Square Enix revives a JRPG legend with Visions of Mana, coming 2024
Dec. 8, 2023Visions of Mana is the first new game in the series in 15 years
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Visions of Mana is the first new game inSquare Enix’s legendary JRPG Mana series, and it looks absolutely incredible.
Visions of Mana takes place in a semi-open world and stars new hero Val, a newly appointed soul guard accompanying his buddy on her pilgrimage to the Tree of Mana. The visuals are straight-up JRPG candy, filling the screen with sweeping vistas of diverse landscapes, dynamic colors, cozy towns, and beautifully updated, but still classic Mana character models.
There isn’t a whole lot of the real-time combat shown, but what we do see looks like what you’d expect from a Mana game but modernized with smoother animations and snappier response times. In other words, it looks damn good. We also get to see a couple unique traversal methods, one showing Val summon a wind tunnel to ascend up a higher platform, and another where he’s swimming through an underwater area from the inside of a bubble.
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