The Mana series has always been seen as one with the potential to be as big as Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest for Square Enix and with the World of Mana project, the company is attempting to achieve just that. Cubed³ recently caught up with the team behind the latest DS outing 'Heroes of Mana' to talk over the game and the various hurdles involved in bringing the Mana Universe to the realms of a real-time strategy game.
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Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "My quest to complete my massive backlog has been making some pretty good progress lately as a few weeks ago I wrapped up EarthBound: Beginnings and now another RPG is up with a look at Heroes of Mana from the Nintendo DS. ‘Wait… what is this? It’s not an RPG at all!’ Nope, Heroes of Mana takes the traditionally action-RPG focused series and completely changes it up to deliver a real-time strategy experience that plays more like a cross between Starcraft and Advance Wars with… pretty terrible results. I know it’s sometimes poor form to give away your full impressions of a game in the first few sentences but wow did I not like this game."
Nathan Stiles writes:
"I stated once before that I’d rather play through a train wreck than play something bland, and Heroes of Mana has proven me wrong, or at least proven that I should choose my words more carefully. Then again, Heroes of Mana is less of a train wreck and more of an entire continent sinking into the ocean."
HEroes of mana suck BIG balls
Has there been any good game from that series after Secret of Mana 2?
I still hope and pray that one installment will at least MATCH Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3. I've been disappointed for a long time...