"Music by Yoko Shimimoura" Goddammit, why is she so great?

I for one am glad the Mana series is finally getting some proper love!

finally someone mentions the frame issues with the pc version

really good content. I like ports review :)

Your videos have become my go to for comparisons. Not just cause they show up most in searches (lol) but, also cause they're always quality content. Thank you so much for all the work you've done.

The one thing I wanted from the remake was a correct fruit encyclopedia. That was it. Turning off encounters is an _acceptable_ substitute. A very nice feature indeed.

I'm really happy to hear that the original soundtrack is still an option. This should be standard whenever you remake a game like this. It's not like disc size is an issue anymore, just put the original sound files in there. Legend of Mana is one my favorite games and I'm stoked to see that the remaster seems pretty decent. There are some issues like the stat glitch and performance, but as someone who played through the original US release on a pretty shoddy emulator, it's no big deal.

i have completed this game many times and have the true fantasy set for RPG, make child day goes by with fun

I wish they'd give this much love to FF 6.

That soundtrack redo is godlike. I only had issues with To the Sea, as they changed the pacing from flow to this weird choppiness. But on the other hand you get Searching Beyond the Truth (Distant Truth in the original) and the added chants elevate this track to high heavens. Yoko Shimomura is goddess of jRPG OSTs.

Thanks for the video. LoM was, and is, one of my favourite games of all times (with Breath of Fire IV being the second one). I loved it as a child, and when I replayed it couple of years ago. Now I am planning to buy the remake. Too bad that we don't have the collector's edition here in Poland.

This was my first and currently only Mana game I’ve played! It was good :) specifically the remake was my first. Also I played the multiplayer and it made me sad that barely any games are multiplayer anymore 😭

I'm an oldie who fell in love with this game way back when it released on PS1. I absolutely grinded through this game to completion. Spend over a hundred hours trying to figure out forging and crafting with the help of early GameFaqs. I tried many times over the last decade or so to pick this game up again. Every time, I wouldn't last until the end, because the random battles were such a chore. The simple fact that they made encounters optional is such a blessing, it gave this game new life for me. Now I can focus once more on re-discovering all those amazing characters and their intertwined stories.

I really like how they did the remaster here. The backgrounds especially look good. They may clash a bit with the characters sprite, but I can tolerate it here. Most SquareEnix's remasters of their older games seem to have at art clashing issue of some kind (FF9 is the worst for me. The 3d is fine but the 2d looks too blurry). Loosing the ability to bring in another player's character is a bit of a shame, but it isn't that big of a deal. Fighting in the arena will lose its major appeal. Never knew about the weapon, health and ai changes. Or it's been so long I forgot about it. As cheap as the game is, this one is an easy sell for me, but being digital only, I'll wait to buy it when I have time. I'll be getting it on PC. I'm sure the frame stutter will be fixed eventually.

Missed this game alot 😢 . I remember my childhood especially ost ☺️

Legend of Mana Remaster is based on the U.S. version. The soundtrack was rearranged by Ryo Furukawa under the supervision of Yoko Shimomura. The rearranged soundtrack is available on digital storefronts in the U.S. The original version of the soundtrack is unfortunately Japan exclusive.

Good overview. The only other thing I wish they had done in this remaster is make the crafting less cryptic! Why did they not give any kind of guide to players in game on how it works is baffling.

Played it to completion twice. Once to find out how it ends, second time to enjoy the world. I never complete the game again because the moment Hometown Domina plays I was taken to the past and I would just sit there listening to the music.

Ah yes, another excellent comparison video king

Amazing review and exactly what I needed! Didn’t realise they’ve remastered it - all this time I’ve been playing it on an emulator!

I know this is older but i would like to ask something- In the PS1 version, for sure the first release(i bought it at best buy the week it released) there were some bugs. most were not anything to really mention. however, there was a bug or bugs where if you had an NPC along for a quest, and failed the quest, (sometimes through player fault, sometimes through wierdness in the game like the NPC dissapeared during a screen transition on a map) then the game would simply be "stuck". And by that i mean, you could visit every single area you had, fight every enemy, talk to whoever happened to be around, but none of the NPC's were in the game because the game was still thinking you were on a particular quest. Except, you couldn't do the quest because the NPC was in limbo in the aether somewhere. This means the game would never progress, ever, ever again and your file was junk and you had to start over. Is this still a thing? Did they fix the vanishing NPC bug? Example from my last playthrough long ago- i think it is Dani?(the cat girl i think) and you have a quest with her on a map that reminds me of the top of the great wall of China(i forget all the area names, forgive me it's been at least 15 years) get to the boss. We are fighting it. I miscalculate something and die. Stupid mistake, i don;t even remember what it was. Anyway, respawn or whatever, except Dani is nowhere to be found on the level. The boss never spawns, if I recall. Or maybe it did and I beat it, but i think I reloaded a save file. Didn;t matter, Dai was gone forever, nowhere in the entire game, and now the game thought I was supposed to be fighting a boss with her and would never offer me another NPC or quest again from any area. that type of thing happened on multiple playthroughs for me, sometimes the NPC just vanished moving from one "room" in an area to the next. The fat cat guy vanished on the road map once for me, early on, but it borked the whole game. They fixed this right? I can;t make myself buy the remaster if this is still a thing, i don;t have time in my life to restart multiple times so i can complete one story arc without NPC's wandering off into a black hole.

By the way the stutter issues people were having on PC should be resolved now with recent patches.

I feel like they missed out on a lot of qol changes made to the remaster, that makes the game's events, quests, pets, items etc. Less missable or even not missable at all. Cause that's a huge problem in this game, you still have to read guides online to fully complete the game.

They left the incorrect statistics in the game? Why is Square so colossally shit at porting these retro titles? God, man.

The issue with the item stats still being in accurate/being based on the English version seems like a massive oversight. Any chance SQEX would fix it?

Love this game but I also would love a 3D remake of the game similar to the way trials got 😎

Will you make a video on Dragon Quest 3 when the HD-2D remake comes out?

Oh nice, you used that xm29 CRT shader (probably with retroarch) while the new backgrounds look great if you played alot the original you can see differences in the artstyle. I just wish a company like Square adopt a option to use some sort a CRT shader in their older games, specially ones that have pixelart. But I must say given the option to a whole new OST and the abilite to turn off encounters this make pretty much the definitive edition. And talking about the weapons status I'm pretty sure someone will make a mod in the future making changes to be like the original JP release

As always thank you for these videos, I'll pick this up some time in the future, need to grind away on some games before I buy more.

I’m loving the remaster! Huge fan of the original since 2000 and I’ve almost gotten the Platinum trophy.

Gonna get me this this week got me a dsi xl for five now gonna love this game again soon in love with it's nostalgic musicals and battle ethics is far exquisite

Great video as usual! Would you be doing videos on the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters when they come out one by one? Or will you do them in bulk once the Pixel Remaster version of Final Fantasy VI comes out?

This was a great video! Very informative and you gave a lot of information!

They should have left the fonts pixelated, i prefer the old one for its uniqueness of the graphics.

A masterpiece is all I can say about this game. Unlike any other game and just a joy to play and look at and Listen too!!!

The soundtrack for this game is a gem!

I would rather just play my ps1 disc, but it always freezes at a certain boss fight. Playing remasters always feels clunky and awkward to me for some reason, and things like name/face changes always really bother me.

Thanks for doing this one - was looking forward to it!

really enjoyed the nostalgia trip. but yea, they couldve doen with some improvements to the menus, item/skill descriptions, tutorials for crafting and building, as well as maybe allow for some degree of customisation of the NPCs, such as their skills and abilities but not their equipment/weapon. along with some more bonus content would be appreciated

Awesome video! Thanks for the information!

The most faithful remaster from SquareEnix. I don't understand how they struggle so much with FF.

This game was my top 3 ps1 games of all time. I HAVE to get it.

Certainly buying the Switch version. Just would have liked if there was an option to retain the pixelated world visuals. And larger boss health.

I play it on the Switch and love every minute of it. Going back to the PS1 version only works if playing on a PS1/2 with a CRT TV because the PS3 will upscale to 480i as the default giving it an ugly appearance. I call it a win because it's widely available and more affordable as an option to playing it.

This might be the first Square soft/enix remaster I end up liking more than the orignal.

I never knew this game existed until the recent trailer of its anime. might give it a try when i got my laptop

This is masterpiece 👍👍

It makes no sense to me remaster a title and keep the characters originally in pixelart style. So, to me, original pixelart is more consistent than this remaster one.

Can you make a ninja gaiden video?

Owned legend of mama on PS1 and Vita it still feels like the same game

As always great job on the comparisons 👏

Great video, thank you for making it!

use psx version on retroarch > it has this nice shader called "Denoisers" which make the graphic almost on par with the remake (the remake has hd background but very pixelated sprite which looks weird), and there's another one called mattias iirc it gave that authentic crt look just like in old days.

3:43 Ah no wonder playing the PC version felt a bit different combat-wise, even if I've played / finished the original version on PS1 lots of times for many years. I thought I was just getting rusty from not having played the game again until recently for the PC remaster 😅 To be honest I'm surprised to find out that there were differences for combat-related stuff between the English and Japanese games for the original PS1 verion.

Well i had to test it And im sorry for the correction, but diceberries affect the personality, my pet is aggresive after 3 diceberries

I hope they will make this game 2D HD

I'll finally play this game for the first time. I always wanted but never played.

only game I still have on the original disk. Song of mana is my fav song from the game.

thanks for the info, played this on psx/ps1 and me and my cousin even print some walkthroughs speciallly the what they call again? 7 wisdom and the suppose to be ghost thing in one town/city where when enter or exit the room someone would appear that you might end up failed the quest. The print walktrough that my cousin print from the net also have the secret like the chocobo pet, the sword from saga frontier 2 thing(reason I'm looking for comparison because of that). Now my question is answered by this video either gonna play psx/ps1 emulator with of course have a ff8 and saga frontier 2 save file or wait for a big steam sale because it's on my wishlist for a while.

So, I was about to buy the PC version since it's on sale right now, but after watching this and hearing other things about how bad the PC port was, I think I'll just get it on PS4. I'd much rather have a good port with few issues for $30, rather than save $6 and have a bad port.

I am so sad to see this game isn't selling better. I love the Mana series and this game so much that I bought it digitally on switch, even though I imported the physical. Only way we will bring Mana and other iconic series back is by supporting them.

Hey, thanks for doing the work on this. I was unsure to pick this up since I have the PS1 version, but you've swayed me. Keep up the great work!

I bet PC-version performance issue happens thanks to the Denuvo. They remove it now and experience goes much smoother.

Just bought a beautiful copy on ps1

Offf, glad the pc version has its issues, otherwise I wouldn’t believe this is a square enix retro remake.

Thank you for the comparison. I just ordered this and SaGa Frontier from Japan. I have never played a SaGa game, but was always intrigued by their systems. These two will be my first dive into this series, which one should I start with?

I wish they'd remastered the character sprites too. Heck, what I really wish is that we got a whole remake, like the other Mana titles.

Shame to hear that old bugs (pet personalities, etc) are still present, however, the AI being fixed is a welcome improvement. I found out very quickly with the original (US) version that you could stunlock literally EVERY enemy just by spamming light attack (with slow enough timing to avoid activating the attack combo, i.e. just repeat the 1st hit over and over). All in all though a decent game, basically did "open world" before "open world" made it big.

Does the PS4 version have the same framepacing issues as the PC issue? Not talking about the battle stutters (which I never really noticed from my memory of the PS1 version) which appeared to get mitigated with updates, but scrolling seems rough.

I feel ashamed in myself for not knowing Yoko made music for this and Kingdom Hearts. Both legendary ost's

Suscribed, great content, any news on a physical edition for this one? Can't find nothing about it

1 question that I have does not the get fully answered by my google searches is about the coop mode. when importing a character from another save file it is said that they only get exp and cannot change their equipment / skills. they can only change it if you load up their orignal save game. does this also me the imported character does not receive any equipment / skills as well? this would make co-op play very complicated/frustrating if you want to coop the game from start to finish. hope you or someone aroudn here can answer my question. great video btw!

So, no version is worth buying then. Thanks for the heads up.

Remember that old games should be judged by what they look on a CRT. Not pure unfiltered pixelated crap they give us on modern releases (and retro nostalgia games) CRT filters are nowadays easy to implement.

Legend of Mana is one of the most underrated games back in the day. Yet the gameplay and all the extra things you can do in this game stood out and it deserved a sequel. This game was only released in Japan and the U.S. i'm assuming the sale numbers were probably low compared to the other titles. One of the few hidden gems of the game world. Wish SquareEnix did a better job with the Remastered version too. I do want a sequel, not all jRPG's in the day allowed you so much freedom as this one. It'd be a shame to just end it here. Here's hoping SquareEnix actually listens to their fans for once and work a bit more on the remaster, plus deliver a sequel to this amazing game.

I really just wish they would have made an option to have a more direct quest system instead of the confusing one from the original.

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Will look into fan mods instead.

Do you plan on doing the final fantasy pixel rereleases coming out later this month?

It just me or the resolution is locked at 720 and 768. Pc ver

The stuttering on PC version is courtesy from Denuvo

Really wish they released the physical overseas

Really wish we could play with the original backgrounds, would be nice to have the option at least.

if you have a CRT......original sprit looks very good on CRT...=3

Nice video Sad they use USA version Don't know why but ok, because the problem was the easy difficulty but the game put japanese version in this but the life still low on enemies :'(

The question everyone is afraid to ask but I am not. Is there an auto-fire option for attacking the monsters ? My index finger just about fell off playing through the original PS1 version by mashing that (X) button a gazillion times.

i love the old song idk why

That helped!

i love the song and the music

Why they are not smoothing the character too? It’s still pixel

My favorite game 🤙

5:15 Let me guess, the Japanese version of this port keeps the big lips.

Does this game use drm it will cause stuttering.

Is there any chance we can just hack the game to add the original monster and weapon stats back in?

Does the android version have the same changes as the remastered version ?

I got the steam remaster, but I keep playing the PS1 version using emulators on my Steam Deck, I don't like the technical issues, prefer the old look with CRT filter, oh, and also, the remaster won't run on my Steam Deck

I wish they added new quests :(

I missed it: Did SE provide a review code this time? Anecdotally, what're the chances they'll patch the fruit description text? Keep on truckin'.

i really wanted to get it on Steam, because I love the original, but between the prohibitve price in my country (155 bucks!!!!) and the fact that I already played the original, i'm gonna wait. I only got SaGa Frontier Remastered (at 133 bucks) because I HADN'T played the original and i'm a huge fan of the SaGa series.

Why have less hp for bosses ? Why can't Japaneese and U.S. versions be identical except for language ?