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Square had already released several Final Fantasy spin-offs in North America, including the first 3 titles of the SaGa series, released as Final Fantasy Legend, and Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden, released as Final Fantasy Adventure, but it wanted to raise its popularity in the United States further.
In the arcade game Theatrhythm Final Fantasy All-Star Carnival (2016) as well, the character "Zash" and the tracks "Battle 1", "Battle 2", "Battle 3", "Last Castle" and "Hill of Fate", together with the "FINAL FANTASY USA Medley" that joins them, have been distributed.
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was first released in North America in 1992 and marketed as a "simplified role-playing game... designed for the entry-level player" in an attempt to broaden the genre's appeal.
It was also the first Final Fantasy game to be released in Europe.
Square had already released several Final Fantasy spin-offs in North America, including the first three titles in the SaGa series as Final Fantasy Legend, and the first Mana series game as Final Fantasy Adventure, and wished to further break into the popular American consciousness.
After its U.S. debut, Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was released in Japan under the title Final Fantasy USA: Mystic Quest.
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was first unveiled in June at the 1992 Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, where it was a popular venue, and the game was later presented in more detail in the Fall 1992 issue of the Ogopogo Examiner.
The album was first released on one compact disc by NTT Publishing on September 10, 1993.
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was first released in North America in 1992 and marketed as a "simplified role-playing game... designed for the entry-level player" in an attempt to broaden the genre's appeal.
It has retained its reputation for being a "beginner's Final Fantasy" and has been praised for its music.
Woolsey said that Mystic Quest was one of the easiest games he had to translate, due to the game's small size.
IGN rated the Wii Virtual Console release a 6.0, or "Okay", citing an extremely repetitive and simple battle system, and very little character development. 1UP.com rated the game a "Not Worth It!", calling it "handholding" and "insubstantial".
It was, however, praised for its music, including 1UP.com praising its "sweet sampled metal guitar licks", and listed the final boss battle music as one of the must download songs for the Final Fantasy music game Theatrhythm Final Fantasy.
It was also praised by GamesRadar for its music, mentioning the boss battle in their "Game Music of the Day" column, and also mentioning the rest of the game music as smooth and easy listening.
On April 1, 2006, GameSpot included Mystic Quest in an April's Fools list entitled "Top 10 Final Fantasy Games", which mostly consisted of spin-offs from the main series and unrelated games.
In 2018, Complex ranked the game 66th on their "The Best Super Nintendo Games of All Time".
It was shown for the first time at the Consumer Electronics Show held in Chicago in 1992, where it proved popular, and details of the game were made public in the autumn 1992 issue of Ogopogo Examiner.
It has retained its reputation for being a "beginner's Final Fantasy" and has been praised for its music.
It was, however, praised for its music, including 1UP.com praising its "sweet sampled metal guitar licks", and listed the final boss battle music as one of the must download songs for the Final Fantasy music game Theatrhythm Final Fantasy.
It was also praised by GamesRadar for its music, mentioning the boss battle in their "Game Music of the Day" column, and also mentioning the rest of the game music as smooth and easy listening.
Mystic Quest was "praised" for being easy and having simplistic graphics and plot.
In the PlayStation Portable title Dissidia Final Fantasy (2008), Moogles given the same names as characters who appeared in past works appear in that game's "Mognet" system, and one of the 1 is a Moogle named "Zash" ("Benjamin" in the North American version), the same name as this game's protagonist.
In the Nintendo 3DS title Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call (2014), "Zash" ("Benjamin" in the North American version) is included as the representative character from this game, and "Battle 1" and "Battle 2" are included as tracks from it.
To appeal to the perceived tastes of North American audiences, which gravitated towards fast-paced games, Square included action-adventure game elements; players could now brandish weapons outside of battle, jump, use a grappling hook, and set bombs to open new paths.
The European release of the game was released in English, German and French.
The European release had its title changed to Mystic Quest Legend to avoid confusion with Final Fantasy Adventure, which had been released in Europe as Mystic Quest.
Square had already released several Final Fantasy spin-offs in North America, including the first 3 titles of the SaGa series, released as Final Fantasy Legend, and Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden, released as Final Fantasy Adventure, but it wanted to raise its popularity in the United States further.
Game magazinesIn the "Cross Review" of Famitsu it received 7, 6, 6 and 4 for a total of 23 out of 40, and in the "Game Report Card" based on reader voting in Family Computer Magazine it was rated as follows, 21.7 out of 30.
According to Square's publicity department, Final Fantasy Mystic Quest sold a total of 800,000 units, with roughly half of these sold in Japan.
As can be understood from the "USA" in the title, it was originally released in the United States and was then translated and imported for Japan.
In Europe, English, German and French versions were released, and it was named Mystic Quest Legend to avoid confusion with Mystic Quest, the European title of Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden.
Square's executives cited the alleged difficulty of role-playing games as the reason Americans shied away from them, and eased the difficulty level by tweaking various aspects of the main series' gameplay.
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was first unveiled in June at the 1992 Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, where it was a popular venue, and the game was later presented in more detail in the Fall 1992 issue of the Ogopogo Examiner.
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