So much talk about "what makes a Mana game" in there, and yet for me the one thing that made Secret of Mana a game that I cared about was the 3 player co-op that absolutely ruled. Still no indication that this game even has 2 player action. I was super disappointed when I could finally play a fan translation of Seiken Densetsu 3 on PC back in the day and it was only 2 player, and lately I've been increasingly disappointed as everything since has been a single player affair.

Call me crazy, but the series hasn't been great (it's still been good, just shy of great) since the SNES outings and I am really wish they'd get the game back to the multiplayer that made it great.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Whilst your opinion here is totally valid, it's worth knowing that as a coop player of the mana games, you are a very, very small minority of players.

Almost everyone plays these games single-player, so they need to focus on that first. You're right that the secret of mana means coop for a lot of people, but also, it's worth understanding that almost everyone doesn't experience that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

No. Co-op. The rest of the shit is no different from any other carbon copy RPG.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is the real rub here. Without the co-op it's not really anything special, there are even games out there doing Action RPG better these days so I can't imagine why you'd choose to not embrace the couch/online co-op crowd that'd put this back at the head of the pack.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Seriously, I've been dying to find a good couch co-op game and I straight up can't. I'm just gonna get two or three Bluetooth controllers and do secret of mana with my phone.

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