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Review for Final Fantasy Mystic Quest on Super Nintendo.
Taken from Super Action 4 - January 1993 (UK)
This issue can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/SuperAction.html
I never understood what the mystic quest series was, I thought it was a gameboy series.
@Dennis5891
That's understandable as the naming for the Game Boy games was very confusing.
Mystic Quest was made with the west in mind, to help ease kids into RPGs.
The Game Boy games that you're thinking of was the Final Fantasy Legend trilogy, which were actually SaGa games released in the west under the Final Fantasy name.
Same thing happened to the very first Seiken Densetsu game (Mana series), which released in the west as Final Fantasy Adventure,.
Interesting. Good to know.
@outofprintarchive @Dennis5891 While this review does use "Final Fantasy," it's a review of the import from North America and not the localization for PAL countries, for which they had used "Mystic Quest" instead (and this game was titled Mystic Quest Legend). Several times in Square's early years, they would use already established trademarks for quite different games. Even Seiken Densetsu's release in Japan in 1991 (localized as Final Fantasy Adventure in NA, Mystic Quest in PAL) was re-using a name for a cancelled Famicom Disk System game.
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/mana-series-retrospective-and-discussion-thread.474226/
@outofprintarchive I don't begrudge them using the attract sequence to grab screenshots, but I do wonder what kind of print error caused a single blue textbox to turn pink when everything else is color accurate. It's also really distracting having Kazuko Shibuya's illustrations of Bartz and Boko from FF5 taking up so much of the page, I almost didn't notice that they described wizard spells as less powerful than black spells. "It's very deep and often a little too complicated," is not a sentence I was expecting... although I do recognize Frank O'Connor had a similar opinion for Gamesmaster.
