Do you consider this game hard?

[Galuf]

FFV is too hard to be released in US.

but contra and mega man are no problem....

My Spidey-Sense is telling me that they meant to say "it's too hard for us to translate."

pooh hah. but fans gave a decent job of it and its better than their PSX translation

That was done for free by kids with too much time on their hands. It is frankly a miracle it's as good as it is, and it has several issues.

Professional translations must be done during billable hours, and at that time, it was customary to hire only one translator. Having a team for such a task would have been cost-prohibitive at the time, and it was too big for them to do in-house, I'd wager.

Better to hedge their bets and just save that money to pay FFVI's translator.

guess it doesnt matter to me. even FF VII was made before i was born lol

[Electroshock Therapy]

I . . . played FFV after Tactics and found it a pretty easy game. I don't remember getting stuck on any bosses, barring Omega and Shinryu for obvious reasons, and my friend who played through it afterwards didn't have problems until he, somehow, ran out of money to throw at things in the final area. I agree with the people who have said it so far: the three NES games are harder. Well, one and three are anyway, two really just depends on your patience for punching yourself in the face for hours on end. :/

Also, regarding the Atmos fight, can't you Kiss of Blessing him? <.<

I'm currently playing through FFII again. Nowhere in the game is this necessary. Just strategy, mixing magic and weapons. Well, that and don't sell your weapons that inflict status ailments. They really do make the toughest enemies easier, even all the way to end game. For instance, I always keep the Ancient Sword. It's a great weapon against Gigas enemies or anything with a high defense. I've played this a couple time, and I'm going through it again. Mainly the grinding I've done is for Gil and maybe for some extra MP. Leveling up weapons and spells is pretty minimal, too. Sorry mods for going off topic like this. I like to respond whenever I see people think they need to beat themselves up to win the game. I just want to people to realize FF II can be fun!

Back to FF V. I do remember I had a terrible time trying to beat Ex-Death at the end. I even did level grinding throughout the game, and I though I was careful enough to exploit various job skills for my party. Nope. In the end, I had to go online and find strategies. I ended up using that one chemical mix that skips the second form entirely. Next time, I will beat it the proper way!

[Madame Adequate]

I haven't been finding the game especially hard so far. Atomos almost got me until I discovered how much shell was reducing his damage, and I had to take a couple of stabs at Liquiflame. It seems to depend on how you build your party to a great extent, and now that I've got the hang of knowing what I always need and how to seriously implement that so I have an effective spread of magic, various damage options, etc. it's become pretty easy for the most part.

Sometimes you come up against enemies that always wreck you though. I cannot for the life of me safely beat Blue Dragons in ExDeath's tower. Red Dragons sure, no problem, but without ice-absorb gear I can't survive Blue Dragons for long at all, and even with it it takes an age to chip their health down.

[Polnareff]

Without looking back to that time, it's easy to say "yeah, this game is easy" but back then it was one of the more challenging games to wrap your head around with regards to the job system. If you leveled up the wrong jobs at the wrong time, and equipped the wrong passive abilities without understanding them, then you were in for some hell.

I find this game to definitely be up there on the challenge scale, even to this day. Every other game has some kind of kink that totally destroys it, that a normal person can figure out in 10 seconds, or is so painfully easy that you don't even have to try (hello, FFVII).