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Video Games : Final Fantasy Anthology (PS)
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Rating: 
- Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy V
If you're a Final Fantasy fan, then by all means get Final Fantasy Anthology. These two Final Fantasy games are much better than the first two, with more interesting characters and storylines, though I feel that the crystals ruin the games; there's the dark knight Golbez attempting to get his hands on the crystals in Final Fantasy IV and the crystals shattering in Final Fantasy V.
Final Fantasy IV
This one is perhaps the hardest Final Fantasy to beat (this or Final Fantasy VIII. Final Fantasy VIII gets hard at the end, where this has constant boss fights, in which half of them are hard to beat, and when I say they're hard, I do mean HARD).
This one is the one that introduces the ATB (Active Time Battle) system. I heard rumours that this was also the first to introduce the summons, but I recently found out that it was actually Final Fantasy III that introduced the summons. This one is filled with many characters, who each have different job classes. There's the dark knight Cecil, who later becomes a Paladin. There's also the dragoon Kain, the summoner Rydia, the white mage Rosa and many more.
This also has two types of chocobo; the ordinary yellow ones, and the black ones (they for some reason appear purple in the game) that can fly, though they can't fly past mountains and can only land in forest areas. Lastly in this game, you can have up to five part members in battle, where in the other early Final Fantasies, you can only have four, but three in Final Fantasies VII, VIII and X.
This one has a very interesting storyline to it. It revolves around Cecil, who starts of as the captain of Baron's Red Wings, but demoted from his job, after questioning the king with regard to why he wants the crystals. He is soon tricked into attacking the nearby town of Mist and learns that by killing the mist dragon (also first boss fight of the game. One of the easy ones too), he killed the mother of a child (Rydia). It is then when Cecil decides to rebel against the king (Rydia joins him, though he has to gain her trust first). It is shortly after when he learns of his replacement Goblbez, who unlike Cecil is evil and the only person who can destroy him is a paladin, which Cecil eventually becomes. He and some other people (some he already knows) group together to stop Goblbez from claiming the crystals at all costs. Good game and fun to play. I must warn you it can be hard to beat. But if you can beat this, you can beat any Final Fantasy game.
Final Fantasy V
This one brings back the job class system, with lots more varieties than Final Fantasy 1. In the first Final Fantasy you could either be a warrior, a thief, a monk or a black or white or red mage. This one includes all of these plus loads more. You don't have the option of being any of these at first, but as you collect crystal shards, you gain different job options. Amongst the first lot is warrior, black and white mage, thief, monk and blue mage. You soon gain others like Red Mage, summoner, Geomancer (a warrior who can cross damaged floors without taking damage), sorcerer (someone who can do sword-magic) and many more.
You begin as a bare, a basic warrior, who can equip anything, and also the weakest, but once you master your warriors, than bare becomes the toughest. As you level up you permanetely gain abilities and the best part is you can equip one you've learnt when you switch jobs. EG. Once you've mastered the first level of black mage, you gain "Black 1", where you can cast level 1 black magic spells like Bolt, Fire and Ice. If you become a white mage afterwards, you (obviously) can cast spells such as cure. But equipping "Black 1" will also allow your party member to cast black magic spells. So your party member becomes a sort of red mage that way. Unfortunately you can only equip one, but as bare you can equip two. Again, this game has a black chocobo, which is exactly the same as the one in Final Fantasy IV, with the difference that it can fly over mountains, but not the white bits on them however. Lastly you only have five party members in total. You begin with Bartz, Reina, Faris and Galuf. Galuf is later on into the game replaced by his granddaughter Krile.
This game begins with the weakening of the wind crystal and the king of Tycoon travels to the wind shrine to investigate. A meteorite crashes and Reina (princess of Tycoon) is knocked out in the impact, having just left Tycoon castle to catch up with her father. Bartz catches a couple of goblins attempting to snatch her, but he rescues her. The two then meet an old man (Galuf), who has lost all memory but his desire to travel to the wind shrine. Bartz joins them in their quest there (Faris joins them on the way). When they reach the wind shrine, the wind crystal is shattered and the other three are in danger of shattering too. If they are all shattered then the world will come to an end, and it's later on when they learn that the shattering of all the crystals would also bring back the evil X-Death; something Bartz and the others have to stop at all costs.
Final Fantasy IV and V are excellent Final Fantasy games to play, which I highly recomend to all Final Fantasy fans. Buy this and enjoy.
Rating:
- Not The Best But Still Worth It!!
Anthology is FF4+5 the 2 are Good Games and are a lot better Compared to FF Origins the Story has been Improved making the Games more Enjoyable
The Music is also Good many Dislike Origins because it was Boring but I play this and find it a lot better
The Story for Both FF4+5 is simply this you and your Party need to Save the World a basic Story in which most RPG Games have I'd probably say that FF5 is better but they are both Good can be Fun and both have Awesome Music
(Sorry about the lack of Punctuation YES I know I'm Hopeless at it but I hope you can Read it and if you are going to Buy it I hope that you Enjoy them Both)
Rating: - About FFV
Well, it was hard to keep it under the 1,000 word limit but I managed. First off FFV is an extremely underrated game and we all know that FFVII is overrated, so I've given you an example of what I mean here. By underrated I mean that it gets no attention and when it does it is all bad and overrated means it gets heaps of attention and it is normally good. Don't take what I mean bad for fans of FFVII.
So here I go!
GAMEPLAY
First things first - the new ATB (active time battle) system is perfect and suits the mood of the game surprisingly well. More new features are spells and magic classes such as Time Magic and Blue Magic. And the final new instalment on the game is a smart and interesting job system that has been revived from the original FFIII.
Without the job system the gameplay would not be at such a high rating. Using the job system you can now create your own jobs! Simply learn abilities by gaining ABP in battle and that ability stays with the character who learnt it and can be equipped (without any cost) to make a new job or make a certain job more useful. This is an extremely addictive and fun part of the game by getting to know how the job system works you can make a White Mage be a master at both white and black magic. Or you can have a Mime be a master at mimicking, summon and time magic and mugging. The options are unlimited.
The game starts off slowly until you get the first jobs (which hold an important part in the plot of the game) then it boosts off and runs smoothly through.
As you follow the plot and go to new places your characters level up slowly and gain job abilities (generally) and start to master jobs. When each job is mastered some things (such as attributes, characteristics, and abilities) are automatically equipped to the weakest job in the game, Bare. Once you master all jobs the weakest job of the game becomes the strongest, having many abilities already equipped!
Apart from the near-perfect job system there is decent difficulty. Instead of having easy enemies and hard bosses (play the newer FF games for a great example) FFV has both an equal amount of easy and hard enemies, and it is the same with bosses. In almost every dungeon there are basic enemies who (with a critical hit) can take a quarter of HP from a party member. And the occasional strong-enemy of the dungeon will appear who can take half of HP off a party member with a normal attack and kill them with a critical! Thus, bringing strategy to the game.
-99%
PLOT & CHARACTERS
An extremely over-looked plot (which is really sad) - considering I'm not mentioning spoilers I can't say much. Four people are on a journey to stop the crystals from shattering, save the world, and stop Enuo's plan from being complete.
Character develop is rather low, and is FFV's weak point (all games have one). At the start of the game the characters seem to just meet up, and if it weren't for a later event in Moore Forest the game for me would really, really suck. All up, the Moore Forest saves this clearly making it higher than I make to think during the first sentence of this paragraph.
-94%
GRAPHICS
Graphics for me don't matter and I don't care. But considering other people do I will be gullible. For 1992 the graphics are honestly fairly bad. But during the end of the game they get noticeably better. Again, I don't rate on graphics.
-72%
LIFESPAN
Whoa! Saving the day for FFV is the Lifespan! There a plenty of other sub-quests and things to try and do such as complete all jobs, obtain all magics, play all pianos etc. etc.
Another thing that many people do is re-play the game using different job combinations and jobs. And like in all FF games with jobs you can try and complete the game with the whole party using only one job! So even if the game only lasts around twenty-five hours of plot play you'll be working for around fifty hours more to complete all jobs and get that pleasant LV 99!
Worth many times through.
-92%
OVERALL
Stunning... absolutely stunning! I think SQUARE made their best FF game when they made FFV. But if you have the time could you ask them for me, "Why did you have to start making bad games?"
-97%
xP
So that's that! I explained FFV but as for FFIV well, I thought it was kinda.... boring... I never played it really - so all 5 stars go to FFV!
Definetely worth the buy (just cause of FFV).
Rating: - IV and V
Firstly I began playing FFIV. I really enjoyed this game as I found the characters to be very likable (I especially loved Rydia (a summoner) and Edge (a ninja)) and I found the storyline enjoyable, particularly the whole Cecil/Kain/Rosa story. (Not gonna say anymore on that because I don't want to spoil anything.) Usually when I play FF games it is the storyline rather than the other features which make me enjoy it more.
The gameplay is OK, I liked the way that at some times you could have five people in your party, although it didn't make battles any easier, it just gave you more to work with. I also liked the fact that if you wished you could have two players, sharing the gameplay between the two of you (which pleased my little brother!)
FFV however was completely different. I don't know why but I just couldn't get into this game... it seemed like a huge chore to complete it. Some of the characters were pretty cool, especially Faris (a pirate) and Reina (a princess) But to me, the main character, Bartz was pretty dull. The storyline was so-so, with the quest for the four crystals of earth, wind, fire and water. I was also a little disappointed that there were few playable characters in this game (only 5)
The gameplay was perhaps more enjoyable. I loved the whole 'job' setting, whereby you could actually choose whether you wanted a character to be a black mage, or a knight, or a chemist, or whatever you wanted and level them up within that job. (Kinda like the 'dress-spheres' in FFX-2)
All in all, FFIV was great but I found FFV to be disappointing.
Rating:
- okay, here we go, listen up ladies and gentlemen
Right, FF IV and FF V. Okay. Now, FF IV is a good old retro style game, beautifuly conjured up storyline by the heads at Square as they were known back then. And good Graphics to watch while playing (8 years ago). Nowadays this game just bores you into not wanting to play it ever again and leave it as a collector's item. Im only playing it through so i can get on to FF V. Though it is a good game, you can't help but feel that by the fourth game, they would give you a better character development system instead of, every time you want to go ahead, you have to level up before continuing, Its sooooo bloody annoying. Buy it if you want to level Characters up. or for the good storyline (not exactly rich in originality mind you), don't buy it if you've played FF VII, becuase it will hinder your judgement on the FF series as a whole, after playing the best one in the series. Good Game, just hasn't aged as well as fine wine. Retro Fans will have a ball.
- Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VIf you're a Final Fantasy fan, then by all means get Final Fantasy Anthology. These two Final Fantasy games are much better than the first two, with more interesting characters and storylines, though I feel that the crystals ruin the games; there's the dark knight Golbez attempting to get his hands on the crystals in Final Fantasy IV and the crystals shattering in Final Fantasy V.
Final Fantasy IV
This one is perhaps the hardest Final Fantasy to beat (this or Final Fantasy VIII. Final Fantasy VIII gets hard at the end, where this has constant boss fights, in which half of them are hard to beat, and when I say they're hard, I do mean HARD).
This one is the one that introduces the ATB (Active Time Battle) system. I heard rumours that this was also the first to introduce the summons, but I recently found out that it was actually Final Fantasy III that introduced the summons. This one is filled with many characters, who each have different job classes. There's the dark knight Cecil, who later becomes a Paladin. There's also the dragoon Kain, the summoner Rydia, the white mage Rosa and many more.
This also has two types of chocobo; the ordinary yellow ones, and the black ones (they for some reason appear purple in the game) that can fly, though they can't fly past mountains and can only land in forest areas. Lastly in this game, you can have up to five part members in battle, where in the other early Final Fantasies, you can only have four, but three in Final Fantasies VII, VIII and X.
This one has a very interesting storyline to it. It revolves around Cecil, who starts of as the captain of Baron's Red Wings, but demoted from his job, after questioning the king with regard to why he wants the crystals. He is soon tricked into attacking the nearby town of Mist and learns that by killing the mist dragon (also first boss fight of the game. One of the easy ones too), he killed the mother of a child (Rydia). It is then when Cecil decides to rebel against the king (Rydia joins him, though he has to gain her trust first). It is shortly after when he learns of his replacement Goblbez, who unlike Cecil is evil and the only person who can destroy him is a paladin, which Cecil eventually becomes. He and some other people (some he already knows) group together to stop Goblbez from claiming the crystals at all costs. Good game and fun to play. I must warn you it can be hard to beat. But if you can beat this, you can beat any Final Fantasy game.
Final Fantasy V
This one brings back the job class system, with lots more varieties than Final Fantasy 1. In the first Final Fantasy you could either be a warrior, a thief, a monk or a black or white or red mage. This one includes all of these plus loads more. You don't have the option of being any of these at first, but as you collect crystal shards, you gain different job options. Amongst the first lot is warrior, black and white mage, thief, monk and blue mage. You soon gain others like Red Mage, summoner, Geomancer (a warrior who can cross damaged floors without taking damage), sorcerer (someone who can do sword-magic) and many more.
You begin as a bare, a basic warrior, who can equip anything, and also the weakest, but once you master your warriors, than bare becomes the toughest. As you level up you permanetely gain abilities and the best part is you can equip one you've learnt when you switch jobs. EG. Once you've mastered the first level of black mage, you gain "Black 1", where you can cast level 1 black magic spells like Bolt, Fire and Ice. If you become a white mage afterwards, you (obviously) can cast spells such as cure. But equipping "Black 1" will also allow your party member to cast black magic spells. So your party member becomes a sort of red mage that way. Unfortunately you can only equip one, but as bare you can equip two. Again, this game has a black chocobo, which is exactly the same as the one in Final Fantasy IV, with the difference that it can fly over mountains, but not the white bits on them however. Lastly you only have five party members in total. You begin with Bartz, Reina, Faris and Galuf. Galuf is later on into the game replaced by his granddaughter Krile.
This game begins with the weakening of the wind crystal and the king of Tycoon travels to the wind shrine to investigate. A meteorite crashes and Reina (princess of Tycoon) is knocked out in the impact, having just left Tycoon castle to catch up with her father. Bartz catches a couple of goblins attempting to snatch her, but he rescues her. The two then meet an old man (Galuf), who has lost all memory but his desire to travel to the wind shrine. Bartz joins them in their quest there (Faris joins them on the way). When they reach the wind shrine, the wind crystal is shattered and the other three are in danger of shattering too. If they are all shattered then the world will come to an end, and it's later on when they learn that the shattering of all the crystals would also bring back the evil X-Death; something Bartz and the others have to stop at all costs.
Final Fantasy IV and V are excellent Final Fantasy games to play, which I highly recomend to all Final Fantasy fans. Buy this and enjoy.
Rating:
- Not The Best But Still Worth It!!Anthology is FF4+5 the 2 are Good Games and are a lot better Compared to FF Origins the Story has been Improved making the Games more Enjoyable
The Music is also Good many Dislike Origins because it was Boring but I play this and find it a lot better
The Story for Both FF4+5 is simply this you and your Party need to Save the World a basic Story in which most RPG Games have I'd probably say that FF5 is better but they are both Good can be Fun and both have Awesome Music
(Sorry about the lack of Punctuation YES I know I'm Hopeless at it but I hope you can Read it and if you are going to Buy it I hope that you Enjoy them Both)
Rating:
- About FFVWell, it was hard to keep it under the 1,000 word limit but I managed. First off FFV is an extremely underrated game and we all know that FFVII is overrated, so I've given you an example of what I mean here. By underrated I mean that it gets no attention and when it does it is all bad and overrated means it gets heaps of attention and it is normally good. Don't take what I mean bad for fans of FFVII.
So here I go!
GAMEPLAY
First things first - the new ATB (active time battle) system is perfect and suits the mood of the game surprisingly well. More new features are spells and magic classes such as Time Magic and Blue Magic. And the final new instalment on the game is a smart and interesting job system that has been revived from the original FFIII.
Without the job system the gameplay would not be at such a high rating. Using the job system you can now create your own jobs! Simply learn abilities by gaining ABP in battle and that ability stays with the character who learnt it and can be equipped (without any cost) to make a new job or make a certain job more useful. This is an extremely addictive and fun part of the game by getting to know how the job system works you can make a White Mage be a master at both white and black magic. Or you can have a Mime be a master at mimicking, summon and time magic and mugging. The options are unlimited.
The game starts off slowly until you get the first jobs (which hold an important part in the plot of the game) then it boosts off and runs smoothly through.
As you follow the plot and go to new places your characters level up slowly and gain job abilities (generally) and start to master jobs. When each job is mastered some things (such as attributes, characteristics, and abilities) are automatically equipped to the weakest job in the game, Bare. Once you master all jobs the weakest job of the game becomes the strongest, having many abilities already equipped!
Apart from the near-perfect job system there is decent difficulty. Instead of having easy enemies and hard bosses (play the newer FF games for a great example) FFV has both an equal amount of easy and hard enemies, and it is the same with bosses. In almost every dungeon there are basic enemies who (with a critical hit) can take a quarter of HP from a party member. And the occasional strong-enemy of the dungeon will appear who can take half of HP off a party member with a normal attack and kill them with a critical! Thus, bringing strategy to the game.
-99%
PLOT & CHARACTERS
An extremely over-looked plot (which is really sad) - considering I'm not mentioning spoilers I can't say much. Four people are on a journey to stop the crystals from shattering, save the world, and stop Enuo's plan from being complete.
Character develop is rather low, and is FFV's weak point (all games have one). At the start of the game the characters seem to just meet up, and if it weren't for a later event in Moore Forest the game for me would really, really suck. All up, the Moore Forest saves this clearly making it higher than I make to think during the first sentence of this paragraph.
-94%
GRAPHICS
Graphics for me don't matter and I don't care. But considering other people do I will be gullible. For 1992 the graphics are honestly fairly bad. But during the end of the game they get noticeably better. Again, I don't rate on graphics.
-72%
LIFESPAN
Whoa! Saving the day for FFV is the Lifespan! There a plenty of other sub-quests and things to try and do such as complete all jobs, obtain all magics, play all pianos etc. etc.
Another thing that many people do is re-play the game using different job combinations and jobs. And like in all FF games with jobs you can try and complete the game with the whole party using only one job! So even if the game only lasts around twenty-five hours of plot play you'll be working for around fifty hours more to complete all jobs and get that pleasant LV 99!
Worth many times through.
-92%
OVERALL
Stunning... absolutely stunning! I think SQUARE made their best FF game when they made FFV. But if you have the time could you ask them for me, "Why did you have to start making bad games?"
-97%
xP
So that's that! I explained FFV but as for FFIV well, I thought it was kinda.... boring... I never played it really - so all 5 stars go to FFV!
Definetely worth the buy (just cause of FFV).
Rating:
- IV and VFirstly I began playing FFIV. I really enjoyed this game as I found the characters to be very likable (I especially loved Rydia (a summoner) and Edge (a ninja)) and I found the storyline enjoyable, particularly the whole Cecil/Kain/Rosa story. (Not gonna say anymore on that because I don't want to spoil anything.) Usually when I play FF games it is the storyline rather than the other features which make me enjoy it more.
The gameplay is OK, I liked the way that at some times you could have five people in your party, although it didn't make battles any easier, it just gave you more to work with. I also liked the fact that if you wished you could have two players, sharing the gameplay between the two of you (which pleased my little brother!)
FFV however was completely different. I don't know why but I just couldn't get into this game... it seemed like a huge chore to complete it. Some of the characters were pretty cool, especially Faris (a pirate) and Reina (a princess) But to me, the main character, Bartz was pretty dull. The storyline was so-so, with the quest for the four crystals of earth, wind, fire and water. I was also a little disappointed that there were few playable characters in this game (only 5)
The gameplay was perhaps more enjoyable. I loved the whole 'job' setting, whereby you could actually choose whether you wanted a character to be a black mage, or a knight, or a chemist, or whatever you wanted and level them up within that job. (Kinda like the 'dress-spheres' in FFX-2)
All in all, FFIV was great but I found FFV to be disappointing.
Rating:
- okay, here we go, listen up ladies and gentlemenRight, FF IV and FF V. Okay. Now, FF IV is a good old retro style game, beautifuly conjured up storyline by the heads at Square as they were known back then. And good Graphics to watch while playing (8 years ago). Nowadays this game just bores you into not wanting to play it ever again and leave it as a collector's item. Im only playing it through so i can get on to FF V. Though it is a good game, you can't help but feel that by the fourth game, they would give you a better character development system instead of, every time you want to go ahead, you have to level up before continuing, Its sooooo bloody annoying. Buy it if you want to level Characters up. or for the good storyline (not exactly rich in originality mind you), don't buy it if you've played FF VII, becuase it will hinder your judgement on the FF series as a whole, after playing the best one in the series. Good Game, just hasn't aged as well as fine wine. Retro Fans will have a ball.