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19. FFV is the first FF to give monsters a Row system similar to the party. What this means is that if you attack an enemy towards the back of a group of monsters, unless you are using a weapon with Ignore Row as an attribute such as Bows or some of the Whip weapons, then your attack with do less damage.
20. FFV debuted several now classic FF Jobs including Blue Mage, Time Mage, Chemist, Mystic Knight, Dancer, Berserker, Beastmaster, Samurai, and Mime.
21. While both FFIV, VI, and most famously FFVII were rife with major rumors concerning their games which usually entailed making a certain character playable again, FFV has it's own unique rumor that persisted for ages when the game was still Japan only. The FFV Rumor detailed a hidden Job class that was usually Paladin.
22. FFV is the only mainline FF where the female party members outnumber the male ones 3:2.
23. Gilgamesh is the first comic relief villain in the series and would largely set the stage for successors like Ultros, The Turks, Biggs, and Wedge, and Lani.
24. When the developers were trying to come up with Job classes to add and abilities for them, Tetsuya Nomura wanted to have a gambler class and came up with an idea of Ninja's using a dog as a companion. Neither idea made it into FFV but did eventually make it into the next installment.
25. While Chocobos have existed for several games by this point, FFV was the first to really personify the lovable mascot by giving us Boko. While Gilgamesh often gets more fanfare for his numerous appearances in later installments, Boko has also managed to make several appearances or be referenced a lot in later installments as well, often being a default name for Chocobos the player encounters.
26. Barring Galuf, the one thing all of the final party members have in common is a close connection to a different animal. Bartz with Boko, Lenna with the Wind Drake, Faris with Syldra, and Krile with both her world's Wind Drake and the Moogles.
27. FFV is the first introduction to a character named Mid who often has a close connection to the world's Cid.
28. FFV is the first FF to receive an official sequel in the form of the four part 90s OVA Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals. While it was a policy with Sakaguchi's tenure at Square to never make a game sequel to any FF entry, he was okay with adaptions in other media. He and Nobuo Uematsu served as Executive Producers for the series. The anime was directed by Rin Taro and made by Studio Madhouse. The anime was given an English translation but it has never been released on anything but VHS and SE seems to want fans to ignore it's existence. You can still find it online if you look.
29. Ironically, despite being a sequel to FFV, Legend of the Crystals was released in the West before the actual FFV did.
30. While lots of FFs have had issues with name translations before, FFV is the only entry where almost every main character has had some weird argument about their "proper" name. Most will obviously think about the Bartz/Butz/Battz controversy, but Lenna/Reina was an issue. How to pronounce Fari's real name Sarisa has been an issue. Galuf's true name wasn't revealed to fans outside of Japan until the FF 20th Anniversary Ultimania's were released. He was simply known as Galuf Doe up until then. Finally, Krile/Cara/Kururu will still start fights in some parts of the internet. This is sort of in contrast with other FF translations where some names were fixed and finally accepted by the fanbase such as Aerith or in the case of FFIV and VI, SE just acknowledges the Western translation. Even ExDeath gets in on this action with some people still believing he should be called Exodus.
31. FFV was one of the first and most popular fan translated ROMs in the early history of fan translating games outside of Japan.
32. Much like the name controversy above, hair color is another divisive topic when considering what is "canon". Not helped that SE often goes back and forth between the Amano version and the Shibuya sprite versions depending on the media. Though in recent years it seems that Bartz and Faris settle with their sprites' hair but Amano's outfit, Galuf and Krile are often based off Amano's design. Lenna oddly, tends to be the only one to stick with her sprite design in any outside cameos.
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