I would really dig a "crossover" or callback of any kind of Mystic Quest...

[wereotter]

FFIV was 'dumbed down' for the US.

I still have my SNES copy of FFIV.... and yeah. They had low expectations for us since it had a complete walkthrough for the game up till the point you enter the dwarven underground on top of being dumbed down.

I'll say this much in defense of Mystic Quest, though. When you consider it as a product of a specific time, and what goal it was trying to accomplish, it was a pretty solid title. It was a fairly early SNES title coming out before the games like Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, FFVI, etc and was created to intentionally introduce western gamers to the ideas of turned based combat and elemental weaknesses. It was simple by design, and I actually appreciate that. I think it was one of many games that helped set the stage for better RPGs that came afterwards. Even if you didn't play the game yourself, the ideas that were introduced into the western market lasted and became more well accepted. RPG style games before that were more in line with things like Zelda or the Quintet games, games we'd consider as more action/adventure games today.

[Ilyrian]

I still have my SNES copy of FFIV.... and yeah. They had low expectations for us since it had a complete walkthrough for the game up till the point you enter the dwarven underground on top of being dumbed down.

I'll say this much in defense of Mystic Quest, though. When you consider it as a product of a specific time, and what goal it was trying to accomplish, it was a pretty solid title. It was a fairly early SNES title coming out before the games like Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, FFVI, etc and was created to intentionally introduce western gamers to the ideas of turned based combat and elemental weaknesses. It was simple by design, and I actually appreciate that. I think it was one of many games that helped set the stage for better RPGs that came afterwards. Even if you didn't play the game yourself, the ideas that were introduced into the western market lasted and became more well accepted. RPG style games before that were more in line with things like Zelda or the Quintet games, games we'd consider as more action/adventure games today.

It just reminds me of those dark days when we didn't have *any* of those games - the EU got stiffed on everything (apart from SoM) up until VII. I had to import VI and play it through a converter.
The issue being that Square (and others) just assumed that we didn't want RPGs and then put some effort into getting the US up to speed and left Europe and the PAL regions in the dust. Dark days.

When VII launched and went supernova and everyone was banging on about it like it just came out of nowhere, I was just like *I KNOW* . (Still think they peaked with VI though)

[TaleraRistain]

I liked Mystic Quest. I was already a JRPG fan when I played it but it was a cute and simple Final Fantasy with a great soundtrack. I'd definitely be on board to bring some of that playfulness into XIV, especially the music.

[StriderShinryu]

I would totally be into this. MQ was pretty fun for what it was, especially using the tools/weapons to actually traverse dungeons. And the music was excellent.

[ICountFrom0]

I've got the perfect idea for a mystic quest crossover.

NEW TUTORIAL!

Reworking the various tutorials so that things actally TEACH you stuff, including all the basic mechanics.

With the final challenge being the skeletal trex with trusts. (unlocking trex ex)

[SannaR]

Maybe it's because I found it too easy except for needing to figure out how to finish the invisible place. I'm going to say I'd rather have one from Chrono Trigger. Course this is someone who came to this game after playing stuff like Shining Force, FF IV, Lufia ect and only really remember Phobe. Did I enjoy it? Yeah sure but for me it wasn't as good. It gets ignored most likely due to the fact Squaresoft at the time didn't think we could handle harder grity rpgs.

[wereotter]

I've got the perfect idea for a mystic quest crossover.

NEW TUTORIAL!

Reworking the various tutorials so that things actally TEACH you stuff, including all the basic mechanics.

With the final challenge being the skeletal trex with trusts. (unlocking trex ex)

Maybe if they ever update the Hall of the Novice we can get a character named Benjamin in there teaching you how to play... that would be a good callback

[Listrella]

we got kind of a reference to it in eureka anemos, the last boss of that area (pazuzu) was named after one of the vile four (equivalent of the 4 fiends) bosses in the game. beyond that I haven't really seen anything though i'm not surprised, it wasn't particuarly well liked aside from the music.

[technole]

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.

[Terin]

I've got the perfect idea for a mystic quest crossover.

NEW TUTORIAL!

Reworking the various tutorials so that things actally TEACH you stuff, including all the basic mechanics.

With the final challenge being the skeletal trex with trusts. (unlocking trex ex)

I honestly LOVE this idea! Seems like a perfect callback, and also playfully poking fun at it being the "beginner RPG".