Square Enix revealed a new trailer and announced a demo forTrials of Mana.The demo will be launching on March 18 at 12:00 JST (click here for a time conversion table), on the PlayStation Store and Nintendo Eshop. Square Enixnotedthere might be a small difference between the time of the demo’s launch on both platforms.Update:As of now, the demo is already out on the French PS Store. Be sure to check out theMana Series' official English Twitter accountto know when it’ll be available in USA.
TheTrials of Manademo starts at the beginning of the game and lets you pick your protagonist and your two companions among the game’s playable characters: Duran, Angela, Charlotte, Kevin, Riesz, and Hawkeye. The demo covers your selected protagonist’s prologue, their meeting with Faerie and their first companion, and the beginning of their journey to Wendel, going through the cave guarded by the iconic Full Metal Haggar boss. In the original Snes game, I’d say that all of that was around one hour and a half of gameplay, which means it should be slightly longer in this remake.
Characters go above Level 7 in the demo. Saves from theTrials of Manademo can be transferred to the full game.
Next up isTrials of Mana’s final trailer ahead of release. The trailer features some of the battles against the eight Benevodons,one of which we’ve seen in detail recently. It’s also interesting to note Duran at the end of the trailer seems to have completely out of place lip-synch. However, remember that in many Japanese JRPG trailers, voiceovers different than the actual ingame ones are played during the scenes that are shown, so this could explain that.
Thetweetrevealing the trailer mentioned to watch until the end, as it teases new story development and elements exclusive to the remake, which we’ll cover soon in another article.Update:You can read about all that here.
As a reminder, this is a remake ofSeiken Densetsu 3, released exclusively in Japan on Super Famicom/Snes 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 Jun 08, 2025, on PC via Steam, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. It wasfirst announcedat E3 2019 along with somelive gameplay. you may check out the past trailers, artwork, details and screenshotshere,here,here,andhere. You can also take a lookat our preview.
