/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10607402]

Worth beating or should I skip to Secret of Mana?

[Anonymous No.10607405]

Play it. It's not very long and it's quite good. It also lives up to the Final Fantasy Gaiden title in Japan. It comes off like they sat in a room and said "We want to make a Final Fantasy that's like Zelda."

[Anonymous No.10607451]

FFA is one of the best GB games. Absolutely worth playing.

[Anonymous No.10607534]

I loved this as a kid, but never got into secret of Mana.
Feels like this has a lot more grit. Your character starts as a slave in a gladiatorial arena, rather than just some kid from a village.

[Anonymous No.10607565]

>>10607534
And your best friend, Willy, dies almost immediately.
There’s a remake for a newer Game Boy, and it doesn’t go nearly as hard.

[Anonymous No.10607586]

Mystic Quest is way better than Secret of Mana in single-player.

[Anonymous No.10607587]

Skip to Secret of Evermore.

[Anonymous No.10607668]

>>10607402
It is actually better than SoM and one of the best action rpg ever made.

[Anonymous No.10607730]

>>10607402
Skip it so you dont realize what a downgraded dumpsterfire SoM is.

[Anonymous No.10607894]

It's the best Mana game.

[Anonymous No.10607929]

I remember this game being soul-crushingly depressing (even the music). Is my memory wrong?

[Anonymous No.10608000]

>>10607929
It does get pretty melancholic to the point even the protag starts questioning the point of it all. The ending is rather bittersweet too.

[Anonymous No.10608013]

>>10607929
It has some FF4 vibe going on around, you are right.

[Anonymous No.10608019]

https://legendsoflocalization.com/final-fantasy-adventure/
https://legendsoflocalization.com/seiken-densetsu-1-scrapped-ideas-dev-comments/
https://youtu.be/q4XBYW9khCE?list=PL8fufren85t8UH2Q-iejoE8U3-_VqIkW3

[Anonymous No.10608248]

>>10607929
It's mostly the music's fault. Even the opening theme sounds dispirited. I waited for mecha Bogard to swoop in but that would have been too upbeat I guess.

[Anonymous No.10608706]

I still have my physical copy.

[Anonymous No.10608714]

>>10608706
me too, only as a Bong mine is "Mystic Quest". Lost the map though.

[Anonymous No.10608719]

>>10608714
Ah, I only got the cartridge – my uncle used to clean out foreclosed homes back in the early 00’s and he had given me a handful of loose Game Boy games and accessories he had found, which included FF Adventure, and Legends I and III.

[Anonymous No.10608720]

>>10607565
If you mean Sword of Mana, that one felt so much slower and it never felt like I was actually progressing in strength. There was also a second remake for mobile that's much closer to the original Game Boy game in design.

[Anonymous No.10608942]

>>10608248
The boss theme goes hard though.
https://youtu.be/tTFclvgbHFc?si=vEg_1G5xkqO3xdWn

[Anonymous No.10608954]

>>10608720
I saw footage of it and you would think they at least fix the awful NPC AI but no. It's so cheap even for phone game standards.

[Anonymous No.10609306]

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[Anonymous No.10609443]

It's better

[Anonymous No.10609868]

I played FF Adventure III and enjoyed it immensely as a kid. Haven't played it since, and I'm worried it doesn't hold up. Are the previous two games worth checking out?

[Anonymous No.10610125]

>>10609868
You are confusing Legend with Adventure

[Anonymous No.10610208]

You know, I just realized that the first three Mana games follow the same tragicomedy formula where the heroes are consistently beaten around by the antagonists only to end with a bittersweet note.

[Anonymous No.10611112]

It was a decent game. I remember getting stuck in a dungeon though and never figuring out how to progress. I think I had a bugged cart.