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squaresoft,squaresoft. yes, squaresoft. a name thatstays in our mind. some games that willremain engraved in our memory. the memory of the lucky oneswho discovered these nice games. it was what i consider as thegolden age of rpgs in 16 or 32 bits. wait, not all 16 and 32 bit consoles.let's call a spade a spade... it was on super nintendo - super famicomfor the purists - and on playstation. of course there were nice rpgson saturn and genesis in 32 and 16 bits. or on pc engine, if you wantto mention high-class games.

or rather gamesthat no-one knows! but the games back thenwere clearly crazy stuff! something was happening between the ost,the graphics and the gameplay. it wascrazy stuff! today the magic has disappeared.you can hear this everywhere. i think that current rpgsare missing something. i don't know what. perhaps wegot older... perhaps we should ask 12-13 year-oldplayers what they think of current rpgs. but for me,something is missing.

these aren't bad games, butit's not the same as before. now i keep quiet because the openingscene of seiken densetsu 3 is coming! also known assecret of mana 2. i let you listen becauseit's just fabulous! wonderful!really wonderful! it ends with a remix of thesecret of mana theme, you recognized it. thusseiken densetsu 2. it's a nice remix. one of thegreatest tracks in the game. the ost is, of course,extraordinary, prodigious.

even though i have a preferencefor its big brother, secret of mana. it may come from nostalgia.yes i plead guilty your honor! i may prefer the ost of secret of manato the one of seiken densetsu 3 because of nostalgia. it's possible. but deep inmy heart, i really doubt. one of the original features ofseiken densetsu 3 is to create our team. as you see, we can select between sixcharacters to make a team of three. it doesn't mean we have sixdifferent plots. just six preludes. six unique introsfor the first character we choose. afterward the plot becomes moreor less the same for each character.

in fact, we have threedifferent storylines. for example, duran and angelahave the same storyline. in fact, the charactersare coupled. we can countsix intros and three storylines... ...and only one main plot. we'll visit thesame places and fight the same bosses. some bosses will change,like the final boss, some places will be open forcertain characters, closed for others. this is what changes. for the rest,it's more or less the same. i've taken duran as first character.which means we'll see his story.

we'll see his own development,his own plot. it would be different if i had takenangela, kevin, hawk or whoever else. the characters areof course different. not only in story and plotbut also in attributes and spells. we have wizards,healers and warriors. kevin is a werewolf.he transforms at nightfall. hawk is a thief. he attacks quicklybut doesn't cause much damage. duran causes a lot ofdamage with his sword. the characters aredifferent. this is a good point.

but you'll see i won't beonly praising this game. far from it! you'll see, i may evendisappoint you. as of now, you're thinking "hooper willtell us he worships this game." "it's squaresoft at its finest,there's nothing to be added." nope! in fact, this game hasa very painful flaw for me! the issue is its gameplay...what you're actually seeing. but i'm notrecording while playing. i've decided to show one intro andrecord a voice-over in order to focus. i don't want to have thesame issue as in dragon quest vi.

you know, i stayed gabbling 20 minsin the first village and you saw nothing! here you'll seeduran's introduction. afterwards i'll play liveto enter the game more in details. as of now, i'm in voice-over. reviewing in voice-over is relaxing.i know what i see won't stop. at least, i know the video will go on.even if i gabble, the video goes on. you see? i won't stopat one place. and that's...good! i like voice-over. i thinki'll re-use this method. we feel good.

"we're feeling good" like would saypascal sevran [french tv anchor]. ok... i'm enteringhooper madness! what was i saying? i don'tremember. let's change subject. seiken densetsu 3 was released 2 yearsafter seiken densetsu 2, in '95. and as everybody knows,this game wasn't released in the west. so not in europe, which we could understand.but not in america either!! for this, i swear it wasa bitter pill to swallow. this game was the gamei had expected the most. i say "i expected" buti could say 'we'.

this game was the game we expectedthe most. and i wasn't the only one! most of the gamers who had playedsecret of mana and were fond of rpgs... back then, the rpg wasthe game genre i most liked. in '95 i already had played secret of mana,secret of evermore, illusion of time. on genesis, landstalker and legendof thor. but these are action/rpgs. but had i playedchrono trigger? yes i had already played it!this game was released in late '95. chrono trigger was already released.i had already played its us version. that just shows how i was expectingthis game. i was crazy about it!

but we knew nothing...squaresoft never communicated anything. nobody knew if this game wouldbe released in the us or in europe! we didn't know.we had high expectations! i remember each monthduring one year until late '96... ...i was buying console+, joypadand player one. these 3 ones. also console news, all in '96.and maybe 2 more, i don't know. it cost a lot,frf 30 [=$5.60] per issue! all my allowance was thrown forthese magazines! it was expensive! they were beautiful, with glossy paperbut they were really expensive!

anyway! i remember back then, when i wasbuying all these magazines... ...all i wanted to seewas an inset. a small inset of one square inch thatwould mention the release of seiken densetsu 3. release in the us then in europe.we knew it was the us first. i looked up for more thanone year and nothing came! i let you imagine the state i was in.in addition, i saw the game in store! it was called 'ultima games',just besides capitol square, in toulouse. no i think it was a adjacent street.anyway the shop is dead.

now the name changed... i haven'tgone there for a while. they dealt with import games. one ofthe only shops in toulouse to do so. they had seiken 3!but in a showcase. we couldn't even touch it.and it cost frf 800 [=$150.2] and no-onecould [touch it]. we feasted our eyes,but we couldn't touch it. not only it was expensive,but also it was in japanese. nobody would take the risk to buy it.it's impossible to play rpgs in japanese. in english we could still manage,we could use dictionaries.

but in japanese it was impossible.we were cursed. we were cursed. i swear this periodwas dramatical. now i talk normally but it was hard.and seiken densetsu 3 never left japan. it's horrible, it's scandalousfrom squaresoft! we have no explanations. maybethe game was released too late. if it had been translated, we wouldhad seen it in '96... in europe. it can seem late but terranigmawas released in '96 for example. and it'salso a rpg! when there's a will,there's a way.

squaresoft didn't care of europe.and they still don't nowadays! it makes me laugh to readon magazines things like... "squaresoft"... i mean"square enix cares about europe!" it's real bullshit.it's just a marketing gimmick! they don't care of whowe are! they shit on us! anyway... all that to say that i didn'tdiscover this game when it was released. like many of us, i onlydiscovered it in emulation. i downloaded the first patch.i was following this. it was something likein 2000 or 2002.

once again, the translation wasmade by 'terminus traduction'. we must thank and applause them...we must also support and congratulate them. the work done here is wonderful. the game has beentranslated into french. that's nice! even wheni talk to the villagers. the patch you'rewatching is the latest patch. the latest release datesback to a few years i think... ...everything wastranslated in full details! even the title screenwas changed! you saw it.

of course secret of mana 2 is a titleinvented by the fans, in fact. back then, we said secret of mana 2,but it's not the official name. you'll never see secret of mana 2written in an official magazine! for squaresoft, secret of mana 2does not exist! it's seiken densetsu 3. secret of mana 2 is a fan translationof the title. and that's great. even the title in therom has been translated! they could have put seiken densetsu 3but they preferred secret of mana 2. they have translated the title asfans were requesting. hats off for that! i can tell you the earlier translationdidn't show secret of mana 2.

it remained seikendensetsu 3 for a long time. in the latest patch they finally decidedto translate the title; secret of mana 2. at first, even the introwasn't translated! it's later that they translatedthe intro cut-scene - with the mana tree. anyway, i'm not playingon an emulator either. i have the luck to have a cartridge mod,that is a rom within a snes cartridge. so now i can play on my snes,with my controller and my tv screen. and i ensure you,this is a visual blast. i was already astonished wheni first played it on emulator,

but in emulation,it's harder to [see it]. but even in emulation, it was one ofthe prettiest game i had seen on snes. when we play on the consoleand the tv screen, what a difference! when we emulate it, thereare some visual filters. we never know if it fits the reality.it looks alike but it's never the same. while on a console, i can seewhat a real cartridge gives. even though,i already had one! in '98 or '99, i bought ajap cartridge of seiken 3. of course i played 10 minsas i understood nothing.

in this one, i played and istand at 2 hours from the end. this game... is...a visual beauty. we have wide open eyesduring the whole game. not only it's beautiful, butaesthetically it's brilliant! the characters are charismatic.duran, but also the others. they have a...super skin! the execution of this game,it's a blast in every sense. and it's the same for the sound.it reaches the top of the super famicom. but as for me,it's not my favorite.

i prefer the ost of secret of mana,chrono trigger or ffvi. chrono trigger and ffvi area mile away! chrono trigger is wayyyabove all! it's unreachable! ffvi is a step below. and further below,secret of mana, seiken 3 and others. now i went offtrack...what was i saying? yes! i was mentioning the execution.you can see what i mean in the video. in this gameplay sequence.i was playing fast for the recording. what you see inthis video is wonderful! but visually and sonoritally... wait!this word doesn't exist!

i mean in audio and visualaspects, this game is brilliant. but i'll try to show yousomething during my live recording... ...i'll show you why for me,this game is just a smokescreen! even if everything is pretty,everything is cute... ...everything is elaborated. it's waymore finalized than secret of mana. everything is pretty. we are astonishedby the game from start to finish! even bythe scenario! compared to secret of mana,the game manages to renew itself. but only in the first half. afterwards,nothing happens. i'll talk about it.

it is, with the gameplay, one ofthe two big issues of this game. i'll comeback to it. so we're coming atthe end of duran's introduction. now, he first goes to wendel,with a halt in jad. and every charactergoes there on boat. except kevin, who swims.it's quite funny. from there, all characters will cross.even though they'll meet later... i got a bit confused,but you got the idea. in any case i mustlet you hear this brilliant track.

what a great track,the introduction theme. it's the preludeof each character. it reminded me of ffivwhen i first played. anyway! we dock at jad.look at the skin of the boat!! it's crazy stuff! the boat is one of themeans of transport, the first one. yes, the werewolvestook control of the town. i haven't told you, there are variouskingdoms. like the beast kingdom. duran's kingdom is forcena,angela is from altena.

in short, each charactercomes from one kingdom. all these kingdoms are at war,for various reasons. and for our part, we have tosave the mana tree once again. but we'll talk about itlive in a few seconds. ok, now begins the live recordingof my seiken densetsu 3 review. like i said earlier, they havetranslated the title: secret of mana 2. to see it on the screensends shivers up your spine. anyway, let's beginbefore the intro restarts. yes squaresoft, we know it's you. whoignored squaresoft made the seiken saga?

we meet back in the character selectionscreen. in my save file, i've played 10 days. with my cartridge,directly on the snes. i've played 30 hours and i amapproximately at 2 hours of the end. i finished the gamein emulation, of course. instead of duran, i have takenkevin, hawk and angela. so i continuethis save file. i'm at level 42. pleasenote you will be spoiled! there will be spoilersbecause i will show you 3 bosses. yes, 3 bosses.

i'll comment the first boss live becausewe'll do a part of the story together. then 2 other bosses at the end, so i'll show youthe 3 most interesting bosses for me. well, the bosses are not so interesting.like the gameplay; they are too pushy! in any case, they arethe most beautiful! i mean it! the most beautiful bossesi have ever seen in rpgs or a-rpgs. it's incredible, they made an amazingwork. hats off to the character designers! they bust their butts!i will talk about it later. so we beginon this town. i won't explain the plot. for that, youcan visit specialized sites or google.

i won't explain. it's just a groupof people trying to save the world. we must simply collect 8 mana stonesand 8 mana spirits, as usual. the 2nd part becomes less linear,but in general, the game is linear. some side quests, like fightingthe black rabite, are a bit harder. but the side quests are rare andit's not a strong point of the seikens. like i was saying, the 2nd partwill become less linear. it's just a series of bosses to fight.and i'll show you 3 bosses of this series. in total they are 8 god beastswe must defeat to reach the game end. this game follows the classic rpgcanvas: town, path, dungeon, boss.

town, path, dungeon, boss.town, path, dungeon and boss. and it repeatsuntil the game end. ah yes! look at this! a specialfeature i haven't explained yet. the black marketthat opens at night. there we can buy the best healthor attack items. things like these. but here, it's written"only open at night". yes, because theday/night cycle is managed. for the first time in a seiken.and i had never seen that in any game! it's incredible, the 2nd timei saw that was in shenmue!

i'm comparing a '95 gamewith one from '99. there may have been other games,but i don't remember. and it's donein real time! if i don't move, the light will fade,the sky will become orange, the night will come andthe houses' windows will light up. i can tell you it's a feastfor your eyes. it's stunning! also in towns and villages,you can see helmet and shield icons. which means the trader willsell us armors. let's ask him... like in secret of mana,we can buy and sell.

107,971 luc, it's thecurrency of the game. we gain money after beating enemies.thus i buy. we can't create weaponsnor get them from enemies. except when rare seeds will givethem at the end of the game. we have to plant them in the inns.i'll talk about it. it's funny.funny... well it's rather lamebut don't tell them. it's quite basic. when you entera new town, you visit the shops. there you buy the new weaponand the new armor for each character.

it doesn't go further thanthis. but it's not dramatic. let's get out of here.now i will start the controversy. look at kevin walking. the character design,their skin is beautiful. isn't it? it's the highest level a snescan reach. it's high-class! look at kevin... as i've said, kevin is a werewolf.he turns into a wolf at night. that's why there's a day/night cycle.at night, he's more powerful. watch how he moves, his posture...watch how he runs.

he lookslike a clown. the characters are really cute,even more than in other seikens. there's no debate. i would say it's an evolution in thepsychological development of the characters. please note that we are far from ffvior from 32 bit rpgs like xenogears. this game doesn'tcompete with them. but it's more developedthan secret of mana. the background of each characteris better. it's more developed. and thanks to this,the characters become more charismatic.

also thanks to their nice skin,we become attached to them. i'm not sayingwe have pity for them, but really, we careabout their story. they are fun to watch. maybe not to playbut i'll come back to the gameplay. but we feel attached with them,their skin is beautiful. even the animation! in general,such rpgs have average animation... but in seiken 3, theanimation is really smooth. now let's talk aboutthe saving system. we can save inthe towns, classic.

we sleep in an inn, we regainall hp and we save. and also in dungeonsor other places. it's not like dragon quest vi,where there's nowhere to save! the pill was hard toswallow in dragon quest vi! we'll have to find these statues. this one is a silver statue,i can only save. but the most interestingare the gold statues. they let us saveand regain our hp and mp. i take the opportunity to returnto the cleft of the earth.

look at this place. when i showed youduran's prelude, it was ending here. remember, he was on this bridgesbefore traveling to jad. now, the bridge is destroyed. why?well i let you play the game to discover. i mean there's a coherence betweenthe places in the world. it's well done. let's follow this path.as you can see, the night is coming. we can seethe light fading. look at the rabbits, the enemies arereally nice. look at those bees! all these are enemies we hadseen in seiken 2, or even seiken 1! look at this visual! i won't talk aboutthe graphics during the whole video...

but graphically! i talk about the aesthetic of the game.i could do this during one hour. but i won't waste time on this. just rememberit's one of the prettiest games on snes. or superfamicom. the small rabbits are themascot of the saga. just like... wait i wanna show yousomething, there below. it's there!it's the first time... the mode-7 is used,you saw it in the introduction. it's a texture on the ground thatallows zoom in and out. i'll show you.

thanks to this system!it only serves to admire the view. look where we are. we arepropelled up with the sound... the same noise asin secret of mana. in the west, we saw the towni came from. it's fine. thanks to that, we can see the map,then there will be the cannon travels. oh look at this!i turned into a wolf! the light has lowered. it's not nightyet, but it must be the evening. but if i stay here,the light is fading. as you saw, kevin becamea wolf. now he's more powerful.

when i change screen,he becomes human again. and when i press this,werewolf again. it's strange. but why not talk aboutthe gameplay now? wait we have a chest.with chests we sometimes have roulettes! roulettesare boring! these chests nearly have no use.they contain crap like healing items. and given money is not a problem, wejust fill up our hp or mp in a town! the chests are useless. first,there's nothing of interest in... but also, 3/4 of the time,a roulette appears, like this one.

it's based on luck...the chance was mine, i got ok. did you see the small 'ghost' icon?or rather a 'grim reaper' icon. if we get it,our character passes away! isn't it abused?what were they thinking? if we get a chest, the chest becomesa monster we have to fight. i we get poison, we're poisoned.anyway, it's not a good idea. anyway! i musttalk about the gameplay! another chest.but no roulette, i was lucky. you must know we can change the amountof 'oks' in the roulette with our luck.

naturally, we gain experienceby beating enemies. here i gained 3 experience points. i'm at level 42 andthe enemies are level 4. of course i beat them easily.we may even think it brings fun.. but when we fightenemies of the same level, it's a different kettle of fish.there's nothing we can do. you'll see when i'll fight. - let's go there - you'll see when i'll fightenemies of my level.

i can't have fun withthis game. it's that simple! the biggest issue of this gameis the gameplay. i can't have fun. i had more funin secret of mana. even in seiken 1, i enjoyedthe fights! here, it bores me. but worse! it exasperates me!i have no fun! the player-fun must beat 0% for the gameplay! i'm saying this, but it's my opinion!let's be clear! i'm telling you this because in bothmagazines back then and on internet... ...it was very well ranked butno-one has criticized its gameplay.

i'm not omniscient...i don't have total knowledge. but i can share my opinion.well, i've already done it. i don't like the gameplayand i can't have fun. but as i'm lonely to think that,perhaps it's not for me. this system doesn't fits me.but i'll come back to it. as you see, we're in a townat night. windows are [lighted]. there's not so many windows.just some engravings in the port. too bad, it lackssome windows... anyway! now the means of transport.let's go right to see the boat.

it's as beautiful as ever.even if we can't see it entirely. look at allthis woodcut! look at this boat! look at the bow, it has amermaid with a harpoon. it's great stuff!this game has great stuff! if we talk to him, he asksif we want to go to jad. no, i come from jad! i don't wantto come back! anyway, it's the boat. but we can't control it. it sailsfrom a to b, it's not our boat. there we go, the 2nd means oftransport. let me show you...

the travels in cannon!they first appeared in secret of mana. they are back in seiken 3,with a beautiful cannon. it has nothing to do with the cannonof seiken 2, which was small and rough. look at the new cannon! it's 3 timesbigger and more detailed. i won't go in because i don't wantto enter a place i don't know. no, i won't go there.i doubted but no. we're thrown in the air,with the same noise: you all remember of this noisefrom secret of mana. instead of going there,i come back a bit.

i'll show another means of transport.it's not far from here. i have planned it out.yes, hooper thinks! here. it's a different environment.with an amazing background! let's gothere. thanks to these beaches,7 or 8 of them in the game... ...if we open the pop-up menu- the same as in secret of mana. we enter the menu with x to use items.i won't explain their purpose. the chocolate can restore hp.you know, it's the usual items. like the angel's grailsto revive an ally and many more.

we can stock spells as items.we're not forced to learn them. it means that if noneof our characters has magic, we can buy spells.single-use, of course. now let's use thepihyara flute. later we'll use the wind drum.and who does that summon? well it's written "summon flammie",it was no surprise. first let's callbooskaboo. who is booskaboo? booskaboo isbob marley's descendant!

i had planned that one.i had to add that joke! why do i call himbob marley's descendant? first for his design.then, listen to this! it's amazing, now you understandwhy i call him bob marley's descendant! the trackis amazing... oh, look at this! the scenery changed from day to night.on the turtle, the cycle still goes on. it's our first means of transportin the pseudo 3d map... i mean mode-7. later, with flammie, we'll be able to flyand discover many different places.

take note that we can't dock wherewe want with the turtle! here, i can't! look! when we go backward,look at his head... ...with a mask! it makes me laugh hard.i'm sorry but really! like i've said,we can only dock on... let's try to find a beach.there should be one here. we can only dockon the sandbanks. in fact, we travelaround the continents and... wait, i was talking aboutthe night/day cycle.

when riding on flammieor the turtle, the... the... time passes2-3 times faster. did you see the light change? nowwe see stars and a moon. it's night. it's a nice concept if we wantto make time go faster. of course we cansleep in an inn. the innkeeper will ask if wewant to wake up at night or day. with that, we canalready manage time... but we can choose whether flammie orthe turtle by just going on the map. and we cango there anytime.

time passes faster whenwe're riding the turtle. but i can't fina sandbank. there shouldbe one here! i should be able to go there.i can't? incredible. let's move on untilwe find a beach to dock on. let's tryover there. look, the day is coming...wait did i miss it? no. the daylight is already coming back.it goes way faster on the map. there's a town, but...i can't get in. no way!!

they must be kidding, i can't stophere, it's volcanic island bucca. no way! am i dreaming?where is the dock? i must be blind or unlucky...i don't get it. normally every 300 yards there'sa small beach to dock. not here! am i missing something? or perhapsi'm blind! no way! i've sailed aroundthe island... where are we? incredible! these beaches are not that many.maybe only five or six.

now where are we?'sand city sultan'! it's the desert kingdom.there's also an ice kingdom. i can show youthe inside. oh there'sa chest! i didn't even knowthere was a chest there. i found an angel's grail,good for me! it told you all, this game respectsthe canvas for rpgs and action/rpgs. now, there's no muchmore to add. it's gorgeous, look atthe details in the houses!

why is she laughing?let's talk to her mother. "this kid's parents were attacked by ninjas.they didn't come back." ninjas from navarre kingdom i think.and we can play a ninja; hawk! i rememberi have to talk about... - let me pass, you - talk about the class system.for that, let's go in the menu. there are 2 menus. first,the circle menu to use items. we can stock up to 9 items.in secret of mana, it was only 4. for example,the honey drink.

i have 7 and we canstock up to 9. it restores all our hp. when fighting a boss, i'll beable to restore my hp 9 times. afterwards i also can use chocolatesor candies. but once i use them all, it's over. but there's a difference.by pushing start... now i can't push...wait i can? i wonder why i could enterthis menu while fighting. perhaps the fight had ended? yes! the fight wasalready finished. because when we fight, we can't enterour inventory. like in dragon quest vi.

it means we won't let anythingon the ground. we take everything. we can only carry 9 itemsof the same kind with us but... we can stock everything in abig sack but we can't use it in fight. for example, i can show how manyhoney drinks or chocolate i have... i see i have 56 chocolates.but i can only carry 9 of them. it's nice, so that we're not forcedto buy candies, honey drinks, chocolates, etc., etc. we just go in the menuand pick what we need. get the idea?it's nice. and we have another menu to changeequipments and weapons.

you must know that with the circle menu,we can only use items and spells. as you see,angela has more magic. it's obvious, given she's a magicianwhile kevin and hawk are fighters. if we press y, we get accessto the... inventory menu. wait my phone is ringing.i pause here and i come back. ok i'm back!the hazards of live. i take the controller... voilã .this goes there... it's good! thus i was in the inventory,or in the global menu of the game. don't worry, we won'tstay here for long.

especially with those useless tabs.i never go there. never. i just show you this tab.it's the equipment tab. we are a bit forced to go there toequip the latest weapon we have bought. you get the idea. the latestmask, protection, etc. with kevin, i have the jug puncherand i see that i have 227 in attack. while if i take the fiend's claw,it goes down to 261. and with the ghost hand, it goes downto 211. i'd rather keep the jug puncher. it's the same for armors and magic.it's really basic and simple. let me explain: in every new town we visit,we buy new weapons and equipment.

it doesn't go anyfurther than this, i swear. and with select,we change character. but contraryto secret of mana... we can't choose our weapon anymore!each weapon is limited to one character. for example, kevin always battlewith his claws and knuckles. and hawk will alwaysbattle with daggers and... wait, hashura? what are these?i lost the word... daggers and... and sabers!gosh it was hard to say! anyway, it's a shame.in secret of mana...

i liked to be able to switchfrom whips to swords or axes. it wasmore various. here, each character has only onetype of weapon. it's a shame. also we can't upgrade them.unlike in secret of mana. we can't upgradeour weapons or our spells. for this, it regressed.only for this. so now, we're back here. so i push x.then i show quickly the other tabs. the main tab with our names andlevels (42 for every character). you can also see ninja master,magus and death hand.

wait, i need to putthe controller down. i'll try to go fast to explain theclass system. but i may take 2 mins. how to explainthat clearly? like i've said, we begin by preparingour team with 3 characters. they all have their own attributes andstats. but they have nearly no magic. after reaching level 18, by going in acertain place, we can change classes. each character has 2 possible classes.that is whether the good or the evil. they call thislight and dark. we'll have to chooseone of those for all characters.

if i put kevin in light,he'll learn heal magic. it's good magic,how to say?... defensive magic. while dark it's mostlyoffensive magic. you got the idea? wellthat's for all characters at level 18. later in the game, when we reach level 38,it's not the end but it's quite late... ...we'll get access to a 2nd class,whether dark or light. at level 38, after a 2nd change,our character can have between 4 forms. if i had taken dark, he could bedark dark or dark light. and if i had taken light, he could belight light or light dark. get the idea?

thus what changes:first the skin colors. personally i find it's awful colors.fluorescent green or blue, what the hell? in short, the skin changesbut also all the spells! so we must manage our team.it's really important. i just explained one ofthe most important aspects! but honestly, without internet thissystem would be impossible to understand! impossible! in addition,when we're at level 38... ...we must have a specificitem for each transformation! and they are called '??? seeds'...we'll have to plant them in inns.

it will bring us an item to transform.but we can't choose the transformation! it's boring because theseseeds are hyper rare! as we can have 2 copies of the same seedwe keep on fighting until we get the one we want. it's extremely boring! the class system is a good feature but getthe level 38 class can get really boring! well i had to explainthe class system. it's very important! it's a great concept butit's badly explained in the game. without tutorial on internet, we wouldchoose anything and we'd have issues! it's quiteaverage.

but the class system is well thought.we can have offensive or defensive magic. our stats differ accordingto them. it's a great concept. afterwards... what's this?yes, the battle tab. well i guess you understood.it's like secret of mana. even if there are 3 characters, we onlycontrol 1, the other ones are cpus. and thanks to this chessboard, in fact,we can give orders to the 2 cpus. for example ask them to attack or tohelp us or the other cpu during battles. but it doesn't work that good.i didn't try it when playing on cartridge, but on emulator i already foundthat it worked once in a while.

in short, i abandoned. i abandonedbecause i found it... average! here another tab just to see our3 save files... it's useless. and this tabto see our stats. knowing that i'm at level 42. all mycharacters reached the 2nd class. there are full. kevin has death hand. it's not hismost powerful class, but the highest he can get. i think it was dark/light. i don'tremember... no it was dark/dark! it was 'god hand', whilehere it's death hand. it's dark/dark. we can see the stats like usual.and when we level up... as you see on the right, if i get2,667 exp points, i'll level up.

i'll also be able to improveone of my abilities - on the left. when we level up, we can choose: strength to be more powerful, agility to move faster, vitality to winmore hp, intelligence more mp, what is spirit for again?to increase our magic defense. anyway!it's basic stuff. this is useless, just toconfigure the controller. and that's to seethe magic effects. let's see for angela, it costs 2 mp."summon fireball that swirls around enemy." holy ball is the same but it's holy.diamond missile, missile made of diamond.

for the mana spirits, eachmagic is associated to a spirit. for example, if we attack a fire spiritwith a fire magic, we regenerate his hp! we'd rather useundine's magic (water/ice). anyway! let's leave this, you got the idea!the most important tab is 'equipments'. well, i've said all you need to know aboutthe class system. it was very important. another important point isthe gameplay! now, we're in a battle. once again, the enemies hereare quite easy. let's see their levels. when we change screen,we can see their names and levels. let's see the duck... it's a level 17 dark priest.well it was the other monster.

so when we enter a battle...i'll try to explain. when we're in a town or out of fight...here we're out of fight. in fact this game isnot a classic action/rpg. it's between an action/rpgin real time and turn-based. that's it! how to explain?it's a kind of... i don't know how to explain.i can if i find the words. now i'm out of fight, i can run.but as soon as i enter a battle... wait. yes, now we move strangely...we can't run anymore! therefore it becomes very trickyto dodge the attacks.

it's ok when the enemies are lame.but fighting enemies of our level... ...it's so boring becausethis gameplay limits us. it's so slow we can't do anythingand it becomes very pushy! for me, this game is the beginning ofthe end for the seiken densetsu saga. most of connoisseurs will tell you the sagastarted to decline with legend of mana. but for me, it had alreadybegun with seiken densetsu 3! it's the beginning of the end,this seiken 3. yet it's a nice game. but the fights are so pushy!let's get out and call flammie. you know flammie,don't you?

and i let you listen tothe beginning of the track. this trackis great! the ost is excellent and doneby the same composer, hiroki kikuta. i made a video forthe ost of secret of mana, i may even make onefor seiken 3. it deserves it. but for me, it lacks emotions.of course it's well achieved, we hear that hiroki kikuta masteredthe snes. there are more instruments. but, but, but it lackssomething, that little spark... i don't know how to explainbut there's a loss of emotions.

it may only be nostalgia...i prefer secret of mana's ost. even if this oneis excellent. on with flammie!the map is in mode-7. this map is even prettier than in secretof mana because there are more details. we press r to have a top-down view.we press a to fly up and b to fly down. something new, when we goabove a place, we can see its name. in secret of mana, when we didn'tknow the map, we could get lost. here, it'ssub-zero snowfields. by the way, let's go therebefore fighting the boss.

let's go here, in the ice world.it must be altena, i think. and we'll stop here!i've said it all, anyway. it's an excellent game!but the gameplay spoils it. it's too pushy, we can't movewithout getting hit. the magic can't be avoidedeither, like in secret of mana. it was already an issue in secretof mana. in seiken 3 it's even worse! the characters move slowlyduring the battles. it's cumbersome! we feel like our skill is useless.you know what i mean? all that matters isthe level of our team!

high level equals victory,low level equals failure. the skill isnot taken into account. how lame! wait! nowi enter an inn. i'll show you the planting system.so if i go near this pot, my menu opens. i have item seeds, mysteriousseeds and flying item seeds. if i plant an item seed itbecomes an item. here, a chocolate. it's like atrade system. these are seeds we findin chests after a battle.

'mysterious seed'.if i plant it, i get a faerie walnut. it's a nice feature but it's uselessas money is not a major issue!! we'll always have enough money.so we buy chocolates without counting. flying items, a new feature.it's items we can throw. these are attack items likethe night-blade or the pumpkin bomb. it's not that useful. maybe atthe beginning but not afterwards. that's where we can find the '??? seeds'that offer the items to change classes. but they offer us random items.i hardly understand this system. this ost is really nice, like in secretof mana, even if i prefer the latter.

well listen to this,i talk about it later. the enemies are a bit stronger here.not a lot stronger, only at level 20. anyway, isn'tthat music very good? it's true but you can't compare thiswith the ice fields track from secret of mana. i let you hear it in my secret of manareview. i may redo this video btw. but i wanted to let youlisten to it. while here... well... nice tracks are not so numerous.for me, they all sound the same. graphically, the game sureis beautiful. but for the emotions, the ost is belowsecret of mana. even if it's more elaborate.

it's quite strange to say that.more elaborate but in a bad manner... or perhaps it's just me. you may receivea different answer from someone else. look at this pine!it looks like someone decorated it. graphically, when i say it's anatomic blast, it's because it is! about the spells. we see them inthe inventory like in secret of mana. kevin is dark/dark, he only has energy ball.this increases his critical hit rate. but with l, i access angela's spellsand hawk's spells with r. both have only offensive spellsbecause i've put everyone in dark/dark. no! i think hawk is in dark/light.but angela is in dark/dark.

afterwards, she'll havethe more powerful spell of the game. i take angela and i use 'air blast'.no i can't! as you see, i can't do it. it's either because the enemy is dead,or the cpu is desoriented... let me retry. the cpu is orderingangela to attack. let's see... no, because all the enemies were defeated.let's do it in advance. let's do 'air blast',jinn's attack of course. here we saw a different visualbecause it attacked all the enemies. if i change the selection...now, all the enemies are selected.

but if i select only one,the visual will change. you'll see. i think... yes.it's quite nice. i doubt secret of mana had this.each spell could change level. in fact, the spells' visual could change2-3 times depending on their level. now let's get out.wait, i can't? maybe by entering the menu...no i can't, it's grayed out. which means i must beat all theenemies before calling flammie. but we can cheat. when changing screenand pressing rapidly in the menu,

the cpu doesn't put us in battle modeand we can use the wind drum. and the sabers are also coming back.we can attribu... no, give... no... we can attribute elementsto our weapons. in secret of mana,only the girl could do it. here, we can do it but notwith the characters i've picked. perhaps lise or charlotte,i don't remember. but now we can even buyitems to perform this. look, it's written"attribute earth to weapon". so that we canuse earth attacks...

let's use the wind drum. i think i'm repeating myselfso let's go to where i want to go. which means to the god beast...well you'll see his name. for me, it's the prettiest.but watch out not to be spoiled. big spoiler!watch out! first i must find it...i don't think it's here. neither here... not here... i'm at theopposite location. look at the map. on the left we havea main map and on the right, a zoom-in.

now, we're nearly at the endof the game. like i told you earlier... ...we're aiming to beat the 8 god beasts.and we can do it in any order. even though some can be easyand others pretty hard. the one i'll show you is...yes, i think it's over there. this boss is unfortunately long,but easy. is it over here? where are we now?forest of wonder... no! i was sureit was here. yes, cleft of the earth.i think it's here... yes, that's here here! here!

the kid goblins and the hedgehogs!we don't forget these monsters! i think i've said it all.the best in this game are... i have asore throat. it's all about visual and music.there are many remixes from seiken 2. the ost, even if below secret ofmana, is brilliant! you can't disagree. graphically, like i'vesaid, it's a blast! the global aesthetic is wonderful. thesettings and scenery, the characters... even the bosses are tremendous!i'll show you three of them. the various scenarios,it's excellent!

being able to choose our team withvarious characters, it's excellent. the attack system with variousspells is really nice. and sometimes we seethe characters we didn't pick. during the adventure, i couldsee duran and charlotte... i think the original name is charlotte.terminus traduction named her carlie. there we go!does neko ring any bell? neko and his friend.i think now the name is nikita. he was called 'neko' in secret ofmana. now, it's nikita and his friend. they stay just besidesthe entrances of god beasts' caves.

and i think the pricesare unchanged here. in seiken 2, the priceswere doubled or tripled. but here, the prices reallyequal the usual shops. you can see the jug puncheris sold 17,735 luc. if i buy it again, i wouldn't increasemy attack. from 227 to 227. while the rock claw wouldsink me from 227 to 223. it's that easy. you don't needa 250 iq to get the idea. damn i havea sore throat! anyway, having variousscenarios is a nice feature.

and those are hard enemies.they are level 40! look when we strike... let's pause a moment. look at the bottom left:the hp counter (721/772 for kevin). at the lower left, you see level 42.then it's kevin's icon and his mp (64). it's the same for the two others,at the top left and top right. you can see... sort of diodesthat shine when we hit an enemy. in secret of mana,there was a load-system. remember, we maintained a buttonpressed and a bar was loading. and when the bar was full,we could use a fury attack.

now it's nota load-system anymore. when we hit an enemy,it shines and we just press... like i just did but it died before.we press b and the fury occurs. we get a new furyat every class change. one initially, one atlevel 18 and one at level 38. and maybean intermediate one. but it's really three by character.i'll try to show it in a next battle. i hope monsterswill spawn. i hope i went to the right dungeon.i may not meet the right god beast.

anyway we'll see.now look, i hit him then i use it. kevin flashed and attacked...great, i've just leveled up. as of now, the enemies die too fast.i'll explain the furies after, at the boss. level-up! like i've said, after alevel-up we can improve one of our stats. when you now...hem, i meant know. know! "no nose knows likea gnome's nose knows". when you know that stats are capped.you can't have attack 30 and the rest at 10. for example,i can't improve spirit. the cursor moves directlyfrom intelligence to luck. wait...

yes, intelligenceto luck. what should i improve?i don't know... strength. we must improve one certain statdepending on the character. that's how spells are learned.it's a bit lame. improve hawk's agility will makehim learn spells related to his class. look, hawk made his fury by himself.this option is selectable in the menu. what was i saying?i've lost my thoughts. angela has just leveled up. too badi can't improve her intelligence.

strength and agility are no use;she rarely attacks physically. let's level up her spiritto improve her... ...resistanceto magic. the gameplay may seeminteresting and nice... ...but i can't have fun.i can't enjoy!! a new feature: look atangela for example. the cpu is frozen.what's happening? in secret of mana, i'd havebeen frozen and stuck. i'd be forced to come backto have her come with me.

while here, the charactersget frozen. but it doesn't matter... ...because even frozen,we still can enter the next screen. but it's normal, it's soeasy as the enemies... wait!!i'm nearly dead! strange, i had problems evenif the enemies are low-level. now i'm poisoned. look above,we can see the icon. let's use apuipui grass. did it work? no, damn!i made a mistake.

i made a mistake. i used a 'dreamsee herb'that changes from day to night. i wanted to use a puipui grass. i'm nearly dead so i won't act kamikaze,i'll use a honey drink. now it's night, kevin hasturned into a werewolf. but besides his attack power...his other stats don't change. also, his spells and attacksremain the same. now i'm playing badlyso what i should do... first i heal angelawith a chocolate. then i ask her to use a spell...i don't know which...

let me show you theevil gate. it hits everyone. it should bea big blast. like in secret of mana,the screen is blocked during spells. another issue: sometimes we meet enemiesor bosses that only use magic attacks. for 30-40 sec, they block us.and sometimes we die. and we can't do anything.not even enter the menu to heal. the worst is that it happenswith bosses and groups of enemies. three enemies attacking in chain withpowerful spells. and we die in 40 sec. frankly, it bored me.spell chains that block you.

well it doesn'thappen so often. in 30 hrs, it happened 5-6 times butit's boring to die like that. hawk, i can't improve his agilityas it's capped. let's go for strength. yes, improvehis strength! let's finish him.wait he's attacking... wow 287 in the face!it kinda hurts. so i'd like to hit them butthey're not tough enough to... nice, lookat this! i have just showed you thelevel 2 fury with kevin.

there's also a level 3 fury thatblasts nearly everyone on the screen. i saidit all. level 40; these are quite hard.let's be cautious. alright, like this...now let's be cautious. no really, i don't like this gameplay.what can i say? i can't have fun! and given this game is 50% basedon gameplay, its interest is reduced! i would rather playsecret of mana. i think you get the idea. even worse: i enjoy more mystic quest[=final fantasy adventure] or secret of evermore! i don't like this gameplay.

i swear this is the big issue!!let's hurry. to flee, we can't run so we mustmove like this to the next screen. i know i can't run but i try toavoid them and run away. i hope i'm not... come on, i'm stuckand i get hit at the same time! i hope i'm not backtracking!no it's ok. let's hurry. hawk is going to die buti don't care. he's useless anyway. no, it's no here. next screen to seethe golden statue and heal. in the end we feel like avoidingthem except to level up.

we nearly prefer avoiding these battles,which are repetitive by the way. against enemies or bosses,it's always the same deal... ...angela uses magic while we attack.and when they hit us, we heal. it will never go further.never! i can't have fun. but it must be me. don't forgetthis game is very well ranked. and nobody criticized its gameplay!i may be the only one to do so. back then, in emulationi found the game [easy]... i won't save. i shouldn't dieagainst the boss. let's take some honey drinks,because we never know.

to the bottom. chocolates?yes let's take 9. and 2 more honeydrinks should do. this boss is vulnerable to earth,i'll put the earth element to all weapons. so where was i? yes, in my firstplay-through on emulator in 2002, i had big fun. i had chosenother characters like duran... ...and not only dark/dark as classes.in short, my team was more homogeneous. wait it's not this way!damn i'm totally lost. i'm lost... i hope thegod beast is over [here]...

i hate not beingable to move!!! i swear i can't stand it!you can't avoid the attacks! frankly, you can't saythis game is not pushy! you cannot! secret of mana had issuesbut we could avoid the attacks. not the bosses, of course but basicenemy attacks could be avoided. here i can't.i am forced to get hit! there was anotherstatue here? i didn't know. let's regeneratewithout saving. the boss shouldbe there...

what? not yet?!?no wayyy! perhapson the right... omg i amtotally lost! of course we have no map!i hope it's over there... i have a bad feeling about it.i don't know where i'm going! we have no map to helpus find our way. it's not over here!let's keep on moving... wait... don't tell mei went back to the start?!? come on, come on!we can't run!

i think i'm lost.i don't see where i am. what the hell?i'm sure i lost track! perhaps down there.i may have lost track. look, when he jumped it wasan auto-dodge. i did nothing. the cpu even controls thecharacter i play. crazy stuff! the cpu decided i could avoidso he jumped on his own. no way...wait it was here! nope! i'm looooost!what else can i say? the various scenario system is nice.the class system is also a good feature.

4 different classesfor each character. damn it was down there!not yet? it's where i come from... it's starting to bore me...let's try going left. i do not understand. or perhaps it's not here...which would surprise me. wait... here it's...no way, it was not here!!! i was mistaken! it was the lair ofanother god beast! the earth one... i was sureit was here! well let's call flammie!but first let's get out of here!

goddammit we can'teven call flammie!!! but i'm outside,i should be able to call him! no way!this was over there! something...i'm missing something. did i tryto go this way? no not over there...and i already went right! theses enemiiiiiiiiies!can't move and go damn slow!!! nowayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! that's where i camefrom earlier i think.

let's go to the left...i'm lost, it's crazy stuff. how boring to get lostlike this. i swear! if i don't manage,i'll stop the recording. wasn't therea path over here? that's also annoyingnot to know where to go or to do. perhaps to the right...i'm completely lost, dude. what?!? amazing! i went back towhere i was earlier!! okayyy. it wasn't there,no need to insist.

i have a sore throat.i have speaking issues! i have a sore throat and...i don't know where to go. if only i could move faster! being forced to move like a snail,it's really annoying. you must know there are few puzzles!it's not like zelda, we just keep moving. it wasn't there, i was wrong.it was not there. it was somewhere else.i was mistaken. we can't protect ourselves!look at that, the monsters block us! don't tell me this gameplayis a success! it's not!

i'm lost... i must go up.no doubt about it. let's go up. or perhaps there?damn! i don'tunderstand. let's make a clean break...i think it's a good idea. i pause here.i resume a bit later. ok, i got it. in facti was lost in a hole. i'm sorry i was at the wrong place.but look at this nice background! it's one of the prettiestsceneries of the game! we can see the worldunder our feet.

anyway, i had to go tothe kingdom of rolante! we meet the cats again.originally named nikita. in legend of mana,it was niccolo. it's the 2nd mascot, just after therabite! the cat is not in every installment. anyway, let's move on quickly.i'll go to the god beast. it's one of the rarepuzzles in the game. it's a place wherewe come back. the beginning of the game...wait what am i saying?!? we already came to this placein the beginning of the game.

thus we come back there...i call this recycling places. the 2nd half of the game containsplaces we already know. it's a bit lame. in short, we must trigger switchesto turn these blowing statues. not this way... so i trigger thisto move the wind and move on. one of thevery rare puzzles! look at this prettiness!you can't say this game is ugly. it has flaws,and gameplay first! look at this! this guy killed angela inone hit - she's dead, it's a visual bug. wait it's not a bug?so she's not dead but i let her die.

kevin has 109 hpand hawk only 80. believe me, sometimes we don'tunderstand what happens. it may happen that enemieskill us with one attack! ah ok... i couldn't doanything... let's use angela... what to do?fireballs? it's pure button-pushing!no strategy whatsoever. only when our bar below is fullwe can make a combo. here, for example, a combo of twoattacks. but it never goes further. i really don't understandhow to enjoy this gameplay.

it's not fun, it's boring...i don't get it! i don't understand whythis game is so high-ranked. but this gameplay...for me, it's bad. aaah don't tell me i'm losingmyself again! maybe up there... yes, it's over here.let's kill them quickly. one less. as you can see,it's no more small-level monsters. but these monsters give mepuipui grasses. what the hell? so when we finda chest, we take a risk. with the roulette, we risk to be poisonedfor a puipui grass, a candy or a chocolate.

what's the use? if only we hadgood items, but here, it's crap! to talk frankly, it's so pushy thatthere's even an 'auto mode'!! look: now, i amjust pushing a. wait a moment... here i'm just pushing a!kevin moves by himself to the enemy. you imagine how pushy it is!we only keep on pushing a button! our character attacks by himself!i won a chibi devil's eye. it's still better than a chocolateor other simple things like that. so here i can't go down becausea statue is blocking the way.

so we go up... yesit was well up here. let's trigger this switch,it shouldn't be far. now we can advanceand go down there... here we are! let's go there... he pushes me.and i trigger the button! now i must come backand go down. we should approachthe boss... it's not here yet. the backgrounds are well done. lookat this! what an annoying enemy. i should use a spell but i don't want toas they're so slow to cast!

but we can improve it byupgrading intelligence or spirit... here's a statue, let's regeneratebefore finally meet the boss! i'm not very proud of this video buti have a sore throat and it's so hot! it's a wreckhouse warmth!! waitwreckhouse? usually we say that for winds! a wreckhousewarmth!! and look down, look down!it looks like a picasso. look below! it's wonderful, wonderful!one of the prettiest games on snes! well here we are.it took time! "in the sky, the god-beast!"watch out, spoiler!

it's wonderful. now i stop talking. i'lljust share my thoughts and show this fight. afterwards, i'll show 2 other god-beasts.three of the best fights in the game! these are the most impressivebosses visually and aesthetically. most beautiful rpg of all-time!!no i'm going too far. i let you listena few seconds. amazing, isn't it? we didn't expectto see a battle on flammie's head! let's see thegod beast of light [of wind, actually]. in general, the weakness of thegod beast is his opposite element. so if i put the earth element to kevin'sweapon, it should give big damage.

i renamed kevin hooper,as you have noticed. and i'll usethunderstorm with angela. now look! i'm going to usekevin's level 3 fury! you'll see what it is,the screen splits... it's a fury that hits all the enemies.it took him 446 hp, a big amount! with angela, can i launch'earthquake'? yes i have it. it should damage him.otherwise there are no strategy. visually it's nice... but whatdo i do? just pushing blindfolded. a spell for the sake of it. butoverall it's kevin with one button!

one little fury but the rest is pushy.i could nearly kill him with one button! you know that there issomething wrong with this game! of course i exaggerate. we can'tkill him pushing one button! but still! you'll see this battle is original,it has 2x2, 4 phases. at a moment wesee flammie in profile. anyway, let's stop here. likei said i'll show you 2 nice bosses. in conclusion, it's a good gamein many ways but it has a big flaw. this flaw, or more a cancer for meis the gameplay!! i can't enjoy it! i'm not saying it's a bad game.i just can't have fun with seiken 3!

it's because its gameplaydoesn't suit me! that's all. the gameplays of zelda andsecret of mana suit me! even the gameplay ofmystic quest on game boy! i have more fun when i play seiken 1!and this means there's something wrong! there's something wrong, goddammit!i don't say random things for pleasure! i thought before to say that.but really, i can't have fun. i can't, i'm sorry. for the rest, bothsound and graphics are wonderful. the plot is really nice butit becomes less and less interesting. it's really nice the first hours,quite average a bit after...

and the 10 last hours, nearly nothinghappens. nearly no dialog lines. it's a small issue. but comparedwith the gameplay, it's nothing! i've told you nearly all i wanted to sayabout this game. a big deception for me. it's perhaps my last timereviewing a seiken densetsu game. unless i review sword of mana... or i may redo myseiken 2 review... i'm not satisfied with it. and i don't think i will be satisfiedwith this review of seiken 3 either. i don't know what happenedearlier... we easily lost 10 or 20 mins! when we were in the cave! you know,when i lost 20 mins on the wrong way. but let's leave here... it's hot, i'msweating and i've lost my voice!

i say bye-byeand until next time!