Mystic Quest tip: only red chests are relevant in dungeons

#MysticQuest #FinalFantasy #tip

Stocking outside of dungeons is ideal¹, as dungeons' brown chests give the same consumable items, and you can either rush to a dungeon's relevant/unique stuff, and/or make short trips.

The red chests, however, they contain new weapons, armor and magics, so focusing on them saves having to go through specially annoying enemies only to get measly rewards like 10 bombs / 3 potions / the sort.

¹Only exception where you will want to go to a dungeon is to get is the seed / fruit of magic, as magic can carry you a long way (specially teleport and cure), and afaik the only renewable source of seeds is deep in the Bone Dungeon, in a room a bit off the path at the end of a bone corridor, point F on this map: https://mikesrpgcenter.com/ffmq/maps/bone_dungeon.html

Also as mentioned, teleport is specially useful, both to flee a given dungeon, and to instantly kill normal enemies (great if one of the enemies has nastier attacks).

Hope this helps someone. =)

Finished the last bit of Mystic Quest tonight. The status ailments were still my biggest struggle, but we succeeded in defeating the Dark King and restoring the Crystal of Light.

I think I am a Phoebe stan, now.

#retrogaming #finalfantasy #mysticquest #snes

Finished the game of May in the final hours of the month: Mystic Quest

What I posted in the #FinalFantasy group over at Lemmy, I still think, #MysticQuest is much better than its reputation would say:
https://thebrainbin.org/m/[email protected]/p/708193

Playing Mystic Quest and... it's not as bad?

Trying to finish it for the #12in12 challenge (finish at least a game per month), and though I'd read people complaining #MysticQuest is a bad #FinalFantasy, I'm positively surprised.

Probably being past the 60~70% of the game, other than the shallow story, it's being a fun experience. Hard enough I need to pay attention, but simple enough it doesn't get taxing. Dungeons can be a tad long and winding, but not like FFII's dungeons (I like that game too, but oh god, those dungeons 😩). Regarding the story, a neutral point, but it's simple enough I don't need to pay much attention at least. Magic is pretty useful for once in a RPG, even later on. And I've yet to grow tired of the OST (Alexa, play "Battle Theme" on repeat).

Also the Japanese version has simple enough texts it's simple to interpret. But how does "Rock", "ロック", becomes "Tristam"? Came across the English name and it got me confused. "<.<

Anyways, dunno if it's still officially distributed anywhere, so if not, I think it's worth hunting down cartridge to play! =D