Legend of Mana

THE GOOD:
- Addictive battle system.
- Many quests, plots and sub plots to play
- Item making, Item hunting...
- Graphics
- Replay

THE BAD:
- Storyline are a bit loose
- Character dialogue
- Annoying menu

SUMMARY:
Okay. I write this review because some of the previous reviews pissed me off. I will go more into details.
Index:
- THE GOOD
- THE BAD
- AND WHY SHOULD I PLAY THIS GAME.
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Onto the goodness
The good:
- Battle system is indeed different from secret of mana. We can use up to ten weapon, change it as we like, learn techiques for each ones. Or if we feel like frying those enemies with spell, no biggies. just buy a bunch of musical instrument for magic and here we go. better yet, making your own MI. Magic or weapon, we can have many ways to go through the obstacles.
- there are 68 quests in totals, with 3 big plotline stories (the Jumi's quest, the Fairies...

One of the games of Square Soft's 2000 ''Summer of Adventure'', Legend of Mana is a significant departure from the usual RPG Square is famous for. Gone is a linear, centralized storyline--instead, the game plays out almost as a series of side-quests, some connected together, others standing alone. This approach has its good points and bad--it's easy to pick up Legend of Mana and play for a half hour or so, which I for one would be reluctant to do with a standard RPG, not knowing where the next save point may be. On the other hand, the independent chunks of storyline fail to resolve themselves into anything significant by the end of the game.

Gameplay: 6/10
As I've outlined, progressing in the game of Legend of Mana involves taking on various quests and completing them. Talking to certain people or simply creating some of the lands (more on this later) will begin a quest. Most of the time this will involve a trip through a standard RPG-esque monster-infested dungeon or...

THE GOOD:
-Fun characters
-Good Stroyline
-Weapon Selection
-Two Player

THE BAD:
-Graphics
-Two Player
-Controls
-Only Analog

SUMMARY:
this is a realy fun game,even though it's for playstation 1,it's extrememly good. i recommend you get it. it's probably $5.00 right now condidering it's a PS1 Game. but's anyway it's a very fun game to play. Again i Recommend you buy it. it's awesomely fun.the stroyline is great. even though the graphics are a little iffy...it's still an swesome game...BUY IT NOW!!!but seriously it is a fun game..it's got great music.AND CHOCOBOS!!! CHOCOBOS MAN!!!CHOCOBOS ARE AWESOME!!!!!! Two Thumbs Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Up!!!!!!!!this game is awesomely awesome!!!!BUY IT!!!CHOCOBOS!!!!!!and they've got good bosses too.CHOCOBOS!!!!!!!

THE GOOD:
-Gameplay
-Charactars
-Music
-Most Graphics

THE BAD:
-Some Graphics
-Storyline

SUMMARY:
This game relly boosted up my likings of the Play Station 1. When I first played it I thought it was a little dumb. When I got into it a little it was great! In my Good and Bad up top the Gameplay counts for about 3 of the mark. The characters take 1, Music takes .4 and Most Grapihic take .3. Most of you would be saying that the graphics suck. Look at your PS2 or Xbox than look at the PS1. Big difference in technoligy there. By saying the graphics are good I mean the graphics are good for the PS1. That no one can disagree on. On the bad side, the graphics took away .1 and the storyline took away the rest (.2). What storyline, your saying. The game did have a storyline. Every game does except some Multiplayer ones. This one revolved around gettin to the Mana Tree. It would have been a better story line if it wasn't so broken up. Its...

THE GOOD:
The game play, the weird story it had to it, the graphics, build up monsters, and makeing towns is fun...

THE BAD:
errrr dunno, the fact that I used to play this game so much...

SUMMARY:
Legend of Mana, was a game that I rented over and over again til I got tired of playing it cause I did everything in it, things go to Building Golems and spray painting them to a color which you enjoy, and training your own monster, that was the cool parts, and I liked the feature of winning over new parts to yur map, like towns and caves, after you beat like a boss you get, I like how the characters looked in the game weither your a boy or a girl, you still looked cool, but I did'nt like the fact that you could change the weapon that you chose in the begining, I mean like how you could change your spear into a sword...blah, I did'nt like that to much....

THE GOOD:
almost everything in this game rocks. customization is a big thing, you pick your gender, weapon, location, you can even rename items and equipment. if you wanna you can make your weapons name rubber chicken or get a bottled weapon and name it urinesample. the graphics are amazing and hand drawn. the music is 1 of the best soundtracks in a rpg. i think the battle system is amazing 2 cause its sorta like a fightin battle system and the rest is rpg. i like that cause my fave genre is rpg and second is fighting.

THE BAD:
the 1 flaw in this game is its storyline. they could of made it better my givin it more detail. but 4 what it gave ya it was ok.

SUMMARY:
gameplay/battlesystem - 5
graphics - 5
sound/music - 4.8
story - 3
control - 4.9
overall - 4.5

if only they gave a better story this game would be perfect. the reason why i think a lot of people were disapointed was because the story but square...

This game is perfect in any way, and is the best game I have ever played and owned. It's graphics are cute and detailed enough for me to say that this is a very artisticly fun game. This game is probably one of the best RPG's ever made by Squaresoft, and I would sell my soul to make more of them. I think there should be more to the Legend of Mana games. But the characters should be the same. The game is good as it is, just there should be more of them. The new ones should be made for GameCube and be realistic looking. A realistic look to this game would make it even more fun, even though it's art has already shot through the roof. But the guy should look more like a guy and both male and female characters should have medium brown hair to satisfy both blondes and burnets, two sides to a war that has been going on for decades. I write my own series of LoM books. I'll soon have a web site set up for my books. My current main page right now is...

THE GOOD:
great artwork, great sound, great music, lots of things to do.

THE BAD:
lousy game play, no plot.

SUMMARY:
I remember lots of people talking about how great Secret of Mana was back on the SNES. I never picked it up myself, but I heard it was good. I thought that a sequel to such a highly praised game would have to be great. It seems logical, but as it turns out, incorrect. There are some good things about the game. The artwork is good, the music beautiful; it creates a wonderful mood. The problems in the game come from its plot -- its lack of one. Your hero receives an artifact at the beginning of the game -- someone just hands it to him. There is no intrigue here, no motivation, just, "Here do this." When you do, it creates a town. When you explore the town someone asks you for help, if you help them you get more artifacts that create new locations on the map. When you explore them, other people ask you for help. Some things loosely...