Secret of Mana (1993)

User summary:

The second installment in the Seiken Densetsu series, Seiken Densetsu 2 was re-named "Secret of Mana" upon the USA release.

Seiken 2 is an action-RPG, where fights are executed like a normal action game, and not via menus. The player is controlling three characters at the same time, it was also possible to play 2 or even 3 players cooperating; controlling one character each.

In the Japanese version, the preset names were Randi (main character), Prim (the girl) and Popoi (the spirit).

Individual credits:
Hiroki Kikuta: Music

Trivia:

The US release's title screen image is different from the Japanese release. The Japanese release had a scanned image of the package cover, whereas the US release had 1/4 of the same image zoomed up to 4 times the size, focusing on the characters. This caused the image to become pixellated as it was not a rescan but an enlargement of the original. Why this was done has yet to be explained.