Sefie1999AD
09-21-2003, 03:00 PM
I saw a thread like this in FFX forums, so I decided to make one here. So this thread is for discussing about what you liked about FF5.
I'd like to say that I really loved the battle system. It's one of the most addictive systems in the series, and it makes you think strategically. You get more classes than in any other FF (excluding FFT, I think), lots of fantasy elements in them (white/black mages, summoners, dragon knights, spoony bards etc) and you get to use 4 characters and do lots of different class and ability combinations with them.
The battles are also balanced. They aren't too hard, but they're challenging. You don't have an instant enemy destroyer. For example, FF7 has Knights of the Round and Omnislash, FF8 has limit breaks and FFX has the ability to do 99,999 damage with physical attacks or over 2 million damage with Anima's Oblivion. About all the moves are equally powerful and cost-effective in FF5. Physical attacks do some nice damage, spells and summons do a bit more but not too much and there's many good support abilities such as Haste 2, Protect, Shell, Float and Golem.
Now that I've talked about the battle system, it's time to move for other great features. This game has three worlds, so you can explore loads of things, and the world maps never seem to get old and boring, really. The world map songs are also beautiful, and that brings us to another great feature in FF5: music. Almost every song suits the game very well, and there's tons of great songs everywhere. The sound quality sounds a bit weird, but the songs still sound so great that you can't really make them much better (at least not with the techonology in 1992). Just listen to "A Presentiment" (the opening music), "Nostalgia" (death and sadness theme), "Reminiscence" (plays in various parts, like when Galuf is sad about Zeza's death), "The Evil Lord Exdeath" (Exdeath's theme) and "Battle with Gilgamesh" (Gilgamesh's theme), and you should know what I'm talking about.
While the storyline and character development aren't as good as in FFs like 4 and 6, they're still good enough to keep you interested. Each world has a plenty of story events. The story also feels like it makes a lot more sense during the second time through the game, and on the 2nd time, it also feels better and deeper. Butz is quite a typical RPG hero, but Faris and Cara are great, IMHO. Gilgamesh is a great (and pretty funny) side villain, and I also liked many of the support characters such as Cid and Mid. While Exdeath is a stereotypical "I will destroy the world! Die! Fools! Fwahahaha!" style villain, his actions speak louder than his words. When he slaughtered all Warriors of Dawn, killed Galuf and sucked towns into Voids among other horrible things, I felt both like "Man, this guy's gonna pay for this!" or "Uh huh, how am I going to beat a guy like this?".
Well, now that I've praised FF5 enough, it's your turn. What did you like about FF5?
I'd like to say that I really loved the battle system. It's one of the most addictive systems in the series, and it makes you think strategically. You get more classes than in any other FF (excluding FFT, I think), lots of fantasy elements in them (white/black mages, summoners, dragon knights, spoony bards etc) and you get to use 4 characters and do lots of different class and ability combinations with them.
The battles are also balanced. They aren't too hard, but they're challenging. You don't have an instant enemy destroyer. For example, FF7 has Knights of the Round and Omnislash, FF8 has limit breaks and FFX has the ability to do 99,999 damage with physical attacks or over 2 million damage with Anima's Oblivion. About all the moves are equally powerful and cost-effective in FF5. Physical attacks do some nice damage, spells and summons do a bit more but not too much and there's many good support abilities such as Haste 2, Protect, Shell, Float and Golem.
Now that I've talked about the battle system, it's time to move for other great features. This game has three worlds, so you can explore loads of things, and the world maps never seem to get old and boring, really. The world map songs are also beautiful, and that brings us to another great feature in FF5: music. Almost every song suits the game very well, and there's tons of great songs everywhere. The sound quality sounds a bit weird, but the songs still sound so great that you can't really make them much better (at least not with the techonology in 1992). Just listen to "A Presentiment" (the opening music), "Nostalgia" (death and sadness theme), "Reminiscence" (plays in various parts, like when Galuf is sad about Zeza's death), "The Evil Lord Exdeath" (Exdeath's theme) and "Battle with Gilgamesh" (Gilgamesh's theme), and you should know what I'm talking about.
While the storyline and character development aren't as good as in FFs like 4 and 6, they're still good enough to keep you interested. Each world has a plenty of story events. The story also feels like it makes a lot more sense during the second time through the game, and on the 2nd time, it also feels better and deeper. Butz is quite a typical RPG hero, but Faris and Cara are great, IMHO. Gilgamesh is a great (and pretty funny) side villain, and I also liked many of the support characters such as Cid and Mid. While Exdeath is a stereotypical "I will destroy the world! Die! Fools! Fwahahaha!" style villain, his actions speak louder than his words. When he slaughtered all Warriors of Dawn, killed Galuf and sucked towns into Voids among other horrible things, I felt both like "Man, this guy's gonna pay for this!" or "Uh huh, how am I going to beat a guy like this?".
Well, now that I've praised FF5 enough, it's your turn. What did you like about FF5?