Well, that’s it. These GameSpite Journal 10 posts have peaked; now that Final Fantasy V is up, it’s all downhill from here.
Could someone please create a game that’s a perfect mix of FFV, Skyrim, and Etrian Odyssey? It would save me a ton of money, because I’d never buy another game again.
Man, even *thinking* about a game like that makes all the games that actually exist seem crappy.
I mean really, pretty much a combo of even TWO of those games would be the best thing ever.
I’d rather have a remake of FFIX using FFV’s engine.
Done. Book of Memories: coming only to PS Vita. With Vagrant Story thrown in for good measure.*
*(FFV from concentrate)
Uh huh. And it’s also a roguelike, right? You may be overdoing it!
P.S. I have a Vita now, gimme a copy mang
Maybe I’m just weird, but Final Fantasy V never really did it for me. Dunno. Not that it was bad by any stretch of the imagination, mind you. Just personal taste, I suppose.
I have been tempted to try to play through the game on the GBA. I _almost_ finished it on SNES, only to abandon it toward the end and use a endgame save to see how it all turned out. Yeah, I know. Not cool, and not something I usually do. It’ll probably haunt me until the end of my days.
The GBA version is the way to go. The graphics don’t have the weird blandness of the SNES original, and the revised script is a thing of beauty. It’ll never be listed among the best localizations ever because it’s not flashy, but it tightens up so much, gives the characters a ton of charm and personality, and makes the whole thing just a really pleasant experience. I find the V cast the most endearing out of all the Final Fantasies just because of the GBA localization.
The music is pretty ropey on the GBA version though. Pity.
And there’s some insane slowdown when the forest burns. Still the definitive English version, though.
Your ideal game needs more FFT/Ogre.
Besides the job system, the story not taking itself too seriously is a big part of why I love Final Fantasy V.
Really, the only complaint I have about the game is that it has many dungeons and a few towns and castles that get cut off forever as the plot demands, which can be a real pain in the ass if you’re gunning for bestiary completion or forgot to get that chest/play that piano/defeat that summon/learn that Blue Magic spell*. But still, I love that Squaresoft made this game in the first place, even though it never saw an official English release on the SNES itself.
* Less of an issue in FFV Advance, where the bonus dungeon has an enemy with every Blue Magic spell in the game.
I love this game so much. It’s probably still my favorite FF, and the headline “Ahead on our way” reminded me how obsessed I was with that song and how the girl I was attempting to court was very unimpressed by it.
Also, a buddy of mine wrote a serious, thought-out assessment of the game that I enjoy. If it wasn’t for you guys I wouldn’t read about video games at all: http://anti-gaming.tumblr.com/post/1082741193/dear-friends