The bad English voice acting really adds to the retro feel.

Whenever I’m looking up game reviews and see you’ve done one, I go to you. I really like your approach to reviews and your views feel relatable enough to be a good indicator of how I’m likely to feel about a game. Keep up the good work!

I want them to remake Chrono Trigger in a similar way as this.

Overall, they did a superb job with the soundtrack... That dub, tho...

Why would the action combat be a turn off to fans of the original when it was action combat as well?

It's been too long since we've heard from Ash--happy to hear you again!

9:20 Did the voice actor chuckle during his graaaaah? Cannot tell if that was intentional or not but its kind of hilarious.

9:31 That “Graaah” is f’n metal. \m/

I'm just glad this turned out leagues better than the Secret of Mana Remake.

I'm so glad it's faithful to the original. And yes, from my experience, the soundtrack is pleasant to the ears, even if not fully orchestrated. It has its charm.

9:15 wow, I can actually hear the low quality of the mic.

The voice of Salamando must have been Jeff from accounting.

" You ain't seen nothing yet! GYAAAAAAA!!"

hats off to all the gents and ladies that have time for all the good rpgs on this console. I still have to make time for dragon quest xi.

This is likely going to be my next purchase once I finish up with FF7r

I can't wait to play this since the SNES version is among my favorite games. I'm also glad that there was a mention of Sacrifice Part 3. That track is among the most hype final boss tracks in any game and relieved to hear it is done well. I'm also convinced that some of the 'inspiring' English voice acting is intentionally a meme.

For oldschool JRPG fans who grew up in the 90's, this game is an absolute home run by Square Enix. I would never have guessed they could be so faithful AND make a game so playable and fun. They've really turned a page in their history this year. Thank God. Now how about a Chrono Trigger remake?!

I’m so happy to hear that it’s good.

The Trials of Mana remake team should also remake Live-A-Live, Chrono Trigger, and Bahamut Lagoon.

The menu heavy original is what kept me from beating this game the first time around. So I'm extremely pleased to know they fixed all that

Cool, I'm getting it! That art style is so beautiful.

I still can't believe they took out the multiplayer

I liked everything about this game, besides story and voice acting. Story was good, but there was so much potential. It have been covered up by a great voice acting, but well that didn’t happen

Because of how the other remakes turned out I was still skeptical but right away the Trials Of Mana remake seemed like it was going to be good. I only got into the series with Collection Of Mana but having no nostalgia for the games or that era in general I still got completely hooked. So I really hope they keep these up and go back to the first two or make a new game in the Trials remake's style. I'd ask for the ones after that but I haven't heard good things about the later games so I don't know maybe just ignore them or change them for the better.

I started playing Trials of Mana today and I am really enjoying it so far. The remake immediately gets a massive amount of bonus points for staying true to the original OST and just upgrading the samples used. I think there are some variations in tracks I have heard, but for the most part it seems to be a 1:1 sequencing. This is HUGE to me because of how often OSTs for remakes are designed around the impression that because they're working with newer technology they have to cram an entire orchestra into every single track and shove as many flourishes, counter melodies, and harmonic variations as possible. It just ends up making everything sound like an "epic remix" that's turned to 11. If Chrono Trigger is ever to be remade I hope it would stick to its original art style and update Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuo Uematsu's original music with better samples rather than try to "update" the music itself. It's so good as is. Heck, they could probably even get away with using samples from Chrono Cross!

Glad I pre ordered it last month But I litterally see 0 marketing of it?! PROMOTE IT MORE SQUARE T_T

Great review. Sounds like you have played the original as well. I cant wait to play this. 25 years ago I would play this with my brother. Everything about this remake is fantastic

Hawkeye/Reisz/Charlotte is an amazing team though, if you’ve taken H as dark and R as light, and C as whatever, you can mow down anything.

I just finished Ys VIII, its going to be hard for Trials' combat style to top that.

I adore everything about this, it's definitely a must-own. Also, the character select and the way the class change works, I could see this being a game I come back to for years

I played the demo and loved it, cant wait for its release. BUt one complaint i did have which isnt really huge but really only a minor annoyance is the abrupt pause to signify the change in day and night. I wish they hadnt gone the simons quest route with its day and night cycle.

I loved the demo so I'm looking forward to getting my copy later this week. Glad to hear the rest of the game doesn't falter.

In comparison to the cast of Final Fantasy IV, Cecil Harvey is likened to Duran. Kain Highwind is likened to Riesz. Rydia of Mist and Palom of Mysidia are likened to Angela. Rosa Farrell and Porom of Mysidia are likened to Charlotte. Yang Fang Leiden is likened to Kevin. Edge is likened to Hawkeye. In comparison to the cast of Final Fantasy X, Auron are likened to Duran. Tidus is between Duran and Hawkeye. Yuna is likened to Charlotte. Kimahri is a mix of Kevin and Riesz. Lulu is likened to Angela. Rikku is likened to Hawkeye.

Pretty cool to see this game in full 3D remake and I will check it out once I get paid.

Glad to see you back again, Ash. Hope things are going well for you. :)

Im very glad this exists. Along with Bravely Default, Octopath, Dragon Quest, and FF VII Remake, squarenix is on fire!!! Id love for Ito, and possibly Sakaguchi to return

Playing through the game right now on hard mode, and can confirm there is a difficulty jump after your first class change. The Xenoba and Bill & Ben fights nearly wiped my party. I've fallen in love with this game all over again.

finally something other than Animal Crossing on this channel

Very good review of this surprisingly awesome remake! I've been talking about it a lot on our podcast .. it's so comforting and relaxing and came out at the perfect time.

I want a new jrpg for my switch. Between this or dragon quest what would yall recommend?

Fantastic review, thanks so much!

The Secret of Mana remake is in no way THAT bad. It's basically just a graphical update to the original with minor QoL upgrades, it's actually almost completely faithful to the original. The notion that they somehow ruined the game is completely wrong, it's most likely that people kind of forgot how primitive the original was. The game is still a classic though and is still fun, you just have to set your expectations appropriately.

I'm just curious is there any side quests in the game? Or story only

Do you have to play the previous games before you play this or is it separate?

Wouldn't it have been better if it had multiplayer like the snes version?

I absolutely love your review style Ash.

Lets watch a review of a game i decided to buy day 1 the moment it was announced.

Do you know that each character has at least 2 types of ending, depending on who is on your team? Also depending on who you choose as your main. I have already seen people using Kevin as main, but with different characters on the team, have different story routes and ending for Kevin himself. For example, if Riesz as main, with or without Hawkeye in your team, will have a different ending for her even if it is the same path of the last boss for the main story out of the 3 paths for the last boss. Selecting who is the 2nd and 3rd member of the team will affect some of the story sequences. You can try this for your self on the Demo too. For one good example, if Charlotte is selected as the 2nd team member, she will join you before you can enter the Cascade Cavern. If you select her as 3rd member, she will join you inside Cascade Cavern as your 3rd member (fastest way to get all 3 members), where you help to save her from falling. If you don't select her as a party member, you will still save her but she won't join you. If as the 2nd member, the main character will be the only one seeing the Priest of Light (Charlotte's grandfather). Where if Charlotte as the 3rd member, the main and 2nd character will go meet the Priest of Light. In both cases, Charlotte will not go meet the Priest of Light. However, if Charlotte is selected as the main character, this the only case that she will go see her grandfather, on top of that, the 2nd member selected will be the one who she lands on and save her when she tries to escape Wendel with the super jump item during her background story. Also sometimes you do get some special link abilities when you spoke to some NPC, so if you just skip speaking to all the NPC without the stars guide, then you will be going to miss out on those link abilities. They also like to hide items, treasure chest, and the cactus in hard to view corners and camera angle view.

When I play, I want that dub

FINALLY!

I was a little worried as a veteran of the original game with me breezing through hard mode in the demo, but I'll just chalk that up to earlygame being earlygame. I'm super excited for this game regardless and I'll probably be replaying it as many times as I did the oringinal, maybe more.

I really need to play this game one day. I never played the original on the Super Famicom. But I heard great things about it. So I'm looking forward to this one.

So excited for this

Great review!

Nice Review! I personally rather have a game use lower graphic, and then run smooth on 60FPS ... whats the point to aim at 30FPS when the Console never even can reach that? Also ... the feeling i got from the Demo ... its a fun game with mechanics from yesterday ... it feels like Secret of Mana on the Snes back then. On Steam the game is $50 which this is worth ... more then $40 for the Secret of Mana remake ...

how many hours for playtime?

The game is well done and fun. Thats all that matters to me.

Will definitely pick this one up! Next on the list is Xenoblade 😁

If i get this game, i'm playing with the dub simply due to how hilariously bad it is.

Went through the demo with 4 party setups. AND SEEING THIS MEANS I CAN FINALLY PLAY THE FULL VERSION LETSA GO!

I-I-I-I liked the soudntrack from the SoM Remake because it was so experimental. Sure, a handful of songs were pretty weak, but some of them are almost as if Pink Floyd rolled all over the soundtrack lol A bit disappointed that Trials for the most part only mad synth-orchestra "updates" of the old songs (still got some nice arrangements though)

This game looks really good i never played the original but i will be trying this one out for sure. The Art Style reminds me of Dragon Quest 11 and i loved that game.

Do you have to play the game 6 times to get the full story or just twice if you make your second playthrough use the three charactrers you didn't choose the first time around?

Been wondering about getting this game. May consider getting it and still have Gift Card credit from my recent Birthday. Was considering getting Super Mario Maker 2 with the final update, but I'm so-so on 2D platform games and I don't think I would have enough patience making levels, let alone being able to beat my creations and upload them and making games/maps.

Is the story complete? Or does it stop after Midgar?

Now this remake I'm waiting for from SE 💪🏽

I've played about two Mana series games. One was a PS2 version that came out in the mid 2000's like around 2005-2007. Think it was called Legend of Mana. The other was the 2018 version that was eehhhhh. Anyway VERY good review and thanks. I'll be getting this game. I love action games. Good Lord that voice acting. I may be forced to switch to sub if it continues to be horrendous, but then again, I welcome the comedy from it.

When I played the demo, I fel the controls were really stiff and unwieldy, but I just might give it another try after this review.

The game being English dubbed is win for me. When I play a game I like to play it and not constantly look at the bottom of the screen to read text.

Great review, kudos. 👍🏻

It’s good. If you like some of what square enix has made recently it fits in really well. Recommend.

I liked the demo and I was always surprised about the variation of characters and therefor the story of the game since I first heard of the SNES version. But as I am not used to "modern" RPGs, I get very confused in towns and cities in those games when the camera is not fixed and the doors are not facing to south. But I fuess that's just me and I am nitpicking?

I never played the original game but picked up the demo and enjoyed it sooo much that I decided to pick it up

great review! cheers!

You didn't mention that the remake doesn't have any multiplayer option like the original.

I hope Legend of Mana gets a remake similar to this one day. I know they're interested in possibly remaking another game and I hope it's this.

This game was secretly amazing.. I played it when it originally game out.. it rivals chrono trigger.... can't wait to have my dude squad and change into warewolf as a fight starts and becoming a Ninja

Wow i had no idea this was coming out already. I loved the original so ima get it.

I was scared to have gamexplain review a game i am not sure they even played in the 90's. I am happy to see they liked it. :)

You at least meet other characters at least once. After your protagonist prologue you end up in a port city held by beast man. You can find Angela sleeping at the Inn. In fact 5 of the 6 characters can be found in this town. Charlotte will be found in the cave unlocked by the faerie.

Thing is you don't HAVE to reinvent the wheel all the time, sometimes going with what works is perfectly fine an ends up being better than trying to reinvent.

The world map looks incredible!

This game looks really good! I just bought Secret of Mana remake to play beforehand and I actually really enjoy it too, bad English voice acting and longeroad times aside, I'm enjoying it!

Is the difficulty balance comparable to KHIII?

Saw this popped up on Steam, jumped onto KZfaq to confirm it is what I think it is before buying. I've always wanted to play Secret Of Mana 3 but couldn't get into it via emulator. This will do for me ;)

Hello, this game marked my childhood, is it true that this new version even playing hard is too easy?

Waiting for my dang preorder.

I wish they had given Secret of Mana this treatment, or just skipped it and went straight to this game.

Just finished the demo might buy it

Yay, their mouths move this time ^^

Which one is a better purchase though? This game or the collection?

I loved the crap out of the original, and played the demo at least three times. I really love the revamped battle system, and everything else was glorious nostalgia. The demo hard mode was still really easy though, at least through the first boss.

Wow, the PC/PS4 version performs way better than the Switch version. I'm still glad I bought it on Switch, I had a lot of fun with it. But if I plan to replay it, I should probably trade it in for the PS4 version.

is it though

Kevin is the main character on my first playthrough. Hawkeye is the main character on my second playthrough. Duran is the main character on my third playthrough. Charlotte is the main character on my fourth playthrough. Riesz is the main character on my fifth playthrough. Angela is the main character on my sixth playthrough.

After playing the demo I'm certain I want Kevin as my main character but I'm a bit indecisive concerning my two side characters. Maybe I'll go with Riez and Hawkeye.

The Game is almost here!!

I agree with pretty much everything said in this review. I'm a bit sad it still feels like a bit of a low budget title, given its steep price and the fact the developer isn't exactly strapped for cash. Still, I'm having lots of fun with it.

Sounds like Vergil from DMC is giving it a review. I wonder why....

I find it strange that nowhere is the fact the original game had multiplayer is mentioned. I know it is the biggest reason I probably won't get it. I thought the demo was good, just I really want to play with my friend(s) on the couch like the original game. I think that's an important thing to leave out of a review that's comparing it to the original as most friends I have that are big into this series really love the multiplayer.