Square Enix published a 20 minutes long gameplay video forTrials of Mana. The gameplay includes a party with Riesz as the protagonist, with Angela and Kevin as her companions. It shows some town exploration, and a ride onManaseries iconic dragon Flammie, revealing the world map’s remake look.
We also get a look at all of the game’s menus, including how to give specific strategies and tactics to the AI-controlled characters. Like the original SNES game, you can switch between the three characters at any time during battle. Sadly this remake doesn’t include the original’s multiplayer function.
This is gameplay from pretty late into the game when your party needs to defeat the Benevodons, powerful Mana beings, for story reasons I won’t spoil. It’s also interesting to note how the party is level 45, a level much higher than the average level at this story point in the original, showing how long and how rebalanced this remake is.
The gameplay sequence also has a long dungeon exploration sequence, showing how different the dungeons are now, actually including elevation elements seeing they’re in 3D, and platforming. The gameplay ends with the amazing fight against Fiegmund, the Water Benevodon. The Benevodons fights are really iconic and left a strong mark on anyone who playedSeiken Densetsu 3in the past. you may read more about how the boss was remade overat PlayStation blog.
As a reminder, this is a remake ofSeiken Densetsu 3, released exclusively in Japan on Super Famicom in 1995.Seiken Densetsu 3is the follow-up toSeiken Densetsu 2,known asSecret of Manaoutside Japan.Seiken Densetsu 3was officially translated asTrials of Manaand released outside Japan for the first time during E3 2019 viaCollection of Manaon Nintendo Switch. The remake is also namedTrials of Manain the west. In Japan, the remake is titledSeiken Densetsu 3 Trials of Manato differentiate it from the original Snes game.
Trials of Manalaunches on June 01, 2025, on PC via Steam, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. It wasfirst announcedat E3 2019 along with somelive gameplay. A demo was alsolistedon the PlayStation Store but wasn’t officially announced nor released yet. You can check out the past trailers, artwork, details and screenshotshere,here,here,andhere. You can also take a lookat our preview.
