Looking Back at Sword of Mana
Some adventures are timeless, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be improved upon in some manner. The question is whether the changes bring anything new to the experience, for good or for ill.
Some adventures are timeless, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be improved upon in some manner. The question is whether the changes bring anything new to the experience, for good or for ill.
Quarantine and self-isolation have given us plenty of time to follow our hobbies. Possibly too much time. But nobody ever said that it was time that must be spent on the new, after all. Old games need love, too, and they always have things for us to ponder.
Dragon Quest released on May 27, 1986, for the NES. Sam Wachter, however, never played it. Read through Sam’s experience of what it was like to go back to a thirty-three year old game and play it for the first time.
The role-playing genre has come a long way in the past thirty years, and yet it’s always interesting to look back at games of yore and see what they did right, what they did wrong, and what they could have done better. Today we look at the first Mana game, Final Fantasy Adventure.
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