Originally Posted by
ToriJ
The translation might have been worse than it was in the PSX version. I find the idea of the difficulty being tweaked funny. FFV is probably the easiest FF I've played out of the old retro games.
Actually the PSX script from what I've read is based off what was done for FFV back when they did intend to releases it.
I don't really know how much better or worse it would have done. The RPG genre in the West was a bit weird back then but I don't think the game would have nerfed too hard, FFIV's changes and localization were enough to make Square change how they approached doing that, which is why VI's gameplay wasn't altered. Censorship would still be there so some spells would be altered but frankly V doesn't have as many controversial elements like VI did nor was it as grim as IV, so even that wouldn't be a huge change. It might have bumped VI or CT from Square's lineup since it took forever to translate stuff back then but that's just speculation.