Yes, the western world won’t be avoiding this installment of Seiken Densetsu series. Heroes of Mana got a release for North America. The game will be released on August 14th this year.
Heroes of Mana is prequel to Seiken Densetsu 3 and will take place 19 years before it’s sequel. A few characters from SD3 will be returning to this game.
Be sure to save some money for this game, when it is out.
Square’s Battle Tracks Vol.1 has now been released, as was previously announced to happen here. Just to remind you, the CD contains three Seiken Densetsu related tracks (FFA’s “Battle 1”, SoM’s “Danger” and SD3’s “Nuclear Fusion”), though we can now confirm that, sadly, the tracks are not remixed or rearranged at all, so nothing new and exciting (to the point that Danger, or Crisis as they have named it, only loops the once, same as the SoM OST).
Only the track “Last Battle” from Romancing SaGa 2 is remixed.
A new article has been added to the Seiken Densetsu 3 section of our website detailing the wonders of the Debug Room, which will tell you how to access it, what you’ll find there and just how far its features stretch.
Expect more updates after a week or so, as I’m going to be out of the country as of tomorrow (again).
Another album to look forward to next month is Square Enix’s CD entitled “Battle Tracks Vol 1”, which will compile classic battle music from Square’s games for the Famicom systems between 1987 and 1996. Among the composers we can see our local heroes, and, of course, tracks from the games we cover on this site (note, although Shimomura is listed, since this disc only covers Famicom titles, no tracks from Legend of Mana are present).
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A while back Deques brought us news of the Children of Mana soundtrack being available for purchase at Square Enix’s iTunes store, and the near release of Dawn of Mana’s OST. Now, if you’re still not the proud owner of the previous games’ soundtracks, you can now buy and download them here: http://www.square-enix.co.jp/music/sem/page/dl/seiken/
Available are:
– Seiken Densetsu 2 (aka Secret of Mana) for 1200yen
– Seiken Densetsu 3 for 2700yen
– Seiken Densetsu Mobile for 900yen
– Children of Mana for 1800yen
Or, if you were looking for hard-copies on CD, you can mosey on over to their Amazon store and buy the following:
– Seiken Densetsu (FFA) for 3700
– Seiken Densetsu 2 (1 CD) for 1835yen
– Secret of Mana + for 2421yen
– Seiken Densetsu 3 (3CD set) for 3486yen
– Legend of Mana for 2570yen
– Sword of Mana Premium Soundtrackfor 2850yen
And in case there wasn’t a date already, the OST for Dawn of Mana is slated for 24th Jan 2007 at the price of 3800yen, and comes in a 4CD set.
It’s also worth mentioning at this point that Kikuta-san recently launched a solo project containing music that he composed round about the time he started work on SoM, but which was never used in any game. The CD is called Lost Files, and is available for 2700yen from Amazon in Japan.
Monster, monster.
Check, check it see.
This little guy notices the changes in the layout, do you?
Awesome job Wai!
A new gallery button can be found underneath the forum button to the right. Be sure to check out the new Seiken Densetsu 3 images uploaded to the gallery, including sketches by a dude named Sasarin who apparently worked on the games. I’d give you more info on that, but his site has unfortunately disappeared.
Also, a big thanks to Duran from the forums for sending me some more pictures for the gallery! Check out the Secret of Mana, Seiken Densetsu 3 and the Legend of Mana sections for some new stuff. Thanks Duran! And I’ll end this note with this touching scene from Secret of Mana that Duran made himself.
Square Enix has filed a trademark for “Hereos of Mana”. Is this a new game in the Seiken Densetsu series? It seems so since a few developers of this game are from previous Seiken Densetsu games. The game is being developed for Nintendo DS.
Update: I found something interesting after I posted this news. It’s an online petition where fans wanted Seiken Densetsu 3 to be released to the rest of the world. They suggested that “Heroes of Mana” as the “western world’s” name of the game. Could Square Enix finally listened to the fans?
Link to petition
I have updated a few page with some minor errors I found in the Seiken Densetsu 3 section. For example the town names should be correctly spelled.
Yesterday I found a huge mistake in SD3 pages, I totally forgot to update the class information pages to fit the new layout. Its embarassing… They should be as well updated now
If you as visitor find anything wrong or just wanna give a feedback, please dont hesitate to tell me that. I really need feedbacks and those are what make a site worth to visit more than once. I will take all critics you may want to tell. Right now the only way to give feedbacks is to register the forum and post in Suggestion forum. I dont have any contact page and I wont give out my email due to spam spiders that look for email addresses in websites.
