Tag Archives: secret of mana

Jaguar, Jaguar, You Are Shining from Afar

Posted on June 5, 2022 by Nathan

I’m always interested in mythological references in video games I’ve played (and sometimes even ones I haven’t), and the two Chrono games definitely have a fair number of them. There are some SPOILERS for both Chrono games. I’ve seen fans … Continue reading →

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Whether Nero to Me or Far

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Nathan

An Excess of Enchantments, by Craig Shaw Gardner – The second book in the Ballad of Wuntvor trilogy, there just wasn’t as much to this one as to earlier volumes. Pretty much the whole thing was based around Mother Duck’s … Continue reading →

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Elements and Alignments

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Nathan

Magical Starsign is a Nintendo DS game from some years back that I thought I might want to check out, but didn’t until fairly recently. It’s a turn-based role-playing game that makes heavy use of the stylus, which is a … Continue reading →

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The Game Name

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Nathan

It’s good to know I’m not the only one who gets a bit stressed when trying to name a video game character. I guess it’s a little weird as I’ve always enjoyed making up character names, but at least there … Continue reading →

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Mind Your Mana

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Nathan

I don’t recall when I first heard the term “mana,” but it’s present in a lot of video games, especially role-playing ones. I think I used to get it confused with manna, the stuff the Israelites ate in the desert. … Continue reading →

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Bad Company

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Nathan

In early Square role-playing games, it seemed like the go-to enemy organization was an evil empire. In the Final Fantasy universe, kingdoms are good (usually) and empires are bad, despite the fact that these games were made in a country … Continue reading →

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Make Room for Mushrooms

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Nathan

In my last post, I discussed mushroom people, mostly in Oz but touching on other media as well. In video games, the main example is obviously the Super Mario series, which takes place in the Mushroom World. The people with … Continue reading →

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If I Had a Hammer

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Nathan

We all know about Thor‘s magic hammer, but it’s not the only one to appear in mythology. It was actually while reading through a page on the translation of Final Fantasy IV that I came across a mention of the … Continue reading →

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Nooked on a Feeling

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Nathan

One significant video game salesman I didn’t mention in last week’s post is Tom Nook from the Animal Crossing games, a raccoon with a head for business. Well, actually he’s a tanuki, which is sort of a raccoon-like dog, but … Continue reading →

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Rabite Rampage

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Nathan

I guess I’m not as familiar with the Mana series (known in Japan as Seiken Densetsu, meaning “Legend of the Sacred Sword”) as I might be, but I did watch my brother play through Secret of Mana. I also have … Continue reading →

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