HERE IS THE SMITHING GUIDE: th-cam.com/video/ksFyMk6-PG0/w-d-xo.html (Thanks to all of you who requested it, I freakin' love this game and needed to gauge interest first)
Thanks so mich for this! I'm really looking forward to starting my first playthrough. Your videos are always so helpful. About rotating saves, I am a little confused on that concept. For example, keeping multiple saves, rotating, and so on? Why and how do you do this? Perhaps you can show me an example?
No prob! Keeping multiple saves is like creating your own autosaves. It's just an extra safety net and I tend to do a manual save at home before placing new artifacts. The new version of the game does auto-save, but I like to play it safe just in case I'm not ready to do certain events.
I'm loving that legend of mana is getting attention now. People are finally figuring stuff out that we never could fully figure out as kids playing this.
I was in my late teens, early twenties when this game came out in the US, I bought it instantly because Secret of Mana was probably my favorite game on the SNES... and I couldn't figure anything out and gave up on it after a couple of days. Never tried it again lol.
@@jedirayden I was 12 when it came out, rented it because I loved SoM and SD3...I returned it the same day because I didn't understand a damn thing about it lmao. Giving it another shot now that the Remaster is on Gamepass!
TIP: Synch Effects can be great. When you get a new pet, check its Synch effect. It's triggered by standing close during battle (lightning effect that goes from your health bar to theirs. My tip would be : Get thee a Polterbox! Go to the tower of Leires boss room after the boss fight and get the proper egg. Its ability to force item drops AND rarer items cannot be lauded enough. Ah, the small community of fans of LoM. I would like to see a video on all the more recent discoveries about tempering. Tempering is nuts and incredible at the same time.
Just to add to this, you can also get a Magicali (Poltergeist) Egg earlier at the Junkyard where the boss fight for the Infernal Doll is. Keep trying to catch Magicali eggs until you get a Polter Box :)
That's a lot of information I didn't know as a kid! Who knew that there were tons of combos to do in combat and you could get locked out of questlines because you fail to properly plan setting the map up! I was always so surprised when a quest popped up in a new playthrough which didn't appear in our previous playthrough!
@13:12 YES, Bed of Thornes does increase your defense, but it also cuts off your natural HP regen... so you might want to look out for that... -a tip from the greatest weapon master of LOM
There's so much to this game that it's pretty overwhelming. I just play and have fun. There's not enough room left in the brain to absorb all the ins and outs of LoM.
Tip: days pass by going from land to land, or a big quest. so early growing so you can raise your polterbox and such easily, you can harvest a bunch of seeds from the first world (wheel), plant them and just go back and forth on the map until you got like 14 to 30 spirit changes on the worlds or walked over the worlds that many times, enter home and your plants are grown. repeat for early fruits.
Heres a tip: Heavy attack delay cancelling When you do a normal heavy attack (no inputs), you get stopped for a full second before you can do anything. You can however bypass this by immediately hitting one of your ST skills after pressing the heavy attack button. This will cancel your heavy attack wait and you can immediately normal or heavy attack again. Heres the downsides, you MUST hit your heavy attack before pressing an ST button. Missing will immediately cast your ST (if your bar is full). If your ST bar is not full then youll only hear the bloop sound that you cant cast ST. The delay is around 0.25 seconds after doing a heavy attack, so I usually go Square -> R1 -> Square -> R1 if I want to spam normal heavy attacks. This works best with gloves and flails because of how fast their heavy attack animations come out. This will also allow you to combo your heavy attacks (though I dont think it will count as candy combos). I.e. for gloves X, X, X, X, X, Square->R1, X, X, X, X, X... loop.
Love this game. Used to rent it from blockbuster, fell in love with it. Found out blockbuster was selling it, bought it. Let my friend borrow it they returned so scratched up it would never play again. So happy for ports 🥰
I've played this game since I was a kid and I just found out that you can perfect parry attack using a ST and it will instant cast. I've done it a couple of times after seeing it for the first time about 30 minutes ago. I've looked it up meticulously online since and can't find anyone talking about it save some 11 year old Gamefaqs board posts that were dismissed. I pulled it off with the knive's "Aerial Reaver" ST a couple times. I couldn't get it to work with others but I'm thinking it's some insane frame input to pull this off and I just goofed with other STs
Hello! The Legend of Mana is my favorite childhood game, now after the remake, I went through it twice, completed all the quests, got all the trophies and achievements. However, the question that tormented me since childhood remained! At the end of the game, the credits show scenes that I did not see in the game. "Mis Yuka breaks a crab on the ship" "Pearl on the road runs away from the Bionics" "At the house, a pelican brings a cactus and takes Bud away" "men in Palpot on the beach in turbans" "In the Domina Nunzak performs tricks for a troupe of artists" "In Lumin, Roger comes running, when the Dubbers watch the artists" "In the underworld near the sage, a lot of shadows appear and laugh" "In Miss Fortune's Domina, after the prediction, Rachel's mother reacts" Where does it all come from!!??
I’m new to the game aswell but what I learned so far from these type of videos is that there are many different lines of quests and some can only be activated by doing certain things (early on or at various points in the Game) and if these aren’t done then certain quest lines won’t be activated. So it could have been showing these events that you didn’t experience, almost like the Game showing you glimpse of a alternate reality of such events.
6:50 standard heavy attacks. I recently discovered a new way to escape that animation lock - use the standard heavy attack then right after press down+forward heavy attack and your character will perform an uppercut out of the animation lock of your standard heavy attack. Im assuming forward, forward works too, maybe even back forward, not sure havent tried yet, this is new to me.Also the jump ability when pressed after a standard power attack will make your character uppercut, not sure why but the game does this.
Can confirm any command heavy (plunge attack) will animation cancel your heavy attack. With good timing your combo can be all heavys if you so chose and just knock around your opponents.
The only way to get Toadstoolsheds is by mixing Small, Large, OR Long seeds with Spiny Seeds!! It's a 8/256 chance, but as long as the elements are high in your house/the orchard (two different locations), you should be able to get at least one every time! Save your Spiny Seeds!! Also don't use 2 Spiny seeds at the same time, it's a waste!
Love seeing videos like this pop up now that LoM got a remake :) Thanks for the tips, I played this game as a kid and just loved how cryptic everything felt. Not knowing it if I was doing something right but somehow still ended up with good enough gear to get through the game. Getting back into LoM I finally started using other weapons besides the spear and 2H Sword lol I love knives now and grapple is such a fun ability, I used it the entire time!
I like how you cover so many games. Very helpful. That said, I personally (not speaking for others at all) would like a little more explanation or examples. Like how to get the difficulty characters or more strongly recommended concoctions for seeds and smithing. Perhaps recommended placement on the map... I know im kinda nit-picking but thats just my 2 cents. This was still a good video. Really liked the mass effect video as well. Oh! And a recommendation on starting weapon. I remember 1 was more useful at the beginning than the others but can't remember which. This is becoming a short story, sorry for that. Have a good one and keep doing what you do, its appreciated.
something I'd say about this game that I don't see anywhere being discussed is that due to the team that developed it, Legend of Mana is far more of a SaGa game than it is a Mana game, so understanding that can help understand the logic of the game faster
I dont if it works on the remaking version. But you can non-stop combo hit your enemy. You can press the basic attack twice and then give a little bit of time between pressing the next basic attack twice. I just enjoyed doing this and fill the super move fast and can end match way faster
@Caedo Genesis, absolutely would love an indepth crafting guide, monster guide, where to find each spirit (at least reliably), etc. as the last guide to have any relevance and useful information is well over an hour video and posted 7 years ago.
Well I can say my smithing guide won't be an hour, more like...35ish minutes. Don't know if I'll do a Monster Guide. As for Spirits, it's based on your artifact placement. You can tell from the map when you hover the pointer over a location, Mana levels on the lower-left will tell you which spirits are there.
I love this game, but I'm not prepared to grind chaos crystals _again._ I've spent hours in that tiny room murdering hundreds of polterboxes right in front of my own pet polterbox just for their precious loot. One thing I didn't know was that your equipped weapon determines your stat gains when you level up. I used a staff for most of a playthrough and had to switch to nunchucks for the last 30 levels to try and fill in my low stats. Which was its own fun, every weapon type is good.
@Vegesther Oooh, that's a really good point about buying the instruments. You only really need one good one for spellcasting so there's no point wasting all those coins/mats/time on more.
there seems to be an error, if you did nicollos quest then daena won't be available in the inn anymore to do her quest and get the forbidden ring rendering her quest missable. Edit: from the wiki: Prerequisites Note: Niccolo's Business Unusual (#1) and Heaven's Gate (#17) should NOT be completed. Edit 2: the Lil cactus entries that are presumed missable are actually not, when starting a new game + the game automatically writes them in (remaster version at least)
Hey man, just like to know how do you feel about your stats which are affected by which weapon you're using when you lv up and what's your plan to get the highest possible stats?
Honestly I didn't know about this until recently, but I came across this guide. It looks like Swords is a good all-rounder for high attributes: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/256525-legend-of-mana/faqs/18949
So that's why my character sometimes spawns a candy. I've always thought that the copy I had was buggy or something, and it couldn't handle the chaos of the battle, so it just vomits out a candy in confusion lmao
I’m sure someone mentioned it, but GOLEMS!! I know pets end up being better because of EXP/LVLs, but I always found Golems neat!! Also Bejeweled City, Lucre farm…. 🙏🙏🙏🙏✨✨✨✨
I used to print those long ass guide from gamefaqs specifically for crafting (including the robots/instruments). Best way to craft is just using cheats so you can have ALL kinds of material at 99 pieces. Not to mention about the delay (your MC hitting those hammer) is kinda frustating
Ring Ring Land is the quickest (and maybe only) way to get some of the best items for forging gear. I got Gaus's Tears a few times from doing the 3 loop circuit. It's one of the best primary materials. RRL is a slot machine minigame. I'm terrible at those. You can play it by just holding the A button down though, you don't have to tap. I wrapped a rubber band around the A button to play it for me. ngl it performs about as well as I do.
Interesting, I didn't know Ring Ring Land gave materials! I think I'd rather fight enemies for materials though. Gaia's Tears are high tier drops from Chimera Beasts too, in the Underworld or Lucemia.
Not entirely true, every material in the game is obtainable from enemy drops (except *maybe* Swifte Rock, since it wasn't obtainable outside RRL in the original game and as far as I'm aware none of the monsters had their loot tables changed kn the remaster). *However!* There are caveats to a monster's drop rates, namely that they're tied to the monster's level (as mentioned in the video). Each monster has 8 "levels" of items determining their rarity and drop rate. Levels 1 and 2 are just the monster's XP and Lucre (or occasionally Candy, TOMATO MAN >:|). Levels 3 and 4 vary widely but are often meat/seeds/lesser materials. Levels 5-8 are where it gets tricky. These items will only be added to a monster's loot pool if the monster's level is high enough (16 for Level 5, 32 for Level 6, 48 for Level 7, and 64 for Level 8). Polter Box pets and "Lucky Drops" (a small chance of occuring based on your Luck stat; it has the same effect as the Polter Box's Synchro effect and, sadly, they do *not* stack) have the effect of ignoring the Level 1-2 drops, meaning you can get Level 5-6 drops regardless of the monster's level, Level 7 drops require a level 16+ monster, and Level 8 drops require a level 32+ monster. Monster levels are determined by three things: how far the level is from Home, how many artifacts were placed before that level's artifact, and the mana values of the level. It's virtually impossible to get a monster's level high enough to get Level 7-8 drops without going into NG+ and activating Nightmare/No Future difficulty, but you can alleviate that with a Polter Box... Mostly. The top-tier materials like Dragon Scales, Adamantine, and Gaia's/Gaeus' Tears are the Level 8 drops from monsters that are inherently lower level than other monsters in the area, and using a Polter Box isn't enough since there's no way to get them to level 32 in normal difficulty.
Better way to earn lucre is to farm luon for windcaps from spiny cones and clear feathers from stinger bugs. Temper 4 clear feathers into a windcap and it sells for 26643 lucre. It is *very* fast if you have a polterbox and can be done almost from the start of the game (acquiring materials is doable, you just need to get the blacksmith).
Since I love magic, I tried experimenting on different materials and coins to come up with strong magic in the format of Sphere Fire/Fan Fire/Control Fire. But sometimes, that experimenting comes with a price of Lucre and materials. Kinda tedious. Any tips?
The ultimania translation site has a best instruments section here: www.oocities.org/xo_pitseleh/index.html Be patient if it takes time to load though, it's an archive.
So what I was hoping to find out is wether or not you can fail events? Because if I go home, the npc leaves my party and is not to be found at the same location. It's all very confusing.
Most guides mention that the Orchard can only take two seeds of a time but no guide tells me what happens if I give Trent more than one pair of seeds. Is the first pair deleted or are the seeds queued? Is there any notification if the produce is ready or do I constantly have to go back and check? How does time pass in Legend of Mana?
Trent will tell you when he hits max capacity on seeds, then when the produce grows, you pick it, take it to the box, get more seeds from Trent, repeat as you see fit. Most produce takes around a week to grow, and time can be passed on the world map by moving to other locations and back again. Days passing are indicated by the mana spirit symbol the upper corner of your map.
Rather than using meats or fruits when capturing monsters just keep staying on their back until a message bubble with "..." appears to capture the monster
Any suggestions help finding the meditation room in the gato grottos area? Lol I hear you can get easy elemental coins there as one of the spirits is close enough to run up to
I can't remember exactly which directions exactly, but I do know it's closer to the Waterfall than it is to town. Skip Dungeon to waterfall, then go to dungeon from there. It's in an upper middle section of one of the larger caves. The Load Zone/Doorway to get into the room is really easy to miss, I actually only _accidentally_ ended up in there the first time I did it.
Many of the tips I discover in the hard way: trying and trying again, until I notice the pattern ahahha. But until now I didnt discover how to leave domina as level 3 of mana... :(
never played this game or heard about it if ut worth my time I sure I hear about it more on yt tell then I going back to what I was watching see ya later on sarg stream
@@cloudshadow Having the FF8 save file on PS1 changes the initial pet from a Rabbite to a Chocobo. It is always accessible by getting the egg yourself.
I certainly wouldn't mind a video on weapon and armor crafting. Despite playing this game back in the day I still don't really understand it, especially the Mystic Powers, seriously what do these do?
They do a MASSIVE variety of effects: from increasing (or decreasing) stats, to adding additional effects to your master moves (plunge attacks in the original). They can also imbue certain passive effects like EXP share and HP regen. Proper placement and removal of these mystic powers without removing the positive stat changes they provide is key to creating the ultimate weapon. Primary materials have their own affinity towards elemental spirits, and react differently when imbued with an elemental coin. Secondary materials also has an effect. Both can imbue and remove mystic cards, but some does not imbue any at all, but they also serve a purpose. Following a guide, I managed to forge a menos bronze 2h sword, with a total offensive power of 700, imbued with all elements, as well as being able to inflict poison. I made it for No Future Mode. Smithing in this game is way ahead of its time, for better or worse. I would highly suggest you look at the links the uploader put in the description for more details.
Thank you for making the video, I think you did a good job on your explanation regarding the subject matter. I still have my original PS1 LoM, way back from 1999 and I'm happy with the job they did on the remaster. I'm definitely having a great time playing it again. Could you please make that separate video about crafting, I always found that part of the game hard, even with the original strategy guide from Brady Games I still own, lol.
I disagree the female always worked better in my game. Might have been a glitch but no matter the weapon exct. She did more damage every time with everything. You still get the Jade Egg from Rachael no matter what.
It could be the dash ability you're seeing (with a heavy attack). You can also cheese the speed in combat by holding forward and spamming up, down, up, down, etc.
Bed of Thorns card sure boost defense from equipment a lot, but it will disabled your health regeneration as a cost... The demerit can be nullified with adding Spring card or Heaven's Scale, I kinda forgot which one... Edit: I really like your video, please do make smithy guides video, I'm sure it would be fun. Crafting in Legend of Mana is very deep, it was out of the current time when it was released at ps1
Havent thought about this game since I was a kid, couldn't ever get to late game and couldnt ever figure out why. Long before I had home access to the internet, and the internet not being nearly what it is today Ive checkes now and those bastards 😂😂😂 The world artifacts have to go down on the map in a particular order for things to happen. Im finally beating this b**ch after 20 years, now where is my 2h sword ❤
I've got some tips: Keep an instrument on you for boss fights. You have i-frames for the duration of the spell animation. You can get around annoying wide-area boss attacks with them. Stealing this from Duelle's read-from-the-manual 'tutorial' on Luon Highway - don't button-mash with quick attacks. There's a sort of 'exhaustion' effect if you try to get, say, four swings out of the hammer, as if you'd used the heavy attack. Weapons have a fairly predictable combo length - from three to six hits - based on their size. Figure out how many attacks a weapon has and work out a rhythm. Work abilities into your combos, even if you don't care about the free candy. Even the basic abilities are useful, and most movement abilities can be turned into a melee strike. The Jumps can be cancelled into a plunging attack, Backroll turns into a flipkick, and so on.
Yo, this rocks, thank you so much! I'm definitely saving this video on guides playlist to reference later 👀 Also,I would be totally down for a Blacksmith video
For a "tips for beginners" video you make a lot of assumptions about what the player does and doesn't know, just sayings this was really confusing at points
By the way, Legendofmana./info is a fantastic site for a lot of the background data regarding the monster drops/produce effects (since the US version of the Produce Encyclopedia is actually incorrect!)
HERE IS THE SMITHING GUIDE: th-cam.com/video/ksFyMk6-PG0/w-d-xo.html
(Thanks to all of you who requested it, I freakin' love this game and needed to gauge interest first)
Thanks so mich for this! I'm really looking forward to starting my first playthrough. Your videos are always so helpful. About rotating saves, I am a little confused on that concept. For example, keeping multiple saves, rotating, and so on? Why and how do you do this? Perhaps you can show me an example?
No prob! Keeping multiple saves is like creating your own autosaves. It's just an extra safety net and I tend to do a manual save at home before placing new artifacts. The new version of the game does auto-save, but I like to play it safe just in case I'm not ready to do certain events.
I'm loving that legend of mana is getting attention now. People are finally figuring stuff out that we never could fully figure out as kids playing this.
I was in my late teens, early twenties when this game came out in the US, I bought it instantly because Secret of Mana was probably my favorite game on the SNES... and I couldn't figure anything out and gave up on it after a couple of days. Never tried it again lol.
@@jedirayden I was 12 when it came out, rented it because I loved SoM and SD3...I returned it the same day because I didn't understand a damn thing about it lmao.
Giving it another shot now that the Remaster is on Gamepass!
TIP: Synch Effects can be great. When you get a new pet, check its Synch effect. It's triggered by standing close during battle (lightning effect that goes from your health bar to theirs.
My tip would be : Get thee a Polterbox! Go to the tower of Leires boss room after the boss fight and get the proper egg. Its ability to force item drops AND rarer items cannot be lauded enough.
Ah, the small community of fans of LoM. I would like to see a video on all the more recent discoveries about tempering. Tempering is nuts and incredible at the same time.
Just to add to this, you can also get a Magicali (Poltergeist) Egg earlier at the Junkyard where the boss fight for the Infernal Doll is. Keep trying to catch Magicali eggs until you get a Polter Box :)
Tamper the windcap (item got from swuid like opponet) with Clear father to get more money
It's basically the only way to get Dior wood
That's a lot of information I didn't know as a kid! Who knew that there were tons of combos to do in combat and you could get locked out of questlines because you fail to properly plan setting the map up! I was always so surprised when a quest popped up in a new playthrough which didn't appear in our previous playthrough!
@13:12 YES, Bed of Thornes does increase your defense, but it also cuts off your natural HP regen... so you might want to look out for that...
-a tip from the greatest weapon master of LOM
There's so much to this game that it's pretty overwhelming. I just play and have fun. There's not enough room left in the brain to absorb all the ins and outs of LoM.
Tip: days pass by going from land to land, or a big quest. so early growing so you can raise your polterbox and such easily, you can harvest a bunch of seeds from the first world (wheel), plant them and just go back and forth on the map until you got like 14 to 30 spirit changes on the worlds or walked over the worlds that many times, enter home and your plants are grown. repeat for early fruits.
Heres a tip: Heavy attack delay cancelling
When you do a normal heavy attack (no inputs), you get stopped for a full second before you can do anything.
You can however bypass this by immediately hitting one of your ST skills after pressing the heavy attack button.
This will cancel your heavy attack wait and you can immediately normal or heavy attack again.
Heres the downsides, you MUST hit your heavy attack before pressing an ST button. Missing will immediately
cast your ST (if your bar is full). If your ST bar is not full then youll only hear the bloop sound that you cant cast ST.
The delay is around 0.25 seconds after doing a heavy attack, so I usually go Square -> R1 -> Square -> R1 if I want
to spam normal heavy attacks. This works best with gloves and flails because of how fast their heavy attack animations come out.
This will also allow you to combo your heavy attacks (though I dont think it will count as candy combos).
I.e. for gloves X, X, X, X, X, Square->R1, X, X, X, X, X... loop.
Love this game. Used to rent it from blockbuster, fell in love with it. Found out blockbuster was selling it, bought it. Let my friend borrow it they returned so scratched up it would never play again. So happy for ports 🥰
I've played this game since I was a kid and I just found out that you can perfect parry attack using a ST and it will instant cast. I've done it a couple of times after seeing it for the first time about 30 minutes ago. I've looked it up meticulously online since and can't find anyone talking about it save some 11 year old Gamefaqs board posts that were dismissed. I pulled it off with the knive's "Aerial Reaver" ST a couple times. I couldn't get it to work with others but I'm thinking it's some insane frame input to pull this off and I just goofed with other STs
Oh cool, didn't know this was remastered. Can't wait to buy it when I get home!
YES I WOULD LOVE TO CRAFT OVERPOWERED GEAR! please share your secrets :D
Hello! The Legend of Mana is my favorite childhood game, now after the remake, I went through it twice, completed all the quests, got all the trophies and achievements. However, the question that tormented me since childhood remained! At the end of the game, the credits show scenes that I did not see in the game. "Mis Yuka breaks a crab on the ship" "Pearl on the road runs away from the Bionics" "At the house, a pelican brings a cactus and takes Bud away" "men in Palpot on the beach in turbans" "In the Domina Nunzak performs tricks for a troupe of artists" "In Lumin, Roger comes running, when the Dubbers watch the artists" "In the underworld near the sage, a lot of shadows appear and laugh" "In Miss Fortune's Domina, after the prediction, Rachel's mother reacts" Where does it all come from!!??
I’m new to the game aswell but what I learned so far from these type of videos is that there are many different lines of quests and some can only be activated by doing certain things (early on or at various points in the Game) and if these aren’t done then certain quest lines won’t be activated. So it could have been showing these events that you didn’t experience, almost like the Game showing you glimpse of a alternate reality of such events.
6:50 standard heavy attacks. I recently discovered a new way to escape that animation lock - use the standard heavy attack then right after press down+forward heavy attack and your character will perform an uppercut out of the animation lock of your standard heavy attack. Im assuming forward, forward works too, maybe even back forward, not sure havent tried yet, this is new to me.Also the jump ability when pressed after a standard power attack will make your character uppercut, not sure why but the game does this.
Can confirm any command heavy (plunge attack) will animation cancel your heavy attack.
With good timing your combo can be all heavys if you so chose and just knock around your opponents.
Thank you! This was the first video that showed up for me when searching for beginner tips/trips, and glad I clicked on it.
The only way to get Toadstoolsheds is by mixing Small, Large, OR Long seeds with Spiny Seeds!! It's a 8/256 chance, but as long as the elements are high in your house/the orchard (two different locations), you should be able to get at least one every time! Save your Spiny Seeds!!
Also don't use 2 Spiny seeds at the same time, it's a waste!
Love seeing videos like this pop up now that LoM got a remake :)
Thanks for the tips, I played this game as a kid and just loved how cryptic everything felt. Not knowing it if I was doing something right but somehow still ended up with good enough gear to get through the game.
Getting back into LoM I finally started using other weapons besides the spear and 2H Sword lol
I love knives now and grapple is such a fun ability, I used it the entire time!
I'm a veteran coming back from playing this on the PlayStation. And you're teaching me stuff I didn't understand
AWESOME job explaining some of these mysteries that are otherwise hard to search for!
I like how you cover so many games. Very helpful. That said, I personally (not speaking for others at all) would like a little more explanation or examples. Like how to get the difficulty characters or more strongly recommended concoctions for seeds and smithing. Perhaps recommended placement on the map... I know im kinda nit-picking but thats just my 2 cents. This was still a good video. Really liked the mass effect video as well. Oh! And a recommendation on starting weapon. I remember 1 was more useful at the beginning than the others but can't remember which. This is becoming a short story, sorry for that. Have a good one and keep doing what you do, its appreciated.
I can't wait to play this game. I've always loved the mana series but never had the chance to play this one. Thanks for the video!
How was it for you?
something I'd say about this game that I don't see anywhere being discussed is that due to the team that developed it, Legend of Mana is far more of a SaGa game than it is a Mana game, so understanding that can help understand the logic of the game faster
I dont if it works on the remaking version. But you can non-stop combo hit your enemy. You can press the basic attack twice and then give a little bit of time between pressing the next basic attack twice. I just enjoyed doing this and fill the super move fast and can end match way faster
@Caedo Genesis, absolutely would love an indepth crafting guide, monster guide, where to find each spirit (at least reliably), etc. as the last guide to have any relevance and useful information is well over an hour video and posted 7 years ago.
Well I can say my smithing guide won't be an hour, more like...35ish minutes. Don't know if I'll do a Monster Guide. As for Spirits, it's based on your artifact placement. You can tell from the map when you hover the pointer over a location, Mana levels on the lower-left will tell you which spirits are there.
@@CaedoGenesis come ooon, do it plz! You obviously know what you're talking about. Pleeease! Shit's unbelievably complicated to those who are knew D:
I swear the developer of Dark Cloud played this game and liked the whole scattered world thing
I love this game, but I'm not prepared to grind chaos crystals _again._ I've spent hours in that tiny room murdering hundreds of polterboxes right in front of my own pet polterbox just for their precious loot.
One thing I didn't know was that your equipped weapon determines your stat gains when you level up. I used a staff for most of a playthrough and had to switch to nunchucks for the last 30 levels to try and fill in my low stats. Which was its own fun, every weapon type is good.
@Vegesther Oooh, that's a really good point about buying the instruments. You only really need one good one for spellcasting so there's no point wasting all those coins/mats/time on more.
You can just buy them from the material shop in Lumina.
Pak'n Choco is my favorite synchro. Although the rare drop is best.
Just picked this game up again. Gods I love it... such a nostalgic game with beautiful art and soundtrack.
there seems to be an error, if you did nicollos quest then daena won't be available in the inn anymore to do her quest and get the forbidden ring rendering her quest missable.
Edit: from the wiki: Prerequisites Note: Niccolo's Business Unusual (#1) and Heaven's Gate (#17) should NOT be completed.
Edit 2: the Lil cactus entries that are presumed missable are actually not, when starting a new game + the game automatically writes them in (remaster version at least)
Well, just make sure to fallow walktrough and you would be able to get that ring after helping NIccolo's in first quest
Hey man, just like to know how do you feel about your stats which are affected by which weapon you're using when you lv up and what's your plan to get the highest possible stats?
Honestly I didn't know about this until recently, but I came across this guide. It looks like Swords is a good all-rounder for high attributes: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/256525-legend-of-mana/faqs/18949
So that's why my character sometimes spawns a candy.
I've always thought that the copy I had was buggy or something, and it couldn't handle the chaos of the battle, so it just vomits out a candy in confusion lmao
I’m sure someone mentioned it, but GOLEMS!! I know pets end up being better because of EXP/LVLs, but I always found Golems neat!!
Also Bejeweled City, Lucre farm…. 🙏🙏🙏🙏✨✨✨✨
thanks for tempering simulator site info
🤔 I'd be down for a video specifically did blacksmithing
This!
I used to print those long ass guide from gamefaqs specifically for crafting (including the robots/instruments). Best way to craft is just using cheats so you can have ALL kinds of material at 99 pieces. Not to mention about the delay (your MC hitting those hammer) is kinda frustating
i remember playing this as a kid, lost af, now that i played it again, easy and fun🤣🤣
This was great! I hope to see more!
Ring Ring Land is the quickest (and maybe only) way to get some of the best items for forging gear. I got Gaus's Tears a few times from doing the 3 loop circuit. It's one of the best primary materials.
RRL is a slot machine minigame. I'm terrible at those. You can play it by just holding the A button down though, you don't have to tap. I wrapped a rubber band around the A button to play it for me. ngl it performs about as well as I do.
Interesting, I didn't know Ring Ring Land gave materials! I think I'd rather fight enemies for materials though. Gaia's Tears are high tier drops from Chimera Beasts too, in the Underworld or Lucemia.
Not entirely true, every material in the game is obtainable from enemy drops (except *maybe* Swifte Rock, since it wasn't obtainable outside RRL in the original game and as far as I'm aware none of the monsters had their loot tables changed kn the remaster).
*However!*
There are caveats to a monster's drop rates, namely that they're tied to the monster's level (as mentioned in the video). Each monster has 8 "levels" of items determining their rarity and drop rate.
Levels 1 and 2 are just the monster's XP and Lucre (or occasionally Candy, TOMATO MAN >:|).
Levels 3 and 4 vary widely but are often meat/seeds/lesser materials.
Levels 5-8 are where it gets tricky. These items will only be added to a monster's loot pool if the monster's level is high enough (16 for Level 5, 32 for Level 6, 48 for Level 7, and 64 for Level 8).
Polter Box pets and "Lucky Drops" (a small chance of occuring based on your Luck stat; it has the same effect as the Polter Box's Synchro effect and, sadly, they do *not* stack) have the effect of ignoring the Level 1-2 drops, meaning you can get Level 5-6 drops regardless of the monster's level, Level 7 drops require a level 16+ monster, and Level 8 drops require a level 32+ monster.
Monster levels are determined by three things: how far the level is from Home, how many artifacts were placed before that level's artifact, and the mana values of the level. It's virtually impossible to get a monster's level high enough to get Level 7-8 drops without going into NG+ and activating Nightmare/No Future difficulty, but you can alleviate that with a Polter Box...
Mostly. The top-tier materials like Dragon Scales, Adamantine, and Gaia's/Gaeus' Tears are the Level 8 drops from monsters that are inherently lower level than other monsters in the area, and using a Polter Box isn't enough since there's no way to get them to level 32 in normal difficulty.
@@CaedoGenesis It's very good at giving you the rare items, including produce.
Better way to earn lucre is to farm luon for windcaps from spiny cones and clear feathers from stinger bugs. Temper 4 clear feathers into a windcap and it sells for 26643 lucre. It is *very* fast if you have a polterbox and can be done almost from the start of the game (acquiring materials is doable, you just need to get the blacksmith).
Golem making guides will be awesome
Since I love magic, I tried experimenting on different materials and coins to come up with strong magic in the format of Sphere Fire/Fan Fire/Control Fire. But sometimes, that experimenting comes with a price of Lucre and materials. Kinda tedious. Any tips?
The ultimania translation site has a best instruments section here: www.oocities.org/xo_pitseleh/index.html
Be patient if it takes time to load though, it's an archive.
So what I was hoping to find out is wether or not you can fail events?
Because if I go home, the npc leaves my party and is not to be found at the same location.
It's all very confusing.
Yes, some quests can be failed if they require a companion and you go to into your house mid-quest.
Most guides mention that the Orchard can only take two seeds of a time but no guide tells me what happens if I give Trent more than one pair of seeds. Is the first pair deleted or are the seeds queued? Is there any notification if the produce is ready or do I constantly have to go back and check? How does time pass in Legend of Mana?
Trent will tell you when he hits max capacity on seeds, then when the produce grows, you pick it, take it to the box, get more seeds from Trent, repeat as you see fit. Most produce takes around a week to grow, and time can be passed on the world map by moving to other locations and back again. Days passing are indicated by the mana spirit symbol the upper corner of your map.
Amazing video!! Thank you!
From what i saw , Answering Daena wrong in Domina , she leaves the room, not sure if that's a fail or not.
Rather than using meats or fruits when capturing monsters just keep staying on their back until a message bubble with "..." appears to capture the monster
Any suggestions help finding the meditation room in the gato grottos area? Lol I hear you can get easy elemental coins there as one of the spirits is close enough to run up to
Wish I could help, I get lost every single time I try to find that place.
I can't remember exactly which directions exactly, but I do know it's closer to the Waterfall than it is to town.
Skip Dungeon to waterfall, then go to dungeon from there. It's in an upper middle section of one of the larger caves. The Load Zone/Doorway to get into the room is really easy to miss, I actually only _accidentally_ ended up in there the first time I did it.
Many of the tips I discover in the hard way: trying and trying again, until I notice the pattern ahahha. But until now I didnt discover how to leave domina as level 3 of mana... :(
Hi Caedo Genesis, how do I get the fruit in form of house? I have tried a looot of times to get It. Thank you for the video.
Toadstoolsheds? It's done by combining spiny seed with big, small, or long seeds. You can see the deets here: mana.fandom.com/wiki/Toadstoolshed
Wait there’s a XP share item???
So I don’t have to yell at my pet to fucking PICK UP THE GEMS
Yes forbidden ring shared exp when you equip them....
You can craft forbidden ring in the blacksmith... But that will be something advanced...
never played this game or heard about it if ut worth my time I sure I hear about it more on yt tell then I going back to what I was watching see ya later on sarg stream
Can I get a chocobo in this game or is it only on the PS1 ?
Yes, they're in bird/aerial eggs which you can find in Luon Highway once you've got the corral.
@@CaedoGenesis ok thanks I tried looking it up but I keep seeing the you have to have a FF8 or FF7 save file
@@cloudshadow Having the FF8 save file on PS1 changes the initial pet from a Rabbite to a Chocobo. It is always accessible by getting the egg yourself.
I certainly wouldn't mind a video on weapon and armor crafting. Despite playing this game back in the day I still don't really understand it, especially the Mystic Powers, seriously what do these do?
They do a MASSIVE variety of effects: from increasing (or decreasing) stats, to adding additional effects to your master moves (plunge attacks in the original). They can also imbue certain passive effects like EXP share and HP regen. Proper placement and removal of these mystic powers without removing the positive stat changes they provide is key to creating the ultimate weapon.
Primary materials have their own affinity towards elemental spirits, and react differently when imbued with an elemental coin. Secondary materials also has an effect. Both can imbue and remove mystic cards, but some does not imbue any at all, but they also serve a purpose.
Following a guide, I managed to forge a menos bronze 2h sword, with a total offensive power of 700, imbued with all elements, as well as being able to inflict poison. I made it for No Future Mode.
Smithing in this game is way ahead of its time, for better or worse. I would highly suggest you look at the links the uploader put in the description for more details.
great tips!
Thank you for making the video, I think you did a good job on your explanation regarding the subject matter. I still have my original PS1 LoM, way back from 1999 and I'm happy with the job they did on the remaster. I'm definitely having a great time playing it again. Could you please make that separate video about crafting, I always found that part of the game hard, even with the original strategy guide from Brady Games I still own, lol.
So I got the forbidden ring but it doesn't share exp. Do you have to do an additional step?
Nope, it should be sharing crystals you pick up with each teammate unless you modified it. Modifying it breaks the effect.
I tried to play this on ps5 but with the rabbit i cant move the screen ,siftlocking the game ,nice bug for a remaster 😢maybe someone knows Help
CAn you customize P2 in this version without going into their game?
No, sadly. You're basically never able to change the NPC, even if P2 is just from another save file.
how to place Artifacts on the map to get all the items and quests?
hey..
i mess to talk to lik cactus
some quest he dont write..
how to go back?
It would be awesome if you could do a video about how to make God like armor....etc.
I did it already, check the pinned comment
Great Video!! I would love a video on monster raising >:-)
weapon in hand effect stats when lvl up
I disagree the female always worked better in my game. Might have been a glitch but no matter the weapon exct. She did more damage every time with everything. You still get the Jade Egg from Rachael no matter what.
MOAR
7:47 how are you moving so fast in battle?
It could be the dash ability you're seeing (with a heavy attack). You can also cheese the speed in combat by holding forward and spamming up, down, up, down, etc.
Subbed in the hopes u release a blacksmithing vid. Ty
Also a good note for old players, some of those Advanced Techniques are named differently. Bash is now Catapult, for instance.
I noticed that as well when I was looking for retreat! They changed that to backdash
Bed of Thorns card sure boost defense from equipment a lot, but it will disabled your health regeneration as a cost...
The demerit can be nullified with adding Spring card or Heaven's Scale, I kinda forgot which one...
Edit: I really like your video, please do make smithy guides video, I'm sure it would be fun. Crafting in Legend of Mana is very deep, it was out of the current time when it was released at ps1
Heaven's Scale is the one that will add regeneration back despite Bed of Thorns.
Nice
Havent thought about this game since I was a kid, couldn't ever get to late game and couldnt ever figure out why. Long before I had home access to the internet, and the internet not being nearly what it is today Ive checkes now and those bastards 😂😂😂
The world artifacts have to go down on the map in a particular order for things to happen.
Im finally beating this b**ch after 20 years, now where is my 2h sword ❤
I've got some tips:
Keep an instrument on you for boss fights. You have i-frames for the duration of the spell animation. You can get around annoying wide-area boss attacks with them.
Stealing this from Duelle's read-from-the-manual 'tutorial' on Luon Highway - don't button-mash with quick attacks. There's a sort of 'exhaustion' effect if you try to get, say, four swings out of the hammer, as if you'd used the heavy attack. Weapons have a fairly predictable combo length - from three to six hits - based on their size. Figure out how many attacks a weapon has and work out a rhythm.
Work abilities into your combos, even if you don't care about the free candy. Even the basic abilities are useful, and most movement abilities can be turned into a melee strike. The Jumps can be cancelled into a plunging attack, Backroll turns into a flipkick, and so on.
Yo, this rocks, thank you so much! I'm definitely saving this video on guides playlist to reference later 👀
Also,I would be totally down for a Blacksmith video
How do I learn magic?
Hi sir where to download?
6:36 bro.. what is that ? ST or abilities ?
It's the Whirl/Spin ability with a power attack at the same time.
Infinite quick attack?
For a "tips for beginners" video you make a lot of assumptions about what the player does and doesn't know, just sayings this was really confusing at points
never speak dudbear to pokhiel!!
25 years later, and I NEVER knew about Master skills!!! CRAZY!! But I would always notice some weapons had a unique animation with QCF🫶
I want the character to be grown up, not some kids
Too bad, game is from 99
You got that subscribed from me sweet vid my good man. Hey can anyone help me get a mad Mallard as a pet?
By the way, Legendofmana./info is a fantastic site for a lot of the background data regarding the monster drops/produce effects (since the US version of the Produce Encyclopedia is actually incorrect!)
Highesr attack i ever achieved is just about 700🥲
I tried to play this on ps5 but with the rabbit i cant move the screen ,siftlocking the game ,nice bug for a remaster 😢maybe someone knows Help
player 2 control might've been toggled on, hit pause and toggle it off and that should fix it.