Quote Originally Posted by Roogle View Post
The Final Fantasy Adventure and Final Fantasy Legend series were North American marketing strategies to entice others off of name recognition which was a bigger factor in selling games at that time.
Yeah . . . but in Japan the Seiken Densetsu games up to Legend of Mana carried the precursor: "Final Fantasy Gaiden." I was suggesting that "Adventure" be the NA equivalent.

I am not familiar with the internal workings of the Seiken Densetsu series enough to speculate on the reason for its perceived decline in quality.
Well, they started getting worse when the were outsourced to Brownie Brown (first happened with Sword of Mana). Regardless, the series creator and Final Fantasy alum Koichi Ishii remained the primary creative force behind them. Alas, his ideas began to focus on developing new quirky gameplay rather than focusing on what made the early Mana games great. He's since left S-E and now has his own developing company. Maybe S-E will put someone behind the series that remembers what made Mana games good.