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===Antagonists=== | ===Antagonists=== | ||
*'''Belladonna''': a wicked woman who uses her stunning beauty to manipulate Flamekahn, the chief of the Nevarl thieves. She kills Hawkeye's friend Eagle and frames him for it, and uses his friend Jessica as a shield for herself by locking a cursed choker around the girl's neck that will kill her if Belladonna is ever slain. She leads the Nevarl forces against the kingdom of Laurent, and seeks to revive the evil domain of Mavolia. | |||
*'''The Crimson Wizard''': a magician who wormed his way into the royal court of Altena to influence the True Queen, poisoning her mind. He instigates the assault on the kingdom of Valsena, and he seeks to release the energy of the Mana Stones for an unknown, wicked purpose. Rarely walking, the wizard instead teleports from place to place in a flash of red after-images that echo behind him. | *'''The Crimson Wizard''': a magician who wormed his way into the royal court of Altena to influence the True Queen, poisoning her mind. He instigates the assault on the kingdom of Valsena, and he seeks to release the energy of the Mana Stones for an unknown, wicked purpose. Rarely walking, the wizard instead teleports from place to place in a flash of red after-images that echo behind him. | ||
*'''Goremand''': a supernatural consumer of souls who dresses as a jester and behaves eccentrically. Goremand has aligned himself with the corrupt king of Ferolia to use the beastmen as soldiers, but his true aim is to further the agenda of a terrible figure from Wendel's past and will exploit anyone he can. | *'''Goremand''': a supernatural consumer of souls who dresses as a jester and behaves eccentrically. Goremand has aligned himself with the corrupt king of Ferolia to use the beastmen as soldiers, but his true aim is to further the agenda of a terrible figure from Wendel's past and will exploit anyone he can. | ||
===Side characters=== | ===Side characters=== | ||
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==Gameplay== | ==Gameplay== | ||
''Trials of Mana HD'' features enhanced gameplay compared to the Super Nintendo original, with players able to move freely in three dimensional environments. | ''Trials of Mana HD'' features enhanced gameplay compared to the Super Nintendo original, with players able to move freely in three dimensional environments. Stat progression is significantly different from the original, where in leveling up increases a character's stats automatically instead of having one point to manually assign to a stat per level. Instead, there is a new training system based on the prior manual assignment where a character gains skill points each level that the player can then assign to one of their attributes in order to unlock new spells, stat boosts, and abilities that can be equipped in the main menu. These abilities can greatly influence a character's performance in battle and range from lowering the damage they take when casting a spell to increasing the amount of experience points gained at the end of an encounter. | ||
Similar to the mini medal feature found in the ''Dragon Quest'' series is the inclusion of the Lil' Cactus character who rewards players with prizes for being found in the overworld, towns, and even in dungeons. This spritely saguaro first appeared in ''[[Legend of Mana]]'', and his rewards range from worldwide free room and board at an inn to randomly being granted triple the amount of experience points earned in combat. | |||
As is standard for ports and remakes of Square Enix games, lengthy post-game content has been included in ''Trials of Mana''. This post-game content is available once the final boss of a character's story is defeated, and returns the player to the kingdom of Valsena just prior to the finale. There, a new character named Grand Croix warns the party that the witch Anise has been unsealed from her extra-dimensional shackles due to the weakening of mana in the world, and instructs the heroes to find the most powerful class upgrade items in the world. These artifacts are tied to the bonds each character has with their home, and once assembled Grand Croix will show the way to Anise's spectral stronghold in the sky. The lair is a massive dungeon composed of ruined versions of previous locales to inflict psychological attacks on the party, and is patrolled by the strongest monsters in the game. Once the party defeats the witch, a new game plus option is available to players that allows the carry over of items, levels, and skill points into a new game. | |||
==Development history== | ==Development history== | ||
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==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
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File:Trials of mana HD angela.png|Angela | File:Trials of mana HD angela.png|Angela | ||
File:Trials of mana HD charlotte.png|Charlotte | File:Trials of mana HD charlotte.png|Charlotte | ||