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I've been playing Collection of Mana lately and think it's overpriced for what you get.
The game contains the first three games in the Mana series: Final Fantasy Adventure, Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana. It supports savestates and has a sound test feature. The games have a nice looking border and Final Fantasy Adventure has a few nice filters. They have a very rudimentary manual. But that's where it stops. For $60 AUD* you're not getting very much in return*.
The package is very bare-bones and has no love in it. It's 356MB so there was a lot space left in what I assume is a 4GB cartridge. Scans of the games' original box arts and manuals and concept artwork would have costed very little development time but they're absent. Some filters for the SNES games would have been nice. A fast-forward feature would have reduced the tedium in Trials of Mana because your party slows down whenever enemies are around. Including Sword of Mana, Legend of Mana or both could have made the compilation measurably better value for money but these would have raised development costs to produce a GBA and PS1 emulator (assuming the one included with the Final Fantasy re-releases couldn't be repurposed).
Square Enix decided to charge a lot for a half-complete product because they know idiots (like me) will buy it anyway.
* Full-price games will sell for $80 AUD.
The game contains the first three games in the Mana series: Final Fantasy Adventure, Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana. It supports savestates and has a sound test feature. The games have a nice looking border and Final Fantasy Adventure has a few nice filters. They have a very rudimentary manual. But that's where it stops. For $60 AUD* you're not getting very much in return*.
The package is very bare-bones and has no love in it. It's 356MB so there was a lot space left in what I assume is a 4GB cartridge. Scans of the games' original box arts and manuals and concept artwork would have costed very little development time but they're absent. Some filters for the SNES games would have been nice. A fast-forward feature would have reduced the tedium in Trials of Mana because your party slows down whenever enemies are around. Including Sword of Mana, Legend of Mana or both could have made the compilation measurably better value for money but these would have raised development costs to produce a GBA and PS1 emulator (assuming the one included with the Final Fantasy re-releases couldn't be repurposed).
Square Enix decided to charge a lot for a half-complete product because they know idiots (like me) will buy it anyway.
* Full-price games will sell for $80 AUD.