>>717169254 (OP)
I played I-V years after playing VII and XI, and I never finished V. I disliked it for several reasons and part of the reason may be that I had just grinded my way through four other FFs and so V just got unlucky by being the next one, but it's also a very grindy, repetitive game if you want to do everything, and I did, and I regret it.
But as for the story and characters, that was one of my big problems with the game. I hate Buttz. He's cringey and annoying. He's also the Chosen One in a party entirely made up of princesses. That's just so dumb, it's like a really, really bad D&D party. In another game, I guess I might've found it charming, but maybe the fan translation did this one a disservice for me.
So there's this one scene where the pirate girl reveals that she's the princess's sister, making her a princess, too, and they get swept up by the nobility and are forced to sit around watching people dance and shit. So as Buttz, you're left alone with the old man's daughter, and the game basically forces you to leave. No one kicks you out of the castle, you just can't approach the girls and there's nothing else to do. This really took me out of the game because why the fuck would I just abandon half my party? It's not like they said goodbye to me or anything and obviously I need them. So whatever, the game wants me to leave, so I do. The loli and I set off on an adventure by ourselves and Buttz immediately falls into a hole and needs to get saved by the little girl, to which he comments something like, "You're pretty good for a girl," and I felt the entire weight of my head collapse into the palm of my hand. Nigger, your ENTIRE PARTY is girls. We're like 80% of the way through the game, hello? Where have you been?
Then Buttz gets "ooh so angry" he almost kills everyone on the airship and I'm like, "Who is this fucking retard? It's not me!" And that is not something you should ever be saying while playing a roleplaying game.
