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Welcome to my series of topics where we discuss and rate every single main line Final Fantasy title, as well as Tactics!

How would you rate Final Fantasy 5? Which version did you play?

Ahhh Final Fantasy 5. You are oh so wonderful to play for every reason except narrative and character, and have one main problem with your combat engine.

The narrative is pretty generic. I mean, sure, having the sorta environmentalist message behind it is unique, and Gilgamesh is awesome, but in comparison to the dramatic story telling of 4, 5 was just not as engaging. Also, how they dealt with Galuf was kinda weak, as the end of his story was not really anything consequential. Farris was a cool revelation, but it was a cool moment and that was it. Not a lot changes for our characters, and the narrative is basically just a way to make you play through the JOB SYSTEM! (Imo)

The job system is fucking awesome. Even now I would place it as one of the better uses of the Job system. So many jobs are useful and interesting, and the combinations are vast. You want to make a magical powerhouse? Go for it! You want someone who will beat the shit out of people with bare hands, but also heal others? Yeah, why not? Whatever you want to try, go for it!

However, this all kinda flies out the window when the game gives you relic weapons to use that are tied to different jobs. This ultimately places those jobs as more important than other ones, since they have weapons that are just better. You have to sort of... force yourself to use other stuff instead? (This is how I remember it, it's possible that I am wrong about this). This started a trend with nearly all job systems in the FF series and beyond that some jobs are just going to be better in so many ways than others. This is fine, but it narrows your focus for the job system on a casual play.

That being said, I love to play it. It's kinda short for a FF game, and you just get out of it what you want in terms of gameplay. It is easy to replay, it is light enough to replay often, and that is kinda the legacy of 5, I feel like?

Imma give it a 7/10

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Final Fantasy 1 Stats

Average Rating: 5.96 (29 votes cast)
Most Common Rating: 7/10 (9 of 29 votes)

Final Fantasy 2 Stats (Famicom, not SNES)

Average Rating: 4/10 (38 votes cast)
Most Common Rating: 3/10 (10 out of 38 votes)

Final Fantasy 3 Stats (Famicom, not SNES)

Average Rating: 5.8777/10 (30 votes cast)
Most Common Rating: 8/10 (8 out of 30 votes)

Final Fantasy 4 Stats

Average Rating:7.92/10 (37 votes cast)
Most Common Rating: 8/10 (12/37 votes)

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