Quote Originally Posted by JKTrix View Post
It's out in Japan now. Chris Kohler at Wired's Game|Life Blog gave his impressions on it. In chronological order:

http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/12/...f_mana_it.html
http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/12/...f_mana_ha.html (Giant enemy crabs!?)

And the big, in-depth view:
http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/12/...f_mana_ex.html
This doesn't sound very good, despite him saying he's enjoying it . It sounds like a lot of his enjoyment is fan-driven because of the title to me.

I chortled quite a bit when he said "Dawn of Mana is an action game based on real Japanese history, and I know this because here I'm fighting a giant enemy crab."