Trials of Mana is the latest JRPG that Square Enix released. The game uses the Denuvo anti-tamper tech and surprisingly enough, the Japanese company released a demo of it on Steam. However, it appears that pirates could bypass and play the full game via this demo. And, as you may have guessed, this forced Square Enix to completely remove it.
The demo of Trials of Mana allowed you to play a respectable section of the game. And, as pirates have discovered, it was possible to use the demo files in order to play the full version. This bypass worked flawlessly, which is why Square Enix removed the demo from Steam.
It will be interesting to see whether the Japanese company will re-release the Trials of Mana demo. It will also be interesting to see whether it will fix the exploit in order to prevent pirates from playing the full version.
Square Enix has not commented on whether the demo will re-appear on Steam. It’s worth noting that something similar happened with the PC demo of Detroit: Become Human. And while it took Quantic Dream a couple of weeks, its demo is now – once again – available on Epic Games Store.
Stay tuned for more!
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Square Enix are the geniuses that released a 100% free game with Denuvo tacked on, so no blunder from them surprises me. Shame people are still giving them money…
It doesn’t work “flawlessly”, everyone crashes at a certain spot and new game + is impossible.
“Can the full game be played to completion with the bypass?”
“Yes, but no NG+ or 4th class because it crashes at the end credits.”
anyway it doesnt matter now that its removed you can no longer authorize a denuvo token on your pc to play it.
Now that i care i dont like jrpgs.
Its just funny though how they fck up so badly.
Oh, SquareEnix incompetence strikes again? It must be Tuesday…
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unity sucks
Its built from Unreal you fcking clown
We got the backup, thx Square Enix and f you and your malware Denuvo
Too late already available on skidrow 🙂
This was the best rpg of the snes era in my opinion. It’s f*king epic. I played the demo and it’s a actual 1 to 1 port. Very f*king cool