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Final Fantasy V (ファイナルファンタジーV Fainaru Fantajī V) is a computer role-playing game developed and published by Square Co., Ltd. in 1992. Originally released for the Nintendo Super Famicom. The game was remade for the Sony PlayStation, and this version was eventually translated and marketed in North America and Europe as part of the Final Fantasy Anthology
collection. The Super Famicom version of the game is notable for being one of the earliest fan translations to reach completion, by RPGe in 1997.

It is interesting to note that it was the first Super Famicom Final Fantasy to incorporate the use of, in the Japanese text, Kanji. Previous NES Final Fantasy titles had originally used an all-Hiragana script due to character-space limitations. Final Fantasy IV
was the last to have this (despite the fact that a Kanji script was possible), and is the most visibly connected to its predecessors in style.

The game is being ported to the Game Boy Advance under the title Final Fantasy V Advance, and is scheduled for release sometime in 2006.

The Final Fantasy anime, Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals, serves as a sequel to the events depicted in the game.

Gameplay

The main feature of its gameplay was the revamped job system (originally introduced in a different form in Final Fantasy III
), allowing all characters to potentially master up to 22 jobs. The player starts out with no job classes (they are defaulted as "Normal," a class which can be reverted to later on), and as they travel to new Crystal locations, they acquire new jobs. A separate form of experience, ABP, was created for the advancement of the characters' job levels, while they continued to earn regular experience points. The system also introduced a streamlined method of 'multi-classing,' allowing each character to learn job-specific abilities and carry one or two over when they changed their class. The Job System would disappear in the series for a short time, but would reappear in the Final Fantasy Tactics
series, Final Fantasy XI
, and Final Fantasy X-2
.

Battle innovations include the famous Active Time Battle system, in which the player could, for the first time in the Final Fantasy series, see whose turn would come next. Other Final Fantasy conventions like the Blue Mage were introduced, adding new elements to battle.

Another first for the series was the introduction of two "super" bosses, namely Omega Weapon and Shinryuu. Both of these bosses can rapidly wipe out the party (even if every member has absolute maximum status points) and special tactics are required to defeat them. Facing these enemies is not required, and battles with them are manually initiated by the player. If the player defeats Shinryuu they will receive the strongest sword in the game. Defeating the Omega Weapon has no reward, however.

Story

The hero of the game, Bartz (or Butz, the fan translation) becomes wrapped up in an elaborate war between his world and a parallel world ruled by X-Death (エクスデス; sometimes "Exodus"). With the help of Princess Reina (Lenna in the fan translation), the pirate Faris, and the amnesiac Galuf, he fights X-Death's influence and tries to stop him from plunging the world into the "Void." The party uses the shards of the elemental crystals to learn skills and magic and eventually defeat X-Death.

Final Fantasy V also features the first recurring miniboss of the franchise, Gilgamesh (ギルガメッシュ). Bartz and his friends fight him several times over the course of the game, a concept that the series continued with Ultros (Final Fantasy VI
), the Turks (Final Fantasy VII
), Biggs and Wedge, Seifer (Final Fantasy VIII
), General Beatrix (Final Fantasy IX
) and Seymour Guado (Final Fantasy X
).

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