User Reviews (71 - 81 of 124)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

Legend of Mana? Legend of the Bore

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: August 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love RPGs they're very constructive and many of them have a good plot. I play all kinds of rpgs and i don't discriminate them if they're graphics are lousey or their music stinks as long as their story is off the wall. Being a mana fan that was what i expected legend of mana to be. Of course my expectations were shot when i played it, it is the most depressing game out there, you a play a soulless protagonist who goes on depressing adventures, which for the most part end up in a sad ending. The worst is when you have to face the last boss man why they make us fight that person i don't know. It truly destroys the beauty of the mana series.

Lame game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Not what I had hoped for. I nevr played Secret of Mana, but I'm sure it was better then this sequal. All the game is, is mini quest after mini quest. It has no solid story line that can be followed. I'd of expected better from Squaresoft.

Legend of Mana Rules

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 32
Date: May 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I havn't played it yet, but so far, after all my searching, this one may live up to it's previous Seiken Densetsu games, especially 2 + 3. Buy it, Because there are so many cool things to it

Square tries too hard to be diffrent

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: May 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I'd like to say that I'm a fan of the whole final fantasy series, VI in particular. I also downloaded the prequel to this game, Senkin Desentu 3 which is one of the best games never to be realsed in the U.S. (it never was translated). Legend of Mana departed from all bounds of reason in an attemt to please everyone screaming for non-linearity. I'm as much of a fan as the next man, but this is too far. First of all, there is no plot in this game, NONE! You are either a male or female character walking around solving quests and telling them to a cactus. Sound stupid? You ain't seen nothin yet. ALL of the quests are tedious, boring, and altogether stupid. For example, a fat rabbit joins me that has amnesia. In order to cure him I must travel to a palace talk to a woman, go to a nest, go back to the woman, go back to the nest, then pick up the stupid rabbit again and head back to the woman. And I'm expected to do this without ANY directions whatsoever. My last complaint with this game is the fact that you construct the world with artifacts, creating a bigger world as you get more artifacts. HOW could a world sealed in artifacts allow travel to cities that HAVEN'T BEEN RELEASED YET? Characters freely travel to places you haven't been to and mention events there, but they couldn't possably have the slightest idea whats going on in an artifact. You obviously weren't ment to discover this because this game seems to have been aimed at children who have not spoken their first words yet My final advice, buy FF9, burn this game in mass

This game is BORING...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: March 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I got Legend of Mana, I expected much more. For instance, I thought you would go right into the game like in Secret of mana. Instead there is five minutes of boring text, then you must wander aimlessly arund a town. Also it is impossible to get the second artifact or to get into an adventurous area.In short I am saying, DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS GAME.

An embarassment compared to Secret of Mana...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: January 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The first Mana game, Final Fantasy Adventure, was awesome. So was its remake called Sword of Mana. And Secret of Mana, for the SNES, was an amazing classic beloved by many after all these years. So what happened with Legend of Mana?

First off, this game doesnt have the free flowing world and fighting of the previous games. There is no linking areas to travel between. Each area/dungeon has its own little space and must be found by doing quests. After you have obtained the new area you can place it anywhere on the world map, for reasons not wholly known or cared for. Its a very strange concept at best.

And the battles. Oh, what a terrible system!
When you enter a battle, all of which are preset and cannot be avoided, your character moves in stutter steps. He/she moves somewhat like a fencer, a pace at a time. This makes for awkward movement. And if you want to dodge enemies you have to move up and down. Want to attack? You can only attack the left and right. This two-way dodge/attack system was totally uneccessary compared to Sword and Secret of Manas free moving combat.

And the difficulty of the game... or lack there of.
In battle you can hide in a corner and slowly replenish life. Have a teamate? Stand close to them and you will regain life about 3x faster then normal. And sometimes defeated enemies drop candy which replenish all or most of your life. Oh, and after every battle you regain ALL of your life.
There are more ways to heal your character in battle than to attack!

All in all this game is a garbled mess. Its a failed attempt of Square to make a 'unique' Mana game which strays from the original formula. I cannot believe this game came from the same company as Secret of Mana, the Chrono games, and the Final Fantasy games. Avoid at all costs.

How great a game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i thought that legend of mana was a great game, it has something no other rpg has and thats the ability to have 2 players.

Keep SOM Going!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well, I can't say I've ever really played the game. But if it's anything like Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore or Seiken Detsu 3 (Secret of Mana 2), it has to be pretty good. Now if you're wondering about the Seiken Detsu(I can't really spell it), it IS reaaly Secret of Mana 2. SOM was first, then SOE, and THEN SD3(SOM2) It's called SD3 because it was the third game. But in America, well, I don't think it was ever released in America, but, it was called Secret of Mana 2. I know this has NOTHING to do with LEGEND OF MANA! I have NO clue why they called it LEGEND! And if your wondering how I've played SOM2 (SD3), I am from japan, but now live in the USA

How dare them squaresoft people wreck the mana series....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: May 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game [stinks]! It's so [dang] boring. It ranks up there with saga frontier (another stupid game). The graphics [stink], the storyline is boring and the gameplay/controls [stink] too! Don't even look at this game, go play Secret of Mana for the SNES. That's the best game ever, too bad Legend of Mana had to ruin it's name...

Flammie, we hardly knew ye

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've read some of the other reviews, and, frankly, i'm glad i only rented this game. It was amusing for a time, and i did think it was moderately enjoyable to have and train a pet rabite, but the rest of it was just painfully easy. I think a little modification of the battles to make them harder might have gone a long way to improve this game. The reasons why I gave it a two rather than a one, or a zero (which is what i *would* have given it at first glance) is because some of the stuff that can be done at the home is interesting. I like the idea of building weapons, as well as instruments, and the pets, like i said. But...That can't make up for the rest of the gameplay. That would be like someone buying FFVII for the Chocobo Racing. And...I missed Flammie. ::laughs::

Review Page: Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next 

Actions