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[Spee]

Square Enix is putting their recently filed Mystic Quest Legend trademark to good use. The made-for-beginners Final Fantasy game is heading to Virtual Console.

Australia’s Classification Board inspected Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest and approved it. Their rating lists Nintendo as the publisher, which means Mystic Quest Legend (that’s the PAL name for Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest) will be released on Virtual Console.

 A whole new generation of gamers will soon learn about the killing power of the Cure spell.

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[ChaosWOTW]

I heard a lot of negative responses to this game. I never played it, so I didn't understand the overwhelming hate for it, so I'm a tad curious to try it out.

[Ally]

Me too. I'm quite interested to see and play the game that was Square's bright idea to create a game for us "Dumb Americans." It does look good and classic compared to most of Square's RPGs back in the day.

[Ronso Rage X]

Some of the "beginner" conveniences they add to the game are sorely unappreciated. This might be the first Final Fantasy game without random battles, which is extremely innovative in my opinion. On top of that you can save absolutely anywhere, you can automatically restart battles you lose, and chests refill after you leave an area. On top of that you can actually use weapons to interact with the environment, such as using an axe to cut down trees or a cat claw to climb up walls.

On the negative side, battles eventually revert to little more than knowing when to attack and when to heal. Battles can be occasionally frustrating when an enemy confuses your main character and you can't do anything about it because you often don't have a teammate. Finally, the extremely limited selection of attack weaponry is a little disappointing. You basically get four attack weapons the entire game, boosted only by the occasional upgrade. All of this is manageable when you consider that getting around the world map is very easy and thus the storyline moves at a decent pace.

[Spee]

I heard a lot of negative responses to this game.

I can't say it's a great game after playing it the first time, but I can't say it's the worst in the franchise. Story is kind of random, gameplay is way to easy but the music is surprisingly superb, at least for it's time and that alone is worth playing it. I would only recommend it to the hardcore of RPG fans who just want to complete their Final Fantasy collection for the lulz.