The least important game in the series?
Despite having never played FFI-FFIII, I've heard of them.
I honestly didn't know there was in FFV until a few years ago.
Is part of the reason this game isn't well received from that fact that it's not very well known? Or just because it's sandwiched between FFIV and FFVI, which are considered two of the best entries of the series?
Originally Posted by Fynn
What a stupid question. Every game is important to the series, but I would have to say FF II, the leveling system of that game was dropped immediately and was never seen again.
lets not forget the off shoots that are un-numbered, legend, mystic quest, adventure?
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I would argue that although it's the last FF to use the job system explicitly (not counting spinoffs), I would argue that it has one of the better battle systems in the series, being a clear step up from FFIV, where customization wasn't prevalent anywhere. Story wise, it's okay, not my favorite in the series (a step back from IV imo), but still pretty good. I guess it's so often overlooked because it never hit American shores until Anthology.
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I didn't say it wasn't important, just proposing the idea it's least important.
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.
play it and find out. i had a blast from start to finish.
Battle on the Big Bridge is also AWESOME and one of the best parts of the game.
Five is one of the most important games in the series, it featured job system perfection. I'm sure if Squaresoft was still around they would have done something with it. It was also the basis for the materia system.
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Is this thread about discussing FFV? Or I misunderstood again?Learn to read, please.
I didn't say it wasn't important, just proposing the idea it's least important.
Actualy I think you can make a great case for being least important. This isn't a comentary on the quality of the game itself, but on the legacy it left for the franchise. The idea of changeable job classes was dropped for the rest of the series, and the idea that every character had a class was much less prominent. The crystals/chosen warriors theme was dropped. I think all the work it did with world map design was monumental but those ideas only persisted for one more entry.
In fact other than it being the most direct job system connection to Tactics I don't really see a legacy for it.
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Unfortunately I can't say much about "firsts" because I haven't played all the way through FFIII and FFIV. However, I think FFV created many jobs that are used by multiple games throughout the world now including Final Fantasy XI and XIV, and again I may be wrong but didn't it (perhaps unintentionally) create the leveling system used by pretty much every MMO out there today?
Oh well. While I can't say much about importance, I can say that FFV is probably the most underrated Final Fantasy game I've played. It is incredibly fun and while the system it used may not have been repeated in the numbered series (MMO's aside), that doesn't mean I don't really wish it had been. It's a joy to play and it allows for so much variation. It's one of the very few Final Fantasy games I've played again after completing, alongside FFVII and FFVIII.
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