This is a solid port of the Secret of Mana made for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Though I’m sure the on screen controls are adequate, I find prefer utilizing a Bluetooth controller and in so doing very much enjoy it. The biggest sin here is that this excellent game has not been ported over to Apple TV platform yet. With every passing year that gets more and more frustrating. I would love, love, LOVE to have a iCloud sync of saves between devices on the road (iOS) and at home (tvOS). Don’t even come at me with AirPlay, that’s a TERRIBLE experience. Do us a solid square Enix developers, and make this happen for not just this game, but the majority of your games where possible.

I played this for a bit and it was actually great with a few glitches BUT after the recent iOS update, the screen size is now about 2" wide and 1" high in one corner of my phone screen. I have an iPhone 8+! I'll change my rating after they do an update to fix this issue bc this makes the game ABSOLUTELY UNPLAYABLE! You cannot even use a stylus to do anything on the screen much less read ANYTHING in game. PLEASE FIX THIS AND UPDATE THE GAME! Other than that my only other issues have been mentioned by others. When you are in a battle, the other characters are not exactly fighting independently of your actual physical movements. This leads to really grind to get them up to levels where they don't die constantly, even then healing/reviving them a lot, and even then still having to really pay close attention to what your movements are to allow them to fight as well. Otherwise you are fighting enemies alone while they are just running around and sometimes fighting or just getting themselves killed. There's also a risk of the other characters sometimes getting blocked by an obstacle and getting stuck and you having to go back and redirect their "follow" movement (freaking sprite boy, I'm talking to you dude!) and this is during just roaming the world and/or during fighting. The game itself is a port which is good and bad. I would have liked the graphics to be crisper as they have the slightly fuzzy buffering look going on but overall the game is great and even with the issues a great game for playing. OTHER THAN THE HUGE ISSUE OF NEEDING TO BE UPDATED FOR THE LATEST IOS 13 UPDATE! UNTIL THAT IS FIXED THERE'S NO POINT OF GETTING THIS GAME BC IT IS UNPLAYABLE. I'll re-edit the review once this has been fixed and update the stars.

As much it really pains me to rate just 1 star to this app game, but I can honestly say that I really don't like old script of this story very much. The graphics are too blurry as its making my head dizzy everywhere I go. I cannot even change directions while dashing, and the power meter just went down to 0% in the instant as I let go of the dash button. I get miffed by the time my charge strike got interrupted by enemy's attack easily, especially when I unleashed it. And the color of the world map is just too warm as sunset, which doesn't match the color of the blue sky.Since now that Trials of Mana is available on mobile, why not include Secret of Mana 3D port on mobile as well and replace this old version with it? Adventures of Mana, Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, all three games in one collection would be a perfect 3D Mana Trilogy on mobile that way. Although I may have unfortunately bought this game before the time when 3D was released, but at least I can comment my review in hoping for the better replacement. There is no rush, but do think this over.

Ever since the iOS has been updated to 13 this game is ~1/8 the size and only appears in the bottom left screen. Devs have known for months now but haven’t done a thing to fix this problem.Update One: Its been a couple months since my initial negative review. The problem still persists, though it started at THE LAUNCH OF iOS 13, and they had the gall to run a sale of this of game even though the game doesn’t work with iOS 13. Apple hasn’t pulled it from the store nor has SE, obviously. Horrible business practices, from both sides, in my opinion. I can basically feel the giant middle finger pressed against my face from both companies. Anyway, to wrap up. Save your money for a different game or until they fix this.Update Two: The fix for iOS 13 is here and well, the game works completely fine near as I can tell. I haven’t run into any bugs so far. It’s a wonderful game when working and I’d recommend picking it up if you’re a fan of it or have never played. The reason I won’t go higher in my rating is for other issues.