Trials of mana classes plus#

I love the balance between the real-time combat of action games with the party management of an RPG, which mercifully pauses the action so you can cycle through the rings to find the command you want to give without undue pressure.

Trials of mana classes plus#

Plus the sounds they make are like old-school ASMR.Ĭombat, too, feels incredibly similar, and I mean that as a complement because I've always liked the Mana series' unique action RPG battles. The ring menus of the original are here, used in much the same way, and they're a great solution to juggling spells and items mid-combat. Trials of Mana’s remake is on the extremely loyal side of that spectrum, and just about everything plays as it did in the ‘90s. These days, the term “remake” can mean anything from a borderline remaster that simply aim to recreate the original game scene-for-scene in a new engine to a complete reimagining of the old game’s themes, like an XCOM: Enemy Unknown or a Resident Evil 2. It's a testament to just how great the original soundtrack is, and how faithfully transposed the old MIDI files are for instrumentation. Both are just so good! In fact, at one point I swapped to the original soundtrack and completely forgot to change back.

One feature I really like is the ability to swap between the remake and the original 16-bit soundtrack at any time. Musically, the new incarnation of Trials of Mana’s modern arrangements of the original chiptune soundtrack sound phenomenal.