PresidentLeever wrote:There's a mod that changes the leveling system so that groups of weapons and spells share exp meters, and rebalances various stats, if you ever feel like revisiting it.
That would be SUPER nice. That is one thing I liked about Mana compared to Evermore. You level up your Sword Skill, not just one skill. Since I was walking around with the most powerful weapon, it would always jump between different weapons and it would take forever to level that one specific weapon up to Level 3.
Xeogred wrote:@Markies: Don't want to knock on you there at all since you beat it! But something tells me maybe you missed some weapon power ups or something weird like that... I certainly remember that Evermore has some obtuse mechanics and the alchemy system is pretty bad, but I don't remember it being that hard or anything. The little trading area part was atrocious though. And did you get the bazooka near the end? I remember that making the finale easy. Hmm, who knows. I only beat it in full once many years ago.
Either way, rock on for finishing it and glad you enjoyed the music. I do wish Jeremy Soule did more work on the SNES or some old chiptunes in general.
Now... I don't know if you emulate, or import/patch games or whatnot, but next time... play the real sequel to Mana if you haven't! It's pretty hard though, but it has the best ARPG combat system of all time in my book.
Seiken Densetsu 3
There is some spells at the end of the game that make the final boss gauntlet quite beatable. One makes you super strong and makes many attacks against you pretty useless. Another makes all of your attacks Level 3 attacks. So, all I did was spam those spells on the two of us and the final boss went down pretty easily. If I did not have those spells, then I would question if I could have even beaten the game.
Oh, trust me, I will buy myself a Reproduction Cart and I will be playing Seiken Densetsu 3! I watched somebody stream the whole game and I am fully excited about the game. I don't own it yet, but I will someday.
I rather enjoy the series. I played Legend of Mana on the PS1 and I loved the hell out of that one. I don't consider Evermore a true Mana game, so my excitement was only partially dimmed for the rest of the series. But, in time, I will get excited again and I will buy/play Seiken Densetsu 3. That is a promise.