Originally Posted by Avarice-ness
I'm not sure I agree. I think Koichi Ishii really truly loved his creation . . . but he came up with absurd structures that he enforced on the World of Mana games, to their detriment. He said something like he wanted to make you feel your other senses or some such crazy thing, so he created that weird physics system used in Dawn of Mana and then a simplified version of it in Children of Mana. I think he was far too interested in IDEAS than the final game.
Had he tried to play Dawn of Mana objectively with that weird physics system, he would have realized it had NOTHING to do with Mana. Or someone on his team should have told him.
But oh well. He's gone now. Mana rests in the hands of no-one now.
There were MANY years between SD3 and SD4/World of Mana series.
It's all about money, they tried to market the world of mana to mana fans. SD4 is based in the "world of mana", all the added lore bogged down a game with a simple and perfect world. (SD4 is about the coming of the first mana goddess, which is suppose to be GIRL's mother from FFA).
If they were smart, they'd put SD3 on the Wii, save what fans they have left. And make the non-fans become fans.
I'm a mana fangirl through and through. I've actually played through FFA and SoM more than I have FFVI. While the world of mana series hurt most mana fans, I accept the reason they were created. Money.
When the reason people are making games ISN'T because you want the world to participate in something you've put your heart into creating, games (no matter how great a rep) will sour.[/QUOTE]
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