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Let's play Final Fantasy V ! (Completed)


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The Let's Play that no one could have ever suspected would happen:

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Details:

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Releases, Versions, Ports:

Unfortunately, FFV never really had a good legitimate port. The SNES version was never released in the west. The port of FFV for the Ps1/PSN and Mobile/ios is gutter trash, and the only decent legitimate port was the GBA version.

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Story:

The Wind Crystal Shatters.

The winds fail. Ships stand still, unable to fill their sails. The world races to its end. Unless a handful of heros can protect the remaining crystals, the world will fall into ruin. Set off on a grand adventure in Final Fantasy V.

FFV's story was the first to get the flow of story telling correctly. It is interesting to see and watch the story develop while play through it. At times It is very humorous and actually very comparative to FFVII in the humor aspect. It has fun with itself at times and serious when it needs to be. The game features four protagonists, each one more well developed than pretty much any other character in the Final Fantasy series. From their family, their fears, their pasts, and to their personality. Four friends who band and bond together. While FFV's story isn't ground-breaking in it's elements (Unless you use Quake spell :P), it is certainly well written and refined. You'll never scratch your head with 500 questions like with moments with other Final Fantasy games. If there is one legitimate complaint that I always make with this game, it is the incredible epic amount of plot convenience during the first 1/3rd of the game. At times there can be so much convenience that it's laughable XD ... but you'll at least understand whats going on XD .

The Aftermath: After this game, the main series began to change. A story with the four crystals was never done again in the main series and was never told as well again in any Square game ever.

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Gameplay, Combat and Ability system:

The universal beloved thing among people who play this game, the job/ability system.

From it being customizable from over 23 Unique jobs, to 99 abilities meaning hundreds of possible ability combinations and even more strategies, each play-though can be different from the last giving it a near infinite re-playability value.

You wont get jobs that are slight spinoffs to others (With exception to the RedMage), you wont find the same one twice. You might think something like a Ninja and a Samurai would be similar, but they are 2 completely different jobs with completely different abilities and different equipment available to them. The job rabbit hole goes deeper and deeper with gaining skills and abilities you can use as a secondary skill with other jobs. For example, with the right learned abilities, you can create Unique combinations such as a Monk with Steal, a Samurai with Jump, a White mage with Black magic, or an Dragoon with MagicSwordTech. And most importantly you aren't limited to sticking to jobs You can switch jobs any time when not in a battle.

Final Fantasy V's legacy still continues with games with similar job/ability systems such as the recently released (in the west)

(ironically I saw a commercial of it last night while watching American Dad on Adult Swim), and a PS1 classic Final Fantasy Tactics. There have also been games who have tried and failed such as Final Fantasy X-2, Four Heros of Light, and The Final Fantasy 3 remake

Some youtube review:

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Other Notes:

  • I will be using the SNES version
  • There may be typos with this version/translation. In fact this translation is pretty awful as this is my 1st time experimenting with it.
  • Since this version has 2 player capability (yes, that's right), some episodes will feature guests.
  • Note that this game is 21 years old.

Episodes:

Chapter 1: Four Crystals

Episode 1: Intro:

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Episode 2: The Dragon Spreads it's Wings:

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Episode 3: Water Crystal:

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Interesting Article. must read

http://www.usgamer.n...-jobs-at-a-time

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Episode 4: Fire Crystal:

(note that the audio/video of this episode is unstable due to netplay)

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https://www.youtube....h?v=jgBXzb390XY

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Episode 5: Neeeeeeeeeerrrrrrd (featuring Neoxrave):

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Episode 6: Battle in the sky:

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Episode 7: Crystal of the Earth:

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half-decent remix

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Chapter 2: A second world

Episode 8: Battle on the big bridge:

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Episode 9: Moogles, Hiryuu, and Wolfmen :

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Episode 10: Hiryuu weed:

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Episode 11: Naval Assault:

https://www.youtube....h?v=mLd2CT3Q6Cs

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Artist rendition of the Four Warriors of Dawn (picks out Wolfy)

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Episode 12:

(spoiler)

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Episode 13: Revenge:

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Chapter 3: A New World, A New World of Evil

In the last chapter, many lives have been lost though courage and sacrifice and our heros yet have been unable to kill, let alone stop Exdeath's evil plans from coming to fruition in which he changed to the world back to it's original form, to "a world of evil". What does this mean? What dastardly evil awaits in this new world and can our heros find a way to stop, defeat, and kill Exdeath?

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Episode 14: A New World:

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Episode 15: Pyramid Puzzle:

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Time for Exdeath Memes

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Episode 16: An Island shrine protected by the wind:

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Episode 17: Ultimate White, Black, and Blue Magic spells:

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Episode 18: Gogo and the Three little pigs:

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If the characters were dogs...

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Episode 19: Odin's Wrath & Leviathan :

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Whats this? I dont even...

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Episode 20: Phoenix Tower & Bahamut's Challenge :

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Red Mages

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Episode 21: Finale Part 1: Interdimensional Rift :

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Episode 22: Finale Part 2: Necron & Final Preparations:

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Shinryu pics

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Lenna Pics (fan service for those types of people :S)

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Episode 23: Finale Part 3: Exdeath:

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Episode 24: Bonus: Omega:

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Maybe this'll get a steam re-make like FF7 did? GBA was cool for it's tame. :P Had good games like Mega Man: Battle network 1, 2 and I believe 3... (not sure on BN 3) had both Legacy of Goku games. Super Mario World... and some other games. :) Ah the nostalgia.... :D

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Maybe this'll get a steam re-make like FF7 did? GBA was cool for it's tame. :P Had good games like Mega Man: Battle network 1, 2 and I believe 3... (not sure on BN 3) had both Legacy of Goku games. Super Mario World... and some other games. :) Ah the nostalgia.... :D

@Orion

It actually did recently get a slight graphical remake for the ios. I hate it so badly though. The sprites are so lazy looking and overall terrible and are so lazily animated, it just takes me out of it (and makes me wanna puke)

The environments and enemies got a really good upgrade though

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Chapter 3 now available

Episode 14 up...

In the last chapter, many lives have been lost though courage and sacrifice and our heros yet have been unable to kill, let alone stop Exdeath's evil plans from coming to fruition in which he changed to the world back to it's original form, to "a world of evil". What does this mean? What dastardly evil awaits in this new world and can our heros find a way to stop, defeat, and kill Exdeath?

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