Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Seiken Densetsu 3... what a time to be alive.

WE GETTING A REMAKE! TRIALS OF MANA!

SNES era brought so many awesome games.

I didn't think this day would ever come, but I'm glad it's here.

After ten thousand years, the official translation and remake are upon us.

Square Enix has finally released this game outside of Japan as Trials of Mana. It is available on the Mana Collection & remake will be released in 2020.

Ah, yes, Seiken Densetsu 3. One of my favorite SNES games of all time, even to the point where I used to hype over it way too much that I ignored other amazing titles on the system. That was back at 2005, though. The story is good, the graphics are outstanding at that time, the gameplay is pretty solid, and the replay value is high for I have played the game so many times since 2005 with different character and class combinations. And the music. Hoo, boy, the music is just as amazing as Secret of Mana. So many memorable tracks. Unfortunately, SD3 is riddled with some bugs and glitches, such as nearly non-existent critical hit rate, Agility stat not working properly (in a similar case to evasion bug in FFVI), and some others. But still, this is definitely one of the best SNES games I've ever played to this day. Neil Corlett and his team did an amazing job at translating this game.

One of the greatest games I ever played, I remember finding a walk through so i could play the Japanese version before the patched version came out

Excellent video man! I didn’t know anything about this game and now I’m going to buy the Switch collection after seeing this

That is some serious replay value.

This game's art style was heavily used in Legend of Mana for PS1 as well. Another great game that gets quite over-shadowed by a lot of other games on that system.

To this day this game is still one of my best discoveries on the early years of the Internet.

I played this on emulation, and its one of my favorite games of all time. its really superb.

I am so glad you covered this. Nobody else has done this game the justice you have, and I've been replaying this over and over since 2005ish. And yeah... that intro segue music... I've replayed that section alone numerous times with each character for that epic feel

This game has been on my wish list to play since I learned about it via AOL Dial-Up in 1996. Your video convinced me to load the English ROM onto my SNES Classic, and I've put over 35 hours into it over the past 2 weeks. Growing up on SNES and PSX JRPGs, this feels like a distant relative I just discovered. It's phenomenal. Thank you for making the video that finally made me get into it. btw - I'm Hawk, Lise, and Angela.

This is in my top 5 all-time games, regardless of console. Probably the best game on the SNES.

I played the patch as a kid and this is what I really wanted Octopath Traveler to be like. So happy we have Trials of Mana and the Mana Collection on the Switch now.

I'm not really fond of RPGs (still I really like games like A Link to the Past, Chrono Trigger, FFVI, Earthbound) but Seiken Densetsu 3 is simply a masterpiece. I love the garphics and sounds, the story and, overall, the gameplay, with its real-time battles. I think this is one of my top 5 favourite games of all time.

Thank you for highlighting this all-time classic. I started playing sd3 around 15 years ago on emulators and it still remains 1 of my favorite games ever due to the exact reasons you mentioned. It's CERTAINLY a must play for any self-respecting snes fan!

One summer it was slow at work so I played the fan patch of this on a big projector on the wall. good times.

I am glad this is officially avaliable nowadays we have two choices, the original in the collection of Mana (nintendo switch) and the remake in Trials of mana

the trials of mana remake celebration is still going here in the comments. I'm playing this game in the collection of mana and my party is Duran-Kevin-Riesz, full attack + support. With so much going on, it's great to have a party that's all about physical attack

I'm coming back to this video just to say what many comments also say: TRIALS OF MANAAAAAAAAAAA

It's so good. I literally hacked my SNES Mini specifically to put it and the SNES version of Chrono Trigger on there. I love it.

The Trials of mana rom has been extracted and I have injected it into a virtual console cia on the 3ds, it works perfectly!

I can't believe you made a video about Seiken Densetsu 3! I've waited so long for this! There's no game like this one. My all time favorite. Thanks!!

I loved this game so much, Cleared it with every possible class combo except 3, so yea, 7 replays.

If you guys like this and Secret of Mana then you definitely need to check Legend of Mana on the PSX, it's an amazing game. Artwork is gorgeous and aged very well, the music is just gorgeous [Yoko fucking Shimomura, she's amazing], gameplay is great albeit a bit too streamlined for my taste [you get full health after every battle] and you have multiple main storylines like in SD3 [although you choose them in a different and interesting fashion]. Oh, and if you like customization... oh boy. You can customize BLOODY EVERYTHING in this game. Your weapons, your armor, your magic, your pets, you can create golems which you can then customize... if you like min-maxing and guide-diving then you'll go crazy with the amount of stuff you can do in this game. And the combat system is awesome, your character can learn a bunch of different abilities like counter-strike, somersault, backflip, slide, etc and use them in battle, although to be honest a lot of them are pretty useless. But the main purpose of those abilities is to enable you to learn weapon specials. There's a lot of different weapons you can choose from [sword, 2H sword, axe, 2H axe, staff, bow, gloves, etc] and each weapons has A TON of different special attacks ranging from "do a combo on one enemy with your gloves" to "BLAST THE ENTIRE SCREEN WITH RAINBOW ENERGY". tl;dr - Play Legend of Mana, it's amazing.

I hope you got the collection of mana and trials of mana! Thanks for blessing us with all the content over the years

I just beat this game for the first time a few months ago and enjoyed it.

Oh, I remember this so much. Beat it before playing with Lise as my main and having Angela and Duran as my other party members. At first it was a bit hard, but once I got Duran classed up into a Knight things went smoother since I then had someone that could use healing magic. Also, Bill and Ben... Dear God, those two were hard.

Revisited this vid today. Definitely one of the most helpful vids out there especially in light of the Mana collection.

It still baffles me that Square would put out a sequel to Secret of Mana without 3-player support... If they released it in the west back then, I probably would have gone berzerk on their asses. So whoever made programmed the 3-player patch, you're officially my hero forever!

REMAKE BRO! I KNOW YOU LOVED THAT

Took a minute to realize you just changed the video title. Was wondering how it was using the Trials of Mana name 2 years before it'd even been announced. :p

This is my favorite rpg of snes along with mario rpg, so much strong memories of childhood

Great stuff, maybe one of your best vids yet

I loved this game. Normally, I'd never trudge through an RPG multiple times but the storylines/characters were interesting, the visuals were superb, and the gameplay made the length & grinding tolerable (even enjoyable). I think it's absurd that this never came to the U.S.

Great review mate. I've only just discovered you're channel and you're doing a great job. Intelligent, informative reviews with a dash of humour. Keep up the good work. I'm going to okay this game based on your review.

I remember I first found this game a few years ago while looking at an emulator list. I had no idea that it had even existed for so long then. When I saw it, I was like, "Seiken Densetsu THREE!? What is this!?" Then, once I installed it and started playing, it was, "!!!!". This game is amazing. For me, the combat was a bit more difficult than Seiken Densetsu 2. But it's nothing impossible, and the class system more than makes up for it with making it more rewarding interesting with all the new things you can try out. And everything else is fantastic. Definitely one of my favorite RPGs.

when you pair Duran/Angela, Lise/Hawk or Kevin/charlie you get some extra dialogue lines like Angie hiting on Duran in the end

Seiken Densetsu 3 is simply a masterpiece, a classic rpg which is not a classic instead because never left Japan.

Watts shows up in countless Square games. Breath of fire, final fantasy, secret of mana. probably more i don't recall atm if i remember correctly he was one of the magitek soldiers in the intro to ff6

It’s part of the “Collection of Mana” package on Switch and I absolutely love it.

I am crying inside. I. Miss this game

So I have been picking up a few Super Famicom games here and there that have translation patches so I can try them out on my Retron 5 (I also have a SNES). I have been digging through all your videos and picking out the games that look good to me. This game looks awesome, but the addition of having a friend play your second character in an RPG is mind blowing to me! Just wanted to say thank you so much for helping out this noob.

I did enjoy this game, I just wish that it had that feature where your weapons and magic become more powerful the more you use them. Like in other games from the Mana series.

I recall playing Secret of Mana and FFVI with my mom. i was always second player and that was fine with me lol. She always had trouble with Sabin's moves but they we're a breeze to me so she put me in charge of him. Ahh the good old days but to be on topic, you convinced me to try it out thanks.

Best RPG ever made. Hopefully the SoM remake will lead to an SD3 remake.

I think this is definitely in my top 5 snes games. This game is incredible. Top-notch quality for the SNES in every facet. Link to the Past, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, Secret of Mana 3, and Super Mario World would probably be my top 5, but I'm sure I short-changed something.

I played only a sample of Seiken Densetsu 3, but I haven't gotten around to beaten it yet. Hopefully, I'll find the time in my crazy schedule to play more of it. I loved the original Secret of Mana, and I'm absolutely positive I'm gonna love this one too! After playing a sample of it, I can comfortably say it's one of the most gorgeous looking SNES games I've ever seen!

Excellent video! Haven't played this properly since the translation patch was released - As a massive fan of Secret of Mana, it was so exciting to play! I'd really like that Switch Mana collection to be properly localised. Having those games legally on a portable would just be perfection :)

I made numerous improvement hacks for SD3 (snes), to make the experience more enjoyable. For example, ability to fight Black Rabite in all paths. Or Class Balance that balances out classes for all characters (and has the option to disable the enemy skill counters to make Angela more useful). Another guy created a bugfix patch that really improves things a lot too.

Wow!!! Thank you for your awesome video. Truly appreciated.

Oh, I would have loved this growing up. Thanks for sharing dude!

so kevin is john wick

I love this game, played through it so many times on emulator and on my cart I imported with a friend of mine. So much replay value. I even imported the collection on Switch so I can play this on the go.

I am getting the Collection of Mana, I can't wait to play Trails of Mana

I loved this game so much, haven't played it in years, I must have played tons of hours and yet, there is still a replay value for me.

My favorite and best game ever.

bought it straight away!! been waiting to buy this for 25 years

The moment you showed the character select screen I remembered playing this game on a emulator when I was a child

This game was so amazing i tried 3 times to beat it. Got stuck the 1st and second, then finally beat it on the third. It was a crazy journey lol. First got it on emulator around 2002, tried it again a few years later, then finally beat it around 2011.

Imo the music is one of the best parts of this game. Hiroki Kikuta knocked it out of the park on this one.

You rule man, I am a KZfaq junkie and I absolutely love your channel! Please, keep it up!

So with the announcement of the English release of this game I decided to play through Secret of Mana, only recently getting into the SNES RPGs. Having come off the back of Terranigma I was pretty dissapointed with the big flaws of Secret of Mana. Seiken Densetsu 3 seems like a much more fleshed-out version of Secret of Mana and what they were probably aiming for originally. Can't wait to dive into this one.

I really need to get around to playing this. I don't have an excuse now I have an SD2SNES with the translated rom on it....

I remember being so sad as a kid when I learned this wasn't coming to the states. It looks great, but tbh SoM's graphics look more colorful and charming. Seiken Densetsu 3 looks more like Final Fantasy or Chrono Trigger; both darker than the original SoM.

I beat the game not too long ago and it's fantastic. An RPG with replayability is something unheard if you compare it with other SNES RPGs. I picked the same people that SNES drunk suggested for new players, except my main character was Ryse. Ryse buffing spells + Carlie dark curse in the final classes helps Angela to destroy every boss without much hassle

Good old JRPG's... Such a nostalgia, such a good feeling... Difficult to explain. And this one has one of the most marvellous soundtracks I' ve ever heard. Sense of Wonder & Fantasy. Sense of calm and deepness. Japan......

Thats so cool! I only knew about the Núremberg ones

I just finished this game a couple of weeks ago and can only agree. It's amazing!

Meridian Child is on par with Prologue from Final Fantasy

I love your channel. I just watch all your videos and plan my next retro game cause of you! I just finally finished this game. Gonna go for a 2nd run thru with the other 3.

I remember playing this ROM in the early 2000's. Damn good game.

covering one of my all time faves? AWESOME

I should totally replay this with different characters

Holy fuck. What a game. Can't believe I missed this game. I'm playing the remake demo and i've sunk hours into it so far. Loving it!

I never thought the day that this would get released State side, let alone remade.

This game is amazing. I think I've played every combination of characters over a span of like 15 years.

Wow this game looks so amazing!! I had no clue about his existence. How it possible it wasn't released in America? Thanks SnesDrunk! Thanks a lot!

I heard this is coming to the Switch in Japan. No region lock on Switch's. I don't speak Japanese but I'll still buy it. Hopefully they'll translate it to English for the Switch. I've been dying to play this game and would spend $100 for this game. Secret of Mana is my all time favorite so I need this sequel!

I've played the original and the remake, and I've gotta say both of them are beautiful and none of them is superior to the other as the playing mechanics may differ. Even if the remake has the extra class change, SNES version doesn't seem overshadowed at all.

this was the first game I ever imported. I'm currently playing the Seiken Densetsu Collection on my Switch

Getting on dat trails of mana ps4. Most definitely now.

I've wanted to play this for quite a while! Working on secret of mana right now though. I'm really hoping we get the seiken densetsu collection on the switch!

This game is getting closer as I slowly work through my backlog. Secret of Mana is my favorite SNES game and my number 2 or 3 favorite soundtrack in any game. I use the title them for a ringtone and Oracle for my alarm. I never get out of bed dragging. Great video good sir!

I recently started playing on the Collection of Mana.

i love this game i finished like 5 times and is only getting a better feel each time that i play

Die Hard fan of the original especially the music!🎹🎧💫😵👌 thanks for mentioning this bro!👍 I always wanted to get the Japanese only sequel to Secret of Mana but never could😔 I'm dying to play it!?

Thanks for the overview!

Sprite was comic relief in Secret of Mana until you got hit right in the feels man...

SD3 is my favourite game of all time. Kevin, Hawke and Lise ftw!

The mana sanctuary song is a bangerino

Little Sweet Cafe is the jams.

90s SNES RPGs... the golden age of the RPG.

quick on that trials of mana update

Angela, Hawk, and Reise. Best team and one of the best games.

they dont make games like these anymore

The game of a life time The remake is awesome but it just makes me wanna play the old one