somewhere along this heap of messages someone asked what mystic quest was. final fantasy mystic quest was the brainchild of squaresoft (the usa division of square), and it was meant to be an entry level RPG. if i'm not mistaken they dumped this out after FF2 and before FF3, so i think it was to prepare the legions of new FF people for FF3/6, which was indeed quite wicked. so hey, one more thing: if they're bringing back the oldschool medieval guy, does that mean they're gonna make the games hard again? is it just me, or were final fantasy 7 and 8 cakewalks compared to some of the older ones? 8 seems a bit rougher, and admittedly i never finished it, but that's cuz i was wickedly bored about 15 hours into it. but they don't touch games like FF2 (jap) and FF5 in terms of difficulty. hell even FF4 was tough, maybe it was because i was 13, maybe it was because of the game.. but i remember the delta sisters whipping my ass some 25 times in a row, and consequently my figuring out that i needed multiple save slots in case i entered a point of no return. oh yah, and who remembers back in the day when square was going to bring out FF5 as "Final Fantasy Extreme" on the SNES as the "expert RPG" and then launch FF6 as the next official final fantasy? those were the days.. i wish i still had my promo pamphlet they sent me, cuz it had logos on it and everything. at least they finally got it out in the anthology.
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somewhere along this heap of messages someone asked what mystic quest was. final fantasy mystic quest was the brainchild of squaresoft (the usa division of square), and it was meant to be an entry level RPG. if i'm not mistaken they dumped this out after FF2 and before FF3, so i think it was to prepare the legions of new FF people for FF3/6, which was indeed quite wicked.
so hey, one more thing: if they're bringing back the oldschool medieval guy, does that mean they're gonna make the games hard again? is it just me, or were final fantasy 7 and 8 cakewalks compared to some of the older ones? 8 seems a bit rougher, and admittedly i never finished it, but that's cuz i was wickedly bored about 15 hours into it. but they don't touch games like FF2 (jap) and FF5 in terms of difficulty. hell even FF4 was tough, maybe it was because i was 13, maybe it was because of the game.. but i remember the delta sisters whipping my ass some 25 times in a row, and consequently my figuring out that i needed multiple save slots in case i entered a point of no return.
oh yah, and who remembers back in the day when square was going to bring out FF5 as "Final Fantasy Extreme" on the SNES as the "expert RPG" and then launch FF6 as the next official final fantasy? those were the days.. i wish i still had my promo pamphlet they sent me, cuz it had logos on it and everything. at least they finally got it out in the anthology.