Tales of Symphonia- Magnius (Mania)

Mania completely changes the way you play. Even standard fights can be long and challenging and deplete your reserves of Orange Gels you're popping off on your magic users; even at Lv 20+ the fights with the four member team encounters in this ranch the battles would last until the battle song looped basically. Every choice matters and all your resources count. A lot of the ranches figure out a way to handicap your team for the battle against the boss and this one does it by giving you another team battle to get through; they also make it tedious for you to go back and heal up fully, so either you use your items or just... don't. You see me using Melange Gels in this battle, depleting my entire reserve of them, and that's not even because I'm healing anyone up, it's because that was my way of topping off the TP on Genis and Raine, which had been depleted during this dungeon!! The battle with Magnius was made fun and a little tense due to the dangers Mania introduced with the battle. Raine unfortunately took a wallop right near the end, more than I care to see her taking, but the only Life Bottle used in Mania so far remains the one used on Genis in the first Sword Dancer battle. It's been a good play, I've been proud.