I'm glad I played this! For a game from 31 years ago it actually feels really tight and responsive to play. I really like the neat real-time combat rather than the turn based I was expecting. It takes a little bit of getting used to the way that the menus work during combat but once you do it's quite smooth and flows well. The actual swinging-your-sword combat never felt fully right to me, I dunno if I was just missing some combat cues or something, but I was never sure whether I was actually going to hit an enemy or waste a swing. Jumping between that and the magic casting felt good, though. Pretty standard plot for a game of this era but it was a much bigger game than I was expecting. Definitely wasn't expecting Flammie and getting to freely fly around the planet. I liked the hints of post-apocalyptic setting that are teased, it's a little sad that the Mana games aren't all in the same world. Gorgeous graphics, and the soundtrack is an absolute banger. It was really disconcerting getting to hear a soundtrack 'live' which I've only ever heard through remixes up til now. Really fun game!