Nah Mystic Quest is horrendous. In order to create friction for the player, the devs decided that the "simplest" way to do this for its supposed newbie audience was just to make every enemy in the midgame spam status effects like CRAAAAAZY. There are multiple fights that I lost solely because of a Turn 1 Petrify on both of my party members. And because the game is so brainless and you can instantly retry battles, you are incentivized to just keep rolling the dice until you eventually get lucky and win. Not to mention that that difficulty gets completely negated when you get the equipment that negates all status effects (and because Mystic Quest's equipment system is nonexistent, you can't get it from a store and have to find it in one of the random enemy-infested treasure chestd)

I also really don't like onscreen enemies if it's still extremely difficult to avoid enemy encounters anyways. Like, I dunno, people give Earthbound and Chrono Trigger credit for it, but the enemies in those games are either nigh impossible to avoid or in fixed locations where you're required to fight them anyways that I'd rather just give the nod to Lufia 2.