Bringing you a piece this week from Yoko Shimomura’s drammatica album, released recently and which includes music from Legend and Heroes of Mana, specifically To the Heroes of Old, the title theme from Heroes of Mana. The album is fully orchestrated, and can be purchased now from Square Music Online, Amazon, and CocoeBiz among others. See our Soundtracks page for further details on how you can get hold of this masterpiece, and of course more about who Yoko Shimomura is.

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Also, if you have any requests for next weeks MMM, please comment here, or drop us a line, and we’ll see what we can pull out of the hat for your listening pleasure.

Things have been slow of late, I know. And there have been many reasons for it, most of which you already know. It boils down to the reason I chose this Konata avatar, basically: I’m knackered. It’s 4:30am here, and I’m at work, and I’m still another day away from finishing my week, which like the one before, is 72 hours long. This combined with a very hard time trying to sleep during the day makes for a very tired Kassidy, with not much energy to work on stuff.

But that doesn’t mean that I have given up, no sir. I have plans, and I one of those is the plan to get the others done. I’m not going to promise it’s going to be fast, but I’ll get there. I’ll freely admit, the lack of interest in the World of Mana arc hasn’t help to inspire devotion to coverage, but here at Seikens we aim to provide the best coverage of every game in the series, and we’re damned well going to do that.

So what’s next? Well, we have on the burner several section update, which will be appearing as soon as we can churn them out, a new series of articles in the line, and if somehow someone over at Square decides that, indeed, they are going to give this overlooked series some serious love, we’ll be bringing the news to you as soon as we snag a copy of the press.

My mindless babble aside now, the update for today is relating to Heroes of Mana. As part of the game, one accumulates Records of the events taking place in the game, and these have now been compiled together and are available over in the Heroes of Mana section, under Records.You should be advised, spoilers are a-plenty, but so is some in-game artwork, so weigh it up and work it out.

On the down side though is Sheexy’s brief hiatus, but don’t worry, he’ll be back, even if it means me dragging him back screaming and tying him to a chair while shouting “you WILL generate site content!” myself. All the best of luck with exams and clearing out the swamped-ness.

That’s all from me for now.

Ok, so I’m swamped with a ton of stuff and I haven’t been/won’t be very active lately. When I get unbusy I have promises of new content and new pages etc. etc.
Until then, here is Long Goodbye by Hiroki Kikuta.

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The Soundtracks section has now been updated with the information on Square’s compilation of the Very Best of Yoko Shimomura’s works, Drammatica. Samples to follow.

It’s a little earlier Music update. Too compensate last week’s late update. This track is from Legend of Mana, the title theme. I find it very harmonic, you might like it like I do.

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I know, it’s late… It can’t be helped, I actually have to work for a living and do lots of hours, which means that some of the rest of the time I have to sleep, what can I say. But here it is, a remix of In Darkness’ Depths from Secret of Mana, done by Mana Label, a curious choice of track when you think about it.

Well I never got the Children of Mana Commercials up last week, so I’m going to put them all up now along with the Mana Music Monday for this week. I’m gonna be really busy this week and won’t have time to mess with these later.
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The music for this week is the Children of Mana track The Ruined Ground by Takayuki Aihara. I think it’s a really good ruined Temple of Mana arrangement. I could maybe listen to it forever, it’s so serene and mysterious.
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So everyone knows the last two post were jokes right? Ok good.
If you’d like to find them again sometime, or view the prank from last year you can go here: April Fool’s Pranks. All the future pranks will find themselves located there as well.
Children of Mana commercials coming up soon, hope you all had a fun day yesterday.

Connections are a wonderful thing. So the rumours were true, a preview of SD3 for the DS has been leaked, and thanks to certain contacts I now has my hands on it. And I’ve taken the liberty of filming some of it for you guys.

You’ll notice that the soundtrack has been reworked, and although I think it may not be a final version, it’s sounding pretty good. I’m looking forward to working my way through what other tracks I can find on here, so with some luck next Mana Music Monday will have some SD3DS (hey, that’s a palindrome!) goodness to boot!

More videos with some more gameplay to come soon. Sorry for the bad camera work, but you know what it’s like trying to record stuff off the DS.

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Seiken Densetsu 3 is coming to the DS!
The site that leaked the screens only has two shots on it, so we can only really make guesses as to what the game is going to have. The first screenshot shows Duran at the beginning of the game. Unfortunately the touch screen doesn’t look like it is going to be implemented for much, it just shows character information it appears. Maybe you can use the stylus to jump from section to section in that menu though? That could work kind of nice. There is no way to tell this early though.

The second screen shows what it is like to use Flammie. I think it is pretty neat that they used the world map art instead of a pixelized map, but it looks hard to tell what direction Flammie is looking down there just by his pixelated head telling you where you are, but I guess that shouldn’t be much of a problem.

What do you guys think? I’m really excited!
I tried to skim through and read as much about it as I could and I saw mention of multiplayer wifi! It is probably just for three DS systems in the same room, but still, that’s really awesome! Hopefully there will be more leaks and some more information soon!

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