God, you people dissapoint me. My mana fan girl-ness almost surpasses my FFVI fan girl-ness, and by the lack of this thread, I feel that no one else shares my passion for the mana series.

Okay, point of this thread is if anyones played//playing Dawn of Mana.

Granted we all know how awesome that Seiken Densetsu (Gameboy's Final Fantasy Adventure (STFU IT ROCKED)) Seiken Densetsu 2 (Secret of Mana) and Seiken Densetsu 3 (AKA same name) were created from the pure awesomeness from the pool of win, but Seiken Densetsu 4 (Dawn of Mana) seems to have fallen into the pool of fail.. Or so I'm told.

In background, the stories lore is suppose to be that of the lore that was brought into the Mana game in SD, making it the sequel to the entire series and what not. So if you are like me and you could write a book on Seiken Densetsu lore, please tell me if the lore to this game stays faithful to the rest of the games.

Now I could care less if this game is the worst ever, because I still plan on playing atleast once, I've never let a bad game get in the way of my love for a series, I'm just hearing less than spectacular things about this game. Personally I blame Squeenix, but I believe that the "Squeenix fails all" excuse is running dry.

Give me your thoughts, good, bad, maybe? I don't care, just talk about the game, or hell even the whole Seiken Densetsu series at that!

[EDIT: I don't need notes on the graphics or music, I know the graphics or to die for and listening to the music on the DoM official page makes me love life. SD SONGS FOREVER!]