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Nostalgia can be a tricky thing sometimes. It can cause you to expect something that isn't arriving, and it can lead you to miss something you didn't expect, which is a pitfall I was afraid I might encounter when playing Legend of Mana, the fourth installment in Square's series of Seiken Densetsu action-RPGs. The second Seiken Densetsu game arrived in the US as the SNES classic Secret of Mana, a personal all-time favorite, and I would be lying if I said my little fanboyish heart wasn't hoping for something very much like it.

Legend of Mana Released: June, 1999 Billed as the sequel to the Super Nintendo's Secrets of Mana, Legend of Mana 's story contains more than 60 self-contained miniquests, but generally the goal is to restore the world's Mana, or life energy. Legend of Mana features different gameplay from its predecessors. The locations of the game's world are represented on a map by artifacts placed by the player, with different artifact placements allowing him or her to obtain different items. The game features temporary sidekick characters that the player can recruit, breed or build, and a.

I didn't get it, of course. Legend of Mana is very much unlike its immediate American predecessor - in fact, it's a very unusual game no matter what you compare it to. But that's hardly a knock against it. Though it may prove an acquired taste for many, and even more will probably be entirely discouraged, Legend of Mana grew on me immensely as I worked my way through it. It's a slow, meandering sort of game, without the strong, unifying central storyline that drove Secret of Mana (and more or less every other RPG out there). Featuring a large array of small adventures and side-quests, Legend of Mana doesn't pull you through its world so much as it lets you live there for a little while. Whatever can be said about what you're able to do there, though, it's an undeniably lovely place to visit. If this is the last hurrah of 2D on the PlayStation, and by extension perhaps one of the very last 2D games, I can't think of many better notes to go out on.

In the beginning (yes, this game leads one to occasional delusions of creative power), you have to build the world yourself. The realm of Fa'Diel begins as nothing but a barren plain, perhaps with a few bodies of water here and there. To raise the world into being, you need Artifacts, magical objects that harness the energy of Mana to transform into locales like forests, mountains, cities, and pirate ships (well, actually, there's just the one pirate ship). Create a land and you can travel through it, finding new items, people, and adventures.

Once you've built your first land is where the questing begins. Though Legend of Mana doesn't drive you directly into each adventure, you're not liable to spend much time wandering around without something to do. Quests are everywhere, and while the progression of the game is far from linear, they lead helpfully into each other. Once you complete a quest, you'll often be given a new Artifact or two, or at least pointed in the direction of a new adventure. In a couple of cases, quests will connect to each other as part of a larger plotline.

To use a literary analogy, Legend of Mana is more like an anthology of short stories than a single long novel. Some of the quests are short, requiring only a little wandering around town, while some of them are lengthy, spanning many dungeons. Some of the stories they tell are deadly serious, and often quite poignant, while others are like one-liners, providing a little comic relief. Puzzle-solving, character interaction, and combat all take turns playing a role. There are more than a few simple dungeon crawls, but there are also some surprisingly innovative concepts here and there. For example, in one city you need to sell lamps to the Dudbears, a clan of stitched-together teddy bears. First, you have to find someone to give you a brief tutorial in their language, and then you have to remember enough of the fundamentals to navigate your way through the conversation menus. It's simple, yes, but it's something new.

The Dudbears, incidentally, aren't anywhere near the only unusual characters to make Fa'Diel their home. Legend of Mana is home to some of the most original character design this side of Silhouette Mirage, featuring Sproutlings, Flowerlings, jewel-hunting Jumi, a race of sentient teapots, a floating stained-glass window, the monstrous earth-sprit Gaeus, and diminuitive magic students in big spiky hats, among a cast of many, many others. They feel like characters from a fairy tale, but there are none of the cliches that that term might imply. The majority of the designs are markedly original, and a few are genuine classics - try not to chuckle when the teapots strike up a conversation with you.

If you feel like a break from questing, you can simply wander around the world, meeting people, seeing what there is to see and hearing what there is to hear. There are also a few unusually deep side activities that you can engage yourself with. For example, one of the recurring cast members from earlier in the series is Watts the blacksmith, the irascible little dwarf in the horned helmet. Once you unearth his hammer from the depths of the mines, he'll teach you how to forge your own weapons and equipment; it's a simple system, but it holds a great many different possibilities. You begin with a particular raw material, a type of rock, metal, or wood, and forge it into a basic item. Then you can temper it with a wide array of other items, increasing its power or changing its elemental properties.

That's one of the many ways in which the combat system differs from its predecessors - it seems as if some evolutions begin in Seiken Densetsu 3 have moved markedly forward in the latest game. The percentage meter is gone, letting you attack with full force at any time. The Crystalis-esque special attacks are drastically modified: special combos are far fewer, and you can trigger them at will if you build up your special meter with a succession of regular attacks. Those special moves aren't a major part of combat, though. The most common attacks are manual combos, which you execute by mixing up the quick and strong attack buttons, although basic maneuvers like jumps, lunges, and ripostes also play an important role.

Beyond the facts, then: do I enjoy the new combat system? To some degree, yes. I like the greater speed, and though they were dang cool to watch, it's nice not to have to deal with the delay that the old special combos demanded. Also, magic and items play, respectively, little and no role in battles. Attack and support spells are rarely necessary, and you don't need healing items at all. If you survive a fight, your hitpoints are automatically kicked back up to the maximum. Again, this adds speed at the cost of depth, which is a trade-off I'm not sure I like. One thing I can unequivocally say: I miss the multiplayer game from Secret of Mana. Legend only lets you play with two players, and limits your options greatly: since there's only one hero, player 2 has to be an NPC or an imported hero from another saved game.

But the side quests and activities bring depth of their own. Like the one that grants you the smithy, another quest allows you to create your own musical instruments, which can be put to a couple of different uses. In battle, you can play them to cast elemental spells, but even more interesting is the system of elemental contact. Instruments are created by mixing a raw material with an elemental coin, which you gather by making contact with elemental spirits. To contact the elementals, you have to play them music, an aspect of gameplay where I believe composer Yoko Shimomura has had an influence. When you want to play a tune, you can pick multiple instruments, assign them to melody and harmony, and select what sort of tune you want to play - and that's exactly what you'll hear. The instruments each play their appropriate part, and a sad, serene, or contemplative tune fills the air.

The other wild creature you have to deal with are monsters, or rather monster whelps, who wander about encased in eggs like Sheldon from the old U.S. Acres strip. After luring them home with the appropriate sort of food, you can raise them and train them to fight alongside you. They start out a little weedy, as low-level Rabites or the like, but a steady diet of dragon steak and demon meat, along with judicious training, eventually develops them into tough little cookies.

The problem with this - yes, there is one - is that I'm not certain whether there's much tangible benefit in pet raising, weapon forging, golem building, and the like. Fighting through the game on my own, with whatever allies came by, a pet level-five Rabite, a fairly pedestrian complement of arms and armor, and hardly any magic, I stomped the opposition flat, dying only when I didn't even bother with a semblance of strategy against some bosses. I'm not what you'd call a glutton for punishment - leveling-up and repeating boss fights are aspects of RPG gameplay that I'm happy to see off into the history books - but neither do I like the sensation that a game is going easy on me, and the low level of difficulty hurts the game's replay value in many ways. None of the dungeons are very deep, and the quests and battles sometimes move a little too fast, especially compared to some of the tortuous boss fights in Secret of Mana. The many side activities, which might have been an really vital aspect of gameplay, feel a little bit tacked-on; there's no substantial drive to delve into them.

But to pull an example out of a hat, even if there may not be an immediate profit in elemental taming, the music is still beautiful. That comment could be adapted to apply to many aspects of the game. Legend of Mana is simply a wonderful game to experience. The exquisitely shaded sprites and 2D backgrounds possess a kind of beauty that will die with this generation of videogames. It's sad, but it's true - the last honest 2D system is already long gone, and the PlayStation will join the Saturn soon enough. Maybe, in a few years, the PlayStation2 or one of its competitors will be able to render something as beautiful as this in 3D, but until then, all we'll have is the forests, mountains, and cities of Fa'Diel, brought to life by sparing animation and lavish, yet carefully applied color. The soundtrack, though composer Shimomura is a newcomer to game music, is about as good as any that you'll hear today. Thanks be to Square's newly enlightened localization staff, the opening theme remains wonderfully unchanged, and the background music throughout the game brings intensity to battles, suspense to , and subtle nuance to emotional moments.

Speaking of that localization staff, they have my thanks for doing a superb job with Legend of Mana's English script. The music is entirely intact, the text is almost typo-free (I counted two errors), and most of all, the characters speak like people, not RPG characters. There's nothing broad or forced about the dialogue, it's just quietly well-written, with a very laid-back sense of humor. For example, at one point in the game, you'll encounter a large pink hippo that teleports you somewhere - never mind where. When the hippo teleports you, he says 'Boink.' You laughed when you read that, didn't you? I did, anyway. I'm not entirely certain why - the word 'Boink' just sounds funny. That's how you can tell somebody with a proper grasp of English edited this script. There's solemnity, eloquence, and the occasional light touch of the absurd.

Comments:

The point? Legend of Mana, in some ways, is less of a game than a more general aesthetic experience. While a great many players may grow frustrated by its structure, those who enjoy smelling the roses during an RPG will find much to reward a little patient wandering. The way the plot and combat system have been organized make this a fair bit less of a complete game than Secret of Mana, and the multiplayer game is sorely missed, but perhaps that was intentional on the part of the developers. Perhaps they wanted to create something with a little less story focus, to let the game's aesthetic qualities shine through.

Or maybe I'm just making excuses, I don't know. Maybe the most meaningful comment I can make is that I played through Legend of Mana entirely, and will do so again. I want to complete the side quests I missed, I want to raise a few more monsters, I want to see how large a band I can assemble, and most of all, I want to spend a little more time seeing the sights of Fa'Diel. I think you might want to see them as well.

-- David Smith

The Mana series, known in Japan as Seiken Densetsu (聖剣伝説, lit. The Legend of the Sacred Sword), is a medieval-fantasy action role-playing game series created by Koichi Ishii, with development formerly from Square, and is currently owned by Square Enix. The series began as a handheld side story to Square's flagship franchise Final Fantasy, though the Final Fantasy elements were subsequently dropped starting with the second installment, Secret of Mana, in order to become its own series. It has grown to include games of various genres within the fictional world of Mana, with recurring stories involving a world tree, its associated holy sword, and the fight against forces that would steal their power. Several character designs, creatures, and musical themes reappear frequently.

Four games were released in the series between 1991 and 1999: the original Seiken Densetsu (1991)—Final Fantasy Adventure in North America and Mystic Quest in Europe—for the Game Boy, Secret of Mana (1993) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Trials of Mana (1995) for the Super Famicom, and Legend of Mana for the PlayStation. A remake of the original game, Sword of Mana (2003), was published for the Game Boy Advance. All of the original games were action role-playing games, though they included a wide variety of gameplay mechanics, and the stories of the games were connected only thematically.

In 2006 and 2007, four more games were released as part of the World of Mana subseries, an attempt by Square Enix to release games in a series over a variety of genres and consoles. These were Children of Mana (2006), an action-oriented dungeon crawler game for the Nintendo DS; Dawn of Mana (2006), a 3D action-adventure game for the PlayStation 2; Friends of Mana (2006), a Japan-only multiplayer role-playing game for mobile phones; and Heroes of Mana (2007), a real-time strategy game for the DS. Children was developed by Nex Entertainment and Heroes by Brownie Brown, founded by several developers of Legends, though Ishii oversaw development of all four games. Three more games have been released since the World of Mana subseries ended: Circle of Mana (2013), a Japan-only card battle game for the GREE mobile platform, Rise of Mana (2014), a Japan-only free-to-play action role-playing game for iOS, Android, and PlayStation Vita, and Adventures of Mana (2016), a 3D remake of Final Fantasy Adventure for the PlayStation Vita, iOS, and Android. In addition to the games, four manga series and one novelization have been released in the Mana franchise.

The Mana series reception has been very uneven, with early games rated higher by critics than more recent titles. Secret of Mana have been regarded as one of the best 2D action role-playing games ever made, and their music has inspired several orchestral concerts, while the games from the World of Mana series have been rated considerably lower. As of March 2011, Mana series titles have sold over 6 million units.

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Development[edit]

History[edit]

Square trademarked Seiken Densetsu in 1989,^[1] intending to use it for a game project subtitled The Emergence of Excalibur, and led by Kazuhiko Aoki for the Famicom Disk System. According to early advertisements, the game would consist of an unprecedented five floppy disks, making it one of the largest titles developed for the Famicom up until that point. Although Square solicited pre-orders for the game, Kaoru Moriyama, a former Square employee, affirms that management canceled the ambitious project before it advanced beyond the early planning stages. In October 1987, customers who had placed orders were sent a letter informing them of the cancellation and had their purchases refunded. The letter also suggested to consider placing an order on another upcoming Square role-playing game in a similar vein: Final Fantasy.^[2]

In 1991, Square reused the Seiken Densetsu trademark for an unrelated Game Boyaction role-playing game directed by Koichi Ishii. Originally developed under the title Gemma Knights, the game was renamed Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden (published in North America as Final Fantasy Adventure and in Europe as Mystic Quest).^[2] Beginning with the sequel, Secret of Mana, Seiken Densetsu was subsequently 'spun off' into its own series of action role-playing games distinct from Final Fantasy, named the Mana series outside Japan. Four titles in the series were released between 1993 and 2003.^[3]Secret of Mana was originally intended to be a launch title for the Super NES CD-ROM Adapter, but when the add-on was cancelled it was cut down into a standard Super NES cartridge, with many of the cut ideas appearing in other Square titles.^[4] It was followed in 1995 by the then Japan-only Trials of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 3 in Japan); the game was originally planned to be released in English as Secret of Mana 2, but technical issues and localization costs prohibited the release.^[5][6] The final new game in the series' initial run is the 1999 Legend of Mana, developed for the PlayStation. Legend is a 2D game like its predecessors, despite the PlayStation's 3D focus, because the console could not handle the full 3D world Ishii envisioned where one could interact with natural shaped objects.^[7] 2003 saw the release of Sword of Mana, a remake of the original Seiken Densetsu for the Game Boy Advance. The remake was outsourced to Brownie Brown, which was composed of many of the Square employees who had worked on Legend.^[6]

In 2003, Square, now Square Enix, began a drive to begin developing 'polymorphic content', a marketing and sales strategy to '[provide] well-known properties on several platforms, allowing exposure of the products to as wide an audience as possible'.^[8] The first of these was the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, and Square Enix intended to have campaigns for other series whereby multiple games in different genres would be developed simultaneously. Although no such project for the Mana series had been announced by this point, it was announced in late 2004 that an unnamed Mana game was in development for the upcoming Nintendo DS platform.^[9] In early 2005, Square Enix announced a 'World of Mana' project, the application of this 'polymorphic content' idea to the Mana franchise, which would include several games across different genres and platforms. These games, as with the rest of the series, would not be direct sequels or prequels to one another, even if appearing so at first glance, but would instead share thematic connections.^[6] The first release in this project and the sixth release in the Mana series was announced in September 2005 as Children of Mana for the DS.^[10] Four games were released in 2006 and 2007 in the World of Mana subseries: Children of Mana, Dawn of Mana, and Friends of Mana in 2006, and Heroes of Mana in 2007.^[6]

Each game in the World of Mana series was different, both from each other and from the previous games in the series. Children is an action-oriented dungeon crawler game for the DS, developed by Nex Entertainment; Dawn is a 3D action-adventure game for the PlayStation 2; Friends is a Japan-only multiplayer role-playing game for mobile phones; and Heroes is a real-time strategy game for the DS, developed by Brownie Brown. While Ishii was the designer for all four games, he served as the director and producer for Dawn, which was considered the main game of the four and was released as Seiken Densetsu 4 in Japan.^[6] The theme of the subseries for Ishii, especially Dawn, was about exploring how to add 'the feeling of touch' to a game. He had held off on designing new Mana games after Legend was unable to meet his desires, until he felt that technology had improved enough to let him create what he envisioned.^[7] A fifth game for the subseries was considered for the Wii in 2006, but did not enter development.^[11] In April 2007, a month after the release of the final game of the World of Mana, Ishii left Square Enix to lead his own development company, named Grezzo.^[12][13]

The Mana series is put on hiatus until 2013, when Square Enix released Circle of Mana, a Japan-only card battle game for the GREE mobile platform.^[14] It was followed in 2014 by Rise of Mana, a Japan-only free-to-play action role-playing game for iOS, Android, and PlayStation Vita,^[15] and in 2016 by Adventures of Mana, a 3D remake of Final Fantasy Adventure for the PlayStation Vita, iOS, and Android.^[16] In August 25, 2017, a 3D remake of Secret of Mana was announced for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Microsoft Windows, for release on February 15, 2018.^[17] However, the original staff was not involved in any recent game's development because many had already left Square Enix.

Creation and design[edit]

The Mana series is the result of Koichi Ishii's desire to create a fictional world. In Ishii's opinion, Mana is not a series of video games, but rather a world which is illustrated by and can be explored through video games.^[18] When working on the series, Koichi Ishii draws inspiration from abstract images from his memories of childhood, as well as movies and fantasy books that captivated him as a child. Ishii takes care to avoid set conventions, and his influences are correspondingly very wide and non-specific. Nonetheless, among his literary influences, he acknowledges Tove Jansson's Moomin, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.^[11]

While some titles of the World of Mana series do share direct connections with other installments, the games of the series have few concrete links.^[19] There is no overall explicit in-game chronological order. Further, according to Koichi Ishii in 2006 the games do not take place in exactly the same world, and characters or elements who appear in different titles are best considered alternate versions of each other. Instead, the connections between each title are more abstract than story-based, linked only on the karmic level.^[11] Contradicting this assertion, Ishii has also said in an interview that Children is set ten years after Dawn, while Heroes is set one generation prior to Trials of Mana.^[6][20]

Games[edit]

Main series[edit]

Spin-offs[edit]

Remakes[edit]

Common elements[edit]

A common element of the series is its seamless, real-time battle system. The system was developed by Koichi Ishii and improved upon by Hiromichi Tanaka, out of a desire to create a system different from the one featured in the first few Final Fantasy titles.^[43] While action-based, the Mana battle system is intended to be playable even by newcomers as well as veterans.^[44] The system is coupled with the distinctive hierarchical 'Ring Command' menu system, featured prominently in Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana, and to a lesser extent in later installments. Each ring is a set of icons with a textual infobox explanation which, upon selection, allow the player to use an item, cast a spell, look up in-game statistics, or change the game's settings. Navigation within a menu is achieved by rotating the ring through the cursor left or right, while switching to a different menu is achieved by pressing the up or down buttons.^[25][45] Although not part of the series, the spin-off Secret of Evermore, developed by the North American Square Soft, was also built upon the 'Ring Command' system.^[46]

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The Mana series features several recurring characters and beings, including Final Fantasy creatures such as Chocobos in Final Fantasy Adventure and Legend of Mana,^[24][47] as well as Moogles in Secret of Mana and as a status ailment in Trials of Mana and Sword of Mana.^[48][49][50] Watts is a dwarfblacksmith wearing a horned helmet who upgrades the player's weaponry.^[51] Usually, an anthropomorphic cat merchant is found outside of town areas and allows a player to save the game and buy supplies at high prices. This role is played by Neko in Secret of Mana, and Niccolo in Legend of Mana and Sword of Mana.^[52][53][54] In the Japanese games these merchants share the name Nikita.

The Mana Tree and the Mana Sword, called Excalibur in Final Fantasy Adventure's English version, are recurring plot devices which have been featured in every game of the series. The mystical Mana Tree is a source of magic which sustains the balance and nature of the series' world.^[55] The Mana Sword is typically used to restore this balance when it becomes lost in the games.^[56]Final Fantasy Adventure explains that if the Mana Tree dies, a member of the Mana Family will become the 'seed' of a new Tree. A sprout of the Mana Tree is called a Gemma, while protectors of the Tree, who wield the Mana Sword, are called Gemma Knights.^[57][58] In Trials of Mana, a Goddess is said to have turned into the Mana Tree after creating the world with the Mana Sword.^[59][60] The Mana Tree is destroyed near the game ending in Final Fantasy Adventure and Secret of Mana, but a character becomes the new Mana Tree in the former game.^[57][61]

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Elemental Spirits, also called Mana Spirits, are beings who govern the magic elements of the series' world, and are at the core of the games' magic system as they are used to cast magic spells.^[62] Eight types of spirits have appeared in the series since Secret of Mana, and each embodies a different element. Their names are homonyms of mythological beings or phenomena.^[63] In Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana, usage of their power is enabled upon the main characters' meeting with them.^[63][64] In Legend of Mana, the spirits serve as factors in the Land Creation System.^[65] In Legend of Mana and Sword of Mana, multiple spirits of the same elemental type appear.^[65][66] In terms of storyline, in Trials of Mana and Heroes of Mana, the spirits are charged to protect the Mana Stones in which the Mana Goddess sealed eight elemental benevodons (God-Beasts in the fan-translation of SD3).^[59][67][68] In Dawn of Mana's North American version, each spirit speaks with a particular European accent, such as French or Scottish.^[30]

Rabites, known as Rabi (ラビ) in the Japanese versions of the games, are cute, fictional, rabbit-like creatures appearing as a common enemy in the series since its beginning. The Rabite has become a sort of mascot for the Mana series, much the same way as the Chocobo represents Final Fantasy, and is one of its most recognizable icons.^[69] The Rabite resembles a bodiless, one-toothed rabbit with large ears that curve upward and form a point at the tip, and a round, puffy pink tail that moves by hopping along the ground. It is most commonly yellow colored, but also pink, lilac, black, and white, and are variously minor enemies, 'superboss' characters and even friendly units and pets.^{[70][71][72][73][74][75]} Rabites are also mentioned in Final Fantasy X-2 with an accessory comically named 'Rabite's Foot', which increases a character's luck statistic; as well as Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, where they appear in the description of one of the game's optional missions as an endangered species due to being poached for good luck charms.^[76] Rabites have appeared prevalently in several pieces of Mana merchandise, including plush dolls, cushions, lighters, mousepads, straps, telephone cards, and T-shirts.^[77]

Flammie, sometimes spelled Flammy, is the name of a fictional species of flying dragons, as well as the proper name of some its members, featured in several games of the series. A Flammie's appearance is a mixture of draconian, mammalian, and reptilian features, and its coloring has varied throughout the series. Flammies typically serve as a means of transportation in the game by allowing a player's characters to ride on a Flammie's back to different locations in the game's world. In Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana, the Super NES's Mode 7 graphic capabilities allows the player to control a Flammie from either a 'behind the back' third-person or top-down perspective, and fly over the landscape as it scrolls beneath them.^[78][79] In terms of story, the Flammies were created by the Moon Gods, and are part of an endless cycle of destruction and rebirth as the stronger versions of Flammies—known as Mana Beasts, or God Beasts (神獣Shinjū) in Japanese—destroy the world and the Mana Sword and Tree restore the world.^[80][81][82]

Music[edit]

The Mana series has had several different composers. Final Fantasy Adventure was composed by Kenji Ito; it was his second original score.^[83] Ito's music is mainly inspired by images from the game rather than outside influences.^[84] The scores for Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana were both composed by Hiroki Kikuta. Despite difficulties in dealing with the hardware limitations, Kikuta tried to express, in the music of Secret of Mana, two 'contrasting styles', namely himself and the game. This was to create an original score which would be neither pop music nor standard game music.^[85] Kikuta worked on the music for the two games mostly by himself, spending nearly 24 hours a day in his office, alternating between composing and editing to create an immersive three-dimensional sound.^[86] Kikuta considers the score for Secret of Mana his favorite creation.^[87] His compositions for Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana were partly inspired by natural landscapes.^[88] In 1995, Kikuta released an experimental album of arranged music from the two installments, titled Secret of Mana +, which features one 50-minute-long track.^[89]

Legend of Mana's score was composed by Yoko Shimomura, and of all her compositions, she considers it the one that best expresses herself.^[90] Kenji Ito returned to the series with Sword of Mana. He also composed roughly one third of the Children of Mana soundtrack, while the rest was composed by Masaharu Iwata and Takayuki Aihara. Ito was the main composer for Dawn of Mana, assisted by Tsuyoshi Sekito, Masayoshi Soken, and Junya Nakano, as well as main theme composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.^[83] In North America, purchasers of Dawn of Mana from participating retailers were offered a sampler disc, titled Breath of Mana, which features a selection of tracks from the game.^[91] Shimomura has returned to the series with Heroes of Mana, while also contributing one song to Rise of Mana.^[92][93]

Printed adaptations[edit]

A five-volume manga based on Legend of Mana was drawn by Shiro Amano and published in Japan by Enterbrain between 2000 and 2002.^{[94][95][96][97][98]} It features a comedic story about the game's main character, here named Toto. A German version was published by Egmont Manga & Anime in 2003.^[99] A collection of four-panel comic strips, drawn by various authors and titled Sword of Mana Yonkoma Manga Theatre, was published in Japan by Square Enix on January 16, 2004. It included a questionnaire that, if sent back, allowed participants to win illustrations signed by Koichi Ishii and Shinichi Kameoka, as well as special T-shirts.^[100] Enterbrain also published a Sword of Mana manga adaptation in Japan on February 25, 2004, drawn by a collaboration of authors led by Shiro Amano.^[101] Two days later, Square Enix published a two-volume novelization of Sword of Mana in Japan written by Matsui Oohama.^[100] An original manga, named Seiken Densetsu: Princess of Mana, was drawn by Satsuki Yoshino and published in the Japanese magazine Gangan Powered on February 22, 2007.^[102][103]

Reception[edit]

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The Mana series has been mostly well received, though each title has seen varied levels of success. RPGFan called Final Fantasy Adventure one of the best things to happen to the Game Boy,^[119] while IGN considered it the best action RPG on the console after The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.^[21]GameSpot referred to Secret of Mana as 'one of Square's masterpieces on the SNES'.^[120] The game has appeared on several list of top games, including ranked number 97 on Famitsu's top 100 games of all time.^{[121][122][123][124]}Trials of Mana was called 'easily one of the best RPGs to come out of the 16-bit era' by Nintendo Life.^[125]Famitsu rated Legend of Mana at 31/40 and Heroes of Mana at 32/40.^[126][127] The NPD Group ranked Legend of Mana as the top seller the week of its release, and in 2006 was re-released as part of the Ultimate Hits series.^[128][129]

Many of the World of Mana titles have not been as critically successful as the original five games in the series, and though the franchise has been praised for their attempts at trying new ways of experiencing the games' fictional world, there have been various gameplay design flaws that have hindered the later games.^[130][131]1UP.com commented that despite the game's excellent presentation and storytelling, Dawn of Mana did not match the level of gameplay of the early Mana games.^[132] Prior to the World of Mana games, RPGamer called the series a 'treasured favorite'.^[133] After the release of Heroes of Mana, they commented that the World of Mana series is 'cursed', and the future of the series looked 'bleak'.^[134]

The music of the Mana series, especially Secret of Mana, has received wide acclaim and fan enthusiasm.^[86][135] The Secret of Mana soundtrack was one of the first official soundtracks of video games music released in the United States and thus before fully mainstream interest in RPGs.^[136] The Secret of Mana's opening theme, 'Angel's Fear', was rated at number 7 on IGN's Top Ten RPG Title tracks, calling it a 'magical title song that captures our hearts'.^[135] It was also featured in the third Orchestral Game Concert.^[137]Secret of Mana is also the number 6 most remixed soundtrack on the popular video game music site OverClocked ReMix, with Trials of Mana tied at 18.^[138] The music of the other titles have also been well received. RPGFan called the music to Final Fantasy Adventure 'addictive', despite its low, MIDI-like quality.^[119] GameSpy called Children of Mana's music some of the best Nintendo DS music yet and referred to it as 'beautiful'.^[139]Game Informer complimented Dawn of Mana's music, calling it good.^[140] IGN referred to Legend of Mana's music as 'beautiful' and stated the background music brought 'intensity', 'suspense', and 'subtle nuance' to the game.^[33] Other reviewers echoed similar praise with GameSpot calling it 'excellently orchestrated' and RPGFan calling the music one of the game's good points.^[32][141]

The Mana series has sold well overall, and as of March 2011, series titles have sold over 6 million units.^[142] The original Seiken Densetsu sold over 700,000 units,^[143] and its remake Sword of Mana sold over 277,000 copies in Japan.^[144]Secret of Mana has shipped over 1.83 million copies worldwide.^[145]Legend of Mana sold over 400,000 units in its first week alone as the highest-selling release that week in Japan,^[146] and over 700,000 copies in Japan by the end of the year.^[147][148]Children of Mana sold over 281,000 copies in Japan,^[149] and Dawn of Mana sold over 410,000 copies worldwide.^[150][151]Heroes of Mana sold over 178,000 copies worldwide.^[152][153] The PlayStation Vita version of Rise of Mana downloaded over 100,000 times.^[154]

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