It's hard to live up the expectations of a great game like Trials Of mana and yet they went and made something even better. Incredibly faithful remake, maps, dialogs, skill progression and many more things are just like they were in the orginal but in a new form.
This time around the game is actually a real Action RPG, the original felt like one but most the action was just getting in and out of range of enemy attacks and didn't even matter against special and magical attacks, here they are AoEs you can dodge out of, as for your characters they can do simple universal combos now and unlock more as you Classchange making the game feel a little bit like a 3D Beat'Em Up and your spells also have AOEs. Progression is so much better, instead gaining one spell at a time as you level up and improving a stat of your choice you are give skill points to allocate how you see fit with added link abilities to unlock and equip, exploring is also worth a damn now since straying from the given path will have you find treasure instead of just encounters. Gone are also all the annoyances of the original, no longer having to wait for spells and skills to play out before you can do something else and even the grind for the 3 Classchange is eased up if you don't want to classchange early. Story is largely the same and it was carried by the playable characters and this time they have a lot of interactions with voices, Angela and Rietz are cuter than ever. Music is also very faithful to the original to the point I can't tell if it's just the same tracks. Companion's AI leaves to be desired but it's still far better than you'd expect.
The game biggest flaw is how easy it is, the original wasn't really hard but it gets aggravating here.
Some of it's due to the fact that you can dodge most special attacks but generally the game has been balanced to be really damn indulgent even on hard, when the game gets hard only in small spikes that aren't that challenging either, if you aren't into the characters and progression the game will fell mindnumbing. Unlike the original the game isn't a high budget production pushing boundaries and it shows, everything outside models doesn't look good and the game is almost janky during certain bosses, hit detection on those is weird and it makes companions not work properly.
Translation is probably fine but they let the translator take too many liberties imo, didn't need to give names to characters who literally don't have them lol.
I don't think the game can satisfy everyone and the lack of difficulty is definetively going to turn people off but this remake is even better than already awesome game, I can't not recommend it.
This time around the game is actually a real Action RPG, the original felt like one but most the action was just getting in and out of range of enemy attacks and didn't even matter against special and magical attacks, here they are AoEs you can dodge out of, as for your characters they can do simple universal combos now and unlock more as you Classchange making the game feel a little bit like a 3D Beat'Em Up and your spells also have AOEs. Progression is so much better, instead gaining one spell at a time as you level up and improving a stat of your choice you are give skill points to allocate how you see fit with added link abilities to unlock and equip, exploring is also worth a damn now since straying from the given path will have you find treasure instead of just encounters. Gone are also all the annoyances of the original, no longer having to wait for spells and skills to play out before you can do something else and even the grind for the 3 Classchange is eased up if you don't want to classchange early. Story is largely the same and it was carried by the playable characters and this time they have a lot of interactions with voices, Angela and Rietz are cuter than ever. Music is also very faithful to the original to the point I can't tell if it's just the same tracks. Companion's AI leaves to be desired but it's still far better than you'd expect.
The game biggest flaw is how easy it is, the original wasn't really hard but it gets aggravating here.
Some of it's due to the fact that you can dodge most special attacks but generally the game has been balanced to be really damn indulgent even on hard, when the game gets hard only in small spikes that aren't that challenging either, if you aren't into the characters and progression the game will fell mindnumbing. Unlike the original the game isn't a high budget production pushing boundaries and it shows, everything outside models doesn't look good and the game is almost janky during certain bosses, hit detection on those is weird and it makes companions not work properly.
Translation is probably fine but they let the translator take too many liberties imo, didn't need to give names to characters who literally don't have them lol.
I don't think the game can satisfy everyone and the lack of difficulty is definetively going to turn people off but this remake is even better than already awesome game, I can't not recommend it.