Visions of Mana

ストーリーやシステム、UIに関しては他の方が述べているので、自分は別方向からレビューしてみようと思います。 シリーズ初プレイ、全実績解除済み、99レベル到達済みです。 このゲームはUnreal Engine製なので、UEVRを使ってVR環境でプレイ出来るので、最初から最後までほぼVRでプレイしてみました。 デフォルト設定だと画面がボケるので、resolution scaleの数値を1.3倍くらいにしてあげると輪郭がハッキリしてきます。 で、だいたい全体の90%ぐらいは問題なくプレイできます。 まず良い点は、 360度見渡せる圧倒的没入感のセミオープンフィールド。屋根の上のクマミツ等、フィールドに存在するアイテムがかなり見つけやすくなります。 そして美麗なグラフィック。この手の絵柄はVRでは貴重です。 また、地形の高さや位置、奥行きがよく分かるので、2段ジャンプ+空中ダッシュ時の着地点が把握しやすいです。何気にこのゲームは空中パルクールが多いんですよね。 次にキャラクター、特にイベントシーン。これも3D表示されます。場面によってはキャラクターにキス出来るんじゃないかというぐらいに近づいてくれるので、見てて楽しいです。 ちなみに見えない「枠」の中でキャラクターが演技するわけですが、こちらは360度の視界なので枠「外」も見えてしまい、画面を横切るキャラクターの上半身は歩いているのに本来画面外で見えないはずの下半身は止まったままでススーっとスライドしていくような、まるで「舞台裏」も一緒にみている気分になってちょっと笑えます。 他の方のレビューで、ムービーの後に少し歩いてまたムービーが嫌だという意見がそこそこありますが、VRだと、逆に「全部ムービーで良いよ！」というぐらいに見ててテンション上がります。 さながら凄く高品質なVRChatといった感じ。 場面切り替えで画面が暗転するシーンでは、いつも主人公が画面の外で奈落の底に落ちていくお茶目な姿が見られます（映るのは一瞬ですが）。 あとSP消費の技を使う時にキャラが一瞬アップになるのですが、あれも目の前に表示されるので美形キャラがもの凄く近い！ ザコ敵相手についついぶっ放しちゃいます。 ついでに精霊器を初めて装備した時の演出も、まるで舞台で1人だけスポットライトが当たったような感じでカッコいいです。何度でも見ていたいけど、あれ一度しか表示されないんですよね。残念。 あ、そうそう、キャラのセリフの字幕は設定でオフ推奨です。没入感があがりますし、そもそもキャラと被るので目が疲れます。 そしてボスキャラのデカさも圧倒的スケール感でVR化してくれてます。 マジでデカいです。平面スクリーンでは「ああ、うん、そこそこデカいボスだね」と思ってたボスが、VRだと「やべーデカさだ！」になります。戦闘が非常に楽しいです。 とまぁ良いところはこんな感じです。 では次に問題点ですが… 滝、水の反射、太陽光のフレア等、一部の画面上の特殊効果が左右の目で違うので、マジマジと見てると目が疲れます。じっと見なければ問題無い程度です。 ただし、7章の風の社だけは全編スモークがかかった感じになって、VRではマトモにプレイ出来ません。ここだけ平面スクリーンでプレイしましょう。 戦闘中のリングコマンド選択時に、何故か背景が真っ黒になります。攻撃対象が誰だか分からなくなります。使えない訳じゃ無いから連続詠唱とか普通に使えるけど、著しく没入感が削がれてしまいます。ショートカットだけだと中盤以降はキツイんですよね。これは直しようが無さそうなので我慢するしか無いです。そもそもリングコマンド自体、戦闘を中断しちゃうからあまり好きでは無いのですが。 クエスト対象者のびっくりマークや完成マークの位置が微妙に分かりにくいです。なまじ立体感が有るだけに、あれ？ もうちょっと奥かな？ 手前かな？ と悩むこともしばしば。ただ、コレは慣れてくるとだいたい分かるようになるので、そこまで気にすることでも無いです。 メニュー画面（装備選択画面）は、ちょっとキャラクターが奥に行きすぎてて、平面スクリーンに慣れてるとびっくりします。こういう仕様だと思えばなんて事ありません。 こんな所でしょうか。 VRになっただけで非常に満足度の高いゲームになりました。SteamDeckの小さな画面でプレイするより60インチのTVでプレイした方が没入感が高くなるように、VRになる事でそのさらに上の極上の没入感が得られるのです。 ラストのヴァル爺のシーンでは不覚にもホロリと来てしまいました。 とまあVRとしての感想はここまでです。 メーカーさんには公式にVR版を作って欲しいです。ていうか作れるよね？ いやいやそもそも制作チームのみんなにVRとしてプレイして欲しい。MODが嫌なのは分かりますが！ 世間では「感情移入出来ないストーリー」と言われてますが、そもそもどんなに優れた映画やアニメ、小説、マンガ、ゲーム等でも、「他人の物語を第三者が外から眺めているだけ」なのには変わりがないと思います。 他の物語で感情移入してる人たちは、「感情移入してると脳が思い込んでいる」だけに過ぎないと思います。つまり脳が騙されてるだけ。 VRでもよく騙されるでしょ。触れないのに触れた感じになる、とか、高所にいる訳じゃないのに高所の映像でビビるとか。 だから自分は、感情移入なんてそもそも出来ないものとして全てのエンタメに接してます。 そんなわけで今作の物語も、「ああ、そういう社会もあるのかー」といった感じで受け入れたので、結構楽しめました。 ていうかゲームなんて頭空っぽにして楽しんだもの勝ちじゃないでしょうか。 ただ個人的には、全員が魂を捧げたIfストーリーも見たかったです。君たち泣かずにお別れ出来るのか、と。 あとPC版の利点としていくつかのMODを推奨します。 街での2段ジャンプを可能にするヤツと、キャラがアップになっても消えないヤツ、そして物語が終盤になったら、ファーストトラベルが全大陸に出来るヤツを。 コレで旅が快適になります。

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Visions of Mana has been a fun and campy ride. Its art style fits well with the series aesthetics styling but was definitely designed around last generation hardware unfortunately. This is a PS4 game through and through. There is a lack of modernized rendering with non-existent DLSS and Ray Tracing options. Most egregiously, you'll be met with loading screens...loading screens in a 2024 title! The combat inst phenomenal but its good enough to keep things fun. World design is pretty solid and fun to roam around, partly due to its art style. It gives the world a whimsical feel to it. The story and dialog have just been mediocre but then again, this has been an industry wide problem. I will say that many of the dialog scenes just break the game's pacing which was largely solved by other techniques in other titles from square in the past. Walk 10 steps, have a dialog cut scene, walk 10 more steps, here is another dialog cut scene. Are characters in this world not able to walk and talk at the same time? Can it all be done better? Absolutely. I wish this game had a larger budget but I feel like this was Square testing the water with an older series and so far, its delivered and enjoyable experience to me.

Visions of Mana is a shell of game. It is shallow in almost every respect and gives you zero motivation in ANY of its aspects to keep playing. The best thing I can say is "It looks pretty and runs well". [h1] Introduction [/h1] On first sight, this may look like an ARPG on the level of Granblue Fantasy Relink or even one of the "Tales of" games, which is what drew my interest into it. It does also very much try to play like these games too and have a similar over arching story to hook you in. Usually you keep playing these types of games for one of two things, the story or the gameplay. Visions of Mana fails hard in both these regards, which is likely a result of rushing this game out the door. It is worth mentioning that I only spent 9 hours with this game, waiting it for to "get good", since I held out some faith, sometimes these games just have slow starts, but it never got good and things were so horrendously shallow, I lost patience. If I ever revisit the game, I may update this review if things change. [h1] Story [/h1] The story centers around you, the soul guard! And oh boy, will you let everyone know you are the soul guard. You guide some magical chosen people to sacrifice their lives at the Mana tree so the world doesn't explode for _mana related reasons_. That's all the overarching plot you get for the first 9 hours really, no antagonist, no conflict, no nothing. You meet 4 characters if your first 9 hours of the game, all very shallow, all very contrived as well. It feels like you should have met these characters much more slowly, with some sort of dungeon exploring them or their story. There are EXCEEDINGLY shallow attempts at this. The most comical one is when you meet the princess of some city, she must leave since she has to sacrifice herself for the _mana tree_ and oh noes, if her little brother takes the throne there's this evil cousin who will rule the city in _evil ways_, generic stuff. You resolve this conflict by wandering one map up from where you entered the city, legit jump down ONE HOLE, the evil cousin is just chilling in some watery cave. You'd think he'd sick his knights on you, but no, apparently he is friends with RANDOM ANGRY BOSS CRAB who he somehow hand waves to eat you. You stab this crabs eyes out a bit (not joking) and you're done, conflict resolved. Takes less than 45 minutes in total to do this arc, including cutscenes. This is how ALL the sub plots are handled thus far, for each character. Shallow, empty and it strongly feels like there should have been way more here, but it was obviously cut. This is the one example of the many. After this the main "hook" of the story is meant to happen I guess? Protagonist's girlfriend be like "omg, i think i do not want2die D:" so of course man comes along "ohohoho, maybe I can make you not die for MANA TWEE", she goes "oh rly 0:" so you and your gurlfren go into a remote island, telling none of your companions, walk into a ominous circle, asking absolutely no questions of this guy and oh em gee, gurlfren ded, sad music plays, protagonist scream "I TRUSTED UUUUUUU". The story earns none of this, since there's no reason to care about these characters at all, they've had some MINOR banter and if there had been just.. "more" then perhaps it'd be cliché, but it'd be _something_. The character that game ends the protagonist's girlfriend doesn't even make sense. You've met him through the story, he even shares some heartfelt details of himself, and says he picked you because "he reminds you of him and his girlfriend", so then he just randomly murders yours??? Makes zero sense, maybe it does later, but I don't care to find out. There is more that can be said here on the shallowness of the story, but I'll leave it at that. [h1] Gameplay [/h1] So the story is snoozeville, but at least I can bonk some monsties and trigger that caveman dopamine!? (_He eagerly thought to himself_) [h2] Exploration [/h2] The areas in this game are very pretty and nicely designed and you have almost zero reason to explore them! They make attempts by peppering chests on the map, (very few) combat shrines. But the chests are beyond disappointing, they all contain the most boring items. No exaggeration, most chests contain small amounts of money or a generic HP consumable, that's it. The painful part of this is that there is small collectibles on the map that respawn and they have a decent chance of containing... THE SAME PIECES OF CANDY YOU GET ALL YOUR CHESTS, so why am I running around the highly spread out chests on the map only to be rewarded with things that are so easily farmable from respawnable resources??? What a waste of time. Sometimes these chests contain "seeds", which, can be, vaguely interesting. I'll expand more on those later. There's also another collectible of some sort of "gew" for a special item shop. That gives... HP consumables and permanent stat raising items.. yay? This gives an attempt at some motivation to explore the map, but rewards you with almost useless or boring things, so I just wanted to just skip exploring any map and each new map was a chore to collect the chests. [h2] Combat [/h2] Combat feels nice. Attacks feel satisfying to hit, enemies fly across the arena as you hit them, the controls are slightly clunky in some areas and that's the nicest set of things I can say. I played this game on the hardest available difficulty at the beginning and it really stresses how the AI internally runs off of two goldfish on a BBQ grill. They will constantly die, sometimes at the very start of fights 2 seconds in, they don't dodge ANYTHING. That crab boss I mentioned earlier has this big glowing red attack that attacks most the area, my two NPC's see the big red, slow, glowing area and like a cat to a laser point, THEY RUN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ARENA, get hit and insta die. Your teammates are mere suggestions in this game. You can modify their AI to prioritise defence and etc. I found this made some, but little difference and it's really down to the luck of which way your two little goldfish are facing on that BBQ grill. Beyond bad AI, each character has I think 8? Different elements they can equip, these give you new abilities, weapons and spells. They're quite interesting, all visually distinct and.. shallow. There's a single line of abilities, 12 in total, per element. You're rolling in the "points" needed to level these up, but are gated behind story to unlock more abilities and you're given them at a glacial pace. Characters without them feel utterly useless. You don't learn any spells or upgrades naturally through levelling. No way to "build" them, stuck with a simple linear combo. Now you can get "seeds" which are somewhat interesting, I guess? They can come from (rarely) chests, side quests, combat shrines etc. They can give you spells, like fireball and thunder, even heal, I got a total of those 3 in my 9 hours whoopeee! The rest of the seeds are boring stat upgrades 10% extra attack, defence etc. Sometimes something more impactful like 20% extra crit chance, but again.. boring. Again there's a basis here for something that could be great, add a bit more depth and it could be _something_. But right now, your AI companions are a mere suggestion, "seeds" are boring, you get no abilities for most characters 9 hours in, most mobs in the game just get stun locked by you infinitely and you insta-win. Bosses look nice, but are mechanically flat too. [h1] Conclusion [/h1] Overall, this came is painfully shallow and boring. It's like the skeleton of this game was built, main idea for story, combat and etc. They implemented them and just never developed them into anything beyond minimum viable product. I recommend getting Granblue Fantasy, or any of the "Tales of" games in substitute, if you're looking for an ARPG that does these things well, or even great.

18年振りに出た聖剣伝説完全新作は、シリーズらしさの凝縮されたものだった。 聖剣3リメイクの流れを大きく汲んでおり、クラスチェンジ・必殺技・道中の仲間会話などを採用。 3と違いチェンジは不可逆ではないので、気軽に様々なクラスを試せる。 ポイントを振って様々なスキルを取得し、自分なりの戦術を構築していくのが楽しい。 戦闘も3リメイク同様にアクション性が高く、プレイヤースキルが如実に反映され爽快感がある。 オープンワールド並に広大な世界は探索のし甲斐があり、ファストトラベルや高速移動などユーザビリティも完備。 グラフィックも美麗で、美しい景観の数々に圧倒される。 仲間キャラも魅力的で愛着が湧き、ストーリーも聖剣伝説らしく切なく涙を誘う感動的なもの。 8精霊・フェアリー・ワッツ・ニキータ・フルメタルハガーなど お馴染みのキャラが多数登場し、シリーズファンへのサービスも豊富。 難点としてはボス前にセーブポイントがないことがあり、オートセーブの頻度も少ないのでデスペナルティがやや重い。 リングコマンドやメニュー画面など一部の操作が直感的ではなく、慣れにくい。 といった点が挙げられるが、全体的には万人に勧められる良作である。

어릴적 sfc성검3를 접하고 jrpg대표작이라고 하면 성검전설이 제일 먼저 떠올랐는데.. 파이널판타지는 엄청 발전하는 동안 같은 스퀘어 에닉스에서 파판 외전으로 나온 작품이면서 게임 총괄 한명 사라졌다고 이렇게 망겜이 될 줄은 상상도 못했네요. 일단 제일 맘에 안드는 건 스토리가 무슨 인신공양 가면서 사람들이 무슨 와 좋겠다~ 이러는 게 옛날에 국방의 의무 축하해~ 이러는 거 같아서 제일 역겨웠음 더 말하면 스포 될까봐 못말하겠는데 중간중간에 나오는 악당들이 오히려 맞는 말만 하고 주인공부터 비롯해서 모든 마을 사람들이 다 머리 정신상태가 이상해요. 인신공양 갔던 자기 자식이 잠시 마을에 돌아와도 반겨주기는커녕 왜 왔냐 이러고있고 스토리는 도대체 누가 쓴거인가요? 정신병원에서 공모해서 받은 건가요? 그리고 버그도 심각하네요. 여러 버그가 있지만 제일 심각했던 버그가 성검전설은 인공지능 동료까지 합쳐서 3명이서 하는 게 국룰인데 나중에 최종장에서 보스 잡는데 동료들 합류 안돼서 혼자서 싸웠음ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 동료들 없으면 정령기도 쓸 수가 없고 필살기도 안가더라구요. 밖에서 동료들 멀뚱멀뚱 그냥 쳐다보기만 하고 이 버그가 제일 짜증났습니다. 성검전설5라고 해서 기대 많이 했었는데 개인적으로는 레전드오브마나보다 더 최악이라고 생각하는 작품이네요. 스토리 중요시 하는 분들은 웬만해서는 하지 않으셨으면 좋겠습니다. 저는 게임하면서 첨부터 끝까지 주인공들 마인드를 절대 이해 못했어요.

[spoiler] Final Fantasy 10 all over again [/spoiler]

A solid old school JRPG with some gorgeous visuals presented intermittently. There is nothing spectacular about this game, but if you're looking for a decent 25 hour fantasy jrpg with at times beautiful anime inspired, very colourful visuals, check this out on sale. The writing isn't very strong and the budget shows in the awkward facial animations and lip synching. What carried me through the opening hours of the game were the lovable characters. I found the relationship between Val and Hinna, the two lead protagonists, to be so heart warming. I really appreciate when jrpg love interests are blatant about their affection for each other and don't spend the entire game turning their face away to blush awkwardly because their hands accidentally brushed against each other or another character mentioned how close they seem. I also thought that Careena, another party member you meet early, was incredibly charming from start to finish. Another late game party member made me chuckle a lot but i think responses will vary on that one, many might find him annoying. Combat is solid, took some hours to get fun, but when it does it can be pretty engaging. I love the class system, one of my favourite things about the game. The armour designs for the classes are cool, gives the game that old school final fantasy feel. Some fun boss fights are in here, and some great designs at that. The enemy design has this Dragon Quest feel to it. The difficulty is pretty easy on normal, didn't game over once, so play on hard if you need a challenge. The music had this very nostalgic vibe to it, anyone else got hints of Golden Sun in some tracks? The plot felt like a call back to the fantasy jrpg adventures of old, complete with the level up screens accompanied by familiar chimes and jingles. TLDR: Anyways, very solid game, quire charming at times. If you're a fan of the genre and have already played the other more critically acclaimed JRPGs out there, cop it on sale. I also got a big old school vibe from it, so long time JRPG buffs may like it even more. If you aren't already a fan of the genre however, I doubt this would be the one to change your mind.

Overall, I enjoyed this game, although I debated whether to gives a thumbs up or down... 6/10 I suppose. The gameplay is pretty solid as far as the genre goes, a fair bit of customization for characters, a fair bit of side activity and some of it is kind of fun or challenging...although the replayability is very limited compared to something like Trials of Mana. Don't play this game if you like good narratives or are expecting a Mana-style story, though, nor if you are trying to connect the lore among the games. I didn't expect anything FF-level or anything, but the narrative is full of nonsense holes, incredibly illogical powers, and unsatisfying or even frustrating decisions (or indecisions) -- easily the weakest in the entire series in my opinion, by a large margin. Only one of the main five party could I feel any sort of connection with and it wasn't the main one; I prefer the less-vocal old protagonists (e.g. Secret) to this nonsense. Various 'lore' junk in this one kind of complicates any timelines or connections people would try to make with other Mana games, which is already not easy...annoying, but not really that negative...maybe not unexpected. Somehow, the devs found a way to make flying around a world map HORRIBLE, also, it's crazy! I loved cruising around at top speed in FF games, other Mana games, or anything where you can fly freely, but in this one, if you touch a low-visibility landing point, it stops you cold and asks if you want to land...3rd most infuriating thing in the game. In spite of all the effort you may put into making 1 party member a tank and attract aggro, it simply won't work on later bosses and they'll always go after whoever you control. 2nd most infuriating thing in the ga--INTERRUPTED, KNOCKED DOWN, haha good luck playing a caster casually. All-in-all, the gameplay and figuring out what classes sucked or worked or how to synergize was pretty fun and the nemesis enemies and bosses were pretty good in spite of the aggro thing...fun enough for a thumbs up in spite of my disappointment at the story. -------SLIGHT SPOILER TERRITORY------- Back to the weak story - one of the worst parts for me is that I've come to expect a Mavolia/Anise/etc. tie in to explain where the villain gets their power...the main villain here gained its powers through mary sue writing, basically, or whatever the inverse of shonen-style guts/willpower/plot armor is. The villains have never been terribly complex in Mana, and it's no different here, although it feels like the writers thought they were making one (that's the best way I can think to put it). Still...I relate to the villain more than the main character...he is insufferable in my opinion...every decision he makes angered me further and... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ENDING SPOILER, please don't read if you're going to play xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ENDING SPOILER, please don't read if you're going to play xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ENDING SPOILER, please don't read if you're going to play xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ...the ending sucks because he's a moron and his friends and everyone around him at DECISION TIME are all morons and have no idea how powerful a mcguffin the sword is. Seriously, after all he went through and all the stupid crap he failed to do to save the one he claimed to love (literally 3 REALLY good chances), he let her go and remarried but screwed that lady over too by holding onto the first one the whole time (amulet), what a scumbag piece of garbage he is. He deserved the villain's pain, not the one who was the villain. #1 most infuriating thing in the game, the final nail that made me STRONGLY consider thumbs downing.