Visions of Mana

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.

The actual gameplay is a blast. The entire rest of the game is a tragedy. Extremely uninspiring class changes, wide open maps sparingly populated by useless chests and sidequests with insignificant rewards, a story that would give Saturday morning cartoons secondhand embarrassment, and the worst music a Mana game has ever had. With the audacity to sell a 20 dollar "Classic BGM" dlc pack. If you do pick this game up, do yourself a favor and play straight through. Don't get distracted by all the shiny little exclamation points. Also, they seemed to be under the impression Niccolo was a cat.

Visions of Mana is not bad but unfortunately no masterpiece wait for a sale and give it a try. Just to name a couple of examples. 80% of the chests in the game are pointless and worthless. There's always just money or a healing item, rarely a weapon or something valuable in a chest. 90% of the sidequests are also just useless stuff. Money in particular is so worthless because there's nothing you have to buy, apart from the occasional weapon or armor. There are also far too few weapons in the three categories for each character, and there are also no special abilities on the weapons. So you always only choose weapons that deal a bit more damage. It's the same with armor. It's a shame that there are no accessories or multiple armor pieces. Only minimal effort was put into cosmetics, in the form of a single cosmetic DLC. In the game, you can only change clothes by changing classes, and unfortunately, they look very boring. You can't expect anything more from Square Enix. The fact that the employees who work there seem to dislike their jobs could be down to company policy, because their ideas aren't valued, or they just don't like the games they produce in general.

非常好建模、渲染、BGM，非常烂剧情，文明开化程度也不低了还喜欢搞定期献祭，肩负拯救世界护送神子的使命居然还脑子一热信了个一看就没长好人脸的NPC胡话去私奔，甚至不打算和队友知会一声，你发小也是仁至义尽，死了没做鬼也不放过你居然还一路守护永相随爱你到死永不变，真是JRPG的精精又髓髓，一群经历童年创伤但实际阳光开朗活泼友善积极向上的健人，大喊着什么友谊啊羁绊啊守护世界啊守护笑容啊，就摆脱创伤抛瓦大爆发给小小反派小反派大反派一拳干翻了

I recommend it if you want an improvement to Trials of Mana's gameplay. Feels more responsive and the build variety is still there. I do not recommend it if you want a good story. The story hook and drop off is right at the very beginning. Right at the introduction. I was hook and then the following 2 cutscene it drops off and starts to make you wonder wow they could have just followed through with what happened right at the beginning instead of this huge swing to happy go lucky folks cheering at there family members and neighbors being sacrificed instead of asking why. Story just continues tumbling on. Thankfully the director got picked up by SE so there is a potential for a future Mana games. The art style of Mana games have always been one of my favorites. I hope if there is another game that they will learn from this excuse of a story.

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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。

Overall a pretty satisfying JRPG. The combat and job system arent very complex, but it offers just enough spice for it to be enjoyable throughout the game. It does seem to have trouble with distributing these abilities at the right time though. Some cool ability seeds you get well past the point where they might've been useful, and the best passives each job has to offer you are locked until post game and effectively new game plus expert mode, which is kind of a bummer. By the time you get the choice to use your base job to mix and match passives and weapons to your liking to create your own unique builds, theres no reason to. Platforming is also surprisingly fun for this kind of game. The ability to do unlimited air dashes gives it an almost Mario Odyssey like feel with how you can circumvent the correct path. Story and characters are fine, not great but not terrible. If I had to describe it I would say it feels like a light PG rated Final Fantasy 10. Voice acting overall is pretty good, especially if you just got done playing Trials of Mana. Jesus, Its like hearing good voice acting for the first time again with how much of a mess that game was. Best part hands down though are its visuals. Out of all the games ive played with an anime inspired art style, this one takes the cake for being the most beautiful and its not even close. When you're standing in an open field seeing the vast landscape stretch out before you, it is absolutely GORGEOUS. Ive lost count of the amount of times I just stopped and gazed at the environment around me in awe. Every frame a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ painting man, its truly top grade stuff. I came away from this game pretty happy I experienced it. Not one of my favorite JRPG's out there, but still a good game in its own right with plenty of love put into it...Its just too bad the developers all got laid off the SAME DAY this game came out. Christ the gaming industry sucks ass.

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