History VideoGame / HeroesOfMana

* HeroUnit: Called Leader units, with an aura to boost troops and are very strong. You only lose if the main character dies, but losing others can lower your rank.

* Scenery Porn: Not surprising since this is a Mana game and not to mention it's the prequel to VideoGame/TrialsOfMana. Fa'Diel is quite beautiful [[spoiler: However, the same can NOT be said about the Mirage Palace or the Sea of Chaos which are[[SceneryGorn not the most comforting places to see.]]]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Roget has defeated the Goddess of Doom with the Sword of Mana and shattered Anise's Mirror, saving the world. But sadly, he lost all his loved ones along the way (his former best friend Juhani, his fiancée Elena and his twin brother the Mirage Bishop.). In addition, the Peddan defectors don't have a home anymore as Pedda is in ruins as well as being stuck in a time warp thanks to a time distorion. They resolve to travel to the other dimensions to take down all other versions of Anise who are still out there. Also, this chain of events leads us all to VideoGame/TrialsOfMana where Mana begins to wither.....]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Roget has defeated the Goddess of Doom with the Sword of Mana and shattered Anise's Mirror, saving the world. But sadly, he lost all his loved ones along the way (his former best friend Juhani, his fiancée Elena and his twin brother the Mirage Bishop.). In addition, the Peddan defectors don't have a home anymore as Pedda is in ruins as well as being stuck in a time wrap thanks to a time distorion. They resolve to travel to the other dimensions to take down all other versions of Anise who are still out there. Also, this chain of events leads us all to VideoGame/TrialsOfMana where Mana begins to wither.....]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[Roget has defeated the Goddess of Doom with the Sword of Mana and shattered Anise's Mirror, saving the world. But sadly, he lost all his loved ones along the way (his former best friend Juhani, his fiancée Elena and his twin brother the Mirage Bishop.). In addition, the Peddan defectors don't have a home anymore as Pedda is in ruins as well as being stuck in a time wrap thanks to a time distorion. They resolve to travel to the other dimensions to take down all other versions of Anise who are still out there. Also, this chain of events leads us all to VideoGame/TrialsOfMana where Mana begins to wither.....]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[Roget has defeated the Goddess of Doom with the Sword of Mana and shattered Anise's Mirror, saving the world. But sadly, he lost all his loved ones along the way (his former best friend Juhani, his fiancée Elena and his twin brother the Mirage Bishop.). In addition, the Peddan defectors don't have a home anymore as Pedda is in ruins as well as being stuck in a time wrap thanks to a time distorion. They resolve to travel to the other dimensions to take down all other versions of Anise who are still out there. Also, this chain of events leads us all to "VideoGame/TrialsOfMana" where Mana begins to wither.....]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[Roget has defeated the Goddess of Doom with the Sword of Mana and shattered Anise's Mirror, saving the world. But sadly, he lost all his loved ones along the way (his former best friend Juhani, his fiancée Elena and his twin brother the Mirage Bishop.). In addition, the Peddan defectors don't have a home anymore as Pedda is in ruins as well as being stuck in a time wrap thanks to a time distorion. They resolve to travel to the other dimensions to take down all other versions of Anise who are still out there. Also, this chain of events leads us all to [[VideoGame/TrialsOfMana]] where Mana begins to wither.....]]

* BitterswseetEnding: [[Roget has defeated the Goddess of Doom with the Sword of Mana and shattered Anise's Mirror, saving the world. But sadly, he lost all his loved ones along the way (his former best friend Juhani, his fiancée Elena and his twin brother the Mirage Bishop.). In addition, the Peddan defectors don't have a home anymore as Pedda is in ruins as well as being stuck in a time wrap thanks to a time distorion. They resolve to travel to the other dimensions to take down all other versions of Anise who are still out there. Also, this chain of events leads us all to [[VideoGame/TrialsOfMana]] where Mana begins to wither.....]]

* BitterwseetEnding: [[Roget has defeated the Goddess of Doom with the Sword of Mana and shattered Anise's Mirror, saving the world. But sadly, he lost all his loved ones along the way (his former best friend Juhani, his fiancée Elena and his twin brother the Mirage Bishop.). In addition, the Peddan defectors don't have a home anymore as Pedda is in ruins as well as being stuck in a time wrap thanks to a time distorion. They resolve to travel to the other dimensions to take down all other versions of Anise who are still out there. Also, this chain of events leads us all to [[VideoGame/TrialsOfMana]] where Mana begins to wither.....]]

The game opens on the FiveManBand on their ship, en-route to the kingdom of Ferolia, when their ship is shot down and they are separated. Crash landing in a forest, they are separated and discovered by a beastman patrol.

** Never mind the final boss. After going OneWingedAngel on you, she is the only creature on the stage. This should be fairly simple, but the boss ''will. not. die.'' The only real course of action is to summon all the units you can and swarm her. This would be fine except her attacks do ''enormous'' damage, and she also occasionally causes a massive explosion that heavily damages everything within a large radius of her. "Heavily" as in, either kills the units or puts their HP so low that another attack will instantly do them in. Also, by this point in the battle, you will likely have harvested all available resources, so if too many units die you will too. Not only that, but at the end, you have to send the main character in to attack. If he dies, it's game over, so all you can do is bring him in and hope you can kill her before she uses an enormous attack.

* {{Prequel}}: This game is one to ''VideoGame/Trials of Mana'', one of the few games in the series that are explicitly tied to a previous entry.
* PutOnABus: There's a good reason we never see the main characters of this game in ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'': [[spoiler:they're traveling around {{TheMultiverse}}, hunting down every incarnation of Anise.]]

''Heroes of Mana'' is the second UsefulNotes/NintendoDS title in the ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'' series, released in 2007. It is, in fact, a direct {{prequel}} that takes place a generation before ''VideoGame/SeikenDensetsu3,'' also loosely tying it with ''VideoGame/DawnOfMana.''

The game is still a real time strategy, and is almost entirely touch screen based.

* TheBigGuy: Gemière.
* TheChick: D'Kelli.

* TheHero: Roget.
* TheLancer: Qucas.
* TheSmartGuy: Yurcheal.

* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Roget.
** TheLancer: Qucas.
** TheSmartGuy: Yurcheal.
** TheBigGuy: Gemière.
** TheChick: D'Kelli.

'''''Heroes of Mana''''' is the second UsefulNotes/NintendoDS title in the ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'' series, released in 2007. It is, in fact, a direct {{prequel}} that takes place a generation before ''VideoGame/SeikenDensetsu3,'' also loosely tying it with ''VideoGame/DawnOfMana.''

** TheHero: Roget
** TheLancer: Qucas
** TheSmartGuy: Yurcheal
** TheBigGuy: Gemière
** TheChick: D'Kelli

'''''Heroes of Mana''''' is the second NintendoDS title in the ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'' series, released in 2007. It is, in fact, a direct {{prequel}} that takes place a generation before ''VideoGame/SeikenDensetsu3'', also loosely tying it with ''VideoGame/DawnOfMana''.

The game opens on the FiveManBand on their ship, en-route to the kingdom of Ferolia, when their ship is shot down and they are separated. Crash-landing in a forest, they are separated and discovered by a beastman patrol.

The game is still a real-time strategy, and is almost entirely touch-screen based.

!!''Heroes of Mana'' provides examples of the following tropes:

'''''Heroes of Mana''''' is the most recent game in the ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'' series, released in 2007.

''Heroes Of Mana'' is the most recent game in the ''WorldOfMana'' series, released in 2007.

!Tropes in ''Heroes Of Mana'':

** TheChick: D'Kelli