The enemies are more aggressive too, and since you got three characters in your party, combat is a fun, exciting, and hectic mess. You know when at Secret of Mana you have to wait a little bit until the meter fills up then you can attack? Well in this game, your character will show just a short animation when he's ready to attack, making the flow of the game goes faster. The combat has been refined from the previous game. The soundtrack's great too, but there are some songs where I feel the instruments don't match up. This game looks fantastic, with detailed sprites and environments that are a joy to look at. There's more to it, but I won't bother spoiling it for now. Your main character is chosen to gather the eight spirits and pull the Sword of Mana to restore order.

Basically, the Tree of Mana is dying and chaos began to rise. The big red line of the story is pretty simple, though, some can say it's pretty underwhelming than the last game. This encourages multiple playthroughs of the game. The story in Seiken Densetsu 3 is rather unique, because you can choose 3 out of 6 characters to play, and their stories are intertwined with each other.

It never got released overseas though, my best guess is probably censorship reasons. Seiken Densetsu 3 is basically the sequel of Secret of Mana, released in 1995 in Japan.

This game is the grand hidden gem in the SNES library.

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