The FFV job system is one of the most balanced, creative and fun RPG progression systems ever. It really doesn't get enough recognition for how well done this aspect of the game is. The best skills like Rapid Fire and Dual Cast are locked behind weaker classes which force you to sacrifice power while you level them to become stronger in the end. Even newer games that attempt to recreate the system like Octopath just don't quite get the balance right.
I was a huge fan of Final Fanasy 3, 3ds as a kid its how i was introduced to the series. Years later , not a kid anymore i got it on the ps4 pixel remaster and came across your channel, love the positivity and coverage of a great franchise. Just purchased Final Fantasy 5 and am enjoying it greatly so far! Cheers
Final Fantasy V is such a treat to go back to again and again! Am in the minority if it was a choice between this or VI, I’d pick this! I love it so much. I started working on the platinum but since Tears of the Kingdom came out, I haven’t touched it. LOL. It’s a busy gaming year! Love these videos. Thank you!!
My favourite FF from the 2D era. It doesn't have the strongest story or set of characters, but it is just so much fun to play and colourful and charming. Mastering the jobs and combining them is so addictive and you can play it 10 times and never have the same experience. It has its darker moments, but it's overall very much a feel good FF to me.
I don't know about Siphiroth, but I remember cloud and squall appearing during the save data continue page, they would appear after you chose your memory card
Final Fantasy V is just *fun*. Not every game needs to be super serious and heavy, its nice having a game that's a little more lighthearted every now and then! Also this game is the source of my favorite story about naming a character. When I first played it, back on PS1 in the collection with VI, when Bartz is still named ???? and first encounters Lenna, she asks what your name is, and the wording on his reply in that version was "You can call me..." So I named him Daddy. "You can call me Daddy." The rest of the game was comedy gold, and as such I can't play this game without naming him as such.
This is the first video that has come out before I finished it, FFV is amazing, should be finishing up soon, always been one of my favorites, but I still place it third begind VI and IX
This is the best entry in the series. The series has moved to action away from party based combat and it’s not something I’m really interested in now. I like the replayability of 5, the ability to make the game easy or hard as you feel. The different classes really feel different, it really is just a wild adventure reminiscent of the craziness of 1 or 3. Saturday morning cartoon logic to the max with that humor to keep you buzzed about where it could go and ending with a love letter to the friends we have made along the way and something heartwarming to go out on after such a perilous crusade.
Lord almighty 100% completing Final Fantasy V was a Herculean undertaking! Mastering all the Job Classes including Freelancer and Mime was extremely time-consuming! I’m glad this wasn’t a requirement for each character! But there was also making sure the Bestiary was filled out and all Blue Magic obtained! Took me the longest to complete than the previous four entries! Still…Great game!!
How does it compare with getting all jobs on all characters in FF3 to level 99…? I definitely questioned my life choices on that one. Hoping FF5 isn’t so crushing
Hello Genesis VII. I hope you’re doing well. I’m currently in progress of getting all 6 platinum trophies in the pixel remaster series and I just started playing 5. So hope you don’t mind helping me out by answering these questions specifically about the Blue Mage. 1. Is it really true that once I fully mastered the Blue Mage class, I don’t get to learn more enemy abilities? 2. Which monsters should I keep an eye on whenever I collect the Blue magic? I really need to know because it’s one of the few missable trophies that I don’t want to make mistakes on. Thank you the work that you’ve put into the videos. Cheers.
No worries! Thanks for watching. 1. This is indeed true. I think I prevented this by giving the learn ability to another job so I didn’t level up Blue Mage too much. 2. I followed a guide so I didn’t miss any, if you search FFV steam achievement guide it should be the first one, that helped me grab the spells as I went along
Cloud & Sephiroth does not appear in FFV. But the reason they are in the start selection of the game is simple to understand. Square released FFVII on PS1 and it was a big hit, and later on FFVIII came which was also a nice game and had a considerable graphic improovement that gave some spotlight for a series that started up in a console from number 7. Trying to use the momentum they made two releases. Final Fantasy Chronicles: Which brought FFIV & Chrono Trigger to PS1 with the extra bit of animations (animated for Chrono, C Grapich for FFIV) Final Fantasy Anthology: Which brought FFV & FFVI, pointing the issue of the FFIII or FFVI issue for people who were not aware of the jump in number from the Snes era. FFV was first officially coming out of japan and FFVI did not need improvement but just 2 special videos. For the Anthology they decided to make Cloud & Sephiroth appear as cameos in the start up of FFV and I think just Squall in FFVI. They are there just as a freebie cameo since they became so popular due to the recent releases of FFVII & FFVIII
FFV might be my favourite in the series if not for the music - the music is good but it's so... energetic and bombastic which makes it feel a lot more taunting when you have a million encounters in one palce
FFV is great, but maybe the Job system isn't the best to start off with... tho, I personally love it... especially in FFXII The Zodiac Age... but I been well versed in RPGs basically all my life, so I'm used to it, lol.
Great video as always mate, you seem to be working through at a similar rate to me as your videos drop just in time for me to watch right after I've completed the game! I've had my first mistep getting the plat with this one, great and barmy game, but I finished with 99% of the treasures 😭 Looking through all the various guides out there they all seem to contradict each other - is there any in particular you used that's trustworthy for this trophy? Totally agree regarding the soundtrack in this one btw, one of the better examples of Uematsu's love of prog rock
The guides I tend to follow are the ones on the steam forums and I'll only refer to it once I've cleared an area, the ones I use also list missables at the beginning so I'll mostly refer to it when I get to those points. Apart from that I try my best to enjoy it without looking. Except for the blue mage stuff, I had to look that stuff up hahaha
@@GenesisVII Good tip on the missables list. I used the one by lylat on the Steam forums to cross reference too, either it wasn't complete or more likely I screwed up. Just means I'll have to play it again I suppose! Anyway, keep it up! Very much looking forward to giving FFXVI a go as well
I am so looking forward to FF5PR. It has a lot of positive review and while it seems to be less-played than the other entries, the reviews that are there are just so positive! Also the Blue Mage job looks so cool. xD
Final fantasy V is an interesting one because it doesn't get talked about a lot, mostly because it only had two releases, the Psone version and rhe gba advanced one. I myself haven't played it but from what I've been hearing, I'll really enjoy it.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. FF4, 5, and 6 are Uematsu’s best soundtracks. 5 especially is so bursting with melody and catchiness. He was really in top form back then - all of the pieces are just so snappy, energetic, and effortless- something I think the music in the PlayStation games really lack.
I guess the reason Final Fantasy V doesn't get a whole lot of attention in the west is mostly because it arrived so late compared to the others. And even when it did the version that we actually got in the west (Anthology) kinda sucked. The added transitions slowed everything down to a crawl and the absurd load times certainly didn't help either. The Gameboy advance version was superior in almost every respect but well it was released pretty much past the end of the GBAs lifetime. So it probably didn't sell too well either considering the Nintendo DS had already been released for 1 1/2 years at that point. So yeah it was just never really given a chance to shine.
Something about the polish in the older versions really necessitated this remake to me. I think it benefits the most from what the collection promised and actually becomes a great game instead of just a good game.
I personally think that 5 was kind of around the middle of the first 6 games as far as story and characters go, but it easily had the most enjoyable combat system that allowed for so much freedom of party layout and expression, plus there were so many fun and gimmicky ways of beating bosses and tough enemies that were such a joy to experience.
I've always felt this should have been Final Fantasy IV as it felt like the end of the classic NES style, and the actual IV should have been V as it begins deeper story and characters. Either way, it's a great fun game. Still not up there for me like 4 or 6 out of these, but that has more to do with the silliness than the amazingly fun gameplay.
FFV definitely feels like a direct follow up to FFIII in pretty much every aspect while FFIV and VI are more story and character, so I totally understand why you would feel that way. It's funny because when I played Bravely Default 2 when it came out two years ago, it felt like the natural evolution of FFIII and FFV, like they could be their own series (I never played the first BD, but I assume it would probably apply to that one).
So for these games have you been using a guide? This is a question for all trophy hunters in general. I use guides for all of my games just because I don’t want to back track (because as you know backtracking is fucking exhausting). I wanna play these games but I also want to platinum them all one one run through, which means I’ll need guides. Thing is I feel like there’s a whole world of more skilled gamers than me out there that can finish these games without guides. I feel like I’m cheating.
I tend to go through each area on my own accord, taking in the story, the area etc. And then if I feel I've done everything in said area I'll then refer to a guide to see if there's anything I've missed before moving on.
@@GenesisVII thanks for the response. And I like it. Something I never even thought about was saving up double xp toward the endgame instead of just becoming OP right off the bat. (Which you did) because I thought “well I wanna enjoy the games how they were meant to be played too”. I’ll probably just be using the perks when I’m in a rut.
It's really hard not to be tempted by them sometimes, as soon as I seen the damage Samurai did with that gil throw ability I defiantly grinded some gil hahaha
@@GenesisVII is Gil more important in 1-6? For instance ff8 was my first back in ‘99. But I realized you really didn’t need Gil at all but to buy weapons. With magic and card-mod you never have the need to buy items. Kind of the same with seven and ten. I never really had much of a need for Gil in those games at least once I got the ball rolling.
You are right! On the PS1 version they had guest character sprites that would show up. Here is a link to Cloud! ruclips.net/video/WaJFJPpGlJQ/видео.html
Unfortunately Cloud and Sephiroth couldn't have been in the V opening scene because FF7 wasn't even in development yet, and even when it was, what was originally FF7 went on to be Xenogears
Just don't play the pixel remaster if you can help it. Worse translation, changed job abilities, too many bug fixes, changes to bosses from the original, making less options to cheese bosses and fights (what made the game fun) and the spritework isn't that good. The OG is ok and the GBA version is the best. Ok so just to give a couple examples: Atomos in the pixel remaster is no longer effected by dark spark and level 5 death. No clue why they buffed him like this, yet kept exdeath at level 66. (He can be taken out in seconds with 2 blue mages) It doesn't seem like they wanted to reward players for strategic thinking. In the GBA version, calm on beastmasters was bugged. It worked on everything that was not a magic beast. This actually made the stop effect more useful, as it wasn't purely situational anymore. You could literally combo it with another character's rapid fire and take out some bosses with it. (Omnicient is one)
FINAL FANTASY V. Yay or Nay?
FINAL FANTASY VI 100% Complete - ruclips.net/video/uYISgxWV0xs/видео.html
I personally love 5 and it's definitely the most underrated FF, imo. It's sandwiched between two nostalgic favorites.
Yay
The yayest yayness that ever yayed. It is my favorite Final Fantasy game after all even tho VII was my first.
The FFV job system is one of the most balanced, creative and fun RPG progression systems ever. It really doesn't get enough recognition for how well done this aspect of the game is. The best skills like Rapid Fire and Dual Cast are locked behind weaker classes which force you to sacrifice power while you level them to become stronger in the end. Even newer games that attempt to recreate the system like Octopath just don't quite get the balance right.
LOVED using Rapid Fire!
No your definitely right. Cloud & Sephiroth were in anthology back in the day
I was a huge fan of Final Fanasy 3, 3ds as a kid its how i was introduced to the series. Years later , not a kid anymore i got it on the ps4 pixel remaster and came across your channel, love the positivity and coverage of a great franchise. Just purchased Final Fantasy 5 and am enjoying it greatly so far! Cheers
Play the gba version of 5 if you can. It's better
The Advance version added a new bonus dungeon and four jobs that were exclusive to that version.
Final Fantasy V is such a treat to go back to again and again! Am in the minority if it was a choice between this or VI, I’d pick this! I love it so much. I started working on the platinum but since Tears of the Kingdom came out, I haven’t touched it. LOL. It’s a busy gaming year! Love these videos. Thank you!!
Thanks for watching as always! This would of been out sooner if I wasn't playing Tears of the Kingdom also!
Tbf ff5 is a thousand percent more replayeable than ff6
Final Fantasy V Four Job Fiesta event is starting soon and oh boy this year I am playing it a lot.
5 Characters + a Job System !
Please Square, port FFDimensions, more people need to try it.
I have been considering playing it and making a video on it
@@GenesisVII do it! It’s great!
@@GenesisVII That'd be great !
While the game won't top the other 3 SNES Titles, it's still a good one.
My favourite FF from the 2D era. It doesn't have the strongest story or set of characters, but it is just so much fun to play and colourful and charming. Mastering the jobs and combining them is so addictive and you can play it 10 times and never have the same experience. It has its darker moments, but it's overall very much a feel good FF to me.
Yeah this is defiantly along the lines of what I feel about FFV
I don't know about Siphiroth, but I remember cloud and squall appearing during the save data continue page, they would appear after you chose your memory card
No, you are not crazy. Sephiroth and Cloud have a chance of showing up as sprite on the loading screens from the Anthology edition
Thanks the more people that tell me I was right the more awesome I'll feel hahaha
@@GenesisVII I was told that Squall shows up in loading screens for VI. I have not seen that myself though
Apparently with Onion Knight as well!
Final Fantasy V is just *fun*. Not every game needs to be super serious and heavy, its nice having a game that's a little more lighthearted every now and then!
Also this game is the source of my favorite story about naming a character. When I first played it, back on PS1 in the collection with VI, when Bartz is still named ???? and first encounters Lenna, she asks what your name is, and the wording on his reply in that version was "You can call me..." So I named him Daddy. "You can call me Daddy." The rest of the game was comedy gold, and as such I can't play this game without naming him as such.
Yes, fun is defiantly the other word I’d use along side adventure. Hahaha daddy! Oh my!
This is the first video that has come out before I finished it, FFV is amazing, should be finishing up soon, always been one of my favorites, but I still place it third begind VI and IX
Cloud and sephiroth appear durring the file loading screens on the ps1 version of final fantasy five(ff anthology)
OMG! Yes I saw cloud once in the title screen and I don't know if my memory is lying to me but I'm sure I saw Squall too lol but never sephiroth
So far it seems we have had the same experience with these games. Must be the same age and from uk haha
Haha it's been great playing this classics again and gaining a new love and respect for them!
Ive played 1 through 7.... except for 5. I need to do that soon.
It’s really good, I hope you like it once you get too it!
This is the best entry in the series. The series has moved to action away from party based combat and it’s not something I’m really interested in now. I like the replayability of 5, the ability to make the game easy or hard as you feel. The different classes really feel different, it really is just a wild adventure reminiscent of the craziness of 1 or 3. Saturday morning cartoon logic to the max with that humor to keep you buzzed about where it could go and ending with a love letter to the friends we have made along the way and something heartwarming to go out on after such a perilous crusade.
Lord almighty 100% completing Final Fantasy V was a Herculean undertaking!
Mastering all the Job Classes including Freelancer and Mime was extremely time-consuming!
I’m glad this wasn’t a requirement for each character! But there was also making sure the Bestiary was filled out and all Blue Magic obtained!
Took me the longest to complete than the previous four entries!
Still…Great game!!
Yeah defiantly more things to get through in this one, but it was still a pleasure!
How does it compare with getting all jobs on all characters in FF3 to level 99…? I definitely questioned my life choices on that one. Hoping FF5 isn’t so crushing
You don't just play this game, you explore it.
Hello Genesis VII. I hope you’re doing well.
I’m currently in progress of getting all 6 platinum trophies in the pixel remaster series and I just started playing 5. So hope you don’t mind helping me out by answering these questions specifically about the Blue Mage.
1. Is it really true that once I fully mastered the Blue Mage class, I don’t get to learn more enemy abilities?
2. Which monsters should I keep an eye on whenever I collect the Blue magic?
I really need to know because it’s one of the few missable trophies that I don’t want to make mistakes on.
Thank you the work that you’ve put into the videos. Cheers.
No worries! Thanks for watching.
1. This is indeed true. I think I prevented this by giving the learn ability to another job so I didn’t level up Blue Mage too much.
2. I followed a guide so I didn’t miss any, if you search FFV steam achievement guide it should be the first one, that helped me grab the spells as I went along
Cloud & Sephiroth does not appear in FFV.
But the reason they are in the start selection of the game is simple to understand.
Square released FFVII on PS1 and it was a big hit, and later on FFVIII came which was also a nice game and had a considerable graphic improovement that gave some spotlight for a series that started up in a console from number 7.
Trying to use the momentum they made two releases.
Final Fantasy Chronicles: Which brought FFIV & Chrono Trigger to PS1 with the extra bit of animations (animated for Chrono, C Grapich for FFIV)
Final Fantasy Anthology: Which brought FFV & FFVI, pointing the issue of the FFIII or FFVI issue for people who were not aware of the jump in number from the Snes era. FFV was first officially coming out of japan and FFVI did not need improvement but just 2 special videos.
For the Anthology they decided to make Cloud & Sephiroth appear as cameos in the start up of FFV and I think just Squall in FFVI.
They are there just as a freebie cameo since they became so popular due to the recent releases of FFVII & FFVIII
many played it years ago through emulation and a english fan patch..
If someone wants to get into FF. Either this game or 3. I love all of them but 3- 5 are my favs.
V is one of the best in my eyes!
FFV might be my favourite in the series if not for the music - the music is good but it's so... energetic and bombastic which makes it feel a lot more taunting when you have a million encounters in one palce
There is only one passive skill that must always be equipped.
Great shit dude
FFV is great, but maybe the Job system isn't the best to start off with... tho, I personally love it... especially in FFXII The Zodiac Age... but I been well versed in RPGs basically all my life, so I'm used to it, lol.
I'm ready to go back to the Zodiac Age!
I’m playing it right now. I’ve had a mixed history with this title p, but I decided to give it another go 🤞
Let me know how you got on!
Great video as always mate, you seem to be working through at a similar rate to me as your videos drop just in time for me to watch right after I've completed the game! I've had my first mistep getting the plat with this one, great and barmy game, but I finished with 99% of the treasures 😭
Looking through all the various guides out there they all seem to contradict each other - is there any in particular you used that's trustworthy for this trophy?
Totally agree regarding the soundtrack in this one btw, one of the better examples of Uematsu's love of prog rock
The guides I tend to follow are the ones on the steam forums and I'll only refer to it once I've cleared an area, the ones I use also list missables at the beginning so I'll mostly refer to it when I get to those points. Apart from that I try my best to enjoy it without looking. Except for the blue mage stuff, I had to look that stuff up hahaha
@@GenesisVII Good tip on the missables list. I used the one by lylat on the Steam forums to cross reference too, either it wasn't complete or more likely I screwed up. Just means I'll have to play it again I suppose! Anyway, keep it up! Very much looking forward to giving FFXVI a go as well
You are always like a week a head of me!
You might get VI before me if XVI comes out during me playing it
@@GenesisVII I am still in the middle of world 2 on 5. We still both have time!
I am so looking forward to FF5PR. It has a lot of positive review and while it seems to be less-played than the other entries, the reviews that are there are just so positive!
Also the Blue Mage job looks so cool. xD
I wonder if the Kiss Of Blessing glitch works on Ex-Death in Pixel Remaater version of FF5?
40+ old man memories
Final fantasy V is an interesting one because it doesn't get talked about a lot, mostly because it only had two releases, the Psone version and rhe gba advanced one. I myself haven't played it but from what I've been hearing, I'll really enjoy it.
Don't forget the insanely amazing mobile/steam port we got hahaha.
I've slowed down hard since Tears of the Kingdom came out, lol. But im currently on 4. That said, i already have the Platinum on 7 soooo... 😎
Mandella effect.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. FF4, 5, and 6 are Uematsu’s best soundtracks. 5 especially is so bursting with melody and catchiness. He was really in top form back then - all of the pieces are just so snappy, energetic, and effortless- something I think the music in the PlayStation games really lack.
Very true!
Самая любимая часть франшизы ❤
Hot take: X-2 is the evolution of V’s combat.
I like that take!
Cloud can appear in the PS1 version of FFV and Squall can appear in the PS1 version of FFVI.
Playing this now, I loved 4 it was my first and 7. I was wondering if I should go in ascending order or descending or random order.
Tough choices, I'm gonna try do them in order, but 16 is fast approaching!
FFV is great!
I guess the reason Final Fantasy V doesn't get a whole lot of attention in the west is mostly because it arrived so late compared to the others. And even when it did the version that we actually got in the west (Anthology) kinda sucked. The added transitions slowed everything down to a crawl and the absurd load times certainly didn't help either. The Gameboy advance version was superior in almost every respect but well it was released pretty much past the end of the GBAs lifetime. So it probably didn't sell too well either considering the Nintendo DS had already been released for 1 1/2 years at that point. So yeah it was just never really given a chance to shine.
I forgot about the horrible PS1 load times
Something about the polish in the older versions really necessitated this remake to me. I think it benefits the most from what the collection promised and actually becomes a great game instead of just a good game.
True words
Was the game too hard that they needed to add a cheat menu?
I watched this vid for two reasons:
This guy is really hot
I love FF5
I personally think that 5 was kind of around the middle of the first 6 games as far as story and characters go, but it easily had the most enjoyable combat system that allowed for so much freedom of party layout and expression, plus there were so many fun and gimmicky ways of beating bosses and tough enemies that were such a joy to experience.
I'd defiantly put V at the top for core gameplay
Yes
In the ff collection or anthology cant remember I saw I think Squall and Onion knight make an appearance in the title screen of one of the games
I've always felt this should have been Final Fantasy IV as it felt like the end of the classic NES style, and the actual IV should have been V as it begins deeper story and characters.
Either way, it's a great fun game. Still not up there for me like 4 or 6 out of these, but that has more to do with the silliness than the amazingly fun gameplay.
I can agree with that somewhat, V is defiantly fun, I’d take a guess that it would be even lower in people’s lists if it didn’t have the job system
FFV definitely feels like a direct follow up to FFIII in pretty much every aspect while FFIV and VI are more story and character, so I totally understand why you would feel that way. It's funny because when I played Bravely Default 2 when it came out two years ago, it felt like the natural evolution of FFIII and FFV, like they could be their own series (I never played the first BD, but I assume it would probably apply to that one).
Once you finish 6, you should end the videos by ranking the one you just completed relative to the other ones.
I was gonna start a tier list after I finished VI then slowly add to it
So for these games have you been using a guide? This is a question for all trophy hunters in general. I use guides for all of my games just because I don’t want to back track (because as you know backtracking is fucking exhausting). I wanna play these games but I also want to platinum them all one one run through, which means I’ll need guides. Thing is I feel like there’s a whole world of more skilled gamers than me out there that can finish these games without guides. I feel like I’m cheating.
I tend to go through each area on my own accord, taking in the story, the area etc. And then if I feel I've done everything in said area I'll then refer to a guide to see if there's anything I've missed before moving on.
@@GenesisVII thanks for the response. And I like it. Something I never even thought about was saving up double xp toward the endgame instead of just becoming OP right off the bat. (Which you did) because I thought “well I wanna enjoy the games how they were meant to be played too”. I’ll probably just be using the perks when I’m in a rut.
It's really hard not to be tempted by them sometimes, as soon as I seen the damage Samurai did with that gil throw ability I defiantly grinded some gil hahaha
@@GenesisVII is Gil more important in 1-6? For instance ff8 was my first back in ‘99. But I realized you really didn’t need Gil at all but to buy weapons. With magic and card-mod you never have the need to buy items. Kind of the same with seven and ten. I never really had much of a need for Gil in those games at least once I got the ball rolling.
without a guide both of the super bosses are such a troll way to die.
You still play dc heroes and villains?
ruclips.net/channel/UCPczcFdqMv30Bt04hEKV_nA
You are right! On the PS1 version they had guest character sprites that would show up. Here is a link to Cloud! ruclips.net/video/WaJFJPpGlJQ/видео.html
Yessss. I knew it! And I obviously didn't search hard enough hahaha
@@GenesisVII I seem to remember it being more, but I can only find info online of it being Cloud, Sephiroth and Squall!
Someone mentioned Onion Knight also!
Unfortunately Cloud and Sephiroth couldn't have been in the V opening scene because FF7 wasn't even in development yet, and even when it was, what was originally FF7 went on to be Xenogears
I'm referring to the PS1 Anthology version of V
Just don't play the pixel remaster if you can help it. Worse translation, changed job abilities, too many bug fixes, changes to bosses from the original, making less options to cheese bosses and fights (what made the game fun) and the spritework isn't that good. The OG is ok and the GBA version is the best.
Ok so just to give a couple examples:
Atomos in the pixel remaster is no longer effected by dark spark and level 5 death. No clue why they buffed him like this, yet kept exdeath at level 66. (He can be taken out in seconds with 2 blue mages)
It doesn't seem like they wanted to reward players for strategic thinking.
In the GBA version, calm on beastmasters was bugged. It worked on everything that was not a magic beast. This actually made the stop effect more useful, as it wasn't purely situational anymore. You could literally combo it with another character's rapid fire and take out some bosses with it. (Omnicient is one)