Saturday, July 4, 2009

#14 - Secret of Mana

Game: Secret of Mana
System: SNES
Genre: RPG



The first of many team games it was amazing at the time to be able to have both players on the same screen at once, never mind three. We recently started a Virtual Console replay and it's as addicitive as ever. It makes up some of my earliest gaming memories and I'm amazed how clearly I remember some aspects of the earlier part of the game. The 3 playable characters are great (I'm always the Sprite) and there were some very cool bosses and odd moments in it (Santa Claus). I think it's a hard game too because the only way we seemed able to defeat the last boss back in the day was to cast a pointless status curing spell just as it attacked. Fantastic soundtrack too.