I'm actually working on reviewing Adventures of Mana for GamerDad.com!  It's kind of weird, this is the second time Square has remade Final Fantasy Adventure on the Game Boy.  The first was Sword of Mana on the GBA.  But that was really more of a reimagining as it had two playable characters and a more convoluted storyline, etc.  Adventures of Mana is a more direct remake.  In fact, you could probably use an old strategy guide for Final Fantasy Adventure and it would work for this game.  I do kind of wish it were more like Sword of Mana in some ways.  The old sprite-based graphics had more personality.

I'm debating picking up this or Grand Kingdom.  Grand Kingdom is more expensive game though. However, it looks SOO good to me.  I've been reading reviews and stuff and it seems right up my strategy RPG alley.  Either way, I'll let u know!

I actually juat got finished reviewing Grand Kindgom!  It'll post on the GamerDad site in a week or so.  I actually liked it a lot more than I thought I would.  Even though it's a strategy RPG, the battles have some action to them, too, and were a lot of fun. Plus I liked some of the character designs.

cool, Cary, I look forward to your review!

I heard about this on my podcasts. Looks good. I've always wanted to play the Mana series.