''SQUARE THOUGHT WE WERE STUPID SO THEY MADE THAT GAME.'' I was 6 when I played this and I didn't really speak english back then. (I'm actually french.) This was my first FF game EVER and this game is what got me into RPGs. It also taught me english a lot more than what I was actually learning at school. (Square, triangles and all that shit.) So, yeah. Not only was this game fun, but it was also challenging because I was starting to learn english back then. So, yeah. This game is a must for people that never really played RPGs before. It's a nice entry-level game.
+SonnytheArcticFox I was French too when I first played this, so I didn't know English back then, but yet this simplicity was what got me into RPGs to begin with, I wouldn't be into music and RPGs if I didn't have nostalgia playing this game, for sure. Besides, this soundtrack is badass~ Enough to where I remade the battle theme. The video just got up too~
+SonnytheArcticFox Huh, that's really neat. I'm also French, and I learned English the same way when playing Super Mario RPG and Zelda Link to the Past. I didn't have this one while growing up, unfortunately.
+SonnytheArcticFox Video games also helped me improve a lot in English, but all the games I had when I was kid were in French... I'm sure it would have helped me. Kids learn languages way easier than adults do (brain plasticity and all that stuff)
I could totally see this being a great game with which to learn a new language, the translation was solid and the script never used any complex words. Way better translation than FF4 ("2") SNES.
+Mario Bouchard Any rhythm game is all about practice, practice, practice. Don't stress about getting perfect score run critical charts, but getting a perfect chain on a difficult song feels SO GOOD after all the work.
It's totally unfair to call this game bad. It has a *super* stripped down battle system, sure, but I found it fun as a little kid. It also has some great level design incorporating tool-based exploration and puzzle solving, 4 years before Super Mario RPG and 3 years before Lufia 2 (which, honestly, I couldn't get into). In an era when console RPGs were starting to get super complicated, it was cool that someone was looking at how to simplify the genre into its most important elements.
The puzzle solving made me get stuck for years. At that level where you had to push the pillars then jump on them. As a dumb little kid I just couldn't figure out what to do x.x
@@Dragonfire511 Which was the original goal of the game: to get more people into JRPGs. It a way, it was successful. I had fun with it even after playing FF4-9, CT, Lufia, BoF, and a ton of other JRPGs.
24 years since I played this game, and I STILL come back to listen to its killer soundtrack. Yes, the game was ridiculously easy, but man, the soundtrack is awesome.
People who hate this game just dont understand it's purpose. It is meant as an entry point to RPG games which wasnt that popular back in the 90s, and as such it was supposed to be easy. I used to hate RPGs but I played this and it got me into them as a kid, and I owe this game as the reason for discovering great gems like Chrono Trigger, FF6, Lufia 2, and more.
But how were people supposed to even know the game was an entry point to RPGs??? Oh, wait... what's that on the cover? "Entry Level Role-Playing..." Oh, son of a - !!!! O_o"
I feel like hating on this game is more of a bandwagon thing than anything. I mean, there are likely many people who legitimately hate the game, but still. The game's not bad, and it's perfect for beginners. Granted, my first RPG was Final Fantasy IV (and I've been in love with the series ever since), and honestly, this game's music makes up for its "shortcomings" if you can call them that. I've been in love with video game music for as long as I can remember, and more often than not, the music alone tends to get me to play these games.
Mystic Quest's legacy continues today too - the Mario and Luigi series is actually *very* similar in a lot of respects. People've just learned where to put some extra complexity to hit a better balance of accessible and engaging to people who know what they're doing. (Plus the Mario setting lends itself wonderfully to engagingly silly stories, that helps too :P)
The fact that you encounter this track way over 100 times in the whole game and it NEVER gets boring at any time, speaks for itself. There were so many incredibly good soundtracks made for the SNES games, and this game has one of the best. Like, SO many absolute bangers... This one, the boss fight, dark king fight, lava dome, town music (Foresta / Aquaria / Windia) (most relaxing and beautiful track ever)... I love this game so much, my favorite of my early childhood.
I still say this game needs an authentic hd version. Look at some of the things this game implemented, damage graphics for when the enemies started loosing hp you could see them get weaker (Ice Stone Golem comes to mind and the Flamesarus Rex), the ability to use weapons outside of battle (like Legend of Zelda) and it had awesome bgm. 😍😍😍😍
The reason why lots of people don't really like this game a lot is probably because it is too easy. I certainly enjoy this game myself, but I find it more enjoyable if I only save the game on the world map (that is, I never save inside dungeons), choose to give up if I die in a battle, and only open each treasure chest once. That's how I really think the game should have been designed, because this would have made it reasonably challenging. But it's still good the way it was released.
Laurelindo There is an "hardcore" mod which is a little bit hardcore sometimes but really fun and it adds great challenge ("too much" if you don't like dying multiple times because the boss OS you with a crit :p)
It was one of the first videogames I remember playing, and I remember it fondly. The music alone was epic and made it quite worthwile. I don't understand why people love hating on this game so much, because there's nothing wrong with it.
DevilJinKazama People seem to hate on it because they hate how it's named Final Fantasy and "doesn't carry the name well" or something like that. I've read a lot of people say that if it wasn't called Final Fantasy it both wouldn't have sold as well, and wouldn't have gotten the hate it got.
***** Well, it wasn't sold as an FF title here in Europe, and our family loved the game to death. Then again, this was far before I ever knew about Final Fantasy anyway, so it wouldn't have mattered if it had been called FF Mystic Quest.
I like this game not because it's incredibly well made with fantastic design values, but because it's a simple, fairly mindless RPG that doesn't require too much thought. If you want mindless fun in RPG form, this is one of the best. The music helps too. =D
Reviewing these tracks now, they were ahead of the curve. definitely one of the more rock oriented OSTs...they were some of the most amazing from the SNES era...they hold pretty well today.
One of the best fight themes of all the FF series. Crazy to think this is not from Uematsu-sama!!! He is still the OG, but this game had CRAZY music too!
I always imagined this battle theme telling the story of the fight...Starting off strong and steady, then at 0:27 a party member gets struck down, 0:39 either the party member is revived or the remaining simply gain renewed vigor and epic battle continues to victory.
For me, personally, 0:27 gives me the vibe of the party stopping to think of their next move as the party leader decides to just go for a final push to bring the enemy down, at 0:39.
Exactly, usually in the game, if the music reaches 0:27 then you haven't finished the battle fast enough and you're getting your ass beat (especially by those pesky sphinxes)
I never had an SNES so I missed out on playing this growing up. This ost is a mofack earworm, especially this battle theme, and the boss fight theme. #letsfuckinggo !!!!
It's crazy, I must've been 4 or 5 when I last played this. I barely remember the game, yet the music still sounds familiar. Thank your for uploading this.
This game was my first RPG I ever played and got me into FF6 (III) on the SNES. I remember hating the water temple as a kid, even though I never got to finish this game, it was still a great entry point for RPG players.
Heh, so the game did its job then, it was made for Americans so they would get more in to Final Fantasy, meant to be an introduction because they thought that we didn't understand how the games worked.
I had the same, But it was English and English isn't my own language, so it was more of a guess what stood on the screen for me, haha. I recently started playing it again. And now I can read everything, that makes the game even better. :p
This is it exactly. I played Mystic Quest at a friend's house and had played Link to the Past, but it wasn't quite the same. I was instantly hooked on RPGs and got 3(6) right after it came out and beat that and chrono trigger a dozen times before 7 came out. 6 was an insane story for a kid because it had some very adult themes in it. A magic slave, a fight over the crown, a dead girlfriend, a poisoned family, etc. So amazing.
Yeessssss!!! Endless replay value, even if it's always the same and it's the easiest "Baby's First RPG." The music, story and fantasy aspects are just too good!
You can call this game out for being super simple but you have to understand, that's the point. It's an entry level game. It's nothing for RPG veterans but for someone new to gaming, it's perfect. Regardless, the music is amazing.
I still have this game, french version (it came with a big ilustrated manual and it took 1 month to arrive from France to Portugal via regular mail - 20 or 22 years ago). The game was simple but enough for me. The music, the music changed my demands on future OST in games. I remeber starting battles and leave the game alone just to keep hearing the music.
and, since i'm here. Opening theme of Mystic Quest for the game boy. It was a f**king game boy but those musics were in another lvl. The game was awesome too with a great story.
Every year I return to this soundtrack, battle theme and boss theme. It brings a tear to my eyes, I played this when I was a kid and from time to time I replay it. Despite the hate that this game gets, I freaking love it.
Yeah, I loved this game. I never did get far in it, since I only got to play it a few times long ago, but I would always say that this theme reminded me a lot of how some of the BGM in Mega Man X sounded. Of course, knowing what I know now, there is a lot of SNES soundtracks that use a lot of the same SNES instruments and settings, so, that's kinda just how it is. Still, it's cool; the SNES has a lot of killer music.
They had to cut out so much to make this OST fit into the game's data storage. They were dedicated to it doing two things: making you like JRPGs, and having a kickass soundtrack. Seriously, most of this game's data is the music. It's a good game. Phoebe can totally bail you out if you're overwhelmed.
Listening to this brings me back when i was in junior high school to early high school my favorite music from this game thank you for uploading this 10/10
This is, and always will be, perhaps my single favorite piece of video game music ever. This. Shit. Kicks. So. Much. Ass. I was six when I heard this, and I haven't stopped thinking about it a day after that. I'm 32. Raw dog opinion. Mystic Quest is the best FF game.
I’ve been searching for this for so long! The melody has been in the back of mind playing at random times lol loved this game so much when I was a child 💓😄 used to beg my cousin to let me play it every chance I could I was hooked
To call this game bad i totally wrong. It's suppose to be a beginner/entry level J-RPG. It is a good story and the game lenght is ok. That the game has a superb soundtrack just helped you get going and on occasionally just let the soundtrack flow to hear the great music. Awesome game, will never forget it!
My first rpg when I was around 8yrs old. I understood almost nothing but still beat it with only slight help from older sibling on whatever pozozuza birdking tower with maddeningly tedious hellavator switch puzzlle part. Loved RPGs ever since
So this game was the reason for why my mom banned me from any games when my dad was gone for work on his business trips. One time he was away, I saved over his file and he was furious when he found out. I basically couldn't play games Monday to Friday as a child. This game will forever be a milestone for me.
@@totalwartimelapses6359 Oh yeah! He is the one that got me into Zelda and Mario as a kid. I think he was a part of the wave of people that realized games were not just for geeks.
