My thoughts about this one.

[Elpizo]

I don't like krile for the reasons you quoted but i think they are all justified. Nobody wants to play with a little 14 year old girl, and especially if that 14 year old girl is replacing an amazing legend of a character. I didn't care that she could talk to animals either. I found her character to me mostly blunt and uninteresting.

The story IMO is very good. Its not just a simple case of "x-death wants power, gets it and is defeated". He was born a tree and becomes an evil black mage, raises an army, is defeated by the legendary dawn warriors and sealed with the power of the elemental crystals, frees himself by controlling fiends/friends and destroys those crystals, goes back to his home world, raises another army, kills nearly all of galufs and zezas army, tricks you into helping him obtain the crystals of galufs world, which he uses to fuse both worlds back together again, which is the key to entering the X-zone where he can obtain the power of the void, of which will take time so he frees some of the deadliest monsters in the X-zone to hunt the new light warriors. Then there is back stories for almost all the characters in the game, stories of loyalty and betrayel (gilgamesh) bravery and defeat (galufs fight with X-death) deeper story elements (we get to see parts of the dawn warriors victory of x-death, and hear of Enou and what happened to him when he did what X-death did 1000 years before)
I dont think FFV is given enough credit for its story. I thoroughly enjoyed it and personally thought it was fantastic.

As for difficulty, no i didn't think it was difficult. It was challenging in places when i first played the game. But difficulty in FFV is down to how difficult you want it to be (IMO) You are given all the tools you need for the job, abilitys, weapons,items,armours and relics can make a battle with omega which seems impossible, suddenly look so easy a 5 year old could do it.

Graphics? Couldnt care less what the graphics were like tbh. The sprites were all nice to look at

Music. Yup good and bad. But the bad doesnt bother me, whereas the good gets me sexually exited (gilgameshs theme!!!)

Shinryu and omega were the most enjoyable part of the game for me. they both kicked my arse several times and i fought them over and over until i could beat them. Then i wanted to fight them in different ways, one-turn-K.O's, one-on-one etc i still fight them for kicks even now after i must have fought them a hundred times each

Job system. Could that system possibley be anymore fun. Theres so much you can do with it. Everytime you play, you have different characters learn different jobs and mix different abilities with other abilities. You have so much freedom to do what you want, and at the same time a need to keep your characters seperate so you dont end up with a team of the same characters (like FFVII and FFVIII where by the end they are all pretty much the same) to me, its perfect

What is so wrong about a 14 year old kid? In Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Marche, Ritz and Mewt are barely older than 15 themselves, but nobody complains. But I do agree about Galuf. That was a bit of sad, that she replaced him. But consider this: If Kriel was in from teh beginning, then would people still like/dislike her? I think most people dislike her, because of teh fact you stated, she replaces Galuf. If that wouldn't have happened, I think most people would have liked her.
At least she has a bit more personality than Butz/Bartz.

I still don't fully get it. I understand the fact about Galuf.
But what is so wrong about her character?
It's teh character of any 14 year old girl.
Not trying to flame or anything, but I'm just confused.

Off-topic: Bartz was a pretty lucky guy. In the end, he fought together with THREE girls. Talk about lucky, lol.

I fully agree about the story. It's underrated
People who say it's to simple just don't know what they're saying or they didn't get deep enough in the game.
I found all that history about ExDeath and the Enuo, teh Void, it was all very interesting.
And the Final Floors of the Final Dungeon, the N-Zone, to me, the N-Zone is one of the coolest Fina lDungeons if you count looks in. Pandaemonium still is my favorite, but this one I like much as well.

Difficulty... Well, in the beginning, I do found Galura giving me a bit of trouble, having a well balanced party for that fight. Two knights to protect the weaker and a whiet mage for healing, and a balck mage to attack Galura. He still wasn't very easy. But that's just one boss.
The only otehr bosses that were completely annoying were Atomos and NeoExDeath (but Neo was cool ). Neo's Grand Cross, that's what I hated.
I didn't count Shinriyuu and Omega in, cause they are optional bosses.
The way you told it, those two sound like much fun! I should consider training some more and defeat those two...

I again agree with you on the music. Gilgamesh Theme rocks. But of course, there was more great music in the game.

The job system was good, yes, and very fun too, but in my humble opinion, it just took a bit too long to master a job. Of course, now that I know which job suits which character teh best, I'll keep that in mind for when I play the GBA version.

FF V is pretty decent. I like it, but not enough to be considered one of my favorites. I wish they would've added a bit more personality to Bartz

I do like the Job system though. I could customize my characters any way that I see fit.

If it's not one of your favorites, fine with me. But I take it that you have played it until the end and finished it, yes? At least you played it to see how you liked it. That's fine with me.
But yes, Bartz should have had a bit more personality. IMHO, they focused a bit too much on Galuf or on two nice sister princesses, lol.

The job system, like I said above, yes, it's fun and entertaining. It gives you an incredible amount of freedom, IMHO. That's what I like.
Makes me feel teh same liek when I was palying FF IIIj. Although in V, they made teh job-system even better.