A twinkling consciousness became a star that sparkled in the night and banished the darkness. The Mana Goddess acquired consciousness by gazing into the light of that sun. She made Fa'Diel, a great land, but so far an empty one.

In Legend of Mana (Seiken Densetsu: Legend of Mana in Japan) the player controls a hero or heroine traveling over the land of Fa'Diel. The game features a land creation system, allowing the player to create new locations and story elements by placing mysterious artifacts. Those ancient artifacts are repositories of the land's long-forgotten memories and the many events that once took place there. As the game advances, the player will receive more artifacts and find out more about the land. It is also possible raise pet monsters and create powerful golems, forge mighty weapons or refine musical instruments.

The game is non-linear in terms of gameplay, allowing the player to visit areas in any order and play through 67 related scenarios. There is, however, no continuous world to explore, and each scenario is confined to a particular area. Like in the previous games in the series, combat is action-based, but in this installment it takes place on separate side-scrolling screens. AI-controlled characters can fight alongside the protagonist in some of the scenarios.

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Alternative Titles

Seiken Densetsu: Legend of Mana

Platform

PlayStation 1

Developer(s)

SquareSoft

Publishers(s)

Square

Genres(s)

Action, RPG

NA Release Date

June 6, 2000

JP Release Date

July 15, 1999

ESRB Rating

Teen

MVGL User Score

8.6 by 140 user(s)

MVGL Difficulty

1.6667

Composer(s)

Yoko Shimomura

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