They’re already on Game Pass and if you’re a fan of RPGs you can’t miss them

The magic of Square Enix shines again in Game Pass.

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With everything that has happened in the last few hours at Microsoft, there’s not much to celebrate this week, but one excellent piece of news to rescue, especially for RPG fans, is the arrival of two great exponents of the genre, Trials of Mana and Legend of Mana, which landed on Xbox Game Pass at its most affordable level (Standard) yesterday and add a new option to the growing catalog of Japanese role-playing games that are part of the service. All this with the quality seal of Square Enix.

Both titles are modernized versions of renowned classics, although they could be placed in somewhat different categories. Trials of Mana is a remake of a 1995 title that never left Japan for the Super Famicom, Seiken Densetsu 3. This new version, localized for several regions, includes a 3D redesign and digital voices that, due to limitations at the time, were never present in the original edition. The title has also been modernized with real-time combat, a new camera system, and even various extras have been added to the story.

Magic, swords, and adventures for all

Legends of Mana, on the other hand, is a remastering of a PlayStation exclusive that arrived exclusively on Sony’s console in 1999. This modernized version was released in 2021 but took three years longer to arrive on Xbox Series X/S. As for fans, Trials of Mana had much more launch support from the community compared to what was seen with Legends, but, as with everything, it’s a matter of taste.

It’s worth noting that both games had already been released on PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate back in September of last year, but the addition of these two titles to Microsoft’s base subscription service marks a new update to the catalog that hasn’t been seen since June 18th, when Star Trucker and Wildfrost arrived. One more thing before you rush to download the games, the official announcement indicated that the titles would also arrive on Xbox One, but this was an error.