Game Life on Wired has posted up first impressions of Final Fantasy V US version.
Final Fantasy V Advance is fast.
Like, fast. You can zip straight through normal battles just by holding down the A button, and it’ll race through the menus. Obviously this won’t be as easy to do later in the game, when you actually have to select menu options other than “Fight.” But it makes the early going blaze right by.
It’s also even faster if you’ve got a Thief in your party. In the original SNES game, having a Thief was the only way to dash around the field. But now, anybody can B-button dash. Having a Thief lets you go at some crazy ridiculous speed. So fast that you’ll end up running straight past doors and treasure chests if you’re not careful.
All this adds up to mean that you’ll probably really enjoy ripping through FFV again even if, like me, you’ve been down this road many times before. And you’ll really want to do it for the English translation, which is polished, witty, and enjoyable. Buoyed by their success at slipping pop culture references into Final Fantasy IV last year, Square’s localization masters have gone maybe a little bit nuts with FFV’s minor text.
Read more of what Chris Kohler has wrote [Link]
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