Best VGM 264 - Final Fantasy Adventure - In Search of the Sacred Sword

[TailsFox24]

Final fantasy Mystic Quest?!

[IAmTheSecretOfMana]

To this day, my favourite Handheld RPG ever.

[magusmcnichol]

I wanted to play this really badly, but when I asked at the video game store, they told me it was super-rare and I'd never find a copy... this was in the days before the internet, and the first time it ever occurred to me that it might not be possible to get a game I really wanted. Heartbreak doesn't describe it.

[Krynaf]

This is no Final Fantasy, damn it!

It is the very first Seiken Densetsu game!

[gunslingerfry]

@Krynaf Yeah, yeah. It's a Mana game. That just means that it's the best Mana AND the best Final Fantasy simultaneously.

[AFallenAngel91]

yay for Seiken Densetsu (yes, its really a Secret of Mana game) why it was called Final Fantasy in the US I have no clue. Still a great game for the old black and white screen

[Arkenryu]

@AFallenAngel91 Actually, it was originally just a spinoff of the Final Fantasy series; the Japanese title was Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden. Unlike SaGa 1-3, which were renamed as Final Fantasy Legend, but really had nothing to do with Final Fantasy.

[palidopali]

i like more the field song! it's almost the same as secret of mana, though..

[FrogTheWarrior]

Got this game when I was in Kindergarten, couldn't figure out the clue about palm trees and eight.

Picked the game up again a few years later and overcame :P

This is something that wouldn't have happened today with all of the FAQs and whatnot, and I kind of feel nostalgic about that whole scenario.

[tengaimakyozero]

聖剣を求めて♪

[Nagoragama]

One of my favorite video game tracks. Brings back a lot of memories.

[camtheman3245]

2 megs of memory?! AMAZING!! Marketing tactics ftw :D

[MANIMALresistance]

the sword of mana version of this song is better.. but it's one of my favorites too.

[Senjan]

If only it were longer. I've pressed the play button soo many times now xD

[roffles64]

When the Game Boy Color came out I had the option to buy this along with it. :/ because of Stupid Kid Syndrome I instead bought that shitty Conker game boy game. I've regretted it ever since.

[Jaovvarela]

whait ints this swoed of mana oh ... oh... OH

[stridren]

worst remake ever, if they did it like they did ff4 on ds, would be best remkae ever, but noooo they had to go and make it like the snes ones, bad choice square bad choice

[IAmTheSecretOfMana]

PARDON!? Okay Sword of Mana was not the way i wanted Mystic Quest to be remade HOWEVER... Are you dissing SECRET OF MANA in that comment!? Secret OF Mana is one of the best games ever MADE! Seiken Densetsu 3 however I see more of a relationship to... Which was not Secret Of Mana, but was still FUCKING GOOD!

None of the Old school mana games can be doubted... IT was brilliant up to Legend Of MAna... After that, the mana team disbanded and a new team joined and made it shit...

[stridren]

@IAmTheSecretOfMana

Whoa now, well actualy i guess i am kinda dissing it, its not that i dont like the seiken densetsu style, i just rly wish they didnt make ffa into it, i woulda loved ffa as it was, just graphicly updated, sword of mana was almost a totaly diff gaame!

[busterflex]

Does anybody know if still someone got the music in an orchestra version (with a real orchestra) ...It once was uploaded on youtube..but now I can't find it anymore...I loved it...(thanks a lot for any hints...)

[t3nGu666]

I am looking for this one too... If you find it, please pm me, too ;)

[Valnar123]

wow!

In Sword of Mana it sounds better.

But here it also sounds good :)

[AkumaUchitoru]

No offense, but I liked the first overworld theme, Endless Battlefield more. It's too bad it's not on this list (at least not yet). This one is still really good though.

[P1votG33k]

I got the original. I'd like to go back and level up to 99 and all but I saved my game in the final boss and now I'm stuck there :( lesson to everyone don't save during a boss battle

[stridren]

sigh i loved this game, and hated the remake, i wish when they remade it, they did a good remake like they did with ff4 ds

[Smarty4789]

yeah ff4 got an amazing remake. it was way more challenging than the original and managed to keep the epic feeling to it

[LonVoen]

Goddamn it I NEED to find my cartridge. It just wouldn't feel the same playing it on a ROM

[Gehn5]

Ahhh.... I remember this song. This is the dog's bollocks. =)

[flamingtumor]

I was playing this game again recently and i beat it... again... yesterday! I love it! that's why i keep playing it every now and then

[Daco65]

same here lol

i got the original game (eu, aka crap rename to mystic quest) , a rom on my R4 card & rom on my pc :D

sometimes i just want to play the game on places i can't so i just placed it everywhere i could XD

[ciscornBIG]

This brings back so many memories. Thanks for posting this.

I no one cares really but I saved up money all summer from cutting grass in my neighborhood so I could buy this game.

[6ixx]

@ciscornBIG I do care, amazing story. I had to borrow it from a friend to be able to play it. Lucky me, that fool didn't like the game!

[dreq934]

@ciscornBIG And to think an entire generation is growing up with GENERIC SHOOTER 18. I simply don't see kids today having the same memories of these cookie cutter games as we did with the original and very unique NES games. I even think the sound chip in the NES has 10 times more personality and character than the live recordings of music and the sound font crap they play now.

[PocketScyther]

@ciscornBIG

it would have been well worthg it , its one of the best gameboy games!

[USCHoodman]

Every year I play this game a little more, I have no idea if I'll ever beat it

[BM2341]

You should do the title track song. Beautiful melody.

[erlendht]

This is such a great game! its such a shame what happened to the Seiken Densetsu series of late :/

[cirellio]

Woot Seiken Densetsu! And of course there's the GBA remake, too.

[MisterDominoX]

YAY! Brilliant choice, SupraDarky! More music from Game Boy FFs!

I'd like to recommend the overworld theme from FF Legend II.

[Sephiko]

That is an overworld theme that I am quite familiar with :)

[Boyce18]

Allright!!! One of the best song I've ever heard on the GB!! Thinking bout it, I think this is the best GB game that ever came out!

A worthy game to hold the name of Seiken Densetsu!

[MarioNavi]

The start of the Mana series... Supra, this game was my all time favorite classic on the orginal GameBoy!!!! You Rock!

[WillSerenity]

This is my favorite game boy game of all time right here!

[anegwa]

That game rocked! but it was way to short

[AkumaUchitoru]

Really? I thought it lasted quite a while. I thought all Final Fantasies, even the ones that don't really count last quite a while. lol. Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon is practically short but I actually had to level up a bit and other than the 4 elemental dungeons there's a few memory ones you had to do too. (By the way, I hate the special rule dungeons... ugh... especially the ones that make you have 1 HP. There's 6 dungeons I still have to beat.)

[AkumaUchitoru]

Seriously, I can't beat someone like Flora's dungeon. It's mainly because of the damn tigers that move twice as fast as other monsters... and yeah, you die in 1 hit... and your health isn't just down to 1, you ARE level 1, no matter what. God, they challenge you too hard... I mean, I want to know if something really awesome happens if you get all 20 memories recovered. (By the way, Shirma and Croma are awesome. ^^)

[Sephiko]

My first...Final Fantasy...

I'm surprised you know this one! I beat all three of these (I only have the second one now).

"Sword of Mana" is pretty much the same game as this, with stuff added. It was like deja vu when I played it XD

[SupraDarky]

This game actually means a lot to me. It made me cry when I was kid during certain scenes and the atmosphere was just so unique for me at that time. This and Link's Awakening are the only handheld games that had such an effect on me as a kid.

[Sephiko]

Those two mean a lot to me too. I was so sad at the end of Link's Awakening...

The part that made me really sad in this one was with that girl who got turned into Medusa.

[andrey22]

you too as well? I beat it and FFA when I was 7 and it also made me cry.

You could say that end of LA was really depressing.....well , at least we get the hint that marin lived after all.

It was one of the zeldas with the strongest storyline (along with MM).

[limecure]

I know what you mean. Nothing really conveys the same feeling of stark, sparse melancholy as a well made gray scale game.

[zetommyz]

@SupraDarky So do I. When i was child, I hated deserts. Particulary one :D

[Daco65]

@SupraDarky same here.

sadly, the game had a stupid name in eu (mystic quest, not to be confused with the snes mana game! )

but i still treasure both cardridges :')

[ryu157]

@SupraDarky Goes the same way for me too! :'O

[rodrigo1553]

@SupraDarky Same here.. the part of amanda's death and the part where that robot stayed in the dime tower because he was unable to jump...

[gunslingerfry]

@SupraDarky This was my very first RPG of any kind. I played the crap out of it and lost it in a move. It was devastating because I would often just leave it on and listen... This tune evokes such strong emotions in me that I cannot explain...

I watched Kikoskia play through it the other day and had to play it again myself. It was just as glorious as I remembered! It's actually quite an adult story with lots of death and suffering which you will never find in a kids game these days.

[PBz0r]

That's right: best Final Fantasy music ever.

[SchlossRitter]

Awesome pinnacle of 8-bit stereo music in this game. Made headphones for the original Game Boy a must.

[VGKing]

Yes, finally! I'm tired of listening to playthroughs or MIDI files, I want the real deal!

[SchlossRitter]

Zophar has many ripped soundtracks playable with Winamp plugins (in Winamp 2 mode) or with a few custom players.

[VGKing]

Really? I thought it was pretty much just fan translations (some in languages nobody cares about (except Rudra, maybe :P)).

[SchlossRitter]

zophar-dot-net collects all kinds of console related stuff. Right now, the link to their music archive is on the main page's right column, under "Other Releases".

Also snesmusic-dot-org has a much more comprehensive collection of SNES music, with more consistently tagged files.

[nelweno]

there was a FF game for gameboy????

[BifordusMaximus]

there were four of them....

[Valis77]

no this was called seiken densetsu (Legend Of Mana) They justed named it Final Fantasy Adventure! The other three was Final Fantasy Legands(Saga Series)No final fantasy game was on the Gameboy.

[SchlossRitter]

Technically, this was called "Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden" in Japan (gaiden being a side story), hence the Chocobo and a few other FF references. However, Seiken was eventually spun off into its own series (Mana series in the US), and this game was later recreated as Sword of Mana, removing all the FF references.

The FFL games were always the separate SaGa series, renamed FF for marketing purposes in the US; however, part of their level up system is loosely based on the Famicom FFII.

[Valis77]

Whatever genius!

[SchlossRitter]

Just thought I'd help clarify :-P

[Valis77]

not 100% accurate but ok!

[AkumaUchitoru]

Yeah, and Legend of Mana is 4, 2 if you don't include FFA and Seiken Densetsu 3 which I think is Japan only (though they could be fan translations or something, because I think some people play the game anyway.) Square-Enix games rock! ^^

[GarlyleWilds]

Yes. Seiken Densetsu 3 has a very popular rom translation that people play. It's a stellar game.