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The wind stops blowing ... giant meteors strike the planet ... and the elemental crystals shatter. Someone or something is unleashing the dread force "Mu" -- "Nothingness" -- upon an unsuspecting world. Four travellers, brought together by fate, may be the last, best hope of Earth.
Eighteen months after unveiling FFlV Square was back again with a new chapter in the series. With its seemingly unbeatable track record, some people were beginning to wonder if Square could maintain the same level of quality and imagination in its games. As Final Fantasy V proved , the answer was yes.
FFV was set in a world where the elemental crystals that protected it from evil were breaking, and all hope seemed lost. The strory begins with the King of Tycoon sensing something wrong and travelling to the shrine of the wind crystal. Sadly when he arrived, the crystal shattered into a million pieces and the wind died. That however, was only the start of the problems. The hero of FFV(the unfortunately named Butz) had the task of sorting everything out across no less than three worlds.
With the fifth game of the series, Square upped the ante and filled up a 16mb SNES cartridge with one of the best Final Fantasy games to date. Once more, the player controlled a party of four characters, with their fixed identities tied into the background story and the plot. But this time, instead of each character having an established class, they could be switched around, enabling the players to create a customised party. As players moves through the game, they discovered special crystals containing the souls of dead heroes, each of which enabled acces to new character classes, elements from each could be mixed to form unique mixes of abilities.This clever game system was a major pull for RPG fans, with the inevitable result that Square had another hit on its hands. Only recently has FFV been updated and translated to English, it was released on PSX in the US in 1999. Another 18 months later Final Fantasy Vl was released, it was to be the last Final Fantasy to be released on the Super Nintendo.
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