Is this worth playing or is it garbage like everyone says? I enjoyed Final Fantasy 4, is it similar?

Are you bill fucking gates? If you have time to make a shitty thread here then you have time to play it and find out.

>>11870928 (OP)
it's garbage

>>11870937
Making a question thread takes less than a minute and finishing an RPG is a 30+ hour ordeal.

>>11870928 (OP)
It's a perfectly functional JRPG with some charming elements. It's also basic and restrictive. If you want that then maybe it's worth playing; if you don't then it probably isn't. It doesn't feel very much like a real FF game and if you go into it wanting another FF4 then you'll probably be disappointed.

>>11870928 (OP)
Its a game intended for mouth breathing americans and retards who think "entry level games" exist. The fact that you made this thread and cant think for yourself means you might enjoy it, try it out.

>expected Final Fantasy "II" (SNES) sequel
>got Super Mario RPG's rough proof-of-concept

>>11870960
>I dont know whether I like it or not until I force myself to play the entire game
retard.
also, this is like a 10 hour game at best. it's babby's first jrpg. by design.

>>11870928 (OP)
Its proto FFV.
It used Butz sprite and is very lighthearted adventure.
If you liked 4 for its Melodrama then MQ might not be for you.

>>11871012
listen dipshit sometimes games start off terrible and then it gets good, sometimes it's just terrible, this is especially true with RPGs. I'm asking a genuine question if people think this is a good game and you're adding nothing to this conversation.

>>11871023
yeah but you didnt say anything about playing a few hours and making up your mind. you acted like your choices were to play the entire thing or not play it.
and I most definitely have contributed to the conversation, I told you its a short babby jrpg designed to be someone's first experience with the genre. sorry you're so butthurt that you missed that.

I mean its alright like..

If anything listen to the OST, its easily one of the best ever made

It's fine. It's not really badly designed, but since it was designed to be a really entrylevel introductory game, it's also a very easy game.
Honestly, it's a well made game even, and it has nice graphics and great music, but the fact that it's so easy makes it offputting to some people, and I get that, but you literally were not the target audience.

Arguably, the design intent of Mystic Quest was kind of misguided, but it advertises on the fucking box to be welcoming for beginners, what else would you expect?

>>11870960
If you have ever played any JRPG or similar kind of game before, such a say, Pokémon, you should be able to easily beat this game in maybe 10 hours of play at most. It's extremely easygoing and forgiving, and there's really not that much exploring or side stuff, getting stuck is unlikely.

>>11870970
>It's also basic and restrictive.
Good way of putting it, the worldmap is even on rails.
As far as babby's first JRPG goes, Pokémon mostly did a much better job with better world and gameplay.

>>11871023
It's competent, but very easy. There's no real bad design anywhere, it maintains its design and production quality from start to finish, which is to say that things are overall decent. Playing it for one hour should give you an idea on if you'd like to play the rest or not, and either way you'd come away thinking the music was good.

It’s babbified slop for incompetent western insects too busy raising their wife’s son to play a real jarpig, that’s why it’s called Final Fantasy USA

>>11870928 (OP)
>Is this worth playing
nah.
>Is it garbage like everyone says
Nope.
>Is it similar to FF4
Absolutely not.

weird and charming game that is just ok.
really great music for some reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZOQ8sLO-vU
for some reason Phoebe has been stuck in my head forever.

>>11870928 (OP)
It's a fun little distraction. It's also really easy until you get to the final boss. Luckily, you can cheese him pretty easily.

in a genre that is mostly mashing thru battles (i say that as a fan) this is one of the worst offenders and since its so basic it can feel like a slog. i havent played it in probably 15 years or more but if i did again i would probably use emulator speed up

>>11871179
The music is the best aspect of it, but even that is eclipsed by the same composer's music for Rudra no Hihou, which is faaaar more ambitious. Might as well listen to it though, since it's pretty short. (Rudra no Hihou's soundtrack goes on for like two hours, which is pretty huge by SNES standards.)

>>11870928 (OP)
The only emotes the hero has is stretching when he gets out of bed and an annoyed shrug. There’s not a lot of plot or personality going on

play Final Fantasy legends instead.

>>11870928 (OP)
I like it. Soundtrack is a banger. Its final fantasy for adhd retards.

>>11873667
Probably why I took to it a lot as a little dipshit (aside from the cool music and fun graphics), I was too retarded back then for most other JRPGs.

>>11872116
I hear that those are supposed to be pretty good.

>>11873756
>I hear that those are supposed to be pretty good.

I played the first one recently and found it to be fun and interesting. It was fairly simple, as one would expect of a Game Boy game that starts a new series, but not in an annoying way like how Mystic Quest was. I intend to play the others.

>>11870928 (OP)
Pure gruel overrated by yanks, just like Final Fantasy 6 and 7.
It was basically the alternative release of FFV for babies or FFL Jr.

>>11874257
>FFV
FFV is leagues above MQ and is in no way comparable. They are completely different.

>>11870928 (OP)
i hate how that looks like a monkey

I like it because you have cute girls in your party and they can be petrified. Plus the music is great and the Woolsey writing is funny.

>>11874579
>Woolsey
Holy shit...Is this the LAST Woolsey game? The one that doesn't have 50,000 retranslocalization ROM hacks?!
Fame and fortune awaits me yet! DIE Woolsey, die die die!

All I remember about Mystic Quest is Benjamin's iconic shrug

>>11873756
Me too. I cannot enjoy more than two fighters to handle in round based combat. Thats why pokemon is cool.

>>11871229
I loved how the enemies had their sprite's change when they've taken damage. I don't think any other FFs or jrpgs at the time have done this.

Definitely worth it.

It's a beginner rpg with awesome ost

>>11870943
Music is 11/10 though.

>>11870928 (OP)
It's called Final Fantasy American in Japan. If you're American, that means you have to play it.

Best FF music on the SNES BTW, and the maps are peak. It's as if they made a NES JRPG on the SNES, only without the bank and with great sound and graphics.

>>11874587
>Fame and fortune awaits me yet!
90% of these weebtastic nimrods are delusional enough to think stealing wikifluff and mtling bs gives them a pass because that can't possibly make them worse than Woolsey.

>>11870928 (OP)
It's fun, I can't add much the others in this thread didn't already, but it's a simple rpg with an almost Zelda twist of getting items used to traverse dungeons that can also be used in battles. You get a revolving door cast of helpers that are neat and keep the battles somewhat fresh. It's not hard at all, just keep that in mind. Music is great, the graphics have nice touches like near death sprites for all enemies, and it's a short play time if you're worried about investing too much time. It's pretty consistent in it's fun and quality the whole way through, try an hour and you'll know if you're gonna enjoy it or not.

>>11874587
Thank fuck Legends of Localization didn't cover Mystic Quest, and it's perceived as a "USA" game anyway so it makes subhuman weeboid eyes glaze over.

>>11870928 (OP)
It's boring as shit if you have even half a brain cell working.

>>11874257
>Actually 6 and 7 are bad and only SaShit and 5 are good!
You retards are so tiring.

>>11874587
Nah, Mystic Quest is safe.
>no game-specific editor
>no interest from weebs (including LoL) since it's the great-satan gaijin game
>Ted Woolsey has his name credited even in the Japanese version (only other game that did this was SMRPG, which was made as a take-two of the 'beginner's-RPG' idea)
>Ted Woolsey's writing style works really well with lighthearted games
There might be some obscure hex-hack out there that simply swaps the names around but no one wants to do a full text edit of the 'for-USA' game. I'm pretty sure there's a good reason it doesn't exist as far as I know.

>all the death to anime ITT
stop it you guys are making me wanna play it
i always avoided it because i heard it was way too ez.
but if itll piss weebs off i might give it a go and make gay b8 threads about how its the greatest jarpig ever made and ted woolsey is an avatar for christ

>>11876313
>>11876334
I'm a weeb and I like MQ for what it is, I don't think it's bad.

the fact you guys are so obsessed and hyper involved with translation arguments that you know the name of the irellevant white guy from a handful of game localizations and treat it as important gaming history is insane.

>>11876354
As Waifu is my Witness and Pocky is my Sword, I shall strike down at the blackened heart of Ted Woolsey, Enemy of Japstice, and all of otakukind will then gaze upon my accolades!
we'll get right next time. don't forget to donate to my coffeejar and subscribe to my socials. we'll get right next time.

I'm so tired of pretending Blaustein wasn't worse than Woolsey in every way.
>every time you ask someone what's wrong with Woolsey, 8/10 they point to stuff that had to be changed due to NOA standards or miniscule shit that came about due to either working with unfinished scripts, ridiculous limitations, or both
>his work is well-liked to the point even Japanese adapt it and language-students use it for English studies; Blaustein routinely gets the original creatives mad at him when they find out about his overreaching after the fact
>SotN fantranslation is actually good; every fanwork of a game touched by Woolsey is typically filled to the brim with back-stabbing, in-fighting, wiki-stealing, and autistic-screeching
I'm so glad Super Mario RPG remake proved that only bare essentials are required in modern day, so many people thought they were going to Slatterize it and got BTFO'd.
Anyway Mystic Quest is kinda dull but it's the stepping stone towards Super Mario RPG so I can't complain.

>>11876334
>i always avoided it because i heard it was way too ez.

Well it's a JRPG so yeah it's that, but what else would you expect? It also explicitly places grinding spots on the world map - and they are optional, if I remember correctly - and it doesn't have a random encounter system. AND it's relatively short as JRPGs go. So it's not much of an investment to play through. It's not like one of those old JRPGs that expect you to tolerate endless battles while mapping giant, samey dungeon mazes. This game uses simple puzzles to flesh out its dungeons, rather than confusingly branching paths.

>>11870928 (OP)
it's extremely basic, but highly comfy

>>11879085
You know what? It really is comfy, and maybe that's what I need at the moment to put my mind of some things, a short and quick JRPG romp with gnarly music for me to plow through.

>>11871023
If you can't tell within a hour (or 2 at most) then you're a retard

>Appears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmBj8dyvpuQ

>>11871556
phoebe is a cute, wish you could romance her

>>11876354
there's like two or three guys who are probably from the farms that shit up every thread that so much mentions him in passing, it's so fuckin ridiculous. that said, it's not hard to know his name at least when he's in the credits man.

>>11876379
why leave the painted on eyebrows?

>>11879184
The farms?

>>11879212
kiwifarms

>>11874589
Same. And that a friend of mine, the one I mentioned in the mispronunciation thread, kept calling Phoebe "Fobe". Like… rhymes with 'robe'.
I didn't even remember the MC's name. The only other things I remember are the crystals bouncing around on the title screen while a pretty good theme song plays and that the hub is like a world tree or something, idfr

>>11879189
Because Ziggy played guitar.

>>11879085
>>11879098
Giving it a whirl now, I've played about an hour, got the first crystal, but it's just kind of a dry game. I'm simply not a 7 year old kid where JRPGs are new and fresh anymore, so it's just very basic going through the motions.
The graphics are charming, and the music is still nice, but I feel like I'm done here.

I think I'll settle for just enjoying some of the music sometimes.

>>11879184
Probably tired of seeing the Ian Flynn of tendy jarpigs shit up the same three or so games every video essay.

>>11870937
this
fucking behead all zoomer trash

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