ok maybe they dont hate it but its on peoples least favourite list quite often. ive got the game i like it so i was just wondering why people dont like it?


ps sorry if this has already been discussed but i couldnt find anything

hmm dunno i dont like it cause of the story and the characters

i suppose the characters and story were a bit generic but i thought the gameplay was great i liked changing jobs and the whole idea of gilgamesh

As far as the characters go, it was a step back from IV.

The job system may have something to do with it. While it is fun to play with on the first play through, it's not so much on the replay.

So V lack replay value in my opinion. I still liked the game.

The main character also is not as interesting as most other Final Fantasy leads. Maybe if Faris were the main character more people would have liked it. Bartz is forgetable at best.

I liked it, it's one of my favourate ones, but I can see how some people might not like the action sequences. There's a lot of times where a problem comes along, then gets solved without the help of the player a few seconds later, like when siren is taking the souls of everyone... just to have galuf snap them out of it, and when lenna is poisonned trying to save a wind drake, twice, and then gets healed before anything else happens. I thought that was kind of amusing, though, personally.

By the end of FFV, I really liked the game.

At first, I didn't like it because of the graphics and the cliche situations, but it got interesting on it's own.

For the most part, the job system was pretty good. That was one of the main points of the game anyways.

I can't say that I hate the game, but it's far from my favorite in the series. It probably had the best Job System of any Final Fantasy game up to that point and the challenge was a nice change of pace considering how easy JRPGs typically are (not that I have a problem with that, either). Really, the Gameplay was terrific, in my opinion. It allows for adequate customization without sacrificing differences between characters. The sheer number of different Job combinations alone provided an interesting gameplay experience, and the Ability system wasn't half-bad, either. Overall, I really can't think of anything noticeably wrong with the gameplay. Difficult? Yes. Unfair? Hardly. Bosses can be defeated quite easily with some degree of strategy, unlike other games in the series where you can just spam the "Attack" command and heal when neccessary.

Where this game fails is its storyline, which, in an RPG, is just as important as gameplay. The characters were undoubtedly the most shallow, 2-dimensional cardboard cutouts imagineable. Ordinarily, this would be fine. I mean, this was only the 16-Bit Era. My problem here is that Square-Enix had already proven themselves capable of creating an interesting cast of characters in FF4. Why, then, did they take a step backwards in this game? I mean, each of the main characters can be defined in one or two words. Here, watch:

Bartz: "Hero"
Lenna: "Princess"
Faris: "Pirate"
Galuf: "Man With Amnesia" (okay...three words)
Krile: "Little Girl"
ExDeath: "Bad Guy"

That's...really all there is to them. Everything about them falls neatly into those archetypes. There's hardly any backstory, no involvement, and no reason to sympathize with them. How can I be expected to root for someone I know nothing about? How can I be expected to feel anything towards the villain if he never gives me a reason to do so? The fact that the characters are so incredibly dull really takes away from the core plot of the game, which is a real shame, because FF5's core storyline wasn't too bad.

So overall, this is an underrated game...but it's still not that great. Gameplay was fine, but an unlikeable, static cast of characters really detracted from the immersion.