Oh my gosh Derek, I LOVE YOUR HAIR! It's the cutest! This is a return to form, a return to what Mana is all about. I feel like there was really only 3 'good' Mana games, and this is going to be the fourth! It just crashed and burned with Dawn of Mana, and the whole "World of Mana" thing didn't do the series any favors either. Here I was thinking that it was going to be doomed to obscurity, but SE is going back to the basics and reviving old series, we're getting new SaGa, new Star Ocean and now new Mana, and I'm here for it! 🔥🔥🔥

I actually took off my glasses in shear awe because I never thought I'd get to see a new mana game. Its good to be home

Wow! Was not anticipating this news, especially not during game awards. Looks gorgeous, can't wait to hear more about it.

Always gotta love a good action Jrpg Franchise release new installment.

Good day to be a Mana fan. Still hyped its coming to PS4 as I dont got a PS5 yet.

This was the highlight of the Game Awards (and one of the only non-miserable things about it), I'm so excited! I'm hoping it's just as good as the Trials of Mana remake, if not better!

Trials of Mana Remake was a lot of fun. Hopefully they use that as inspiration for this in many ways. Oh, and bring in Yoko Shimomura for the OST like in Legend. They do those things, I'm in. Otherwise, very cautiously optimistic.

It looks so beautiful. Whoever did the art direction was fabulous

SO many elements from Secret of Mana I thought it was a remake. We saw bosses from Secret like the preying mantis guy and a mushroom town, not to mention the main character looks like secret of mana's protag.

That was...extremely unexpected! I'm super excited for this.

I’m super excited to see the Mana series live on, the style always feels me with nostalgia

(stares at my collection of mana games) I got some catching up to do.....

Day one purchase for sure. Love the color palette 👍🏻

You know Derek, there really needs to be a villain version of your "Hype Responsibly" shirt.....you know.....how about a "Hype Irresponsibly" shirt....That is necessary for reveals like this. The game looks beautiful, this is a game worth having without question. Thanks man!

I know bro, im still losin my shit over here! lol

F@#$ yeah!!! Looks awesome, irresponsibly hyped here as well!

Day one buy! Purchased my SNES in 1993 to play Secret of Mana and for 30 years it has remained my favorite game of all time. This trailer looked incredible…and that music! Perfect! Without question, my most anticipated 2024 release.

I've been saying for the past 3 or 4 years, this era is going to be looked back on as a second Golden Age for Square. Since 2018 or so, they've been consistently killing it when it comes to RPGs, giving the fans what they've really wanted. Short of a Xenogears remaster or remake, I can't think of anything I would have realistically wanted to see in the last decade or so that hasn't come about, and quite a few have that I never would have expected, like the revival of SaGa, Star Ocean, Mana and even Live-A-Live. A lot of people are still understandably jaded and bitter from the last 20 or so years so they're missing it, but believe me, 10 years from now everyone's going to be looking back on this era going "Wow...they were really firing on all cylinders". They finally realized they're sitting on a gold mine and are utilizing it.

For me this game was the most important announcement of the whole show. After the success of the Trials of Mana I really hoped that Suqare Enix would carry the torch on to the next game which seems they did.

I loved your secret of mana video years ago, now I get to watch this one :)

This was legit the only game that interested me can't wait to play on next gen switch

I was in a call with my friends, I saw the mana tree and started tearing up, I cant believe this is legitimately happening

I couldn't be more excited! Trials of Mana was awesome annnd one of my fav dodge rolls EVER!

I not usually not mana person but I thinking of it

I was waiting for your response to this ^ ^ I am SO excited for Seiken Densetsu IV

I was in awe when i saw the trailer last night in the Awards stream, between this and the SEGA new games annoucements i'm super excited. At first i was thinking it was a Dawn of Mana remake because the protagonist was kinda similar, but thankfully it wasn't.

I’m super excited for this because it looks like if Dragon Quest 11 had an action fighting mechanic which would is AWESOME

My bet is that Visions of Mana will be released on the Switch II.

Square said it’s going to be a semi-open world game. At least that’s what the description for the trailer said

This was my favorite game announced at the Game Awards! Hopefully it comes to a Nintendo Platform in the future.

"This looks a lot bigger than the last one." That's what she said.

Sees thumbnail: You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the irresponsible hype, not join it! Bring balance to the Hype, not leave it in darkness!

I was so happy to see it wasn’t a mobile game. Was even more happy to see how amazing it looks. Cannot wait.

Hey handsome 😊 i'm excited too!

Looking good! Let's hope it plays good, too!

That main character is rocking some very familiar clothes, looks heavily inspired by Randi from Secret of Mana.

You'll be a great reactor Derek. It's cool to see you do this type of video

Oh boy that for me hyped!!!

So they label this as "Semi-Open Field", which after a day of thought, I believe that it's an appropriate term for Breath of The Wild/TOTK, in a way. You aren't entirely in a full encompassing world, more of a large, collective 'field' with different biomes that separate each allocation. I'd presume it's feasible that it's mostly open world but with differences in loading locations. What I'm desperately hoping for is world exploration like in SD2 & SD3, where you can use a boat or a flying dragon to cross the land. But we'll have to see!

Secret of Mana got me into gaming, and ngl, this made tear up a little!

Visions of Mana does look amazing. Most wanted game from the previews at the show.

Really really really hope it’s more Trials of Mana than whatever Dawn is supposed to be.

I love secret of mana 1 and 2 on snes! Also liked secret of evermore quite a lot! Those games got me into JRPGS. I was disappointed when I finally played Legend of mana since it was very different. Never played much of the later ones until they released the mana collection and then the remake of Trials of mana! Absolutely loved that game! Only missed the coop from the original. Seeing this makes me soooo happy though! Most awaited game by far! I do hope they dont make it open world though, mostly because of the reason you mention, its hard to fill an open world with meaningful things and I dont think the Mana series needs it. For me it was always about beautifully crafted places and fun gameplay!

This one was more important for me than the Rebirth trailer. Maybe there will be a version for the Switch 2 or whatever is called.

I'm mostly sure, the game is not announced for the Switch, as it will be released on the Switch II and that hasn't been announced. Surprisingly many titles are not announced on the Switch these days, I guess for exactly that reason. We will see a heavy launch catalogue when the Switch successor is announced next year.

2:16 That moment when you realize that "This confirms a new Nintendo console" lol.

Really like the new haircut👍

The world reminds me of DQ 11. Which is a very good thing!!

Breath of the Mana! 🥳

Did anyone else notive the "flammie" 1:26ish IN BATTLE! nice

This was the only new anouncement in tga which was able to put a smile on my face. I only have switch, so I hope it ends arriving (switch2 probably)

It looks like it could be really good. The combat is giving me Rogue Galaxy vibes, which I really liked despite its flaws. In a perfect world I would have liked a bit more interesting art style but it's ok. But Trials was bad so I'm cautiously optimistic.

Sorry wallet. Another sacrifice must be made.

I'm not huge into the Mana series, though I do wanna play more of the Trial remake which I have on Switch. But this new one looks really good and I'm glad it'll be on PS4.

I hope it gets released for the Switch, or the Super Switch/Switch 2. Either way, it looks great. :)

Looks gorgeous and im very happy it will release for pc

I'm sold! Can't wait for 2024. Too bad it's not on Switch, but to be expected.

It’ll probably be on switch 2 but they can’t say that yet since it hasn’t been announced

This hair looks better than your classic Jimmy Nurton.

He said "oh nooo, it looks so.good"

I didn't notice it wasn't slated to release on the switch. Kind of a weird thing since my main mana game was secret of mana; I did get legends of mana(?) for the PS1 but the used copy I bought (was kind of pricey at the time for me, even used) was damaged so it glitched once I got to a certain point in the game. I'm actually glad square kind of parted ways with Ninttendo, it means I can get this game on steam and play it on PC, no need to get a switch; wouldn't have anyways, it's too old of a console at this point and underpowered. I'd maybe would have considered a Switch 2 possibly.

Maybe Switch wasn't listed because it'll be a launch title for the Switch 2 (which they're not allowed to talk about yet)?

I'm not gonna lie, when I saw the tree and Square Enix's logo I jumped out of my chair screaming MANA

What if there's no switch logo...because it will be on nintendo's new console? Maybe they don't want this to be the way it's "leaked" officially. All the Mana games have had a pretty close relationship to Nintendo right?

Definitely did NOT expect this going into TGA.

You know I barely touched the Mana series but that Trials of Mana remake I really love.. It reminds me of Dragon Quest done in an action style..

I will absolutely NOT hype responsibly in this case! I can't believe we got a new Mana! And it was announced at the Game Awards! And it's on Xbox?! I'm so freaking excited I can't believe it!

Looks like it's going to be a cool game, for sure. I'm glad the series is returning! Hope Square-Enix continues to do this with some of the other franchises they have the rights to as well. Don't think it'll be a first half of 2024 game. It's so packed with JRPGs that it would probably be bad for its sales if it came out between January and June. We have Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth, Persona 3 Reload, Granblue Fantasy Relink, FF7 Rebirth, Unicorn Overlord, Eiyuden Chronicle Hundred Heroes, and Trails Through Daybreak coming in that six-ish month period. 2024 is absolutely a gigantic year for the genre. Visions of Mana and Decapolice adding to what I mentioned above...pretty stoked.

Looks like they took a Breath of The Wild open world and are making a Mana game. I'll watch out for it.

check also berserker something from game awards, AJRPG that looks slick along souls approach with anime aesthetics

Okay... but it looks like a game from 2012. The attack patter was so choreographed and slow... back when I played secret of mana the fun was in the quick combat and personalized style.

mana of the wild

Why do these channels always pretend to get hyper up by announcements as such as this one as if we didn't already get quite a lot of "Mana" games (mostly remakes but new games made from scratch nonetheless) in the last few years, and none actually ever lived up to the reputation of this series... This game just looks really similar to the last ones we got... Don't get your hopes too high. SquareEnix has never fallen short of disappointments for the last decade.

I’ve pretty much accepted that most games coming out in 2024 aren’t launching on the Switch. Lol

Breath of the wild came out over 6 years ago… and it looks like breath of the wild almost a decade later

You need to do a letsplay when the game comes out.

hype

I am excited! Not gonna lie, I knew it was a Mana game as soon as I saw how fricken goofy the main character looked, lol. My only concern, and I hope it's only because of an early trailer, but that world looks soooooo empty. Big doesn't mean better if there is nothing in 60% of that space haha.

Truthfully, we have a great year for RPGs this 2023 specially JRPGs but 2024 is looking damn so well. Again, I'm trying to hype responsibly because we got a ton of games! And we now have a new Mana game! OMG. I so looking forward to next year! We got FFVII Rebirth, Granblue Fantasy ReLink, Persona 3 Reload, Unicord Overload, Eiyuden Chronicles, Metaphor ReFantazio, Suikoden 1 and 2 Remastered, The Legend of Heroes and more! So 2024 is really hyping me so bad XD.

This game does look awesome

The visuals and gameplay looks pretty good so far, but the title art that I see everywhere was alittle off-putting to me. If the gameplay is indeed as they've shown, I'll be getting it.

Man i was looking forward to playing it at 12 fps on switch.

Hi Derek, I have a question? Someday you make a review or talk about the others games of Mana series? Like Dawn of Mana or Legend of Mana

yeah i know the gameplay may not work as good on switch but trials of mana was on switch and fenix was and it barley ran it but i think it could do it

Psyched!

Im pumped its coming to xbox 😌

DAMN DEREK DID U LOSE SO MUCH WEIGHT!!?

This is great but Metaphor tho 🤯

Its looks fanfuhkintastic

Me waiting for the next dragon quest installment ☠️

coming to xbox, pc and playstation but no switch? so most likely switch 2 but they cant announce it for switch 2 until Nintendo does it as well.

In what platform you’re gonna play it???

“Show us the shower footage”

Hmmm..no Switch. Hmmm...2024..It's on Switch 2!? (He says while curiously stroking his chin.)

I hope it will be multiplayer, but it looks like it's going to follow Trials of Mana.

ot will be released on the new switch , that’s why they can’t write it down

Switch 2 launch game....maybe....please

Good, if more games start passing on the Switch, maybe it'll force Nintendo to finally release a new console. I'm dubbing it the Super Switch. Switch 2 makes no sense, Nintendo doesn't number their consoles.

Yeah this was big hype for me but... that ff7 rebirth trailer ending with Aeris praying as Sephi feathers lands on her... they really wanna push that - what is gonna happen this time?

you say no switch but for me THANK GOD..... they dont have to craft the game around that systems limitations... seriously im tired of games being created in dumbed down versions cuz of switch