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Final Fantasy V Pixel Remaster Game Launches on November 10

As someone who actually likes Final Fantasy 5 unironically, I suggest buying the GameBoy Advance version. It has nicer graphics and has a much funnier translation which feels like a Saban script with more restraint.

Emulate it

Joke translations are for ROM hackers. When people pay for a translation, they expect a translated version of the original Japanese script. In my humble view, it seems pathetic to expect that the worthiness and the value of an entire game is determined whether certain characters say certain lines based upon regional releases. If this is what it takes to sell old-school Final Fantasy nowadays, then I really don't know what people honestly expect from the franchise entirely.

That is very true, but its always a good idea to have a brouder outlook and to have your eyes open to the possiblity of "what version should I play" because not every single modern and newest port of a video game series is the "Best" in alot of people's eyes. Take Lunar for example. Still to this day people actually get introduced to lunar series through the Lunar Harmony game on the psp over the Silver star story on the PS1. I will say from experience in both, that Lunar Silver star story is FAR more polished in mechanics, design, and even script. Over world, more challenging dungeons, more anime FMVS, better 90's classic voice acting, more witty, humerous dialogue that ooses more personality out of the characters, Bosses are not actually easy, they requite challenge and many many other things. I have not played the Pixel remasters so i can't really compare but as a HUGE fan of Final fantasy, i know that various ports and remasters have changed quite significantly over time. So its always good to know what your missing generally what the fandom seeks as the best over all experience.

The FF VI snes, altough charming for its era with some good one liners that we remember growing up, new fans may not consider ted woosley's script the ideal experience due to the fact that he changed alot of the japanese original dialogue and represented the characters differently and also cut down a huge ammount of script because of the limitations of the hardware so the GBA version in that respect may be the more better solution for most fans.