Square Enix announced a new Mana game. Not a remake, not a remaster, a totally new Mana game. A new one since 15 years.
Visions Of Mana was revealed at The Game Awards 2023, with a trailer featuring gameplay. This will be an action RPG “that returns to the series’ fantasy roots”.
Visions Of Mana features a “semi-open world” to explore, familiar monsters from the Mana series, and a nostalgic RPG atmosphere.
The story of Visions Of Mana stars hero the red-cladded redhead Val, who accompanies his childhood friend, still unnamed for now, on a journey to the Tree Of Mana as Val’s friend was chosen as the Alm Of Fire.
Visions Of Mana’s development team features familiar names who have worked on the recent remakes and remasters of the Mana games, which includes the following:
- Producer:
- Masaru Oyamada (Secret of Mana [2018], Trials of Mana [2020], Legend of Mana [2021], and more)
- Sound:
- Hiroki Kikuta (Secret of Mana [1993], Trials of Mana [1995], Trials of Mana [2020], and more)
- Tsuyoshi Sekito (Secret of Mana [2018], Trials of Mana [2020], Echoes of Mana, and more)
- Ryo Yamazaki (Trials of Mana [2020], Echoes of Mana)
- Character Design:
- HACCAN (Adventures of Mana, Secret of Mana [2018], Trials of Mana [2020])
- Monster illustrations:
- Airi Yoshioka (Dawn of Mana, Children of Mana, Heroes of Mana)
- Series monster design supervision:
- Koichi Ishii (GREZZO Co., Ltd.)
Visions Of Mana will be releasing sometime in 2024 on the PS4, PS5, PC (Steam, Microsoft Store) and Xbox Series X|S.