Another year, another recycled Christmas post!
It’s Rabite Christmas again!

Have a happy holiday and a happy New Year, everyone!

Yeah.

【情報解禁！】

それぞれの運命、それぞれの選択。運命に翻弄される6人の、マナの剣を巡る物語。『聖剣伝説3 TRIALS of MANA』が待望の舞台化！

2025年3月～4月、東京・大阪にて上演決定！https://t.co/ayV4s7FGzC#舞台聖剣伝説3

— stage_seiken (@stage_seiken) November 10, 2024

Enjoy the game for me! I won’t be playing it for a very long while.

Over at Secret of Mana: Redux you can read some thoughts about Visions of Mana. Read what Granivolus had to say here.

You can check out the Visions of Mana demo on your platform of choice: Steam, PlayStation, XBox.

We're LIVE!
Join us as we check out the newly released demo for #VisionsofMana! https://t.co/85fgXCWrHR

We will also be giving away game codes with our very special guest, @rachelrial_vo!

Download the demo today! pic.twitter.com/jqZqGbS5fx

— Square Enix (@SquareEnix) July 30, 2024

You can also get a closer look at the game here, and there is information about preorders. Apparently it already has some DLC lined up.

Over in the Legend of Mana Card Duel section, I’ve got a new page set up. On the Comics page, you’ll find a set of 5 comics by Hiroyuki Yasuda (安田ひろゆき) that were included in the Making of Mana (1999, ISBN4-7561-3148-4) publication.

The comics feature the Hero, Niccolo, and Duelle while briefly covering important points in the Rules as well as some thoughts about Deck Building. I especially love the goofy little Duelle you see to the right here. It’s fun to read these and imagine people in the past actually playing the TCG. I wonder how many people actually sat down and built decks.

Making of Mana mentions special events for the game at the 1999 Japan Game Convention held from August 27-29, and it just kills me that we’ll never know more than that about it.

My edits to the comics are not perfect, but I think I did a pretty good job on the clean up and translations.

Head over to Secret of Mana: Redux’s Locations Page if you haven’t, because there are a ton of great beta images to sift through.
I’ve attached only a handful of them here, but go on and check out the main site and see all the neat things you may have never seen! ManaRedux has collected an awesome library of magazines with pre-release information over the years, and just keeps adding more to the site!

Visions of Mana launches Summer 2024.