Secret of mana fans? I just had a crazy idea.

So recently, I've replayed Secret of Mana and since its a Square game, I had a crazy idea.
How about we have like a Secret of Mana Trial?
I thought maybe we could have a black Rabite as the actual boss. He beats up the boy, the girl and the sprite in the opening cutscene and absorbs their magic (or something).
During the fight, he would fight like a Rabite would, tackle, bite. BUT, at certain points, he would summon a Mana and spawn elemental versions of the boy, girl and sprite with random weapons. Boy would just hit hard, have a aggro table. Sprite would hit very weakly but have strong magic and no aggro table. The girl would be in between with a aggro table.Let's say you take too long in killing the girl, she would revive the group (under the right element) or heal them, etc. Sprite would randomly cast spells from his current elements but if left alone for too long, the Rabite would use his own very powerful version of say Freeze or Flame Burst.
And have each weapon type have a almost negligible mechanic to do. They could drop Mana weapon considering the vast array of weapon SoM has.

Thoughts? Do you have your own idea?

To be honest I think we'd get an old Final Fantasy trial (or even Dragon Quest) before Secret of Mana.

Edit: However, it sounds pretty fun. I'd love it if it happened.

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Originally Posted by Israacf

To be honest I think we'd get an old Final Fantasy trial (or even Dragon Quest) before Secret of Mana.

Edit: However, it sounds pretty fun. I'd love it if it happened.

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Of course they would happen before! And I'm sure it would awesome! I'm just putting it out for a maybe eventually one day thing.

At the end of the day, I think the important take-away here is that they should add a rabite minion.

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Originally Posted by Limecat

At the end of the day, I think the important take-away here is that they should add a rabite minion.

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Oooo great idea! and maybe a Flammie Mount?

Personally, I'd want some Valkyrie Profile stuff. It's one of my favorite RPGs.

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Originally Posted by Israacf

Personally, I'd want some Valkyrie Profile stuff. It's one of my favorite RPGs.

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a Lenneth/Freya fight? THEIR CLOTHING AS GLAMOUR GEAR?

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Originally Posted by soulofrebirth

a Lenneth/Freya fight? THEIR CLOTHING AS GLAMOUR GEAR?

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Yes!! I'd definitely stay female forever if that happened. For males I guess we could get Lezard's outfit, or Odin, Loki, or even Rufus' from VP2 :P


or a male version of Freya's outfit hahahaha

I'd be happier if we got SoM-style menu rings for switching gear sets.

Tangential thought: The Fractal Continuum, both in terms of music and visuals, is HIGHLY reminiscent of the Mana Fortress. Y'know, if it was converted into a museum.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for someone to do a proper cover of the Dark Lich fight theme that, most importantly, includes actual Balinese chanting.

Soken please!?!?

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Originally Posted by soulofrebirth

and maybe a Flammie Mount?

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*Drools* Why hasn't this been on my mind before until now?!?

Flammie rocks, can fly, and it's been a while since we had a crossover...a perfect fit!

Yes, please! It has to have his flying music as well when you ride it! Do it! ^^

Crazy, I've been offline for a week playing secret of mana. How odd to see a post about it. I would love to see some small thing pop up in game relates to the mana series. Not going to name anything there is far to many things I wouldn't mind seeing

Funny, I've actually just been replaying that myself while on FFXIV downtime.

And yes, I agree Flammie would be awesome!

As awesome as this would be, and believe me I think it an awesome idea, I don't see it happening. Secret of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 2) has been re-released in decades and there's been no talk of it ever being an idea. I don't even think the upcoming Mana game has a Flammie analogue, much less all that much of the original's feel. Though, if they were to re-release a Mana game I'd rather Seiken Densetsu 3. I played it when it was originally released (the SNES was region free, you just had to cut notches into the Japanese cartridge where the screws were and it fit and played just fine) and loved it, even if I wasn't able to fully understand the story (for lack of being able to read Japanese).

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Originally Posted by Gilraen

As awesome as this would be, and believe me I think it an awesome idea, I don't see it happening. Secret of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 2) has been re-released in decades and there's been no talk of it ever being an idea. I don't even think the upcoming Mana game has a Flammie analogue, much less all that much of the original's feel. Though, if they were to re-release a Mana game I'd rather Seiken Densetsu 3. I played it when it was originally released (the SNES was region free, you just had to cut notches into the Japanese cartridge where the screws were and it fit and played just fine) and loved it, even if I wasn't able to fully understand the story (for lack of being able to read Japanese).

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Yeah, all the recent Mana games lost the charm the older ones had so I don't expect much. Seiken Densetsu 3 was really great though. Wish they would give more attention to the serie.