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sc94597 on 24 December 2008
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LordTheNightKnight said:
sc94597 said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
sc94597: "Mana(research it, if you don't believe it originated from final fantasy)"

It didn't. The localized version of the first name had FF slapped on to add familiarity.

It was also marketed as a Final Fantasy game. As for the name being slapped on, couldn't you say that for most games that originate from final fantasy? They don't really have anything to do with the main series. Also the Japanese name had final fantasy in it too. Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden

 

 

If the name was slapped on, it was still slapped on. Seiken Densetsu was meant to be its own game at first. See the development section in its wikipedia page (which has a citation link). Crystal Chronicles was meant to be an FF game (just as a side story) from the beginning.

According to Wikipedia Seiken Densetsu is also a side story, and was fully intended a spinoff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana_(series)

The series began as a handheld side story to Square's flagship franchise Final Fantasy, although most Final Fantasy-inspired elements were subsequently dropped, starting with the second installment, Secret of Mana.

The first game of the Mana series was marketed in Japan and the United States as a Final Fantasy game and drew many stylistic influences from the Final Fantasy series, but deviated in that it presented real-time, action-oriented battles comparable to The Legend of Zelda, rather than traditional turn-based battles.[

Um? So it was intended as a side story/spinoff.