This game was my childhood too. I'd played it with my Niece - who child services had taken away from my sister afterwards because she had five children. Every time I play it, I play it for her - who I miss and dearly wish to see. She used to love this game so much.
It's really something else watching this with the snowflake setting on. I actually came to this video because of that setting reminding me of the wintery region.
no one should feel alone and unwanted. There is no curtain of a "better reality". That reality is inside you. Its the sum of all your hopes and dreams and strengths. Each person can make their own world. And music like this is the force that drives us, binds our dreams together, and gives us the strength to make those dreams realities.
this music is so peaceful. it makes me smile even though it evokes the image of freezig my tail off about 20 feet from the North Pole, lol. IIt's like a cold indused dream/delirium.
Definitely one of my favorite pieces from this game. It's so soothing, and yet it was the theme that played as you exterminated a whole ecosystem of wolves and ... clouds?
Hey everybody! I have released my new album 'Progenitor' which has electronic music inspired by great games such as Secret Of Mana. It’s up on my channel ORTmusic to check out and download!
Well, when I bought this wonderful game I didn´t know it would influence me until nowadays.....the music was so simple......and so impressing! Some other really beautiful games are Terranigma and Lufia......but nothing compares to SoM and Terranigma....
I have played this game so many times, and it's still doesn't get old. I'm 27 years old at the time of this post and I still own a SNES and this cartridge, and I still play it. When I was in the third grade, I beat it up and down with my best friend and brother when it was brand new, 100% max level. It belonged to my best friend, but my bro and I had the multitap because our Dad loved sports games. I was always the Sprite because he eats bosses :). Wouldn't trade that experience for anythin
Amen to that! Tis a dated game, yet it's still an absolute joy to play. Chrono Trigger alike goes beyond a simple 'game,' but an experience you take something meaningful from.
This game brings back so many memories. I remember playing this with my brother and sister back in 1993, I was like 12. It was so funny, that when we reached this part of the game it was during the blizzard of 93, and all of the trees were encased in ice. It was dangerous of course lol, but very beautiful.
@inkmage80 Oh wow.....the blizzard of '93! I remember that blizzard well (I grew up in MD). Unfortunately, I had not yet had the pleasure of playing Secret of Mana at that point. However, during the blizzard of January '96, my brother and I went through the snowy plains and floating land mass in the 12,000 B.C. time period in Chrono Trigger! The snow falling outside our bedroom window made the experience all the more real and wondrous.
Amazing!!!! For me, the best music ever in a game are TERRANIGMA and SECRET OF MANA!!! Their music are so poetic, melancholic, beautiful. Finally we don't have to need an orchestra to make wonderful music.
I want game like that, with magic. with ice forest, with crystal blue in the wind...
@FrodArk59 i agree the best music in video games is terranima and secret of mana there both very beautiful,heart felt and epic soundtracks to me there the only game soundtracks that made me cry like a baby and yes who needs a orchestra to make wonderful music for video games
I come from northern Minnesota. Pine trees and snow. In winter time, when the creeks freeze over and the pines are cover in crystal and ice, this song comes to mind.
I remember that when I had first entered the crystal forest this music made me very sad, especially after I had to hit first wolf. The way they were laying so defenceless after being hit, together with the music gave this part of game very depressing feeling. I felt like an intruder in this forest, killing these wolves.
Well, later I stopped being sorry for them because I soon had found them very irritating, when they kept holding me back when I wanted to cross the forest quickly xD
I am 30 years old. In my adult life, I have traveled around the world, lived in five countries, attended the top school in the world for my job field, had unforgettable relationships with beautiful, caring women, and made great friends. However, to this day, I can still state the following without a single shred of doubt in my mind:
Memories of what I listed above will not ever compare to the memories I have of playing this game, Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy VI with my brother growing up.
@zenjiros I'm 25... Not so many countries, not so many beautiful caring women, not so many friends in my life, but Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI and Secret of Mana... Ah...
@Nadel350 Well Nadel, you just made one more friend! And some one with the kind of heart it takes to fully appreciate the rare music heard in Secret of Mana will surely come to know more truly beautiful, caring women in the future!
Months ago I discovered this page, and after reading everyone's inspiring comments, was moved enough to buy the cartridge. I was lucky enough to be raised in the Golden Age of gaming, and though the blessing/curse of nostalgia is not tied to this particular game for me, I understand your comment now.
This Night of November 5th 2011, completing Secret of Mana reminded me what it means to be a child. You know you've played a good game, when it's over and you feel a hint of sadness.
@707username707 Remember remember the 5th of November! I actually beat Secret of Mana for the first time on a cold November night in 1995. That occasion would be followed by my brother and I receiving a Super Nintendo for Christmas about a month and and a half later, which started our journey to Narshe with Terra, plodding somberly through that snow in Magitek Armor. A few months later, the generosity of a special friend would send us into the unforgettable world of Chrono Trigger.
@zenjiros : My brother and I feel the same way about Legend Of Dragoon and Final Fantasy 7 & 8. I've had simlar experiences, having lived and loved in 7 cities in 4 states in the US, and like you, I am always drawn to these games. The music is a huuuuuge part of that, without a doubt.
@OssimusRaadicus You are so right. The memories would likely not be even half as special without that rare music that seems to beckon to us from the other side of a better reality's curtain. How thin that veil must sometimes stretch when we are engulfed in the enchanting, soul-stirring melodies of magical times long past....
@zenjiros Almost 30 here, but as you: seen the world, top schools, mba, etc... those games you listed including this one were my top favorites... it´s funny how hearing this transports me back when I was a kid... good memories.
@plaguiento It's so wonderful for people like ourselves to have the opportunity to come into contact with people on here with which we share a true bond. Online venues like YouTube have made it possible to find like-minded people with good souls all in one place. The day and age we live in has some amazing qualities!
Where did you go for your MBA? I'm actually in the middle of putting together application packages for several schools right now!
@zenjiros Bro... I can't even agree because the immensity of a role these games played in my childhood is also so intense. Thanks. I'm glad you posted this.
@2000sDigitalBoy I've always thought the tune captured the emptiness of the landscape. White with snow, and featureless..... Just a hint of the wind, the coldness and foggy breath.
10th grade. I had the most terrible stomach bug ever to strike another human being. I was trying to play this in the meantime and fell in and out of sleep. Those dreams, those feelings, I'll never forget. Ethereal and soothing.
@moonshadow100 Although I had played this game several times throughout my life, one of the replays was after I got my wisdom teeth removed. Most of my friends had miserable wisdom tooth extraction stories, but I have to say that the week after my procedure was very pleasant because I spent it playing Secret of Mana^^
i think the 16 bit graphics and the music is what bring you and the game together the ocarina of time is still in my memories along with the music that came along with it i feel in a way it is part of my life
I distinctly remember the wolves howling as you made your way through this map. As a little kid i felt so sad that the wolves and my characters had to fight. Coupled with the music it was a haunting experience.
This is my second favorite Mana piece, the first being the Mana Fortress theme from Final Fantasy Adventure/Seiken Densetsu 1. Whereas that one is icy, majestic, and foreboding, this one is snowy, melancholy, and somehow inviting, as if bidding the wanderers to make snowmen, in the hope that summer soon returns...
One of the best songs from no doubt best rpgs of all times glad I was born in that era to enjoy it unlike now the games are all geared towards graphics and online play.
When Aeris died in FF7, I cried like a baby. No other game has made me feel so much.. except Secret of Mana. The Sprite's lost his whole tribe and became the last of his kind. The Girl had her lover stolen and was never able to get him back. The Hero started as an orphan and was then ostracized by his own village. Then later found his real mother only to watch her die. Yet all three of them fought for what they believed in, and never gave up hope. That is why I love this game.
...back then, games had to be good. nintendo wouldnt let any game that didnt prove it was worth a seal in, and secret of mana is just 1 of the hundreds of examples that prove nintendo was a genius corperation. rock on square-enix, and thank you nintendo for makeing this game of epicness exist within our memories.
@ZombieHouseFresnoCA I know. Nintendo wouldnt sell any more than 5 games per company a year. so back then, instead of pumping out 11 games a year, they had to shape up, get to work, and make a game worth playing.
@ZombieHouseFresnoCA Yeah... the good days of just SQUARE. Enix had amazing games too though. As a team it got a little too corporate for me. All that brave fencer/bushido blade/ergheiz shit... bleh. Einhander was pretty good though.
@Pandaguin83 I agree, i knew both Enix and Squaresoft well before they merged. Enix's Soul Blazer was bad ass!
If any company merged i'm glad they did - they both had decent releases. As for later releases, its fair to say alot of recent squareenix isn't up to par with their older stuff. like Brave Fencer was fun learning as a kid. FF7 and FF9 are cool, its shit like 'Dawn of Mana' and the newer Final Fantasy's that kinda leave me scratchin' my head. Einhander was rockin cool - ergheiz was eh
So glad I wasn't part of the WoW: Shitaclysm, graphics obsessed, no-story, commercialized dumbass generation of video gamers. Long live the 90s generation of gamers, long live 16 bit games, long live Squaresoft.
@Aspire2RationalAgent When square soft. existed. Nothing Square Enix could ever do, would ever be able to top a game like this, Square was a god when it was doing Snes games. It relied on magic, not graphics. Just magic. I guess you would just have to have been there. I can't believe that I'm that old already.
@Aspire2RationalAgent Ironically you point out the most story driven, least graphically obsessed MMO. Design just changed, back when Secret of Mana was released music needed to convey emotions because there was no spoken dialog or high res graphics to show feelings, and now they don't need to make music as powerful, which is a shame.
@zenjiros Agreed! I feel that SNES RPGs and the atmosphere created by those games (music included) cannot be matched, even by modern RPGs. I'd love nintendo to release some of those classics on the VC
this music was the very essence of the crystal forest,mysterious and timeless,it makes your emotions inside your heart turn to smooth white crystal,the glowing of the trees really added to the music,it was fun when the frost clouds would chase after you!,i would come back later in the game to build up my levels,and to look at the crystal forest while listening to the music.
I feel so at home seeing all these comments by folks in their 20's who LOVED this game as a child.... This song right here represents not only the fantasy world of thw crystal forest, but the world of our childhood, lost forever!
So many fond memories of this game and this music. Running through the crystal forest, my brother and I playing co-op (one of the best parts of this game), and just feeling so serene the whole time. Truly a great game with a wonderful soundtrack. I miss it.
@gneissguy2003 This is exactly the same experience that I had. You never knew when mom and dad would say you had to go somewhere... and you and bro would try so hard to get somewhere new and then you'd end up in a place like this. This track is one of the most fantastic ones in the sense that it perfectly captures the environment it which it occurs
@PsychoKrazyTime name them. all games these days are a huge let down. too short. horrble music. no story to speak of. im a final fantasy fanatic. and i havent played any since final fantasy 10. they killed the name sooo bad.
@DakkonDS They did indeed kill the Final Fantasy name. Square Enix has succeeded in doing much to bury their own name as well. I would go into shock if I saw an announcement for a new console-based Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, or Final Fantasy Tactics entry. They have all but destroyed their most precious, time-honored properties. Why does the world have to change so much? This change in the game types we loved growing up is but a small reflection of how the world has changed as a whole.
@MissPiddelin so very true. i still have all my childhood games. better then childhood photos and videos if you ask me. because replaying these games brings my memories back.
I am disappoint at the most recent Mana game, Heroes of Mana. To me the Mana series should be Action-RPG. Even though the Mana game from the PS1 had a battle screen, it still was action based. Heroes of Mana is a RTS not an RPG. If they make a "Legends of Mana" it better be just like the SNES game, Action RPG with a massive overworld to explore.
I'll give Children of Mana a pardon because the areas you go to are big, but points lost for not being connected to one big world.
Every person is a culture unto themselves - a collection of thoughts, feelings, impulses, mannerisms, and memories...painstakingly built up through time. Each little piece helps to shape the people that we are, and that we will become, and yet...some experiences are so profound that, no matter how distant the encounter becomes, we feel it at the very center of us always.
If you accept that as true, then you can believe that Secret of Mana is, and always will be, the innermost core of who I am.
@Cryssoberyl That, Sir and/or Madam, is one of the most inspirational phrases I have read in my 18 years of existence. And I agree on some levels, playing Secret of Mana has also helped shape my person into what it is.
@Cryssoberyl I know exactly what you mean... there were a few games that were for one reason or another very special to me growing up (Secret of Mana being one of them). Whenever I hear music like this piece it always affects me on a very deep level.
@Cryssoberyl its awesome to know that this game has impacted others so deeply at the core. The music just vibrates with so much truth of human emotion.
great comment, sir, really great comment, congratulations 8) it seems we are actually the same age, and I guess that helps me understand what you mean. And I actually pity those who will never be able to grasp these feelings. This is not only about video games and music. It has definitely nothing to do with nostalgia. This is part of us now, you are right. And this is for the best. thx
Today for the first time in my life I bought this game on the Snes.
It might not be the 90's, and we might live in a world spoiled by the digital age of cliché story's, mindless button bashing, and glorified commercial time killers...but I think this is going to remind me what it means to be caught in between the magic of a 16 bit cartridge, and an endless chasm of childhood.
Without everyone's heartfelt comments and this vid, I might never have played this game. Thanks guys.
@707username707 Yknow I honestly did the same thing of buying a cartridge about 2 weeks ago with a boxed Chrono Trigger as well. Im currently playing this, and it is simply one of the best experiences that can be made on the snes although my brother was dumb to never have bought this game when he was young. Now as I play, i feel nostalgia running around killing monsters, as this adventure surely is one i aint gonna forget.
@707username707 What a wonderful comment. I dare say that the majority of those of us who posted here know exactly what you mean. I'll never forget when I bought my own copy of Secret of Mana as a 15 year old boy in late October of 1995. My brother and I had beaten the game using a cartridge that a friend was gracious enough to lend to us, but I absolutely had to own my own copy! My brother and I did not hesitate to beat the game all over again on our new prize :)
@Grayfox354 I completely agree. These days I find myself pulling out the SNES, sega genesis and even my sega saturn more often than playing new titles on the on my PS3
@raidercity I would've said so you could make 16-bit games for other kids, but sadly nowadays all we have is Black Ops... where oh where did the magic go?
@Grayfox354 It is truly disheartening to see the current landscape of gaming, and the segment of our society that sees such violent, thematically and artistically dull games as masterpieces. A game is a masterpiece if it MOVES ME, not if it runs at 7,000 fps, is one colossal digital cliche, and lets me use artillery to gorily decapitate Nazi zombies.
Yo tengo 18 e igual como jugador de terranigma entiendo eso, no he tenido la dicha de jugar secret of mana, pero espero hacerlo. La musica dice mucho de un juego.
Currently snowing...
soulstodeny05 2 weeks ago
winter levels always have the best music :D
fatfacefartmouth 3 weeks ago
One of my favorite game soundtracks. This song was so evocative of winter and ice.
AuraFoxx 3 weeks ago
Ahh square... what happened to you~?
Regless0000 4 weeks ago 3
@Regless0000 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, near-bankruptcy and Enix happened T.T
LaserForm 1 week ago in playlist Secret of Mana soundtrack
it was more than a video game, but a real piece of Art.
nonoriega 1 month ago 2
fol schön muss weinen ;_;
sawgin 1 month ago
This game was my childhood too. I'd played it with my Niece - who child services had taken away from my sister afterwards because she had five children. Every time I play it, I play it for her - who I miss and dearly wish to see. She used to love this game so much.
Murderfoxable 1 month ago
@Murderfoxable they took her away because ur sister has to many children? is that the case? if it is, thats one fucked up law.
FuckDaMedia 2 weeks ago
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Have a very Mana Christmas to all and a happy new year. Don't forget to decorate the Mana tree. Good game and fitting music for Christmas.
gameglitcher4 2 months ago
It's really something else watching this with the snowflake setting on. I actually came to this video because of that setting reminding me of the wintery region.
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WalterSlovak 2 months ago
This was an awesome game!!!!!!!!!!!
mmt2853 2 months ago
no one should feel alone and unwanted. There is no curtain of a "better reality". That reality is inside you. Its the sum of all your hopes and dreams and strengths. Each person can make their own world. And music like this is the force that drives us, binds our dreams together, and gives us the strength to make those dreams realities.
ChocolateBear0217 2 months ago
Repeat
tarqys 3 months ago
This is my favorite part of the game. It's very strange and surreal, slaying wolves in a crystal forest with this serene, calm soundtrack playing.
siskavard 3 months ago
Oh if I could relive those moments when life was not so complicated..just me and the secret of mana.
frozenmilk 3 months ago
This is the best game ever created.
- Man From the Future, 200X.
Therealguymins 3 months ago
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Therealguymins 3 months ago
this music is so peaceful. it makes me smile even though it evokes the image of freezig my tail off about 20 feet from the North Pole, lol. IIt's like a cold indused dream/delirium.
SkaMasta097 4 months ago in playlist SOM
I'll never forget the memories of this game and how it inspired my imagination and comforted me when I felt lonely and unwanted.
Endymion766 4 months ago 36
@Endymion766 same like me
HaarigeSache86 1 month ago
@Endymion766 I feel you bro. :'(
Seltaire 2 weeks ago
I hate this fucXXX wolves in this part!
ThePuppetMaster69 4 months ago
Oh, my... This music... Come on, please... *Tearing*
Nadel350 4 months ago in playlist Secret of Mana soundtrack
Cette musique est tellement triste...
MsMadzelle 4 months ago
Definitely one of my favorite pieces from this game. It's so soothing, and yet it was the theme that played as you exterminated a whole ecosystem of wolves and ... clouds?
Cameroon123 4 months ago
same....sniff....
TerrenigmaTraveler 4 months ago
OMFG remember when killing wolves ...
TabSpotted 4 months ago
How many nine year old kids know of even a SNES or a PS1 Nowadays? I'll bet 500 out of 4.6 Billion do!
yugoroth1 5 months ago
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Damn right, they missed out.
SirKuja 5 months ago
Can playing a video game make one a better person? If you have truly experienced Secret of Mana, then you know the answer to that question.
zenjiros 5 months ago
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ORTmusic 5 months ago
Well, when I bought this wonderful game I didn´t know it would influence me until nowadays.....the music was so simple......and so impressing! Some other really beautiful games are Terranigma and Lufia......but nothing compares to SoM and Terranigma....
cerridwen1965 5 months ago
This tranquil, almost serene music belies how much of a bitch the baddies were in the ice forest.
MrDonkDonkerson 6 months ago in playlist Video Game Music
I have played this game so many times, and it's still doesn't get old. I'm 27 years old at the time of this post and I still own a SNES and this cartridge, and I still play it. When I was in the third grade, I beat it up and down with my best friend and brother when it was brand new, 100% max level. It belonged to my best friend, but my bro and I had the multitap because our Dad loved sports games. I was always the Sprite because he eats bosses :). Wouldn't trade that experience for anythin
mog1255 6 months ago 32
@mog1255 I totally agree. I wouldn't trade the experience of playing this game with my brother and best friend for anything.
zenjiros 1 month ago
@zenjiros Me either Mog. All the money in the world cannot amount to the unspeakable worth of those memories.
zenjiros 4 weeks ago
@mog1255 "he"? is that little red thing really a "he"? i always thought it was a dwarfgirl. omg...
PG1337ify 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
Amen to that! Tis a dated game, yet it's still an absolute joy to play. Chrono Trigger alike goes beyond a simple 'game,' but an experience you take something meaningful from.
707username707 6 months ago
this song has such a sad undertone ;_;
love it though, and love the game
i want to go back to the 90s!
IsilionNELE 6 months ago
This game brings back so many memories. I remember playing this with my brother and sister back in 1993, I was like 12. It was so funny, that when we reached this part of the game it was during the blizzard of 93, and all of the trees were encased in ice. It was dangerous of course lol, but very beautiful.
inkmage80 6 months ago
@inkmage80 Oh wow.....the blizzard of '93! I remember that blizzard well (I grew up in MD). Unfortunately, I had not yet had the pleasure of playing Secret of Mana at that point. However, during the blizzard of January '96, my brother and I went through the snowy plains and floating land mass in the 12,000 B.C. time period in Chrono Trigger! The snow falling outside our bedroom window made the experience all the more real and wondrous.
zenjiros 5 months ago
Amazing!!!! For me, the best music ever in a game are TERRANIGMA and SECRET OF MANA!!! Their music are so poetic, melancholic, beautiful. Finally we don't have to need an orchestra to make wonderful music.
I want game like that, with magic. with ice forest, with crystal blue in the wind...
FrodArk59 7 months ago
@FrodArk59 i agree the best music in video games is terranima and secret of mana there both very beautiful,heart felt and epic soundtracks to me there the only game soundtracks that made me cry like a baby and yes who needs a orchestra to make wonderful music for video games
heerogunkenobi 7 months ago
@FrodArk59 oops i mean terranigma not terranima
heerogunkenobi 7 months ago
i wouldn't hesitate to trade all the newer gen games i have for these good ol classics
zacjar12 7 months ago
I come from northern Minnesota. Pine trees and snow. In winter time, when the creeks freeze over and the pines are cover in crystal and ice, this song comes to mind.
pineapplepeanuts 8 months ago
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This song boring and sucks. Fueled by nostalgic dorks. Frigg off dorkus. Frig off to hellstorm.
shinkle4 8 months ago
@shinkle4 Just because it's slow doesn't mean it sucks. Maybe you should take some time to enjoy the simple things.
thray776 7 months ago
oh man the good old time that was a real good past
pure magic and goose pimples
I would give up my music for this time
Fistler01 8 months ago
so simple.........yet so fucking breath taking.......crazy
FuckDaMedia 9 months ago
This song is simply amazing, as was this game. Big time kudos to PeyserConley for uploading this and many other flat out awesome soundtracks!
3StarksNYK 9 months ago
Nostalgia is a real bitch :(
KennyWest84 9 months ago
I hated killing the cute widdle wolfies in this area. The music just made it even harder to do.
lolbucketman 9 months ago 2
I remember that when I had first entered the crystal forest this music made me very sad, especially after I had to hit first wolf. The way they were laying so defenceless after being hit, together with the music gave this part of game very depressing feeling. I felt like an intruder in this forest, killing these wolves.
Well, later I stopped being sorry for them because I soon had found them very irritating, when they kept holding me back when I wanted to cross the forest quickly xD
rosepetals227 10 months ago
I am 30 years old. In my adult life, I have traveled around the world, lived in five countries, attended the top school in the world for my job field, had unforgettable relationships with beautiful, caring women, and made great friends. However, to this day, I can still state the following without a single shred of doubt in my mind:
Memories of what I listed above will not ever compare to the memories I have of playing this game, Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy VI with my brother growing up.
zenjiros 10 months ago 126
@zenjiros honestly, i just teared up man. I miss my childhood badly.
8bitCannon 6 months ago
@zenjiros Amen to that.
MuseTheBlue 6 months ago
@zenjiros I really like what you just said man.
jakiner 5 months ago
@zenjiros Show-off :P
Gencoil 5 months ago
@zenjiros Amen brother. I'm 25 and feel exactly the same. Thank you so much for sharing.
WSilva832 5 months ago
@zenjiros amen!
SMCrotty 5 months ago
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@zenjiros Right on :D
aerik9 4 months ago
@zenjiros I'm 25... Not so many countries, not so many beautiful caring women, not so many friends in my life, but Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI and Secret of Mana... Ah...
Nadel350 4 months ago in playlist Secret of Mana soundtrack
@Nadel350 Well Nadel, you just made one more friend! And some one with the kind of heart it takes to fully appreciate the rare music heard in Secret of Mana will surely come to know more truly beautiful, caring women in the future!
zenjiros 3 months ago
@zenjiros well said friend. so true. those three games specifically, too, not just any 90s era games.
szivalj 4 months ago
@zenjiros
Months ago I discovered this page, and after reading everyone's inspiring comments, was moved enough to buy the cartridge. I was lucky enough to be raised in the Golden Age of gaming, and though the blessing/curse of nostalgia is not tied to this particular game for me, I understand your comment now.
This Night of November 5th 2011, completing Secret of Mana reminded me what it means to be a child. You know you've played a good game, when it's over and you feel a hint of sadness.
707username707 3 months ago
@707username707 Watching those credits roll, it's like saying goodbye to beloved friends
mjkittredge 3 months ago
@707username707 Remember remember the 5th of November! I actually beat Secret of Mana for the first time on a cold November night in 1995. That occasion would be followed by my brother and I receiving a Super Nintendo for Christmas about a month and and a half later, which started our journey to Narshe with Terra, plodding somberly through that snow in Magitek Armor. A few months later, the generosity of a special friend would send us into the unforgettable world of Chrono Trigger.
zenjiros 2 months ago
@zenjiros : My brother and I feel the same way about Legend Of Dragoon and Final Fantasy 7 & 8. I've had simlar experiences, having lived and loved in 7 cities in 4 states in the US, and like you, I am always drawn to these games. The music is a huuuuuge part of that, without a doubt.
OssimusRaadicus 3 months ago
@OssimusRaadicus You are so right. The memories would likely not be even half as special without that rare music that seems to beckon to us from the other side of a better reality's curtain. How thin that veil must sometimes stretch when we are engulfed in the enchanting, soul-stirring melodies of magical times long past....
zenjiros 2 months ago
@zenjiros Almost 30 here, but as you: seen the world, top schools, mba, etc... those games you listed including this one were my top favorites... it´s funny how hearing this transports me back when I was a kid... good memories.
plaguiento 3 months ago 2
@plaguiento It's so wonderful for people like ourselves to have the opportunity to come into contact with people on here with which we share a true bond. Online venues like YouTube have made it possible to find like-minded people with good souls all in one place. The day and age we live in has some amazing qualities!
Where did you go for your MBA? I'm actually in the middle of putting together application packages for several schools right now!
zenjiros 2 months ago
Me and my cuz lived on this shit threw the newengland storm of 93
willey057 2 months ago
@zenjiros that was fucking heartwarming. I, too, shared a similar experience. Cheers
deadsamson7 2 months ago
@zenjiros Bro... I can't even agree because the immensity of a role these games played in my childhood is also so intense. Thanks. I'm glad you posted this.
only1wiskiman 2 months ago
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zenjiros 10 months ago
Why the fuck some people watch these videos and then dislikes them... Fucking MW2 fans!
niklasvp 10 months ago 3
People always say this music is peaceful and tranquil, but I always thought it had a forlorn, melancholy sound to it.
2000sDigitalBoy 10 months ago 17
@2000sDigitalBoy I've always thought the tune captured the emptiness of the landscape. White with snow, and featureless..... Just a hint of the wind, the coldness and foggy breath.
TheYorkMan 10 months ago
I always loved staying on the board that has this music, because it's very peaceful music.
consolate1 10 months ago
I remember getting lost in the forest, I was scared.
StrongFlipMan 10 months ago
10th grade. I had the most terrible stomach bug ever to strike another human being. I was trying to play this in the meantime and fell in and out of sleep. Those dreams, those feelings, I'll never forget. Ethereal and soothing.
moonshadow100 11 months ago
@moonshadow100 Although I had played this game several times throughout my life, one of the replays was after I got my wisdom teeth removed. Most of my friends had miserable wisdom tooth extraction stories, but I have to say that the week after my procedure was very pleasant because I spent it playing Secret of Mana^^
supershigi 9 months ago
My number one track from this OST. Gonna have to dust off the Super Nintendo next time I visit the parents.
Coeurdata 11 months ago
i think the 16 bit graphics and the music is what bring you and the game together the ocarina of time is still in my memories along with the music that came along with it i feel in a way it is part of my life
WoodVideos 11 months ago
Howler gets whacked!
JelchKaTlen 11 months ago
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I feel a lot like that myself about SoM. SoM has certainly shaped the person I am.
It´s a truly lovely game, I feel it´s beauty, and it´s a really great game.
I love this game, in short.
Maneo22 11 months ago
GENIUS.
pln29 11 months ago
I live in Canada and when it gets so god damn cold during the winter and everything is frozen outside I always think about this song when I go out
oFran7o 11 months ago 4
Anybody else Wanna Zbattle.net this game with me? This game was too awesome, but multiplayer was what made my head explode!!!
dss103 1 year ago
I distinctly remember the wolves howling as you made your way through this map. As a little kid i felt so sad that the wolves and my characters had to fight. Coupled with the music it was a haunting experience.
Johnnystitches13 1 year ago
This msuic contain full of my memory when I was a child playing this game ....
聖劍傳說2,this is the best of the best !!!!!!
seedd33 1 year ago 2
Once I'm an old reclusive man, this song will be playing as I stare out my window. Waiting for deaths sweet embrace.
Psychowilly 1 year ago 2
This is my second favorite Mana piece, the first being the Mana Fortress theme from Final Fantasy Adventure/Seiken Densetsu 1. Whereas that one is icy, majestic, and foreboding, this one is snowy, melancholy, and somehow inviting, as if bidding the wanderers to make snowmen, in the hope that summer soon returns...
tehkevxor1983 1 year ago
This is simply put, one of the most beautiful pieces of music i've ever heard.
WillRock07 1 year ago 2
One of the best songs from no doubt best rpgs of all times glad I was born in that era to enjoy it unlike now the games are all geared towards graphics and online play.
sabulba30 1 year ago
When Aeris died in FF7, I cried like a baby. No other game has made me feel so much.. except Secret of Mana. The Sprite's lost his whole tribe and became the last of his kind. The Girl had her lover stolen and was never able to get him back. The Hero started as an orphan and was then ostracized by his own village. Then later found his real mother only to watch her die. Yet all three of them fought for what they believed in, and never gave up hope. That is why I love this game.
MilkHound 1 year ago 2
This song is so soothing... makes want to just sit there and watch the world just go by...
KingShade1 1 year ago 2
...back then, games had to be good. nintendo wouldnt let any game that didnt prove it was worth a seal in, and secret of mana is just 1 of the hundreds of examples that prove nintendo was a genius corperation. rock on square-enix, and thank you nintendo for makeing this game of epicness exist within our memories.
robloxfan459 1 year ago
@robloxfan459 squaresoft made it. nintendo licensed it
ZombieHouseFresnoCA 1 year ago
@ZombieHouseFresnoCA I know. Nintendo wouldnt sell any more than 5 games per company a year. so back then, instead of pumping out 11 games a year, they had to shape up, get to work, and make a game worth playing.
robloxfan459 1 year ago
@ZombieHouseFresnoCA Yeah... the good days of just SQUARE. Enix had amazing games too though. As a team it got a little too corporate for me. All that brave fencer/bushido blade/ergheiz shit... bleh. Einhander was pretty good though.
Pandaguin83 1 year ago
@Pandaguin83 I agree, i knew both Enix and Squaresoft well before they merged. Enix's Soul Blazer was bad ass!
If any company merged i'm glad they did - they both had decent releases. As for later releases, its fair to say alot of recent squareenix isn't up to par with their older stuff. like Brave Fencer was fun learning as a kid. FF7 and FF9 are cool, its shit like 'Dawn of Mana' and the newer Final Fantasy's that kinda leave me scratchin' my head. Einhander was rockin cool - ergheiz was eh
ZombieHouseFresnoCA 1 year ago
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@Aspire2RationalAgent Games made by Squaresoft in the 16 bit era = the heart of gaming
raidercity 1 year ago
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raidercity 1 year ago
So glad I wasn't part of the WoW: Shitaclysm, graphics obsessed, no-story, commercialized dumbass generation of video gamers. Long live the 90s generation of gamers, long live 16 bit games, long live Squaresoft.
Aspire2RationalAgent 1 year ago 40
@Aspire2RationalAgent When square soft. existed. Nothing Square Enix could ever do, would ever be able to top a game like this, Square was a god when it was doing Snes games. It relied on magic, not graphics. Just magic. I guess you would just have to have been there. I can't believe that I'm that old already.
Psychowilly 4 months ago
@Psychowilly I hear you Psychowilly~~ Squaresoft was powered by magic and labors of love.
zenjiros 1 month ago
@Aspire2RationalAgent Wow isn't graphics obsessed..
ultimatewierdness 4 months ago
@Aspire2RationalAgent Ironically you point out the most story driven, least graphically obsessed MMO. Design just changed, back when Secret of Mana was released music needed to convey emotions because there was no spoken dialog or high res graphics to show feelings, and now they don't need to make music as powerful, which is a shame.
IOmegadUrMom 4 months ago
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@zenjiros Agreed! I feel that SNES RPGs and the atmosphere created by those games (music included) cannot be matched, even by modern RPGs. I'd love nintendo to release some of those classics on the VC
raidercity 1 year ago
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raidercity 1 year ago
this music was the very essence of the crystal forest,mysterious and timeless,it makes your emotions inside your heart turn to smooth white crystal,the glowing of the trees really added to the music,it was fun when the frost clouds would chase after you!,i would come back later in the game to build up my levels,and to look at the crystal forest while listening to the music.
dreamyblueangeleyes 1 year ago
@MissPiddelin Well said.
zenjiros 1 year ago
I feel so at home seeing all these comments by folks in their 20's who LOVED this game as a child.... This song right here represents not only the fantasy world of thw crystal forest, but the world of our childhood, lost forever!
szivalj 1 year ago 3
So many fond memories of this game and this music. Running through the crystal forest, my brother and I playing co-op (one of the best parts of this game), and just feeling so serene the whole time. Truly a great game with a wonderful soundtrack. I miss it.
gneissguy2003 1 year ago 3
@gneissguy2003 This is exactly the same experience that I had. You never knew when mom and dad would say you had to go somewhere... and you and bro would try so hard to get somewhere new and then you'd end up in a place like this. This track is one of the most fantastic ones in the sense that it perfectly captures the environment it which it occurs
Peaux 1 year ago
@MissPiddelin Actually I've seen plenty of modern game music reach this same level of quality here.
PsychoKrazyTime 1 year ago
@PsychoKrazyTime name them. all games these days are a huge let down. too short. horrble music. no story to speak of. im a final fantasy fanatic. and i havent played any since final fantasy 10. they killed the name sooo bad.
DakkonDS 1 year ago 3
@DakkonDS They did indeed kill the Final Fantasy name. Square Enix has succeeded in doing much to bury their own name as well. I would go into shock if I saw an announcement for a new console-based Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, or Final Fantasy Tactics entry. They have all but destroyed their most precious, time-honored properties. Why does the world have to change so much? This change in the game types we loved growing up is but a small reflection of how the world has changed as a whole.
zenjiros 1 year ago
@zenjiros the trick to beat square enix is to buy the classic games and systems. thats what ive been doing.
DakkonDS 1 year ago
@DakkonDS You are correct!
zenjiros 1 year ago
Wish RPG's could follow this games format *SIGH*
saycosin23 1 year ago
@MissPiddelin so very true. i still have all my childhood games. better then childhood photos and videos if you ask me. because replaying these games brings my memories back.
DakkonDS 1 year ago 3
Why is Santa Claus living in a place with such sad, melancholic music? He surely must be close to tears all the time... sigh..
GoddaGo 1 year ago
@MissPiddelin never sell them unless your looking for potentially £300 off of ebay for all of those.
maxgunn555 1 year ago
Secret of Mana, Evermore und Terranigma fand ich von dem Aufbau der Geschichte einfach liebevoll gestaltet. Echte Spieleperlen.
Feylamios 1 year ago
I wanna use this to travel across the snowy fields on a beautiful winter's day.
YoshiAngemon 1 year ago
I am disappoint at the most recent Mana game, Heroes of Mana. To me the Mana series should be Action-RPG. Even though the Mana game from the PS1 had a battle screen, it still was action based. Heroes of Mana is a RTS not an RPG. If they make a "Legends of Mana" it better be just like the SNES game, Action RPG with a massive overworld to explore.
I'll give Children of Mana a pardon because the areas you go to are big, but points lost for not being connected to one big world.
DJ91990 1 year ago
Every person is a culture unto themselves - a collection of thoughts, feelings, impulses, mannerisms, and memories...painstakingly built up through time. Each little piece helps to shape the people that we are, and that we will become, and yet...some experiences are so profound that, no matter how distant the encounter becomes, we feel it at the very center of us always.
If you accept that as true, then you can believe that Secret of Mana is, and always will be, the innermost core of who I am.
Cryssoberyl 1 year ago 91
@Cryssoberyl fag
Mariodoot 1 year ago
@Cryssoberyl I feel the same way...... What a wonderful thing you wrote!
zenjiros 1 year ago
@Cryssoberyl cool story bro u like vidya game music too???
Mariodoot 1 year ago
@Cryssoberyl
man...you said the truth right there buddy
leviathano 1 year ago
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@Cryssoberyl
man...you said the truth right there buddy
Can I get an amen??? :)
leviathano 1 year ago
@Cryssoberyl ... Are you fucking serious right now?
BackdoorPlumber 1 year ago
@Cryssoberyl beautifully said.
McScreamo 1 year ago
@Cryssoberyl That, Sir and/or Madam, is one of the most inspirational phrases I have read in my 18 years of existence. And I agree on some levels, playing Secret of Mana has also helped shape my person into what it is.
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Maneo22 11 months ago
@Cryssoberyl Lovely said. I love this game. It´s so great, and a nice experience.
Maneo22 11 months ago
@Cryssoberyl *claps* dude, reading that and listening to this music made me cry ToT
HopefulShootingStar 11 months ago
@Cryssoberyl Can't even make fun o' that. This, "Ocarina of Time," and "Final Fantasy X" have made my life a living quest.
DancingShadowsUltd 10 months ago
@Cryssoberyl Beautyful... that's all I have to say.
MrTreecko 9 months ago
@Cryssoberyl I know exactly what you mean... there were a few games that were for one reason or another very special to me growing up (Secret of Mana being one of them). Whenever I hear music like this piece it always affects me on a very deep level.
supershigi 9 months ago
@Cryssoberyl its awesome to know that this game has impacted others so deeply at the core. The music just vibrates with so much truth of human emotion.
yoshiyambao 8 months ago 2
@Cryssoberyl
great comment, sir, really great comment, congratulations 8) it seems we are actually the same age, and I guess that helps me understand what you mean. And I actually pity those who will never be able to grasp these feelings. This is not only about video games and music. It has definitely nothing to do with nostalgia. This is part of us now, you are right. And this is for the best. thx
injektileur 8 months ago
@Cryssoberyl
Sadly I have never played this game, but that comment made my day.
707username707 7 months ago
@707username707 get a zsnes emulator, then find a SoM rom. Good times!
galvatron77 7 months ago
@galvatron77
Today for the first time in my life I bought this game on the Snes.
It might not be the 90's, and we might live in a world spoiled by the digital age of cliché story's, mindless button bashing, and glorified commercial time killers...but I think this is going to remind me what it means to be caught in between the magic of a 16 bit cartridge, and an endless chasm of childhood.
Without everyone's heartfelt comments and this vid, I might never have played this game. Thanks guys.
707username707 7 months ago 2
@707username707
forgive the slightly herky-jerky translation into english.
Play the game with a nice sound-system if you can, it really spikes the experience.
Especially the title-sequence.
themadmallard 7 months ago
@707username707 Yknow I honestly did the same thing of buying a cartridge about 2 weeks ago with a boxed Chrono Trigger as well. Im currently playing this, and it is simply one of the best experiences that can be made on the snes although my brother was dumb to never have bought this game when he was young. Now as I play, i feel nostalgia running around killing monsters, as this adventure surely is one i aint gonna forget.
AgileKirby 6 months ago
@707username707 What a wonderful comment. I dare say that the majority of those of us who posted here know exactly what you mean. I'll never forget when I bought my own copy of Secret of Mana as a 15 year old boy in late October of 1995. My brother and I had beaten the game using a cartridge that a friend was gracious enough to lend to us, but I absolutely had to own my own copy! My brother and I did not hesitate to beat the game all over again on our new prize :)
zenjiros 5 months ago
@galvatron77 i have that...but its m ore better playuing the original...it s better
MrMuzzy157 6 months ago
@Grayfox354 I completely agree. These days I find myself pulling out the SNES, sega genesis and even my sega saturn more often than playing new titles on the on my PS3
raidercity 1 year ago 2
@raidercity Indeed. Nintendo needs to make better use of the Virtual Console and give us FFVI, Chrono Trigger, Illusion of Gaia, and Terranigma.
zenjiros 1 year ago
Listening to this again makes me ask the question..."Why did I have to grow up?" Playing 16 bit games as a kid was simply amazing.
raidercity 1 year ago 118
@raidercity I would've said so you could make 16-bit games for other kids, but sadly nowadays all we have is Black Ops... where oh where did the magic go?
Grayfox354 1 year ago 7
@Grayfox354 It is truly disheartening to see the current landscape of gaming, and the segment of our society that sees such violent, thematically and artistically dull games as masterpieces. A game is a masterpiece if it MOVES ME, not if it runs at 7,000 fps, is one colossal digital cliche, and lets me use artillery to gorily decapitate Nazi zombies.
zenjiros 1 year ago
@Grayfox354 And I can't help it-----I just have to say this, because of your screen name!:
"A...dying shadow.......in a world of lights...."
R.I.P. Frank Yeager!
zenjiros 1 year ago
@zenjiros This song makes me "feel alive again." :)
Grayfox354 1 year ago
@Grayfox354 Hahaha~~ "I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS PAIN!"
zenjiros 1 year ago
@raidercity sign
LonelyDragonKaisho 1 year ago
Yo tengo 18 e igual como jugador de terranigma entiendo eso, no he tenido la dicha de jugar secret of mana, pero espero hacerlo. La musica dice mucho de un juego.
danit012 1 year ago
meh. As a Terranigma player i can only guess what good memories these song are able to give some people out there :(
Choppr777 1 year ago 2
@Choppr777 Terranigma's soundtrack also had some incredible songs.... Oh if only the old Squaresoft and Quintet teams could come together again....
zenjiros 1 year ago