Continued





That's a pretty big tree.














At this point I was pretty excited that I would be able to finish the game fairly quickly, compared to the other games. As you can see I didn't have all that many health points, and I had gotten this far without too many issues, so I didn't expect this to be too difficult.


But then


Exdeath transforms into Neo-Exdeath, which has about four parts with lots of health points, and really annoying and powerful attacks.


In particular there's an attack called Almagest that does about 1600 points of damage to each of the team members. At that point maybe one or two of the characters had more than that, so in short I was screwed.

I loaded an older save game and started farming. This went fairly easily, and a couple of hours later I tried again. No dice, but closer.

The next day I farmed for a couple more hours


And finally made it. As usual I won't spoil the end, but it's pretty good.


Thoughts about the game:
Another really solid installment in the series. It might be the one with my favorite storyline so far, partly because they'd gotten better at audio and visuals in general, and that there are more actual character animations this time. The guys will laugh, look shocked, be sad, and so on. Also, the towns and many of the backgrounds look great. The castles look even more detailed than before, and everything is really nicely colored. I also listened to the music more this time. During the 30 hour play through I may've listened to the music for about 3 hours, but that's more than before.

In terms of gameplay it's more polished than before. More depth than FF IV, and fewer annoyances than FF I-III. The jobs and abilities work pretty well, but I expect there'll be more depth in the upcoming games.

If you decide to play through this game I recommend checking out RPGClassics.com - Final Fantasy V

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