A underrated gem of the SNES era, Final Fantasy V had the bad luck to be stuck between both the first new-gen Final Fantasy and one of the most lauded entries in the series (not to mention having no English release at the time), but is absolutely deserving of your time. Even now it's still a bit of a black sheep in the franchise. Part of this might be down to the plot and characters, which begin with the goofy Bartz who stumbles across a wayward princess and a strange old man who seems to have arrived on this world by asteroid. From the off V is a lot more zany and odd than many Final Fantasy titles and that sense of humour and quirkiness never leaves even as the plot gets more serious and the world is threatened by one of the franchise's great unsung villains, Exdeath.

If you only need one reason alone to play V though it's the job system. While III might have introduced the series to the mechanic, V is where it was iterated on and perfected. Each character begins as a freelancer but you quickly amass a huge array of varied jobs that you can switch between at will, and mastering them allows you to move class-specific skills around and create some truly monstrous cross-class fighters. The depth to V's job system is stunning, and one of the best reasons to return to this game.