Children of Mana is a 2006 action role-playing game for the Nintendo DS
handheld console. It was developed by Square Enix and Nex Entertainment,
and published by Square Enix and Nintendo. It is the sixth game of the
Mana series and the first entry in the World of Mana subseries. Set in a
high fantasy universe, Children of Mana follows one of four young heroes
as they combat an invasion of monsters and learn about the cataclysmic
event that killed their families. Both the main plot and side-quests
require the player to fight through dungeons and defeat boss monsters
before returning to the central Mana Village. Like many of its
predecessors, the game features a local cooperative multiplayer
component. Children of Mana was designed by series creator Koichi Ishii,
directed by Yoshiki Ito, and produced by Takashi Orikata and Katsuji
Aoyama. The game was a moderate commercial success: it sold 100,000
copies in its first week of release, and over 280,000 copies in Japan by
the end of 2006. While critics praised the graphics and music as
beautiful and unique, they found the combat simplistic and repetitive,
and the story insubstantial.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Mana>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1161:
A Song dynasty fleet defeated Jin dynasty ships in a naval
engagement on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Caishi>
1805:
The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the longest and highest aqueduct in
Great Britain, opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontcysyllte_Aqueduct>
1922:
Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people to
enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV62>
1942:
The film Casablanca (poster pictured), starring Humphrey Bogart
and Ingrid Bergman, premiered at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City
to coincide with the Allied invasion of North Africa and the capture of
Casablanca.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_(film)>
2011:
NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory mission from Cape
Canaveral, with the Curiosity rover aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dzud:
A summer drought followed by a severe winter, generally causing serious
loss of livestock.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dzud>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that
has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the
country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor,
is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of
freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked
out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High
God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless
remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be
solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and
one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow
citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at
sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and
observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and
Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
--Abraham Lincoln
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln>