Final Fantasy V Advance

 Game Boy Advance
User Score
8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 90 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 72 out of 90
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 90
  3. Negative: 3 out of 90
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  1. Jouna92
    Dec 25, 2013
    7
    Entertaining and surprisingly deep role-playing game but it doesn't have such a great story. Simple class-changing system and its ATB mechanics are easy to pick up and play. Typical RPG nothing special on it.
  2. Antares_A
    Oct 31, 2018
    7
    Story is meh comparing to most of the other ffs but it has 10/10 gameplay.
    You can unlock jobs customize your team greatly and offers good challenge that sometimes you have to grind in order to kill the specific boss.
    It also has one of the best endgame contents.
  3. sebastianali
    Sep 25, 2021
    5
    Despite being possible the best version of the game by far, is still not very good in its core gameplay. Like FF3, FF5 makes a highly emphasis on jobs. This jobs, despite giving you some of the most diverse customization on the franchise and removing one of the most annoying things in FF3 (having to win a lot of random combats when you change a job), it also breaks the game completely withDespite being possible the best version of the game by far, is still not very good in its core gameplay. Like FF3, FF5 makes a highly emphasis on jobs. This jobs, despite giving you some of the most diverse customization on the franchise and removing one of the most annoying things in FF3 (having to win a lot of random combats when you change a job), it also breaks the game completely with the only skills that matters being zeninage, rapi fire, dualcast and spellblade. Also this also means.... GRINDING! Oh my god, i just hate grinding in RPGs... Is even worse than FF3 grinding. Some enemies overall gives like 1000 exp points while leveling up requires like 40000, so you would expend like half hour or more trying to level up a single character only to win like 100 hp or more, because yes, contrary to other games like FF1, 2 or 3, (especially the former), the stats and resistance for status effects doesnt increase, making leveling up useless, having to level up like 10 times to at least resist 2 more attacks from stronger enemies. And while equipment is very interesting for its exclusive perks and is very useful overall, is very rare and cost lots of gil. You have to also grind a lot for money. This is basically the grindiest game i have ever played, not even FF3 or 8, or other RPGs (except idle games of course) makes me remember that i have to grind so much. The difficult curve isnt also very good balanced, with bosses that spams broken attacks that requires an specific strategy that basically requires trial and error to know it, or also the constant encounter rate with powerful enemies. Is just so boring...
    FFV is one of my least favorite FF, and is a shame, because the gameplay in its highest point was probably the best in the franchise, the soundtrack was amazing, graphically is so ahead of its time and it has a lot of exploration! But isnt very well polished and is so grindy that it becomes so tedious to complete. The story wasnt also very good. Isnt the worst story in the franchise by any means, but it was much inferior to 2 and 4, and it doesnt encourage me to complete the game.
    This GBA port also has some FPS drops at times, especially in the final battle, but if the game was actually fun, then i wouldnt take into account that too much.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#1 Best Game Boy Advance Game of 2006
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#2 Most Discussed Game Boy Advance Game of 2006
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#4 Most Shared Game Boy Advance Game of 2006

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. AceGamez
    90
    A mandatory purchase for any RPG lover or video game connoisseur.
  2. Games Radar
    80
    Learning and mastering new jobs while mixing and matching new abilities is such a deep and entertaining experience that the narrative becomes secondary. You can easily spend dozens and dozens of hours leveling up jobs and experimenting with them.
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  3. Eurogamer
    80
    This is more than just a museum piece for today's JRPG fan. The speed of the gameplay is in stark contrast to today's lumbering epics, something that suits and shines on the GBA.
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