#mana tree

[acquired-stardust]

Legend of Mana Playstation 1999

[lomappreciationblog]

A post for my compilation of the different backgrounds of the Mana Tree!

Starting with the entrance area:

Oh and I apparently recorded this little clip of walking up the path and it just feels so cinematic.

The inner area with mushroom platforms:

The outer area before the Sanctuary proper:

I want to lay my hands on Legend of Mana's background art and just absorb its beauty. The sort of detailed but not crowded look, and everything still looks so dreamy?

The entryway to the Sanctuary:

I can only add one video clip per post, so sadly I can't show that there the light rays here actually shift in game.

And the Sanctuary itself, in which you're required to defeat all monsters in every area:

Kind of interesting that the stone pillars for these platforms also have a mushroom design, and the little central post/figure also seems to have a mushroom cap or eggshell on top.

And of course, the final boss area!

The game just transports you here once you're done with the Sanctuary, and I'm pretty sure when you are, you're actually allowed to use the pause menu to prepare yourself, though the game itself doesn't tell you. But take one step closer, and the Mana Goddess give her intro speech and it's straight into the fight from there.

The moon slowly being eclipsed in the background still gives me chills, it's just an amazing atmosphere.

Here's how it looks with the moon fully eclipsed and when Mana Goddess shows the special form that only appears for this attack.

There's also these two scenes featuring the Mana tree, in the intro and then the end screen.

I think that's all I have, not including how the Mana Tree looks on the map, but I think I'll make another post for it so I can include the clip of the artifact turning into the location.

[motsaenggin]

Yggdrasil's Swamplands. Heavily inspired illustration by the Secret of Mana illustration of the Mana Tree. Markers, ink and Poscas on paper.

[renieule]

My piece from the Iconic Moments zine, based on Chapter 214!

[pangeen]

" Boswell doing his thing 🐘"

// © Lukas Walter

[deathandnonexistentialdread]

Mahad is so proud of Mana

[namelessprince]

me, pacing around frantically: -so while its likely that the mana world map looks weird because it was drawn by a random artist and not a cartographer, it still leaves room for the implication that the entire back half of mana is one enormous tree, instead of the tree being giant but still of a comprehensible size

my mother: well why dont you google it and see what other people think?

me: i can not stress enough that i am the only person in the world who cares

[mamadayoo]

somewhat cringe... sorry, i got hyperfixated.

old Zyean birthday picture and many others...

[gothlovo]

The People's Princess or whatever

☆ﾟ⁠.⁠*⁠･⁠｡ﾟ

Also 2 songs that sound exactly like Suguru singing (to me):

[effro01]

Kote kei..save me kote kei...

[urtypicalfavflower]

-welcome to my page🥀

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︎🇧🇷 - bem vindo à minha página!! geralmente eu falo sobre obsessões minhas, vkei,plastic Tree e malice mizer (principalmente)!!

🇺🇸 - welcome to my page!! I usually talk about my obsessions, vkei, plastic tree and Malice Mizer (mostly)!!

Ryutaro is my honmei ♡

I hope you like it ! 🥀

-kami's my lovee!!!!!!!

[aaliy4h]

[sharper-than-a-serpents-tooth]

actually amazing that Claude didn't just kill every girl that was present at Athy's tea party when Athy's mana went beserk or threw them in a dungeon until he had figured out what had happened.

He could have given his guards orders to capture the suspicious young magician who went on vocation without giving notice at a time when his daughter needed him the most. Lucas arrives at the Imperial palace exhausted but happy to see Athy again and instead he's greeted by the Empereror's army pointing their weapons at him and shooting before he can ask a single question. He is being blamed for the assassination attempt on the princess and when she has disappeared from the palace entirely without a trace, he is suspected of kidnapping and murder as well.

Imagine Lucas as a wanted criminal on the run and he and Athy always miss each other by chance before the finally meet again. Until then he has to figure out on his own what had happened. He visits Jennette, demanding an explanation by her, which she refuses to give because she was told not to trust him. They both are wary of one another ("why were you right next to her when the princess had a mana explosion?" vs "why weren't YOU there when you are usually always with her and knew about her condition"?), and they are forced to work together to find the solution.

[ooctoopussi]

Hiroo Isono

Art for The Secret of Mana

1993

[pangeen]

" The Magnificent Mana " // © Marlon du Toit

[sidequestzone]

Read Kathryn Hemmann's new comic, Trees in Video Games, at sidequest.zone!