<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>In Final Fantasy Adventure you start off fighting that goofy beast that's easy as cake, and get the backstory.
In Sword of Mana, you can pick a boy or gril game, I picked the boy, and a flashback ensued showing the boy playing some instrument or something. Anyways, as it countinues you go home to see Dark Lord, YES, Dark Lord, that's his name, as if that's not a huge hint that he's evil. Anyway, he's trying to get into your house believing that you're harboring fugitives, you enter the house through the back, blah blah blah, you meet the girl, and then you escape, you get caught, she flees, and then you're in a dungeon about to fight as a gladiator years later, after waking up from a dream(The flashback).
In Final Fantasy Adventure You fight the monster then run out, a big dark guy catches you and pushes you off a cliff.
In Sword of Mana, you fight the monster, act like you support 'Dark Lord' and then walk out, you're at a bridge celebrating your freedom with your commrade Wily when Dark Lord shows up with soldiers, he offers you to join his heretic hunters, you refuse try to attack him, and get smacked over the waterfall.
Pretty much the same so far, kinda, with a little extra stuff. When you meet the girl, she wasn't being escorted by anybody like in the original, and she can also fight. Topple is the first village, then Wendal, there's a couple new characters here and there, the world is bigger as well.
Feel free to ask about the game, I like it so far.</div>