Welcome

to Final Fantasy V, the Spirit of Heroes. This website would not have been possible without a certain person going off to Japan and leaving me stranded in the middle of the game attempting to play with a pocket Japanese dictionary. Had he not left me, I might have known just how to get off of the Solitary Island more than 14 years ago.

When Square released Final Fantasy Anthology in 1999 (in English finally!) I realized just how silly it was that I wandered around that little island for days on end until a fateful phone call told me what to do to leave…

I hope you’ll find a lot of information here that is not widely available. You can change the names of items, monsters, etc. from the Playstation version to the rom version by checking or unchecking the box in the upper right.

The walkthrough is (like almost everything in this life) a work in progress, but most of the locations have useful information—which monsters are in the area, most of the treasures that can be found there as well as what each of the shops sell. And if you are so inclined, you can leave your own tidbit of wisdom to help the weary (or confused) traveler.

November 9, 2006

I have the game in my hot little hands. I am delighted by the translation. I love the addition of the character icons in dialogue boxes. And the new battle backgrounds are rich and help to update the game. I haven’t gotten very far in the game, and I wasn’t sure if I would update the site to include the additions. After playing it I decided to take the plunge and update the site to reflect the changes in the Advance version. However, I don’t anticipate this to be a speedy process. It is just me and BBEdit. I am enjoying traipsing through Final Fantasy V again. It feels like coming home, but with a few new surprises thrown in. I can’t wait to reach them.