Sword of Mana
The Mana Tree Needs Defenders! The location of the Mana Tree - wellspring of all life - has long been lost to legend. Many centuries have passed, and the Granz Realm's Dark Lord is searching for the secrets of…
Sword of Mana is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Brownie Brown, released 29 August 2003 on Game Boy Advance. The main story takes about 20 hrs to finish.
What Sword of Mana is
Sword of Mana is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Brownie Brown and released in 2003. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Game Boy Advance only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sword of Mana, originally released in Japan as Shin'yaku: Seiken Densetsu , is a 2003 action role-playing game developed by Square Enix and Brownie Brown and published by Square Enix and Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It is an enhanced remake of the first game in the Mana series, the Game Boy game Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden, which was released as Final Fantasy Adventure in North America and as Mystic Quest in Europe. Sword of Mana was the fifth release in the series. Set in a high fantasy universe, the game follows an unnamed hero and heroine as they seek to defeat the Dark Lord and defend the Mana Tree from enemies who wish to misuse its power.
How it plays
Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Sword of Mana holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 79% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 15 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 20 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 27 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Sword of Mana launched on 29 August 2003, within three weeks of Tales of Symphonia, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run and Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Tales of Symphonia, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sword of Mana yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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