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  1. 05-22-2021 11:59 PM #1
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    Mystic Quest was actually called Final Fantasy USA in Japan. SE had a make a handholding FF game for America cause they just couldn't respect the genre. Now everyone wants to label their game RPG. Eureka is the cloest reference to it though because of Pazuzu.
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    Quote Originally Posted by technole View Post
    Mystic Quest was actually called Final Fantasy USA in Japan. SE had a make a handholding FF game for America cause they just couldn't respect the genre. Now everyone wants to label their game RPG. Eureka is the cloest reference to it though because of Pazuzu.
    American fans respected the genre just fine before it came out. It wasn't the first JRPG over here. Square (since they hadn't merged with Enix yet) was just trying to be more mainstream and get a bigger market share. And there is a vast difference between western RPG and Japanese RPG genres. A lot of triple A RPG games coming out are western RPG.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TaleraRistain View Post
    American fans respected the genre just fine before it came out. It wasn't the first JRPG over here. Square (since they hadn't merged with Enix yet) was just trying to be more mainstream and get a bigger market share. And there is a vast difference between western RPG and Japanese RPG genres. A lot of triple A RPG games coming out are western RPG.
    JRPGs were sales slogs in the Nintendo era, that's why a handful of the main FF games were skipped in English and also why we got the dumb Final Fantasy III = Final Fantasy VI ordeal. It wasn't until FFVII on PSone that really blew the lid on mainstream popularity in the US.
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    Quote Originally Posted by technole View Post
    JRPGs were sales slogs in the Nintendo era, that's why a handful of the main FF games were skipped in English and also why we got the dumb Final Fantasy III = Final Fantasy VI ordeal. It wasn't until FFVII on PSone that really blew the lid on mainstream popularity in the US.
    Right, because JRPGs weren't mainstream. But those of us who were JRPG fans in America at that time avidly played what came over here. Square already had us so we weren't giving them much market share with MQ and MQ even turned off or insulted some fans by how easy it was. While also failing to grab the attention of those new to the JRPG genre.

    VII did make it more mainstream, because that game implemented more flash and bang that appealed to a wider audience. JRPGs still are a bit of an acquired taste though many have tried to adjust to the ever-changing state of what's popular in gaming.
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