Secret of Mana remake announced!

From everything I've been seeing, it looks like local co-op is what they are going for. No mention of online play yet.

Also, in all of the gameplay videos, the remake looks EXTREMELY faithful to the SNES game. ....even down to the animation calls and 'sprite' placements. It's most noticeable in the scene with Elliot in front of the Elder's house before Randi falls into the Mantis Ant den. Compare it to the original. Movement patterns and animation calls are all identical. Either this team had an insane goal of re-creating the game piece by piece, or they may be running the SNES or IOS Rom as part of the engine. (like FF6 Steam/IOS does with the FF6A rom)

The voice acting itself isn't terrible, but it is super jarring because there are no facial animations, and the dialogue itself READS better than it sounds. (a problem I find most translated rpg's with voice acting face, honestly.)

I AM super disappointed in the map design, though. I always envisioned a re-make going more with Shinichi Kameoka's designs (ie: Legend of Mana, Sword of Mana). The new landscapes are kind of generic and texturally boring. They sort of scream basic "Gamecube polygons" to me. They aren't ugly... it's just... I would have liked a bit more whimsy.