#25 Secret om Mana
Sparkling with colors and charm. Brining a unique battle system where action packed sword combat goes hand in hand with a timer based magic system. I really liked that action elements could join classic rpg concepts like leveling up. Playing two players at the same time co-op in a game like this was marvelous. I have played through the game three times with different people by my side. Getting stuck in different parts of the game each time. I kind of like getting stuck and revisiting each place four times before stumbling over the solution.
This was the first time I got introduced with the concept of finally getting a means to move around the world freely visiting each mysterious part of the world. For the longest time I thought the last boss was my flying companion Flammie that had been corrupted or something by a dark power making him the mana beast. When I replayed the game with the ability to read and understand English and got to know that was not the case, I actually felt like the game was worse for it.
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