* Video games: Secret of Mana and its successor Secret of Evermore ( where the menu was used to accelerate the pacing of combat ), Seiken Densetsu 3, America's Army 3, Habitat, Beyond Good & Evil, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Neverwinter Nights, Normality, The Sims, Perfect Dark, Planescape: Torment, Sacrifice, Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Second Life, Battlefield 2, Freedom Fighters, Ratchet & Clank, Silver, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Crysis, Mass Effect, Warzone 2100, Halo Wars, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, Max Payne 3, Trauma Center, Brütal Legend, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Dragon Age: Origins, Prototype, Cortex Command, Imperium Romanum

Square has also made other widely known games such as Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Secret of Mana, Legend of Mana, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve 2, Saga Frontier, Romancing Saga, Vagrant Story, Kingdom Hearts ( done in collaboration with Disney Interactive ), and Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars ( done under the guidance of Shigeru Miyamoto ).

* Secret of Mana

Over the next two years, he created sound effects for Hanjuku Hero, Final Fantasy V, Secret of Mana and Romancing SaGa 2.

* Secret of Mana ( 1993 )

The series began as a handheld side story to Square's flagship franchise Final Fantasy, though most Final Fantasy-inspired elements were subsequently dropped, starting with the second installment, Secret of Mana.

The Mana series reception has been very uneven, with Secret of Mana earning wide acclaim, such as being rated 78th in IGN's yearly " Top 100 Games of All Time ", and being highly praised for its musical score, while the games from the World of Mana series have been rated considerably lower.

Beginning with Secret of Mana, Seiken Densetsu was subsequently " spun off " into its own series of action role-playing games distinct from Final Fantasy, with four titles released between and.

Some consider the peak was reached with the translation of Seiken Densetsu 3 ( sequel to Secret of Mana ), a title that was highly desirable to RPG players and also very difficult to translate on a technical basis.

* Undine, one of the mana sprits representing water in Secret of Mana

Secret of Mana is an action role-playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System developed and published by Square in 1993.

Secret of Mana is the sequel to Final Fantasy Adventure for the Game Boy and the second installment in the Mana video game series.

Rather than using the traditional turn-based battle system of games like Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana utilizes real-time battles akin to the Legend of Zelda series, while also employing typical role-playing elements and a unique " Ring Command " menu system, which pauses the action, and allows a variety of actions to be performed without needing to switch screens.

Like many other role-playing games of the 16-bit era, Secret of Mana displays a top-down perspective, in which three player characters — the hero, the girl, and the sprite — navigate the terrain and fight off hostile creatures.

Magic in Secret of Mana operates in much the same way as weapon skill progression, with the exception that magic points are consumed each time a spell is cast.

Original SNES designs of the main protagonists of Secret of Mana

Secret of Mana was directed and designed by Koichi Ishii.

Because this would not work with Final Fantasy IV, he turned to Secret of Mana.

The real-time battle system used in Secret of Mana is described by its creators as an extension of the battle system used in the first three flagship Final Fantasy titles.

Secret ballots were introduced, and a bicameral parliament was elected on 9 March 1857, by which time 109, 917 people lived in the province.

From October 1784 to September 1786 he was employed by Nepean, who was in charge of the Secret Service relating to the Bourbon Powers, France and Spain, to spy on the French naval arsenals at Toulon and other ports.

Kirk had long believed that the local Doon Hill, was the gateway to the " Secret Commonwealth ", or the land of the Fairies.

Gromley said he was told the details of the bomb plot by Louis Merletti, a former director of the Secret Service.

Not until F. W. Winterbotham's book The Ultra Secret was published in 1974 did ex-Bletchley Park staff feel free to reveal something of their wartime work.

Only then was it sent out to the Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ), the intelligence chiefs in the relevant ministries, and later on to high-level commanders in the field.

The " X " denotes the Roman numeral " ten ", as this was the tenth such station to be opened by the Secret Intelligence Service.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.

In 1980, the gag-based comedy Airplane !, a spoof of the previous decade's disaster film series was released and paved the way for more of the same including Top Secret!

A notable publication is Kris Dhillon's book The Curry Secret, which was first published in 1989 but has been reprinted as recently as 2008.

Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, recalled that when he asked Lu Weidong, a teacher at the party school in Yan ' an, why this is the case, Lu responded that the idea of the party having its own website was " redundant " and that " All the important media is owned by the Party, so we have no need to set up a website.

* Another reason given in the 1987 story " The Secret Revealed " was the public simply does not know that Superman has a secret identity, considering he does not wear a mask, which implies to most that he has nothing to hide.

In a prelude to the Secret Invasion storyline, Professor X was at the meeting of the Illuminati when it came to the discussion about the Skrulls planning an invasion by taking out Earth's heroes and posing as them.

Under the act, Eisenhower was entitled to receive a lifetime pension, state-provided staff and a Secret Service detail.

It starred Patrick McGoohan of Danger Man / Secret Agent and The Prisoner fame in the title role and was directed by James Neilson.

Cover art for paperback edition of The Secret of Saturn's Rings ( 1966 ) Wollheim's first story, " The Man from Ariel ," was published in the January 1934 issue of Wonder Stories when he was nineteen.

The new album was edited down from double album to a single disc and released as Secret Messages in 1983.

Although Secret Messages debuted at number four in the United Kingdom, it fell off the charts, failing to catch fire with a lack of hit singles in the U. K. ( though " Rock ' n ' Roll Is King " was a sizeable hit in UK, the US and Australia ) and a lukewarm media response.

The most successful of the first wave was Maximum Speed, which successfully captured the frenetic world of a mod revival scene that was propelling bands like Secret Affair, Purple Hearts and The Chords into the UK charts.

This " Disneyfied " image of the gnome was built upon by the illustrated children's book classic The Secret Book of Gnomes ( 1976 ), in the original Dutch Leven en werken van de Kabouter.

The Secret Gospel of Mark refers to a version of the Gospel of Mark being circulated in 2nd century Alexandria, which was kept from the Christian community at large.

The Gestapo (; abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, " Secret State Police ") was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.