It’s time to learn about gear with the_lep! This is a quick little video explaining outfitting your characters. There is a lot of RNG invovled, so you’ll be messing with gear for a long time coming.
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Onto the next topic, the_lep has a video explaining what you can do with Memory Gems! These are the other type of drop you can get from a harvest, the first being Allies, and they can give powerful skills and some stats to your team.
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the_lep came back quick with another video going into more detail about how to power up your Allies. What is ascending? What is unleashing? Who can you do it on and how? Get the answer to all of these questions here!
Again, you can get to the_lep’s channel here.
Another beginner guide from the_lep has been released! This time going over all the basics of what you need to know regarding the various allies you harvest or find in your adventure. If you only learn one thing from this video, make sure it’s to lock the allies you care about!
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Once again from over at the Mana Series Discord the_lep has an Echoes of Mana video for you all.
This is a video explaining the basics of summoning, which may confuse some because a lot of the same characters exist in different forms. It’s over the very basics of gacha games, so it’s a good introduction for people who have never played them.
It’s obviously the first in the series, so keep checking back for more! Check the video out below, and you can get to the_lep’s channel here.
You can now check out the official site for the upcoming Seiken Densetsu anime, “Seiken Densetsu Legend of Mana – The Teardrop Crystal” here! Check out the video below for some information about it, as log as you can read Japanese anyway. It is currently planned for a 2022 release on TV and Streaming, not many details yet though.
You can head over to the Anime News Network for a bit more info on stuff like casting.
Over on the Mana Series Discord the_lep put together a really nice summary video for the first Echoes of Mana stream.
Even if you’ve read my summary below or watched the stream yourself, this video is worth a watch because the_lep analyzes some of the gameplay and gacha aspects of the game.
Check it out!
The videocassette is finally uploaded to youtube!
You can read more about it on the Secret of Mana: Redux page, and you can also read about all the effort to document this video on a post I made at the same site.
The video repeats after it plays once, so stick around for my annotations and translations added to the second half.
Head over to Secret of Mana:Redux to read an article I wrote about the search and rescue process for a rare promotional video cassette I just happened to buy in 2014.
It’s a return to form of the kind of things I used to write on this site way back in the day, in fact it links to an older write-up I did about a very different videocassette.
Here is how I feel about the whole thing:
You can watch the full recording here:
