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| Jeff Plays What YOU Pick 2!; This time: Secret of Mana! | |
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| Topic Started: May 7 2009, 06:06 PM (393 Views) | |
| Sean | Jun 2 2009, 07:36 PM Post #51 |
The ⑥of Four Against Nature
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Psh, that wasn't a lot of bosses..... |
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| Dietaku | Jun 3 2009, 10:15 AM Post #52 |
Grade A /B/tard
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Yes, unlike in Endless Frontier, where you have to refight like every single boss fight in the entire game in the course of the last dungeon. Yeah, quit yer whining, Jeff. |
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| Jeff | Jun 3 2009, 01:26 PM Post #53 |
Lord of Pie & BBWs
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 Okay! Welcome to the final update of Jeff Plays Secret of Mana! For the last leg of the game - we're gonna tear the floating Mana Fortress down! The fortress itself is mind-numbingly linear. The enemies are tough, sure, but there's just nothing to comment on. The random drops here are excellent - including the chance of dropping random weapon orbs. Anyways, inside we find - what else? - boss fights!  Buffy. Buffy... the Vampire. You may now groan and roll your eyes. HP: 4200 MP: 99 Exp: 35686 GP: 22200 Type: Undead Well, vampires hate light and since you should by now have level 8 laser beams... yeah.  A while of walking later, there's ANOTHER BOSS!  Dread Slime HP: 5000 MP: 99 Exp: 37000 GP: 26400 Type: Morph Meet the ONLY boss in the game where Shade's magic will do dick against it. Let loose. Unlike Lime Slime, Dread Slime grows as it takes damage, limiting the area you can move around in.  Keep on truckin'! Not too long later, we finally run into Thanatos!    But all he talks about is pure nonsense. He dies, possesses Dyluck, who, with his last strength reserves, basically says "Whelp, I sure had a small part in this game" and dies. Unfortunately, the wrapping up of the plot line only made Thanatos into--  The Dark Lich! Which is also where my ever-so-helpful strategy guide STOPS giving boss statistics. Rusel DeMaria - where ever you are - fuck you. You do not write a strategy guide - an inherently spoiler-rific thing - then NOT list the stats of the penultimate and ultimate bosses. Seriously. That's retarded. I can understand if you didn't want to play the game anymore, because I sure don't, but come on, man, at the PENULTIMATE BOSS OF ALL PLACES?! Just spam lucent beam and freeze. That's always worked for me. No problem.   Whoo-hoo! Dues Plot Machina!  The fortress begins rumbling violently so the crew run onto the ROOF of the damned thing.  And... apparently forget how to speak English.  What? What little we learned about the Mana Beast is that it's the world's natural counter-balance to the Mana Fortress. Once the fortress is destroyed - and quite frankly I don't see the downside to LETTING it rip the fortress asunder - it would become tame again, so what's the problem?  And-- where the hell did THIS curve ball come from?! No where, and I mean NO WHERE, in the game is this plot point even MENTIONED!  NO! That's NOT how it works! The Upper Lands are SWARMING with creatures resembling little Mana Beasts and even the game admits it! Mana Beasts live in perfect harmony with the world and only got pissed that Thanatos revived the Mana Fortress! ... Wait, why did Thanatos want the fortress at all? That was the empire's schtick. So, he stole it for no other reason than to piss off the emperor? Who's dead? ... WHO WROTE THIS CRAP?!  When you arrive, have Gal and It both use Dryad's "Mana Magic" spell on Guy while he's holding the sword. This will trigger the final boss.  Mana Beast! HP: Way too damn much MP: Enough to spam lucent beam constantly Exp & GP: Zero Type: Ass clown The Mana Beast is one of the few bosses to run on a perfectly cyclic pattern. It will fly back from the fortress, then spiral forward as a massive burning meteor. Use lucid barrier to block. It'll fly back a second time and just try tackling you. Use lucid barrier. It will then slowly ascend from below to rise in front of you, where you can damage it only with the sword's charged attack, in Guy's hand, when enchanted with Mana Magic (which runs out over time). Afterwards, it'll buzz you from the side with blinding speed and repeat itself. It'll occasionally spam lucent beam, but the only time this'll prove to be problematic would be when he does it rapid-fire on Guy, stopping him from attacking. This fight is nothing but a huge test of patience because you just have to block and heal until the Mana Beast is vulnerable, cast Mana Magic, charge your weapon as best as you can and let into it. That's it. Just hope you got enough to make it to the end! The Mana Beast then dies in the most anticlimactic of ways by FOLDING INTO ITSELF LIKE A PAPER MARIO CHARACTER and dissipating.  RANDOM PANORAMIC VIEW! Why? Do you really beg logic from this game at this point? Just be thankful it's over.   I'll never forget you either INAPPROPRIATELY PLACED PUNCTUATION MARK !  An appropriate metaphor. The game creators were clearly high after the first time the word "Empire" was uttered.  The Mana world DOES have three moons! I CALLED IT!  Now for a "Go visit all the random, useless NPCs you met" montage!  Krissie the sorrowfully underdeveloped character! She had potential to be a fascinating character but she was dropped shortly after her appearance in order to make way for far more generic NPCs. I actually liked her as a character.  Jema the lazy bastard who made me pull his part of the work in addition to my own. He can burn in hell.  That... one... guy... from... that... one... time. Screw it. I have no idea.  It's Santa Claus! ... Why are you in this game again?  King Swarthy mustache! I kind of liked him.  BWA HA HA HA HAAA!!! THAT'S RIGHT! GET CHASED BY THE EVIL FURNITURE YOU STUPID TIGER-LOVING WHORE!!! BWA HA HA HAAA!!!  Do I even need to say anything?  Watts was a pretty cool guy. He's fine by me.  It's that fursuit bastard who charged too much for everything! UP YOURS, CAT-MAN!!!  It's that... um... random chick who showed up once or twice. ... Yay?  Luka. I'm kind of ambivalent.  Oh, and YOU guys? You guys can all go to Hell!  Guy then does the smart thing. And by smart thing I mean "most idiotic thing he could've done" because NOW the fully recharged sword can go back to re-oxidizing and become useless and weak again so that ANOTHER new evil can rise up and conquer the world again. Way to go.  We then see a ghostly image of It, sitting in his village. As if we cared. His exact fate is never detailed and frankly I'd be lying to say I was interested in knowing.  THE END! Okay, so, the game was NOT the masterpiece my middle school memory made me recall. In fact, it was a pretty damn weak entry into the genre that was exceeded in every conceivable way by its sequel which never saw a stateside release. It's glitchy, such as the many, many times I input the command for my partners to cast a spell and then them not performing it or how Gal and It would run away from melee combat and get their dumb asses hung up on an insurmountable waist-high fence. The plot makes no sense, the action commands are stiff and the charge attacks are useless and counter-intuitive. Is the game bad? No. In all honesty, the game needed a LOT of polishing and beta testing as well as a better way to flesh out time rather than running the player between two arbitrary points and having boss fights every 10 feet, but the game is not horrible. It's a fun play even if nothing makes sense and what is present is good. What people still singing the praises of this game need to do is play through it again. That might help remove it from GameFAQs Top 10 SNES games and moving it to a much more objective spot on the charts. That's just my opinion. Well! Join me next time when JEFF PLAYS TETRIS! ... Nah, I'm just kidding. See you all next time! |
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Come visit me and my thought processes at my website: http://www.publishedauthors.net/tdotdw/news.html "In the cold light, justice and morality always look corny and you can't wave the flag and look cool. But like it or not, society needs its heroes." - John Hart; actor who played The Lone Ranger. | |
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| Sean | Jun 3 2009, 01:31 PM Post #54 |
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The ⑥of Four Against Nature
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You don't have the testicular fortitude to LP Tetris. Wuss. |
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| Dietaku | Jun 3 2009, 04:10 PM Post #55 |
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Grade A /B/tard
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Nah. Its that he would be proving me right, which he won't do. |
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| Rem | Jun 3 2009, 08:08 PM Post #56 |
Why yes, I do like snickerdoodles.
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Yet another well-written and humorous LP is completed. I applaud you, Jeff. How many bosses were there all together? |
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| Jeff | Jun 3 2009, 08:28 PM Post #57 |
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Lord of Pie & BBWs
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The rough total was around 40 bosses in total, not counting multi-bodied bosses (the doppelganger/Shadow X battle) or bosses with multiple phases (Tonpole/Biting Lizard). Thank you for reading and enjoying! 
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Come visit me and my thought processes at my website: http://www.publishedauthors.net/tdotdw/news.html "In the cold light, justice and morality always look corny and you can't wave the flag and look cool. But like it or not, society needs its heroes." - John Hart; actor who played The Lone Ranger. | |
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