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Square announces Seiken Densetsu (Mana series) remake for iOS/AND/Vita, ARPG, not-F2P
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TheMoon
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Well, going by their recent choices ...probably Secret of Mana 2-(minus)1: The Before
Septimus Prime
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Oh, man, I want this game, so bad.
Eew, looks butt-ugly. Horribly low-budget mobile style graphics, in a series known for its absolutely gorgeous, vibrant 2D. Would have much preferred a port of the first mobile remake of this game over what we've got.
Wish we'd have gotten a direct port of SD3 at the very least, it's still crazy how that game never got an official English release.
Wish we'd have gotten a direct port of SD3 at the very least, it's still crazy how that game never got an official English release.
Owningrampage
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i love the look i am getting it. now only if they could remake ff legends 1,2,3
FF legends 2 and 3 (AKA SaGa 2 and 3) already got DS remakes. SaGa 2 remake is fantastic and pretty damn faithful to the GB original; no official English release, but there is an English translation patch.
Owningrampage
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FF legends 2 and 3 (AKA SaGa 2 and 3) already got DS remakes. SaGa 2 remake is fantastic and pretty damn faithful to the GB original; no official English release, but there is an English translation patch.
i knew ff legends 2 got a remake sadly it never got release state side
FF legends 2 and 3 (AKA SaGa 2 and 3) already got DS remakes. SaGa 2 remake is fantastic and pretty damn faithful to the GB original; no official English release, but there is an English translation patch.
SaGa 3 also got a great fantranslation some time ago. Both games are amazing remakes.
I don't mind the ROM engine visuals for SD1 since it wasn't a looker anyway. It's definitely going to feel like a downgrade for SD2-3 though.
Agreed on getting an earlier port of SD3 too. It would've been great had the game gotten a similar treatment to Chrono Trigger DS.
vagabondarts
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This looks.... interesting.
I don't know what to think of it to be honest.
Salty to this day they couldn't be bothered to release this here.
I don't know what to think of it to be honest.
FF legends 2 and 3 (AKA SaGa 2 and 3) already got DS remakes. SaGa 2 remake is fantastic and pretty damn faithful to the GB original; no official English release, but there is an English translation patch.
Salty to this day they couldn't be bothered to release this here.
On the subject of FF Adventures, I'll take any remake that undoes the poor work done in Sword of Mana.
IIRC the A.I and A.I settings didn't even function properly...
As a major SaGa fan, I agree. Imported it, enjoyed it and finished the game. I hope Square tries to resurrect western interest by localising the new Vita game.... not likely though.
IIRC the A.I and A.I settings didn't even function properly...
As a major SaGa fan, I agree. Imported it, enjoyed it and finished the game. I hope Square tries to resurrect western interest by localising the new Vita game.... not likely though.
It looks like a pretty faithful remake to me so far, which is what's most important here. I think the art style and graphical quality is good enough. Honestly, what were you guys expecting?
That being said, I would have loved to see this game in stereoscopic 3D. This kind of art style would look really good in stereoscopic 3D.
They aren't going to release a Vita version overseas because Square-Enix, so we're stuck with the mobile versions.
After reading the replies in this thread, I can see barely anyone here played the original game. The game looks like a 1:1 remake to me. This is going to be nothing like Sword of Mana.
That being said, I would have loved to see this game in stereoscopic 3D. This kind of art style would look really good in stereoscopic 3D.
They aren't going to release a Vita version overseas because Square-Enix, so we're stuck with the mobile versions.
After reading the replies in this thread, I can see barely anyone here played the original game. The game looks like a 1:1 remake to me. This is going to be nothing like Sword of Mana.
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Deleted member 13876
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Damn are the chances of this getting localized that low?
For Vita, yes. For mobile, of course not.
Spukc
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Owningrampage
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i hope they keep the piano to the theme song. i love it
Sumio Mondo
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Final Fantasy IV PSP
Final Fantasy IV DS
Both were entirely different remakes from two different dev teams. Takashi Tokita worked on both of them.
In that vein I guess The After Years works too.
Sumio Mondo
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Wasn't that a sequel though? Can't remember off the top of my head.
I'll admit I am definitely getting old, but does anyone actually find this sort of artstyle attractive? Or is it just a matter of it being cheap as hell to produce. When I was a kid, I used to buy a game based off of one beautiful screenshot in a magazine. Now I have to twist my own arm to buy these ugly ass games hoping there is something worthwhile. It feels like we're going backwards.
It is. It also has 4 versions of itself, two of them being remakes.
threelights
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Neither looks amazing and neither looks bad imo.
Sprite based game nowadays is just an extra cost you put in to attract older gamers. It takes more work, and it doesn't look that much better...
To me, I respect sprite-based more because I know how hard and how much skill it requires to make them, but I will never complain when devs/pubs choose to make a game 3D instead.
The one thing sprite-based games tend to do better than 3D is animations. Specially when you put both at the same budget-level, sprite animations tend to be much prettier than 3D. But that's about it, if you show me a screenshot of both, I wouldn't choose one over the other.
I also lost any and all nostalgia for sprite-based games after so many indies came and botched it, so maybe I don't see them like everyone else.
It's already announced for Android.
Cornbread78
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Flashbacks of my children start flowing watching those Gameboy images.
Hopefully, this comes west, even if only digital.
Hopefully, this comes west, even if only digital.
Nuts.Pistachio_Nuts!
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Holy shit seiken densestu was final fantasy adventure?!? That was my first game boy game,I ever owned. Amazing, I am so slow for not knowing that lol. Day one for sure.
Oh really? They didn't like it either? What did they hate the most about it?
The original Castlevania had this with both Super Castlevania IV and Castlevania Chronicles.
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Deleted member 13876
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Same here. Along with Link's Awakening it's part of the first games I ever owned so nostalgia is a strong factor here for me. Hope it does get a Vita version even if it is a long shot.
Yet strangely enough the only version of Secret of Mana I ever finished was the smartphone one.
Same deal with Star Fox, Star Fox 64 and Star Fox Zero. Same story, different game.
I felt like they really put too much weird fluff into it. The cactus house and all kinds of weird shit.
Also the controls didn't feel great. Like there were delays with them or something.
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Deleted member 13876
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Was the most impractical mechanic ever. They locked away an entire subsystem of the game by tying it to a multiplayer thing 99.9% of players will never touch and even if you did you had to find dozens of people with the game to get the rewards.
Gaylord Sweetwood
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This looks horrific.
Please do not touch SD2 or SD3 with this style/engine.
Please do not touch SD2 or SD3 with this style/engine.
Worldshaker
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I much prefer 2D sprites but I'll take what I can get. Day one if it gets released here.
DiipuSurotu
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wtf no please don't
texhnolyze
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Man, I just hope they can at least achieve something like Chaos Rings 3.
I know, different devs and genre. But mobile devices aren't that weak.
kubricks
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Well, that went from "Fuck yeah DAY ONE" to "Not like this no thanks" pretty quick.
SD3 is glorious!
SD3 is glorious!
ATXAlchemy
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One of the first few things that came to mind that this was also on Android/iOS.
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Jotamide
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So, did everyone overlook this?
At least we can guess that it will be localized for smartphones like DQ. Vita version would be highly preferable though.
At least we can guess that it will be localized for smartphones like DQ. Vita version would be highly preferable though.
blummer102
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Ehhhh it looks okay. I'm glad that Square hasn't completely forgotten about the Mana series and left it out to die but to see it relegated to smartphone fodder makes me depressed. It's interesting that they want to eventually make remakes of all of the games (would be super interested to see how they'd do SD3 and LOM remakes) but since they've already remade the first Seiken game twice already I am a lot less interested in this than I thought I'd be. How many times do we need to fight that big vampire bat? Four times, apparently... And honestly, Sword of Mana's only problem was that it was too easy! Otherwise it's a solid game. Wish more people had given it a chance and greatly prefer that watercolor pixel art style over these generic 3D models.
Still, if this gets localized into English I will certainly pick it up. Would be happy just to see a new Seiken game in English on any platform.
Still, if this gets localized into English I will certainly pick it up. Would be happy just to see a new Seiken game in English on any platform.
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