Visions of Mana

A cute game with a touching story, and a near never ending supply of side quests. xD

I love the Mana games. This one is so much fun!

This game is the perfect love letter to the old 16bit era Mana games, Seiken Densetsu II and II (Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana). It really has the feeling of what it would be like to play those old games when they are updated by modern graphics and story!! This game is GORGEOUS!!! The game is familiar, thanks to the story beats, enemy designs, art style, and soundtrack. It's just like playing Secret of Mana all over again! Some people may find this game antiquated but I miss this style of gaming in modern games. The story is concise, precise, and it doesn't overstay it's welcome. Some people may not like the 90s style collectathon element but I love how it encourages exploration. The play control is good for those platforming elements too!! I appreciate how grinding is minimised by the presence of special challenges. The character upgrade system is also super cool! It's really in depth for anyone who wants to spend time fussing with it! For me personally, this is a 9.7/10 experience. IF you love old SNES and PSOne style ARPGs and JRPGs, give this a try. It will not disappoint.

good game

visions of mana is one of those games where your going to like it or have mixed feelings on it since steam doesnt have a middle of the road button ive down voted it. but will go the pros Huge and beautiful graphics character designs are nice combat is fine. bug free for the most part npcs can get lost a bit but will teleport. but turn off fsr as it can make the models look pixelated. quite easy to figuire out the controls. cons horrendous camera which causes certain ways to get up to levels with it are a chore. can enter high level area zones called ruins which at the start your like level 1 yet the monsters inside a ruin are level 52. close to end game. i am 1/3 into the game and just got to level 19. chapter 3 though the game itself has a level of 13 at this point. levelling up is a royal pain. the game knows its a grind as it has buffs to help with levelling its not as atrocious as tales of arise. but arise had better character complexity. 1 npc healing takes ages to respond. large game world with sod all in it. chests are lackluster. mainly healing items. you will develop ptsd to the world GRIZZLY !!! as Val our protag gathers honey syrup. and wont shut up lol. middle of the road pro/con thus far all the characters went to sunday school even the villians and cant swear to save there life ( literally). update after playing 29 hours some extra review. the story actually starts to properly gain traction around 15 hrs in still holds your hands and enemys are still saints that dont so much as swear. however someone in animation forgot to animate well the lips of some of the dialogue cut scenes whoops. starts to get more noticable after chapter 3-4 that some bugs start to become evident. certain boss fights can cause screen tearing because so much is going on. at max settings 1440p the game is very pretty, as stated the storys ok its pretty generic. characters are also ok but dumb as bricks kind of like those scenes from dragonballz when a enemy is transforming its kind of this is happening now. stability the game isnt to bad to run. however this game is quite cpu intensive ryzen 5700x and above. at very least a 8 core for smoothness. specs of my system 5900x 64gb ddr4 4070 super getting roughly 144- occasionally dips to 130 in large battles. gpu is being fully used.

Fun game with plenty of quality of life features.

Une bonne expérience nostalgique remise au standards actuels, mais sans plus. Les graphisme ( en particulier les environnement) sont vraiment beaux et variés, cependant le reste du jeu laisse tout de même a désirer, le scénario ( bien que plus sombre que ce que le jeu laisse initiallement penser) n'est pas très captivant; mais les personnages restent cependant attachant. Les musiques sont sympa mais sans plus, le système de jeu devient vite rébarbatif hormis en post game qui se fini bien trop vite (biensur le NG+ existe avec le mode expert si l'on voit profiter pleinement de son optimisation de personnage mais a quoi bon..). En difficile le jeu a quelques "pics" très facilement franchissable... Les quêtes secondaires sont rarement ( voir jamais) intéressantes, et la gestion des objectifs dans le journal est une corvée ( impossible de suivre plusieurs quêtes en même temps, impossible d'allez sur le menu des quêtes sur la Worldmap...) En résumé un jeu sympa, sans plus. Un gros plaisir de revoir un jeu Mana c'est sûr, mais si l'on omet son bel emballage et la nostalgie le jeu est tout simplement moyen. A conseiller à ceux qui aiment la série principalement...