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One of the greatest games of all time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've adored FFVI since it was released as FF3 in North America. I also loved everything I heard about FFV, so I bought Anthology when I found it. I haven't regretted it for one minute. If you like true RPGs then you will love this set.

FFV is amazing. You can probably find storyline summaries, so I'll just say that the graphics were state-of-the-art in their time, the storyline is great compared to some of the more modern Final Fantasies, the characters are cute (although Faris' pirate accent can get on your nerves), the music is fantastic, and the job system is the best ability system in any FF to date, IMHO.

I ran into a problem on the Save screen on my PS2, but I went into the menu and changed the Disc Speed (I run a PS2 Slim, on PS2 original I believe it's under the PS1 driver menu) which not only cuts the loading times by an amazing amount (it's almost like you're playing it on a cartridge again!) but it also makes the save screen pop up normally more often for me. If you can't get it to appear normally, just remember that the three selections are Memo, Slot 1 and Slot 2 from top to bottom. Make sure your mem card is formatted so you don't get confused when you try to save and it doesn't. Then just go to the selection you want and press X, then X again (or, if you want to use multiple save spots, you can press Down after you press X the first time, just make sure you're not overwriting any of your other save files that you might want to keep!)

FFVI is one of the greatest RPGs ever, possibly even one of the best games ever. The characters are interchangeable and interact with each other in certain situations (even giving you cut-scenes if you have certain people in your party together), the enemies (well, Kefka, at least) are almost believable, and you can't help but feel with the characters going through the storyline. The graphics were the best possible on the SNES/SuperFamicom console, and the music is perfect throughout.

The CD included has a lot of nice music on it, although I would have loved to have heard the music from, for example, Celes' opera. Even so, there are a few themes on here worth listening to, such as The Dungeon, Mambo de Chocobo, Phantom Train, Johnny C. Bad, and Epitaph.

All in all, definitely a 5 Star set.

FF VI is a excellent game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This review is basically for FF VI. It was actually FF III when I first played it. Anyway, this game is awesome. Its what first got me into playing video games. The story is very good. There's a lot of different characters that you get to play with. It has 2 player option when your battling. The only real flaw is the graphics. But it came out a long time ago so you really can't expect it to be to mind blowing in the graphics department. Other then that, awesome game. I only played FF V for a little bit. It seemed to be pretty cool. Didn't set up the story for the game very well though. And there seemed to be some bugs in it as well. Or in my disc there was. I had to keep saving so when it did mess up I wouldn't have to start over. I never did play all the way through V though so not sure how good it actually is.....The music disc sucks....Unless your into jamming out to old school FF music. Good music for the game, not so much though for sitting around listening to it...

Final Fantasy V is much better than most people think

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Final Fantasy Anthology includes the games Final Fantasy VI, (originally Final Fantasy III in the U.S.) one of the best Final Fantasy games ever, Final Fantasy V, (never before released outside of Japan) is the best overall Final Fantasy game, and a bonus music CD, which allthough good doesn't have the best songs from either game. Other than the CD this collection deffinately deserves five stars.

In Final Fantasy V the crystals of earth are being mysteriously destroyed. In Final Fantasy VI the evil emperor is trying to revive the dread force magic.

Really great classics that must be played by any RPG fan!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

My first rpg was FF7. It was a great game, and I went along and tried out FF8 and FFA. Final Fantasy Anthology (FF5 and FF6) are really good games that should be played by anyone that is hooked on rpgs (like I was with FF7). FF6's characters were unique, and anyone would probably enjoy using Sabin because his Blitz attacks require directional motions and button taps like a fighting game! FF5 and FF6 also have great music, too! Overall, I'd recommend FFAnthology to any rpg fan that prefers gameplay and storyline over graphics, because the graphics are 16-bit SNES type.

Where's FFIV?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

There's no doubt in most people's minds that FFVI is one of, if not THE best RPG ever made. Definitely the high point of the FF series. This package features FF6 and the previously unreleased FF5. FF5 is interesting, seeing as it was never released in the US. Interesting, but doesn't live up to FF6. I enjoyed it, though the story was fairly weak. The class system was an excellent system, and the challenge was fairly high, at least, unlike FF7, which gets my vote for goat of the FF series. My major gripe, however, is the omission of FF4 in the US version of Anthology. In Japan, this game was included, but when released here in the US, Square decided to give the proverbial "shaft" to US gamers. Instead of including the RPG classic, FF4, that was on the Japanese version, they included a worthless music CD. First of all, who the heck wants to listen to video game music when not playing a video game? And, second of all, most of the selections on the CD are junk. No Kefka theme or world map music or anything worth anyone's time. Oh Joy! The FFV theme music! My foot! The games on FFA deserve 5 stars, but I can't bring myself to give higher than 4, due to not having FF4, and the worthlessness of the music CD, which I broke in half and burned in a New Year's Eve bon-fire. It just seems that Square is slighting us. The response received after my letter of complaint to Squaresoft about no FF4 said that they thought there was not enough interest in the States for it, so they gave us the music CD to try to "make up for it". What a load of BS. I'm interested in FFIV. All the RPG players I know are ripped that it wasn't released. And if the rest of the RPGer population feels the way we do, there definitely WAS and IS an interest in FFIV.

Nostalgia: What a wonderful thing!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ahhh, the good old days where eye-candy wasn't the driving force of RPG and *story* propelled games. Sadly, in retrospect, FF5 seems to get pounded away and lost in the competition it recieves not only from FF 7 & 8, but it's companion FF6 as well. The characters and story in FF5 become as non-exsitant as in FF Tactics, and lacking the battle system FFT had, FF5 fades quickly. The anthology becomes well worth it's price with FF6 though. Characters, story, and dialouge mixed in with enjoyable mini-events keep the attention and intrigue of the player. The music CD is a touch lacking (Celes' theme is missing! What a travesty!) but sufficent enough to keep most happy. FF6 alone would be enough to justify buying this, with the "bounses" of the music CD and the "old-fashioned Tactics", this is indeed a good purchase.

The #1 RPG's

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I find Final Fantasy Anthology one of the best RPG's that could ever be released. Final Fantasy V lacks the character development but it really gets me into it with the job system. Final Fantasy VI has one of the greatest story lines in any game I've ever seen, and with 14 characters yours always going to try to spend time with all your characters to progress with the story and just to have 14 very strong characters. I like the esper system much more than just buying magic, this game puts your strategic skills to the test.

All time classics!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

... To be honest the games don't have fancy graphics but they both have a great storyline. These are two classics that should not be missed by any RPG fan. FF VI has outstanding music and FF V is interesting because it's never been released in the U.S. before, also FF V is the theme of the "Final Fantasy Anime" which you can also purchase on Amazon.com ... Oh yea, anyone of these games is better than Final Fantasy 8 ;)

The Best Final Fantasy Re-Release, and a New Game for the US

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You can't go wrong here. Final Fantasy 6 (released as 3 on the SNES in the US) is hands down the best in the series. Play through the story of Terra, now with FMV cutscenes. This is worth playing even if you played the original, just for the FMV sequences. Then you get Final Fantasy V, long hailed as the best game the US market missed out on. This is truly a great re-release.

FF6 is the best game I've ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: March 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

FFV and FFVI are both games that were released on the SNES a few years ago, but only FF6 was released in the US as FF3. I played FF3 when it came out on the SNES (that was like 5 years ago) and up to this day I still remember EVERY SINGLE detail that was in it...the FANTASTIC music (I luv Celes' Opera) the characters, the awesome ending, and of course Kefka! I was really happy when they re-released it so that I could relive the memories again. The conversion is OK, but I swear the sound effects were WAY better in the SNES, (and actually in the beginning the fx really annoyed me on the PS version but I got used to it) and going to the menu takes some time. Other than these reasons, the game still rocks. The story is the BEST I've ever seen, and I swear this game can be written as a book. Just think people, I remembered every line and scene of this game even though I played it 5 years ago and was only 10 at the time! One of the best things of FFVI are the espers. Magic can only be obtained if you get the no. of points needed to get a certain spell from the esper. With this system, you can choose who you want to be a healer, attacker etc. FFV is an OK game. What really annoyed me was that there was an enemy every 5 steps! I couldnt even move withour some darn monster attacking me and so.... I couldnt finish the game cuz the countless battles are to annoying. All in all, even though FFV isn't that great, the price is justified by the inclusion of FFVI. I think FFVI is the GREATEST game ever made and is of epic proporations. I love it more than FFVII and FFVIII (even though FFVIII had really cute guys ;D

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