Final Fantasy Mystic Quest True Cast

		True Cast
		Benjamin:  This whole thing is a huge stretch, so bear with me. If there's a plot to this game, then Benjamin is the protagonist. If not, then just ignore all of this. I really considered putting all of them into "Unnecessary Cast" and calling it done, but I'll pretend this game has a plot and go on that idea. Benjamin is easily the only important character, but only in that he's saving the day. He is just kinda...told to save the world, so he does. He's an adventurer and was apparently bored, so he goes for it. He's always in the party and everybody else is basically just saying "Woo! Go Benjamin!" so he's gotta be the main character. But I have nothing else to say on the matter.
		Phoebe/Character 2: I'm kind of scaling things in this game's favor. In no other Final Fantasy would I consider Phoebe a True Cast, but I'm more putting her here to represent a blank "Character 2" slot. Benjamin in no way saves the day alone and removing all characters would change the game entirely. So Phoebe is here to represent "Character 2" because she's the most plot-heavy character in this game of unimportant characters. She is also one of the only self-motivated characters, who is trying to accomplish her own goals and ends up falling in with the "save the world" plot. She's also the character that is with you for the final fight, so she's obviously invested enough in saving the world to fight the Dark King.
		Secondary Cast
		Tristram: Tristram is kind of the comic relief of the game (though it took me a while to figure that out). He's your resident treasure hunter and he just joins you to find some treasure. He blackmails you into going to a dungeon with him because you want to save Kaeli's life, which is totally heroic. "Help me raid this dungeon, then...sure, after that, your time-sensitive, dying friend may live." But he's secondary because he's always around, teasing yet supporting Benjamin. He doesn't get into your party very often, but it's implied that he's occasionally running secondary tasks for you, which actually would've been an interesting aspect to add to the game if they had. Anyway, he's Benjamin's friend (sorta) and even goes treasure hunting with him in the end, so as the only character that seems to give a crap about Benjamin post-saving-the-world, he's Secondary. Barely.
		Unnecessary Cast
		Kaeli: If you're in a forest, Kaeli is your girl. She helps you in both forest segments. But I find it ironic that the girl that talks to trees is also the one that gives you the axe, which, you guessed it, cuts down trees. No wonder they poisoned her! Or whatever. Point is, she's pointless. She sometimes shimmies into the "Character 2" role, but the game could've gone without her. Just add her character to Phoebe's.
		Reuben: Reuben is really pointless. You meet him and he decides he'll help you if you free his dad. So you talk to Tristram, who's in the same dang town, get a key from him, and open the door to save his dad, who apparently can't work a lock. And that's all the motivation it takes. He helps you in the volcano, then falls off a bridge pointlessly. And then, what's worse? Instead of just climbing up and joining you, he tells you to go on ahead and he'll meet up later. "Umm, I can wait. I can even take one of these vines and make you a rope to climb up, but...if you're cool, then...see ya."
		Final Remarks      There's barely a plot to this game and it really could be played Zelda-style, since that's about all it is, but Benjamin needs a little help from his friends (he gets by with a little help from them), but Link can do it all by himself. I feel like they wanted to make a Zelda game, but decided to stick with Final Fantasy, so they made the battles boring and added a few characters. This game could've been better and more Final Fantasy-like had the characters joined you and traveled with you instead of apparently using the buddy system.      The game has two characters: Benjamin and TheRest. Phoebe is by no rights her own character and probably everybody should be considered Unnecessary, but that's largely because the plot is not an RPG plot. There aren't enough twists and turns to constitute a full cast, so this is almost like trying to do a True Cast for Super Mario Bros. 2 and saying "Well I always used the Princess, so she's True Cast, but once I used Luigi, so he's Secondary." It's a scaling issue. Phoebe's plot is like, barely anything, but the whole game's plot is barely anything, so she's actually in a fairly large, important chunk percentage-wise. I could also see writing out all characters and having Tristram as "Character 2" for the entire game. The game might be pretty interesting this way, but they weren't trying for that effect, and I won't fault them for it. It's a "for fun" game and is one that really isn't worthy of nor intended for analysis.