This is a copy of a page from a guy named "Nightshade", that disappeared from the web around 2005. I couldn't stand that, and brought it back alive.
You know you've been playing too much Secret of Mana when:
- You eat only candy and chocolate to restore your health.
- You use Salamando's Lava Wave to cook your dinner.
- You use Undine's Freeze instead of the freezer to freeze your food.
- You use Luna's Change From to change your brother/sister to another type of creature.
- You think that every earthquake is the next comming of Tropcallo.
- You try to use the moggle belt of your friends.
- You think that your friend is a spy for the Empire.
- You use resistance tunnels to move from one town to another.
- You stop off at information and ask where the nearest cannon travel center is.
- You stand at the bus stop wating for a white dragon to pick you up.
- You think that every dark cloud has a Mana Fortress.
- You name your dog Purim
- You buy your groceries from a giant cat thing
- "You'd rather have your gums scraped!"
- You only sleep at inns
- You start a "Save the Mana Beast" club
- You like to "wack" things
- For some reason, you can't move when you hold a balloon
- You use Lumina instead of lightbulbs
- You know what the heck a "Shadow Zero" is
- Whenever you see cow skulls in cartoons you cry and scream "They killed Watts!"
- Whenever you see a Jack-O-Lantern, you scream
- You take a dragon to school instead of the bus
- You think Tropicallo is a real person
- You refuse to eat mushrooms because you cry and say,"They're people too!"
- You take up Japanese so you can play Seiken Densetsu 3
- You spend your afternoons searching for sword orbs.
- You constantly have your computer hooked up to this site.
- You have a wardrobe full of barrels
You eat peanutbutter& royal jam
- You've killed your evil twin
- You've memorized the Mana Fortress
- Truffles make you sick
- You've been rescued(or rescued someone)from being eaten by Goblins
- You fall in love with the sprite.
- Your whole community says ".......".
- You try to get Watts to forge your pen.
- You think your mom is a tree.
- You built a scale model of the water palace in your pool.
- You don't have a cat; you have a moogle.
- You think bee stings explode.
- Your truck is towing a sand ship.
- Your best friend and boyfriend disapear.
- You own a veedio cassette player.
- You have mushroomphobea.
- All you ever eat is choclate, candy, jam, and herbs.
- Tropicallo caused the Northridge quake.
- You still believe in Santa Clause and his Mana seed.
- Shade lives in your closet.
- You cut your food with an axe.
- You know people with naturally blue hair.
- You are good with the boomerang.
- You own a javelin.
- You find yourself singing the Dwarf Village song in public....
- ...and you don't care.
- Your cat has spikes.
- You think you are the legendary knight.
- You play the game so much, you can't remember what a real tree looks like.
- These are not funny to you.
- You plan to name your child Sylphid.
- You wear a tiger bikini around the house.
- When you die you turn clear.
- The wall in your room has a face on it.
- You see C3PO on Star Wars and think he's one of the Boys.
- You aspire to become a member of the Scorpion Army when you grow up.
- You want your allowance in GP.
- You try to get to Level 99 killing Rabites before the Mantis Ant.
- You actually succeed.
- You write a page called "You know you've been playing too much Secret of Mana if..."
- You keep watching the sky and swearing you see Mana Beasts.
- You keep watching big orbs expecting to see recordings from the past.
- You get in a fight and expect little numbers to appear.
- You stand under a waterfall and hope to get cured.
- You open every stove you see looking for Salamando.
- You have the Level 9 sword. And you didn't cheat.
- You found a good reason to use the "Evil Gate" spell.
- You whack every gray and pink flower you see.
- Your SoM cartridge has been used so long it's melting.
- You actually know what a Shadow Zero is.
- You go crossing a desert looking for the Sandship.
- After spending a night in a Holiday Inn, you ask to save your game.
- You try to trade with your cat.
- You REFUSE to trade with your cat because his prices are double normal prices.
- When on a boat, you ask why it's going over water.
- If you don't ask that, you ask if you're going to the Moon Palace.
- You play Secret of Mana more than eating, sleeping, and going outside, combined.
- You fear people will turn into Aegagropilons.
- You can PRONOUNCE Aegagropilon.
- You beat the Mana Beast. Without Mana Magic.
- You won't open a treasure chest because you think it's a trap.
- You won't open a treasure chest because you think it's a Mimic Box.
- You've discovered how Neko and Watts can teleport like they do.
- You expect to see a Robin Foot named Karon in a boat.
- You have seen every level 9 spell animation in the game.
- You go around asking people to give you a new name.
- You're late for work because you forgot your drum.
- You start your very own Mana tribe.
- You put 50 cents in a pop machine hoping a red haired sprite will come out when you push the "Sprite" button.
- You claim the traveling by cannon is safer than traveling by car.
- When you see lightning you wonder if someone is casting Sylphid's thunderbolt spell.
- You try to coax your Mom into buying only candy and chocolate for you lunch. You say it recovers your health.
- You whack your little brother over his head with your Dad's hammer to see if he'd become pygmized.
- You wonder if Square created an alternate "Mana" universe when they created the game.
- You claim the Boy, Girl, and Sprite are real people; they're just hiding.
- You feel sorry for the frog you're going to dissect in Biology so you give it a cup of wishes (actually a plain old cup with water in it) hoping to revive it.
- You search for the tropical paradise in the South Pole that Salamando is keeping warm.
- You wonder why the USA's currency isn't gold pieces.
- You swear the old man across the street is the elder from the wind palace. He calls you "Tyke"
- When you learn about Jaques Custo (spelling?) in school you quickly shout out in class that he is a bird man that lives on the Lofty Mountians.
You cry every time you see the end of the game. (which was about 1000!! _)
- You wonder why the dining room chairs in your house don't hop around like Elieen's. They look EXACTLY alike!
- You try to cast Analyzer on the Test Key at school to find out all the answers.
- You cast Speed Up on yourself hoping you can run The Mile, in gym class, in 2 min flat!
- You only carry 4 of any item at a time.
- When you want to use an item you arrange your belongings in a circle around you.
- You go to a toy store and by a drum and play it and hope you will see flammie!!!!
- You start beating your dog, saying that it's a Heck Hound.
- You glue feathers to your dog and train it to come to you when you bang a drum.
- You refuse to drink anything but Sprite.
- You carry the Secret of Mana instruction manual with you everywhere because it says inside, "You must take this book with you as you travel".
- When you go into a shop and talk to the person behind the counter, you expect a ring of items to appear above your head.
- When you have no money, you go out and find something to kill.
- You believe that eating walnuts gives you magic powers.
- You believe that you can bring a dead person back to life by taking them to an inn.
- You insist on calling it "Seiken Densetsu" rather than "Secret of Mana", even though you can't pronounce it.
- You never go out unless you're armed to the teeth with ancient weaponry.
- You never go out, period.
- All your friends ask why there's a sword sheath hanging off the end of your bed.
- You go into a clothes store and ask for a Midge Robe.
- You always carry a rope so that if you get lost, you can teleport back home.
- You buy a pet salamander and try to teach it to spit fire.
- You walk into houses without knocking and start talking to people.
- When you're caught attacking small, fluffy, long-eared creatures in the woods, you say, "But someone said they were Rabites!"
- You jump on yellow spacehoppers, expecting to be catapulted into the air.
- You understand Moogle language.
- You meet two children pretending to be married, and you think they mean it.
- You claim to know someone who is 200 years old.
- You insist there is no such thing as "playing too much Secret of Mana".
- You're already getting Secret of Mana withdrawal symptoms because you're reading this and not playing it.
- Your name is the same as one of the mana heros.
- You think you are one of the mana heros.
- You feel sorry to any guy named Randi because he can't use magic.
- You find a rusty sword and think, "I am a mana hero" or "Oh great im goin ta get kicked out of my home".
- You refuse to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Your controller has the "A" worren out, and it's not the first time or the third.
- When you realize that 'when you know what a Shadow Zero is' is on here twice!
- You start working your allies voices.
- You play everyday till you beat it
- You use sprite's magic to kill an enemy, and all u say die until it dies.
- The game works a character and that character gets stuck and can't move, and you yell at it.
- You yell out, "Where do I go?".......expecting to get an answer.
- One of your characters gets hurt, and you yell ouch! or ow!
- You use earthslide, and yell kaboom! when it hits the enemy.
- You go to a SoM website and print everything out.
- You know all of the enemies names.
- You know which enemy hurts you the most.
- You take the time to write more You've had too much Secret of Mana when.
- (continued fron 33) You think.......who eats Truffles anyway?
- A character speaks, you read what they say out loud and you change voices for every character.
- You yell at the enemies.
- You ask where you are supposed to go out loud.........
- ......and you actully get an answer.
- One of your allies dies, and you think it's funny.
- You're scared that books are going to come flying at you and attack you.
- You call people pigs and chickens instead or cows cause you don't want to offend Watts.
- You call the Lucent Beam Lucy Beam cause you think it sounds better.
- You've read this list more than once
- You email Nightshade telling her more "Too much mana" ideas
- You know every bosses weakness without using Analyzer
- All 3 people in your party have every weapon at level 8
- Your TV is never off 'cuz you're playing SoM so much...
- ...and your PC is never off either because you are constantly linked to at least on SoM site
- You memorize every stat in the game for every boss and enemy, AND how many exp. you need to go to each level
- When you start thinking that a new ring will boost your defense
- You start a petition to Save the White Dragons.
- You begin to wonder if the largest tree in your neighbourhood is the Mana Tree.
- You go looking in little rivers and creeks looking for a rusty sword in a stone.
- At the scene of an accident, you try to use a cup to revive people back to health.
- You start wondering if the people in the government are in league with the Underworld.
- During a fight, you try to cast Lucid Barrier to ward off attacks.
- You wonder why the power of Mana isn't taught in schools.
- You try to figure out where the Upperland is so that you can visit the Sprite and Moogle villages.
- You hope your parents don't find the rusty sword that's hidden in your room.
- You welcome everyone by saying "Matango".
- You keep bugging your parents to buy you a pet Rabite.
- When people say Man on the Moon you correct them by saying, "No, that's Luna!"
- You try to shoot yourself out of a cannon...
- ...and it works!
- You dye your cat's hair purple.
- You think on Halloween everyone wearing a skull mask is Thanatos.
- You can give help to others after not playing the game for months.
- You know the script by heart.
You've fallen in love with a game character. Any game character. -
- You think up a way to make Lumina create gold for you.
- You can come up with items for this list!
- Every plane you see you first mistake as the Mana Fortress.
- You think that your local park is the Pureland.
- You try to climb to the top of Mount Everest to visit Sage Joch.
- You dye your hair to match your favourite character's hair.
- You make your very own Secret of Mana website.
- You do any kind of fan art or fanfiction about the game.
- You think that an old worn out blanket is a faerie cloak.
- The only thing you can live for is for the Seiken Densetsu series to be rereleased since your own games have broken from overuse.
- 1 to 10 are by Adrian Lane
- 11 is by Josh Painter
- 12 to 34 are by Jabberwocky
- 35 to 63 are by Mad Hatter
- 64 to 93 are by Jay
- 94 is by AK64
- 95 is by Liana
- 96 is by LinkXBond
- 97 to 113 are by Nichole
114 and 115 are by logana@aol.com
- 116 is by insanebox_99
- 117 is by Spring Beak
- 118 to 139 are by Riesz Fenrir
- 140 to 145 are by Duran of Forcena
- 146 is by Emerald Dragon #7
147 to 166 are by SoMgurl002014 and Blinkgirl928
- 167 to 173 are by Matt28282828
- 174 is by Stephen
- The rest are by Nightshade.
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