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Sword Of Mana heard it was good. should get it?

#1   Karst 

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    Posted 18 April 2005 - 06:39 PM

    My first post! ok, i was wondering if anyone has played this game. if so give me your rating on it. i was thinking of getting it and wondering if its any good. i also heard it was almost like GS. If you know anything about the game does it have a similar battle system as GS? i read some stuff on it and there are stuff like summons and guess what? there's a tree named Treant! hmmm...reminds me of something.

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      Posted 18 April 2005 - 07:31 PM

      I have played this game for a combined time of 140 hours.

      Leveling up is fun, controls are easy to learn and don't pose too much trouble throughout the game. Weapon select is standard at first, but after a coupel play throughs, you can customize your arsenal with tons of weaposn and addons.

      Bosses aren't tough at all once you learn safe zones and using a combination of magic and weapons is fun.

      I give this game an 8/10 overall, 6/10 for story, and 9/10 for funness.

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        Posted 18 April 2005 - 08:59 PM

        It depends, if you were comparing it to another game or if you're just asking what it's like in general. Generally it's what I'd call a good game, I have it, I enjoy it, I find it fun, it has some bad points but generally it's a good game, I'd give this game a 8/10 also.

        It's probably cheap by now, so I say get it if you have nothing better. Personally since you all own gamecubes I suggest you guys get Resident Evil 4 if you havn't already, people are buying Gamecubes due to the games success just to play it. :P

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          Posted 19 April 2005 - 10:55 AM

          well for a start its real time battle not turn based. but however i have played it and completed it and i think its a very good game esspecially the story line. i'd recommend it to any one

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            Posted 19 April 2005 - 07:08 PM

            http://www.gameranki...ges2/914616.asp

            That page shows all the review scores given to it by major sites, user scores, screenshots, some info on the game etc. etc.

            It seems it got 70%... I don't by games under 80% personally unless it's from a series that I respect.

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              Posted 20 April 2005 - 12:11 AM

              Reminded me heaps of sword of mana on snes. Just for that reason i bought it, didn't get around to beating the last boss. Good game. But i wouldn't pay too much for it.

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                Posted 20 April 2005 - 12:13 AM

                The battle style sucks, that's my only gripe with this game.
                And you can't save often enough.

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                  Posted 20 April 2005 - 03:48 AM

                  Personally, I got bored of it real quick. I played for about 2 hours tops.
                  Can't say there was much wrong with it: It's more the case that it didn't have anything to make me come back to it.
                  Meh.

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                    Posted 20 April 2005 - 08:26 AM

                    Yeah, the fact that it's a bit hard to find save points sometimes can prove annoying. I was loving the game but I stopped after my cuz deleted my godamn file.

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                      Posted 20 April 2005 - 04:50 PM

                      I have this game and like the rest of my GBA games it just sitting there picking up dust. Once you find out the classes to go towards and the class you would like to work with the game gets really easy. I played it for about 30 hours, I beat it, and tossed it in my corner. The game is good the first time you try it out but losses it story plot the further you progress into the game. It's not worth your money.

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                        Posted 21 April 2005 - 04:32 AM

                        I would say that it ISN'T for sale on my farm anymore, but then Anubis would say I lived on a farm. Which I don't.
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                          Posted 21 April 2005 - 02:54 PM

                          I personally don't think it worth buying. I found it far too easy (I was killing bosses in like 3 shots, and I could stand and get hit by an enemy 300 times before dying...), the story was meh and the characters too. The gameplay was ok, and the puzzles could range from easy to medium difficulty. All in all, IMO it pretty much sucks.

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                            Posted 21 April 2005 - 10:21 PM

                            I guess Me and Nick the only one who liked it then. =/

                            Just goes to show... You guys are retarded! =P

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                              Posted 22 April 2005 - 09:12 AM

                              It just didn't have any substance. There was no gimmick or anything to keep me coming back and playing it.

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                                Posted 23 April 2005 - 12:01 AM

                                I admit there was no replay value, but I still found it enjoyable the first time through. Kind of like Fable, you have a barrel of fun in that game, but after it's completed you think "what now then...". ^_^

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                                  Posted 24 April 2005 - 11:35 PM

                                  Agatio, on Apr 20 2005, 05:13 PM, said:

                                  The battle style sucks, that's my only gripe with this game.
                                  And you can't save often enough.

                                  That did prove annoying but you couldn't say the battle style is in any way different/new. Look at zelda.

                                  It was good, i got into it heaps with the buddys? and the dudbears gold. Depends how much you pay for it.

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                                    Posted 25 April 2005 - 07:25 AM

                                    The battle style is different to Zelda.
                                    With Zelda you can always use your sword, and with SoM you enter "battle "mode", which is jerk, and the AI sucked too.

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                                      Posted 07 May 2006 - 08:25 PM

                                      I got this game today.. I payed 16 bucks for it, pre-owned..
                                      It's pretty awesome.
                                      Dayng.
                                      That was a bump from the past.

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                                        Posted 10 May 2006 - 02:19 PM

                                        Its all about tastes, I think it's bad. For me it's kind of a Zelda ripoff but very much worse. I tried it and played it perhaps 2 hours, the level up system is pretty strange, thats mostly the thing that screwed it up for me. I mean Thief style, Warrior style or somethin... Couldn't they just make it easier?

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                                          Posted 10 May 2006 - 04:40 PM

                                          It's a 1337 stylezz hax0rz gaime!

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                                            Posted 10 May 2006 - 06:05 PM

                                            View PostDiddyKong, on May 10 2006, 04:19 PM, said:

                                            Its all about tastes, I think it's bad. For me it's kind of a Zelda ripoff but very much worse. I tried it and played it perhaps 2 hours, the level up system is pretty strange, thats mostly the thing that screwed it up for me. I mean Thief style, Warrior style or somethin... Couldn't they just make it easier?


                                            Something tells me Super Mario is right up your alley.

                                            =P

                                            The level system in SwOM is pretty easy and flexible once you understand it. This can be accomplished by reading the SwOM FAQ on GameFAQs.

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                                              Posted 11 May 2006 - 04:55 AM

                                              View Postnick1presta, on May 11 2006, 02:05 AM, said:

                                              Something tells me Super Mario is right up your alley.

                                              =P

                                              The level system in SwOM is pretty easy and flexible once you understand it. This can be accomplished by reading the SwOM FAQ on GameFAQs.


                                              Who cares? XD

                                              Anyways if you like this kind of games of Guy-meets-Girl-then-saves-the-world-stories you should try this. I dunno how its called it;s something with Soul but that game allows you to choose your own character, that game is made by Sega if anyone knows how it's called again tell me. <_<

                                              But hey, if we want 2D storyless adventure RPG's there is always MapleStory. :D


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