I have a deep fondness for most games in the Final Fantasy series, but I love this one in particular because it has humongous "Dragon Ball Z" energy.
Final Fantasy V is an adventure where you get to hang with your pals, travel around the world, and fight bad guys while obtaining powers with style. This is Final Fantasy at its utmost campiest, and Exdeath, a literal alien tree monster, is an incredibly goofballs villain. You can genuinely feel the fun Square was having in the early 1990's, playing fast and loose with tropes in the genre they helped to codify. In my mind, there is no doubt that if this game was localized outside of Japan at the time of its release, JRPG fans would speak of FFV in the same fondness reserved for esteemed entries like FFVI and FFVII. I find this game immaculately charming.
(Also, this is the game that gave us Gilgamesh, and by extension, Battle on the Big Bridge, the most bodacious Final Fantasy tune. +5 stars for that specifically.)
Final Fantasy V is an adventure where you get to hang with your pals, travel around the world, and fight bad guys while obtaining powers with style. This is Final Fantasy at its utmost campiest, and Exdeath, a literal alien tree monster, is an incredibly goofballs villain. You can genuinely feel the fun Square was having in the early 1990's, playing fast and loose with tropes in the genre they helped to codify. In my mind, there is no doubt that if this game was localized outside of Japan at the time of its release, JRPG fans would speak of FFV in the same fondness reserved for esteemed entries like FFVI and FFVII. I find this game immaculately charming.
(Also, this is the game that gave us Gilgamesh, and by extension, Battle on the Big Bridge, the most bodacious Final Fantasy tune. +5 stars for that specifically.)