8th June 2007, 11:49 AM
I just wanted to report I was wrong about Children of Mana. That game DOES let you save. I was mistaken based on a silly thing. You see I saw a message that mislead me to that conclusion. Not sure how, specifically when you go into multiplayer it says "The game can't be saved in co-op mode". Not sure why I concluded I coudn't save the game in co-op mode from that.
Anyway, as it turns out here's how it works. The host's save file is where the world's progress is loaded from. Everyone else just has their character shunted into that person's world. Then you adventure together as long as you wish. When you are done, the host kicks everyone back into their world and everyone can THEN save their game. The only storyline progress is in the host's world of course, since that's the one you were playing in, but everyone else can still save experience and items. Further, you can just have someone else be the host if you would rather be in their world.
In other words, what I thought was the worst possible way to handle saves is actually, upon retrospect, the BEST way they could have done it. So, I've been playing a lot of this game with my friends. The one thing I don't like is the whole stage by stage layout. I prefer the older Mana game style where it is all one big world you explore.
Anyway, as it turns out here's how it works. The host's save file is where the world's progress is loaded from. Everyone else just has their character shunted into that person's world. Then you adventure together as long as you wish. When you are done, the host kicks everyone back into their world and everyone can THEN save their game. The only storyline progress is in the host's world of course, since that's the one you were playing in, but everyone else can still save experience and items. Further, you can just have someone else be the host if you would rather be in their world.
In other words, what I thought was the worst possible way to handle saves is actually, upon retrospect, the BEST way they could have done it. So, I've been playing a lot of this game with my friends. The one thing I don't like is the whole stage by stage layout. I prefer the older Mana game style where it is all one big world you explore.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)