Honest Review

I’m enjoying the game, love how’s there’s a NG+ mode. Only thing is that there’s camera bugs that make the camera shake, especially in Beuca Island. There hasn’t been an update in over a year, so don’t expect these bugs to get fixed anytime soon. SquareEnix and their teams need to stop neglecting their AAA games, not worth paying $20. Unless you find it at discount for half off, then you may want to consider it. You’ll definitely put a lot of hours into it if you don’t mind the touch screen controls.

Great Game with Great Replay Value

I wanted this game for a while now and because Im a mobile gamer I thought Id see how close to the console version they would get. First thing I noticed is the music in this game is some of the best ive heard in a game period. The gameplay is simple enough to control without too much frustration even though I could fully maneuver with my right thumb pressing more than one button on accident. I got over it and Im glad I did. It plays very fluid, voice acting was bearable (Id rather have it then not) auto save is great, graphics ported well, leveling system paced well, large world to explore, new game plus lets you take all of your earnings in to a new game. I only knew that because it was so good with unique storylines I played through twice and for me that says alot (once i beat it I delete it) Overall its a very fun game that if you can get over the controls it’s worth it.

Few problems

First off. The voice acting is game breakingly bad. To the point where you rather skip the story to avoid closing out the app. There needs to be an option for text only. Whoever was in charge of the voice acting, must really hate their job. Second the combat is very clunky, it’s still possible to beat the harder difficulties and challenge fights with ease. However you need to be aware of your hand placement, depending on which version of the phone you have, if your hand is in anyway touching the screen, your command inputs will not register. Monster hunter freedom unite actually had the controls on point so, I know it’s possible to have a more sensitive and responsive touchscreen control setup. To where if your hand is touching one section of the screen, it won’t lock out other commands. This copy pasta of the game was executed very poorly. I recommend just getting an emulated version of the game or downloading it for the consoles. Not worth the price tag for what you get. At most I would pay $5 for this game, the way it’s been put together for the IOS release, leaves much to be desired.

Absolutely amazing game

This is a legit 10/10 game on iPhone. I’d put it up there with final fantasy tactics as the most engaging, all around fun iOS game. Beautiful graphics, amazing sound, gorgeous landscapes, fun combat, voice acting. It really does have it all. The lack of a controller/backbone support is a huge bummer, but the people that downvoted so harshly are delusional. It’s obvious that a ton of work went into this game and considering there are zero micro transactions, it’s ridiculously harsh to give it 3 stars. This is a borderline perfect game.

The game is fun but make updates

The game is really fun but you should add like updates as a new characters leaves and spells also you should add multiplayer i’ll give it a five star can you add sound like extra stuff like updates you characters multiplayer it’s a lot Like The consul version if you see this please add these updates

Great game, give it a chance!

I bought this game a couple years ago just to have an action JRPG to play on the go. I’ve been a fan of the Mana series since I was a teenager. Enjoyed it on my first play through with touch controls and thought it was OK. Playing it again using a game pad (Backbone One), and loving it. SE adding controller support made this even better.

I loved it

I had a great time playing this game, I don’t use a controller so I ignore all those negative reviews and for the price I found this game to be fun and well worth the $. I also can see myself replaying it more than once because of the ability to change main character and support characters. Great game!

Desperately needs controller compatibility

I recently bought 5 Square-Enix games(3 of which are Mana) for my iPhone. What I can’t make sense of is, 4 of those games are old titles and STILL compatible with a controller except this ONE crispy game that came out 2 years ago… dude, come on… I spent like $25 on this game(most expensive out of the 5 I bought). You just GOTTA update this…

One of the best songs in the game.

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