Booted up this game again and realized I hate it?
It's funny, I took a break from it before because it was getting too stressful. But what if that was not the real reason? Maybe I've simply hit at an objectively awful part of the game and was too slow to realize it at the time.

Or maybe, the game is objectively awful and I'm at the exact point where the cards fall apart. (That exact point or perhaps slightly earlier, varying from player to player) (the 'escape-from-burning-building-within-the-time-limit' sequence was certainly a dick move, and rank of 90s era game design)

The game certain has issues. It has the lite beer equivalent of a story, and instead is centered around a job system in which the jobs are absolute fucking rubbish and poorly implemented.

Or maybe I'm just salty because I'm at a dungeon where I have to defeat Ifrit to proceed, but he kills my party handily and there's multiple puzzles you have to solve before getting to him that I'd have to go through on every single attempt. In which case it's a skill issue and everything will be sorted out once I beat him.

Will I get good or put down the game totally? Tune in next week.

It would be easier to get motivated though if there was some incentive to keep playing. Like I wanna find out what happens in the story. I want to unlock the next character. Acquire more jobs. Fill out my blue magic pokedex with all the awesome, varied, and highly effective blue spells that can be found all throughout the game.

Nope. Nada. Nothing.

I was having fun, but then I lost several hours of progress all at once, so I'm probably done with this game forever.

Final Fantasy V has kind of the same tone as Digimon to me, where it's completely batshit silly and stupid but I still get attached somehow.

Phew, I'm just making it through some of these boss battles by the skin of my teeth! Were they always this tough? I remembered a select few giving me problems, but mama mia! Just about to head to Spoiler Galuf's world . This will be my third time making it this far. I've never actually made it to the final boss before, but I have made it all the way to the SpoilerMerged Worldwaaaaay back in the day. Probably a good ten years ago. Might be time to finally finish off these Final Fantasy games now that the series seems to be making a comeback.

This has the exact same number of points on the favorite games list as Crisis Core. I'm not sure if I expected it to be higher or lower. On the one hand it's part of the main series, and on the other hand I used to hear a lot of shit talk about V. People seemed to soften on it a lot after the GBA version, though I prefer the ps1 version.

Enemy uses Level-5 Doom.

All party members are level 15.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...........

Funny. In the original SNES version, there's a battle transition where the camera hits the ground or something, and to me it looks pretty terrible. In the ps1 version, they do a swirl transition like in Final Fantasy VII, and the funny part is that I like the way it looks better than in VII. In the GBA version they revert back to the old style, and they probably will again for the Steam version.

Steam version coming soon! I might pre-order it. I really hate that the hideous concept art is used in the dialogue boxes, but the changes to the in-game graphics look like they're going to be really nice.

Final Fantasy V is very underrated. The graphics are colorful and charming, and the music has some great rhythms and sounds. The story is silly and gave me some nostalgia for Saturday morning cartoons. The Job system is the highlight of the game, letting you give the main characters a variety of abilities, and I like that you keep the same characters throughout (from a gameplay standpoint). The gameplay is challenging and quickly paced but complex. I think the ps1 version has better writing and graphics.

I can understand those who bash this game based on the story, after all it's been a main component in what defines an FF game for some time. But I also think games should be judged by what they set out to do and how successful they are at doing it. FF5 focuses on fleshing out and modernizing the gameplay of the JRPG formula and overall it does a good job (heh) at it. Dungeons are a big step up from FF4, featuring puzzles, non-random encounters, timed escape sequences and the option to sidetrack and find new summons to convert to your cause. The interface is improved in a number of ways, most importantly adding a time gauge to battles, and control over character development is increased.

In short, a defining entry in the series.