I'm not ashamed to admit it; I love Mystic Quest! For one, the music is fantastic,and secondly.... Well, I guess that's about it.

Honestly, I don't think it's nearly as bad as people make it out to be, as it was a great introduction to the old-school RPG genre, without being super time-consuming. Being a kid at the time, it was exactly the kind of RPG I needed, inspiring me to later play the "real" Final Fantasy games.

I would be so completely on-board with Benjamen getting revived in FFXIV, headlining some new event. Whether he's the lovable idiot who constantly shrugs at everything, or reborn as a complete badass wielding Excalibur, I'd love to see him make an appearance, if anyone could put a bug in the Japan team's ear?

Also; there's kind of a running joke in certain communities that Benjamen is actually a young Gilgamesh, with Mystic Quest being his first experience collecting other peoples' weapons, which would be worth a joke worth referencing :P