Connecting with him Xbox Tokyo Game Show 2024 broadcast, Microsoft introduced some surprising additions to Game Pass on Thursday: classic Square Enix RPGs Legend of Mana AND Mana Trialssurreal roll-em-up We love Katamariand a cute and fun looking up-to-date co-op game called All you need is assist are now available.
It was also revealed that the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series, consisting of the first six Final Fantasy games, is finally coming to Xbox — but it’s not included in Game Pass rewards, you will have to buy it.
The selection of up-to-date Game Pass add-ons is certainly Legend of Mana AND We love Katamari — two crazy, in-depth reverse engineering analyses that deserve an immediate spot on your download list.
Legend of Mana is a unique action RPG from 1999. The fourth game in the Mana series, it features a boldly open, non-linear structure that allows for the generation of regions and quests during gameplay. Criticized at the time for not having as forceful a story as the 1993 SNES classic The Secret of Mananow it seems ahead of its time. It’s a fascinating curiosity worth checking out in this faithful 2D remaster, up-to-date to Xbox today.
Mana Trialswhich has never been released outside of Japan before, is a sequel to the 1995 The Secret of Mana — but the version added to Game Pass is the 2020 3D remake, which received mixed reviews.
We love Katamari comes to Game Pass in a refreshed version: We love Katmari Reroll + Royal Reverieto give it a comprehensive full title. It is a sequel to the 2005 Katamari Damagecreated — somewhat against his will — by original creator Keita Takahashi. But Takahashi’s ambivalence about the project comes through in the game in unexpected, self-referential, and delightful ways, as the Prince struggles to meet the screaming demands of fans by wandering the world and rolling up giant balls of the stuff. If anything, We love Katamari is even better than the indelible Katamari Damage.
At last, All you need is assist is a up-to-date cooperative slapstick puzzle game from Q-Games, developer of the PixelJunk series. Four player-controlled fluffy cubes work together — or at least try to work together — to do things like arrange tetrominoes or kick a soccer ball into a goal. It looks really cold.
All of these games are available on Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC via Game Pass — except We love Katamariwhich is available exclusively on the Game Pass console.
