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Best of the 2D Final Fantasies

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great game. No other game in the Final Fantasy series gives you so much freedom to develop your characters. Through the job system, you can design each of the characters however you like, and modify on-the-fly. Every game will play a little differently, depending on what jobs you combine. If you like games like Final Fantasy Tactics for the customization, but hate strategy and would rather have a full RPG, look no further.

FFV on GBA!!! SWEEEET!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game because of the fact that you can easily gain levels as high as 30 in between the beginning and the middle of the game (99 is the limit). I also have FF Anthology and I can notice some differences with these two ports. First of all, Reina's name was changed to Lenna (Reina is FF Anthology's name for the pink haired girl and Lenna is the GBA's name for the pink haired girl), They use pictures of the characters when ever one of the main characters are talking, some of the names of the classes are changed like trainer (FFA's name) to beastmaster (GBA's name), loading times for battles are non-existent (good!) because FFA takes 1-2 seconds to load and same thing with opening up the menu for your character status, X-death's name has an E in front of it so it's EX-Death and some of the spells are renamed too (names are similar to FF8!) so if you are looking for Fire 2 it's called Fira. Despite the differences, I find it good that they have a handheld version of this game so when I go on vacation, I can take it with me (along with my other 2 FF games and some other great SNES-to-GBA RPGs) If you don't have FF Anthology, you don't really need to worry because this game is just as good as the PSone port (dispite the graphical changes).

Making jobs fun.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Final Fantasy V is not my favorite Final Fantasy game, but it certainly is in the running. While it lacks the wonderful, in-depth story and character development of it's successor, it more than makes up for it with arguably the best gameplay in the franchise. Sure, the final villain is possibly the series lamest, but who cares? Building up your abilities via the then-revolutionary take on the job system is an absolute blast.

The only other negatives are the fact that some of the jobs are borderline completely useless. Either way though, the game is well-worth the price of admission. Highly recommended!

Good Follow -up to FFIV!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is great fun. I like the ability to change the job function in this game. It gives each character more diveristy and all become stronger quicker this way! The graphics are about the same as FFIV an before but, thats to be expected and thats what I've alwayed loved about these games. I'm 30 years old and this brings me back to when I was younger playin on nintendo 64 and Nintendo.

:two thumbs up:

This Game Rocks!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Some final fantasy people might be annoyed with the graphic but remember when the game was created.

Reasons why to like this game:
1) The story line is great and has twists to them that are cool. All the characters have substance to them.
2) The graphics are hysterical and make you laugh.
3) The traveling is cool.
4) The Jobs are fun to play play mix and this game has more abilities for all characters than any other final fantasy game I played so far. I play X, X-2, XII, VI, I, II,

Not Cliched'd; A Predecessor To The Greats!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is by far my most enjoyable experience when it comes to combat.

1. You can develop every character you have into whatever you want; women don't have to necessarily be healers this time around!

2. You have the ability to also combine a mastered skill to another skill; in such a way your black mage can have white mage abilities, and your thief can have blue mage abilities as well!

3. Equipment is restricted by class, but by the time you are at the end of the game, that changes with certain classes...

4. In this version of the game, they have added many more classes to the mix.

This game has a great storyline, but at times can be bland, but is still awesome.

1. This also sports one of the most memorable good cop/bad cop villain of all time: Gilgamesh! He also has one of the most memorable themes of any Final Fantasy (that is, if you've played many different FF games).

2. This game is also very comedic (at least in my opinion).

The music is alright, but none of them stick out very much; it must be because they're all good! Nah, it's not the most memorable music-wise, except for the few such as "battle on the bridge," but it also isn't bad, like in FF 3.

Graphic-wise, it's updated from it's past-updates. Don't compare it with PS2 FF's because, of course, they don't compare, but appreciate it as a close interpretation from the original.

TL;DR, any RPG fan will LOVE this game! Any newcomers to RPG's will find the transgression from learning different combat aspects of this game very easy to swallow (but hard to master). A great game for all!

"I am Neo Exdeath..."

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game, though not quite as great as IV was, is still an extremely fun game to play.

Alright, I will get the bad stuff out of the way first because the good outweigh the bad by far. It's basically the storyline and characters that made this game weak. First off, we have Bartz, the Class S Retard and one of the stupidest line-sayers ever. For instance, after Cid said (loosely), "We certainly served that overgrown cray fish," Bartz immediately responds, "With some mashed potatoes and cheese biscuits!" Okay, what the hell does that have to do with cray fish? Anyway, then we have Lenna the Class A Naive Princess, Galuf the Class A Retard, Faris the Class A Insecure Female, and Krile the Class S Ditz. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, THE EVIL THAT STALKS THE EARTH AND WISHES FOR POWER...Exdeath. Yeah, I built up the suspense on purpose. He's probably the worst villain in Final Fantasy I've ever played against (exactly, played against, I've never played Final Fantasy VIII yet so don't bother me about Ultimecia). His part in the storyline is to destroy all of the Crystals (yet again another recurring storyline).

Alright, now that that's out of the way, onto the good stuff. First of all, the ATB system (it is just that good to keep mentioning). Now, we have the more fluent job system. III did not have a very good job system. This one does. First of all, there are more jobs to pick from as you progress through the game. Second, every job has at least one valuable trait to it so that another job will not take its place. Third, when you learn an ability, you can take that ability and stick it on an unlikely job. For example (this is a classic example), a Black Mage who can Jump. There are literally hundreds of possibilities to customize a single person and the entire group. Try what feels best to you.

I feel that this game has some of the hardest superbosses anyone will ever meet in a Final Fantasy game. Omega and Shinryu are frighteningly more powerful than the final boss. And to add insult to injury, in the new Sealed Temple, they have more powerful counterparts, Omega Mk. II and Neo Shinryu. But, I think of this as exciting. I love to play difficult games with difficult bosses, and this is one of those games.

The music, though still as great as always, doesn't match up to the standards of IV or VI. But, the Boss Battle music BEFORE the last boss is awesome to listen to and is a very catchy tune.

This game is the first one to start the recurring boss trend. Gilgamesh fits this role perfectly and provides the comic relief some people want. His best phrase is, "Hasta la bye bye!" How's that for kooky comic relief?

To summarize, except for the storyline and the characters, this game is a great game to play. It is one of the most customizable games in the series, allowing hours of fun with those battles that make you grind your teeth.

it's good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: November 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You already knew it was a good game becuase it's Final Fantasy, probably the biggest and most popular series in the history of video games.

This one is probably a little worse than the best Final Fantasy games (such as III and VII) but, despite that, what you have here is a Game Boy Advance RPG that has graphics that actually aren't that bad, and the storyline is pretty good too. You just can't go wrong with Final Fantasy games.

Got bored of this game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: February 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this game from my brother as a gift. I constantly thought this game would be really good. I enjoyed this for a while. The jobs include many things that other Final Fantasy had. I pretty much like anything else except for the fun. The first part of the game was pretty good. I am currently bored of this game and I probably won't like it for a while. I am a Final fantasy fan and I didn't like this game. Which was very suprising to me. I was disappointed. While this game is better than playing nothing. I still play this game if I have to.

Last installment

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the last installment of the Final Fantasy games for the Gameboy Advance. And as far as how good it is, it's Final Fantasy. There should be no worries there.

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