FFV Advance

[Orophin]

Astronite, does that mean the English version of FFVA has already been released?

3 days ago.

[Ragna53]

I want it, I played FFV and it was great. Like the rest, I love the job system, I do find some abilities were adopted by FFTA

[zimdoomyday]

No one's put up the ROM yet, and I already have it for PSX, so I see no reason to get it.

[Polnareff]

What.

Does "YESSSSSS!" after winning a battle and all of Faris' dialogue in the PSX version ring a bell?

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Bad writing does not equal ad-libbing or improvisation.

[Sefie1999AD]

Does "YESSSSSS!" after winning a battle and all of Faris' dialogue in the PSX version ring a bell?

I wasn't that annoyed about Faris' pirate accent, at least when compared to the "YESSSSSS!" message after winning a battle. Fortunately, the GBA version doesn't have that, and it has also got rid of several other annoying things, such as the PSX loading times.

[Jowy]

"Let her go, you addle-pated foul-complexioned scofflaw!" is the best line EVER.

[aquatius]

I LOVE the new translation. Some of the lines literally make me laugh out loud. All the characters are more awesome, especially Galuf. He just rocks.

[Elpizo]

Even if she looked that way in the original art, putting character portraits into the game that look almost nothing like the sprites they are associated with is an incredibly stupid move.

Err... no? I don't see anything stupid with it, having run through the entire game in english again and never bothered with the character portraits. You guys take away the enjoyment of the game yourself by always thinking the character portraits are horrible and bad. Get over it, enjoy them and have fun with the game I would say.

I love this new translation, Galuf's line during a certain scene especially struck me. I don't know if they were what he said in the PSX version, but they were still great. Oh yes, the Bonus dungeon is hard, I've heard and noticed. The optional boss can hit with Almagest for -5000 I've read. And with even stronger versions of Shinryuu and Omega?
And also, when you've beaten the Optional Boss and bonus dungeon, you can do boss-rush mode! I'm not exactly sure what it is, but it ahs something to do with fighting all bosses up until the rift bosses after each other, or something liek that. I'll tell if I ever get there, but for now, I'm going to retreat out of the bonus dungeon to spend some time leveling up.

With all this new stuff, you'll never regret buying it, at least, in my humble opinion.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Even if she looked that way in the original art, putting character portraits into the game that look almost nothing like the sprites they are associated with is an incredibly stupid move.

Err... no? I don't see anything stupid with it, having run through the entire game in english again and never bothered with the character portraits. You guys take away the enjoyment of the game yourself by always thinking the character portraits are horrible and bad. Get over it, enjoy them and have fun with the game I would say.

There's no getting around the fact that the style of the portraits is irreconciably inconsistent with that of the sprites. They either should have drawn the portraits to match the sprites or redrawn the sprites to match Amano's character designs.

And also, when you've beaten the Optional Boss and bonus dungeon, you can do boss-rush mode! I'm not exactly sure what it is, but it ahs something to do with fighting all bosses up until the rift bosses after each other, or something liek that. I'll tell if I ever get there, but for now, I'm going to retreat out of the bonus dungeon to spend some time leveling up.

I covered the boss rush in this thread.

[Elpizo]

Even if she looked that way in the original art, putting character portraits into the game that look almost nothing like the sprites they are associated with is an incredibly stupid move.

Err... no? I don't see anything stupid with it, having run through the entire game in english again and never bothered with the character portraits. You guys take away the enjoyment of the game yourself by always thinking the character portraits are horrible and bad. Get over it, enjoy them and have fun with the game I would say.

There's no getting around the fact that the style of the portraits is irreconciably inconsistent with that of the sprites. They either should have drawn the portraits to match the sprites or redrawn the sprites to match Amano's character designs.

And also, when you've beaten the Optional Boss and bonus dungeon, you can do boss-rush mode! I'm not exactly sure what it is, but it ahs something to do with fighting all bosses up until the rift bosses after each other, or something liek that. I'll tell if I ever get there, but for now, I'm going to retreat out of the bonus dungeon to spend some time leveling up.

I covered the boss rush in this thread.

It's because it's human nature to complain that everybody detests the character portraits. So what if they don't match the sprites? Sometimes I feel like the only person on the planet who can always accept things without needing to complain about it. Here everybody screams about the character portraits, on other fora they are complaining that they wanted Exodus instead of Exdeath, and actually, for what? The game's out, Square Enix isn't going to change it anymore. I just would take the good and the bads (like there are in this game), and like the game. And it's not that Square was stupid by adding these thing cause there are people who like em. And besides, I can't imagine a Lenna portrait with Pink hair or a Lenna sprite with blond hair. But oh well, who am I to defend the portraits, anyway?

Question, cause you seem to know quite much, if not everything about the new dungeon, do you have to beat the Omega wathever-it-is2 and Neo Shinryuu to go to the optional boss? Or are they optional like Omega and Shinryuu?

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

They're optional.

[ishashobar]

good because faris's portrait is sooooo ugly

[Elpizo]

good because faris's portrait is sooooo ugly

Ehrm not sure if you mean the portraits with this one... The portraits aren't optional, they're there and you can't change it.

Neo Shinryu and Omega Mk.II are optional.