Dawn of Mana Speed Run (New Game - Easy) in 2:32:37 (Seg 1)

Dawn of Mana (Playstation 2) - Completed by Nicholas 'Sir VG' Hoppe on November
22nd, 2007.

Welcome to the beginnings of Mana.

Speed Run Rules:
*Completed from a clean save
*Easy Difficulty
*Segmented
*Takes Damage to Save Time

Dawn of Mana (aka Seiken Densetsu 4) is the tellings of the beginning of Mana,
as well as the birth of the Mana Goddess. The story is divided into 8 chapters
(with a prologue), following a young boy named Keldric (aka Keldy) as he
becomes the Hero of Mana. The game features the HAVOK engine, used in other notable
games like Kingdom Hearts and Half-Life.

Dawn of Mana is 1 of 3 games in the 'World of Mana' series, which also included
Children of Mana and Heroes of Mana for the DS. This game received a lot of
scrutany by people (even to the point of calling the game the worst of the World
of Mana games), but a lot I feel is unfounded. Personally, I thought Children
was the worst of the three, but that's my opinion.

I played starting with a clean memcard, due to fact that medal counts can carry
over between games, which would allow me to get extra emblems faster. This is
to adhere to SDA's 'Out of the Box' rules.

To assist in verifying, at the beginning and end of every segment (except the
end of Chapter 8) I display my current medal count totals to verify I'm not
doing anything outside of the run to improve my emblem earning progress. For
anybody who's casually watching this run, you can typically skip about the first and
last 20-30 seconds of every segment.

Prologue - More Than Friends

The prologue is interesting as it's the only chapter you can't replay, and
whose standings aren't recorded in the record stats (Easy as a whole isn't put in
the record stats, but prologue isn't listed on any difficulty).

The goal of the prologue is simple: follow a dumb little rabite named Buju,
which happens to be Ritzia's pet. Strangely, Keldy is pretty stupid and while
being able to outrun him, he doesn't ever seem to make a serious attempt to catch
him. Instead, at every stop I simply have to beat up a Mushboom that scares
poor Buju. Upon beating it up, Buju makes a happy heart and runs away (again).

Time: 00:02:59

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[raedangwapo09]

is this seiken densetsu 4?

[SirVG]

@raedangwapo09 Yes, this is the US version of Seiken Densetsu 4. I hate to admit though, I actually kinda like the US voice acting better then the Japanese voice acting. ^^;;

[harpy2010]

lol sad I beat this game on ultemate but I can't seem to get all the bouts or the lvl4 yellow rabite (gowing 1 for those who don't get what I meant) yes I still play from time to time trying the camra sistem got me tho only thing I didn't like about it. Well that and that it was not a remake of "Secret of Mana" I really want a remake of that one

[SirVG]

@harpy2010 Lucky you, if you have an apple iPad or iPhone (I believe) you can get a remake on one of those devices. Hurrah?

[ranma44]

I don't get why people hated this game i personally enjoyed it especially the open world combat with ambient music i. the story was pretty awsome except for the ending that was sad but i enjoyed the game i just don't get what was bad about the game was it too hard or something?

[SirVG]

@ranma44 I'm sure it's probably due to 2 things: 1 - all levels resetting after every chapter. 2 - Chapter 3's map is a mess.

[xerobahamut]

i wish you hadnt skipped all the storyline bits. oh well.

[sparileidlon]

why seiken densetsu died? That was my favorite serie

[sethjusay2010]

is this a easy to beat game?? or is it a 5 hour game then end?

[stridren]

at about 1:15 I can hear FFA intro song, cool shit!!!

[ranma44]

@SirVG but that's why you unlock medals so your level can stay raised i think people just didn't want to do the work and yeah it was X_X