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[[File:Smana.PNG|thumb|left|The standard overhead view. The party's attack strength and remaining [[Health (game mechanic)|health]] is shown in the gauges at the bottom.]]
[[File:Smana.PNG|thumb|left|The standard overhead view. The party's attack strength and remaining [[Health (game mechanic)|health]] is shown in the gauges at the bottom.]]
As common with role-playing games of the [[16-bit era]], ''Secret of Mana'' is comprised entirely of a [[top-down perspective]], in which three [[player character]]s &mdash; the hero, the girl, and the [[Sprite (creature)|sprite]] &mdash; navigate the terrain and fight off hostile creatures. Control may be passed between each of the characters at any time; if the hero is currently selected, his two companions are controlled via [[Game artificial intelligence|artificial intelligence]], and vice-versa. The game may be played simultaneously by two or three players.<ref name="RPGFan">{{cite web | author=Dancin' Homer | title=RPGFan Reviews - Secret of Mana | url=http://rpgfan.com/reviews/secretofmana/Secret_of_Mana.html | work=RPGFan.com | accessdate=2008-12-24}}</ref><ref name="RPGamer">{{cite web | author=Campbell, Greg | title=Secret of Mana - Retroview | url=http://www.rpgamer.com/games/sd/som/reviews/somrdrev2.html | work=RPGamer.com | accessdate=2008-12-24}}</ref> In order to support three players, a [[SNES Multitap|Super Multitap]] accessory must be plugged into the second controller port of the Super Nintendo console.<ref name="NPower_1">[[Nintendo Power]] Vol 54, 1994-05</ref> The [[Virtual Console]] version of the game supports 3-player gameplay with the use of additional [[GameCube]] controllers or [[Classic Controller]]s.<ref name="vc_ign">{{cite web | author=Thomas, Lucas M. | title=RPGFan Secret of Mana (Virtual Console) - A 16-bit Squaresoft classic comes to the Virtual Console, where its three-man multiplayer mode is easier to experience than ever before | url=http://wii.ign.com/articles/919/919126p1.html | work=IGN.com | accessdate=2008-12-24}}</ref>
Like many other role-playing games of the [[16-bit era]], ''Secret of Mana'' is comprised entirely of a [[top-down perspective]], in which three [[player character]]s &mdash; the hero, the girl, and the [[Sprite (creature)|sprite]] &mdash; navigate the terrain and fight off hostile creatures. Control may be passed between each of the characters at any time; if the hero is currently selected, his two companions are controlled via [[Game artificial intelligence|artificial intelligence]], and vice-versa. The game may be played simultaneously by two or three players.<ref name="RPGFan">{{cite web | author=Dancin' Homer | title=RPGFan Reviews - Secret of Mana | url=http://rpgfan.com/reviews/secretofmana/Secret_of_Mana.html | work=RPGFan.com | accessdate=2008-12-24}}</ref><ref name="RPGamer">{{cite web | author=Campbell, Greg | title=Secret of Mana - Retroview | url=http://www.rpgamer.com/games/sd/som/reviews/somrdrev2.html | work=RPGamer.com | accessdate=2008-12-24}}</ref> In order to support three players, a [[SNES Multitap|Super Multitap]] accessory must be plugged into the second controller port of the Super Nintendo console.<ref name="NPower_1">[[Nintendo Power]] Vol 54, 1994-05</ref> The [[Virtual Console]] version of the game supports 3-player gameplay with the use of additional [[GameCube]] controllers or [[Classic Controller]]s.<ref name="vc_ign">{{cite web | author=Thomas, Lucas M. | title=RPGFan Secret of Mana (Virtual Console) - A 16-bit Squaresoft classic comes to the Virtual Console, where its three-man multiplayer mode is easier to experience than ever before | url=http://wii.ign.com/articles/919/919126p1.html | work=IGN.com | accessdate=2008-12-24}}</ref>


Each character possesses individual strengths and weaknesses: The hero, while unable to use magic, excels at fighting and masters weapons at a quicker rate; the girl functions as healer, able to cast restorative and support spells; lastly, the sprite's magic is almost entirely offensive, but he is ill-suited for melee combat.<ref name="vc_ign"/> Upon collecting enough [[experience point]]s in battle, each character can increase in level to gain improved stats such as strength and evasion. The trio can find refuge in a town, where they can regain [[Health (gaming)|hit points]] or purchase restorative items and equipment. Options such as changing equipment, casting [[Magic (gaming)|spells]], or checking status are performed by cycling through the game's Ring Commands, a circular menu which hovers over the currently-controlled party member.<ref name="NPower_1"/><ref name="RPGamer"/><ref name="vc_ign"/> The game is momentarily paused whenever the Ring Commands appear.
Each character possesses individual strengths and weaknesses: The hero, while unable to use magic, excels at fighting and masters weapons at a quicker rate; the girl functions as healer, able to cast restorative and support spells; lastly, the sprite's magic is almost entirely offensive, but he is ill-suited for melee combat.<ref name="vc_ign"/> Upon collecting enough [[experience point]]s in battle, each character can increase in level to gain improved stats such as strength and evasion. The trio can find refuge in a town, where they can regain [[Health (gaming)|hit points]] or purchase restorative items and equipment. Options such as changing equipment, casting [[Magic (gaming)|spells]], or checking status are performed by cycling through the game's Ring Commands, a circular menu which hovers over the currently-controlled party member.<ref name="NPower_1"/><ref name="RPGamer"/><ref name="vc_ign"/> The game is momentarily paused whenever the Ring Commands appear.

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Secret of Mana
Developer(s)Square
Publisher(s)Square (Super NES)
Square Enix (Virtual Console)
Designer(s)Koichi Ishii (director, chief game design)
Hiromichi Tanaka (producer, concept/system design)
Nasir Gebelli (lead programming)
Artist(s)Yutaka Izubuchi (character design)
Akira Ueda (background and map design)
Composer(s)Hiroki Kikuta
SeriesMana
Platform(s)Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Virtual Console
ReleaseSNES
Virtual Console
Genre(s)Action role-playing game
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer, cooperative

Secret of Mana, known in Japan as Seiken Densetsu 2 (聖剣伝説2, Seiken Densetsu Tsū, lit. "The Legend of the Holy Sword 2"), is an action role-playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System developed and published by Square in 1993. In 2008, the game was re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console. Secret of Mana is the sequel to Final Fantasy Adventure for the Game Boy and the second installment in the Mana video game series.

Rather than using the traditional turn-based battle system of games like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, Secret of Mana utilizes real-time battles akin to the Legend of Zelda series, also employing typical RPG elements and a unique "Ring Command" menu system. With its brightly-colored graphics, expansive plot, innovative cooperative multiplayer gameplay, and acclaimed soundtrack by Hiroki Kikuta, Secret of Mana was an influential game in its time.[3]

Gameplay

The standard overhead view. The party's attack strength and remaining health is shown in the gauges at the bottom.

Like many other role-playing games of the 16-bit era, Secret of Mana is comprised entirely of a top-down perspective, in which three player characters — the hero, the girl, and the sprite — navigate the terrain and fight off hostile creatures. Control may be passed between each of the characters at any time; if the hero is currently selected, his two companions are controlled via artificial intelligence, and vice-versa. The game may be played simultaneously by two or three players.[4][5] In order to support three players, a Super Multitap accessory must be plugged into the second controller port of the Super Nintendo console.[6] The Virtual Console version of the game supports 3-player gameplay with the use of additional GameCube controllers or Classic Controllers.[7]

Each character possesses individual strengths and weaknesses: The hero, while unable to use magic, excels at fighting and masters weapons at a quicker rate; the girl functions as healer, able to cast restorative and support spells; lastly, the sprite's magic is almost entirely offensive, but he is ill-suited for melee combat.[7] Upon collecting enough experience points in battle, each character can increase in level to gain improved stats such as strength and evasion. The trio can find refuge in a town, where they can regain hit points or purchase restorative items and equipment. Options such as changing equipment, casting spells, or checking status are performed by cycling through the game's Ring Commands, a circular menu which hovers over the currently-controlled party member.[6][5][7] The game is momentarily paused whenever the Ring Commands appear.

Combat takes place in real-time.[5] Located below each character's hit points is a percentage gauge that determines the amount of damage done to an enemy. Swinging a weapon causes the gauge to fall to 0% and then quickly recharge, allowing that character to attack at full strength. The party wields eight different styles of weapons throughout the game: sword, spear, bow, axe, boomerang, glove, whip, and javelin. With the exception of the sword, all weapons can be upgraded eight times, and repeated use increases their Skill Levels to a maximum of 8, unlocking a new charged attack with each level. Weapons are upgraded through the use of Weapon Orbs, generally obtained after defeating a boss or found as a treasure in dungeons.[5] Once an Orb is collected, the weapon can be brought to a blacksmith (located in most towns) to be reforged.[8][4]

Magic in Secret of Mana operates in much the same way as weapon skill progression, with the exception that magic points are consumed each time a spell in cast. In order to learn magic, the party must rescue spirits known as Elementals. The eight Elementals represent different elements (Fire, Water, Earth, etc.), and each provides the player with specific spells. Magic skill can only be as high as the party's current Mana Power, which increases automatically over the course of the game.[4]

Flammie flying and demonstrating Mode 7

At the start of the game, players must traverse an enemy-infested countryside in order to reach their next destination. Travel may be expedited through use of Cannon Travel Centers, where non-player characters offer to launch the party to far-away destinations via a giant cannon. Cannon Travel usually requires a fee, but is mandatory to visit other continents early on.[6] Later, the party is given access to Flammie, a miniature dragon which is controlled by the player and able to fly freely across the world, represented by an overworld map.[9] These sequences make use of the Super Nintendo's Mode 7 capability to create a rotatable background, giving the illusion that the ground beneath Flammie is rendered in three dimensions. While riding Flammie, the player may access either the "rotated map", which presents the world as a globe, or the "world map," a two-dimensional view of the overworld.

Plot

Setting

File:Som map.jpg
A map of "Mana", the fictional in-game world

The story takes place in a fictional world, during an unspecified period following a war between a civilization and "gods" concerning the use of mana to fuel the "Mana Fortress", a flying warship. Using the power of the Mana Sword, a hero destroyed the fortress and returned peace to the world.

Story

Disobeying their Elder's instructions, three boys from the small Potos village trespass into a local waterfall where a treasure is said to be kept. One of the boys, the game's protagonist, stumbles and falls into the lake, where he finds a rusty sword embedded in a stone. Guided by a disembodied voice, he pulls the sword free, inadvertently unleashing monsters in the surrounding countryside of the village. The villagers interpret the sword's removal as a bad omen and banish the boy from Potos forever. An elderly knight named Jema recognizes the blade as the legendary Mana Sword, and encourages the hero to re-energize it by visiting the eight Mana Temples.

During his journey, the hero is joined by an amnesiac sprite child and the daughter of a nobleman from Pandora. The orphaned sprite initially tries to con the hero out of his money, but later accompanies him in hope of recovering his lost memory. The girl joins the party in search of her lost love, Dyluck, an officer in Pandora's army who has gone missing. Throughout their travels, the trio is pursued by the Empire, which seeks to unseal the eight Mana Seeds and revive the Mana Fortress. Unbeknownst to the Emperor or his subordinates, they are being manipulated by Thanatos, an ancient sorcerer who has designs on creating a "new, peaceful world".[10] Due to his own body's deterioration, Thanatos is in need of a suitable body to possess. After placing the entire kingdom of Pandora under a trance, he abducts two candidates: Dyluck, now enslaved, and a young Pandoran girl named Phanna. Over time, however, Thanatos narrows his selection to Dyluck.[11]

The Empire succeeds in unsealing all eight Mana Seeds. However, Thanatos betrays the Emperor and his henchmen, killing them and seizing control of the Mana Fortress for himself. The hero and his party journey to the Pure Land to locate the Mana Tree, the focal point of the world's life energy. Anticipating their arrival, Thanatos positions the Mana Fortress over the Tree and destroys it. The charred remains of the Tree speak to the heroes, explaining that a giant creature called the Mana Beast will soon be summoned to combat the Fortress. However, the Beast has little control over its rage and will likely destroy the world as well.[12] The Mana Tree also reveals that it was once the human wife of Serin, the original Mana Knight and the hero's father.[13] The voice heard at Potos' waterfall was that of Serin's ghost.

The trio flies to the Mana Fortress and confronts Thanatos, who is preparing to transfer his mind into Dyluck. With the last of his strength, Dyluck warns that Thanatos has sold his soul to the underworld and must not be allowed to have the Fortress.[14] Dyluck kills himself, forcing Thanatos to revert to a skeletal lich form which is defeated in battle. The Mana Beast finally reveals itself and attacks the Fortress. The hero expresses reluctance to kill the Beast, fearing that with the dispersal of Mana from the world, the sprite child will vanish.[15] With the sprite's encouragement, the hero uses the fully-energized Mana Sword to slay the Beast, causing it to explode and transform into snow. At the conclusion of the game, the hero is seen returning the Mana Sword to its place beneath the Potos waterfall.

Characters

Heroes

File:SecretofMana Cast.PNG
Original SNES designs of the main protagonists of Secret of Mana

The hero (ランディ, Randi),[16] a young boy, is adopted by the Elder of Potos after his mother disappears. After pulling the Mana Sword from a stone, monsters invade Potos and the villagers persuade the Elder to banish him. Seeking to restore the sword, the hero then embarks on a quest to re-energize the sword.

The girl (プリム, Purimu)[16] meets the hero briefly when he's ambushed by Goblins. After helping him escape, she leaves, only to appear again outside Elinee's Castle. The girl is in love with a warrior named Dyluck, who was ordered by the King to attack Elinee's Castle, which is considered a virtual suicide mission. Angry with the king for this, as well as with her father for setting her up for an arranged marriage, she rebels and leaves the castle to join the hero in his quest, hoping to save Dyluck as well. She is capable of casting support and healing spells.

The heroes meet the sprite child (ポポイ, Popoi)[16] at the Dwarf Village. The sprite makes a living by scamming people at the dwarves' freak show. He doesn't remember anything about his past, so he joins the team to try to recover his memories. The sprite comes from a village in the Upper Land. He was washed away by a flood to Gaia's Navel, where the Dwarf Elder found him. The flood caused the sprite to suffer from amnesia, making it unable to remember anything of his past. While the sprite may seem childish at times, he has courage equal to that of the other two heroes. As an orphan, he understands how the hero feels not growing up with his parents. The sprite's gender has never officially been stated; however, in the Japanese version's script, he uses the first-person pronoun "oira" (おいら) that is mostly used by male speakers. He is capable of casting attack spells.

Development

Secret of Mana was directed and designed by Koichi Ishii. The game was programmed primarily by Nasir Gebelli and produced by veteran Square designer Hiromichi Tanaka. After the release of Final Fantasy III, Tanaka wanted to help design a seamless game without a separate battle system. Because this would not work with Final Fantasy IV, he turned to Secret of Mana.[17] Secret of Mana was originally going to be a launch title for the SNES CD add-on.[18] After the project was dropped, the game had to be altered to fit onto a standard game cartridge.

The English translation for Secret of Mana was completed in only 30 days, mere weeks after the Japanese release.[19] This was presumably so that the game could be released in North America for the 1993 holiday season.[18] According to translator Ted Woolsey, a large portion of the game's script was cut out in the English localization due to space limitations and a lack of sequential text.[20] The English translation of Secret of Mana uses a fixed-width font to display text on the main gameplay screen. However, the choice of this font limits the amount of space available to display text, and as a result conversations are trimmed to their bare essentials, leaving a good portion of the game lost in translation. A fan re-translation was released in 2000 to address this issue.[21]

In 1999 as part of their planned nine game lineup, Square announced they would be porting Seiken Densetsu 2 to Bandai's new handheld system WonderSwan Color.[22] No news of the port ever surfaced outside the announcement.

Audio

Seiken Densetsu 2 Original Sound Version (聖剣伝説２ オリジナル・サウンド・ヴァージョン) is the soundtrack to Secret of Mana, originally released in 1993 in Japan by NTT Publishing and Squaresoft. Its US debut under the name Secret of Mana Original Soundtrack followed the next year due to the game's massive success. The US release is identical to the Japanese version, aside from the packaging and localized English song titles.[23] It was re-released in Japan in both 1995 and 2004.

The game's soundtrack was composed by Hiroki Kikuta. It is known for its variety of tunes which tend to focus on the use of percussion and woodwind instruments, ranging from a lighthearted dwarves' polka to a somber, wistful snow melody to a tribal-like dance. Kikuta states that he had a particularly difficult time composing the score, which required him to combine his own style of popular music with the "game music" that is accompanied by the hardware and software limitation of the Super Famicom.[24]

Secret of Mana's title theme, "Angel's Fear" is well known by video game music aficionados for its haunting, echoing piano melody, and was featured in the third Orchestral Game Music Concert[25], the fifth Symphonic Game Music Concert[26], as well as serving as the base for many remixes. In 2008, ScrewAttack.com's users ranked the song number 7 on the website's Top 10 Video Game Themes Ever.[27] Music from Secret of Mana will be an important part of the Symphonic Fantasies concerts in September 2009 which are being produced by the creators of the Symphonic Game Music Concert series, conducted by Arnie Roth. In Secret of Mana section, the featured titles are Fear of the Heavens, Into the Thick of it and The Oracle.[28]

Parts of the game's soundtrack, as well as some music from Seiken Densetsu 3, were incorporated into the Secret of Mana+ compilation arrangement CD, an image album containing one 50-minute track.[29]

Reception and sequels

As of February 2004, Secret of Mana shipped 1.83 million copies worldwide, with 1.5 million of those copies being shipped in Japan and 330,000 abroad.[39]

Secret of Mana has been on numerous "best games" lists. It was listed at number 42 on Nintendo Power magazine's Top 200 Nintendo Games Of All Time[40], as well as the 86th best game made on a Nintendo System.[41] It was also rated number 48 on the "IGN's Top 100 Games" in 2005[3], number 49 in 2006[42], and number 79 in 2007.[43] Also in 2006, Secret of Mana was voted the 97th best game of all time by the readers of the well-known Japanese magazine Famitsu.[44] ScrewAttack.com ranked the game number 6 in its Top 20 SNES Games list in 2008.[45] Secret of Mana was awarded Best Role-Playing Game of 1993 by Electronic Gaming Monthly.[46]

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