mana!

PolyGone · Sep 13, 2006

Children of Mana -10

Kiriku · Sep 13, 2006

I want pics of the PS2 Mana game.

reriel · Sep 15, 2006

gamefront say developer is brownie brown.

Vic · Sep 15, 2006

2nd mana game from BB

PolyGone · Sep 15, 2006

Ranger X said:
Wishing for this game to be 3D in a unforgivable sin.

but it is 3d... at least the playfield is 3d.

Mr_Moogle · Sep 17, 2006

Best news ever!

I've been wanting a sequel to SD3 for ages. Is this game set before or after the original? Magicbox says it takes place 19 years after SD3.

I always thought it was absolutely disgusting that SD3 never saw an offical english release. Square should translate it and release it for GBA or something.

jesusraz · Sep 17, 2006

reriel said:
gamefront say developer is brownie brown.

Makes sense. Sword of Mana did good numbers worldwide and BB is made up of ex-Mana talent anyway. If this plays anywhere near as well as Magical Vacation/Starsign I'll be mightily impressed!

flipping_heck · Sep 17, 2006

dont think its been posted but from gamefront.de

jesusraz · Sep 17, 2006

You can't hotlink from GameFront.de...it just shows up as a red cross. Here's an album with all the images so far in it: http://www.cubed3.com/screens/882/

elostyle · Sep 17, 2006

Mana meets lost magic?

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