Hopefully we hear about the next Mana game soon. The stories were great, it was great to see the same familiar faces, but the game itself was just not that fun in my opinion. I actually haven’t played much since early December, just jumping in once to see the Legend of Mana Manga crossover story. While I didn’t particularly like the game, I can’t help but feel a little sad by this news. Finally, Rise of Mana made it from 2014 to 2016. Then there was Circle of Mana, which lasted from 2013 to 2015. That’s a lifetime compared to the rest of the games. The first was Friends of Mana, which you can read about over at the Archive of Mana, which lasted from 2006 to 2011. This was not the Mana Series’ first foray into mobile games, but it was certainly the shortest. They will finish out the story and add some new characters before then. The game will stay up for another few months, but will finally shut down on May 15th this year. What a strange time to announce this, on the day the director’s cut of the LoM anime’s final episode airs.

Ver.Less than a year since its release, we are already hearing about the closing of Echoes of Mana ( SquareEnix notice, Twitter posts: English, Japanese). Good organ playing by character in Church Heroes of Mana aside, we can only hope to see further collaborations from this composer as the series develops.

Overall an incredibly solid soundtrack that covers many different moods and styles, aided of course by the top-notch quality of the technology at Shimomura’s disposition. The credits of this orchestration include Sanae Hatori (piano), Shinozaki Group (strings), Takashi Asahi (panflute), Kenzi Nagashima, Yasushi Sugiyama (piano), Osamu Katsumori (guitars), Yoshiyuki Kuriyama (bass), Kiichirou Akui (drums), Akira Fujiyama (panflute), Cavyn Wright Group (strings), with vocals performed by Saki Mizutani (CD1 Tracks 14 and 17) and Annika (CD1 Track 4 and CD2 track 32). Regarded as possibly the strongest soundtrack of the series, she took full advantage of the CD Quality audio that the PlayStation had to offer and made use of live orchestration and even vocals to bring the songs to life.

Arranged by: Yoko Shimomura, Osamu Katsumori (CD1 T4, CD2 T32)įor the Playstation debut of the Mana series, Square brought on board well established composer Yoko Shimomura, who had in the past worked on such titles as Breath of Fire, Street Fighter 2 and Parasite Eve.

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