the Seikens Board

A friend of mine just blew my mind with this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issun-b%C5%8Dshi Issun is a small guy in Japanese folklore. A magic mallet is used on him to cause him to grow to full size: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchide_no_kozuchi Remind you of anyone, or of a manner that a certain...

...don't you think this sounds vaguely like Secret of Mana music?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpASH00bK6A

Got a Gold Town/Mana Beast thing going on there, IMO

WOW

I'm looking at the beta screenshots now!

From screenshot 18 and others, it looks like the "mysterious empire south-town circle" was a graphic used to depict landing zones. Weird!