With the Remakes and the new World of Mana Project...

Post by **rrfish** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:30 am

With the Sword of Mana remake and the new World of Mana project do you suppose we will see a GBA (or DS, I don't care at this point; I'll take anything) release of Secret of Mana and/or Seiken Densetsu 3? Really, it would only make sense for it to finally happen. (I'd also love to see a Chrono Trigger GBA release, but that is for a different forum I suppose.) What is your take/view on the matter?

Perhaps Square Enix is testing the waters to begin releasing a long running Seiken series. Who knows. I'm just speculating (hoping/wishing/dreaming) at this point in the game and keeping the boards alive.

Post by **Dr. Sheexy** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 12:25 am

I'd love to see a direct port of SD3 and SoM onto either a GBA cart or a DS cart, nothing new added, just a straight up port of it. Well, I guess they could edit it and make it so you could play it wirelessly with a few friends, but that's it.

I read somewhere that lots of people in Japan are trying to get FFA ported onto the DS? Wikipedia I think. That'd be cool.
I just want straight ports of the old games, no messing with them.

Man, who wouldn't love a portable LoM? I want that the most.

Post by **Duran** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 12:34 am

As much as we would love to see some great ports, theres a slim chance of that happening anytime soon, since Square-Enix plans to hype Final Fantasy and milk it for everything it's worth...

Post by **Hero of Spirits** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:09 am

I'd love for SD3 to port to ds and possibly use wireless to play with 3 guys, but the problem is they'd probably edit all the swearing and *gasp* sexual connotations, (anyone else wanna get locked in Jad with Angela?

) so we probably won't see it, but hey, we can dream...

Post by **rrfish** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:33 am

Duran wrote:As much as we would love to see some great ports, theres a slim chance of that happening anytime soon, since Square-Enix plans to hype Final Fantasy and milk it for everything it's worth...

I've noticed that. Damn who do you have to blackmail in order to get a portable SoM and SD3 around here...I mean....ummm...er...did I just say that out loud? I meant who do you have to kil...er...brib...uh...petition to get a porting of SoM and SD3? Yes...that is exactly what I meant.

Post by **Duran** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:59 am

dude...I joined a petition with another forum to bring another S-E game stateside...

The answer we got from P.R. was: "We'll consider it..." Most likely, theyre going to be that way with Seiken 3 as well...

Post by **Dr. Sheexy** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:15 am

I dunno about you guys but I've signed petitions about this kind of stuff so many times, I mean I've made up well over 170 different names and signed these...
I mean. I found 170 friends and got them to sign the petitions. Right.

Anyways, I don't think the petitions really do much, but it's nice to imagine sometimes.

Though it did work for Family Guy and Futurama...

Post by **Kassidy** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:58 am

You need a good couple of thousand signatures to make a petition even moderately weighty though. That's the thing, they're not going to do something for the sake of a couple of hundred, it has to be in the thousands at least, and then they need the confidence that other people out there who haven't signed are going to be thinking the same.

And since it's hard to get everyone to sign the same petition and such, advertise it... it sadly seldom gets anywhere. But everything is worth a try.

Post by **The J Person** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:25 pm

This is the kind of thing that's almost better to be passed around at, say, a convention of some sort, rather than to just have it limited to online stuff. Then again it's always been hard (up until recently anyway) to find another die-hard Mana fan like myself for the purposes of signing this kind of thing. I think I know why, too; it's the lack of televised (or otherwise) advertising. Notice how big a response S-E got about the stuff they actually *did* put on the air?

Post by **rrfish** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:48 am

Amen.

Though if I ever make it to a convention I know what I'm going to do.

Post by **Duran** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:23 am

Sheexy wrote:I dunno about you guys but I've signed petitions about this kind of stuff so many times, I mean I've made up well over 170 different names and signed these...
I mean. I found 170 friends and got them to sign the petitions. Right.

Anyways, I don't think the petitions really do much, but it's nice to imagine sometimes.

Though it did work for Family Guy and Futurama...

I actually signed a petition with literally thousands of signatures...and the response from S-E was "We'll think about it"

And the reason why Family Guy and Futurama were granted because the creators like to hear from fans...as you can see, S-E doesnt care, as long as people are buying FFVII: Cloud Eats Breakfast...

Post by **rrfish** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:17 am

Duran wrote:And the reason why Family Guy and Futurama were granted because the creators like to hear from fans...as you can see, S-E doesnt care, as long as people are buying FFVII: Cloud Eats Breakfast...

Much like Midway. (Those Bastards!)

Post by **Duran** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:24 am

Yeah companies are ignoring their fans to be money-grubbing whores...

Post by **rrfish** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:15 pm

Duran wrote:Yeah companies are ignoring their fans to be money-grubbing whores...

YEAH!! Like Midway! (Sorry I had a bad experience with Mortal Kombat Armageddon -worst MK ever! But I was able to trade it for Children of Mana and Onimusha 2!!) Stupid Midway.

Post by **Sene** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:40 pm

I'd be thrilled if they would re-release Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3 for the Game Boy Advance. A non-rom English version of SD3 would be awesome, and hanheld = even better. Then I'd run out in the street and yell "GO GO NINTENDO" and go back inside. Seriously.