I’m Going Back to Final Fantasy V

Now, I should preface this by saying that this is my first Final Fantasy game. Back when I first played this game, I wanted to get a taste of what this series was about and so I went looking on Steam. I eventually found out that this game has a unique mechanic that allows your party members to change jobs freely. This meant you could customize exactly how you wanted your characters to be built. If you wanted to focus on having magic builds, you could focus just on magic jobs. If you wanted to focus on attacking, then you could do that as well. If you wanted some all-rounder types, that’s fine too. So I bought Final Fantasy V. I made a little joke review about it too a couple years back. However, I never actually finished my playthrough of the game. I got past the beginning part of the game, but I got a little sidetracked and like most RPGs, haven’t gotten around to finishing it. However, I decided to play it a little more just because I felt like it. I’ll be completely honest and say that I honestly barely remember where I am supposed to go for the plot, but I’ll figure it out eventually. I hope so at least. Anyway, there is something else I realized after booting up the game. I was hunting for a few achievements.

So, there are achievements for mastering each job with each character in this game. So I thought the best way to do that was to have barely any party variety and have them all play the same job. Is this a good idea? I have no idea. Past me certainly thought it was and honestly, I might stick with it. Besides, there is a way to help diversify your characters. You can give characters abilities that you have obtained by leveling up previous jobs. So any ability from the previous nine jobs I completed have abilities I can use for the characters. Some are passive like the ones for not getting attacked from behind, while some allow you to use spells from previous classes. It is also worth noting that characters do have different strengths to utilize even if you do match their jobs and levels. For instance, Galuf and Faris have lower magic stats than the other two so I usually have them do damage while the others use elemental magic to assist. That is just one potential way to play. There are a lot of things to try and I can’t wait to maybe finish this game. We’ll see about doing the mastering jobs thing. There are I think 25 jobs total in the game and mastering the ninja job would put me at double digits. It seems like a long road to success. Wish me luck in actually completing it this time.