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Trials of Mana (Video Game)
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Art from the Super Famicom release Trials of Mana, long known as Seiken Densetsu 3,note è�–剣ä¼�説３, lit. Holy Sword Legend 3, but stating the name in romanji to denote its unreleased-in-English status was common from 1995 to 2019 is the third game in the World of Mana series. It was released for the Super Famicom (though pointedly not the Super Nintendo) in 1995. Trials of Mana was infamous for being the first Mana game to not receive an international release, though fan translations did exist via emulation. An official export was an incessant request from fans for over two decades; on June 11, 2019, twenty-three years, eight months and eleven days after the game's release in Japan, Trials in its original 16-bit form was announced for official release worldwide in English, French, German and Spanish as part of a Compilation Rerelease (Collection of Mana) on the Nintendo Switch—to be followed by a full-3D remake on April 24, 2020 for the Switch, PlayStation 4, and Windows PC. The remake was then brought to Android and iOS devices on July 15, 2021. | |
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Another Side, Another Story | |
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Another Side, Another Story: Out of six playable characters, you can only choose three to build your party for any given playthrough, and only one can be the Mana Knight (which grants him or her additional screen time and also determines who the final boss will be). The remaining three become NPCs who you may or may not cross paths at various points. Thus, every playthrough with a different party combination can become Another Story. Another thing to consider is each character has a rival who is also the Big Bad's right-hand man. Rivals have an adversarial relationship with at least two main characters (e.g. Goremand orchestrates the murder of Karl, then makes off with Heath). | |
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Fake Longevity | |
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Fake Longevity: In the original, this was due to technical limitations. Dungeons and the overworld had to be rendered in sections, long animations, especially if you were using a magic-heavy party, pauses between attacks, and of course, much more experience points were required to level up. This was largely removed in the remake. | |
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Unexpected Gameplay Change | |
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Unexpected Gameplay Change: Some areas of the 2020 Updated Re-release switch from a conventional Third Person 3D perspective to a 3D side scroller. It first comes up at one of the ports (complete with a treasure chest obscured by the scenery in the background). However some parts of Wandara Woods turn into a Super Mario Bros.-style platformer, complete with platform jumps either to advance or to reach treasure chests. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Even for a series whose theme is all about a cute and charming fairy tale aesthetic meshed with very stark and mature story elements, Trials of Mana was and is the only installment that marked where the mature elements were at their highest. Human sacrifice? The want of those of the underworld wishing to take over the world of the living? Warfare that veers on near genocide? This isn't even including equipment and spells described in overseas guide books and official materials. A suit of armor made from the bones of demons feared to bite into its user's flesh and turn them into bloodthirsty murderers? A mask reminiscent of serial killers meant to scare and unleash the killing instinct? A skull themed glove with pointy finger claws meant to rip and tear at the head of the opponent? A spear made for obscene amounts of collateral damage and to remind people of the threat of violent giants that once terrorized the world in the past? It's there. | |
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The Runaway | |
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Charlotte also shares her hair color, rescue motivation, and runaway role, but mainly takes after her combat niche as a primary healer. | |
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Early Game Hell | |
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Early Game Hell: Starting off as Charlotte or Angela (or both as your starting duo) is notoriously tricky. What keeps Charlotte from being useless is that she has a heal spell; Angela has magic that takes out most of her magic pool, freezes her in place, and is too impractical to use on anything but bosses. | |
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You Can't Thwart Stage One | |
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You Can't Thwart Stage One: Hope you weren't too attached to the Mana Tree; it gets destroyed regardless of which villain prevails, and despite the heroes' best efforts. | |
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Final Dungeon Preview | |
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Final Dungeon Preview: Playing the prologues of the characters from the belligerent nations shows off their hometowns just before trouble starts and they're forced to flee. Depending on who your main character is you'll be returning to one of them to confront the villains. In the remake, you'll be taking a visit to them during the postgame quests if said characters are in your party even if they weren't part of the main villain's timeline. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: The three evil factions (Ferolia, Altena and Nevarl) are all fighting for the Mana Sword, and are in fact a greater danger to each other than the PC group. This all comes to a head when the path to the Sanctuary of Mana becomes open for the villains to invade; all three factions come in well before your party does because your party needs to waste time to find a means of transportation up into the Sanctuary of Mana. Who comes out on top depends on who you chose as the main protagonist, and the fates of those that were toppled are revealed as your party returns back to the map's entrance. If the Altenans are vanquished, the Darkshine Knight states that Dragonsmaw was also besieged and the Crimson Wizard killed in action during the battle of the Sanctuary, only to soon expire as a result of being cut off from the life-sustaining power of the Dragon Lord. If the Ferolians are driven away, Goremand is caught attempting to flee, then tells the party how the Mirage Palace was crushed during the battle, and the Masked Mage with it. If Charlotte is in the party Goremand tells her that Heath was returned back to normal (but not returned to Wendel) after The Masked Mage was killed. Goremand slips from the scene, but not before giving the party some pessimistic and counterintuitive advice. If the Nevarlans failed their mission, Belladona is seend standing above Malocchio's corpse, having failed to revive His Dark Majesty after the latter used his life force to bring back the Dark Mana Stone. Belladona herself was responsible for killing Malocchio after the latter got both of them caught up in this mess. She then states that Elliot was sent back to Laurent without incident before having herself implode along with the remains of Malocchio, not wanting to be in a world where His Dark Majesty was lost forever. From then on, the victorious faction focuses entirely on the player party. | |
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Peninsula of Power Leveling | |
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Peninsula of Power Leveling: The Jungle of Visions is the earliest equivalent, and a good place to stock up on seeds. The Sanctuary of Mana is the place to visit for cheap EXP gains. Following the invasion by Nevarl, Beastman, and Altenish forces, the realm is overrun with Shape Shifters that reap 900 EXP each. (In the previous game, it was Griffon Hands.) Unfortunately, they don't come out to play until just before the last boss. | |
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Dungeon Town | |
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Dungeon Town: Altena, Valsena, Ferolia, Nevarl, and to a lesser extent Laurent. These are actually a pain in the ass to navigate in the tutorial, let alone once they fill up with enemies: Empty Room Psychs, staircases to nowhere, and a forked road to the boss which has a one-in-two chance of bypassing the healing statue entirely. Your lead character is given the opportunity to map out their base in the prologue; you should take it. | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy | |
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Hawkeye's tutorial is his match against a brainwashed Eagle, and while Hawkeye doesn't kill Eagle, Belladonna is more than willing to finish the job and blame him for the deed. | |
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Maximum HP Reduction | |
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Maximum HP Reduction: Two of them. The spell Lunatique reduces the target's maximum HP by 20%. It's very good when used at the beginning of boss fights, where it can knock off upwards of 10,000 HP. On the enemies' side, there's Moon Spiral, which deals damage while carrying the same effect as the spell Lunatique to your entire team. This makes the select few bosses having access to this move all the more dangerous. | |
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Anti-Magic | |
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Anti-Magic: The "Anti-Magic" spell, of course; it removes all magic effects. "Counter" boomerangs all magic back onto the caster, which proves fatal to specialized mages like the Crimson Wizard. | |
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Older Is Better | |
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Older Is Better: Ancient Capital Pedda is the best place to shop. Short of the Gear Seed items, their weapons and armor are second to none. This is discussed in-game, as an NPC there says that Pedda's superior weapons and armor make the city a target of the Dragon Lord. Chikeeta and Josephine are on hand to sell their own cheaper products, and they discuss the inventory of the shops there. | |
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Now, Where Was I Going Again? | |
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When riding on Flammie, the game is helpful enough to show a text box which lists where you're supposed to be going to further the plot. This alternates with a box telling you where you're at, making it easier to find your way around. | |
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Big First Choice | |
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Big First Choice: The character selected as the protagonist determines which of the three routes the game takes at the end, including which group of villains the heroes have to face. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: All of the protagonists (Paired with their partners of their stories) appears as Spirits in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. | |
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The Heavy | |
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The Heavy: Each main Dragon (those are the Crimson Wizard, Belladonna and Goremand) is the one pushing the plot and doing the legwork for their Big Bad. | |
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The Computer Is a Lying Bastard | |
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The Computer Is a Lying Bastard: Certain abilities in the remake suffer from vague or misleading descriptions. The Flourish ability reads "Damage increased by 30% when hit by critical hit". What it actually does is increase your damage by that amount when you land a critical hit. One ability says it restores two percent of each character's maximum MP in battle every five seconds. It actually restores two percent of each character's maximum HP. | |
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Taunt Button | |
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Taunt Button: Vuscav the Turtle has a horn which does nothing except amuse a button-mashing player. | |
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Palmtree Panic | |
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Palmtree Panic: Beuca Island, in addition to being volcanic, is tropical and filled to the brim with palm trees and other tropical plants. | |
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My Name Is ??? | |
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My Name Is ???: The ??? Seeds are needed to get the items necessary to unlock the second class change. Since the party will likely reach the required level around when they reach Pedda, chests dropped by one type of enemy outside the city, Beholders, will always contain ??? Seeds. | |
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Stripperiffic | |
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Stripperiffic: Practically the entire female population of Altena, especially Angela. Nobody freezes to death because Altena is kept temperate due to magic, but Angela comes close to actually freezing to death after being chased out of the castle. Laurent's Amazons also fit this to a lesser degree except Riesz, who is in full armor, though in official art she still has a very low-cut chestplate and doesn't wear pants. The official art of Riesz's fenrir class on almost puts anything Angela has to shame, as it's just a bikini with a wolf hide cape◊, but Angela still wins the award for the most Stripperific outffit in the game. In her Magus class, she's wearing a thong◊, along with a cape, breastplate, and thigh-high boots. | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something: Half the cast. Angela is the princess of Altena, Riesz princess of Laurent, and Kevin the prince heir to Ferolia. Charlotte also counts, as her maternal grandfather is the king of the elven people of Dior and her paternal grandfather is Wendel's Priest of Light. | |
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Voluntary Shapeshifting | |
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Voluntary Shapeshifting: Belladonna morphs into a big cat when you fight her. The Shapeshifters are a bit of a joke since they just take a blue-tinted shape of enemies you've fought before, but don't have any of their special attacks. Shadow Zeds are another problem entirely. Rather than mimicking enemies, they mimic your party members… and have full access to their Techs. | |
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Inn Security | |
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Inn Security: Twice. Sleeping at an inn is required to make the faerie appear, and later on, a "free" boat ride results to the heroes getting trapped aboard the Ghost Ship. Sleeping in one room in the middle of the Ghost Ship will make monsters spawn and attack you right away, and you don't get the recovery you were expecting. | |
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Notice This | |
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Notice This: In combat ready mode, all playable characters turn to face their foes no matter how they move. | |
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Winter Royal Lady | |
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Winter Royal Lady: The Queen of Altena, who has both a figurative and literal ice queen. She's concerned with the prospect of magic, and has no patience for her magic-less daughter Angela. | |
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Party of Representatives | |
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Party of Representatives: Each party member hails from one of the various countries involved in the war for the Sanctuary of Mana, and they're even paired by who-is-invading-who: Altena vs. Valsena (Angela and Duran) Ferolia vs. Wendel (Kevin and Charlotte) Nevarl vs. Laurent (Hawkeye and Riesz) | |
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Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid | |
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AI-controlled party members don't take floor damage when running around aimlessly, such as from the flame jets and lava in Fiery Gorge or the poison clouds in Gem Valley. They also aren't affected by status effects that such terrain would cause, like Burn or Poison. | |
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Exclusive Enemy Equipment | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_24cba99f | comment |
Exclusive Enemy Equipment: Ultimate equipment, along with the Lv. 3 class changes, only be obtained via seeds dropped by specific enemies. Even if you can't wear it, you can still sell it for a lot of money. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_25524784 | comment |
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Duran vs. The Crimson Wizard. Kevin vs. his father, the Beast King. | |
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Palette Swap | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_2557e3a9 | comment |
Palette Swap: In addition to learning new abilities, each class alters the color of your hair and outfit—at least in the SNES and Super Famicom release. But fret not: The status screen shows a detailed image of your new attire, as does the official art. However the 3D remake makes use of actual models. For the most part you're lucky if you even get that much for the different weapons in the SNES and Famicom version. However like the character models, the 3D version gives each weapon a unique 3D model. Chikeeta and Josephine both use the same sprite as Niccolo, but their fur is slightly different. This is lampshaded by the hero who mistakes them both for Niccolo. | |
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Alliterative Title | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_26b2747 | comment |
Alliterative Title: The books on the Ghost Ship's bookshelves are called Death Diary, Curse Column, and Blood Book. The remake added books called Twilight Tome, Star Scroll, and Light Leaflet. | |
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Ascended Glitch | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_26ba32a3 | comment |
Ascended Glitch: In the SNES version of the game, you could use a special hammer you got in the story to shrink your party, then use it again to go back to normal. As the game only allows for one negative status effect at a time, this would cancel any prior negative effect and cure your entire party of whatever ailment they had. While this oversight was fixed in the remake, the developers gave you a moogle icon upon beating a superboss, which allows you to do the same thing only with the moogle status effect. The thing is, you have to beat the game to even challenge the boss that has it and it has no practical purpose, thus the icon mainly exists as a nod to the fan's clever use of the oversight. | |
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The World Is Just Awesome | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_2726d167 | comment |
The World Is Just Awesome: There's a reason it's called Heavensway. You can even see the curvature of the earth! | |
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Literary Allusion Title | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_27690f66 | comment |
Literary Allusion Title: A few songs, such as "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and "Long Goodbye". "Return to Forever" is probably a Shout-Out to the jazz fusion act of the same name. | |
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Hufflepuff House | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_27b83210 | comment |
Hufflepuff House: Like Tasnica in Secret of Mana, there's a nation on our side which is attempting to help us save the world: Valsena, whose Knights of Gold are busy keeping the peace up north. Also, just because the Amazonian army was devastated doesn't make them any less formidable: one of the girls mentions dressing up as a waitress and hanging around Nevarl pubs to track troop movements. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_28cd01ca | comment |
Duran hails from the nation of Valsena, led by Hero King Richard, best friend of Duran's Disappeared Dad Loki. When Valsena is attacked by the mysterious Crimson Wizard, Duran sets out to defeat the villain and redeem himself as a (self-diagnosed) Failure Knight. He is advised to seek the guidance of the Priest of Light in Wendel, who can teach Duran how to take a Prestige Class. Heroes Prefer Swords. | |
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Adam Smith Hates Your Guts | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a | comment |
Mintas. For once, the inn at a tiny village which doesn't see much traffic is priced accordingly, rather than being expensive based on its importance to the plot. | |
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Limit Break | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_2afb1a9 | comment |
Limit Break: Three levels of them, the second and third being learned after the class changes. The second and third limit breaks are different depending on the class chosen. The Remake has a fourth level after the final class change. | |
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Adjective Noun Fred | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_2afd9e69 | comment |
Adjective Noun Fred: Many of the location names follow a format that uses a title followed by the place's name in the fan translation. Castle City Jad (officially translated as Jadd Stronghold), Grasslands Kingdom Forcena (Valsena, Kingdom of the Plains, in the official translation) Magic Kingdom Altena (Altena, Kingdom of Magicians, in the official translation), and Sand Fortress Navarre (Nevarl Fortress in the official translation), to name a few. Molebear Moors. No prize for guessing what kind of wildlife you encounter here. Dragonsmaw is called Dragon Hole in Japanese. It's a ruddy big hole, and there are dragons in it. | |
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_2bbe31c9 | comment |
Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: One of the NPCs in Maia, Matelo, is a self-proclaimed paranormal expert, but the townfolk all think he's nuts. He spends his nights on the pier, keeping an eye out for the fabled "ghost ship". Your party encounters his ghost inside the Captain's quarters on the ghost ship. Elated at having finally become a ghost, he plans to scare the crap out of his friends back home, then passes his curse onto the lead character before leaving. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae | comment |
Awesome, but Impractical: Level 2 and 3 Techs in the original game. While they do have awesome attack animations, a lot of late-game enemies and some bosses will answer them with an equally devastating Tech in return—which, if it's something which hits the whole party, can easily spell a Total Party Kill. (This is to prevent spamming.) Furthermore, Hawkeye and Kevin can strike twice with their Lv. 1 attacks, which negates the Lv. 2 attack boost; even more so if they have saber spells, which stack with Lv. 1 attacks but not the higher ones. When fighting an immovable boss character, the ability to strike from anywhere in the arena is not as important as raw DPS output. (Note that none of this is true in the remake, where high-level Class Strikes are awesome and practical.) | |
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Just Like Robin Hood | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_2da5273e | comment |
Just Like Robin Hood: The Thieves Guild of Nevarl at the beginning. Doubly since the Wanderer and Rogue class allude to when Nevarl wasn't a desert. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_2dc0d2bf | comment |
Hidden Depths: With the exceptions of the Dragon Lord and Malocchio, all of the villains get fleshed out, well-developed personalities and back stories. | |
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Ghost Ship | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_2dc35926 | comment |
Twice. Sleeping at an inn is required to make the faerie appear, and later on, a "free" boat ride results to the heroes getting trapped aboard the Ghost Ship. | |
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Gratuitous English | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_2e6a41e0 | comment |
Many of these may be more examples of Gratuitous English than Word Salad Title. Japanese doesn't technically even have adjectives; it just has adjectival nouns and adjectival verbs, so the concept of adjectives may be confusing to native Japanese speakers unless they've studied English at more than a basic level. Strangely, even though Trials of Mana was only released outside Japan in 2019, its soundtrack has only ever been released with English track titles. | |
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Number of the Beast | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_2f75473 | comment |
Number of the Beast: On the Ghost Ship, one chest contains exactly six hundred sixty six lucre. Shortly after opening it, you're ambushed by Imps. | |
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God Save Us from the Queen! | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_2fa6b075 | comment |
God Save Us from the Queen!: Valda has gotten it into her warped brain that Altena isn't quite overpowered enough — that her kingdom is entitled to each of the world's Mana Stones. When glimpsing the full scope of her plans, Hero King Richard spits back, "True Queen!" with maximum irony. The truth of the matter is a bit more complex. Altena depends heavily on magic just to survive on their frozen continent, and with the Mana Tree threatened, so is the supply of mana that keeps their country going. Of course, unsealing the mana stones and freeing the Eldritch Abominations stored in each one is probably the worst way to solve that problem, but you can thank the Crimson Wizard for giving her that idea. | |
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Co-Op Multiplayer | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_3011ef28 | comment |
Co-Op Multiplayer: Only in the 16-bit version, where it is only two players, vs three in Secret of Mana. There is a Rom Hack that enables three players. Multiplayer was dropped for the remake due to it being in third-person vs top-down and the developers trying to focus on a solid single player experience. | |
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Fusion Dance | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_302730a | comment |
Bil and Ben, master ninjas. These two are fought twice: first in Laurent and again in Burning Sands. At the start of the battle, Bil & Ben will fuse into one body. Strangely, this is when they are at their weakest. | |
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Giant Enemy Crab | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_3033b958 | comment |
Giant Enemy Crab: The very first boss, Fullmetal Hugger, is a giant, evil crab. | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_30d2ae29 | comment |
Hawkeye/Riesz: Belladonna reveals that His Dark Majesty was a prince who was locked in a tower when he was young, based on a prophecy that he would turn evil. It ended up being a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy when the prince turned evil because of the mistreatment he suffered. Belladonna just wanted to open up the heart of His Dark Majesty a little, but failed to do it in spite of all her efforts. Folks who played Dawn of Mana would understand that Belladonna's quest was futile against such an overwhelming prick. | |
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Noob Cave | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_3121f1e6 | comment |
Noob Cave: Cascade Cavern, the first dungeon, doesn't pose much of a threat, despite only two party members being present upon entry. Charlotte is the exception if she isn't chosen as the main character; she joins inside the cave even if she's chosen second. If chosen third, she will join here instead of in Jadd's prison. | |
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Level Scaling | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_31eeddc8 | comment |
Level Scaling: Chest traps scale to your level, not the level of the enemies that drop them. A Lv. 18 or Lv. 38 Chest Monster is no fun at all, and a bomb trap, which does several hundred damage to everyone in the party could result in a party wipe. Especially if you're coming out of a tough fight. This is the whole gimmick of the Benevodon hunt. After you defeat a Benevodon, the others become more powerful and the level of the enemies surrounding them also increases. This necessitates a bit of leveling up throughout the process just to stay competitive. | |
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Black Market | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_327b5216 | comment |
Black Market: Beiser is a merchant city by day, and black market by night. | |
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Portal to the Past | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_336b2997 | comment |
Portal to the Past: With seven Benevodons gone, the heroes find themselves at a loose end, until they warp back in time and explore Pedda before its imminent destruction. A prophecy is written in stone, which an old man will happily translate for you; the tablet foreshadows the death of the Mana Goddess at the hands of the antagonist, but it also predicts that three heroes will rise up and avenge her. A scholar in a nearby building has a lead on where the last Benevodon can be found. | |
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle! | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_33fa230b | comment |
Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: In the remake. Thought the game was going to end after you defeated one of the three main villains? Anise says otherwise. | |
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Grim Up North | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_347e35d6 | comment |
Angela is the princess of the kingdom of Altena. It's Grim Up North, and only the magic of the True Queen keeps the ice away. Despite this, Angela cannot use magic, leading to a certain amount of tension with Queen Valda. She learns that Queen Valda, advised by the Crimson Wizard, intends to invade Valsena, activate the Mana Stones and gain the Sword of Mana — with Angela as the Human Sacrifice to make it happen. Gaining access to her native magical talent, the newly-minted Black Magician Girl sets out for Wendel. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_34dcfc96 | comment |
Kick the Dog: At the start of Kevin's story, Goremand influences Kevin's best friend Karl to go rabid and attack, forcing you to put him down. Or so it appears, anyway. The end of Kevin's story reveals that Karl survived the attack, albeit barely, and only when the Beast King dug him out of the shallow grave that Kevin dug. Ludgar and his men destroy Astoria for no reason other than it was on the way toward their real target, Wendel. If you return to Astoria later with a full party, every character will take umbrage with the deed. Especially Kevin. | |
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Squishy Wizard | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_38047858 | comment |
Squishy Wizard: Charlotte and Angela can't take many hits from enemies. Charlotte's a White Magician Girl and Angela's a Glass Cannon mage. | |
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Deceased Parents Are the Best | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_3866ab91 | comment |
Deceased Parents Are the Best: Duran, Charlotte, and Riesz have nothing but fond memories of their late parents, whereas Angela and Kevin had to flee their kingdoms after defying their parents, and Hawkeye is in the same boat with his parental figure (who unbeknownst to him is actually his grandfather). | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_396e1c2a | comment |
Face Death with Dignity: The Tomatomen are fatalistic about the imminent volcanic eruption, saying it's not their place to defy nature. | |
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Rare Candy | |
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Rare Candy: Serums in the remake, which can be grown from item seeds and give the character using them a permanent boost to one of their stats. | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
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Boring, but Practical: On reflection, Lv. 1 Techs. They may just be a glorified melee attack — but they won't be countered (see below), can be enhanced by elemental sabers, and can still hit multiple enemies if they are bunched together. Even better, Hawkeye and Kevin have double-strike capability. (Hawkeye wields two daggers, Kevin delivers a one-two jab and uppercut.) The one-two punch carries over into their level ones. So they deal out the same damage at a faster rate. In the remake, Riesz's level one tech, Whirlwind Spear, is by far the best early class skill in the game. It hits in a large area in front of Riesz for good damage, and many of Riesz's classes have skills that refill her CS gauge quickly, so simply spamming Whirlwind Spear is not only a viable tactic, but a borderline broken one. Hawkeye as a Ninja Master gets the ability to multi target all his previous spells. This lets Shuriken hit all enemies, lower evasion/accuracy, cause knockback, and deal good damage, all with a fast cast time and costing only 1 MP. Fans call it "The One MP Wonder". This also allows his other ninja techniques to debuff all enemies on the field at once. On a similar note, Reisz's Fenrir Knight and Starlancer classes allow her to buff or debuff all allies/enemies all at once, saving the trouble of selecting targets and allow for instant stat changes with a push of a button. Angela's Dark-Dark class, the Magus, gains only the higher-grade elemental spells that Sorceress class gets earlier but has the highest INT of all her classes. This turns her humble level 1 spells into fast-casting low cost powerhouses. | |
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Unintentionally Unwinnable | |
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Unintentionally Unwinnable: Whatever you do, do not use a Magical Rope in the Dark Castle. You'll be deposited back outside, but have no way of getting back in. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: It is highly recommended that you play the three routes with both of each route's central characters (Duran/Angela, Kevin/Charlotte, and Riesz/Hawkeye) for this purpose. It doesn't hurt that each pair tends to complement each other's abilities well. | |
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Crapsaccharine World | |
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Crapsaccharine World: Trials of Mana is an incredibly colorful game: The Ice sections almost looks like cake frosting. Almost all of the enemies are unbearably cute: Ghouls have large eyes and practically define Ugly Cute and the dragons are little pudge-pops. However, as cute as they are, they'll still eat you, and the world is full of Blood Magic, Human Sacrifice, and plenty of violence. | |
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Recurring Riff | |
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Recurring Riff: As well as the Mana series' "Mana Tree" theme (reprised in three different tracks, "Where Angels Fear to Tread", "Angel's Fear", and "Breezin"), two of the boss themes ("Nuclear Fusion" and "Black Soup") borrow snippets from the final boss theme of Secret of Mana, "Meridian Dance" (the main melody and the intro, respectively), as does "Meridian Child", which plays over a cinematic within the first hour of gameplay. The track "Electric Talk" contains callbacks to both "Into the Thick of It" and "Did You See The Sea" from Secret of Mana if you listen to it long enough, as does the boss theme "Frenzy". "Meridian Child" also vaguely hints at the track "Meridian Dance" from Secret of Mana. "Long Goodbye" is an expansion of the track "Close Your Eyelids" from Secret of Mana. The track "Secret of Mana" can be considered both a Shout-Out to the international name of Seiken Densetsu 2, as well as a stylistic call back to "The Child of the Sprite Tribe", a track from that game, albeit in a minor key. "Angel's Fear" is the same track in this and Secret of Mana, only here the music is slower and more mournful, and the second part is a lot more delicate - which is appropriate considering that it was the opening theme for Secret of Mana and here it's the theme that plays in the final area. "Where Angels Fear to Tread", the title theme of the game, also incorporates the main melody, as does "Breezin", one of the ending themes. | |
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Virgin Power | |
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Virgin Power: Supposedly, the Winged Defender only allows virgins near him, which is why only the Amazons can guard him. Actual events in-game may throw this claim into dispute (for one thing, the Defender turns out to be a girl). | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: The first time Duran goes up against the Crimson Wizard, he gets curbstomped. Duran's never faced anyone who uses magic before, he himself doesn't have any magic to use, and the Crimson Wizard doesn't graciously let Duran get a few hits in for the hell of it; he teleports away every time Duran tries to strike him, just flattens Duran without a second thought when he's humored enough, then leaves the scene when he realizes the commotion caught the attention of the rest of the guards. Thanks to the Crimson Wizard's report, when Altena commences a full attack, it's a bloodbath; better-trained Valsenan soldiers and Altenish mages are strewn about the battlefield everywhere. | |
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Magikarp Power | |
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Magikarp Power: This seems to be the characteristic of the Light path. The Dark classes spit out a higher volume of attacks and maximum strength levels. The Light classes, comparatively, have little to offer until about ten hours later, when Light-Light finally yields big dividends — especially in the final areas of the game. Hawkeye's first Light class, Ranger, is really underwhelming: No buffs/debuffs, no elemental attacks, and mediocre stats across the board. If you survive long enough to promote him to Wanderer, he'll learn Counter magic — effectively neutering the Crimson Wizard, who won't be able to lay a finger on your trio. It gets ugly real fast. Charlotte is a Squishy Wizard who at least has the ability to cast heal light early on, whereas Angela is also a Squishy Wizard who... starts off with no magic (or at least, magic that you can use more than a few times). Even if Angela is your secondary character, she's a liability until she levels up a few times and eventually gets promoted. Angela's Mysticist class is rather unimpressive compared to the Sorceress class, but taking it allows her to eventually gain access to the Rune Seer class, which has a spell capable of delivering 999 damage to any enemy at her level or lower. Yes, even the final bosses. | |
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Targeted Human Sacrifice | |
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Targeted Human Sacrifice: Downplayed, but the sacrifice victim used to unseal one of the Mana stones cannot be under any form of curse. As such, Isabella's curse of mind control over most of Nevarl renders them unsuitable. Since Bil and Ben follow her willingly, they are not so lucky. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: No matter who the heroes end up beating, the final boss murders the Mana Goddess before you can get to him, leaving behind the Faerie to become the new Goddess. It's stated that it will be a thousand years before Mana fully returns to the world. On the plus side, the world is saved, and a few remaining threads are tied up, at least. (Angela and Kevin make peace with their parents, for example). | |
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Flunky Boss | |
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Flunky Boss: Grapplavine's main gimmick is summoning various insect creatures to fight you. Malocchio starts off with a couple friends backing him up: A succubus and a werewolf, which is thematically appropriate. Kill these two off as fast as you can, or the three will quickly overwhelm you. The Black Rabite. Using any spell or any Technique above level 1 will result in this happening. He can summon Lv. 99 Demons all day long. | |
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Doomed Hometown | |
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Doomed Hometown: Everybody's hometown gets invaded, either by the baddie for various nefarious reasons, or the heroes themselves in order to kick the bad guys out. Wendel is mostly exempt from this in spite of being the target of Ferolia, except its protection comes at the cost of the Priest of Light's health. Poor Astoria. The quaint river village is doomed to get pummeled to pieces by Ludgar, no matter what. | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Belladonna fitted Jessica with a cursed necklace which will tighten and choke the life out of her if she learns the truth about Eagle. Once the cat's out of the bag, though, Belladonna has Jessica and her father thrown in jail as insurance against Hawkeye; Jessica's imprisonment is because the curse prevents any brainwashing. | |
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Alien Sky | |
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Alien Sky: Kevin's story begins under a full moon and two smaller new moons, in a forest kingdom of eternal twilight. | |
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Doppelgänger Attack | |
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Doppelgänger Attack: Did you really expect Goremand to fight fair? Grand Diviner's Doppelganger spell is called Double Spell in Japanese. The spell is not, as its original name suggests, a doublecast but instead splits Angela in two, doubling the enemy's pain, hence the name change for the localization. This is also the Nightblade's skill. | |
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Hostage for MacGuffin | |
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Shortly afterwards, the heroes are put in another such situation, though they don't realize it until later: by slaying the Benevodons, they're sending the monsters' energy into the Sword of Mana... which they had surrendered to the villains in return for Faerie's life. The alternative was leaving the Benevodons to gather their powers and wreak mass destruction, however. | |
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No Fair Cheating | |
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No Fair Cheating: Shadow Zeds don't just mimic your appearance. They even copy your current stats. So if you've used a cheat code to make your Strength/Intellect ten times as high as your class can go, say goodbye to your party. | |
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Evil Sorcerer | |
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Evil Sorcerer: The Crimson Wizard, The Masked Mage, and Heath, Charlotte's playmate and supposedly her mentor. The former's a Smug Snake who loves to boast about his magical superiority, and the first and third are actually The Dragon for their respective bosses. | |
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Crosshair Aware | |
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Crosshair Aware: In the 2020 remake, the area of effect that an enemy's skill will have is displayed as a dark red area on the ground, with a secondary light red area filling up towards the edges of it. Once the light red area reaches the edge of the dark red area, the ability will fire off. Many bosses have giant area-of-effect attacks that cover the entire arena; the only way to stop these is by destroying some secondary object to cause the boss to stagger before the attack can fire off. | |
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Heroes Prefer Swords | |
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While it's the player's choice as to whether or not Duran is even in the party, he is the only protagonist that uses swords, making him the ideal wielder of the Mana Sword (not that he gets a chance to use it like one anyway), and his design was influenced by the main heroes of the previous two Mana games. He's also the most prominent character on the title screen, and when starting a new game is the default selection for the first character. The 2019 E3 trailer had him be the first character to appear before the other protagonists, and the demo had him chosen as the protagonist alongside Riesz and Charlotte. | |
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Annoying Arrows | |
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Annoying Arrows: Hawkeye's traps, in particular, the "arrow" trap. Tripping the booby trap on a chest might also trigger it. | |
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The Guards Must Be Crazy | |
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The Guards Must Be Crazy: After being ambushed by Ludgar in Cascade Cavern, you awaken in a jail cell, with 1 HP to your name. Luckily the enemy was too dumb to strip anything like your equipment and items. There's one guard on duty, and he is easily bamboozled into switching places with your cellmates: Duran taunts the guard into attacking him inside his cell, Angela teases the guard by asking for help taking her clothes off, Kevin threatens to call his dad, Hawkeye will pick the lock on his cell and claim they left it unlocked the entire time, or Riesz will claim to hear digging from behind the wall in her cell. | |
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In-Universe | |
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In-Universe, Duran's motivation to get the Mana Sword is because the Crimson Wizard handily defeated him in a Curb-Stomp Battle. | |
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Four Is Death | |
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Four Is Death: The '666 lucre' chest on the Ghost Ship, seen below, is then followed by one with - you guessed it - 444 lucre. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Bil and Ben entertain Elliot, but in the remake he doesn't actually turn off the wind until they chuck explosives at him. | |
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Infinity -1 Sword | |
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Infinity -1 Sword: The equipment sold at Pedda is considered the best in the world. It is the best equipment that you can buy from a shop, but two higher tiers of equipment can be obtained from Rainbow Item Seeds. | |
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Dual Boss | |
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The original Japanese name for one of the bosses in Legend of Mana fought in the Underworld is identical to the name of the Benevodon trapped inside this stone, hinting at a link between the two games after all! (The boss doesn't look much like its namesake, though, and the name was changed in the North American release, so aside from a similar case of Dual Boss, there isn't any way you'd know it - you don't even get to see the Mana Stone). | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise: To talk to the human-hating Koropokkur, the party uses a magic mallet to make themselves as tiny as them. They still look absolutely nothing like Koropokkur (except possibly Charlotte). It turns out they weren't fooling anybody, the Koropokkur were just playing along because it was funny. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: Hell, the entire game, why not. It's considered by many to have some of the finest graphics on the Super Famicom. Heavensway features a view of the ground and sky in certain places, showing the green foliage below and the blue sky above. Sometimes, the ground can be obscured by clouds due to the altitude. The journey to fight the Dark Benevodon will contain some, regardless of which path you pick. | |
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Archnemesis Dad | |
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Archnemesis Dad: The Crimson Wizard explains to Valda that to open the gate to the Mana Sanctuary, a cursed spell must be used to release the energy of the Mana Stones; the spell will kill its caster. Valda agrees that Angela should cast it, saying she's the shame of the Royal Family for not being able to use magic. Angela can't go back because she knows that she will be sacrificed, so she's got no choice but to run. Kevin overhears the Beast King, telling Goremand that now that his son can turn into a werewolf, Goremand's job is done. Kevin is furious that the Beast King, his father, used Goremand's magic to make Karl attack him! He smashes through a wall and puts you in control. When Kevin attacks the king after a short conversation, he is slapped right out of the castle. [[note]]The original game requires you to attack the Beast King to trigger the ejection and progression of the plot; all of it is in a cutscene in the remake. | |
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Opening the Sandbox | |
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Opening the Sandbox: Following your adventure on Beuca Island, Richard welcomes you back and informs you where the other Mana Stones lie. The problem lies in getting there as no ships sail to those places. Richard hands over the Ferry Flute so you can ride Vuscav. This means you don't have to use ships or cannons anymore. That said, the spiel by King Richard makes it seem like you can go anywhere at this point, but it's not quite as simple as that. Realistically, there are only two dungeons you can visit: Fiery Gorge and Frostbite Fields. The others are closed off until you get the next spirit. | |
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Useless Useful Spell | |
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Useless Useful Spell: Energy Ball. In theory it should up your critical attack rate, but because of a programming bug critical attacks are practically non-existent. Same goes for spells that affect agility or hit rate, for the same reason. While DEX and everything that affects it has been erased in the remake, Energy Ball was renamed Moon Energy and actually works. Averted by Angela's Rune Seer skills. Stone Cloud will petrify every single normal enemy who isn't resistant to earth damage, which equates to instant death. For enemies who are immune to earth, there's Stun Gust which silences the enemy in addition to doing massive damage. Silence may not sound that useful, but a number of regular enemies in the game react to Techs and spells (such as Stone Cloud or Stun Gust) with powerful abilities that can trash the party, making them effectively immune to anything but normal attacks. Silence stops those party-wiping reactions. | |
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Long Song, Short Scene | |
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Long Song, Short Scene: When the main character draws the Sword of Mana mid-way through the game, the song "Delicate Affection" plays throughout the whole scene. In the remake, the scene is cut in half and ends with the abduction of Fairy, so the entire song is not heard in-game. "Reincarnation" is only briefly heard in the original as the heroes leave the Sanctuary of Mana on Flammie after defeating the final boss. It becomes a Cut Song entirely in the remake. | |
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Motive Rant | |
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Motive Rant: The Dragon of each plotline gives one after being defeated. Duran/Angela: The Crimson Wizard initially didn't have the ability to use magic at all. He traded half of his lifespan to the Dragon Lord in exchange for unparalleled magical power. But in the end, it was nothing next to the power that the heroes wield. After he's defeated in battle, the Crimson Wizard even laments the fact that his sacrifice was All for Nothing. Hawkeye/Riesz: Belladonna reveals that His Dark Majesty was a prince who was locked in a tower when he was young, based on a prophecy that he would turn evil. It ended up being a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy when the prince turned evil because of the mistreatment he suffered. Belladonna just wanted to open up the heart of His Dark Majesty a little, but failed to do it in spite of all her efforts. Folks who played Dawn of Mana would understand that Belladonna's quest was futile against such an overwhelming prick. Kevin/Charlotte: Goremand averts this. Nothing about his backstory is explained, and he doesn't have a reason why he's such a jerk; he just is. However, Heath/Tainted Soul reveals that the Masked Mage was originally an ally of the Priest of Light who grew corrupted by dark magic. Heath hoped he could turn the Masked Mage, his father, back to the light. But Heath failed, and he laments his own weakness before he fades away. | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe: How the Faerie manages to revive the heroes after a (seeming) total party kill by the final boss, who gloats that only the Mana Sword could harm him. The Faerie insists that the sword wasn't destroyed; rather it exists in the hearts of the three warriors. Emboldened, the party is restored to full health and is suddenly able to inflict damage on the enemy. | |
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Duel Boss | |
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Angela has one in the remake as a Duel Boss. Her enemy is part of the trial she needs to pass to obtain her Class 4 item, fighting a shadow version of herself. | |
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Trap Is the Only Option | |
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Trap Is the Only Option: The heroes decide this after the faerie is kidnapped. It's obviously a trap, but they don't have any choice but to go. Shortly afterwards, the heroes are put in another such situation, though they don't realize it until later: by slaying the Benevodons, they're sending the monsters' energy into the Sword of Mana... which they had surrendered to the villains in return for Faerie's life. The alternative was leaving the Benevodons to gather their powers and wreak mass destruction, however. | |
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Cave Behind the Falls | |
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Cave Behind the Falls: Cascade Cavern is filled with water, and has waterfalls on both the exterior and interior. | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension: This occurs if Hawkeye/Riesz is your player character and support character. It's also teased if you have Riesz in your party but not Hawkeye: During the battle to retake Laurent, Hawkeye will ask the party to spare Belladonna's life until he can lift her curse. Riesz agrees, and Hawkeye will plant a kiss on her cheek in gratitude, causing Riesz to freak out. That said Hawkeye is a rather sleazy Chick Magnet at all times, and his main love interest in the story appears to be Jessica if he is the main character. Duran and Angela. She eventually falls for him if they're both playable characters. Too bad Angela Cannot Spit It Out and Duran never notices. | |
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Dual Wielding | |
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Dual Wielding: Hawkeye dual wields daggers. Kevin dual wields gloves/claws/fists (if you want to call them that). | |
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Drowning My Sorrows | |
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Duran's homeland is assaulted by the Crimson Wizard, who curbstomps him and insults his king before fleeing. He slums it at a tavern for some time after before deciding to get stronger so he can beat the Crimson Wizard. | |
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same | |
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same: The Dwarves here look like a cross between a Wookie and a teddy bear with glowing eyes, wear Viking-style helmets, and speak like Old West prospectors. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: There are three pairs for each of the three overlords—Goremand and Heath for the Masked Mage, the Crimson Wizard and the Darkshine Knight for the Dragon Lord, and Malocchio and Belladonna for Dark Majesty. Because they get more screen time than their bosses, they're also better developed characters. | |
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Level Grinding | |
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There's a chest right before the boss Zehnoa which contains 3 poseidon claws, letting you add the water element to your attacks. Since you haven't met Undine yet, these are likely the only way to exploit the fire-type boss' weakness, unless you stocked up on items in Beiser or did some Level Grinding with Hawkeye as a ninja to learn his Water Diversion attack. | |
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Money for Nothing | |
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Money for Nothing: Pedda has the last store that provides up-to-date equipment, meaning that the party will have nothing substantial to spend all that Lucre on, especially considering that anything more powerful can only be obtained through Gold/Rainbow item seeds, and anything else will be sold off. It's enough that upon starting New Game Plus that said Lucre coffers will far eclipse any further expenses one may make with brand new characters. | |
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Suspicious Video-Game Generosity | |
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Suspicious Video-Game Generosity: If you are given a gold statue (which saves your game and heals your party), you will need it. It usually means there is a painful boss fight just around the corner. There's a chest right before the boss Zehnoa which contains 3 poseidon claws, letting you add the water element to your attacks. Since you haven't met Undine yet, these are likely the only way to exploit the fire-type boss' weakness, unless you stocked up on items in Beiser or did some Level Grinding with Hawkeye as a ninja to learn his Water Diversion attack. | |
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Redshirt Army | |
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Redshirt Army: King Joster is killed by ninjas from Nevarl, who invade Laurent on Belladonna's orders. Only a few members of the world's strongest Amazon army survived. The Crimson Wizard kills a shift of guards and attempts to invade Valsena's Castle. Only Duran survives a direct encounter with him. | |
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Bragging Rights Reward | |
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Bragging Rights Reward: The 2020 remake grants a few very powerful chain skills, but only after accomplishing a great feat like defeating the Superbosses. At least the skills carry over to New Game Plus, so they're useful there. Defeating the Black Rabite gives the "Obsidian Power" skill, which reduces the MP cost of all spells to zero in battle for the equipped character. But the Black Rabite is Level 83, has the game's strongest skills by far, and is the game's hardest Superboss. In order to fight it, you have to have beaten the final dungeon of your main character's story leading up to the last dungeon that all characters share, outside post-game. By the time you're strong enough to defeat the Black Rabite, you won't really have anything left to use that new skill on. A skill you get from Anise the Witch grants infinite item use in battle. Not only does this allow you to cover any holes in the party's line-up, it allows for infinite amounts of healing too. The only thing deflating the impact is that Anise is the second-most powerful entity in the entire game (surpassed only by the Black Rabite), and you have to beat her on Hard mode in under two minutes to get this skill. And Anise is the only boss in the entire game that has more than one form, since she gets Scaled Up into a dragon after beating her human form. If you can beat Anise in less than two minutes on the game's hardest difficulty, you could already break the game in half without the need for infinite items, and have all the money you need to buy as many of said items as possible. Finding Li'l Cactus all fifty times grants a skill that gives 200% to everyone's CS gauge at the start of battle, along with the Cactus Ring that fills the CS gauge while the equipped character walks around. Bare minimum, it's going to take the entire game to find Li'l Cactus in all fifty spots, and you'll probably have to use a guide. It'll at least let you clear out trash mobs pretty quickly with the right characters if you can use the skill, but the game is basically over by the time this can happen. | |
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All the Worlds Are a Stage | |
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All the Worlds Are a Stage: The Mirage Palace makes you go through a gauntlet of illusions based your previous adventures to even reach the front door. The remake's Bonus Dungeon meanwhile attempts to torment our heroes by being made of corrupted, apocalyptic versions of everyone's hometowns. | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
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Dark Is Not Evil: You can use darkness element spells and weapons, and the darkness summon spirit Shade is not evil, though the Benevodon of darkness Zable Fahr is. Your characters' class alignment can become dark (or dark-dark), which is just a fancier way to say that the classes are more offensive based and enfeebling in their specialties. Even their descriptions are up to the player. The Nightblade: a ruthless remorseless coldblooded murderer who revels in the act of stealing lives, or an assassin who preys upon the villainous, corrupted, and nonredeemable in the dark? The Death Hand: a brutal, tasteless savage who turns to internal turmoil for the sake of limitless power, or a wielder of a well kept secret martial art that makes use of unorthodox but effective means to swiftly ensure quick and painless death on opponents? You decide. | |
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Treacherous Spirit Chase | |
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Treacherous Spirit Chase: If Kevin or Charlotte is the hero, an illusion of his pet wolf/her love interest shows up on the lo-o-ong stairs of Mirage Palace. Chasing them back downwards will teleport you to the beginning of the area, erasing some progress. | |
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Magic Knight | |
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Magic Knight: Duran's Edelfrei class. He can imbue his and the other party members' weapons with magic. His Paladin class only gets the Holy Saber imbuement in addition to a healing spell, but it's quite useful against Zable Fahr, the Benevodon of Darkness. The Duelist class can cast Dark Saber, which is not quite as useful in the long run, and the Lord class is just a healer in plate armor. The other character who exemplifies this trope in Trials is Riesz, who gets summon spells and status magic (her Light classes are more about buffing the other party members, while the Dark classes cast debuffs on the enemy). | |
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The Gadfly | |
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The Gadfly: Domperi messes with the party upon their entrance to Koropokkur Woods. He hides his identity when they say they're looking for him and makes them look elsewhere, claiming he doesn't know where Domperi is. After the party speaks to the other Koropokkurs, the last of them mentions seeing Domperi outside, then Domperi reveals himself. He says he technically didn't know where he would be because he was walking around in various parts of the village, and thus didn't know where he would be at any given moment. | |
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White-and-Grey Morality | |
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White-and-Grey Morality: Mostly. There are a few flat jackasses (mostly Malocchio, Goremand and the Dragon Lord) but the three villainous nations have legitimate reasons for their actions (the homelands of two of them are becoming inhospitable, and the third has a generations-long history of being discriminated against by humans) and most of the villains have tragic back stories or motivations. | |
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Slippy-Slidey Ice World | |
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Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Altena and the surrounding environs. | |
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Eviler than Thou | |
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Eviler than Thou: Eventually, one will come out on top; the victor will be the side most actively involved with the primary character. By extension, this also determines how the finale will play out in terms of dungeons. | |
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Boss Rush | |
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Boss Rush: In the last dungeon, a trio of bosses return to harass you some more. The lineup will differ depending on the quest you've chosen. At least you don't have to fight the Benevodons again. | |
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Bonus Level of Heaven | |
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Bonus Level of Heaven: Regardless of the dungeon you unlock at the end (Dragonsmaw, Mirage Palace, or Dark Castle), the decaying Sanctuary of Mana is the site of the final battle. | |
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Intrepid Merchant | |
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Intrepid Merchant: Chikeeta and Josephine earn a living as traveling salescats, and they prove to be just as shrewd as Secret's Neko. The real kicker, though, is a couple of ghost merchants who will sell you the weapon and armor upgrades aboard the Ghost Ship. | |
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Inconsistent Dub | |
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Inconsistent Dub: The official Trials of Mana localization borrows from the localization of Heroes of Mana, given the latter's status as a prequel. However, where Heroes kept the names of the spirits Jinn and Wisp, the Trials localization used Sylphid and Lumina, their names from Secret of Mana and its remake. | |
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Raised by Wolves | |
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Raised by Wolves: After mortally wounding Ludgar, Kevin pleads with the Mana Spirit Luna to save him, so she revives Ludgar as an infant. The pup then disappears into the woods to be raised by wildlife, to the alarm of the Faerie. But Kevin reassures us that this is normal for beastmen. | |
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Dump Stat | |
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Dump Stat: The Super Famicom version isn't balanced correctly. Every stat has a purpose, but not all of them are vital. And the least-important stats are gimped even further due to bugs. Dexterity for everyone but Hawkeye, who uses it for some of his spells. This is due to it being poorly-implemented: The idea is that for every point of Dexterity you gain, your Evasion Rate also goes up by 1%. This would have made it useful for character like Angela who are made of glass. But instead, the game takes the base Evasion of your character class into account, so it ceases to matter. It's often speculated that it increases your chances of Mercy Invincibility i.e. executing a short animation sequence of attack-proof frames when struck, which is technically different from a "Miss". So the point of the stat might not be entirely lost, we just don't know. The 2020 remake removes this stat entirely, with Hawkeye learning new skills in his other stats. Luck should increase a character's critical hit rate. But again, it wasn't implemented properly. Its only real use is evading traps from chests, which usually aren't that big a deal anyway since you can more-easily heal outside of battles, which is when chests appear. The remake has Luck determine the damage from thrown objects, something a ninja (like Hawkeye) would specialize in. This is generally averted in the remake, but not so much because everyone wants high stats across the board and more because there are skills attached to the stats they're raising. Riesz will have little reason to raise her Intelligence until the endgame when she gets her summon spells, but what little reason there is has to do with the fact it will unlock her mental buff or debuff to give her various skills that improve her buffs. If Angela she wants the ability to regain MP without items (a valuable quality early-to-mid-game), and later the ability to shoot fireballs, she has to invest in strength. | |
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Cave Mouth | |
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Cave Mouth: A stone dragon's head serves as the entryway to the Dragonsmaw, as well as its namesake. | |
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Fallen Angel | |
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Fallen Angel: Dark Majesty. The Masked Mage's backstory is also riddled with this, both of them falling into evil after deciding if they were going to be treated as evil, they may as well go all the way with it. | |
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Sinister Scythe | |
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Sinister Scythe: Goremand. The hooded statues adorning the walls of Dark Castle are also sporting these. | |
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Multi-Stage Battle | |
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Multi-Stage Battle: At one point, the Dark Lich signals his barrier changes by shifting the background to various environments, each corresponding with a different Benevodon. He differs a little from the other two arch-villains, who simply change their colour. He changes the colour of his core in the remake. | |
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He Knows About Timed Hits | |
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Starting up Duran's quest line, the first thing you'll notice is that it's a callback to previous characters in the Mana series. It's also the most meta of the starting scenarios, and it seems that Duran's the one you're expected to start out with. To begin with, just like in Final Fantasy Adventure, we start out with a gladiator battle, except he's not a slave. Valsena also has a large library which gives a good bit of information for players, particularly regarding the class changes. | |
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New Game Plus | |
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New Game Plus: But only in the 2020 remake. You carry over your items, equipment, money, linked abilities, and experience/level with each character. Also, clearing the game for the first time earns the "Love of Mana" ability, which gives triple experience points when equipped, and you'll also earn stat-boosting abilities based on which characters you've cleared the game with. | |
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Flashback Effects | |
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Flashback Effects: Before recruiting your teammates, each tells their story in a Deliberately Monochrome cutscene, if you didn't choose to play through their prologue yourself. Charlotte gets one even if you didn't select her as a teammate at all. | |
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Cannot Spit It Out | |
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Duran and Angela. She eventually falls for him if they're both playable characters. Too bad Angela Cannot Spit It Out and Duran never notices. | |
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He Knows Too Much | |
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He Knows Too Much: Your next destination after leaving Maia is the Stonesplit Gap, which is the only route in or out of Valsena. Unfortunately, the party runs into a squad of Altenish soldiers and their machine golems. Their presence here is supposed to be a secret, so they decide to kill you rather than compromise their invasion of Valsena. You might think having Angela in your party would mitigate this, but you'd be wrong: the soldiers have orders to kill Angela on sight. | |
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Permanently Missable Content | |
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Permanently Missable Content: In the remake, Watts the dwarf can grant you the Blacksmith Chain ability that improves the stats granted by your equipment by 5% during battle, but will only do so if you fork over 5000 lucre to buy nitromyte from him, something you only get one chance to do per playthrough. This is easy to miss since you'll need to spend some time grinding to make that kind of money if it's your first playthrough, and you get the nitromyte for free later if you don't buy it off him. Thankfully it's not that important of an ability overall and you'll invariably have enough money to get it from the second playthrough onwards in New Game Plus if you want to see all the plotlines and characters. | |
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Dying as Yourself | |
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Dying as Yourself: Heath and Darkshine Knight, the latter of whom is actually Duran's father, regain their senses upon defeat. Alternatively, if the Dragonsmaw is infiltrated by enemy forces, the Darkshine Knight announces that he, too, will soon disappear, since the Dragon Emperor's magic was the only thing keeping his zombified body alive. | |
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Talk to Everyone | |
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Talk to Everyone: Domperi won't spill the beans on Laurent until you've found all of the huts and spoken to their inhabitants, nor will he even reveal his identity until then. During the Mirage Palace segment, the party reawakens in Astoria (or do they? — like everything the Masked Mage touches, it is unclear what is real and what is not). The townsfolk are all mute and loitering around the same areas as before, apart from the merchant... talk to all of them, and the merchant reveals himself to be a ghost; he attacks you in the same house where the party first materialized. | |
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Inconsistent Spelling | |
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Many of the location names follow a format that uses a title followed by the place's name in the fan translation. Castle City Jad (officially translated as Jadd Stronghold), Grasslands Kingdom Forcena (Valsena, Kingdom of the Plains, in the official translation) Magic Kingdom Altena (Altena, Kingdom of Magicians, in the official translation), and Sand Fortress Navarre (Nevarl Fortress in the official translation), to name a few. | |
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Brought Down to Normal | |
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Brought Down to Normal: The Altenish by the end. With the Mana Tree dead by the end, the mana and magic will cease to exist for at least a thousand years. Averted with any magic-casters in your party in the Epilogue. While the post-credits cutscenes acknowledge the fallout of the villains' actions, playing the Epilogue brings your party back to before the final boss battle. | |
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Lifesaving Misfortune | |
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Life Saving Misfortune: The protagonist after staying at the inn at Astoria will notice the Faerie flying about and get up to head deeper into the Rabite Forest to investigate. Soon after meeting the Faerie and bonding with her, the protagonist will return to Astoria to find it razed to the ground. | |
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PauseAbuse | |
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Pause Abuse: It was discovered that the charge-up time between selecting a skill or spell and its actual execution continues to elapse even when the player accesses a menu. Thus, the player can select a spell then switch to the menu so the character doesn't take damage before the spell executes. However, this also works on enemies preparing spells to attack you with... | |
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Gigantic Moon | |
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The fight with Dolan takes place on the roof of Chartmoon Tower, with a humongous third moon hanging in the background. | |
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Involuntary Shapeshifting | |
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Involuntary Shapeshifting: Kevin can transform into a werewolf and kick major amounts of ass, but he can't control it. The first time he transforms, Kevin kills his beloved pet Carl (or so he thinks, as it's just an illusion created by Goremand), and spends the rest of the game hating his power. | |
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Justified Tutorial | |
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Justified Tutorial: If you're new to the game, it's possible to die here. The game won't let you game over, though: Starting up Duran's quest line, the first thing you'll notice is that it's a callback to previous characters in the Mana series. It's also the most meta of the starting scenarios, and it seems that Duran's the one you're expected to start out with. To begin with, just like in Final Fantasy Adventure, we start out with a gladiator battle, except he's not a slave. Valsena also has a large library which gives a good bit of information for players, particularly regarding the class changes. Kevin's combat tutorial comes when he is forced to fight Karl. The original game gives you a Hopeless Boss Fight because Kevin can't bring himself to kill Karl, gets a Fission Mailed for his efforts, then comes back in wolf form and finishes him off. The remake just has the initial fight, has Karl knock him down afterwards, and Kevin transforms and finishes him in a cutscene. Hawkeye's tutorial is his match against a brainwashed Eagle, and while Hawkeye doesn't kill Eagle, Belladonna is more than willing to finish the job and blame him for the deed. Our introduction to Riesz sees her out patrolling on the cliffs above Laurent accompanied by her retinue. After winning, Riesz takes a moment to to wax introspective about how more monsters are appearing lately. | |
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And Your Reward Is Clothes | |
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And Your Reward Is Clothes: The remake offers a brand-new character model for each class, up to a total of 9 per character. You can switch between each one after class changes, if you want to. | |
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Continue Your Mission, Dammit! | |
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Continue Your Mission, Dammit!: An unspoken variant (at least in the original) — the occasional pre-eruption tremor from the volcano on Beuca Island serves to add a bit of urgency to the fact that you're supposed to be finding a way off the island before it erupts. Mercifully, there is no time limit; there's even a town with stores, as well as a totem pole that acts identically to a golden Goddess Statue, providing both free healing and saving! This becomes more pronounced in the remake, as your party members keep freaking out about the volcano after every other combat, despite there still not being a time limit. | |
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Randomized Title Screen | |
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Randomized Title Screen: In the 2020 remake, a random member of the main cast utters the game's title when the player boots the game up or returns to the title screen. | |
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Lady Land | |
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Lady Land: Laurent and Altena. Both armies are comprised of all-female soldiers, though Laurent still retains a male monarch. It's not made clear if King Joster was the regent before his wife passed away, though it was clear Minerva was the leader of the armed forces, and in the ending Riesz ascends the throne as Queen Regent. We also learn that the Crimson Wizard's original motive was to show up his female classmates at Altena. Once the red-haired stepchild of that realm, he's now the world's most powerful sorcerer. | |
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The Lost Woods | |
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The Lost Woods: Lampbloom Woods and the Jungle of Visions are maze-like forests. And the Sanctuary itself is maze-like, even changing its layout later in the game. | |
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Welcome to Corneria | |
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Welcome to Corneria: Lampshaded during Angela's opening scenario right after the fortune teller tells her to go to Wendel and seek advice from the Priest of Light. A nearby male NPC complains that "this fraud" told him the same thing despite his question being whether or not his next child would be a boy or a girl. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Bigieu was likely originally either Bijou ('jewel' in French) or Bijuu ('lovely beast' in Japanese). Or both, as they're phonetically identical in katakana. The official localization changes her name outright to Belladonna. | |
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Marathon Level | |
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Marathon Level: All of the story-exclusive dungeons: Crystal Desert and Dragonsmaw for Duran and Angela, Night Cavern and Dark Castle for Hawkeye and Riesz, Jungle of Visions and Mirage Palace for Kevin and Charlotte — are very, very long. To reach them, you must first comb through an alien landscape (Crystal Desert for the Dragon Lord, Jungle of Visions for the Masked Mage, and Night Cavern for Dark Majesty), defeat the Dark Benevodon and a sub-boss, scour the dungeons for three past bosses, and then fight the dungeon boss. In the 2020 remake, you have the post-game dungeon Anise's Stockade. The dungeon is composed of several past locations with new layouts, on top of a few dungeon-exclusive segments, which includes a room full of teleporters on homogeneous platforms. While there are no bosses, the dungeon remains rather long to cross, and Magic Rope does not work. Thanksfully, there is a teleporter in the middle of the dungeon to allow you to get out and refill on items, and there are a couple of save points for those who want to take a break, and while Magic Rope doesn't work, a large number of outside areas allow you call Flammie to leave the dungeon and re-enter it. | |
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Balance Buff | |
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Balance Buff: The original release gives you one point per level to balance between six stats. Points to INT or SPR (or DEX in Hawkeye's case) grant you new skills to work with. The remake give you two points (plus-or-minus one) to balance between five stats, and you attain new skills and stat boosts based on how many points are put into each. Unlike the original release, you have to diversify if you want to learn skills of various elements — e.g. Angela needs STR to learn Salamando's spells or STM to learn Gnome's spells. | |
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Underground Monkey | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_6e7a3cd | comment |
In addition to Shape Shifters (mostly harmless balls of wax that morph into various monsters), you may encounter their Underground Monkey equivalent, Shadow Zed. Secret of Mana vets will remember these as the clones of Randi's party who you fought in Joch's cave. They'll mimic your class changes along with your special attacks. The problem is that they aren't affected by Health/Damage Asymmetry; their attacks do the same boss-killing damage as yours, to your party's still PC-level hit points. If you have Dark classes in your lineup, and the Zeds decide to mimic them (and you didn't bring along any characters who can Silence enemy spells), just flee. You can't win. | |
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Mook Maker | |
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Zehnoa can be quite difficult for underleveled players as he is a Mook Maker, casts some really strong spells, and if one is unlucky the mooks (which happens to be Shape Shifters) will morph into something that will constantly Poison the party. The remake also tends to spam loads of hard-to-avoid area attacks that will inevitably hit you. Fortunately, the remake also gives you a few Sahaghin Claws in a treasure chest before you face him, letting you exploit his weakness to Water. | |
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Guide Dang It! | |
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Guide Dang It!: To make the fairy appear, the player has to have their hero spend the night at the inn. However, there's a Healing Spring pretty close to the town, and it's not hard to get there without taking damage even if very low on hit points, so there's little reason to stay at the inn. As there's no indication in said town that going to sleep at the inn will advance the plot, a player can be stuck right at the beginning with no in-game indication as to where they should go to advance the plot. Averted in the remake, in which the game clearly tells you to go and sleep at the inn, using its normal star indicator and on-screen prompt. The game doesn't mention this, but certain spells can't be learned unless you've leveled up particular attributes. Hawkeye learns new moves by leveling up his AGL and LUCK, but dumping points into his INT is useless. However, Duran (the no-frills tank) must raise his SPIRIT at least a little if he wants to learn his Paladin moves, which require MP to use. The requirements aren't always intuitive, and you may waste a level or two trying out new combinations before you see a result. Thankfully, the game rewards every spell you've missed along the way (without any fanfare, just a quick message box) once you meet the requirements. The remake's Training menu shows you exactly what you need to learn your abilities. Class changes in the 16-bit version:Unfortunately, the only time the game tells you what level is required for a class change is in an easily-missed book, so you could see a confused person coming back to a Mana Stone repeatedly after each level trying to class change.Getting items for the second class change isn't hinted at nor are you told where you can reap them, meaning first-time players frequently don't even get them. Keep in mind, seeds are only dropped by certain foes, and that enemy must die last in order to drop a chest. (Though it's typically the strongest monsters in the Dragonsmaw/Mirage Palace/Dark Castle.)There's no telling which class you'll end up with when you harvest a "???" seed, either. You can sometimes get a vague sense of whether it triggers a Light or Dark promotion. ("Forbidden Book" and "Bottle of Blood" are self-explanatory, but Hawkeye has his pick from a selection of dice that don't really signpost their alignment.) Naturally, the seeds don't drop items that can't be used by people who aren't in the party. But aside from that, it's guesswork. And the items themselves can be consumed in battle. So don't accidentally use the wrong one on an enemy, or it's gone; you'll have to farm another one. (If you already know which items do what, you can spend the undesired ones on enemies to inflict potent status effects.) In Dragonsmaw, there is a hidden little alcove in a straight north-south corridor where the Black Rabite awaits. You can only pass through the wall once the Crimson Wizard is dead. It's pretty well-hidden and out of the way, and there's no indication anywhere in the game that this even exists, so there's no incentive to go poking around in there again. | |
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Character-Magnetic Team | |
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Character-Magnetic Team: Your first character sets out on a journey to save their homes, and stumbles across a faerie and two others heroes who've been wronged. | |
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Monstrosity Equals Weakness | |
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Monstrosity Equals Weakness: Despite the large number of huge, monstrous bosses in the game, by far the hardest fights are against the human-sized villains. | |
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Justified Save Point | |
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Justified Save Point: The HP/MP replenishing statues of the Mana Goddess are tributes to the deity, usually placed in the vicinity of Mana Stones to ward off outsiders. There are one or two save points in the penultimate dungeon. The Mana Goddess statues there are headless, representing the villain's hatred of her. They also don't refill your energy. The Goddess is a human totem. The Tomatomen of Tomato Town do not worship the Mana Tree, but they have a HP/MP restoring totem pole, regardless. The Masked Mage keeps his own save statue at the nexus of his base (it's shaped like a skull). | |
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No Cutscene Inventory Inertia | |
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No Cutscene Inventory Inertia: Averted during regular cutscenes, where the heroes will be wearing their class change outfits. Played straight during the heroes' credits scenes, where the heroes are all wearing their starting outfits whether they were in your party during that playthrough or not (all six potential party members are shown). | |
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Man-Eating Plant | |
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Grapplavine. The fun starts once you've beaten on him a bit, and out pops out some kind of Venus fly trap with eyes. | |
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Springs, Springs Everywhere | |
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If you're at a loss about to where to go, just look for a spring and jump on it. (It's like a cannon except that it shoots you straight up rather than to another location.) You can use the Mode 7 view of the land to take a look around. You can get a general idea of where the nearest town or castle is. Alhough springsteppers return in the remake, the addition of event markers means you don't need to scope out the world, and they are instead used to get to high ledges (save for the one in Charlotte's story). | |
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Get on the Boat | |
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Get on the Boat: The only way to travel anywhere until you get more reliable means of transportation (first ocean travel via Vuscav, then air travel via Flammie) is by boat, the cannon or, in Kevin's case, swimming the entire distance from Ferolia to Jadd. Evidently he gets sick during long boat rides. | |
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Big Bad Ensemble | |
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Big Bad Ensemble: All three potential villains are actively involved in the plot, resulting in a lot of overlap. The battle at the Sanctuary of Mana whittles the rogues gallery down to one: The remaining stragglers make a final appearance to inform the Mana Knight of what transpired here. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: The soundtrack contains a few very long tracks, with "The Sacrifice, Part Three", at 8:05, and "Return to Forever", at 8:39, taking the cake. | |
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Killer Rabbit | |
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Killer Rabbit: For some reason, the area around the Mana Tree is lousy with Rabites and their derivatives. Level 30 Rabites can suddenly put up a fight, and King Rabites can call other Rabites. King Rabites also have a full screen attack (Rabite Rainstorm) which actually hurts, doing well over 100 HP damage. The Black Rabite. It looks like a black version of one of the cute and weak enemies found at the beginning of the game upon first glance, but it's actually a demon-summoning, magic-spamming, deadly monster. In the 16-bit version, in appears in the Dragonsmaw, which can only be unlocked in Duran's and Angela's route. The remake, however, makes the Black Rabite available in all story routes. | |
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Schrödinger's Gun | |
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Schrödinger's Gun: Whoever you selected as the main character is going to be the one that ends up hosting the Faerie. Whoever you selected as the second character is going to join you outside the Cascade Cavern, and whoever you selected as the third will join you after they bust you out of the Beastman-occupied Jadd's dungeons. Selecting Charlotte as your second or third character kinda throws that off (if chosen and not the hero, she always joins you somewhere between where the other second and third choices join), but the dev team thought of that: If Charlotte's on your team and thus you already have three characters by the time you get locked up in Jadd, the person in the other cell who busts you out will be a fourth hero who never joins your team (if Duran's not on your team, it'll usually be him), and your party leaves the person behind when they escape on the ship, but fortunately the person is able to escape the city off-screen. | |
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I Don't Like the Sound of That Place | |
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I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: "Isle of Oblivion" isn't a tourist trap. It lies in the middle of the world. It is the center of all Mana energy — and that's where the three enemy nations converge for a fight to the death. | |
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Hated by All | |
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Hated by All: While Kevin is amused by Domperi's antics and Riesz tolerates him, even they have limits to what they can endure from his trolling. The other party members hate his guts, especially Charlotte. | |
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My Significance Sense Is Tingling | |
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My Significance Sense Is Tingling: The Faerie can sense the presence of a nearby spirit, which usually means that the spirit's soul has been absorbed by the dungeon boss. | |
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Red Sky, Take Warning | |
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Red Sky, Take Warning: Shortly before the final battle, the skies above the Mana Sanctuary darken and turn red. | |
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Light Is Good | |
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Light Is Good: Lumina is the light elemental Spirit, and is firmly on the heroes' side. Notice that Riesz has blonde hair and blue eyes, and won't stand by while her kingdom is invaded by Nevarlan forces. Duran, Angela, Kevin, and Charlotte can also make use of plenty of healing magic and light-based attacks depending on their class selection. | |
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Fetch Quest | |
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Fetch Quest: At one point in the game, you need to get some Nitromyte to get to your next destination, Valsena. The only person who has any is Watts the dwarf, who offers to sell it for an obscene price. Normally, you're supposed to beat a boss, get a Mana Spirit, then get the Nitromyte from the Watts as a reward. There is a meeting taking place in the Amazon hideout to discuss how the soldiers will retake the Citadel. The Elder there explains that he's not really a strategist so he can't help—but they could look for Domperi, who lives in Koropokkur Woods (everyone there is tiny). Supposedly his advice led Prince Richard to victory against the Dragon Emperor. The only problem is that Koropokkur don't trust humans. In order to disguise yourselves, you need to find the Minor Mallet, only available in Beiser. Thankfully, a cannoneer saves you the trouble of going all the way out there, but it's a one-way trip. | |
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Story Branch Favoritism | |
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Story Branch Favoritism: Duran and Angela's story is heavily implied to be the canon path of the game, with Duran himself as the Mana Knight: While it's the player's choice as to whether or not Duran is even in the party, he is the only protagonist that uses swords, making him the ideal wielder of the Mana Sword (not that he gets a chance to use it like one anyway), and his design was influenced by the main heroes of the previous two Mana games. He's also the most prominent character on the title screen, and when starting a new game is the default selection for the first character. The 2019 E3 trailer had him be the first character to appear before the other protagonists, and the demo had him chosen as the protagonist alongside Riesz and Charlotte. Angela is connected by Altena being used by the Crimson Wizard to attack Valsena and further the Dragon Lord's goals. He also manipulates the True Queen into sacrificing Angela, giving her a much more personal grievance against the Crimson Wizard than even Duran. Finally, Angela is heavily implied to be King Richard's daughter, which further tightens the connection between herself and Valsena. Finally, the title screen for the 3D remake places Angela side-by-side with Duran (with Duran positioned slightly in front). Duran and Angela undergo more character development over the course of the game than the others, whose characters are more static (especially Riesz and Hawkeye): Duran begins as brash, arrogant, and prideful. He sets out from Valsena as much because of wounded pride as any other reason. However over the course of his path he becomes much more noble and self-sacrificing, and less concerned with his own power. Angela is a selfish Bratty Teenage Daughter. Given her royal upbringing she's also a bit conceited and condescending towards those she views as below her class. The story exposes her rebelliousness as a front for her own feelings of inadequacy resulting from her failure to learn magic and her mother's cold indifference. She also loses much of her snobbish and classist attitude, and like Duran her motives become less selfish and more selfless as the story unfolds. Duran and Angela get extra dialogue when they meet outside Cascade Caverns if they're the first two party members chosen, as well as after the battle with the Altenish golems on the bridge back to Valsena. There are a few moments where Kevin & Charlotte and Hawkeye & Reisz get some banter with each other at different points in the story, but nowhere as prominent as these examples. Angela never appears past her cameo in Jadd if she's not a party member (she may appear in Charlotte's intro, but this role is randomized). Everyone else at least makes some other kind of cameo past that point. However if the player chooses Duran as the main character but doesn't choose her as a party member, she does make a cameo after her mother returns to her senses though doesn't get any dialogue during the scene, but the party can speak to her afterwards and she thanks them for what they've done. If she's a party member outside the Dragon Lord timeline, she doesn't get her own monologue about continuing her adventure after witnessing the sudden downfall of the Crimson Wizard and the Darkshine Knight (though neither does Kevin make any comment should Goremand be reduced to a simple messenger). Both Duran and Angela take a visit to a fortune teller dictating what they need to do next for their overall goal. No other player character has such an encounter, which helps foreshadow the fortune teller's appearance in the midnight market, who can be used to reset class points in the remake. Of the six kingdoms Valsena, Duran's homeland, has the most plot relevance. While Laurent must also be liberated and the player's actions put Wendel at risk, they're only visited once by the plot after the prologue, while the three attacking kingdoms only play a significant role in their own story branch, and are otherwise not visited. However Valsena serves as something of the player's base of operations in the hunt for the Mana Stones in all three story paths, with the player returning frequently to advance the plot and King Richard acting as the player's main Mr. Exposition and advisor alongside Faerie. Altena is the only aggressive nation to actually have a town area, with the usual shops, inn, and tavern for use. Ferolia and Nevarl, on the other hand, are pure dungeon areas. Laurent also lacks these facilities despite being a citadel and home to their citizens. The King himself was once bonded to a faerie, which sacrificed her life for him during the war against the Dragon Lord. Given the significance of the appearance of faeries in the world, this further adds to the implications that the Dragon Lord may indeed be the main Big Bad of the game. The Dragon Lord's faction is always the first of the three beligerent factions to arrive at Oblivisle, ambushing you just as the portal opens. The Crimson Wizard reveals they have been actively following you in expectation that you will open it for them, which is very much the actions of a Big Bad. The Dragon Lord's puppet forces in Altena are also encountered more frequently while attempting to activate (or having activated) the Mana Stones. The other two factions by contrast are more passive, and only react to the opening of the portal after Altena has already begun their invasion. Additionally, they are more focused on their secondary goals (harvesting souls for the Masked Mage or preparing a vessel for His Dark Majesty's resurrection) than actively attempting to access the Sanctuary. While Pedda highlights His Dark Majesty's descent into villainy and gives you the most information about him that doesn't come straight from Belladonna's mouth, and while it's located near the Masked Mage's home base, the Dragon Lord gets talked about the most, as he is a clear and present danger to Pedda. Additionally, the past versions of Loki and Richard are found here if going down the Dragon Lord's story, but the only thing Riesz, Hawkeye, Charlotte, and Kevin get is the prophecy changing to refer to the Big Bad specific to the route, which the Dragon Lord gets too on his own route. If the story doesn't follow the Masked Mage or His Dark Majesty's timelines, their respective factions return those they have stolen without incident (Heath's brainwashing is undone, though not necessarily returned to Wendel, Karl is still alive and rescued by King Gauser, Jessica recovers from the fatigue she suffered from the Choker of Death, and Prince Elliot is sent back to Laurent). While Queen Valda is also released from control under the Crimson Wizard even outside the Dragon Lord's timeline, the nature regarding the Darkshine Knight (specifically the fact that he's Loki, Duran's father) is never resolved, as he vanishes before he can reveal the truth. At least this can be offset with Duran's mission to get the Valor Sphere, which involves one last friendly spar with Loki even outside the Dragon Lord timeline. Angela's ending in the Dragon Lord timeline is different from the ones outside of that timeline. If the story instead follows the Masked Mage or Dark Majesty timelines, Angela's ending involves Angela coming back home to Queen Valda, who, now free of the Crimson Wizard's influence, is suffering from amnesia and acts like it's an ordinary day, much to Angela's relief. This is then followed up by Valda realizing what has happened over the many years since, and Angela comforting her to lead Altena, now free of evil. In the Dragon Lord timeline, this series of events is moved to after the events of Dragonsmaw and a new ending is put in its place, where Altena decides to take action now that Mana is gone from the world, and Angela flirts with Duran if he's also in the party. In the original release, you could only fight the Black Rabite with Duran or Angela leading. (The remake allows any team to fight it, however.) Even the remake's post game chapter seems to favor the kingdoms of both Duran and Angela. The book containing the spirit of Grand Croix is located in Valsena, which also happens to be right where Duran's Class 4 item is obtained. Grand Croix himself was a great wizard, something that Altena is known for. And out of all the characters the party goes to for information on their Class 4 items, the True Queen of Altena is the only one who seems to be aware of Grand Croix and Class 4, as none of the others even mention either. | |
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Dracolich | |
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Dracolich: Dragon Zombies. You encounter them in the Dragonsmaw. More ominously, they also appear in the Mirage Palace, implying that the Masked Mage has reanimated the slain Dragon Lord's troops. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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An interesting case. It's a subversion of how things worked in Secret of Mana. In that installment, the heroes obtain the Mana Sword and power it up by reforging it with orbs gathered from defeated bosses. This time around, you are forced to give it to the villain almost immediately after obtaining it, and you discover that, as you slay the Benevodons, the sword gets stronger. | |
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Monster Town | |
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Monster Town: Beuca Island plays home to Tomato Town, a tribal village of Tomatomen. Unlike their brethren scattered about the island and elsewhere, these guys are peaceful and fork over equipment and health. Moonlight City Mintas. If you're playing as Kevin, you'll no doubt recognize this village: it's the place in Kev's intro. The town is full of peacenik humans and pacifist werewolves. | |
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Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards | |
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Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: Early game, the physical attackers do tend to be more powerful than the casters, who need a meat shield to tank hits for them while they stand immobile to cast. Late-game, pure casters do outdamage pure hitters. But most of the main characters end up being some kind of Magic Knight anyway depending on which of the upgraded classes they chose. In-Universe, Duran's motivation to get the Mana Sword is because the Crimson Wizard handily defeated him in a Curb-Stomp Battle. | |
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Mercy Invincibility | |
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Dexterity for everyone but Hawkeye, who uses it for some of his spells. This is due to it being poorly-implemented: The idea is that for every point of Dexterity you gain, your Evasion Rate also goes up by 1%. This would have made it useful for character like Angela who are made of glass. But instead, the game takes the base Evasion of your character class into account, so it ceases to matter. It's often speculated that it increases your chances of Mercy Invincibility i.e. executing a short animation sequence of attack-proof frames when struck, which is technically different from a "Miss". So the point of the stat might not be entirely lost, we just don't know. The 2020 remake removes this stat entirely, with Hawkeye learning new skills in his other stats. | |
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Bad Moon Rising | |
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Bad Moon Rising: The beginning of Kevin's story. On this fateful night, we see the meeting between the Beast King and Goremand, followed by the awakening of Kevin's werewolf form. The fight with Dolan takes place on the roof of Chartmoon Tower, with a humongous third moon hanging in the background. | |
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Superboss | |
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Superboss: Ladies and gentlemen, allow us to introduce to one of the best villains to have ever graced a Mana story. A monster whose legendary viciousness and severe lack of remorse have left him miles ahead of even the most celebrated of bad guys. He’s cute, he’s fluffy, he’s going to pluck out your eyes with a rusty penknife…it’s the Black Rabite! Boasting the highest amount of HP you can have in Trials, there's a reason the final boss theme plays when you enter his cave. Sadly, this boss was only approachable in the Duran/Angela storyline, and in an easily-missed crawlspace, to boot. The remake makes the Black Rabite available to fight on all storylines, which allows for more interesting party configurations and strats. | |
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Kill One, Others Get Stronger | |
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Kill One, Others Get Stronger: While the Benevodons can be fought in any order (with the exception of one which is always fought last), killing one will mke the surviving ones and the monsters that live in their lairs grow in power by a few levels in order to keep them challenging. The Faerie Hand Waves this by claiming that the Benevodons are growing stronger with the passage of time, even though Take Your Time is clearly in effect for the entire game. | |
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It's All Upstairs From Here | |
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It's All Upstairs From Here: Chartmoon Tower is filled to the brim with staircases, some of which don't even help the party reach the top floor. | |
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Portal Network | |
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Just getting to the Mirage Palace is a hassle. The jungle is a Zelda-style maze (listen for the chime), leading to Zable Fahr and a chest containing a magic mirror which reveals the Masked Mage's location. The courtyard is protected by a Portal Network leading to various puzzle rooms. The palace itself is smaller but no less confusing: false switches, deadfalls, and a disguised door. | |
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Dug Too Deep | |
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Dug Too Deep: The Dwarves mention that Watts went missing while investigating something strange in the latest tunnel. Turns out, what he was investigating was the Jewel Eater, a giant mole-like creature. | |
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WarmUpBoss | |
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Warm-Up Boss: Four out of the protagonists have easy bosses at the start of their respective paths whose only attacks only deal high single-digit damage and most of who tend to move slowly. Duran has the Copper Knight/Bruiser, Hawkeye has Eagle, and Riesz has the Needlebeak note The remake has her fight a Harpy instead.. Kevin's own starter boss, Karl, starts out as a Hopeless Boss Fight until Kevin assumes his werewolf form. note In the remake, human Kevin has to knock down Karl, then gets bit hard, transforms and finishes him in a cutscene. Out of all four of these bosses, Duran's is the easiest, since the Bruiser is slow and his range isn't too tough to stay out of most of the time. Even if you die to them, you can't lose since you'll be revived to keep fighting against them. | |
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That | |
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That: The Faerie has a bit of trouble remembering that humans can't fly. | |
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Badass Cape | |
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Badass Cape: The Crimson Wizard (his full Japanese title, Wizard of the Crimson Lotus, is shortened to Koren in the fan translation) is very proud of his cape. He even works it into his official title. Eagle's cape and shoulder pads are nothing to sneeze at. Hawkeye gets his own cape if you pursue the Dark-Dark path. Heath dons a black cloak after being corrupted by his father's energy. | |
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Always a Bigger Fish | |
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Always a Bigger Fish: After you beat the remake for the first time, your quest to stop one of the main villains from killing the Mana Goddess is immediately halted once Anise shows up to destroy the world. | |
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The Chosen One | |
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The Chosen One: It turns out there is a prophecy about the mana stones that even say three heroes will save the world... of course, it turns out it's not naming anyone specific, your heroes (especially the main character) are the chosen ones simply because they were in the right place at the right time. The Chosen Many: Technically, anyone could have been the chosen one - During Angela's backstory, she sees a fortune teller who tells her to go to Wendel. A person nearby points out she told him the exact same thing too, when all he wanted to know was if his child was going to be a boy or a girl. Charlotte also says "Wow, evewyone wants to see gwandpa all of a sudden!" if she's chosen. | |
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Spell My Name with an S | |
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Spell My Name With An S: Is the Amazon Princess supposed to be named "Lise", "Liese", "Riese", "Reis", or "Riesz"?note With every single one of these being perfectly valid options from various European languages, note. The fan translation ultimately went with "Lise" for readability, while the trailer for the Steam release of Million Arthur: Arcana Blood, in which the character cameo'd, finally gave us an official spelling: Riesz. The official versions of Trials also use Riesz. Bigieu was likely originally either Bijou ('jewel' in French) or Bijuu ('lovely beast' in Japanese). Or both, as they're phonetically identical in katakana. The official localization changes her name outright to Belladonna. Ludgar, whose name works out to 'rugaa' in katakana, is a semi-pun on loup-garou ('werewolf' in French). The fan translation used Lugar. And then there are the locations — Forcena/Forthena/Folcena/Valsena, Rolant/Rolante/Laurant, Navarre/Navall/Nevarl, Jad/Jadd, Pedan/Pedda, Althena/Altena (each one's last translation is the official translation found in Heroes of Mana and the Switch port of the 16-bit version). | |
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Bratty Teenage Daughter | |
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Angela is a selfish Bratty Teenage Daughter. Given her royal upbringing she's also a bit conceited and condescending towards those she views as below her class. The story exposes her rebelliousness as a front for her own feelings of inadequacy resulting from her failure to learn magic and her mother's cold indifference. She also loses much of her snobbish and classist attitude, and like Duran her motives become less selfish and more selfless as the story unfolds. | |
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Stab the Sky | |
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Stab the Sky: Your lead character does this after pulling the Mana sword out of the root of the Mana Tree. | |
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Beat Them at Their Own Game | |
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Beat Them at Their Own Game: The Nevarl ninjas occupying Laurent are defeated using the same tactic they originally used to drive out Laurent's Amazon defenders: controlling the winds of the mountain to spread sleep-inducing pollen through the citadel, knocking most of the defenders out. | |
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Holy Burns Evil | |
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Holy Burns Evil: At least the Mana Sword proves too hot for the main villain to handle, and they soon pay for their treachery. | |
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Third-Person Person | |
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Third-Person Person: Charlotte speaks in third person in the fan translation. She instead speaks like a young child in the official translation. | |
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Mr. Exposition | |
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Mr. Exposition: A role shared by the Priest of Light and the Faerie. The Faerie explains that she is last of her kind who lived peacefully in the Mana Sanctuary, until the world's Mana began fading. The faeries set out from the Sanctuary to restore the balance with the help of the chosen hero, but only one survived. She then urges the protagonist to take her to the Holy City Wendel. The Priest of Light lacks the power to fix the party's problems on his own, but he gives them a history lesson on the Mana Sword and the eight spirits. He then mentions that Cascade Cavern may hold one of the spirits you seek. After booting the Crimson Wizard out of his kingdom, talk to King Richard and he'll give you the 4-11 on where the remaining spirits can be found, along with their respective Mana Stones. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: After Angela flees Altena, the Queen's forces post wanted signs about her. Except they don't include a picture of her, and — being a Medieval European Fantasy with no mass communications — no one knows what she looks like, with some envisioning a little girl. This allows Angela to walk around in broad daylight, talking with these people and learning about her fugitive status, with none being the wiser. | |
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Nothing Can Stop Us Now! | |
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Nothing Can Stop Us Now!: No matter who the Final Boss is, he will bask in his apparent victory, as they have just slain the Mana Goddess and is certain there is no one else with the power to oppose them. Naturally this is followed by a declaration of This Cannot Be! when the heroes manage to kill them. | |
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Backtracking | |
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Backtracking: The game's plot gets a fair bit of mileage out of this. Chapters 1 through 3 are about gaining the allegiance of the eight Mana Spirits by visiting the various Mana Stones in the world. Then, in Chapter 5, you do it all again because of the events of Chapter 4 (in which your Main Character gains the Sword of Mana but immediately surrenders it to the Big Bad, who uses it to shatter all the Mana Stones and free the Benevodons, which must now be fought). The one saving grace is that you get your Global Airship during Chapter 4. | |
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Death Mountain | |
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Death Mountain: Heavensway and the Gusthall (Path to the Heavens and Corridor of Wind are the fan translated names, respectively) both provide a steep, treacherous climb for the heroes, with the latter being linked with the former. Beuca Island (Volcanic Island Bucca in the fan translation) is a dormant volcano which you climb and then descend into. | |
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The Psycho Rangers | |
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The Psycho Rangers: The Benevodons act as evil counterparts to the elemental spirits. The Shadow Zeds, which act as a Mirror Boss by copying your party members, right down to having the same stats. | |
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Chokepoint Geography | |
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Chokepoint Geography: The Big Bad's fortress is inaccessible by sea or air. The Mirage Palace is separated by the Jungle of Visions outside of Pedda (Pedan in the fan translation), the Dragonsmaw lies at the center of the Crystal Desert, and Dark Castle resides on a craggy island, only reachable via the Night Cavern. The party gains transportation earlier than they do in Secret. The world is yours — so long as there's sand. Almost every town resides near a beach or riverbank, but just reaching it is almost a puzzle in itself; Ferolia and Lampbloom Woods are the hardest to find. The Remake makes them much easier to find with a blatant objective marker, but you still can only have Vuscav land at beachheads, meaning that you cannot dock at docks; you'll need Flammie to arrive directly at those. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: With the winds turned off, Laurent can't be retaken by the Amazons. You need the power of Sylphid to spread the thieves' pollen and knock them all out, a fitting end to their treachery. | |
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Absurdly High Level Cap | |
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Absurdly High Level Cap: In both versions, the level cap is 99. The second class change occurs at level 38, which is designed for a player to reach it with minimal amounts of grinding. By the time you reach your main character's final boss, you won't even be close to level 99 in either version of the game. In the original game, all of your stats apart from HP stop increasing at level 50, so once you hit 999 HP, experience points become useless. Also, enemies stop leveling with the party once they reach level 50, which should give an idea of just how absurdly high this cap is. In the 2020 remake, your HP and MP can go up to quadruple-digits and triple-digits respectively, so it's still useful to level up. However, even with the Experience Booster from New Game Plus that quadruples your earned EXP, you'll still only be around level 85 by the time you get to the Final Boss of the main character's story, so the cap of level 99 is still absurdly high. | |
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Child Mage | |
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Charlotte is the only character who doesn't have to leave for Wendel, because she already lives there, as the Priest of Light is her grandfather. Her friend, the young priest Heath, is sent to defend the stronghold of Jadd, which the beastmen are planning to invade; he is captured by the beastmen and then ensorceled by Goremand, and Charlotte resolves to rescue him. A Child Mage White Mage, Charlotte also has the Verbal Tic of "uwu" Elmuh Fudd Syndwome in the official translation. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Mentioned by Goremand at The Sanctuary of Mana if your main character isn't Kevin or Charlotte. He's well aware that he'll be done away with once he's fulfilled his purpose and cooperating until he can make his escape. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Zable Fahr. How fitting that the darkest of the Benevodons would be three Monster Clowns. | |
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Artificial Stupidity | |
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Because of changes to the AI, it's no longer possible to fine-tune your party's behavior by ordering them to stay out of combat. While you can order them to support another party member, this doesn't significantly affect their behavior. Have fun keeping a mage like Angela alive when they keep running headlong into hand-to-hand combat. This gets a bit of help in the 2020 remake, as it's now possible to set a character to "Protect Only," where the character will stay out of the fight and focus entirely on casting support spells. Of course, this just introduces its own layer of Artificial Stupidity, because said character won't even fight back if they're directly attacked. | |
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Cut Song | |
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"Reincarnation" is only briefly heard in the original as the heroes leave the Sanctuary of Mana on Flammie after defeating the final boss. It becomes a Cut Song entirely in the remake. | |
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Can't Catch Up | |
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This may be subverted after all; if you challenge any beastman during the Jadd raid, they knock the hell out of your character (except Duran, who seemingly is the only one smart enough to notice picking a fight isn't a good idea now) with a single attack, and to add insult to injury, they aren't even in their wolf form. For most characters this is literally right after the first trek through the overworld, and the beastmen sent to raid Jadd would logically be pretty tough. By the time you trade blows with them again, you'll have already reclaimed a kingdom from a clan of ninjas as well as fought ghosts and elemental beasts many times the size of your character, so it may be something along the lines of Can't Catch Up on the part of the beastmen; they can go toe-to-toe with the forces of Altena and Nevarl on equal standing, but by this point your team is just much stronger than them. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Some of the Dragons and every Big Bad gives one of these upon defeat. | |
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Exposition Fairy | |
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Exposition Fairy: The Faerie needs to hitch a ride inside your head, since there's not enough Mana left for her to stay alive outside of it. Fortunately she isn't too intrusive, and usually only speaks in cutscenes or if you clobber a boss. Not having Riesz in your party changes the Faerie's dialogue just a bit, as you need someone to help you get acquainted with the "Winged Defender", a.k.a. Flammie. | |
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Wild Take | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_95ac8056 | comment |
Wild Take: The look on the characters' faces whenever they fall down a pit (or they get hit with a Death Roulette spell) is priceless. | |
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Not Me This Time | |
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Not Me This Time: After Faerie is kidnapped at the Sanctuary of Mana, your party will first come across The Dragon of one of the villains outside of your main character's storyline and ask if they're the ones that did it. They will say no and tell you the true culprit is waiting at the entrance. | |
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Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
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Damn You, Muscle Memory!: The default control scheme in Trials is the inverse of Secret of Mana. While in the former game B was the Attack/Confirm button and A was Dash/Cancel, in Trials it's the other way around. Players coming right from Secret are liable to hit the wrong buttons when trying to attack. | |
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It's Personal with the Dragon | |
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Angela is connected by Altena being used by the Crimson Wizard to attack Valsena and further the Dragon Lord's goals. He also manipulates the True Queen into sacrificing Angela, giving her a much more personal grievance against the Crimson Wizard than even Duran. Finally, Angela is heavily implied to be King Richard's daughter, which further tightens the connection between herself and Valsena. Finally, the title screen for the 3D remake places Angela side-by-side with Duran (with Duran positioned slightly in front). | |
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Big Bad | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_970c790a | comment |
The Dragon Lord's faction is always the first of the three beligerent factions to arrive at Oblivisle, ambushing you just as the portal opens. The Crimson Wizard reveals they have been actively following you in expectation that you will open it for them, which is very much the actions of a Big Bad. The Dragon Lord's puppet forces in Altena are also encountered more frequently while attempting to activate (or having activated) the Mana Stones. The other two factions by contrast are more passive, and only react to the opening of the portal after Altena has already begun their invasion. Additionally, they are more focused on their secondary goals (harvesting souls for the Masked Mage or preparing a vessel for His Dark Majesty's resurrection) than actively attempting to access the Sanctuary. | |
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Sword of Plot Advancement | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_9712e10 | comment |
Sword of Plot Advancement: An interesting case. It's a subversion of how things worked in Secret of Mana. In that installment, the heroes obtain the Mana Sword and power it up by reforging it with orbs gathered from defeated bosses. This time around, you are forced to give it to the villain almost immediately after obtaining it, and you discover that, as you slay the Benevodons, the sword gets stronger. Also, in Secret of Mana, the only person in the whole world who used it for anything purposeful was the Mana Knight. In Trials of Mana, not only do none of your characters use it themselves, it seems the villains are both capable of using it and can also destroy it! | |
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Gemstone Assault | |
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Gemstone Assault: The Diamond Shards spell, as its name implies, features shards of diamond piercing its target. It can be used by either Angela or enemies. | |
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Chick Magnet | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_9858c391 | comment |
This occurs if Hawkeye/Riesz is your player character and support character. It's also teased if you have Riesz in your party but not Hawkeye: During the battle to retake Laurent, Hawkeye will ask the party to spare Belladonna's life until he can lift her curse. Riesz agrees, and Hawkeye will plant a kiss on her cheek in gratitude, causing Riesz to freak out. That said Hawkeye is a rather sleazy Chick Magnet at all times, and his main love interest in the story appears to be Jessica if he is the main character. | |
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Exposed to the Elements | |
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Practically the entire female population of Altena, especially Angela. Nobody freezes to death because Altena is kept temperate due to magic, but Angela comes close to actually freezing to death after being chased out of the castle. Laurent's Amazons also fit this to a lesser degree except Riesz, who is in full armor, though in official art she still has a very low-cut chestplate and doesn't wear pants. | |
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Evil Counterpart | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_9b54d536 | comment |
Evil Counterpart: The Masked Mage is also referred to as a Priest of Dark, in opposition to the Priest of Light, who exiled him in reaction to the Mage dabbling in the dark arts. Each of the six playable classes has a counterpart monster line, that has most of the same moveset (with later Underground Monkey versions sporting the skills from the upgraded classes, usually of the Dark line). Duran has Knights, Angela has Magicians, Kevin has Werewolves, Charlotte has Dark Priests, Hawkeye has Ninjas, and Riesz has the Bee Lancers. | |
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Difficult, but Awesome | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb | comment |
Difficult, but Awesome: You can customize your team to your liking, even going so far as screwing yourself out of any healing magic or other desirable buffs by, say, picking Hawkeye, Riesz and Angela. None of them ever learn any health restoration, ever. Such teams are popular in self-imposed challenges, since any mistake can mean a party wipe. They also deliver high damage and serious debuffing capability, allowing them to bring quick death to the enemy, as well. Having Angela at all was generally a self-imposed challenge in the original game. Most of her spells dealt considerably less damage than the enemies' and could set off some of their strongest, party-wiping special attacks. The remake was rebalanced very hard in her favor. | |
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Chainmail Bikini | |
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Chainmail Bikini: As expected, Angela and Riesz show off more skin if you select their Dark classes. | |
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Word Salad Title | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_9c550e26 | comment |
Word Salad Title: Many of the music tracks have these kind of names. Hope Isolation Pray? Faith Total Machine? Many of these may be more examples of Gratuitous English than Word Salad Title. Japanese doesn't technically even have adjectives; it just has adjectival nouns and adjectival verbs, so the concept of adjectives may be confusing to native Japanese speakers unless they've studied English at more than a basic level. Strangely, even though Trials of Mana was only released outside Japan in 2019, its soundtrack has only ever been released with English track titles. | |
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Interface Spoiler | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | comment |
Interface Spoiler: The game leads you to believe that opening the gate to the Sanctuary of Mana and acquiring the Sword of Mana will be the game's big finish. It's somewhat undermined by the fact that unless you've spent an inordinate amount of time Level Grinding, you're nowhere near the level needed for your second class change, and at that point in the game, have no way of getting the MacGuffins needed for it anyways. The remake's revamped experience curve remedies this somewhat: you should indeed be in your mid-thirties by the time you reach the Sanctuary (still no way to get the items early, though). On the other hand, the existence of a new third class change, that the game tries to keep secret, can be figured out as soon as you notice that fourth Limit Break hotkey, or that conspicuous empty space in the equipment screen where two more skill slots could go... A more minor one. In the remake, once you get the Lil' Cactus ability that lets you see the number of treasure chests in an area, if you keep seeing chests even after filling that out, you'll know they're Mimics. | |
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Evil Costume Switch | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_9cb5e4bb | comment |
Evil Costume Switch: Heath's monochrome costume while in the service of the Masked Mage. Your own characters can undergo this when picking the Dark Class Changes. | |
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Late Character Syndrome | |
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Late Character Syndrome: In the original game, unless you go out of your way (or just plain hack your save) to get it sooner, you won't be able to get the 2nd class change until just before the final boss's lair. The remake makes the items that allow the 2nd class change available when the Benevodons awaken or lets you carry the class change items from a previous save if your on New Game Plus. | |
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In-Universe Game Clock | |
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In-Universe Game Clock: The days of the week are named according to the Mana Spirits, thus affecting the strength/weakness of their corresponding magic. It's also free to sleep at an inn on Mana Day. | |
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First Town | |
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First Town: Astoria. Well, it's the first town common to all of the characters if they're the leader. Most of them have to make a pit stop in occupied Jadd before they ever reach Astoria, with the exception of Charlotte. It's also the first town shop-wise, as Jadd is under a curfew and can't sell you any weapons or armor. | |
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Blind Seer | |
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Blind Seer: Joster, King of Laurent is blind, and has seer powers that allow him to do things like sense when his children are in the castle and hear the future on the winds. | |
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Shields Are Useless | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_a211f531 | comment |
Shields Are Useless: Thanks to a bug in the original Famicom version, Duran's shields do nothing. This carried over into the official localization in Collection of Mana. However it was fixed for the 2020 remake. | |
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Route Boss | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_a21b9511 | comment |
Route Boss: Your first character choice determines who are the last set of bosses the player has to face. In particular: Choosing either Duran or Angela will have them facing against the Darkshine Knight, the Crimson Wizard, and their Big Bad, the Dragon Lord, as the Final Boss. Choosing either Kevin or Charlotte will have them facing against Goremand, Tainted Soul, and their Big Bad, the Masked Mage, as the Final Boss. Choosing either Hawkeye or Riesz will have them facing against Malocchio, Belladonna, and their Big Bad, the Dark Majesty, as the Final Boss. | |
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The Chosen Many | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_a2fea27d | comment |
The Chosen Many: Technically, anyone could have been the chosen one - During Angela's backstory, she sees a fortune teller who tells her to go to Wendel. A person nearby points out she told him the exact same thing too, when all he wanted to know was if his child was going to be a boy or a girl. Charlotte also says "Wow, evewyone wants to see gwandpa all of a sudden!" if she's chosen. | |
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One-Hit Kill | |
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One-Hit Kill: The Annihilate spell, which is known by certain enemies and can be learned by Angela if she promotes to the Rune Seer (Dark-Light) class, will always do 999 HP worth of damage if the target is at the same level as the caster or lower; if the target is at a higher level, it will fail. If the target is a party member or normal monster and the spell works, they're screwed; for bosses it's simply a heavily damaging attack. | |
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Meet the New Boss | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_a44cd048 | comment |
Meet the New Boss: The Masked Mage is heir to the previous game's Thanatos, with a similar boss form and attack animation. The Lich, along with Dark Majesty and Goremand, is a recurring foe in the Mana series. If you look closely, each of the main adversaries has a component or two of Thanatos. The Masked Mage is a necromancer who kidnaps/brainwashes a loved one of the game's white mage. Dark Majesty shares his body-stealing ways. The Dragon Lord converts a fallen warrior (Geshtar in the original, Loki in this one) into an undead knight. Belladonna is also a pro at mass hypnosis. | |
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Double-Meaning Title | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_a4905771 | comment |
Double-Meaning Title: Trials stands for the trials the protagonist must go through. It also contains the prefix "tri-", which stands for either the three story routes or that its the third game in the series. | |
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Shifting Sand Land | |
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Shifting Sand Land: The area around Nevarl and the Dragonsmaw's outer reaches (Burning Sands for the former, Crystal Desert for the latter) are filled with sand, including sand dunes that push the party downhill. | |
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Chest Monster | |
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Chest traps scale to your level, not the level of the enemies that drop them. A Lv. 18 or Lv. 38 Chest Monster is no fun at all, and a bomb trap, which does several hundred damage to everyone in the party could result in a party wipe. Especially if you're coming out of a tough fight. | |
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Infinity +1 Sword | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e | comment |
Infinity +1 Sword: A good number of them, only available through planting Gear Seeds in the original, and possible by planting nearly any sort of Seed once you've reached your third class in the remake (with Rainbow Seeds having the highest odds). Doing so may randomly bestow any one character's best weapon, best helmet, best armor or accessory with best raw defensive stats. | |
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Scaled Up | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_a675997a | comment |
A skill you get from Anise the Witch grants infinite item use in battle. Not only does this allow you to cover any holes in the party's line-up, it allows for infinite amounts of healing too. The only thing deflating the impact is that Anise is the second-most powerful entity in the entire game (surpassed only by the Black Rabite), and you have to beat her on Hard mode in under two minutes to get this skill. And Anise is the only boss in the entire game that has more than one form, since she gets Scaled Up into a dragon after beating her human form. If you can beat Anise in less than two minutes on the game's hardest difficulty, you could already break the game in half without the need for infinite items, and have all the money you need to buy as many of said items as possible. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: You have three heroes; there are three invading kingdoms, creating three unique final scenarios with three unique final bosses. | |
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Prestige Class | |
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Prestige Class: If you earn enough experience and talk to a Mana Stone, you have the option to pick the Light or Dark path when (i.e. Light-Light, Light-Dark, Dark-Light, or Dark-Dark). Like the previous games, this one allows you to allocate points to various stats when you level-up. There is a limit to how much your stats can grow at first. But you'll notice a huge stat boost when you get promoted. The old maximum becomes your new minimum when you change classes. | |
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Hidden Elf Village | |
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Hidden Elf Village: Lumina explains that the dwarves are using reflective rocks to create illusions. While this doesn't make it any clearer to those of us who aren't light spirits, Lumina messes with the light to 'move' a rock formation which had been blocking the Dwarf City entrance. Koropokkur Woods is a village of small people hidden among Rabite Forest, and is visited when the party needs Domperi's help to free Laurent from Nevarlan forces. Dior is the hidden village of elves in Lampbloom Woods, which is difficult to navigate—except at night, when the light of the flowers guides the way to the village. The Ancient Capital Pedda exists in some kind of weird temporal flux: It's just empty ruins when you first arrive, but staying at the inn warps you back in time to the first Dragon War. | |
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Mordor | |
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Mordor: Three varieties. Dragonsmaw is a blasted wasteland which is shrouded in pale mist. Dark Castle is lashed by a perpetual storm, resting atop an unscalable mountain. Mirage Palace takes the cake, though: the whole estate sits atop a lake of blood-tainted water, with skulls bobbing up and down in it. You can only visit one per playthrough, though. | |
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You All Meet in a Cell | |
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You All Meet in a Cell: Played with. If you didn't pick Charlotte as your third party member, you'll pick up your third after being thrown in the Jadd prison upon defeating the first boss. Subverted if Charlotte is your third party member, in which case your party is already full and your would-be fourth member just helps you break out of jail and is left behind when your party sets sail for Maia. | |
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You All Meet in an Inn | |
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You All Meet in an Inn: The first rule of RPGs holds true, in that all the useful information is at the pub. You can find every potential party member except Charlotte at the tavern in Jadd Stronghold, but nobody actually joins your party until later. | |
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Evil Weapon | |
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Evil Weapon: The Mana Sword is an artifact sought after by the evil nations, as it is the key to reaching the Mana Sanctuary. The lead villain hopes to pervert the sword by committing evil acts, turning it into an instrument of evil. Ultimately subverted when the sword resists the villain's attempt to wield it. | |
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Sleeps in the Nude | |
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Sleeps in the Nude: Angela is strongly hinted to sleep in the nude when you visit the inn, lying on her stomach showing her Toplessness from the Back. In fact if she's not your main character, it's possible to stumble across her at the inn at Jigrad, where she'll call you a pervert if you disturb her when playing as any of the male characters. | |
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Near-Villain Victory | |
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Near-Villain Victory: Whichever of the villains ends up being the Big Bad will succeed in seizing the Sword of Mana for themselves, awakening the eight Benevodons, absorbing the power of the sword and those 8 benevodons into themselves to elevate themselves to godhood, and killing the Goddess of Mana before the heroes are finally able to defeat them. | |
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Jack of All Stats | |
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Riesz is the princess of Laurent and foster mother to her younger brother Elliot. The kingdom is protected from outside harm by magical winds... But two interlopers, Bil and Ben, trick him into lowering the magic barrier and then kidnap him. Bil and Ben work for Isabella, and Nevarl seize the castle and kill King Joster. Riesz, a spear-wielding Jack of All Stats with a variety of party-buffing abilities, turns to the Priest of Light for help. | |
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The Gambler | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_ad0439be | comment |
There's no telling which class you'll end up with when you harvest a "???" seed, either. You can sometimes get a vague sense of whether it triggers a Light or Dark promotion. ("Forbidden Book" and "Bottle of Blood" are self-explanatory, but Hawkeye has his pick from a selection of dice that don't really signpost their alignment.) Naturally, the seeds don't drop items that can't be used by people who aren't in the party. But aside from that, it's guesswork. And the items themselves can be consumed in battle. So don't accidentally use the wrong one on an enemy, or it's gone; you'll have to farm another one. (If you already know which items do what, you can spend the undesired ones on enemies to inflict potent status effects.) | |
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Apocalyptic Log | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80 | comment |
Apocalyptic Log: The captain's log, or Captain's Dieary as it's called in-game, in the captain's room of the Ghost Ship contains an ominous message instead of being an ordinary captain's log. | |
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Final Boss | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be | comment |
Final Boss: Comes in three flavors, depending on which hero is chosen as the main character. Duran and Angela: The Dragon Lord. A tyrant thought to have been slain by Duran's father Loki, but was just hiding. He's been marshaling his dragon armies to try and take over the world again, and he revived Loki as his servant, the Darkshine Knight. Hawkeye and Riesz: The Dark Majesty. A Lucifer archetype and prince of the underworld who wants the living to pay for their "sins". Charlotte and Kevin: The Masked Mage. A fallen cleric who bathed himself in dark magic, losing any semblance of humanity he once had, now drunk with power and wanting to destroy the world out of a twisted logic. | |
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Experience Booster | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_ad7b1b81 | comment |
In the 2020 remake, your HP and MP can go up to quadruple-digits and triple-digits respectively, so it's still useful to level up. However, even with the Experience Booster from New Game Plus that quadruples your earned EXP, you'll still only be around level 85 by the time you get to the Final Boss of the main character's story, so the cap of level 99 is still absurdly high. | |
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Orcus on His Throne | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_add14bc2 | comment |
Orcus on His Throne: Each of the villains lounge around in their hideouts and let their minions do the work — until they're either killed by one of the other enemy factions or the heroes storming their fortress. In fact, you don't even meet them until you've completed their respective dungeons. Dark Majesty wasn't totally idle behind the scenes, though: He's the one who raised the Dark Mana Stone from the Underworld. He also sacrifices his first body to rip open the Sanctuary entrance. The reason he doesn't confront you is because he's waiting for his cronies to resurrect his form. The original Japanese name for one of the bosses in Legend of Mana fought in the Underworld is identical to the name of the Benevodon trapped inside this stone, hinting at a link between the two games after all! (The boss doesn't look much like its namesake, though, and the name was changed in the North American release, so aside from a similar case of Dual Boss, there isn't any way you'd know it - you don't even get to see the Mana Stone). | |
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All for Nothing | |
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Duran/Angela: The Crimson Wizard initially didn't have the ability to use magic at all. He traded half of his lifespan to the Dragon Lord in exchange for unparalleled magical power. But in the end, it was nothing next to the power that the heroes wield. After he's defeated in battle, the Crimson Wizard even laments the fact that his sacrifice was All for Nothing. | |
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High-Pressure Emotion | |
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High-Pressure Emotion: Regardless of which characters you choose, their 'angry' sprite is pretty expressive. | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: The Beastmen, including Kevin, are all martial artist werewolves. | |
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Always Night | |
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Always Night: Duskmoon Forest, also encompassing Mintas, Chartmoon Tower and Ferolia (Moonlight Forest, Mintos, Moonreading Tower and Beast Kingdom in the fan translation, respectively) lies under the influence of the Moon Mana Stone which causes it to always be night, and therefore the Beastmen are always werewolves. Since Kevin switches to werewolf form at night, this is his preferred terrain. Two of the dungeons, Mirage Palace and Dark Castle, are constantly enveloped in darkness. This doesn't count as moonlight, though; Kevin gets no bonus. Inverted on the first visit to the The Sanctuary of Mana where it will always be daytime. Played straight later on where it is always night (according to the in-game clock; it really appears more dusk-like). | |
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Convection, Schmonvection | |
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Convection, Schmonvection: The lava surfaces in Fiery Gorge will only hurt you if you stand on them, and even then they only do Cherry Tapping amounts of damage, easily healed. | |
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Big Fancy Castle | |
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Big Fancy Castle: Each big city has one, along with Ferolia. Each of the villains also resides in one. Even Drakonis has a throne room built into the fixtures of his caves. | |
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Remixed Level | |
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Remixed Level: Certain sites, such as Gusthall, Labyrinth of Ice, and Fiery Gorge must be revisited in the game's latter half after the party sets out to reap the eight Benevodons. The Sanctuary of Mana is visited twice. Later on, the path to the Mana Tree is blocked by debris; finding a detour might take a little brainwork. | |
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Evil Is Not Well-Lit | |
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Two of the dungeons, Mirage Palace and Dark Castle, are constantly enveloped in darkness. This doesn't count as moonlight, though; Kevin gets no bonus. | |
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My Rules Are Not Your Rules | |
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My Rules Are Not Your Rules: The levels for class changing are specifically delineated at 18/38. You'll start encountering class-changed enemies (a few with full-screen Techs) at level ten. Your party also has to fill a Tech gauge before unleashing their special attacks, but enemies of the exact same class can slam your party with their abilities right off the bat (they will also frequently use them as counterattacks after you hit them with a spell). | |
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Take It to the Bridge | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_b414868 | comment |
Take It to the Bridge: Once you beat the first batch of Machine Golems, the Altenish soldiers run away, and we get one final 'screw you' from the last robot: the Golem self-destructs, taking out the bridge to Valsena. When you corner Belladonna in Fiery Gorge, Belladonna threatens to throw Jessica off a bridge and into the fire. If Hawkeye is on your team, then Niccolo will appear and hurl a dart at Belladonna's head, saving Jessica. If Hawkeye isn't on your team, then Hawkeye will appear and save Jessica. Once Belladonna withdraws, Jessica gets taken to the nearest town by Hawkeye/Niccolo to recover. | |
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Dungeon Bypass | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_b4d6aa7d | comment |
Should you have enough money, you can simply agree to the outrageous price quoted by Watts and buy the nitromyte from him. If you do, Hero King Richard will tell you about a shortcut to the boss room by way of a strange statue, which does nothing if you went through the dungeon in the normal way. You still get the Mana Spirit, but you'll skip the rest of the dungeon. In the 2020 remake, there's an achievement for getting the nitromyte this way called "Throw Money at It". | |
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Double Unlock | |
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Double Unlock: In the 2020 remake, magic spells work this way. You have to give the character proper stat points to access the spell, then also have the Mana Spirit of the spell in your party before you can actually use it. | |
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Acceptable Breaks from Reality | |
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Acceptable Breaks from Reality: In the 2020 remake, characters can perform a dodge roll in midair at full speed, even from a straight vertical jump. Completely unrealistic, but necessary to keep the game from being frustrating. | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_b77808f2 | comment |
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The Creative Closing Credits of the remake at least show brief scenes of the ongoing lives of each of the protagonist characters. These are shown for every character, regardless of whether or not you selected them as playable in that particular playthrough. | |
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One Stat to Rule Them All | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_b798d379 | comment |
The game doesn't mention this, but certain spells can't be learned unless you've leveled up particular attributes. Hawkeye learns new moves by leveling up his AGL and LUCK, but dumping points into his INT is useless. However, Duran (the no-frills tank) must raise his SPIRIT at least a little if he wants to learn his Paladin moves, which require MP to use. The requirements aren't always intuitive, and you may waste a level or two trying out new combinations before you see a result. Thankfully, the game rewards every spell you've missed along the way (without any fanfare, just a quick message box) once you meet the requirements. The remake's Training menu shows you exactly what you need to learn your abilities. | |
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Evil Overlord | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_b8dde2 | comment |
Evil Overlord: The Dragon Lord for Duran and Angela, the Masked Mage for Kevin and Charlotte, and the Dark Majesty for Riesz and Hawkeye. They all seek to liberate the magical forces that bind the world together and destroy humanity. | |
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Pointy Ears | |
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Angela has Primm's headstrong personality, Pointy Ears, Impossibly-Low Neckline, and premise as The Runaway. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_b9d334b2 | comment |
Aerith and Bob: Hawkeye, Eagle, Belladonna, Lord Flamekhan... and Bil and Ben. Would you believe it's the last two who pose a genuine threat? | |
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Storming the Castle | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_b9f472b | comment |
Storming the Castle: We have met the enemy. It's time to take the battle to his home address. You can't enter the Crystal Desert, Night Cavern, or Jungle of Visions (apart from the countryside surrounding Pedda) until the Mana Sword is robbed and taken to the villain's respective hideout. | |
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King Mook | |
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King Mook: Harcypete is a scaled-up version of the Harpies you encounter in Heavensway. Two of the Benevodons, Dolan and Lightgazer, resemble a werewolf and one of those Beholder enemies in the Jungle of Visions, respectively. | |
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Fast-Forward Mechanic | |
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Fast-Forward Mechanic: If you stop at a Trauma Inn during the day, you have the option to be awakened in the evening or the following morning. This is helpful if Kevin is in your party or you want to shop at the black market, but it is rarely a requirement for progressing through the story. (You need to visit the Night Market to get the Minor Mallet.) Picture this: A boss fight is just around the corner, but it's daytime, and Kevin is more powerful in the moonlight. The answer is the Dream Reed, which will immediately shift the world from day to night or vice-versa. | |
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Cool Mask | |
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Cool Mask: The Masked Mage lives up to his title. Hawkeye's Nightblade class sports one. And some of his equip-able armor is of the Cool Mask variety. | |
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Late to the Tragedy | |
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Late to the Tragedy: The party narrowly misses a clash between the Dragon Lord, Masked Mage, and Dark Majesty in the Sanctuary of Mana. It must have been one hell of a fight, as the resulting bloodbath leaves their armies and the Sanctuary in tatters. Only Goremand, the Darkshine Knight, and Belladonna live to tell the tale; Belladonna and the Darkshine Knight take their own lives as penance, while Goremand just shrugs and beats a hasty retreat! (Though he admits his chances of escape are slim to none.) | |
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Mirror Match | |
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Mirror Match: Kevin and the Ferolian troops all share the same werewolf sprite (albeit differently-colored). The latter use the same Techs as Kevin's top-tier classes. Needless to say, this gets very confusing if he's on your team. Each class the heroes can take has a enemy parallel. Duran has knights. Angela magicians. Kevin with werewolves. Light Charlotte are potos, while dark Charlotte shamans. Light Hawkeye with Chobins and dark has ninjas. Finally, Riesz has the bee women and goblins. In addition to Shape Shifters (mostly harmless balls of wax that morph into various monsters), you may encounter their Underground Monkey equivalent, Shadow Zed. Secret of Mana vets will remember these as the clones of Randi's party who you fought in Joch's cave. They'll mimic your class changes along with your special attacks. The problem is that they aren't affected by Health/Damage Asymmetry; their attacks do the same boss-killing damage as yours, to your party's still PC-level hit points. If you have Dark classes in your lineup, and the Zeds decide to mimic them (and you didn't bring along any characters who can Silence enemy spells), just flee. You can't win. Angela has one in the remake as a Duel Boss. Her enemy is part of the trial she needs to pass to obtain her Class 4 item, fighting a shadow version of herself. | |
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Living Structure Monster | |
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Living Structure Monster: Zehnoa, one of the bosses, is a demonic fireplace/furnace that attacks by spitting enemies out of its fire, casting Salamando's magic and activating several traps. The remake can also expel gusts of wind to blow you into said traps. | |
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Big Boo's Haunt | |
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Big Boo's Haunt: The Ghost Ship, Chartmoon Tower and Mirage Palace. Zombies, sexy vampires, werewolves, and ghosts galore. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: The area connecting Valsena to Stonesplit Gap is called Molebear Moors in the official translation. The full name of the harbor town of Palo is Palo Port in the official translation. On Beuca Island, a village of peaceful Tomatomen called Tomato Town acts as a pit stop for the heroes, where they can rest and buy items. Hero King Richard gives the party the Ferry Flute, used to summon the turtle Vuscav to travel across the ocean. | |
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Lost World | |
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Lost World: The Shimmering Ruins and the Jungle of Visions. Somewhere deep in the forest, the Masked Mage is assembling his army like a regular Colonel Kurtz. | |
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Last Chance Hit Point | |
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Last Chance Hit Point: Any time someone takes lethal damage, their HP will oscillate between 0 and 1. A luckily-timed heal will heal the character back up, but missing the timing will waste either the healing item or MP. | |
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Dragon Rider | |
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Dragon Rider: Flammie the dragon acts as a Global Airship for the party. | |
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Hypnotize the Captive | |
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Hypnotize the Captive: The Crimson Wizard and Belladonna pose as Evil Chancellors of sorts to the north and south. They work independently to provoke fighting with their neighbors. The Crimson Wizard reveals that he hypnotized the True Queen into becoming a warmonger, and Belladonna prostitutes herself out to Lord Flamekhan. By the time Eagle and Hawkeye notice something's amiss, she now has mind control powers over the entire ninja clan, including Bil and Ben, and Eagle is brainwashed soon after. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: At the midpoint of the game, the party has managed to reach the Mana Tree within the Mana Holyland before any of the villains, and gains the Mana Sword as the poignant track "Delicate Affection" plays. They are then greeted by a vision of the Goddess...who informs them that Faerie has been taken by the bad guys. | |
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For Doom the Bell Tolls | |
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For Doom the Bell Tolls: "Intolerance" and "Political Pressure", two tracks that play whenever something ominous is going down. | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The clash between the three villain factions in the Sanctuary of Mana. A three-way battle between Ninja, Wizards, and Werewolves, and we players only get to see the aftermath of it. | |
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Broken Bridge | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_c5f23623 | comment |
Broken Bridge: The Altenish invaders trap you on the bridge and command their Machine Golems to attack you; when you win, the invaders bail towards Valsena while the golems self-destruct on the bridge. It never gets repaired at any point afterwards. At the heroes' request, the Faerie undoes a barrier spell at the entrance to Cascade Cavern. However, it turns out the shield was put in place by the Priest of Light to keep the Beastmen out! By the time you return from Laurent, the Priest has Faerie-proofed his barrier, so it's safe to say you won't be returning to Wendel. Flammie can still land you there, but the only land route is locked down. On the way to the Dwarf City, you can instead head south as a matter of curiosity. Unfortunately, the merchants of Beiser have been tipped off about the upcoming invasion by Altenish forces, and aren't allowing any foreigners into the city at present. Many doors in the game can't be unlocked without supernatural help. You need Lumina to enter the Dwarf City, Sylphid to spread pollen over Laurent, Gnome to open a cave on Beuca Island, Salamando and Undine to open a path to Mintas (for whatever reason), Luna to get into Lampbloom Woods, and Dryad to reveal a path in the Jungle of Visions. The Mirage Palace is invisible to the naked eye. It won't appear until you have a magic mirror in your possession, won by defeating Zable Fahr. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Bil and Ben. If you're from the UK, the name instantly screams out "weed"! Alternatively, one may think of a pair of train engines instead. The Guardian enemies in the Jungle of Visions have Breast Fire and Rust Hurricane as special attacks, just like the granddaddy for all Super Robots. The Gigantress (wielded by the Crimson Wizard) holds the exact same Japanese name as the Mana Fortress from Secret of Mana (Gigantes) and is likely to be its Start of Darkness. In the 3D remake, when you use Japanese audio, Hawkeye's "Shadow Menace" class strike has him shouting "ORA ORA ORA ORA!!" as he attacks. | |
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Seppuku | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_c78d3e08 | comment |
Seppuku: Heath and The Crimson Wizard kill themselves after their defeat at the hands of the heroes. Unless your protagonist is Hawkeye or Riesz, the Navarl faction loses big in the Mana Sword sweepstakes. Dark Majesty loses his corporeal form in exchange for opening the way to the Mana Tree, but his enemies steal the body and destroy it before he can be properly revived. Malocchio insists they can still keep to the plan by taking back the sword and unsealing their underworld armies, but Belladonna is unable to go on without her love. Rather than live in disgrace, she murder-suicides herself and Malocchio. | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father: Duran, the Darkshine Knight is your father. The Masked Mage is Heath's father. Charlotte, the Elf-King is your maternal grandfather. Angela, Hero King Richard is your father. Alluded to in the original game, but confirmed in the prequel. | |
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Chekhov's Volcano | |
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Chekhov's Volcano: And, of course, it doesn't go off until you've accomplished all you've needed to and you have a ticket off the island. Malocchio is there, but he doesn't bother to attack and assumes that all three of you will perish in the eruption. He leaves after that, and Vuscav evacuates you before it erupts. | |
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Level Limiter | |
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Level Limiter: In the remake, you can choose to reset your level in New Game Plus after Patch 1.1.0. | |
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Counter-Attack | |
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Counter-Attack: An evil moment is when fighting knights, werewolves, and non-stationary bosses (like Bil & Ben) who counter your screen-filling Techs with ones of their own. Good luck surviving the Darkshine Knight on your first try after you thought you were invincible raiding entire screens with your special attacks for no MP cost. | |
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_cc4d190a | comment |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Not only do you kill the eight Benevodons (note that the Japanese characters used to represent this are the same ones used to represent the Mana Beast in the previous game. The Japanese name, Shinjuu, translates to God-Beast, which is what the fan translation calls the Benevodons), ancient evils that predate the world, but the final boss has the combined powers of all eight of them, and the Sword of Mana, which is what sealed them away in the first place and was used to help create the world. | |
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Combat and Support | |
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Combat and Support: In terms of starting classes, there's a focus on Combat: Duran, Kevin, Hawkeye and Riesz specialize on melee combat and have no MP-consuming Moves, while Angela and Charlotte take on Black Mage and White Mage duties respectively and have underwhelming physical damage output and Class Strikes. That said, once the class changes start hitting, everything goes out the window, with all four Combat characters able to take much more Balanced positions and supplement their fighting prowess with buffs, debuffs, and even (in the case of Kevin and Duran) healing magic. The one thing that never changes is that Angela and Charlotte don't get melee-oriented classes. | |
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Have We Met Yet? | |
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Have We Met Yet?: If you take Angela or Duran's path, the party will run into a younger version of Hero King Richard of Valsena, or Prince Richard as he was known at the time, in Pedda, which is a since-destroyed town brought to the present by a temporal abnormality. If Duran is leading the party, you also run into his father, Loki, in the town of Pedda, just before the battle in which he's going to die. Duran tries to convince his father not to go, but Loki goes anyway. And just to wring a few more tears out of the player, Loki comments that he hopes his son "turns out to be a fine young man like [present-day Duran]." | |
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick | |
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Hypercompetent Sidekick: Niccolo. The cat pops up several times during Hawkeye's story to break him out of prison, lend him a hand vs. Belladonna, and safeguard Jessica so Hawkeye can go about his mission without checking up on her. | |
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Underground Level | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_ce9a1c4a | comment |
Underground Level: Stonesplit Gap is a cave that initially connects Valsena with Maia. Duran is able to pass through there to get to Maia at the beginning of his storyline, but later on, Altenish forces destroy the bridge, requiring the party to use Von Boyage's cannon. Daria is also known as Gem Valley. As its title implies, it's a gem-filled valley filled with caves, and is close to where Gnome, the spirit of earth, is found, though it's accessed much later than Gnome's location. The Dragonsmaw is the Dragon Lord's expansive underground lair. | |
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Take Your Time | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_cfd569ac | comment |
Take Your Time: The only thing in the game involving any kind of time limit is The Time Trial challenge against the True Final Boss in the remake. Other things you might expect to involve a time limit, such as being stranded on a volcanic island that is supposed to be on the brink of erupting, or dealing with 8 newly awakened Benevodons that are threatening to destroy the world, can be dealt with at whatever pace you wish. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Before recruiting your teammates, each tells their story in a Deliberately Monochrome cutscene, if you didn't choose to play through their prologue yourself. | |
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Developer's Foresight | |
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Ludgar and his men destroy Astoria for no reason other than it was on the way toward their real target, Wendel. If you return to Astoria later with a full party, every character will take umbrage with the deed. Especially Kevin. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Citadel Laurent, AKA "The Castle That Never Fell." Well, that's tempting fate, isn't it? The Nevarlan thieves are too cunning to attack directly, instead spreading a sleeping pollen which puts the Amazons' lights out. The King is struck down in his own throne room without any resistance whatsoever. The Amazons take back the castle because the thieves never figured the former might use the latter's own tactic against them. | |
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Mirror Boss | |
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The Shadow Zeds, which act as a Mirror Boss by copying your party members, right down to having the same stats. | |
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After-Combat Recovery | |
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After-Combat Recovery: The party members fully recover HP and MP after boss battles. This does not apply to normal battles, though fallen party members are still revived with 1 HP in those cases. In the 2020 remake, Riesz gets an ability which recovers seven percent of everyone's max HP after a battle ends. | |
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Harping on About Harpies | |
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Harping on About Harpies: There are harpies hanging around Heavensway who can drop status effects. But they'e guppies compared to Harcypete who can buff and debuff, wield wind magic, pick up your characters and then throw them to the ground, knocking them unconscious. | |
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Highly-Visible Ninja | |
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Highly-Visible Ninja: The kingdom of Nevarl is guarded by these, and Hawkeye can become one. | |
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Anti-Frustration Features | |
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Anti-Frustration Features: If you're at a loss about to where to go, just look for a spring and jump on it. (It's like a cannon except that it shoots you straight up rather than to another location.) You can use the Mode 7 view of the land to take a look around. You can get a general idea of where the nearest town or castle is. Alhough springsteppers return in the remake, the addition of event markers means you don't need to scope out the world, and they are instead used to get to high ledges (save for the one in Charlotte's story). When riding on Flammie, the game is helpful enough to show a text box which lists where you're supposed to be going to further the plot. This alternates with a box telling you where you're at, making it easier to find your way around. Mintas. For once, the inn at a tiny village which doesn't see much traffic is priced accordingly, rather than being expensive based on its importance to the plot. Class-changing. Unlike in most JRPGs, there are no takebacks in the 16-bit version, and the fruits of your labor may not become apparent for a while. The remake adds a third class change, along with the ability to reset the class changes entirely with the Goddess Scales. The 2020 remake has numerous features that either remove something aggravating, or keeps the player from being penalized for what their AI characters do. There are assorted bonuses acquired for clearing away on-screen enemies with precision: the biggest bonus is awarded for not taking any damage in a fight. It only applies to the human-controlled character, not to AI characters who took damage. This is to prevent the player from losing the experience bonus through no fault of their own. AI-controlled party members don't take floor damage when running around aimlessly, such as from the flame jets and lava in Fiery Gorge or the poison clouds in Gem Valley. They also aren't affected by status effects that such terrain would cause, like Burn or Poison. In the remake, if you have multiple injured characters, lots of low-value healing items like candies and are not in combat, you can use the "full heal" option, which consumes the exact number of items needed to heal your party to full all at once. Six of the Benevodon dungeons contain chests with the elusive ??? Seeds to upgrade to Class 3, and a few unique enemies therein drop them. Also, the first six planted in the item pot will guarantee one of each type of item, but will be randomized afterwards. Characters level up much quicker compared to the original game. Chances are that you'll be around level 38 by the time you reach the Mana Shrine to first go after the Sword of Mana, which is the level you'll need to be at to unlock a Level 3 class. Completing the event here is also when ??? Seeds start to become available to make that second class change even easier. The player is no longer penalized for leveling up past level 18 or level 38 without taking the corresponding class change. Stats increase automatically on level up and stat points can be saved for as long as the player wishes. Any Li'l Cactus encounters found in Crystal Palace, Night Cavern or Jungle of Visions count towards each other on a save file. That way, you don't have to go back through the same endgame dungeon to complete the sidequest to find Li'l Cactus fifty times. In addition, none of his encounters can be permanently missed; any dungeon that you only go through once (like the Ghost Ship or Beuca Island) never has a Li'l Cactus encounter, nor are there any Li'l Cacti in the aggressor cities (Altena, Ferolia, and Nevarl). In the Ghost Ship you can swap out which character is "cursed" and removed from the party, thus ensuring you don't screw yourself over by accidentally cursing your most valuable party member (a frequent complaint in the original). The remake allows you, for a modest price, to reset your stat upgrades if you later decide you don't like how you built your characters. Classes can be reset too with the use of an item available in the endgame stages. The nightmare versions of every party character's home towns count in terms of exploration, removing the shroud for future playthroughs. The remake has each of the defeated monsters drop multiple items at the same time rather than only dropping just one random item (which ONLY comes from the monster you kill last). This makes seed farming much more bearable. | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Quite a few, including the Priest of Light and Malocchio. Two of the main villains (Dragon Lord and Dark Majesty) are addressed by title only. However, Land and Heroes of Mana retcon their real names as Drakonis and Stroud (the latter also being the name of a very different character in Sword of Mana), respectively. Belgar is the name of the once-noble priest who degenerated into the Masked Mage. | |
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Lethal Lava Land | |
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Lethal Lava Land: Fiery Gorge lives up to its name as a cavern of fire and lava. (No actual damage from convection, though.) Subverted with the Seaside Cavern, because even though it technically takes place inside a volcano, both the environment and the enemies instead give off a water theme. | |
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Area of Effect | |
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While they're normally pretty good at dodging Area of Effect attacks, when bosses and enemies throw out multiple Area of Effect attacks, the CPU might get a bit confused. | |
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Amazon Brigade | |
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Amazon Brigade: The kingdom of Laurent (Rolante in the fan translation) of which Riesz is the princess, and the kingdom of Altena of which Angela is the princess. The former warriors are even called the Amazons. | |
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You Can't Go Home Again | |
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You Can't Go Home Again: Half of the protagonists are exiled during their intros. Subverted with Duran, who chooses not to go home until he defeats the Crimson Wizard, but can visit his hometown freely anyway after Valsena becomes accessible again; he simply refuses to enter his house. In Riesz's case, her exile is due to her kingdom being occupied by a foreign power, but even after Laurent is liberated, she decides (if she's in the party) to keep adventuring rather than take the throne until she rescues Elliot and deals with the threat to the Mana Tree. | |
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Sugar Apocalypse | |
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Sugar Apocalypse: The Sanctuary of Mana gets hammered pretty bad. Upon your arrival, the landscape is still verdant, with the only enemies being Rabites. In subsequent visits, the Sanctuary has already begun to wither away, and the wildlife is replaced with creepy Shape Shifters. | |
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Empty Room Psych | |
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Empty Room Psych: Every room in the Chartmoon Tower (Moonreading Tower is the fan translated name). Behind one door is the staircase; the other three are enemy nests. | |
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World Tree | |
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World Tree: The Mana Tree is the source of Mana in the world in the entire series, and Mana is shown to be the reason magic is able to exist. | |
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The Good King | |
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The Good King: Hero King Richard, the ruler of Valsena. Besides being beloved by his people, the Hero King is also helpful on your journey by telling you where the Mana Stones can be found. Duran greatly respects the Hero King, both as a leader and as a father figure, since Richard was a close friend of Duran's father Loki the Golden Knight. | |
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A God Am I | |
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A God Am I: All three Big Bads, once they've absorbed the energies of eight Benevodons and taken the Sword of Mana, declare themselves to have overtaken the Mana Goddess in terms of power. | |
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Ship Level | |
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Ship Level: The Ghost Ship, where Shade is recruited and you temporarily lose one of your party members due to a curse. | |
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The Von Trope Family | |
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Von Boyage, Von Jour, and Mercie all use variants on French words and phrases for their names, with the German word "von" thrown into the mix with the official English translation of the male members of the family. All three run the game's cannon travel system. | |
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Warrior Prince | |
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Warrior Prince: When Hero King Richard fought the Dragon Lord, he was not yet the Hero King — he was merely Prince Richard. In Duran and Angela's route, the party can meet him as Prince Richard in Pedda, just before he departs for Dragonsmaw, due to the city's temporal flux, and he thinks the party's reference to a Hero King is referring to his father. Richard says that Valsena's then-current king, his father, is too old to fight and that he's only the prince of the kingdom. | |
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Artificial Brilliance | |
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Artificial Brilliance: In the remake, the computer actually cheats in your favour. If you have an element saber or a spell from Angela or Hawkeye that the enemy is resistant to, they won't use it. The Benevodons even weaponize this by casting a saber that they absorb onto your physical attackers - specifically the ones dealing the most damage. | |
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Updated Re-release | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_df1793de | comment |
Updated Re-release: It was released in the West in June 2019 in the Collection of Mana multigame pack (along with Final Fantasy Adventure and Secret of Mana). This also had official translations into English, Spanish, German, and French; this is the only game in the collection to have a Spanish translation, as only the other three languages are available for Final Fantasy Adventure and Secret of Mana. A version of the game had an early 2020 release that overhauls the graphics and combat system to be more in-line with eighth-generation gameplay mechanics. | |
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_dfa71e43 | comment |
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Most of Ferolia, even Ludgar to a degree. This may be subverted after all; if you challenge any beastman during the Jadd raid, they knock the hell out of your character (except Duran, who seemingly is the only one smart enough to notice picking a fight isn't a good idea now) with a single attack, and to add insult to injury, they aren't even in their wolf form. For most characters this is literally right after the first trek through the overworld, and the beastmen sent to raid Jadd would logically be pretty tough. By the time you trade blows with them again, you'll have already reclaimed a kingdom from a clan of ninjas as well as fought ghosts and elemental beasts many times the size of your character, so it may be something along the lines of Can't Catch Up on the part of the beastmen; they can go toe-to-toe with the forces of Altena and Nevarl on equal standing, but by this point your team is just much stronger than them. | |
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Start of Darkness | |
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The Gigantress (wielded by the Crimson Wizard) holds the exact same Japanese name as the Mana Fortress from Secret of Mana (Gigantes) and is likely to be its Start of Darkness. | |
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Know When to Fold 'Em | |
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Know When to Fold 'Em: Riesz is a formidable fighter, but she's not a One-Man Army. When raiders invade her kingdom, kill her people and kidnap her brother, she has to run in order to find help, and even when she tries to retake the citadel she recognizes that a frontal assault on equal footing would be an exercise in futility. She also never gets a chance to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, instead having to find ways to stop the plans of the Big Bad while putting her kingdom's reconstruction on hold. The fall of Laurent also qualifies. Treacherous crags, harsh winds, multiple attack routes and angles compounded by only a single way in or out? Neither Belladonna nor Riesz entertain full frontal as a valid assault tactic, and only by exploiting tactical advantage (subterfuge by the Nevarlans, home-field advantage by the Laurent insurgents, use of biological agents by both sides) is the citadel made to fall. | |
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Trauma Inn | |
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If you stop at a Trauma Inn during the day, you have the option to be awakened in the evening or the following morning. This is helpful if Kevin is in your party or you want to shop at the black market, but it is rarely a requirement for progressing through the story. (You need to visit the Night Market to get the Minor Mallet.) | |
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Dub Name Change | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_e2c4b927 | comment |
Dub Name Change: After a fashion. The fan translation ran into a problem with the length of the character names: the game only allocated space for six letters/characters in any given player character's name. When Neill Corlett tried to change this, he discovered that attempting to lengthen character names caused a multitude of other bizarre issues. Rather than spend months trying to hack away at this one problem, Corlett and his team decided to simply shorten two of the names of the characters to fit in six letters (Duran, Kevin, Riesz/"Lise" and Angela being good to go already). So it was that Hawkeye was shortened to "Hawk" (which worked well anyway with his friend Eagle), and Charlotte became "Carlie", an uncommon diminutive of Charlotte (but one that was still very fitting for the character). As a result of the amount of time that the fan translation was the only English version available, it's fairly common to hear people call the characters in question "Hawk" and "Carlie". The official release manages to get around this restriction; this includes using a smaller and narrower variable-width font for a lot of in-game text, including character names. | |
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Turns Red | |
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Turns Red: Grapplavine. The fun starts once you've beaten on him a bit, and out pops out some kind of Venus fly trap with eyes. Zable Fahr takes the form of two demonic, disembodied heads who resemble jesters. The attacks they use are weaker than some of the monsters in the path leading up to the fight, albeit made-worse by the clowns lowering your stats. After you kill them, a third feminine head appears; she revives the other two heads and starts spamming Dark-based spells. The combination of the female's attacks and the debuffs from the remaining two heads can prove deadly. | |
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Hailfire Peaks | |
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Hailfire Peaks: Beuca Island contains a huge underground spring. A good thing, too, since Vuscav is able to swim inside and ferry you off before the mountaintop blows! | |
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Load-Bearing Boss | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_e4cf1ef0 | comment |
Load-Bearing Boss: Fighting Gorva on the deck of the Ghost Ship. This has the effect of freeing the dark spirit, Shade, from captivity. The heroes are nonplussed to discover that Shade is the only thing keeping the ship from vanishing. The Ghost Ship disappears from under their feet, stranding them on the shores of a volcanic island. After you beat Belladonna, her section of the Dark Castle collapses, and the party flees across a connecting bridge to the next tower. If Hawkeye is with you, he'll stand over the gap and announce that vengeance is his at last. | |
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Fake Difficulty | |
| Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_e4e86215 | comment |
Fake Difficulty: The clumsy lock-on controls in the 2020 remake result in this. Bosses typically have a Charged Attack that doubles as a Break Meter and Timed Mission: either you beat up certain things that have a distinctive dark blue HP bar over them within the appointed amount of time, at which point the boss Breaks, or it shoots off its attack. Towards the end of the game, the game will start switching to cinematic Fixed Camera positions (the Final Boss), there are too many mobs crowding the area, and/or the "certain things" will start moving. The end result is that you cannot Break the boss because the game does not let you target the things you need to damage. If you don't have Area of Effect Class Strikes or Moves, your remaining option is Forced Level-Grinding. | |
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Light Is Not Good | |
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Light Is Not Good: Lightgazer, the Benevodon of Light. Also, there are several enemies which use Light-based attack spells to destroy your party. | |
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Nerf | |
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Nerf: There are fewer special moves (owing to the Lv. 7 percentage meter being replaced with the more streamlined 1-2-3 Tech meter). And the Lv. 3 Techs can provoke a nasty response from enemies, most notably the werewolves and knights. Each spell will have its own casting time before it will actually take effect. This adds some degree of challenge, as it prevents the ability to cast chain-spells like in Secret of Mana (which was really just a glitch which allowed you to always do the max damage possible, rendering all boss fights frivolous). Minmaxing is thoroughly discouraged in both games, and the remake takes it further. In the original version, the game will not let you put points into the same stat if it grows too much compared to the others. In the remake, abilities and spells are spread between stats, so you can't just focus on one to get them all. For instance, Angela has to spread her points across all her stats if she wants to learn her spells instead of dumping them into Intellect and Spirit. note INT only gets you Undine and Shade's spells this time around; you have to level STR for Salamando, STA for Gnome, SPR for Lumina, and LUCK for Sylphid. The demo only shows Lumina, Gnome and Sylphid's spells in Angela's Magician class, meaning the juicier stuff may require a class change. | |
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Wolfpack Boss | |
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Wolfpack Boss: The Machine Golems are fought twice, first in a pair and later in a trio. | |
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One Curse Limit | |
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One Curse Limit: An exploitable bug. Using the Minor Mallet will make your team miniature, replacing whatever status effect they have, and using it again will invert the miniature status effect turning them to normal. This does not work in the remake, where the Minor Mallet has been turned into a key item that's used automatically when entering Koropokkur village and leaving it and can't be used manually. It's also invoked by the plot with Jessica — she was cursed to die if she learned the truth, but that made her immune to magical brainwashing later on. | |
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Green Hill Zone | |
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Green Hill Zone: The Rabite Forest south of Jadd is a peaceful introductory area which lets you really get acquainted with the combat system in this iteration. Since you flee Jadd under the cover of night, the Rabites are sleeping at the moment, which means you don't have to fight them. Unless you're playing as Charlotte... | |
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GameplayAndStoryIntegration | |
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Gameplay and Story Integration: During Altena's attack on Valsena, the Valsenan soldiers tell you not to waste your time helping them, they can pray at the Goddess of Mana Statue to recover. Praying at one restores your health to full. | |
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The Maze | |
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The Maze: Labyrinth of Ice and Duskmoon Forest are maze-like, but not as complex as some of the other mazes in the game. Lampbloom Woods requires that you visit it at night, which signposts the exit with glowing flower bulbs. Chartmoon Tower offers up a game of "Hunt the Staircase" with each floor. Dragonsmaw is a web of similar-looking caverns that loop on themselves, with dragon statues blocking the paths to the Crimson Wizard. Detours open up once you've located and killed the past bosses lurking around the cave. Just getting to the Mirage Palace is a hassle. The jungle is a Zelda-style maze (listen for the chime), leading to Zable Fahr and a chest containing a magic mirror which reveals the Masked Mage's location. The courtyard is protected by a Portal Network leading to various puzzle rooms. The palace itself is smaller but no less confusing: false switches, deadfalls, and a disguised door. Late in the game, the Sanctuary of Mana is struck by an attack from the Big Bad, now supercharged with the energy of all eight Benevodons. The straightforward path to the Tree is now a lot more convoluted, with broken columns and branching paths of lily-pads placed to confound you. This is a good as time as any to level grind. | |
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Dark Is Evil | |
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Dark Is Evil: Zable Fahr is the Dark Benevodon, wielding darkness out of malice, unlike the good-natured Shade. Dark Majesty is the primary antagonist behind Belladonna and Malocchio, and he has a fitting name. He lives in Dark Castle, which acts as his timeline's final dungeon. | |
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Easily Conquered World | |
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Easily Conquered World: Beastmen are remarkably effective against whole cities. Unless you're Duran or Kevin, bumping into the Beastmen here will prompt some of them to ask if you're trying to pick a fight. This results in them trashing you with a single hit and you waking up in the inn with 1 HP so it's not recommended. The remake has a single beastman who asks if you want to fight: accept his challenge, and he'll clean your clock. Citadel Laurent, AKA "The Castle That Never Fell." Well, that's tempting fate, isn't it? The Nevarlan thieves are too cunning to attack directly, instead spreading a sleeping pollen which puts the Amazons' lights out. The King is struck down in his own throne room without any resistance whatsoever. The Amazons take back the castle because the thieves never figured the former might use the latter's own tactic against them. | |
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Cool Airship | |
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Cool Airship: Altena has a seriously badass-looking blimp. In addition, the Beastmen travel by giant hawk, and the Nevarlan raiders... have a boat with a bunch of balloons tied to it, of all things. | |
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Jiggle Physics | |
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Jiggle Physics: Present in the remake. While most prevalent for clothing and hair, Angela's and Riesz's breasts also jiggle a bit. | |
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Kaleidoscope Hair | |
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Kaleidoscope Hair: The heroes can become blonde (or blonder) through class changes, too. Charlotte, Riesz, and Kevin are already light-haired, but Angela and Hawkeye are both dark-haired, and their class-changes with blond hair are both dark-dark. | |
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Climbing Climax | |
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Climbing Climax: You will find the Dragon Lord and Dark Majesty not in their throne rooms (they've vacated), but on the highest peak of their headquarters. The Masked Mage teleports you and the Tainted Soul to the roof of his manor to duke it out. | |
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Villainous Harlequin | |
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Villainous Harlequin: Goremand has a harlequin-like appearance, serves the villainous Masked Mage, and enjoys devouring the souls of his enemies. Zable Fahr. How fitting that the darkest of the Benevodons would be three Monster Clowns. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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When you corner Belladonna in Fiery Gorge, Belladonna threatens to throw Jessica off a bridge and into the fire. If Hawkeye is on your team, then Niccolo will appear and hurl a dart at Belladonna's head, saving Jessica. If Hawkeye isn't on your team, then Hawkeye will appear and save Jessica. Once Belladonna withdraws, Jessica gets taken to the nearest town by Hawkeye/Niccolo to recover. | |
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Crash-Into Hello | |
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Crash-Into Hello: Charlotte rams into Heath right at the start of her story. | |
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Resignations Not Accepted | |
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Resignations Not Accepted: Once Hawkeye decides he no longer wants to be part of his band of thieves because of their growing corruption, they don't graciously let him leave; they try to have him killed. It didn't help that he was framed in the murder of one of their own after he had to use his weapon in self-defense. When he returns to the gang as a hero trying to stop the end of the world, only two of Hawkeye's former gang members side with him; the rest are all Mooks who have to be cut down. | |
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Fighter, Mage, Thief | |
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Fighter, Mage, Thief: The three "enemy" factions follow this dynamic, respectively, the Ferolia beastmen, the Altenan magic users, and the Nevarl ninjas. | |
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Gusty Glade | |
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Gusty Glade: Gusthall is filled with statues that blow wind in different directions, and their movement can be controlled with switches. Does it really count as a glade if it's half made out of caves, though? | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: An Enforced Trope. Hawkeye and his feline pal are the only thieves seen doing any stealing: Under Isabella's influence, the thieves' hideout of Nevarl is gearing up for cavalry assaults on whole cities. | |
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Decomposite Character | |
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Decomposite Character: While most characters are a mix of call backs, the playable female cast notably all inherit aspects of Primm from the previous installment. Angela has Primm's headstrong personality, Pointy Ears, Impossibly-Low Neckline, and premise as The Runaway. Reisz gets her blonde hair, Magic Knight combat stats, potential buffing abilities, and driving motivation to rescue someone important to her. Charlotte also shares her hair color, rescue motivation, and runaway role, but mainly takes after her combat niche as a primary healer. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: If Angela is the third party member, she flirts with a beastman guard to get him into her cell before locking him inside. | |
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Promotion to Parent | |
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Promotion to Parent: Riesz became this to Elliot in her prologue after their parents were killed. | |
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Arbitrary Headcount Limit | |
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Arbitrary Headcount Limit: Your lead character accumulates only two companions in their party. Despite each character having their own backstory and conflicts, there is still a central plot-line which ties it all together. It seems like they only join your party in order to get to Wendel more quickly. If your third party member is Charlotte (who joins in a predetermined location), then someone who was not chosen as a party member will be the one to release you from jail in Jadd. Unfortunately, he or she will inevitably be a little too slow in boarding the ship to Maia, and is left stranded on the pier. | |
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Wake-Up Call Boss | |
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Wake-Up Call Boss: Fullmetal Hugger. Most first-time players fall victim to this guy. He'll slap you upside the head and let you know that bosses cast undodgeable attacks and you better heal after every last one. And if you picked an all male team, chances are Jewel Eater will be this too. Harcypete has the nasty habit of keeping away from your party while casting potent spells. Without the help of coins, magic, or claws the fight can become quite a chore. In the remake, it's also your introduction to interruptable super moves that bosses will use henceforth. Zehnoa can be quite difficult for underleveled players as he is a Mook Maker, casts some really strong spells, and if one is unlucky the mooks (which happens to be Shape Shifters) will morph into something that will constantly Poison the party. The remake also tends to spam loads of hard-to-avoid area attacks that will inevitably hit you. Fortunately, the remake also gives you a few Sahaghin Claws in a treasure chest before you face him, letting you exploit his weakness to Water. The Machine Golems fought in the Frostbite Fields or Bil and Ben in the Burning Sands will make short work of players who abuse Level 2 Techs. Keep in mind that these bosses tend to counterattack with a Tech or magic of their own if struck by a Level 2 Tech or a magic. While Bil and Ben are doable, as they might focus in a single character with Shadow Menace, the Golems are not, they will utterly destroy a party using Level 2 Techs by counterattacking with all-party high level spells and you fight three of them at same time. Players should take these battles as a warning that spamming Level 2 Techs or magic will not work on bosses as well as it did in the last game. The remake also has these Machine Golems self-destruct for lots of damage, so you can't get careless. | |
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us | |
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us: After their hometown gets ransacked by foreign armies, your hero sets out to become strong enough to avenge it. (Barring Charlotte, who originates from the neutral city of Wendel). Circumstances eventually see these cities liberated, some sooner than others. Jadd is seized by the beastmen as a staging point for their Wendel invasion. It serves as the gathering point for the heroes in the beginning. After the Priest of Light's second barrier shoves the beastmen out of Wendel, they give up on taking the city and withdraw; presumably even Goremand's magic can't pierce it. Valsena is scouted by the Crimson Wizard, who leaves a trail of bodies in his wake before Duran causes enough ruckus to force him to withdraw. He comes back in time with an army of magical constructs for a full-scale attack, but you arrive just in time to thwart it. Laurent is enslumbered by somnoa powder and the Nevarl army attacks in full force, leaving several casualties behind, King Joster included. The debilitated Amazon army withdraws, then manages to enlist Sylphid's help to reverse the invasion strategy and retake the Citadel. Altena, Ferolia and Nevarl are in the process of being corrupted from within, via the Crimson Wizard, Goremand and Belladonna's manipulations, respectively (though in Goremand's case, the beastmen were itching for a fight with the humans and he merely pointed them at Wendel). Only after the chaos that ravages the Sanctuary of Mana do you get a chance to oust one of the invaders, based on your main character of choice; said character's primary antagonists wipe out the remaining competition for you. | |
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Gold Makes Everything Shiny | |
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Gold Makes Everything Shiny: The Golden Goddess statue will replenish your HP/MP, unlike the silver statue which merely saves your game. Hero King Richard and the Knights of Gold have made a reputation for themselves around the world. The Golden Road is a major thoroughfare for merchants traveling between port town Maia and Beiser's black market. Since the monsters took over, hardly anyone travels it, and it's starting to get overgrown with weeds. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: If you liked the party from Secret of Mana, Duran, Charlotte, and Angela make good replacements for Randi, Primm, and Popoi. (Though unlike in Secret, Duran can learn his own magic, and Charlotte can switch to offensive magic.) Chikeeta and Josephine. Given that they're the same race as Niccolo, expect racketeering and sky-high prices. Oh well, a cat's gotta eat. | |
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Great Offscreen War | |
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Great Offscreen War: All that's mentioned about the Dragon Lord is that he led a large clan of Dragons that Hero King Richard fought a war against. The details of it are unknown, but the Dragon Lord was apparently enough of a threat to the World that a faerie was sent to aid Richard. (Despite what you might expect, this is not the conflict covered in Heroes.) | |
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The Very Definitely Final Dungeon | |
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Dark Majesty is the primary antagonist behind Belladonna and Malocchio, and he has a fitting name. He lives in Dark Castle, which acts as his timeline's final dungeon. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
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Downer Beginning: All the characters get off to a troubling start, and they go off on their journey to set things right: Duran's homeland is assaulted by the Crimson Wizard, who curbstomps him and insults his king before fleeing. He slums it at a tavern for some time after before deciding to get stronger so he can beat the Crimson Wizard. Angela's homeland is growing colder and frostier as the dwindling mana power of the world weakens her mother, the True Queen. In an effort to stem the coming end, the True Queen decides to use a spell that requires a sacrifice, and chooses her magically-inept daughter to be that sacrifice. Kevin makes a friend with an orphans wolf pup named Karl. One dark evening, however, Karl unexpectedly turns on him, forcing Kevin to transform into a beast and kill him in self-defense. He later learns that his father, the king of the Beastmen of Ferolia, conspired with the wicked Gourmand to manipulate Karl and awaken Kevin's Beastman powers, enraging him as he swears vengeance. Charlotte tries to venture beyond the safety of Wendel in the hopesof finding a means to protect her home from invading Beastmen. Her friend, a priest named Heath, comes to her aid, only for Gourmand to abduct him while he tries to protect her. Hawkeye is framed by the sorceress Isabella for the murder of his best friend, Eagle. Marked for death by Nevarl's Thieves Guild and unable to convince them otherwise due to Isabella's threatening to kill Eagle's sister, Hawkeye is forced into exile. Riesz's younger brother, Elliot, is tricked into removing the protective barrier around their homeland of Laurent, leaving it at the mercy of a Nevrali invasion that results in her father's demise. To make matters worse, Elliot is abducted by the invaders. | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different: The Beastmen, who are a race of their own but very clearly inspired by werewolf mythology. They transform at night, gaining a sizeable attack bonus. This includes Kevin. | |
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Buried Alive | |
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Buried Alive: Karl is revealed to still be alive. | |
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Distressed Dude | |
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Distressed Dude: Elliot is a minor character in Hawkeye/Riesz's path, and the younger brother of Riesz. He gets captured and sold into slavery by the Nevarl thieves during the raid on his castle. Much later, the party learns of Elliot's fate from a slave trader, but Elliot has already been sold to a gentleman with red eyes (hinted to be Malocchio). If Charlotte is in your party, she overhears a sailor mention that the Priest of Light has put up a new, stronger barrier around Wendel to maintain its neutrality. But he used a lot of energy in the process, and has since fallen ill. The only cleric who can heal him is Heath, and it seems he's gone missing... | |
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Hopeless Boss Fight | |
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Kevin's combat tutorial comes when he is forced to fight Karl. The original game gives you a Hopeless Boss Fight because Kevin can't bring himself to kill Karl, gets a Fission Mailed for his efforts, then comes back in wolf form and finishes him off. The remake just has the initial fight, has Karl knock him down afterwards, and Kevin transforms and finishes him in a cutscene. | |
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One-Winged Angel | |
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One-Winged Angel: All three potential final bosses assume a vastly more monstrous form just before battling the heroes. His Dark Majesty takes it a step further by transforming a second time halfway through the fight. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: Hawkeye and Eagle are both Nevarl thieves named after birds. Von Boyage, Von Jour, and Mercie all use variants on French words and phrases for their names, with the German word "von" thrown into the mix with the official English translation of the male members of the family. All three run the game's cannon travel system. | |
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Cutscene Power to the Max | |
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Cutscene Power to the Max: Kevin swims to Jad after playing through his intro. He does not swim at any other point in the game. | |
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