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hey what do you think about final fantasy 5

FF5 is great, and I hate how it is overlooked for the subpar FF4. It was the first FF game that actually had any form of character depth and the job system was fun to use.

FF4 is so fuckin overrated man like even though the characters are "Unique" its still just like, pretty much entirely riffed on the original Star Wars trilogy, just with some japanese and european mythology and final-fantasy-isms kinda crowbarred into it. FF5 meanwhile just sorta shoehorned in some mythologies that might not have been as mainstream in FF's target demographic, which was kinda cool honestly, it showed that the team did really care about the world around them and didn't just want to produce like. An elaborate TV Show that's drama for drama's sake, and it kinda set the stage for the themes a lot of the later games would need to tackle just by being willing to spread things out so far (Like seriously, 3 whole worlds, ik one of them is the other two merged but thats still such a cool story beat, I just wish it got a unique tilemap like the other maps)

I played through all of FF4 and just couldn't bring myself to care about anything that was happening. Cid dies and I don't care. Cid comes back to life and I don't care. The entire cast felt so one-dimensional that I wouldn't notice if they were replaced with cardboard cutouts. The only game mechanic that was FF4's claim to fame, the ATB system, was used by every FF game up until FF9, so it stopped being anything special.

To be fair I don't think any other final fantasy game has one of its final dungeons take place inside of a giant mecha, or has a fight scene with tanks. I remember watching @Bionicobot do his playthrough of ff4 and he like nodded out after the dwarf shit and never bothered to play the game again after that