The last great adventure (Final Fantasy V Retrospective) 

At last, it’s done! This is my love letter to Final Fantasy V. It’s my longest video yet, and quite possibly the most heartfelt defense of FF5 that’s available on RU-vid lol. I hope you enjoy it! And as always, thanks for supporting me. :) You know what comes next… But I have a couple of other videos I want to make before I get to “that one”. PS. This will be one of the last video essays I post on my old channel. Head on over to my new channel if you want to see more content like this! ru-vid.com/show-UC6D4FlECbW_1KT_Z472LukQ

Not going to lie, your closing of the video really hit me in the feels. I miss that magical time of pre-/early internet when video games were still exciting and challenging without the surplus of spoilers & walkthroughs & pissy reviews. Thank you for a great video!

I was a senior in high school when this patch came out and played it then. Many memories sitting at my desktop playing fan translations in those days. My teenage mind never thought I’d ever play official releases of this, all 3 Romancing SaGa games, and even the upcoming Front Mission 2. I’d love to peep into a parallel world where the whole series was released in order of their Japanese releases. I imagine this game would be viewed a LOT differently. This is my very favorite game of the entire series.

Reminds me of playing Tales of Phantasia for the first time on my PC in the early 00's. I'm so grateful for the labor of these passionate folks.

This was my first Final Fantasy, I got it much later on the GBA, I picked it out myself because the cover art for it looked so awesome, I fell in love with it and the combat even though I was like 10. Even though I had never played a FF game before, it was exactly how I expected it to be.

I fully and completely agree with you that FFV's greatest weakness is a lack of nostalgia. Especially considering that most fans didn't have access to a competent version of the game until 2006, so it gets unfair comparisons to the incredible games of 7-10. Too many people write off FFV as "forgettable" when really, it just never had the chance to be known in the first place.

I absolutely love FFV, and you perfectly summed up a lot of what makes FFV my favorite 2D Final Fantasy Game! The new Job Classes and customization, the graphical upgrade and it’s incredible soundtrack, and the world and exploration in FFV is one of my personal favorites and the idea of a world split into 2 is truly fascinating and was something that I’ve never seen before. I’m also glad that you didn’t write off the story as being inferior to other titles and that it wasn’t as serious like in FF4 or FF6. because there’s a lot that happens in the story of FF5 that isn’t played for laughs and I feel that the humor was added in so that the story isn’t always depressing or dark. And I absolutely love it. The story is straightforward while also having the right amount of twists and isn’t as overwhelming like with the other titles, nothing about the story felt rushed or too dragged out, there’s plenty of character interaction and moments of where the story breaks away from the action like with Bartz’s hometown. It has the right amount of charm and drama. And it was also the last main entry with a few exceptions to have the story be presented in a medieval fantasy like setting, as later games would go for more urban modern like settings with the magic being more as a byproduct. and while I can appreciate what later games such as FF6 and FF7 did with how they tried to tell there narrative and characters. None of them really impacted me the same way like with FF5 and is one of my favorites for that reason! Thank you for this review and I can’t wait to see more!👍

My mind was indeed blown when I played the fan translation in my teens. So I actually got a lot of nostalgia for it. It was the second FF I beat after FF7.

When you catch up to the tortoise sage and go into the library, you did not go there yourself. Therefore, teleport brings you back outside the cave where you met up with the sage. Now you can go to many places using chocobo

FF5 is a return to the core basics that made FF1 great... Been enjoying FF1 and the FF1 Randomizer a bunch lately, so addictive and satisfying, even if we already know the map... Always feels like a fresh experience... Next trying out some FF5 randomizers

It’s hilarious to me how Square was so unconfident in the western gaming market’s ability to comprehend the “complex gameplay” of JRPGs, while JRPGs were originally designed as simplifications of early western computer RPGs

I absolutely love FF5, really glad to see someone doing such a deep dive into it.

I was able to play FFV when it first released in 92 (I’m half Japanese. My Japanese friends had it) and I have tremendous nostalgia for it still. If people in the west had it back then it would rightly be talked about as an absolute classic game today. The soundtrack is Uematsu at his most effortlessly catchy and fun

Thank you! FFV OST is easily if not top tier, very close and doesn’t get mentioned enough. Superior to IV no doubt which is definitely mentioned more.

FFV is a great rpg. Back in high school I had to play it on an emulator and had a blast.

Galuf gotta be one of my favorite Final Fantasy characters of all time, the moment where he storms Exdeath's castle just to save his friends with the four warrios of dawn playing in the background is simply amazing, loved 5

FFV is my favorite and I always felt like it was overlooked and underrated. The job system, story, and setting is what I felt like was Final Fantasy’s identity. With each new release, I feel we are straying further and further from what I felt was Final Fantasy.

how can a person watch this without buying this game i watched and commented subbed and liked yesturday then bought the game off of steam today and i can see why you love this gem so much tysm for the awsome content.

Man, the internet part at the end REALLY hit hard! 35 now, and although I am typing this on my phone binge watching your vids, with my wife asleep on the couch, with Hulu on the tv, I really do miss the early days of the internet. I don’t think I would want to go back though if I really thought about it. Great vid, FFV was an amazing game when it came out, and still is in my top plays

I didn't play all the way through the game until the pixel remaster came out, but once I did, it became my all-time favorite. It has everything I want from a final fantasy game: full job system, memorable characters, powerful emotional moments (for EVERY character, not just THAT moment), and also yes, THAT moment.

Bloody love this game. According to interviews back in 2000 Hironobu Sakaguchi said FFV was his favourite until FFIX was released (which he still says is his ideal Final Fantasy to this day). The OST is amazingly diverse. Nobuo Uematsu travelled Europe between IV and V, and that influenced the music (there's some Irish jig music in the game). It also got an arranged album release with "Final Fantasy V: Dear Friends" in collaboration with a Finnish group now called "Angelit" - considering a lot of tourists from far East Asia travel through Finland I wonder if Nobuo was inspired by traditional Finnish culture. The lack of nostalgia is painful. And a lot of people wrote off this game because the fan translation named the protagonist "Butz" (which is probably the most...literal way to translate his name). I remember a Reddit post regarding a theory that all FF games followed some form of entertainment media, with FFVI being an opera, FFIX being a play, and FFIV being a romance drama. They said FFV was a pantomime. To me, the best part is the legacy of FF themes this game left behind. The Moogle Critter Tripper Fritter, Omega Weapon, and the best one the Interdimensional Rift: Where both Gogo and Gilgamesh were banished into (I wonder where they might turn up...), and Atomos who sucks things out of the universe. My fan theory is that the Interdimensional Rift is the thing that connects the series, and it started in FFV. I think people who consider themselves die-hard FF fans would be excited about this theory if only they played FFV.

even if it's not my favorite. I'll always say that Final Fantasy V is the Final Fantasiest of them all if that makes sense. Not only because of what people think of when they think about Final Fantasy like the Chocobos and Moogles and Crystals and things like that but become of something that I'll describe by the French word "Dépaysement" roughly meaning abrupt change of scenery. Because the first five games all start with a somewhat conventional, medieval fantasy word but the further you discover the mysteries of the game, you get sent places that are completely outside what you'd expect. Final Fantasy 1 makes you climb through a tower filled with servers and on top of it you end up in a space station, which strangely enough, they've changed in the remakes. In Final Fantasy IV you start in a setting of war between kingdoms and later you learn that an ancient race from outer space came to the earth on an artificial moon and some bad actors have been pulling the strings behind the scenes. When you first see the tower of Zot and everything is super high tech, it's really an abrupt change of scenery and the game keeps doing this with the place to explore. Final Fantasy V does that a lot, you start in one world, then get thrown into another, only to learn that they were once both the same and end up fighting the final boss in an even weirder dimension than the ones before. I think that what made old final fantasy great to me, there are not only allusions to the great beyond, you get thrown right into it and fight strange creatures from beyond time and space. Pretty damn neat if you ask me.

When I was just about 5 (I don't remember exactly how old I was but it was around then), my dad loaded up an emulator of FF5. We both sat down and played it. I chose two characters, he chose two characters, and we made choices for those characters. Final Fantasy 5 is why I love Final Fantasy. It's why I love JRPGs. It's why I love the Bravely series (the spiritual successor to FF5, if you enjoyed FF5, you REALLY should play Bravely Default). It's one of the main reasons I enjoy gaming now. My dad bought me the FF pixel remaster for my 18th birthday this year and I decided to play through the games in order, for two reasons: I wanted to say that I've beaten the games, and I wanted to experience the Final Fantasy games in order. FF1 was alright, and I really only enjoyed getting to experience the game that started it all because its a novelty. I actually enjoyed FF2 more than most do, but I understand why others disliked it. FF3 was fun (after FF5 me and my dad played FF3, although we couldn't beat it), and finally being able to beat it was a wonderful experience. My uncle had tried to get me to play FF4 once, but I never got into it like I did the other games. It held true when I actually played through it, and I still find the story and gameplay quite lackluster by comparison. Final Fantasy 5 was the only game I went into this playthrough for an alternative reason. It wasn't just a novelty. It was personal, and it was nostalgic. As I played through the game I would constantly pick up little bits of information I remembered from my playthrough with my dad. I remembered wanting to try a blue mage, only for him to stop me because the "learn" system was really difficult to get into (I went through the entire game with a blue mage and rubbed it into his face). I remember the barrier tower. I remember being worried we'd drown when going back to Walse Tower. I remember so many little details. I just beat the game today and it's been such a great ride. I plan on starting FF6 soon, but I think afterwards I might go back to FF5 and see what else I can do in it. This game is my favorite Final Fantasy, and maybe that's the nostalgia, but it can't be understated what this game meant to me and what it still means to me. Thanks for listening to my little rant 😅

As a clueless 5 year old that tried his darndest and didn't know how to read. Getting pwned by garula, the crystals at moore forest, the imp from walse castle, and the chimera and sandcrawlers from the deserts and especially 'GALUF'S FLAME HAS FLICKERED OUT'. Thinking that using having a party of 4 same jobs would be good. Those countless experimenting is why this will always be my favourite ff. I mean the low level gameplays and job fiesta are also a lot of fun to watch too. Thank you for this video dude, certainly made me feel like the young kid I was, and especially like you said for those translators that worked their bones off to make it possible for us to be able to enjoy such a wonderful masterpiece

FF5 feels like the most pure FF experience to me. I love them all up untill after X though but 5 is my favorite.

im a simple man i see FFV i like and share tyvm for reminding me of how much i love this game legit felt myself tear up when going over the last stand scene this game changed me when i played it when the romhacking scene put it out.

yo i cried at the end of this i am no gonna lie. i just never knew just how much i really loved this game until i watched this. thank you so very much for making this

You did it! You DID IT! MY GOD if this is not one of the best videos on FFV! Congratulations again, you encapsulated everything I had in my heart when I first played FFV and I couldn't put into words. And in any FF discussion group I could never express these exact words you've just used to describe it's greatness! So, thank you. It was a pleasure to watch this video essay on my favorite SNES FF. Of course I also love FFIV and FFVI just like you probably do, but it is tangible how much more you love FFV and respect it for what it was meant to be. Sadly I'm not able to support your channel money wise, but I'd like to hug you and shake your hand on this very well done job. Congratulations, and keep up the good work. You're only getting better!

Believe it or not, a translated rom of FFV was my first JRPG ever. It blew my mind and it's my most nostalgic final fantasy game. Nothing will ever top that job system for me.

5 was and is amazing

I have so much nostalgia for the GBA versions of FF 1/2/4/5/6, as I git them when I was a preteen/teenager, and spent so long on car trips and after homework was done playing through them with no information on any of them, and just exploring the world to find out more....I think I've only ever beaten 5 once, and then would get so bogged down in class leveling minutae on additional playthroughs that I would never finish, and then just get myself involved in another/new game.

Finding the fan translations of FFV and Tales of Phantasia were some of the most fun times when I started college lol

Couldn't agree more. I first played "FFV" on the playstation 1 back when they released the double disc package. I forget what it was called. Final Fantasy Chronicles or some shit. Anyway. Could not say it any better myself. FFV is totally under-rated and slept on IMO

I just finished V as Pixel Remaster on Switch, which came out a few weeks ago. I think this game ties with IV as my favourite RPG. Great story and characters, and some locations are memorable.

FFV was my first FF game. I played it on the GBA and played through it many times as a kid. For many years I played through it without any guides and each playthrough I made new discoveries while using things I had figured out in previous playthroughs to my advantage. It was an amazing game and it was perfect for a kid who didn't have access to that many games. Along with Pokémon and Fire Emblem this is what I think about when I remember the fun I had with the GBA. I'm very nostalgic for this game and I really appreciate this amazing video. Thank you for letting me relive some great memories.

I really wish FF V was released here on the SNES. It seems far more a game of it's time than either IV or VI. Other than the internet, that was also a time before giant backlogs when great RPGs came out about 1 or 2 each year, steam sales didn't exist, and we replayed the games we had because they were all we had. FF V seems brilliantly designed for this style of play where we could play it over and over using different classes, and discovering a few secrets every few replays. But today I have a backlog a mile long, and if I play FF V again, it's been over 15 years since I played it the last time and there's much I have forgotten, so it's not quite like playing it several times a year like I would have in the early 90s.

This is one of the best reviews I’ve seen of a video game, and this has really reminded me of everything I loved about it ages ago (I really need to play it again now). Thank you!

V was magic to me. I was SO excited to play Final Fantasy Anthology the Christmas I got it; such happy memories.

This video simultaneously got you my sub and sold a copy of FFV Pixel Remaster for Square. Well done, sir 👏

FFV is my favorite pixel-era FF game. Thank you for covering it!

FF5 was the first FF I beat! There was so much FILL IN LATER I wish there was more story and character interaction in this game

I was actually born in 2000 and played the gba port of ffv, i never beat it as a kid but it has really defined my love of games, i look for character building and choice in my games. I try and replay it once every few years due to the freedom. Currently trying to 100% it right now

Came for your starcraft content a while ago but glad I'm still subscribed. Final Fantasy 5 is my favorite game of all time! I think it has the best soundtrack in the series, and some of the best characters in gaming.

Excellent video, so much passion and deep analyzes at the same time, just a pleasure to watch, I didn't even sensed when 1h have gone!!! On top of everything that you've said (mostly things that a player can see), hidden beneath is the real gem, the essence of FFV - the battle engine. That is a gem that is known only to a few that have actively participated in reverse engineering of the game. It is so deep, it has such complexity, that the vanilla have portraited like 30-40% of its potential. A good example is the twin lance. It is like a spear but is not (Jump don't give the extra 100% dmg). It is the only weapon that hits 2 times without a skill. Other example is the Thief glove - it can be equipped by Thief but also Ninja. Why, because it has hidden mechanics. And these are just few exceptions of things that could be brewed by the engine, but vanilla almost don't. Other things can not be even seen in vanilla. Like Flails - the engine support this class of weapons, but vanilla don't have instances. There are weapons that are called that way, but internally they don't function as such. Unfortunately the player will not experience some features of the engine because of bugs. Like agility based weapon (like dagger) should be a toy for a strength based job (like knight) but a stabbing power for agility based like Thief. But because of a bug, they are toy in both cases.

I itching for this years Four Job Fiesta!!

This patch came out when I was in junior high and open the world of emulation up to me. I have nothing but great memories of this game and when. This has the one of the best job systems of the entire series with FFT topping it and FFXIV common in next. When FF Anthology came out when I was in high school this was a day one purchase for me and I played the hell out of that and loved every minute of the story the engaging combat the customization options. This is literally one of my top comfort games. I still don’t understand how this title is scene as a weaker entry. But thank you for making this video my friend this made me an instant subscriber.

Final Fantasy V is by far my favorite FF of all. The sense of exploring the world, the pacing, the characters, the AWESOME job system, everything is just perfect. While everyone loves FF6, I miss the customization that 5 offered - and that we only saw back in Tactics

I grew up with this games and it's still my favourite, for all the reasons listed in the video. Great job! :)

Is it the best FF game? Probably not, but it's definitely my favourite

Amazing video! I love V so much. Darn, I love FINAL FANTASY so much!!

Another issue with sales on titles like Final Fantasy 2, was the expense. It was a hell of a feat for me to talk my mom into buying final fantasy 2 for me when the price tag was 90 dollars.

Playing the Pixel Remaster and I enjoy it more than IV which I never thought I'd say just a year ago.

When it comes to the characters in this game, they may not have the most individual depth but they absolutely are some of the best as a group In something that is rare to Final Fantasy, as series of battle companions, alliances of convenience and brothers in arms, V's cast is none of those. They are clear and genuine friends, sharing a true bond of companionship beyond a shared purpose. They care about each other deeply and just enjoy spending time together, they're one of the only groups that would actually hang out together socially even if the world didn't need them

I have never seen anyone break FFV down to this degree. Your video has: 1) Convinced me to play it again 2) Sub to your channel 3) Watch all your other vids 😊

Recently come across this vid, honestly as someone who love FF5 in my first gameplay on PS1 and since then continue to play the game in every console it was released (currently playing Pixel Remaster), you express the points of the game so well! No FF has given me the same enjoyment and emotions as FF5, even after every revisit I have to this game I always get new enjoyment out of it! Again, I can feel your love for the series bleeding in this video which is nicely done and clearly shows the enjoyment and love you put, I came across tons of retrospective vids of FF5 but none of them compared to yours, cheers for the great vid! Really feels vet heartful! Again, this is a very beautiful vid!

My first FF, the most nostalgic of all games

Nice video definitely gonna try it 👍

Final fantasy V is my third favorite in the series. Final Fantasy V would have truly been perfect for me, if it had a fifth party member, the dark night class, and the ninjitsu ability for the ninja class. A remake with added jobs and expanded story for Nintendo switch, Xbox one, and PS5 like Final Fantasy 4 DS would be awesome! Cool video 😎👍

5 is my favorite and I will always fight for it as the best ff in the series

Another thing that is special is the teleport spell. It exits to the world map where you had last voluntarily been. This is important.

Final Fantasy V always just felt like an upgraded Final Fantsy III to me. Nothing wrong with it just but at the same time nothing stood out enough to make it more than what it was.

Stunning work on this. I remember playing the fan translation in high school and being blown away by it.

Awesome job on this, look forward to watching the others youve made

Some great memories playing FFV on my PSP back in junior high. The expansive yet varied job system made it so much fun to build the character in unique ways. Both the scale of the adventure and the overall looming threat in the story was so cool playing it for the first time. FFV will always have a spot in my top 3 FF games

FFV was actually my first FF ever played, with the GBA version when I was just 9 years old. For me, it felt like a natural progression of the only RPGs I had played before, those being Pokémon. Acquiring and leveling up Jobs to gain their moves felt really natural to me coming from that experience, and the addition of a story and characters I actually fell in love with made it so FFV helped to foster my love for the JRPG genre. I consider it to be one of the most important games in my life because of that, as JRPGs are my favorite genre now and have given me so many of my favorite games of all time. It’s always been disappointing to me that V gets so overlooked by so many people, and I will always love anyone giving it its due!

Simply amazing. Just found this channel and this truly fantastic video

One of the best in the saga, and the GBA port, aka Final Fantasy V Advance, is clearly the best Final Fantasy game I have ever played.

7:37 No, no it wasn't. It's surprising you would even argue this since we can plainly see in the video itself that this isn't true. FFV was a very minor (at best) visual upgrade from IV. It wasn't until FFVI that a substantial visual upgrade occured over what became before.

Excellent vid thank you. I enjoyed all of this

Playing the FFV fan translation waaaay back in the late 90s was like the holy grail for me and my initiation in to the wider world of the internet. I had been online since 95 but my ignorance of just what was possible was finally torn down when emulation started getting bigger and bigger. Man...those were the days.

Loved the video. Thank you for the great work

Great review, you really nailed what makes FF5 a lovable game. As a European, I discovered FF4, 5 and 6 at the same time, and did them in order. Hence, I could enjoy the improvements from 4 to 5 just like the japanese players in 1992. In addition, I think FF5 was the first 16-bit FF game to be translated in French by a team of fans (along with Seiken Densetsu 3), so it brought me even closer to the game. To me FF5 is the SNES RPG with the most fun packed in it along with Chrono Trigger. You are never bored when you play it because there is always something to do.

Ty for the video im 49 and grew up playing these gems and omg i miss real final fantasy games so badly...these games they try to push on us older gamers 😤 😒 well let's just say they're crap too be nice. But tysm for the trip down memory lane when gaming was so great 👍

Hold up... This was released in 1992... Super Marios Bros, the live action movie was released in 93 Mario Bros suggests there are two worlds and the meteor that we believe killed the dinosaurs is in fact responsible for the two worlds being separated. It should also be noted that King Cooper in said movie wants to use something called the rock to merge the two worlds. I'm convinced one of the writers was heavily inspired by this game.

This is an incredibly well-crafted love letter. I really enjoyed it

My First FF game was the GBA version of this.... How nostalgic.

Thank you so much for this great video and break down! 5 has been my favorite in the series ever since I played it, and I have never understood the criticisms of its story. I thought it was great

Saddly, most people play rpg for their story and not for their gamplay... those should just read book or watching film. Game are about gameplay and FFV is the best FF on that point. One top of that, he have great graphic (for the time), killing music and a really good story, making him one of the best game ever (Dragon Force on Saturn being first :p ). Like you said, the only thing this game don't have is a nostalgia factor in the ouest. Your video is a love letter to my favorite FF and i hope a lot of ppl will see it, giving them a boost of motivation to test and enjoy FFV. Yoh, discovered it around year 2000 and later bought it on GBA.

I've never been a final fantasy fan. I've tried most of the mainline games (except 2-4) and put them all down, but I just completed this game and loved it. I wish they went more in this direction. In the meantime I guess I'll go back to dragon quest and chrono trigger, but I might even give this another playthrough as there a few optional bosses I missed.

I for one think the fan translation of the SNES version of the game is the best version. The GBA went too far with having the characters speak in funny dialects, and had character portraits that look nothing like the sprites you're actually playing. Not to mention that every newer version seems to weirdly stretch the sprites and alter the color balance and so forth, and I definitely prefer the way they look before. Other than the fumbling of names like Butz and Exdeath, the fan game is pretty close to perfect IMO, and is possibly my single favorite game of all time.

I wonder if you can try out Might and Magic franchise, especially Might and Magic 6, 7 and 8. (Or especially it's Merged Mod, which combines all three games into one). It has a lot of customization, and it's one of my favorite Western RPGs due to the fact that it plays like a JRPG. Even the soundtrack of Might and Magic games is somewhat JRPG-ish, also having sci-fi twist.

Mystic Quest was my first RPG as a child, and their efforts to appeal to US kids certainly worked for me, as I absolutely loved that game. Soon after playing (and being blown away) by Final Fantasy II, I came across a European gaming magazine with a single screenshot of Butz in a town with a caption, "Final Fantasy V." I thought, 'V?, that couldn't mean V because we only have 2 FF's released." Next, the Mega Man X issue of Nintendo Power (it had a silver cover - Vol 56 from January 1994), was my first issue of the magazine. Towards the back I saw another two screenshots of FFV showing the party battling Metamorphs and crystals in the Interdimensional Rift. It looked amazing, and got me so excited. I was a subscriber of the Squaresoft fan newsletter back in the 90's when I was a kid. One of the mailings said that they'd be releasing Final Fantasy V as Final Fantasy Extreme after Final Fantasy III (VI.) My hopes were high and I couldn't wait. I'd occasionally call Squaresoft's long distance number listed in the back the FFII instruction manual (when I could afford the phone bill) to ask about things like how many towns and how many Esper's would be in FFIII (VI.) In one call, I asked them about Final Fantasy Extreme, and they said it had been cancelled. I asked them if they would release it if I could get enough signatures from people who want the game to come out. The guy said, "Sure, if you could get enough signatures." I typed a letter and went up to every kid in my school explaining it and asking them if they'd sign. I probably had close to 100 signatures, and mailed the letter to Square Enix. I also sent letters to EGM, Game Informer, and Nintendo Power explaining the situation and included screenshots of FFV as well as Romancing Saga 2 I'd seen in another magazine. Sadly, they never published my letters, though one sent back a letter saying they 'might' publish it :( If Final Fantasy V had come out when I was 11 or 12, I would have been absolutely blown away. I used to restart JRPGS from the beginning just for the thrill of gaining new abilities again, trying new strategies, and buying different gear and upgrades. If my young self could have played FFV, I would have played it over and over, messing around with all the different jobs and abilities. Who knows, maybe I would have been inspired enough to finish the text based RPG, "Bahamuts Lair" I spend 100's of hours programming in Power Basic haha. A few months after I moved in 8th grade, my friend called to tell me he found an English translation for FFV on the internet! I grabbed it right away, but my PC was too slow to get more than 15 fps. I held off for a few years until I could run it smoothly (along with Seiken Densetsu 3) and it was a thrill. It's been extremely hard, if not impossible, to find friends in person who have a passion or even interest in the Final Fantasy series, but the online community is a joy. Still can't help feeling it might have changed my life in some way if it had come out in the early to mid 90's. I'm currently finishing up my 4th or so playthrough, but first time through FF5 pixel remaster, and it stands the test of time. Great video. Brought back plenty of nostalgia :)

After playing final fantasy 4 (DS) and dropping the game due to difficulty and ridiculous story elements, FF5's lighthearted and comradery-centered story was something I felt far more attatched to, regardless of its flaws and lack of major character development. And as for the characters, I used the gameplay and even my own job choices to frame the characters into whatever was fun or exciting to me. For example: Galuf, signature space grandad, was a Berserker. So all of his combat was just "Raaaaaaagh!!" Therefore, Galuf being a loving, strong willed space grandpa who runs around in wolve's fur - beating enemies senseless with nothing on the brain but axe-swinging destruction, is one hell of an image. It's that kind of fun that your imagination gives you in FF 1 and 3, and I see no reason to have it stop here. The game is just wild fun, and even more impressive when you try out the Four Job Fiesta just to execute whatever tactics you can to win. This game is one of the best FF's out there, and people don't give it enough credit as you have. Wonderful video.

"We all become orphans..." Dude.

I always blitz my way to Monk's Barehanded and then don't worry about weapons for 80% of the rest of the game.

This video has made me want to revisit Final Fantasy 5 in a way that I didn't think was possible! I plan to the Game boy advance version before I found myself lost and ended up in some optional dungeon that I couldn't get out of and had to just call it quits. My guess is that it's the dungeon to get mine because I was pretty late in the game but I would love to play it all over again in the pixel remaster

Not only does this game have the first super bosses, but one of them turns out to have a specific weakness that can be exploited to kill it in one turn, something I don't think ANY other FF superboss is susceptible to. In the void are dragons you can steal Hiryuu spears from. Equip each of your characters with two of them, and have them jump at the beginning of combat with Shinryuu. He will be dead by the end of the turn, unless your level is ridiculously low.

FFV is my favourite in the series; I remember being delighted to play it in English back when the only way was through emulation.

I just finished this game for the first time. I absolutely loved it. It's easily replayable. And, I always avoid any sort of online help when playing, and was totally trying to fight Exdeath without any of the powerful weapons from that shrine or temple or whatever it was. I had to go back and explore because I failed at defeating Exdeath so many times, discovered tons of interesting things, and realized I skipped some important stuff. I loved the endgame and how the story finished. It was simple in terms of narrative, but that's what allowed the job system to shine so well.

The part that got me to quit was the endless bomb fight right after Galuf leaves the party. He was my only healer. I never went back to the game after that.

I'm playing through the pixel remaster right now. Haven't had this much fun playing a FF game in a long time. I've always wanted to finish it so now I'm finally going to do it.

My favorite game ever. As a kid I could never beat it.

There are so many things taken from this FF and put into FF14. It was amazing

Honestly, this video made me want to give 5 a play. I have heard it was kinda boring, but everything you mentioned in this seems incredibly interesting. I love the job system and changed to it. It really does sound like this could be an underrated FF game.

FF5 get replayed by me more than any other except FF6. I actually look at FF7 being a step in the wrong direction vs 5 and 6. I know that is a pretty hot take, but 7's materia system is worse than the job system.

ffv is my fav sprite based ff by a lot

FF5 is one of the best games of all time, and it's the best of the first six FF games by a pretty wide margin. It's the first entry in the series to successfully integrate the character-driven story of FF2 and FF4 with the epic adventure of FF1 and FF3 (and nails both elements), and it does so with a really fun job system and challenging gameplay. I absolutely agree that it's overlooked because of missing nostalgia. There's also some issues related to the order in which these games were played by many people back in the day. FF5 came up with a lot of new, awesome things that were carried into FF6, but US players saw them first in FF6 and so associate them with FF6. So FF6 felt revolutionary while FF5 felt familiar, when really FF5 was the revolutionary game.

This was always my favorite ff game idc what anyone says. Bartz is Bae

You say Blue Magic can be used in the final battle but in my experience, all Blue Magic is ineffective against bosses. It will absolutely wipe the floor with common enemies though and is ridiculously overpowered in most random encounters. The trouble is that it's useless against bosses, so if you rely on it too much, you will get stomped by the next boss. It would be more interesting if there was a whole game designed around learning enemy attacks ... oh wait, there already is. It's called Kirby.

No kidding, 5 is my favorite (along with 8) Final Fantasy...