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The Final Fantasy Project: Final Fantasy V, part 2
Once you have access to the jobs, the complexity of Final Fantasy V kind of explodes. Not in a bad way, you’re not being smothered by stuff to do, but the overall change is pretty notable. You have a...
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The Final Fantasy Project: Final Fantasy V, part 3
So Lenna is convinced that her father’s wind drake is on top of the nearby mountain, and the rest of the party agrees to go along with this because, well, they weren’t doing anything. Also there’s no...
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The Final Fantasy Project: Final Fantasy V, part 4
So the protagonists of the game are currently not doing well at their stated goals. Two crystals encountered, two crystals destroyed. In their defense, the job wasn’t theirs until the wind crystal...
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The Final Fantasy Project: Final Fantasy V, part 5
I made a passing comment at the end of the last article that I think deserves to be unpacked a little bit, because it’s the basic problem that every single Final Fantasy game since Final Fantasy V has...
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The Final Fantasy Project: Final Fantasy V, part 6
The party has a boat again, which is a good thing. It’s impossible to imagine that the fate which befell the last boat will also befall this one, due in no small part to the fact that this boat is not...
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The Final Fantasy Project: Final Fantasy V, part 7
The downside of taking breaks between installments of this game is that when you have a game so thoroughly built upon making an extended project out of your characters, you occasionally… forget what...
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The Final Fantasy Project: Final Fantasy V, part 8
Delivering the Adamantite is no more complicated than just taking a quick jaunt back to the ancient ruins located beneath the conveniently obvious landing pad in the middle of the ocean, which prompts...
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The Final Fantasy Project: Final Fantasy V, part 9
So, the good news from the last installment is that the world is coming to an end and the group completely failed to prevent that evil whatsit from emerging from his prison. Which admittedly sounds...
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The Final Fantasy Project: Final Fantasy V, part 10
It occurs to me, perhaps for the first time now, that my group has actually been in the same jobs for a while now. This is not an inherently bad thing, but it does mean that said group is moving into...
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The Final Fantasy Project: Final Fantasy V, part 11
One of the things I’m enjoying about the plot of this game is that unlike its predecessors, it’s giving me something that the series has lacked. The characters here don’t just have reasons for their...
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