I don't want to wait to hit the monster in front of me.
>>722538102So don't suck at the game ass boy.
>>722538102I'm playing this game now. I got to the mushroom man village. This is pretty long for a SNES action rpg.
>>722538582it's got a lot of flaws, but i love the gametry sd3 some time in the future. i like it even more.
WE ARE GOINGBACK TO POTATOSFOR MY FUCKING POWER WRIST
>>722541435One of the many good yet forgotten 4chan memes
>>722538102its a nice relaxing game. you attack, keep away from enemies, move into attack and repeat. set your companions AI to fully agressive but keep away and to not used charged attacks and its smooth sailing
>Coop this with bro. Having fun.>Get to boss. Flip coin.>Heads. >One of us swaps to sprite, que-chains gnome(Or applicable weakness elemental) summons, 1shots* boss.>Tails would be normal fighting it.Only flipped tails twice whole game.Wild shit.
>>722541435unironically, potos is the very best place in the game to level your weapon skillyou can use select to cycle between characters to move past the guy that blocks the gate into potossince level skill is only determined by how many enemies you defeat, and since there are lots of easy enemies in the first area of the game, you relatively rapidly earn levelstoo bad weapon charging is fuckin useless past the first level (which randomly activates anyway w/o charging)
relatedly, the wind temple is the best place to level support magic, since there are no enemies but you have access to both your magic and the sprite's elder that heals you for freeunfortunately, there are no optimal places to level your offensive magic, you just have to grind for that shit, but the pay off is unique spell animations for Lv8 spells, some of which are pretty rad
>>722542969Also keep in mind that support magic gets more exp while there are enemies nearby. An alternative to grinding at the shrine or at an inn.
>>722538102There's a romhack for that.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uirRZB_EXFQhttps://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=27890.0
>>722543180can't grind easily at an inn since you can't cast magic in peaceful areas
>>722543381that looks like it totally ruins the balance of the weapons hahaJust spam attack and win really fast.
>>722541847this shit isn't forgotten the fuck you smoking
>>722543381why did it take 11 posts for this to be posted /thread
I think enough time has passed that we can collectively admit that Secret of Mana kinda sucked. Like kinda sucked HARD. Yeah, the co-op novelty left a big impression as lads but the game was genuinely bad. It wasn't fun to play. The bosses were lame. The story was retarded. The characters were forgettable. It was ugly and the music sucked and it was half-finished and it showed. Childhood is thinking Secret of Mana is a good game. Adulthood is realizing Secret of Evermore makes more sense.
my mind is going blank. what was that indie mana-like game that came out a couple years ago after a lot of years of development? google isn't helping me
>>722543660Secrets of Grindea?
>>722543861that's exactly it. thanks anon
>>722543381This right here. SoM Turbo makes the game much more fun. grab 2 friends, a case of beer, order some pizza and have a blast.
>>722543502Anon please
>>722543660There's also Trinity Trigger which is VERY Mana-like.
i bought my copy of SoM off the kid who in elementary school i deleted his LTTP save to start a new game when he was on like lv7 of the dark worldi remember he chased me around school (this was at after-school daycare)this must have been 1992
>>722543956also thanks, downloading from gog
>>722543486it absolutely does, the best way to balance it is to check what the dps is and reduce the always full damage hit down so it averages out to be the same.but the game was never particularly hard to begin with
>>722544412the boss fight i ever struggled with is vampire
>>722544657never had trouble with vampire, but even as an adult Spiky Tiger tends to wreck my shit.
>>722544836i knew there was one i was forgetting aboutyes, hands down, spikey tiger is the hardest fight in the game, primarily because you don't have magic to spam
>>722543861I just looked up gameplay of this.Seems nothing like the Mana games. You guys are crazy.
>>722544061the popos image gets reposted here from time to time so seeing someone call it "forgotten" makes me wonder if they're retarded or baiting
>>722538102True, but this is why you have the other characters attacking as well, to stagger the enemy while your weapon is still charging. Also, a lot of attacks are going to be just the regular 100% attacks and you'll only charge them when you can't get clean attacks all the time.Also, you are right. The combat in Secret of Mana did kind of suck because of this. The first game (Final Fantasy Adventure) handled it a lot better.
Secret of Mana has fucking beautiful music and it will always hold a special place in my heart.It was also the game that made me understand I have a vore fetish.
>>722538102Play Secret of Mana Turbo.
>>722538102Nigga you been making this thread for a WEEK. Play something else ffs
>>722542335I don't want to relax. I want to smash everything. That's why Sword of Mana is the best Mana entry.
>>722547331>I don't want to relax. I want to smash everythingPlay Angela's game.
>>722538102That was the weirdest part about the mechanics. Overall, I loved the game, but not being able to combo enemies was bizarre.
>>722549880but angela makes the game slow to a crawl because magic pauses the action as it fires off in sd3the real steam roller crew is hawk+lise+kevin, they ABSOLUTELY SHRED everything in mere moments
>>722538102Quintet easily made better action RPG combat for the SNES than Square did.
>>722538102What's the difference between waiting for a meter to fill for a charged attack and holding the button to charge a charged attack?
>>722550879terranigma is pretty amazingi hated illusion of gaiai still need to play soul blazer
>>722551602you have to wait a short while before you can make a full strength attack again (indicated by a percent)charging an attack has up to 8 different levels of charge, each level triggering a unique form of attack with the equipped weapon
>>722538102>game presents itself as an action rpg>you have to spend 90% of the battles waiting for a meter to fill>it doesn't matter where you stand or position your character, boss attacks just hit you anywaySuch a terrible system. It's a good thing the graphics and sound are so good or no-one would have bothered with that game.>>722542335>its smooth sailingExcept for when enemies can stomp on you when you're on the ground and stunlock you and KO you.Or the other times when the AI gets stuck on a rock and you have to switch control to manual and get move them yourself. etc>>722550879Yeah quintet were the best (except terranigma was a let down, but everything else was outstanding).>>722551647Terranigma just repeats all the themes the previous games did, except with worse graphics and gameplay.
>>722553770*also while i'm at it - Alcahest is a better game than SoM.
