Yes, worth buying.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $14.99.
- Story and characters: 177 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 87 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 84 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Difficulty: 71 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Bugs: 9 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 6k player reviews · updated 3 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Mana does have an overarching "timeline" to some extent that's foreign to its sister series like Final Fantasy and Saga, but the only one with relevant plot beats to Trials is Heroes of Mana (good luck playing that without an emulator) and it doesn't appear that you'll be missing too much if you don't.
+ very stable gameplay on 4k and 120 fps with a medicore system
Love the soundtrack (both original and remake).
✦ The music fits the atmosphere that the visuals manage to create.
Being able to change your controller mappings,For some reason games like to avoid doing this & it is nice to see it. i prefer to play 3rd person fantasy games with a controller & i only needed to remap the X(was to dodge) & B(was for light hits) buttons.
I played this game about half and half between my beefy, 4080 desktop computer and my Steam Deck.
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Currently $14.99 (−70%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
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