LogFAQs > #896132378

Secret of Mana. I've never been able to get around its combination of lag, ridiculous enemy invincibility frames, and enemy evasion making the basic combat feel like a slog. In a game that makes the player take time between hits if you want to do notable damage and has a charge-up mechanic that takes forever in order to discourage mashing the attack button and make individual attacks count, getting your attacks nullified or delayed due to the game being poorly designed and programmed and giving you poor feedback on what went wrong is really frustrating.

I think Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean's battle systems have aged really poorly even compared to Eternia and Star Ocean 2. And they've basically both got generic SNES RPG plots that try a little or pretend to maybe be something different for a bit before pretty much giving up a few hours in and their characters generally aren't good either. I kind of feel these two are good counterarguments to nostalgia being the reason why people love old games so much because practically nobody in the English-speaking world even played these when they were relevant, I don't think they're good at this point, and yet they still ended up fondly thought of!
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