January:February:March:April:May:33) Final Fantasy V (SFC) (6.0) (5/1) (~33 hours)Some of y'all ain't gonna like this. I'm not a big fan of
FFV. I'm
still not a big fan of
FFV. I get
why folks are fans, it's just that I'm not.
Anyway, I dredged up my ancient, 27 hours-old save game, probably played in ZSNES, and made the final push using the SD2SNES. And promptly regretted it, because it wasn't a relaxing way to spend the day I took off. I think I got more angry at a game than I have in a while. It doesn't help that I was underleveled, but that boss that I figured was going to give me fits
indeed gave me fits. I think I went at him about 15 times before dropping him. Cruised to the last battle... and got annihilated. That probably took 6-7 runs, and lots of tweaking my meager setup. I basically leaned on lots of folks having White Mage abilities, a Summoner, and a couple of Samurai with Gil Toss. And even then, I had to fight hard to keep my crew upright. Shell was a must, but towards the end, I just had to go for the gusto. Juuuuust managed to drop him, and it's done.
So this should be a longer gap than my revisit of
Seiken Densetsu 3. Glad to have it done, but I don't anticipate revisiting it again any time soon. It's certainly not bad, but I'll take
FFIV or
FFVI any day.