{"id":2772,"date":"2025-03-31T16:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T23:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T21:38:35","slug":"pc-visions-of-mana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/?p=2772","title":{"rendered":"PC – Visions of Mana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title:<\/strong> Visions of Mana \/ \u8056\u5263\u4f1d\u8aac: VISIONS OF MANA
\nPlatform:<\/strong> PC, also on PS4, PS5
\nGenre:<\/strong> Action
\nLanguage:<\/strong> Japanese \/ English
\nCompany:<\/strong> Ouka Studios, Square Enix
\nSummary:<\/strong> SEIKEN DENSETSU…
\nRip Ouka Studios… I can tell they really loved the Mana series with all the references it had, but the sales this game had did not meet up to stakeholder expectations :’)
\nStory:<\/strong> It really quite suffers on a very outdated “sacrifices are cool with us!!!” deal for a VERY long portion of the game. Once it breaks past that, it gets significantly better at least.
\nCharacters:<\/strong> Catboys ftw. Especially when waccha is voicing them. I was also very pleased that he’s also the best DPS hands down, all the more reason to be playing as him. A little sad that it requires a specific setup and there aren’t other options that are nearly as optimal, as it limits the variety.
\nGraphics:<\/strong> No particular qualms here. I quite loved the bright and colorful visuals in this, and it’s one of the strongest points I enjoy about the Mana series in general.
\nSound:<\/strong> I was very happy to hear new music from Hiroki Kikuta, but I feel nothing in the game was as strong as they were in the original SNES games still. Surely he still has it in him somewhere, but I still have yet to hear a single banger I’d personally keep since the SNES games and that saddens me.
\nGameplay:<\/strong> As I pointed out in the character section, there are some pretty poor imbalances regarding setups WAY outperforming other kinds of setups. And these setups work basically universally, with few gimmicky bosses that did better on other setups.
\nReplay Value:<\/strong>
\nOverall:<\/strong> 8\/10. It’s a solid game for sure! I do wish they had done better with the character interactions and story overall. If there had been just a bit more content overall or replayability to the entire game, I would’ve bumped this up to a 9, especially given my biases for the catboy… ahem.
\nYeah… I absolutely LOVED my favorite character also being the most DPS viable character in the game, but at the same time wanted a bit more viable variety in the gameplay overall. They tried decently, but I think still could’ve been polished more!<\/p>\n

…*cough* also local coop would’ve easily earned a 9\/10 from me. I understand why they restricted it to single-player given how the catboy zooms around… but still. COUGH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Title: Visions of Mana \/ \u8056\u5263\u4f1d\u8aac: VISIONS OF MANA Platform: PC, also on PS4, PS5 Genre: Action Language: Japanese \/ English Company: Ouka Studios, Square Enix Summary: SEIKEN DENSETSU… Rip Ouka Studios… I can tell they really loved the Mana series with all the references it had, but the sales this game had did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[34,83,11,111],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","tag-34","tag-action","tag-rpg","tag-seiken-densetsu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p16zCk-II","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2868,"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majinken.pmsinfirm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}