FINAL FANTASY V 9+

First off ffv is one of the best in the series and there are a lot of nice things about this version. Two big issues however. 1. As others have mentioned, on mobile it’s nearly impossible to catch fast moving npcs, namely the black chocobo and Mid in Crescent Village in the merged world. 2. Though it was accessible for a while, the Phantom Village has now completely stopped showing up for me no matter how long I walk around the forest where it’s supposed to be. I’ve gotten 50 random encounters and no Phantom Village. Please fix asap

Final Fantasy V is a very fun game that I enjoy very much, between the job system and the amazing story and locations it truly is one of the best final fantasies I’ve played. That said, the pixel remastered has two majorly problems that made me detract two stars from it. First is the reduction of content, it’s rather disappointing that none of the added content past the original release like the necromancer job and added super bosses are in the game, which is saddening to me, this seems to have been marketed as a sorta ultimate edition or final mix and yet it doesn’t give everything other versions offer, but this might just be me. Second, and the larger problem, while it worked fine for a while, now I can’t play without random crashes, which have become really annoying and more frequent, it’s really annoying and disappointing since I can’t continue or enjoy the game past this point now. If this bug is fixed and the extra content is added I’ll give five stars, I’ll give four just for the bug to be fixed.

I just wish the red mage didn’t take forever (console version shortens this with ability points multiplier not updated here) to master for dualcast (999 ABP mastery) unless you use magic pots in the phoenix tower for 100 ABP. That boost options helps ff5 and ff6 (keeps old music too) to speed up ability/stat gains, rendering these mobile versions obsolete (and ff2 for turning off brutal random encounters). To sum up otherwise, I did enjoy the characters with their upbeat yet serious moments. The game does kinda force jobs (end game makes you use freelancer/mime for masteries/stats) and research (chemist mix phoenix down with a potion is amazing but no kept recipes option). Being able to steal useful genji gear from Gilgamesh in each encounter was a huge improvement over FF3’s thieves that generally got potions. The mystic knight using spellblade will not work with katanas (no silver samurai here) and you’re gambling to accidentally heal bosses with the wrong element until you get petrify or flare end game.