I think this may be the first Lusipurr.com playthrough that I was unable to complete. Sad times. I really do not like Final Fantasy V very much, and this playthrough has only reduced my opinion of the title. Even the battle system, which I formerly thought pretty solid, I have found really wanting (as discussed on the podcast).

Dinglberry is pretty horrible. I still think that Y Burn and Karl Boss take the cake, however. Those will probably never be surpassed in any game.

Y BURN!

Also I love that the tonberry in this game is called dinglberry. They must have run the enemy names through a Google translate equivalent to end up with these names.

As for bad names how about the satanic water bus that resides around X-Deaths castle? You can tell their secret satanic ways by the way they give you 666 GP when they die.

Also: I’m still on world two. Hoping to cram my way to endgame this week. Who else is getting along?

Just wanted to preserve that bit of dialogue foe posterity. I think I put 50-some-odd hours into the GBA version without beating it. That was the first version I really played; I didn’t get far into the ROM fan translation. This version is good too. FFV is not one of the absolute best Final Fantasy games, but it is very solid and enjoyable. I like it better than IV, anyways.

I think you’re right about the music being a step back. There’s parts where it seems like Uematsu is trying out ideas that he’ll later perfect in VI’s soundtrack, but didn’t take the time or somehow couldn’t fully develop them here. That’s like the entire game though; it doesn’t take itself too seriously, and satisfies itself without trying too hard.

I’m in the ship graveyard at the moment. I’ll play here and there, but doubt I’ll be very caught up with the general flow of the Playthrough. Great choice of game though!

The translation is better than I remember it. In fact, as far as the dialogue is considered, it is exceptional by the standards of the day. The monster translations, however, are absolutely lamentable. Wizard Fans and Ricard Mages round out a troupe populated by Cool Dust, Y Burns, and the notorious Karl Boss.

As far as difficulty is concerned, the game is much (much!) easier than I recall it being. This may be down to the fact that I know precisely what jobs are best so that I do not waste time levelling anything useless, but I am pretty certain this has been the case for the last few times I played it.

The first world ends very abruptly in my opinion. One moment you’re there dealing with the Crystals, and then next you’re in another world entirely. In this way, the storyline moves a lot like FF3 (a game with which FF5 shares many similarities, not least of all the job system).

That said, I do have about an hour into the game and am enjoying it. Those little pixel-people are really endearing so far.

@Lusipurr: So far, my favorite thing is “YESSSS!”

Who else is playing?