The Secret of Mana is the Super Nintendo sequel to the Japanese Game Boy title Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden, released in North America as Final Fantasy Adventure. It’s the story of a young boy who stumbles upon a magical sword and winds up being the only person who can save the world from imminent destruction. It sounds pretty unoriginal, but back in 1993 when the game was first released it was… OK, still pretty unoriginal.
But the action-RPG gameplay is top notch, the graphics were pretty gorgeous by Super Nintendo standards, and the game launched a long-lived series that’s had fans eagerly awaiting a new entry since 2007′s Heroes of Mana for the Nintendo DS.
The iPhone version of the game features all of the role-playing goodness of the original, with touchscreen controls replacing the standard Super Nintendo game pad.
What’s not to like? Well $11.99 seems like a hefty price for a Super Nintendo port, but who can put a price on nostalgia?
Square Enix can, and that price is $11.99. Who’s buying?
Republished from Kotaku
John Cook
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 2:33 PMfor Rage the choice between HD or not was easy, and the 7.99 for Infinity Blade also easy, as is the 11.99 for this. An easy no.
andronicus
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 2:42 PMme me and me.
will be buying right……(cmon load app store)………..now
Corey Silva
Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 4:34 PMI have a lot of great memories of SoM. It was the first RPG I had ever played about 10 years ago. It’s a Square-soft masterpiece.