Secret of Mana/Controls

• : Use the direction pad to guide your player characters through the world, in eight different directions. When navigating through the ring commands, press left and right to cycle through the options of the visible ring, or press up or down to display different rings.
• : Press and hold the A button to dash. Can only be performed once a character is 100% ready to act.
• : Press the B button to perform an attack. Once you are at at least level 1 proficiency with a weapon, press and hold the B button to begin storing power, and release it once the meter fills for a stronger attack. When in town, press the B button to speak with people, or make selections. Press the B button to choose items in the ring command.
• : Press the Y button to summon the ring menu for your currently controller character. Pressing Y will also cancel selections in menus.
• : Press the X button to summon the ring menu for a computer controller character. If only one player is playing, keep pressing the X button to toggle between either of the other characters.
• : Pressing the Start button on a second or third controller will bring other players into the game. Pressing Start a second time, will exit that player out of the game.
• : Press the Select button to toggle control over one of the other computer controlled characters.

Resetting the game

Press and hold + + + in the middle of the game to return to the title screen.

Understanding character control [edit ]

not long after the crippled begins, you will be in master of a total of three characters. At least one person must control one of the characters, but the remaining to may be player control or computer controlled. If entirely one player is playing the game, the computer will make basic decisions for every character that you are not in control of, such as where to walk ( by and large in the musician character ‘s vicinity ), and where and when to attack. You can change the conflict AI for a computer controlled character through a Ring Command menu. however, if you would like a computer restrainer character to switch weapons, equipment, project spells, or anything else driven through a command surround, you must press until the command ring appears around the character in question. To close this closed chain, press twice ; once to bring the hoop up around your character, and a second meter to close it. additionally, at any time, you may press to take control of a unlike fictional character. naturally, this implies that the calculator will take control of the character you previously directed.

other players can come in and out of the game at will by pressing on their master launching pad. In a three actor game, the characters that each musician controls is fixed, but in a two player game, there is one floating character that the calculator will control. Just as in a one player bet on, either player can take control of that quality by pressing , or bring up the control surround for that character by pressing . however, they wo n’t be able to influence any character that the early player is controlling.