I wish they gave legend of mana some love man.

I have so much disdain for Square Enix, and having not played Mana before, this just adds to it. Like, the director of Dragon Quest was ready to quit because Square wouldn't let Yoko Taro make a new game, and that game became Nier: Automata, because they didn't see him as a cash cow basically. Even though the reason every single one of his games suffered was because they cut the games hard. Drakengard 1 was supposed to be on 2 discs, Nier was missing a plethora of content that got put into books, Drakengard 3 happened after Sqenix disolved Cavia and then gave Taro a new team that he didn't fully know and he just did whatever. The thing holding great games from Squenix back is Squenix. Nier got lucky, but you look at their "revival" of Legacy of Kain, and you see how much effort they really put into giving a damn about not Final Fantasy games.

Legend of mana is my favorite ps1 game of all time.

LEGEND OF MANA REMASTERED announced

I feel like the Nintendo direct announcement just shot this to the top of the algorithm

I fell in love with Legend of Mana the moment I saw the case in Blockbuster, still gives me feelings when I think about it.

Watching this again after the Legend of Mana Remaster announcement. It's my favorite PS1 game in general and I'm so excited. It's been a bummer seeing how it was largely received after the Direct.

If I'm not mistaken, the director of the SaGa games was also responsible for Legend, which probably explains why it ended up so different from its predecessors (i.e. open and a lot of complex systems).

I frigging LOVE Legend of Mana and it's art direction and Character designs! It's one of my favorite game universes just for how unique settings and character designs and it's Music by Yoko Shimomura is breathtaking. If someone asked me "If your live was a game what is your hometown song?" I would always answer with either "Domina" Or "Places of Soul". Dawn was... kinda pretty but I found the levels hard to maneuver and it didn't really have a flow...Mostly from the "Do a level, get a cutscene" thing. I do remember wishing I could find a Dawn of Mana Manga that could string the plot better like Legend of Mana had. I feel like Children of Mana's BIGGEST flaw were that the dungeons where just.... super long and monotonous! ANd that's bad coming from me, a person who LOVES Dark Cloud! Who has maxed out their in game timer on Dark Cloud prolly 15 DIFFERENT TIMES! WHo has beaten the Demon Shaft Dungeon like 10 TIMES! There just wasn't much fun about the Dungeons of Children of Mana and about a teaspoon of story. I liked the Gem Grid as a level up system though! And the Artwork was lovely! Ooof Heroes of Mana.... Not gonna lie I skipped that one for 2 main reasons. 1.) I don't like 'Tactics' games like FFT and Fire Emblem. Not good at them. Don't have fun. And 2.) LITERALLY what KBash said in the video it looked like they were just copying FFT's artstyle! I did not likey, even Magical Starsign looked more like a Mana game than Heroes! In fairness I also loved Sword of Mana. Sure it was a remake and it was silly but it was a pretty one and I got to play the First mana game one way or another. I WAS SO DISAPOINTED WITH FRIENDS OF MANA AS IT WAS SET IN THE LEGEND OF UNIVERSE BUT... It was a Japan Exclusive Phone game... I didn't even OWN a cell phone when that game came out. I do remember WISHING that it would get a port like KH:ReCoded did to a handheld non-phone console but... never did. Mana used to be so distincted and unique. I would argue it was FUN. Even modern Final Fantasy games feel like they lost that element of High fantasy stupid fun. Had Mana just stayed on course I could have returned to the world of Racist Rabbits, Pirate Penguins, Minstrels being turned into Birds, Failing to hand out all the Leaflets... it was a fun world. But for some reason Square just ditched those fun imaginative stories for... What? A quick buck?

Best video to date. Hard to believe you packed so much info in a clean 22 minutes. It's great to see Mana covered, the good and the bad and what makes it stand out. Keep up the great work.

If my backlog wasn't a thing, I'd totally play Legend of Mana after this review. It seems really good.

I love Legend. One of my favourite games of all time and I’m so happy you gave it the justice and coverage it deserves. You’re so right when you say it’s absolutely a game that needs to be discovered and explored on its own ❤️

Thanks for remembering the mana series. The mana series specifically Legend of Mana is what got me into loving RPGs and is still to this day my favorite game. Playing a game, as a 12 years old kid, so many times and always with different outcomes helped me cope with bullying at school. Video games in general helped me through such a difficult phase of my childhood. And for that Legend of Mana still has a special place in my heart. I currently have a ps3, which is always plugged and ready to be used, I call it my mana console. I have it because I bought ps store version of Legend of Mana. I hope it is ported to current gen consoles and more with the trials of mana remake being so good.

I LOVE Legend of Mana, it's a game that can only be described by single word: Beautiful.

I love legend of Mana. It's the Mana game I grew up with and I absolutely loved it hearing you sing it's praises when not many do is truly a blessing.

Man, I gotta say I am really impressed with the steady increase in production value on this channel. You deserve way more subscribers man.

17:54 "*inhales* QUCAS?!" 😂😂😂

KBash, that video title makes it sound like you're a wizard regaling me the story of how magic faded from our world.

It's a shame Legend of Mana didn't do better, it's one of my personal favorites. After the Trials of Mana remake I kind of hope they show the same treatment to Legend of Mana as well though it might lose that painted aesthetic.

I meet the channel a wile ago and i love your videos! Thank you for a great content

I love your takes, Kbash! And such a fun watch 😁

I really enjoyed this video kbash i can tell there was some serious effort in this video as always keep the videos coming

Trials of mana looks promising, I can’t wait to get it

Thanks a ton, man. Legend of Mana is my favorite game of all time and you managed to properly convey most of it's charm, flaws and finer points in only a few minutes. Kudos.

Seeing how you tackle obscure JRPG series that deserve more love, it would be nice if you took a look a the Mana Khemia series. It was meant to be a spinoff of the Atelier series, but its MUCH more party focused than its moe parent series and much better than the parent series in my eyes. Really worth taking a quick look.

Thank you for making the video about Legend of Mana I kept waiting to see. It is what I would consider one of the best game experiences someone can have.

Your videos are really great i always find myself appreciating your videos and channel good work KBash :)

Well, with the remake of Trials to 3D, they are starting to understand that Mana isn't just a flash in the pan. I hope that enough people play the remake of Trials to hopefully get a remake of Legend of Mana(with simplified crafting) or a better remake of Dawn of Mana, then Square-Enix can hopefully get a fifth mainline entry for PS5. ;)

I JUST WANNA SAY, PART WAY THROUGH THE VIDEO YOU PRAISE GLOVES AND I FUCKING LOVE YOU, THAT GOT MY SUB AND BELL JINGLE JANGLE ON THE FUCKING SPOT!!!! LONG LIVE THE GLOVES! No but seriously, like me and friend did a playthrough of this game side-by-side through Discord about a week ago now and it was part of their childhood being the first Mana game they chewed through without it being like Secret of Mana where he was relegated to some side character for only battles and shit, this was the first one he sat down himself and learned to get good at and enjoyed, and having that experience with them was amazing, to see their wonder and experience it alongside them was phenomenal and basically left the whole thing with the new fact that it's probably my favorite, or at least 2nd favorite of the Mana series just for all the good it does right and having spent that time with my friend. This game is critically underrated and deserves praise.

Great video man, especially with you complimenting Legend of Mana. I feel that game doesn't get enough love.

After finishing Secrets of Mana last year, I’m definitely going to give Legend of Mana a shot. Thanks Kbash

Kbash: legend is unknown and unloved Legends: and i took that personally

Legend of mana was my first mana, and I loved it so much as a child even if I couldn't get far, I wanted to own it so bad, and now I do I'm so happy.

Just discovered your channel, and as someone who absolutely love the Seiken Densetsu IP, I will always be saddened by the fact that Dawn of Mana killed the series. Heroes cemented its death. But I will be forever glad that we got Seiken 2, Seiken 3, Legend and Sword.

Love Legend of Mana and still listen to the soundtrack to relax ❤️

I love Dawn of Mana. Downer ending ftw and the art style, especially the character design, is so beautiful.

Legend of Mana was GOLD. Loved it then, love it now. Replayed it sooooo many times.

I literally just watched this video last night and they announce a remaster of Legend of Mana for the switch today. Now I REALLY wanna try it.

no talk for Trials of mana remake :O that was good

after rewatching this and the other mana video I love the parallel of them both "approaching a cliff" and then doing very different things.

ok imma play Legend of Mana now

Legend of Mana, Saga Frontier 2, Valkyrie Profile... miss those times. Beauty is dead for all I care.

This games art should be in some hall of fame. It's incredibly done.

Listening to your last lines thinking “Visions of Mana!! Let’s GOOOO!!!”

I LOVEE the short rap you did lol

Thank you for talking about Legend of Mana. Still one of my favorite video games even to this day: that game is so underrated. I could talk for hours about the combat system, crafting weapons/golems/magic spells, pets, fruits, story Arks with different characters, the beautiful music... but I won't do it (talk for hours) :')

If Legend of Mana's painted backgrounds makes your balls wet, then you should check out SaGa Frontier 2. It's basically water painted art.

A remaster of Legend of Mana is coming!

Dude I'm so glad you made this to bring attention to this game. It's in my top 5 all time rpgs along w grandia, star ocean, ff7 breath of fire 4 n tales series. It's 2nd best maybe the first. Just wish it was longer. That's the only thing more I could ask if it. The agoan for all the funny ass videos, can u do mega Man ZX. I heard they were awesome and hard so if love to see u review em and get crushed lol. See ya dude

One of my favorite things about Legend of Mana (besides the beautiful ost) is that your character doesnt feel like the protagonist, just a part of the world.

Damn this was a great video. One of your best

I'm surprised you didn't bring up the co-op in Legend of Mana that let's you play with your character from another save file. It's my favorite one. Thanks for not... Ehh, bashing on it.

Just got legend on my Vita cause of this omg there's so MUCH! the quest, the art, the writing, the pets, it's all good. A remake of this would be really interesting

"Legend of Mana" I have played this game multiple times over several years. I have no idea what it was really about. but it was lovely

Legend of Mana is by far my favorite mana game. Also Golem programming helped me learn real programming when i was younger, as silly as that sounds.

I just watch the same ad 4x for this guy, you earned it

Legend of Mana was my first game ( never was allowed to play games until my dad went and bought me a ps1 with LoM) and I love it so much. I'm crossing my fingers for a remake after playing Trials.

It's been 4 years since you introduced me to Mana. Thanks mate

YO KBASH nice video bro good shit as always, you should try the dark cloud series the second one is way better but I bet youd love both of them THEY ON PS4 NOW PLAY IT

6:39 just...not again

Legend of Mana is my all time favorite game. I still play it to this day.

I gave the remastered legend of mana a shot only because i saw how beautiful it is. I was not disappointed, and I really enjoyed just experimenting with all these systems and attacks and weapons. HELL, I had no idea you could do wresting moves on enemies! That’s crazy!

You speak from the heart, and I love that about ya KBash. Thank you man.

Children of Mana was my introduction to the series and I actually have a lot of fond memories of it. I really liked all the enemy and character designs. That said, yeah, it definitely didn't make me go out of my way to check out the games that came before. The only other contemporary Mana game I had easy access to was Heroes and I didn't like RTS (still don't). The only other Mana experience I had, for years, was an emulated copy of Sword of Mana, which I really liked too. I'm glad they eventually came out with the Collection of Mana, because it enabled me to play the golden times of the series. The hunch that I'd like it based on what little I played before was right. I really hope we get more Mana games that capture the old spirit.

This was my 1st entry in it. I loved it, i missed when squaresoft focused on more than just FF

I’d never tried the Mana series, but you’ve inspired me to try Legend. Thank you!

Started replaying Legend of Mana yesterday, the art is still beautiful. I love it.

Legend was one of the best PS1 games I've ever played. Thanks for talking great about it. You're awesome KBash.

I never played this series, but your review was great

Holy crap, I remember playing bits and pieces of this, and I had gone searching for it years ago and found nothing. I have to get this now

Remaster of Legend of Mana gives me hope, hope it does well.

Bro "get dunked" part knocked me dead keeping it real lmfao

This was my first mana game honestly. Mom just picked it out one day and i fell in love with it I do hope it gets a remake someday

Great video as always (:

This fighting system was so dope to me. I just recently started another play through adding to numerous play throughs

Man played so much when I was younger, finally did every quest a couple years ago. Wish the world backstory books were unlockable in one playthrough, everything start to make a lot more sense with you read that (not everything though). Gotta love the OST too, Nostalgic Song, Hometown Domina and Diddle´s Organ are some of the highlights for me

20:07 I think Square enix heard you because Visions of Mana is now a thing.

I'll never be able to shake the feeling of betrayal I was struck with when little kid me bought Dawn of Mana thinking it'd be an awesome JRPG only for it to not be one at all. Console JRPGs started to die off around then too. What a bad time.

It's interesting that you bring up Crystal Chronicles since the person who directed CC was a producer/designer for Legend of Mana, that is Akitoshi Kawazu the director of the SaGa series (one of my favorite series). His involvement is why LoM has caught my interest lol

4:14 KBash *slithering* .... WATCH OUT *WATCH OUT!*

At this point I'm kinda interested in the lore behind Zane the Impure, and Zane the pure.

I love the trials of mana remake. Sadly never arrive in my country. So i buy it from ebay

this...this actually hurt my feelings. i loved the Mana series as a kid :(

No mention that Heroes of Mana is actually a prequel to Trials? (No, really. It's even where a lot of the localized names for Trials come from.)

I never really like the vagueness of this game But hey, good video. You actually sounds like you having fun again in this video

The Jumi Storyline is one of the best ones I've seen in games in this era honestly. I bawled like a kid during the end cutscene of that story

Bro you should be in video game marketing, half the time I watch your videos I end up buying the games you talk about

Okay that birthing the sword part was hilarious

Such a beautiful clusterfuck of a series.

God bless you Kbash

growin up Legends of mana was my jam, one of my first RPS to actually beat...if you've never touched Threads of Fate i would love to see you cover my fav game of all time

Sword and Legend of Mana were the best ones imo

After beating legend of mana. Its definitely one of the best Jrpgs and the best mana game

I found a PS1 at a yard sale with this game when I was younger and only had a n64. I was hooked. Being able to collect/raise the monsters was my favorite aspect.

For those of you looking to play Legend of Mana with a friend online, you can use an emulator and something like Parsec to simulate two-player input remotely. It works pretty well.

I had completely forgotten about Legend of Mana! I rented that game so many times. I had no idea what I was doing but I just kept playing anyway lol

The "No vision" statement at 20:07 didn't age very well. We get VISIONS OF MANA, manafugga! :D Nice review, loved the slam dunks.

I loved Legend of Mana and Dawn of Mana, almost never heard anyone talking about them, but they're still part of my childhood and I really like them.

“Hey look, there’s secret of mana. No no no, stop!!!!!” You have me dying here, man. Your humor is on point. Full stop.

On point with the story analysis