Nice review! I enjoyed reading it. Secret of Mana is for sure a little different take on the action/RPG genre that introduced some elements that weren't common in the genre.

I will say though that the Genesis already had a big following for RPG's at the time when RPG's started getting popular on the SNES.

I guess it's an okay review, but it felt top-heavy if you know what I mean, like after the first bit your paragraphs became shorter and less detailed. Now when you mentioned graphics I don't really understand why you dislike the numbers and letters looking the same unless you mean 0 looks like a O or 1 looks like and l and so on, perhaps describing what you mean would help readers understand. Next you mentioned nostalgia in the sound category, what about it gives you the nostalgia factor? Do you remember the music from when you were younger or was it the fact it reminded you of something. So again you need to explain this. I get where your coming from with the grinding so I'll give you that, but the thing with RPGs is it can be hard to make sure the difficulty remains but not making it grind to much so I wouldn't say it was too bad there. I myself have played this game and I will say the story is pretty average for a Square RPG. So really I wouldn't say much about it either. Anyway you practically mentioned the majority of things for depth and what I really want to mention is how you said the difficulty can be irritating, I in-fact have to disagree with you here. I found it easy to control and quite enjoyable.

So all in all it was a reasonable good review, perhaps next time you can explain your feeling of nostalgia or your irritation so that the review will be fully complete. Good job anyway and keep the good work up.