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Zareth posted...

Mystic Quest isn't a shitty game. People are just pissed that it isn't a mainline FF game.

Was going to say this.

It was basically designed to be Baby's First RPG for people who weren't RPG fans, as a sort of simple gateway into the genre. It does a fine job of that. It's just that it came out after Final Fantasy 2 (IV) and had the Final Fantasy brand name on it, so for the most part the only people who played it were already Final Fantasy fans, and they all hated it for being way simpler than FF2/FFIV.

And the weebier people who knew about the Japanese market hated it because it seemed like it was the reason why the US wasn't going to get Final Fantasy V. And because it seemed like another example of the Japanese going "Ehh, Americans suck and can't handle hard games, better give them something dumbed down" like they did with FFIV and Super Mario Bros 2.

It also had more of a Seiken Densetsu vibe. So it was closer to "Final Fantasy Adventure" (which is what they released the first Seiken Densetsu/Mana game as in the US, just like they released the first few SaGa games as Final Fantasy Legend) than it was Final Fantasy.

If they hadn't put "Final Fantasy" on it, it probably would have sold far fewer copies, but been much better reviewed.