New Secret of Mana

**Werewolf** · 04 Jul 2004, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by animegirl20

Is Unlimited Saga really as bad as everybody says? It looks so awesome from the screenshots, and I see it really cheap everywhere.

It's bad, really bad... I couldn't even get into it, just found it very boring in the story area

**Super-Eggroll** · 04 Jul 2004, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by ShineAqua

Super-Eggroll: Legend of Mana was sexy as all fuck, so why didn't you include pics of that in your example, hmm?! A 2D PS2 game wouldn't look 16-bit at all; it'd look like something my eyeballs would enjoy making love too.

Updated just for you. Had a hard time finding a decent screenshot off of Google that was in focus, but I think that the one a copied and pasted shows off the background art pretty well.

Not debating that it doesn't LOOK good - just that I personally didn't like the townbuilding aspect of it that much. I'd rather just spend my time hacking and slashing cute little bunny-type creatures to death while listening to awesomely orchestrated flute music.

**Shine** · 07 Jul 2004, 05:12 AM

Originally Posted by UltaHolyDragon

I really wouldn't called it sweet. Besides the faults you mentioned (expect for graphics, it brought me back to my Secret of Mana days) other things that sucked was the food planting thing, the leveling system, weapons system, etc. The problem, was that Square tired way too hard to cross Secret and Legend together and it just completely fell apart and the most dissapointing thing was, the story just all out sucked.

The story in Sword did not suck, it was mediocre but it hardly sucked. The graphics clipping and such was just awful, but the battle system was spot on, and the lvl'ing system was the same as it was in SD3 (more or less;) it wasn'y really all that bad. I rather enjoyed it despite all it's faults, I just hope that Brownie Brown gets their act together on their other titles because they were pretty lazy on this title. Then again, who knows, maybe it was Nintendo or Square who forced them to release an unfinished product.

**Frogacuda** · 07 Jul 2004, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by ShineAqua

A 2D PS2 game wouldn't look 16-bit at all; it'd look like something my eyeballs would enjoy making love too.

or perhaps...

**jonas** · 07 Jul 2004, 11:58 AM

Please elaborate.... what are these 2 games?

**Mzo** · 07 Jul 2004, 12:04 PM

That 2nd game is giving me a boner.

**NoFace** · 07 Jul 2004, 12:05 PM

One is a new Tales of game for PS2 (the first set of shots), second is some RPG we'll never see here, with really nice 2D art and (I'm guessing) bad animation.