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Sword of Mana, originally released in Japan as Shin'yaku: Seiken Densetsu (新約 (しんやく) 聖剣伝説 (せいけんでんせつ), lit. A New Testament: The Legend of the Sacred Sword ) , is a 2003 action role-playing game developed by Square Enix and Brownie Brown and published by Square Enix and Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance .
The Mana Sword is typically used to restore this balance when it becomes lost in the games. [61] Final Fantasy Adventure explains that if the Mana Tree dies, a member of the Mana Family will become the "seed" of a new Tree. A sprout of the Mana Tree is called a Gemma, while protectors of the Tree, who wield the Mana Sword, are called Gemma Knights.
Visions of Mana takes place in the fantasy world Qi'Diel, where several coexisting species are sustained by the Mana Tree, an incarnation of the Goddess of Mana. [3] [8] [9] Every four years, a being dubbed the Faerie travels to one of the eight villages tied to the eight Elementals, spirits linked to the flow of Mana.
The story takes place in a fictional world where Mana represents an ethereal, but finite, energy source. Some time in the past, the Mana Goddess created the game's world by forging the powerful Sword of Mana and defeating eight monsters of destruction, the Benevodons—"God Beasts" in earlier translations—with it, sealing them within eight Mana Stones, before turning herself into the Mana ...
Secret of Mana has placed on numerous top game lists since its release, and is the 13th highest-rate SNES game on aggregator website GameRankings. [86] In 1995, Total! rated Secret of Mana 12th on their "Top 100 SNES Games of All Time," [97] with Super Play ranked it eighth on its list of the best 100 SNES games of all time the following year. [98]
The Mana series, known in Japan as Seiken Densetsu (聖剣伝説, lit."Holy Sword Legend"), is a role-playing video game series from Square Enix, created by Koichi Ishii.The series began as a handheld side story to Square's flagship franchise Final Fantasy, although most Final Fantasy-inspired elements were subsequently dropped, starting with the second installment, Secret of Mana.
Koichi Ishii (石井 浩一, Ishii Kōichi, born July 9, 1964 [1]), sometimes credited as Kouichi Ishii, [2] is a video game designer best known for creating the Mana series (known as Seiken Densetsu in Japan).
Children of Mana [a] is a 2006 action role-playing game for the Nintendo DS handheld console. It was developed by Square Enix and Nex Entertainment, and published by Square Enix and Nintendo. It is the sixth game of the Mana series—following 2003's Sword of Mana—and the first entry in the World of Mana subseries.