So last night I fired up my SNES and I started Secret of Mana again last night since it has been a good 15 years since I last played it (wow, can't believe its been that long).
I start it and it immediately gets that realyl dated feeling and the OMG it hasn't aged well at all feeling which worried me. The hit detection was horrible, your buddies pathing was bad, the enemies were annoying, I hated the stairs, I was getting trapped treasure chests just about every time, and I just wasn't having a lot of fun at first. I didn't remember hating any of these things 15 years ago.
I really had the horrible feeling that I had just ruined one of my favorite games. ;_;
*BUT* I went ahead and kept playing since my wife was using the other TV to watch her decorating shows and I'm glad I did. I started getting use to the combat, the menus started feeling a bit better, and I started having a lot of fun.
Yeah, my partner would constantly get stuck, enemies were still annoying, I still constantly got trapped treasure chests, and I still couldn't see armor stats when buyign armor but I was having a lot of fun with the game. I had completely forgotten how much fun the action part of that game is.
So yeah, no huge point to the story, just glad I started playing Secret of Mana again and glad one of my favorite games wasn't ruined by time. ^^
