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Final Fantasy V Advance | 
| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 1121
Platform: Game Boy Advance
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5 x 4.9 x 1
MPN: agb p bz5e
Model: AGBPBZ5E
UPC: 045496738105
EAN: 0045496738105
ASIN: B000HE9LEK
Release Date: November 6, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Cartridge only.
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| Features:
| • | Experience Final Fantasy V in its purest form! Improved graphics, a new translation, and a remixed soundtrack bring new life to Bartz, Lenna, and Ganulf in their fight against the evil Exdeath! | | • | Expand your enjoyment with a detailed monster bestiary and a music player. Study your foes and learn their weaknesses, or enjoy the enhanced Final Fantasy soundtrack anytime you want! | | • | Explore the Sealed Ruin, a massive bonus dungeon filled with challenges, and fight the dungeon's newly designed boss using specially added jobs like the brutal gladiator, the sinister necromancer, and the dynamite bomber! |
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Product Description
Final Fantasy V Advance is now available to handheld gamers! Five characters try to save the world from an evil sorcerer known as Exdeath. Train them for a wide variety of job classes, then lead them into battle to use their special abilities and skills. A host of brand-new elements have been seamlessly merged with the original game, providing unexpected surprises for longtime fans. With new dungeons, new job classes, and other exciting features, both old-school players and newcomers can enjoy this genre-defining Final Fantasy title in a portable format!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Not Cliched'd; A Predecessor To The Greats! May 16, 2008
This game is by far my most enjoyable experience when it comes to combat.
1. You can develop every character you have into whatever you want; women don't have to necessarily be healers this time around!
2. You have the ability to also combine a mastered skill to another skill; in such a way your black mage can have white mage abilities, and your thief can have blue mage abilities as well!
3. Equipment is restricted by class, but by the time you are at the end of the game, that changes with certain classes...
4. In this version of the game, they have added many more classes to the mix.
This game has a great storyline, but at times can be bland, but is still awesome.
1. This also sports one of the most memorable good cop/bad cop villain of all time: Gilgamesh! He also has one of the most memorable themes of any Final Fantasy (that is, if you've played many different FF games).
2. This game is also very comedic (at least in my opinion).
The music is alright, but none of them stick out very much; it must be because they're all good! Nah, it's not the most memorable music-wise, except for the few such as "battle on the bridge," but it also isn't bad, like in FF 3.
Graphic-wise, it's updated from it's past-updates. Don't compare it with PS2 FF's because, of course, they don't compare, but appreciate it as a close interpretation from the original.
TL;DR, any RPG fan will LOVE this game! Any newcomers to RPG's will find the transgression from learning different combat aspects of this game very easy to swallow (but hard to master). A great game for all!
This Game Rocks!!! April 21, 2008
Some final fantasy people might be annoyed with the graphic but remember when the game was created.
Reasons why to like this game:
1) The story line is great and has twists to them that are cool. All the characters have substance to them.
2) The graphics are hysterical and make you laugh.
3) The traveling is cool.
4) The Jobs are fun to play play mix and this game has more abilities for all characters than any other final fantasy game I played so far. I play X, X-2, XII, VI, I, II,
 IT IS ... February 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
IF YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED FFV BEFORE, THIS IS A GREAT ROMP THROUGH THE GAME, AS THE GBA EXCLUSIVES ARE A NICE TOUCH, BUT IF YOU'VE PLAYED IT BEFORE DON'T BOTHER, NOT ALOT NEW HERE.
4.5; Got lots of free time? February 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I first played Final Fantasy V when it was released with VI with Anthology for the Playstation. Being one of the few installments that didn't get a stateside release (along with III which is here on the DS), a lot of people loved playing V mainly for the gameplay since storywise they're just wasn't anything there. While it does feel like they're releasing the games over and over for money, most can't even find the original Anthology release anyway so we have V being released separately which is a good game in its own right but it might not be as well-rounded as VI or the later installments.
Story: Same ol' really but here it goes: King Tycoon is off to the Wind Shrine to check on the Wind crystal which he fears is in danger. Princess Lenna follows him only to be blocked by a massive meteor that hits the ground. Meeting traveller Bartz as well as Galuf, an old man with amnesia, the 3 travel to the Wind Shrine and with the help of Faris the pirate, have to save the world and protect the crystals from evil.
Graphics: Nothing that stellar really but this is a Gameboy Advance title so it's easier to forgive. The graphics look more cleaner but don't expect major overhauls to the graphics to make them more advanced or impressive, they're just more...polished. Character portraits as always have Amano's artwork which is always a welcome though it's kind of odd, but not distracting, to have characters with certain features like Faris' grey hair in portrait to have purple hair in game. But it's always been like that so whatever.
Sound/Music: V's soundtrack is sandwiched inbetween IV and VI, the latter being arguably his finest soundtrack. V's is also impressive with memorable tunes and melodies and some well-known ones like Dear Friends or Battle on the Big Bridge but on the other hand, other tracks are just iffy. They're nice and all but there was never a moment during IV or VI where a bad song suddenly showed up when you entered a new area but in V it's more like it's good music then all of a sudden "hey, this theme's cool".
Gameplay: Unlike IV and VI which had specific classes, in V you can be anybody and the fun comes from mix and matching. Instead of only bringing out certain characters because they're more useful in battle, you can customize your character however you want. Sure you can be a Thief and rob enemies but what if you want to Cure as well? No problem: just learn White Magic, be a Thief and put White Magic in ability menu and poof, now you can nab helpful stuff along with curing your party. Some classes are incredibly useful and even fun to use while others are just quirky and you'd probably only use them for completion purposes.
The Anthology release was fun though frustrating to play since levelling up was kind of a must with many times needing to level up your characters in order to not get slaughtered and the GBA one is just as tough though it's slightly more lenient let's say. Just toughen up your characters and you'll be fine. Also, there's not a lot story wise to the game since it's basically crystals in trouble, warriors come together to stop evil with a touch of character development now and then (i.e: characters waking up in the middle of the night to have a monologue). It's not the most deepest RPG storywise and aside from Lenna and maybe Faris, the characters are not as endearing as a Rydia or Kain.
I'd recommend V since it's an addicting game to master Job classes though for a more well-rounded game with story and characters, seek VI out but when you're finished with that, by all means give V a go.
The wonderful and amusing translation makes FFV Advance the best release of FFV to date July 10, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In keeping with their tradition of re-releasing their SNES Final Fantasy games on the GBA, Nintendo has repackaged Final Fantasy V. The result is nothing short of spectacular, as Final Fantasy V Advance turns out to be the best version of FFV to date. The main reason being that the game has been re-translated and augmented so that the script is now very tongue in cheek and full of humor. Pop culture references are abounding, and game makes fun of its rather simplistic and cliché storyline. The result is a fresh and witty take on what was originally a simplistic and unoriginal story.
For players unfamiliar with the rest of Final Fantasy V, it can be quickly summarized as follows: The emphasis of the game is not on story, but on fighting. The game requires the player to spend more time leveling up and building up abilities than it does the player reading text and figuring out puzzles. As a result, the game is actually somewhat easy, since the player will most likely "over level" their party in order to have a team of characters to their liking. Beyond the emphasis on leveling, anyone can see why the game originally had a rather unoriginal and overall boring story. Thankfully, the aforementioned "script update" has helped remedy this issue greatly.
As for the game's combat, Square has added 4 new jobs that the player can acquire, but three are only accessible towards the end of the game (and the last after the game is beaten). Still, the new jobs do add some variety to game play as well as replay value. The jobs themselves are not "overly powered" as some players might be lead to think, and in comparison, the original 15 jobs can be more powerful than the new 4 if used properly. Still, the new jobs do make life easier when it comes to leveling up thanks to the abilities that they introduce to the game. Ultimately, the new jobs add some needed additions for players who have already beaten FFV in the past.
As for other additions to the game, the most noticeable are that the game has more colorful and better-drawn graphics. The soundtrack has been remixed, and is now far superior to the original SNES game. The game also has an optional 30-room dungeon and a boss survival mode for players seeking more action after the game is over. Suffice to say, the additional content easily plays on the game's emphasis on combat and not on story telling. Other additions to the game include a bestiary, so that players can look up the stats of the monsters that have been defeated. In addition, the game has a music player mode for those who enjoy the music of Final Fantasy V.
The only drawback on Final Fantasy V Advance is that some players will find the new content to be "not enough". Where as the original Final Fantasy V could be completed at about level 36-50, the additional content can be beaten at 50-60, depending on how much time the player has invested into the job system (and how much outside assistance they utilize.) Still, with the new translation, FFV Advance is a worthwhile experience, even for players who have already played FFV in the past.
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