Secret of Mana (SNES) [Part 1] - Mana Sword, Potos, Primm, Water Palace, Pandora | StoneMonkWisdom

Locations Visited:
Mana Sword Near Potos Village
Potos Village
Mantis Ant Boss Fight
???
Water Palace (Luka's place)
Pandora (Town)
Pandora Castle
Route to ??/??/??
Gaia's Navel
Witches Forest [Set Flag for Girl to follow Boy into Gaia's Navel Caves]

After all these years and no Secret of Mana playthrough on my channel?! Let's rectify this oversight starting in January 2025. This is my 2025 Q1 playthrough of Secret of Mana (Super Nintendo)

Hack(s):
1. VWF (Variable Width Font)
2. Better Scrolling (deadzone of screen scroll reduced)
3. Item Limit Increase (New limit = 9)
4. Faster Spell Grinding 64% (lessens the number of casts required to level Elementals)
5. Faster Weapon Grinding (Moderately Faster, noticeable)
6. Gaia's Navel With Girl without Doubling Back (No need to trigger flag in Witches Forest to bring her into Gaia's Navel)
7. Earlier Midge Mallet (Get the Mallet a little bit earlier without having to double back later)
8. Banished from Potos on the Honor System (You'll be able to come back into the village at sometime later)
9. No Neko Price Gouging (Neko will now charge what shops charge for goods)
10. Better Default Text Boxes
11. Echoey Mantango Caves (Replaces the all too common music from the caves with...)
12. Different Boss Music for B---- and D---- S---- (Replaces a couple boss themes with less common ones in final dungeon)
13. Upbeat Elinee's Castle (Replaces commonplace theme with 'Did you see the Ocean')
14. Restore Unused Fanfares (A couple fanfares never used will now play once each in a couple places in the game)
15. Sad Moogle Village (Changed theme in Moogle Village to match the atmosphere in the room)
16. Killable Snowmen (When enemy is Snowman, can use magic to defeat it)
17. Frosty the Friendly Alchemist (A snowman appears in some snowy areas (sometimes) to heal you with juice)
18. Remove Barrels on Run (button, and fixes some pixels on certain frame(s) for Barrel)
19. Multiplicative Change Form (spices up the monsters that can be transformed)
20. Watts in Haunted Forest
21. Neko & Watts in Pure Land
22. Neko in the Underground City
23. Neko & Watts in Final Dungeon (early on)
24. No Missable Monsters (Monsters in areas locked away during story can be defeated in other locations)
25. Alternate Karon (Unused NPC Sprite, one of three choices)
26. Luka's Pets (Basement Turtle Enemy in Water Palace)

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Secret of Mana, originally released in Japan as Seiken Densetsu 2, is a 1993 action role-playing game developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the sequel to the 1991 game Seiken Densetsu, released in North America as Final Fantasy Adventure and in Europe as Mystic Quest, and it was the first Seiken Densetsu title to be marketed as part of the Mana series rather than the Final Fantasy series. Set in a high fantasy universe, the game follows three heroes as they attempt to prevent an empire from conquering the world with the power of an ancient flying fortress.

Rather than using a turn-based battle system like contemporaneous role-playing games, Secret of Mana features real-time battles with a power bar mechanic. The game has a unique Ring Command menu system, which pauses the action and allows the player to make decisions in the middle of battle. An innovative cooperative multiplayer system allows a second or third player to drop in and out of the game at any time. Secret of Mana was directed and designed by Koichi Ishii, programmed primarily by Nasir Gebelli, and produced by veteran Square designer Hiromichi Tanaka.

The game received acclaim for its brightly colored graphics, expansive plot, Ring Command menu system, and innovative real-time battle system. Critics also praised Hiroki Kikuta's soundtrack and the customizable artificial intelligence (AI) settings for computer-controlled allies. Retrospectively, it has been considered one of the greatest games of all time by critics. It was re-released on multiple mobile platforms and the Nintendo Switch between 2009 and 2019, and was remade in 3D in 2018 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Windows.

Release:
JP: August 6, 1993
NA: October 14, 1993
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Secret of Mana (SNES) [Part 1] - Mana Sword, Potos Village, Girl Primm, Pandora | StoneMonkWisdom