It's a fully 3D action RPG that's been built from the ground up-and thanks to some important improvements, it's considerably more fun to play than its predecessor. You might understandably be wary about Trials of Mana if you played the poorly-received 2.5D 2018 revamp of Secret of Mana, but go ahead and offer your fears up to the Mana Goddess. It resolves a lot of problems with the original Seiken Densetsu 3/Trials of Mana, and it preserves almost all its charm, character, and challenge. The 3D iteration of Trials of Mana is here, and it's good. Take a breath, fellow belligerent '90s Square fans. It's okay if you feel a little overwhelmed. Not only is Seiken Densetsu 3 available on the Switch with an official translation, but we also have Trials of Mana, a fully 3D remake of the adventure that eluded Western Mana fans for so long. When "Secret of Mana 2" failed to materialize, I typed angry anti-Squaresoft screeds on my beloved high school video game BBS.Ī mere 25 years later, my teenage self has received everything she clamored for. Our efforts yielded an unsatisfactory resolution: Seiken Densetsu 3 was never officially translated for the SNES. We relentlessly chased scraps of information about the title across game magazines and '90s RPG fan sites. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.įor decades, Seiken Densetsu 3-the Japan-exclusive follow-up to the beloved SNES game Secret of Mana-was a Questing Beast for Western JRPG fans. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.
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