In which Popoi puts the kettle on and we all have tea at the Water Palace (this one is an EXTREMELY close call and leaves me utterly utterly baffled).

In which our heroes head for new horizons (at last), and try to avoid getting squashed by a glorified trash compactor (SHUT THEM ALL DOWN, HURRY!). Will they succeed?

In which our heroes attempt to not get burned by Fire Gigas. Again.

This part was split into two videos due to interruptions and such. Quality is poor. I’m still behind. I intended to record more last week, but that plan didn’t work, so hopefully will catch up with recording and streaming tonight.

One of Kassidy’s pumpkins for this year is Thanatos in his Dark Lich form from Secret of Mana. Stay safe, get candy, scare people!

I really should be keeping up with these more.
This time round, we head for the Underground Palace and take it on head first.

In which we make our way deeper into Elinee’s castle and get a lot of abuse from werewolves.
Recording interrupted by random wifeperson appearance.

In today’s episode… we die… a lot.

Part 2 of our hardcore SoM playthrough sees our hero make his way over to the Dwarf Village to free them of Tropicallo and meet up with Popoi the sprite.

This part is somewhat longer than most, still to this day working on getting the timings right.

Not too long ago, forum member Sene posted a thread called Secret of Mana Challenges. In this he details a hardcore mode for Secret of Mana to make the game more difficult:

Sup y’all, been playing Secret of Mana for fifteen years (and probably completed the game as many times by now), and recently I picked it up again for the first time in a few years. However, it’s also probably about fifteen years since the game posed any real challenge to me, so in my madness, I decided to make up a Hard Mode – the deal is: no armor allowed, and no offensive Magic against bosses (e.g. no Sprite Magic, and no Lucent Beam/Fire Bouquet/etc – defensive Magic like Cure Water must be allowed, or the challenge is completely impossible). Additionally, no cheating (no blocking spells with Moogle Belt), and no Mana Magic for the Mana Beast (doing this in normal playthroughs is already super cheap). Complete the game under these terms, and you can officially proclaim yourself a SoM-veteran! (and life hater, I suppose)

So to sum it up:
– No Armour
– No Offensive Magic against bosses
– No Glitching
– No Mana Magic against the Mana Beast.

Challenge accepted, says Kassidy. I’ve started playing through the game in this manner and, I agree, it’s quite a bit harder than I expected. Not only that, but I’m video blogging / let’s playing / documenting the agony. Above is the first instalment of this series, with more to follow soon.