Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was an RPG primer intended to coach American audiences on the rudimentary rules of the genre. The consciously generic story, character and graphics did not overwhelmingly appeal to English-language players, or to Japanese audiences when the Super Famicom cart was released there a year later as "Final Fantasy USA."
Depending on who you ask, Ted Woolsey was either an iron-fisted dictator who was convinced that American gamers were morons or a hard-pressed grunt who was the primary reason the scripts for these games weren't completely remolded, but either way his impact was keenly felt, as he frequently modified the scripts he was handed in order to render them more accessible for American release. Fans coined the term "Woolseyisms" to refer to places where Woolsey had obviously been tinkering with the original Japanese...
