>>3845947
Galuf's death is so important to the story, too. The plot practically telegraphs that it's coming, but it still hits like a truck because it's just a well-crafted emotional moment. But the second you step into that forest and hear the unique dungeon music, you should know that old man ain't makin' it out alive.
>>3846178
I forget how all the different translations handle it, but I'm a big fan of Exdeath presuming that it's hatred or anger fueling Galuf and not love. Exdeath is such a big, dorky, generically evil baddie that he literally cannot grasp the concept of love and how powerful it can be. And that is ultimately his undoing.
Everyone always jokes that JRPGs are about "killing God with the power of friendship", and if that's true, then FFV is like the poster child.
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>>3826487
Even by that point, the game had kind of missed its chance to bank nostalgia the same way that 4 and 6 had. Most people capable of emulating would have likely been teenagers, and as you said, already played FF7/8, and I think those are two things that really undercut the FF5 experience, and it's why it has this reputation of being the "bad story, bad characters, good jobs" game among westerners.
In Japan, people don't say that about FF5. It's legitimately just a fan favorite with no asterisks attached, because most Japanese fans played it in the right place, at the right time, in the right mindset. There's even arguably a cultural component, as Japan was suffering a recession at the time thanks to a refusal to invest in future generations, and generational support and legacy is obviously one of the game's biggest themes—it's a very popular theme in anime/JRPGs in general, but particularly in the 90s, for this very reason.
I think the whole game would have much better reception in the west if people had played it in the early 90s while they were still in grade school. The game's got a lot of heart that I don't think people were much inclined to enjoy after the edge of 7 and 8. Heck, the west was shitting on 9 before it even came out, thanks to the reputation 7 and 8 gave the series.
Even by that point, the game had kind of missed its chance to bank nostalgia the same way that 4 and 6 had. Most people capable of emulating would have likely been teenagers, and as you said, already played FF7/8, and I think those are two things that really undercut the FF5 experience, and it's why it has this reputation of being the "bad story, bad characters, good jobs" game among westerners.
In Japan, people don't say that about FF5. It's legitimately just a fan favorite with no asterisks attached, because most Japanese fans played it in the right place, at the right time, in the right mindset. There's even arguably a cultural component, as Japan was suffering a recession at the time thanks to a refusal to invest in future generations, and generational support and legacy is obviously one of the game's biggest themes—it's a very popular theme in anime/JRPGs in general, but particularly in the 90s, for this very reason.
I think the whole game would have much better reception in the west if people had played it in the early 90s while they were still in grade school. The game's got a lot of heart that I don't think people were much inclined to enjoy after the edge of 7 and 8. Heck, the west was shitting on 9 before it even came out, thanks to the reputation 7 and 8 gave the series.