The Gaming Experience
Shaun InguanzoSectret of Mana: Reminding Me I Have a Wii
October 22nd 2008 22:59
There's a symptom amongst us Wii owners that buy PS3s.
We Wii neglect.
Nintendo may claim that graphics aren't everything, but a PS3 raises your visual bar to an 1080p HD plateau of awesomeness, and reverting back to the Wii's 480p can at times seem like turning on a Gamecube. So graphics aren't what got my Wii's little green lite shining again, and it wasn't any new innovative controls, or Shigeru Miyamoto's latest masterpeice. Nope. It was a 1993 SNES game called Secret of Mana.
The cool thing about this game is that three players can join up at once, cooperatively. In the 90's, you needed some bulky accessory, but now you can just use a Gamecube or Classic controller. The gameplay is simple enough. Strike with the B button, hold down to charge. The game avoids button mashing by forcing your weapon to recharge briefly after each swing. There are some rad bosses and I had to fight two killer werewolf twins before unlocking the second player, so...pretty much badass.
The real joy however comes from the nostalgia, fuzzy and deluded. Sectret of Mana was the game I never saved up enough allowance to get when I was young. So now, all grown up and self-sufficient, I've worked all day to come home and do the same thing I wanted to do as a ten year old: wield the Mana Sword.
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