

#Legend of mana tv tropes series#
Dawn of Mana JP Seiken Densetsu 4 (2007, PlayStation 2): The fourth mainline game, that was meant to turn the series from Action RPGs to Action-Adventure games.Like previous remakes, it preserves the original storyline and gameplay. Trials of Mana HD JP Seiken Densetsu 3: Trials of Mana (2020 PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC): The third 3D remake in the series.One of them gets chosen by a faerie, and must stop the impending death of the Mana Tree. Six people set off on their adventures for seemingly unrelated reasons. Trials of Mana JP Seiken Densetsu 3 (1995, Super NES): The third game in the series.Secret of Mana HD JP Seiken Densetsu 2 HD (2018 PlayStation 4, Play Station Vita, PC): The second 3D remake in the series, it updates the presentation, but leaves the gameplay mostly intact.He is exiled out of the village, and sets off to right his wrongs. One day, a boy who accidentally takes the Sword of Mana and releases the sealed evil. Secret of Mana JP Seiken Densetsu 2 (1993, Super NES): The second game in the series.Adventures Of Mana JP Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden HD (2016, iOS, Android, Play Station Vita): A Truer to the Text remake of the original game, that brings the game to 3D.Sword of Mana JP Shin'yaku Seiken Densetsu (2003, Game Boy Advance): A remake of the first game, which greatly expands role of several characters, and introduces a second route, that follows now combat-capable heroine.You play as an unnamed gladiator, who must overthrow the Dark Lord. Final Fantasy Adventure JP Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden (1991, Game Boy 2006, Java ME cellphones): The first game in the series, marketed as a Gaiden Game of the Final Fantasy franchise.There are no battle screens or fight transitions, but other trappings of the JRPG genre are clearly present. Mana is played in real time, much like a Zelda game but with HP instead of hearts and AI-controlled teammates (when not controlled via multiplayer co-op). The games tenuously share a setting and usually center on the oft-threatened Mana Tree, which is the source of all magic in the world, and the mythical Mana Sword. The real Chrono Trigger ended up recycling ideas that Ishii and co. (It was literally titled Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden in Japan.) Likewise, the second game was originally going to be Final Fantasy IV, and then Chrono Trigger, then finally became a sequel to Adventure mid-development.

It began as a spinoff in the tree-choppingly popular Final Fantasy series: The first game was a passion project by Koichi Ishii, but Square weren't interested in a new IP, so he finally got it greenlit as Final Fantasy Adventure. (The World of) Mana series (or simply Mana), alternatively-known as Seiken Densetsu ( Legend of the Holy Sword) in Japan, is a series of (mostly) Fantasy Action RPGs by developed and published Square Enix.
