Final Fantasy V Advance

Features

• Experience Final Fantasy V in its purest form! Improved graphics, a new translation, and a remixed soundtrack bring new life to Bartz, Lenna, and Ganulf in their fight against the evil Exdeath!
• Expand your enjoyment with a detailed monster bestiary and a music player. Study your foes and learn their weaknesses, or enjoy the enhanced Final Fantasy soundtrack anytime you want!
• Explore the Sealed Ruin, a massive bonus dungeon filled with challenges, and fight the dungeon's newly designed boss using specially added jobs like the brutal gladiator, the sinister necromancer, and the dynamite bomber!

Customer Reviews

Classic Game
It's worth it. I play it on the DS. Basically a translation of the never released FFV. It plays a lot like FF4(2 here in US). If you like Final Fantasy get it, if not then maybe steer clear.

A really fun game!
"Final Fantasy V" is a really great GBA game that has a little bit of adventure, fighting, and a good story. It really is a great game!

Story-An adventuresome guy name Bartz with his pet chocobo come across a girl named Lenna who is being attacked by monsters. He helps save her, and once they get away from the monsters a meteor crashes to the earth, and the two find an old man there named Galuf who has amnesia. They try to find out why Galuf was at the meteor and come across pirates in which they befriend the leader Faris. Eventually, the four of them find out that they have been chosen to save four crystals. They set off to save them and get powers in the meantime by having jobs with everything from black mages to white mages to knights to monks to dancers. You gain more jobs as the game goes on. The point of the game is to stop an evil being who will come back to life if all four crystals are shattered. So save those crystals! But there are several back stories so you won't get bored.

Graphics-The backgrounds are good, but the characters are rather small. I liked the graphics, and I thought that they fit the game well.

Sound-The music was nice, I thought. The songs were mostly happy, and although they played quite a few times, I never got sick of them.

Gameplay-Walking around is really easy, as is talking to people. Now fighting is pretty easy as well. You select the characters and they can attack, do one of 2 special moves that comes from levelling up in the jobs, or use items. To level up in jobs you stock up in ABPs(ability points) which you get from completing battles. You also get EXPs when you complete battles (experience points). These help you gain experience levels which improve your HP (health points) and MP (magic points) and other stats such as defense, strength, and more. Your attacks can differ with the weapons you have equipped. The weapons that you can equip are based on the job that you are part of at that time. For instance knights can equip swords, summoners can equip bows, while freelancers can equip everything. There are a few other things that you will have to learn as you play the game, but these are the basics.

Fun-Yeah! This game is fun! The story is fun, the levelling up of jobs is rewarding, and it just is a great game.

Length-The story length is probably 30+ hours, but you probably won't play it straight through, as you might get stuck once or twice, but it's always solvable. And the boss battle is very tough. Too tough, in my opinion, which is why I took off a star. You might question whether that is a valid reason. When you get to it, you'll understand!

All in all, this is a great game that I recommend to all. It has strategy, fighting, and fun. I definitely recommend it for $30 or less. It's definitely a steal for anything less. Great game that is fun for all!

overall great game

overall i don't usually type reviews but i thought id be nice for once why not.


contained saved games from previous owned so i could not only view bonus dungeons in their entirety (run through them) but check out cloister of the dead (really fun) but i also got a look at the gear equipped to the characters which is good because this way i was able to start a new game from sctratch and know what gear i need to get later so i can play these extra areas and actually defeat the extra bosses myself.

One of the best
Some people liked FFIV better, but personally I loved FFV. I played the SNES years ago, and the improvements to this game make it even BETTER. Like all Advanced versions of the old FF games, this game has a Bestiary, and it's cool because you know which monsters carry rare treasures, plus the four new jobs that come with this Advance version are pretty neat. Like all other FF Advanced versions, the names of a few spells have changed as well as some monsters, but that does nothing to affect the quality of the game.

The bonus dungeon here is one of the best, period. There's a lot of cool treasures to be found within the Sealed Temple, though it is not without its challenges (you'll need a HIGH level to beat Enuo) Overall, FFV Advance is a worthy item for any Final Fantasy fan, and if you enjoyed FFV, you'll LOVE this Advanced version - goodness knows I did.

ff 5 gba review
having never played the original anthology version i can't say if this port improves upon it's pedecessor or not,what i will tell you is my opinion of this version.a lot of people give flack to the weak storyline but i think the storyline suffers more from being an average story sandwiched in between two epic ones.the story in my opinion should have followed after 3 as that game had a storyline while not childish wasn't as adult themed as 4 and 6. personally i love the story but i can see where others wouldn't quite so much. graphically the game starts out very bland with very basic landscapes but by the end in the n-zone the graphics are very well done,ff 7 this not but the it's hard not to fall in love with the sprites different job outfits and the creepy visuals on the trek to face ex-death. one thing everyone can agree on is the gameplay 4 and 6 paled in comparison with the depth of jobs,skills,and strategy this game contains configuring your jobs to beat neo-shinryu in the bonus dungeon is no easy task,i've even read posts on forums online from people who have given up trying to destroy him, but with the job system he is definatelly beatable.musically the game falls into the same trap as the gameplay they're nice,sometimes hauntingly beautiful but 4 and 6's music is much more cinematic and molded to fit teach scene like a glove.the bonus dungeon however drastically improves the gameplay to rival modern rpg standards,you even get to fight the villian enuo,the ancient evil mentioned many times in the story.it would have been nice to have frequent save points here as the encounter rate is very high here, though that can be fixed with the ability read ahead.here you face improved versions of omega and shinryu and if you're inclined the cloister of the dead pits you against a slew of previously defeated bosses.the bonus feature from ff 4 gba carry over here,nothing like marveling at your completed bestiary or enjoying the games music on the go.all in all this game had me playing non-stop and enjoying every minute of it. it may not be everyones favorite in the series but it's certainly the most fun especially now that it's portable.