Man was I not expecting to like a Mana game this much. Almost every problem I have with the first two is either fixed or else I don’t care that much about it anymore, story is better-ish than Secret of Mana and it still looks and sounds great.

I have to be honest, most of the stars in my rating come from having picked kevin for my first playthrough. I loved the hell out of playing as Kevin. This is a pro-Kevin account and if you disagree you can GTFO with your Kevin-hating ass. He’s a great starting character, strong as hell and can also kind of heal, and he’s just wholesome and good. He talks in this like Tarzan kind of broken English and walks around in this ridiculous gait like a dad chasing around their young kids being like AAAAAGH IM THE BIG MONSTER IM GONNA GET YA. Another neat touch is the way he lands on both feet and shakes whenever he falls from the sky in cannon travel, in much the same way Conan does, another anime wild boy character (Future Boy Conan is great and you should watch it, by the way). Not to mention his whole motivation is the goodest of them all: he’s avenging the wrongful death of his beloved dog. He’s a dog lover, folks. It turns out all I really needed to get into the mana series is a John Wick