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Final Fantasy 5 Spoof

Original game : Final Fantasy V

Platform : SNES

Author : Tzepish

Release date : 17 August 2020

Category : Complete

Patch version : 1.10

Modifications : T, P

Downloads : 3696

ROM Information

Database match: Final Fantasy V (Japan)
Database: No-Intro: Super Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20180813-062835)
File/ROM SHA-1: E937B54FFF99838E2E853697E4F559359AA91FD6
File/ROM CRC32: C1BC267D

Hack description

This is a comedy / parody hack of Final Fantasy 5. Version 1.10 improves upon the previous release in the following ways:

1.) More variety in humor and sentence structure: Several parts of the script were enhanced with foreshadowing, callbacks, clarity, or additional humor. Several sentences were also improved in subtle ways for increased impact.

2.) More consistent characterization: There were several places in the spoof v1.0 where the core four would break character in order to advance the plot a specific way or to make a particular joke. This time around, better solutions have been written that don't require them to break character.

3.) Cool it with the "punching down": If v1.00 was about applying the wisdom gained from age 15 to 25 to reduce the amount of crude humor in the spoof, v1.10 is about applying the wisdom gained from age 25 to 35 to reduce real world harm caused by the spoof. The writing isn't flippant about serious issues this time, and it aims its offensive and politically incorrect humor at those *with* power, rather than those without.

4.) Additional feedback incorporated: Thank you to everyone who wrote reviews, lets plays, forum posts, and emails!

5.) Several quality of life enhancements: See the readme for details!

Make sure to patch this over an unmodified JAPANESE Final Fantasy 5 ROM!

Screenshots

Contributions

ContributorType of contributionDescription
TzepishScript Editing/Revision

Reviews

Bigger than VII, better than IV!Meliz2009-01-04-

v. 1.01

Okay, your best bet would be to at least know the premise of the original V. You might miss out on some obvious or less obvious jokes - which may or may not involved moist pirates with gills (apparantly).

My expectations were pretty low, honestly, I just stumbled upon it out of boredom and decided to give it a go, about noon. I was sitting there, thinking, I'll play this about half an hour, fifteen minutes, until there's something decent on TV. Then mother dearest barged in screaming heavy hell at me - I missed dinner.

So does it grab you by the sphericals? Yup.

The humor was sound, well thought out. Nothing basic and juvenile, though the occasional swearing occured, it served a point. Too much swearing isn't funny. Best example of that would be South Park - jokes are usually few and far between, lots of swearing in an attempt to cover up comical incompetence. FFVS (as I'll call it from now on) has random wackiness at every turn. Some of it you'll see coming. Some will blindside you like that set of headlights in the season finale of House M.D. season 4. You didn't see that coming either.

I made a spoof of Zelda 3, I tried my best to steer clear of anything juvenile, but this guy really hit the nail on the FACE! That's like hitting it on the head, but better, and with a bigger hammer. Lots of the jokes and little details simply blew me away. Humor with blips and bloops - mostly the bloops were funniest.

With only the text altered, nothing else, it's quite amazing to see how much FFVS differs from FFV - as if it was always another game with only few similarities.

The attention to details pleases me. The jobs, the abilities, even item descriptions were altered. The humor can get a little personal with some people, but seeing how I always thought Racism to be one of the biggest f***ing jokes in the universe (it being so damn ridiculous to begin with) I enjoyed the silliness.

It's a comedy, you can tell a lot of work went into it, and I applaud whoever wrote it, I hope Square Enix doesn't find you and sue your pants off - that would place vacuum on posterior orifi.

Warning, though. I got sucked in right away, six hours into it, lost all track of time.

Do not play this when you want to just fight around and beat the game. This one is definately one to read and savour every last string of text to be found.

Easily to be mistaken with the original game, this version is much funnier, surprising and another complimenting adjective to be inserted here.

It throws jokes back and forth, and you'll constantly be going "Hey! I remember them saying something about that earlier! Oh my God I'm so smartie." Didn't I say that two paragraphs ago?

Did you really read all that? Trust me, you'll love it. Just patch it and play it. Now.