Most of the lack of interest in this game stems from the fact that it wasn't released outside Japan for the longest time. FFIV ---> FFII and FFVI ---> FFIII outside Japan but FFV never made it out until PS1 era. Thus, it lacks the nostalgia factor that its siblings did, even though I find its job system and combat fantastic. The story was a little trite but the same could be said of all previous FFs.

Case in point, I found a bootleg cart of this game at a flea market in China way back in early 1998, labeled simply as "Final Fantasy". I thought I had found some secret FF game that no one had ever played, and I was probably right, considering the PS1 version hadn't come out yet in the West. It didn't end up beating it until I bought the GBA game though because said cart was in Japanese.