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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

Bro this is a fantastic video, keep up the good work, subbed

Finally! Let’s goooo!

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.

Mystic Knight is far from niche, since you can utilize it with the dual wield from ninja and rapid-fire from Archer. Just slap Flare enchant on your weapon and the damage skyrockets, and drain works good too before you learn that.

Playing through this game right now and almost finished. Probably has my favorite combat out of any of the FF games

Freelancer and Mime is OP once you master other jobs, as they get the passive abilities and stat bonuses from those. This makes it so Mime isn't just good for 3 different ability slots, but it's super OP from all the passive abilities and stat bonuses, and can equip anything.

Thanks for the great video.

Ur job that you build, can carry on traits on to ur main character. As the monks counter will carry on if u change job. Like the theif able to see hidden paths.

However MOST of the time odds are you will have 4x LV 15 party members BEFORE entering the Library itself only to have lv 5 death kill EVERYONE to avoid that but still LEARN it you need to only have it kill 1 party member not all 4 at once. I believe they changed it to Ex Death because its FULL official name would NOT fit on screen due to character limitations of naming party members/bosses back in the day.

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I am currently on a quest to beat all the final fantasy games from my childhood. Im really looking forward to this one since it wasnt available when i was a kid.

You know I was born when the first one came out it thought me how to read and count, even when our nes broke I would draw ff1 on the wall I was crazy for it. Though the years I played all others except this one until last year on my phone and it was probably the third best ff that I had played thought. First is ff 1 then ff12 and now ff5

best final dungeon of any ff games. music kicks ass.

V is top for me alongside IV and IX.

my first experience with FFV game was with the Final Fantasy Chronicles. Thought of it as a better FF1 with the job classes and how the mix and match improved the characters' customization. Also great references to FF4 and later games, such as Galuf giving his life comparable to Tellah, Gogo who could come back in FF6 like how Gilgamesh 'travels' to future games, berserker class of Umaro, Exdeath reminding of Golbez, moogles brought in and used on later games, etc. I believe i had the FFV four episode anime first however which is supposed to take place 200 years in the future. the only character that connects it is Mid's ghost. neat quick video and story.

I played this for the first time and i'm 46 years old now, this game is truly a great great great game, sure the story and character's feel kinda undercooked but i think a lot of those opinions are comparing 5 to FF6 i think people forget that this game came out in 1991 or 1992 the long scripted stories of 6 and 7 especially were simply not seen in that era or the early 90's, i think personally ffv story is short sweet and to the point and i actually think it helps the game out because you can focus on this really cool game rather than get bogged down thinking about who's bartz girlfriend and i wonder what kinda chicks galuf is into, i have had a smile on my face the whole time playing this game and i'm really glad i tried it out it really is a good rpg that has lots of interesting things to see and do and took me back to when games were really well designed and the game is all that mattered

I love Duel Classing a Bluemancer & a Duel Bell Geodaner & Red Bard & Summon Sword 😂

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

Great video! I actually think that Final Fantasy 5 is underrated and the most representative game in the franchise--or at the very least, representative of "classic" Final Fantasy.

Why is it so awesome? It's the ultimate culmination of the original job system. In FF1, you chose a single job from a handful of jobs that could then be upgraded once. In FF3, you had a much larger list of jobs to choose from. Each job had a special ability and you could switch jobs at will. In FF5, the depravity of the job's system knows no bounds. With an even larger collection of jobs, you could then master certain abilities and port them to other jobs. It allowed for endless possibilities in battle.

It's also my favourite and mechanically the best game in the series. The only FF game with genuine build crafting, a good amount of missable secrets, blue magic that is actually challenging to find and powerful to use, all the good stuff that I like in a FF game.

Most of the team learn she is a woman much earlier in the story (at the inn), only Lenna doesn't know when they get to the ship.

Common misconception, white wind does not fully heal the party. It heals the party for the amount of HP the caster has at the time. So if you cast it with 100HP, you are only healing for 100.

This one did the job system very well. I usually hate job systems in my rpgs.

my favorite final fantasy game is crisis core and then in second place it was final fantasy 4/after years. now that I finally played final fantasy 5 thanks to the pixel remaster, is definitely my number two! 🔥🔥

the pixel remaster is missing the bonus dungeon. where you could face against Enuo.

This game came as a shock to me when i played it on Chronicles. Job system, story and music blew me away... My 2nd fave 2d FF rpg after 6... My fave job combo was Ferris + lancer

being late to videos like this makes me wonder, did i miss when this man just cooked non stop?

FFV deserves all the love it is finally getting, it is so much more fun than 4 (IV is my first FF, it is amazing, but V is so underrated, and it is just more fun and with an amazing gameplay!

Why does every KZfaqr say “Developed by Square Enix” when discussing events that took place before the merger? This was developed by Square.

The Magic Pot yields 100 AP; you had the quadruple booster on. Just back at this video now that I've finished the game for the second time - I'd had a lot of cursed attempts to finish it over the course of my life where my save would be lost along with whatever the save file was stored on :P

I love Anthology. I prefer the job class system and being able to change jobs focusing on leveling only 4 characters. As much as I love the story of 6, having so many characters to manage leveling and learning magic etc can be a pain for me. I love both games for different reasons.

Good video! I just finished FFV about a month ago and I was really surprised at how good the game was. Much better than all the games before it in my opinion, but it's totally overlooked in the series! I'm playing through FFVI now since I want to go through them all in order. Maybe we'll finish them around the same time, as it looks like you're doing the same thing lol. Stop playing with such a high exp multiplier though. 1.0x or nothing ;)

"you get more than enough time to get out safely" unless you missed a treasure somewhere and are trying to find it. I had like 5 seconds left on the clock once I beat the claw guy

I think the game is too goofy for my liking which is why I play this game the least out of the collection it's not a bad game but definitely not my favorite of the retros.. Hopefully its grows on me now eventually

In FFIV you spend half the game with an unbalanced party while Cecil is OP and carries you. Then Cecil’s usefulness waxes and wanes depending on weapon while his magic grows less and less useful with no new spells. So eventually your two casters carry you once you have a full party. Edge sucks bawls. This guy is a dual wielded who does no damage, WTF??. Cecil is barely better. Kane sucks too but at least he takes less damage because he jumps. Fuck that game. The only cool parts are the aliens, and the special forces unit. And the dwarf tanks. Also the giant robot is cool. Especially for the time. But man that gameplay is either trivial or unfair/gimmicky. There are almost no balanced fights in the whole game. The only fight I actually enjoyed was the summon queen.

It's sprite work and characters are what makes it amazing to me.

It's the job classes for me

One thing I have to wonder is what they're gonna do when they get to the 30th game in FF. Those roman numerals will get amusing, then.

After mastering all jobs, I go back to freelancer because it gets all the passive abilities of the other jobs though by the time I mastered all the jobs from the wind crystal my freelancer party was too powerful and I missed a few bosses because the boss at the north mountain didn't call her friend, meaning I couldn't register her partner

Hopefully everyone here also plays and enjoys 14!

The story about japanese authorities asking not to release the game on school days is not only fake, but about Dragon Quest 4 or so

The most replayable final fantasy, i loved it

did you do the fiesta!?

I got to agree with some of the comments. The tone is just slightly too goofy if you're coming off of this from FFVI like a lot of people did. Or gawd forbid 7 or 8. Not that FFVI isn't more goofy than I remember it. FFIV was fairly serious too. That gameplay though? Absolutely perfect. And I wouldn't dare want to darken the tone this game has.

This is my fave ff game. I was laughing like an idiot the whole way.

Btw, FFV was released with FFIV in EU. :) FF6 was separate here.

In FF14 blue mage is so op they had to make it the first non normal class by making it pve only.

I’m playing through it yet again right now It’s kind of weird. I’m currently homeless and for the first time in my life I have no friends either. It’s very lonely and stressful Luckily I bought all the games for switch before I was homeless so I have them to keep me from going crazy

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Dude its soooooo good. Unless you are trying to get the Tinkle Bell…lol

Hands down has been my favourite FF ever since first playing it as a kid. But there's only one issue here: why not Butz

Great game, I hope you do ff6 vídeo

Dude Bartz best friend is a chocobo I mean come on. How cool is that?

The job system is fun but that's about as far as I can get a credit for.

Curenntly play ff 5 gba version now n grind those job now at Bal castle basement

13:47 - spoiler alert... I named him "Butts". Not even "Butz" as unofficial translations would call him. Just... "Butts" ... and Butts shall have to live with this shame through my entire playthrough. Which may take months.

Just found this channel. "Uploaded 9 months ago." Damn. I hope you're doing well.

Idk how anyone could think FF IV is better. Some of the story is good in FF IV but the gameplay sucks in that one. I think I enjoy the original better than IV. V is everything that the original set out to accomplish.

FFV is a great game and I really enjoy it. But, this was when FF was at its best IMO FF4-9. So, its ranked 4th best out of those for me. Thats like saying Larry Holmes is the 4th best HW boxer of all time though. Only legends below and above him

This game is a masterpiece, but still seem to be a bit underrated.

Man.. FF5 is my favorite mainline game in the series. It kills me that I need to stop watching your video so early on because you played the god awful discrace that is the pixel remaster.

Guh-loof?!

It's probably going to be overrated, but i'll try it one day

ga-loof? ive never heard it pronounced it that way, ive always heard gal-uhf

It was made by squaresoft not enix

Lol, so imagine you never bought anything from the store 😅

Please do ffvi

"Galoof?" "Zeninazh?" Really?! You can't be bothered to do some research before writing the script for this video?!

Final fantasy was not so awesome when it got first released on NES it was one of the worst games I’ve ever played until it hit PS3 and Xbox 360 if you want to say final fantasy 16 is amazing that I will agree but that’s cause it’s using unreal engine 5 instead of unreal engine 4 thanks to not making it available on PS4 I can’t wait for more unreal engine 5 games like Spider-Man 2 tekken 8 Wolverine real next gen games once the PS4 is over we can move on

The only good thing was gameplay and system. The story was lousy, nothing can be compared to FF4.