A new game in the Mana series is in development for consoles

Square Enix has confirmed, without giving much details, that it is working on a new installment in the franchise.

Japanese developer Square Enix, or more precisely the producer Masaru Oyamada, announced that they were working on a new game in the Mana saga (Seiken Densetsu). The news first broke on a show to mark the franchise’s 30th anniversary. You can see it at the end of this article.

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In the video, Oyamada

didn’t want to give too many details beyond the game soon on consoles. But we do not know on which platforms it will be available, let alone its launch date. However, the producer encourages fans to be patient to see the game’s first official announcement.

We wanted to announce it with a cool trailer, but we’re still at the start of the 30th anniversary celebrations.

We are developing a new title. But please wait a little longer until we can make a proper announcement. […] Development still has a long way to go… We are developing for consoles, so we hope you can look forward to it.

MASARU OYAMADA – MANA SERIES PRODUCER

It seems that, for the moment, we will have to wait a bit to know when this new title in the Mana saga will go on sale.

If we look back, this series of JRPGs from Square Enix He is one of the oldest in the company. It has been 14 years since Mana Heroes was launched, the year 2007, in order to Nintendo DS. The last main game of the saga, Dawn of Mana, came out in 2006 in order to PS2. At 2019

was launched on the market Mana collection. This collection brought together the first three deliveries located in the West (Mystic Quest, Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana). The most recent title is Mana trials, a 3D remake of the original SNES game released last year on Nintendo Switch, PS4 and PC.

As Square works on what will be the fifth installment of the main saga, it has already been confirmed that Trials of Mana Coming to iOS and Android Mobile Devices on July 15th. In addition, Legend of Mana will have an animated series and a new game called Echoes of Mana set to release in 2022 for mobile devices and in simultaneous international launch. Unfortunately, there will be no texts in Spanish.