#27 - A Bell is Tolling (Ice Palace) - Secret of Mana

[FastWar]

This song WHACKED me!

[OrcishSlacker]

Ho-ly Shit... I'm having serious flashbacks to my teenaged years listening to the opening... You know how a few bars of a certain song can cause you to have flashbacks to memories you my have otherwise never visited again? This song is triggering that, in a good way. This game was an epic conquest for me; over a year of waiting for some idiot to return it to the rental place, then playing it. Pure bliss. I can only imagine what this music would have been like if it stayed a CD-ROM game.

[MessatsuHadoken]

@OrcishSlacker Damn, over a year? That's dedication. =D

[ongyerth]

The most atmospheric song in the game (aside from the Pure Lands theme).

This is the one thing I don't get. Why is the awesomely uber-epically calming, and still very disturbing - because of giving so incredibly much the opposite feeling that the vicious and deadly beasts you meet while hearing this give you - Pure Land Theme not in your countdown?

You even mention it being more atmospheric than tolling bell in the video description.

PS: I also don't get Yearnings of the wind's bad score o.O

[moncerious]

This was the first RPG I ever played as well as the first Square game.

[NumPad]

The first screencap is the best. Not because the Girl and the Boy both have Swords somehow, but because Sprite just Falcon Punched a turtle.

[XXHangmansXCurseXX]

this is my favorite song in the game other then the crystal forest song. and by far my favorite part of the game. because of this music possibly!! haha im a dork xD

[Quincy0047]

this song was one of my least favorite from this game. . . that shows you how freaking epic the music in this game is.

[XXHangmansXCurseXX]

@Quincy0047 really? i think all the music is great. idk why this ones my favorite. 

[KhagarBalugrak]

The beginning is good, then it was just corny until the theme repeated.

[VideoGameLyrics]

I have to say the water palace music was better...

[imperfectcell2007]

my fav game of all time

[jarannalli]

@imperfectcell2007

Mine too buddy! We should play it together. lol

[p1k4x]

Really wonderful tune...it makes me shiver!

[jimmytwothousandand]

giant gnome is cool

[perun1nj]

You should upload the Ice Country theme, thats another great one.

[rascal1717]

if you think SoM is epic, check out SoM2(Seiken Denstsu 3)! as much as i loved the first, the second blew me the F away!

[remainingnameless]

I only like the first 47 seconds. Epic.

[KhagarBalugrak]

This song is nice and slightly disturbing.

[papakrunk]

This game had the most mystifying, howling, enchanting and just straight hard beats I have ever heard in any game. It is my favorite game ever

[kauyun]

that is why Square-Enix (back than still Squaresoft) made this game!

CUZ' IT IS THE BEST SNES EVER!

[mjkittredge]

@papakrunk The amount of passion and inspiration and creativity poured into this game is amazing. 15 years later, and in many respects it has yet to be outdone.

[blacksaboth6]

wow, now i want to play the game all over again.

[RainbowTrigger]

This game was so good. I just wish the translator did a better job though, that's my only gripe.

[dagobafear]

Nothing to say , a lot of songs of this game can make me sleep on 3 minutes , oooh it's so beautiful .. !

[Yviman]

just one question... how can randi (the guy) and purim (the girl) both have swords? o.O

[Vazruden]

you can equip every weapon on everyone, but I suppose only the guy can wield the Mana Sword vs Mana Beast (never tried to equip Mana Sword on girl^^)

[Yviman]

i know that, but on the first picture they both equip it at the same time

[popmikeboy81]

hell yeah bro! i love this song, its so fucking peaceful sounding the first 25 seconds! keep up good work!

[heyjo0205]

I love the tolling of bells in the background. but i love the opening of the game better.

[sw0rd0fadvers1ty]

Hell yeah, good pick on this song!

[xellestar]

This is indeed a good track, but i have very many i like more on this soundtrack.

[Morphogenesis13]

Yes I not only love this game so much, but I actually have 2 copies of it for the SNES. This game is absolutely amazing and I have played through it at least 15 times.

[nintendork1982]

Secret of Mana, in my opinion, is probably the best SNES game ever made. In any case, it certainly close to it. The SNES is seriously my favorite gaming system. I was VERY rarely disappointed with any game I played on it. I know that there are mountains of crap out there for it. But my foundest memories playing video games with friends, cousins and others have been from the SNES. That's why I bought a Wii, so I can play the goods again.

[notyoursavior78]

Yeah this game is great. I was rockin' this one in some woods earlier in the day. I was out takin some pictures for a video I was making. I did bring my PSP along so I had to take a break and beat the Gold City Tower at least.

[shincyriades]

Oh man, I pretty much agree. Secret of Mana is the goods for sure. I remember playing the mess out of it on my old snes way way back when the game was new. I even got a multitap just for this game!

[nintendork1982]

Update: I BOUGHT A FREAKIN SNES THE DAY I WATCHED THIS PLAYLIST! I was like "I can't take it anymore! I need the memories to be real again!". I know I had the Virtual Console, but it just isn't the same as popping in those carts man. I got a heap of awesome games too, including Secret, FFIII, Chrono Trigger, Mario Kart, World and All Stars... a bunch of other greats as well.

[SinSeared]

Ok just try not to cum over them I mean god.

[nintendork1982]

Okay, I will. And my name is not God. But I appreciate it.

[MrStrifeDP]

I think there's more beauty to be had in the simple but brilliant sprite artwork and haunting synthesized melodies of the old SNES games than modern offerings...

[PsychoticLuke]

True - to most of the part. But hey, there are modern games that I REALLY come to love! :D

[calangel]

like the theme from SO2, "pyroxene"

listen to it - if you like this stuff, you'll love that!

[PsychoticLuke]

Allright! :D I'll give it a shot! Thanks mate.

[Cloud4242]

Secret of mana is an snes classic!

[Papierflieger]

SO much emotion and memories in just some melodies.

This is real art, and i love them more than modern gameplay music!

[TheGoonsies]

excellent choice!

[libertineurdu69]

Putain comme c'est beau , c'est ma préféré !

[remain]

libertineurdu69:

"Putain comme c'est beau , c'est ma préféré !"

->

"Damn it's beautiful, this is my favorite!"

[demandred753]

This theme captures the mood of the palace to a so eloquently. I fucking love this game.

SECRET OF MANA = BEST GAME EVAR

[StewNWT]

WHy oh WHY has SE run this game franchise into the ground????

Even Seiken Densetsu III was a step down, they destroyed the combat by taking away the 100% recharge bar and just making it button mash/slash. If someone could make a game with this game's combat mechanics it'd be amazing.

[BestSnesMusic]

I agree, I have not played SD3 extensively, but the combat system just did not feel as smooth as SOM.

[thaking220]

The combat was alright,when you get the big moves at the end they look very good,anyway good song

[ongyerth]

@StewNWT

lol I started playing SDIII, but had t stop doing it coz the gameplay was too annoying :-( Although I was really interested and had high hopes in the game...

[StewNWT]

@ongyerth There were two big problems - the lack of continuity (that weird thing they had were you didn't brandish your weapons until enemies appeared and then the screen kind of stuck there til you finished them), but more importantly they changed the attacking from the '100% --> rest' to 'slash slash slash at anything that moves'. Plus they took out the way cooler 8 different levels of power moves and spells. And each game after was progressively worse

[jarannalli]

@StewNWT

Yes, it's so sad that this may, imo, be the only real good Mana game. Lucky for the series, this one kicked enough ass to make up for the others. :)

[IsilionNELE]

@StewNWT i disagree. i have played both SoM and SD3 many many times and the combat is very similar. the 100% recharge bar is still there but it is not shown, the only difference is that you can not attack until you reach 100%, in SoM you would just have done 1-2 damage. the powering up for power attacks is different, but is holding a button for a minute while not doing anything really that precious for you?

[NintendoCapriSun]

This is one of the most beautifully written pieces of work ever in any video game. "Mystic Invasion" is my favorite of all time, but this one puts up fierce competition to it!

[Panda0rem]

I love this one, my favorite song of the game

[ElianGonzalezJr]

One of my favorites also

[EniesLobby]

Reminds me of the Crystal Palace in Paper Mario, which was also an ambient ice-themed level with beautiful music.

[notyoursavior78]

Yeah awesome song. I like the theme from the snow lands a little better, but this is still really good.

[chevrierc]

secret of mana had buitiful music, i made the adventure seem so better,

[Soleilbladez]

Oops repeated myself in the last post lol, meant to include the theme from the last stage, I belive it was called "Leave Time For Love", just awesome

[Soleilbladez]

Also loved this song from Secret of Mana, along with the Snow area theme, the battle w/ Thanatos & the snow area w/ the wolves.

Having the urge to play again :D.

[BestSnesMusic]

All great songs :).

[DemonsCrest1]

Decided to check out what the fuss was all about, and was glad i did. This definitely is one of my fav's from SoM as well. I may have to give tabbing this one out a try.

[DJJaYDeEe]

i have hear the version of MC Vaffe =D I love both of them =D

[fuz3n]

Ahhh really loved this song :'')