Topic: Three Square Enix titles pass a mil in sales, considered "failures"

[DragonSlayr81]

I think that Brave Fencer Musashi is a great Squyare game, its a shame that his sequel isnt like the first one. To me its almost a Legend of Zelda for PS1.

Y'know, when I initially played Brave Fencer Musashi, I thought that too. It's like "What if LoZ had a more streamlined story and jumping/platform functions", which is probably why I liked it more(I never cared for the "Leave you to your own devices" aspect of the LoZ series, and have been criticized over the fact that I'd love it if they actually brought in a jump button(and jump based platforming) to the LoZ series. It IS a shame what they did with Samurai Legend Musashi. It was, basically, Square in their "dumb" "milk it" phase, where they thought, "Hey, the first one was pretty good! Let's half-ass the sequel, get Nomura to make the characters look even MORE Nomura-ish, and it should sell well!". Well, it just didn't capture the simplicity and magic the original did. Shame, I would've LOVED to see the Musashi series become a legit franchise(like KH did).

[Lelygax]

Me too, this game even had "day-to-night" and a "week" mechanic. You could get one of the best heal items if you stored a cheese for various days, also some shops only opened at the right time of the right day. To me its a game ahead of his time that did all things right (It even introduced me to RPG and Final Fantasy with a FF8 Demo).

Brave Fencer Musashi First Mission