Difference between revisions of "Secret Of Mana"

The Sprite’s backstory involves it being torn away from its home by a flood, causing it to lose its memories. This scene is not shown.
Most water that the characters have to interact with is neck-high, and the characters do not swim in it.

When monsters classified as demihumans (most humanoid enemies) are defeated, they disappear into a puff of smoke, leaving behind only bones which crumple into a pile and quickly disappear. Insect-type enemies turn into a bone-like pile of exoskeleton upon defeat, quickly disappearing like the demihuman bones.
Skeletons sometimes appear as background tiles in caves.
There is at least one skull-shaped switch in the game that must be hit with a spear to unlock the way forward.
Dark Lich, a boss at the end of the game, is a skeletal torso and skull wearing a fancy robe.
When player characters die, they “see the reaper” who appears as a cartoonish, skeletal grim reaper momentarily over the PC’s ghost.

Goblins attempt to eat the Boy early on in the game, but the Girl rescues him from the pot in which they plan to cook him. The scene can be skipped by dashing through the square that triggers the cut-scene or by using a charge attack to jump over the trigger square.

Zombie and Ghoul enemies are animate corpses. Skeletons of enemies classified as demihuman (most humanoid enemies) appear during their death animations.
Skeletons sometimes appear as background in caves.
There is at least one skull-shaped switch in the game that must be hit with a spear to unlock the way forward.

The Sprite’s entire village, save for his grandfather, is missing and possibly dead. There is no resolution for this plotline.
Flammie’s family was killed by the Great Viper, before he is taken in by King Truffle and later joins the party.
(Endgame Spoilers)
The Mana Tree turns out to be the Boy’s mother and is destroyed shortly after the party meets her. Dyluck is possessed by Thanatos and dies.

Salamando (fire), Shade (dark), and Dryad (life)’s magic, which can be wielded by both the player and various enemies, have explosion-causing spells.
When bosses are defeated, their colors change to shifting reds and oranges, and they explode in a bright flash of light.
Several enemies will shoot explosives at the characters. The bosses Tropicallo and Boreal Face, for example, shoot exploding pumpkins at the characters during the boss fight. Other enemies shoot missiles or exploding eggs.
Chests containing monster drops can be booby-trapped with bombs which will damage the character who opens the chest. These mostly appear in the early-middle portions of the game.
A common mode of transportation in the game involves being fired out of cannons.

The Salamando spirit gives the player fire magic. Fire magic can also be wielded by enemies against the player.

Ghost and Specter enemies are specifically ghosts.
When certain haunted-inanimate-object enemies, like Polter Chairs, Evil Swords, or Doom Swords, among several several others, are defeated they will emit a ghosty squeal and a small ghost will appear where the enemy was before spiraling around and disappearing in a puff of smoke.

The opening of the game features the Boy falling off of a high bridge.
The Cannon Travel network shoots the player up into the air to get to their destination.
Flying on Flammie involves heights, though the player cannot fall.
The Lofty Mountains region gives the impression of being high up, though the player cannot fall.

Buzz Bee and Bomb Bee enemies are based on Bees.
Crawler and Metal Crawler enemies are silverfish- or caterpillar-like.

The Boy is stolen by goblins at the beginning of the game who intend to cook him. He is quickly rescued by the Girl.

The game does not feature medical needles, but chests can be boobytrapped with Poison Needles, which will temporarily poison the character who opened the chest.

The Boy was abandoned at Potos Village as a baby.
After pulling the Mana Sword from the stone at the beginning of the game, the Boy is banished from the village by his adoptive father.

The people of Pandora suffer a mass depression while Thanatos is draining them of their energy; notably, the king is described as suffering depression due to the fate of his kingdom.
The Sprite suffers amnesia at the beginning of the game, thanks to being swept away from his home by a flood; when he returns home, he finds his home destroyed.
(Endgame Spoilers)

Chobin Hoods and Robin Foots enemies have rodent-like faces.
Rabites and Silktails are based on rabbits.
Pebblers and Needlions are based on hedgehogs or Porcupines.
Blats and Grave Bats are based on vampire bats.

The enemies Shellblast and Turtlance are based on turtles.
The Biting Lizard and Snap Dragon bosses are based on small lizards or salamanders, as are the Basilisk enemies.
The Snow Dragon, Red Dragon, and Blue Dragon bosses are reptilian dragons.
The Salamando spirit of fire, which appears whenever fire magic is used, is based on a salamander, though his features are mostly disguised by flame.

Thanatos enslaves Dyluck, Phanna, and the other people of Pandora by stealing their energy, making them his puppets.
When the party is lost in the desert and finds their way onto a sandship, they are taken in by the crew, and the party is split up. The player first controls the Boy who locked up in a cargo room, where one of the other people locked in with him tells the Boy that the crew treats anyone they rescue from the desert like slaves. The Sprite had been put to work in the kitchens but ate all the food instead, and the Girl is taken by the ship’s young commander who tries to make her massage his back, which she vehemently refuses.

Great Viper and Dragon Worm bosses are snakes.

The enemy Spider Legs is a spider-like enemy, though its body is not depicted, such that just its pincers and the tips of its legs stick out.

Imps and Gremlins have the appearance of Western demons (pitchforks, horns, etc).
Fierce Head and Fiend Head enemies have the appearance of demons from Eastern religions.
(Endgame Spoilers)

Zombie and Ghoul enemies are zombies.
Vampire and Buffy bosses are vampires.
There is a class of enemies labeled undead, though many are hard to identify as undead or are indistinguishable from their living counterparts. Beast Zombies are a color-shifted version of the living Howler enemies, for example, and the Werewolf and Wolf Lord enemies have nothing about them that would indicate that they are undead beyond the label.
(Endgame Spoilers)

The weapons the characters can use are sword, spear, boomerang/throwing stars, bow, axe, glove/brass knuckles, whip, and javelin. Most enemies use one of the above weapons.
Some enemies shoot missiles or throw bombs. Others fight with their bodies (stingers, teeth, etc).