Why Is FINAL FANTASY V SO AWESOME?!

Exdeath's name is actually Exodious. The PS1 release of the game mistranslated over half of the names in the game, but for some reason this one was kept even though characters to are references to him like his corrosponding Esper/Lucavi in Ivalice get their correct translation. AFIAK, Exdeath is the only mistranslation in FFV to survive through to the Pixel Remaster.

The story of this game gets a lot of flack, but i like it. It's a swashbuckling adventure with goofy humor, amazing music, moments of heart, and addictive gameplay. It's like a playable Saturday morning cartoon

This is my favorite final fantasy. I love its replay value, goofy undertones, monster designs, and variety of jobs with mixing job elements.

I love this game. My favourite Final Fantasy game. I really wish it was more appreciated by the general public, but the struggles of being released between IV and VI and not originally in English I guess.

I'm grateful to this video for putting together a comment section full of BASED FF5 enjoyers. Y'all are the real G's

One neat aspect that this video overlooked was how the ending of the game is impacted based on if any characters are KO'd at the end of the battle. Those characters won't have the strength to make it out of the void after the battle, which can be a real downer, especially if you don't see it coming. In the last scene after the time skip montage the spirits of Galuf and the other Dawn Warriors are able to bring back anyone that didn't make it out for a happy reunion, but everything up until that point is brought down by the idea that not everyone made it back from that Final battle.

Blue Magic is incredibly useful in this game, especially since bosses can be hit with status ailments (I find most RPGs give all bosses immunities yo everything therefore making status ailments rarely useful) But the aero spells, mighty guard, white wind, death 5 and Flare 3 were all so freaking useful

Final Fantasy V is my Final Fantasy VII. This game made me fall in love with RPGs. My brother gave me the PS1 version on the first day of summer vacation as a kid so its full if nostalgia for me. Great video!

This game has amazing mechanics. It's also cursed for me and something horrible happens to every medium on which I have a save file so I've only ever beaten it once.

This game has so many ways to break it. The Blue Mage job alone can do some insane things. I loved it from the moment I played it as a ROM back in the day. One quick tip: Neo-Exdeath can get seriously beat down with one Samaurai and 3 Mimics by doing Gil Toss (cannot even begin to spell the updated name) and mimicking it over and over.

The Job System is amazing. I especially like the GBA version, since it not only has the extra jobs, but passive abilities are automatically equipped on your characters when they switch to Freelancer, making it the ultimate job. Just giving it utility outside of the game's opening hour is good enough, but once you master a bunch of jobs and get the HP and MP bonuses, Dual-wield, and so forth, having them all set simultaneously at no slot cost is broken as hell. There are just so many fun job combinations, and you can always make different characters focus on different jobs on each playthrough, making for a potentially different experience each time. My only gripe is that the story and character development kind of took a step backwards compared to IV, but those were never the real focus. It's all about the jobs, and in that respect, V dominates. Only the Final Fantasy Tactics games have been able to keep pace or excel past V in terms of Job System fun, in my opinion.

always found the story of this one to be way simpler and less deep than other FFs (but still FUN!!), but everything else... a masterpiece... also has one of my favorite main battle themes

This game's one of my favorites as well. I have fond memories of playing a somewhat unfinished fan translation patch on ZSNES back when I was in high school. When you end up stranded on a small island in the second world, there's normally some character dialogue suggesting you use a tent so that a cutscene can play to advance the plot, but the ROM I was playing merely displayed "Fill in later", so I was stuck there for quite some time, fighting weak enemies until I finally ended up using a tent out of necessity. Them good ol' days of early emulation. XD

5, 9, and 10 are tied for my favorite Final Fantasy games. I genuinely enjoy all of the mainline games (haven't tried 16 yet, waiting for PC release). 5 is just SO SO good!

I saw another review, and a comment made sense. No one in the West grew up on FF5, but they did on 4 and 6, which means people have nostalgia for 4 and 6, but not 5, which results in more postive feelings about the games. Especially when you consider how many people must have gotten into the series from 7. 5 and 7 are two completely different experiences from what I can gather about 7. Don't believe me, go check out almost review for 4, 5, & 6. 4 and 6 have many comments talking about how they grew up with the game, but you never see that with 5.

Blue magic is a super interesting mechanic? What a super idea from a super informative book report.

FF5 has such fun gameplay and a feeling of freedom like no other jrpg ❤

Overpowered to the point you thought a super boss was a regular mob

After going through the first four games I wanted to start the fifth one immediately, because I love how innovative the job system is. I'm currently playing through FF5 PR right now, and I really enjoy it a lot. Unfortunately I agree with you about the Dragoon class, it certainly could be better. Personally I could combine it with magic jobs for support, or use the dual-wield or two-handed ability to help with damage output. I love how each character sprite for that specific job looks different, might do an all Dragoon setup here soon after I master a few other jobs. Great video!

My favorite part of the game is replaying it as different classes that you don't even want to use - it can be beat with practically any combination you just have to do it differently, and that's cool.