Mana (series)
The Mana series is a high fantasy action role-playing game series created by Koichi Ishii. The series began as a handheld side story to Square’s flagship franchise Final Fantasy. Four games were released in the series between 1991 and 1999: the original Seiken Densetsu, Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana and Legend of Mana. Four manga series and one novelization have been released.
About Mana (series) in brief
The Mana series is a high fantasy action role-playing game series created by Koichi Ishii. The series began as a handheld side story to Square’s flagship franchise Final Fantasy. Four games were released in the series between 1991 and 1999: the original Seiken Densetsu, Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana and Legend of Mana. By 2011, the series had sold over six million copies. In addition to the games, four manga series and one novelization have been released. The Mana series reception has been very uneven, with early games rated higher by critics than more recent titles. Four titles in the Mana series were released between 2003 and 2003. The final game in the initial run of Mana is the 1999 Legend 2D game, developed for the PlayStation 2. It is a 3D remake of Final Fantasy Adventure for the PS Vita, iOS, and Android. It was originally intended to be launch title for the Super NES, but when the add-on was cancelled, it was cut down into a standard Super NES cartridge. The game was followed in 1995 by the then-only trials of Mana; the Japanese version was released in English asSecret of Mana 2, but technical issues and localization costs prohibited the game’s release in English. It has been described as one of the best 2D action roles-playing games ever made. The music has inspired several orchestral concerts, while the games from the World of Mana series have been rated considerably lower. The games have also been regarded as the best role playing game ever made, with some critics calling them the best of all time.
The stories of the games were connected only thematically, and the stories were only connected through the use of 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. In 1991, Square reused the Seikensetsu trademark for an unrelated Game Boy action roleplaying game directed by Koichiro Ishii called Gemma Knights. In 1995, Square trademarked Seikinsetsu 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. 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 2006 and 2007, four moreGames 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, an action-oriented dungeon crawler game for the Nintendo DS; Dawn of Mana for PlayStation 2; Friends of Mana for mobile phones; and Heroes of Mana – a real-time strategy game for DS. In 2011, four books have been written about the Mana franchise.
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