Final Fantasy V Final Fantasy V is the fifth installment in the " Final Fantasy " series by Square Co . , Ltd . , originally released for the Super Family Computer ( Super Famicom ) in 1992 . The game was ported to the Sony PlayStation , and this version was translated and marketed in North America and Europe as part of the " Final Fantasy Anthology " collection . The game ' s SFC version is notable for being one of the earliest fan translations to reach completion , by in 1997 ; this was driven by the SFC version also being one of the highest - profile " missing games " of the Super Nintendo era . " Final Fantasy V " was later released for the Game Boy Advance , as part of the " Finest Fantasy for Advance " compilation . The game centers on a group of four strangers brought together by circumstance to save the Crystals that have mysteriously begun shattering one by one . The one behind the phenomenon is the antagonist Exdeath , as part of a plan to release himself from imprisonment and to gain the power of the Void , a realm of nothingness , which could bestow absolute power on one able to resist being absorbed by it . The four Warriors of Light turn their attentions to defeating Exdeath and stopping the Void ' s energies from consuming their world . " Final Fantasy V " was the first Super Famicom " Final Fantasy " to incorporate the use of kanji in the Japanese text ; previous " Final Fantasy " titles had originally only used hiragana and katakana script due to character - space limitations . " Final Fantasy IV " was the last to do this ( despite kanji script having been possible at the time ) , and is the most visibly connected to its predecessors in style . In 2013 " Final Fantasy V " was released for mobile platforms , followed by a 2014 Amazon Appstore release for both Kindle and Android devices . This version was developed by Matrix Software , and has new graphical style but otherwise remains the same as previous versions . The game was released for PC on " Steam " and for Amazon Fire TV on the 24th of September 2015 . The anime , " " , is an OVA sequel to " Final Fantasy V " taking place two hundred years after the game ' s events . Gameplay . The main gameplay feature is the revamped job system allowing all characters to potentially master up to twenty - two jobs . The player starts out as " Freelancer " , and as they travel to new Crystal locations , the party acquire new jobs . A separate form of Experience , ABP , is introduced for the advancement of the characters ' job levels , while they continue to earn regular Experience Points . The system introduces a streamlined method of " multi - classing " , allowing each character to learn job - specific abilities and carry one or two over when they change their class . After " Final Fantasy V " the job system was absent in the series until the " Final Fantasy Tactics " series , " Final Fantasy XI " and " Final Fantasy X - 2 " . Battle innovations include reworking the Active Time Battle system , so that the player could , for the first time in the " Final Fantasy " series , see whose turn would come next . Other " Final Fantasy " conventions , such as the Blue Mage , are introduced , adding new elements to battle . " Final Fantasy V " features the series ' first recurring mini - boss , Gilgamesh . Bartz and his friends fight him several times during the game , a concept the series continues to use . Synopsis . Characters . The game stars a crew of five unique characters . The initial four remain together for much of the game , until one is replaced . Story . In Tycoon Castle King Tycoon prepares to depart for the Wind Shrine . The wind is behaving strangely , and he orders his daughter , Lenna , to watch over the kingdom while he investigates . As soon as he arrives , the Wind Crystal shatters , halting the wind across the world . Lenna rushes off to search for her father , while a pirate at sea notices the change , and an old man in a meteorite hurries to the scene . The meteorite crashes near Tycoon Castle , where it is seen by Bartz Klauser , a lone wanderer who travels the world with his chocobo Boko . He finds Lenna under attack by goblins and rescues her . They search the Tycoon Meteorite crash site and find the old man , who gives his name as Galuf but has no other memory . When Lenna mentions the Wind Shrine he says he has to go with her , though he has no idea why the Wind Shrine seems important . Bartz declines to accompany them , but Boko changes his mind and they return in time to rescue the pair from more goblins . Feeling that " the wind is calling , " Bartz decides to join them on their quest . In need of a way to sail without wind , they watch a pirate ship enter a secluded harbor seemingly on its own power . Although Lenna suggests asking the pirates for a ride , Galuf and Bartz rationalize that since these are pirates , simply stealing the ship is the safer option . The pirates and their captain , Faris , catch them in the act and briefly imprison them , but Faris decides to join them to find out why he and Lenna share a pendant . He reveals the ship moves thanks to a tame sea dragon named Syldra and they sail on to the Wind Shrine . The party discovers the shattered remnants of the crystal atop the shrine . The shards give off light and mark each of them with an essence of the four elements : courage and fire for Faris , devotion and water for Lenna , hope and earth for Galuf , wind and passion for Bartz . The King of Tycoon appears and names them the Warriors of Light , warning them of an evil that is trying to destroy the other crystals . The crystal shards entrust themselves to the party , providing them with the first set of job classes . The nearest crystal is the Water Crystal in Walse , so the party visits Zok , the architect of Torna Canal . Though reluctant due to the recent monster infestation , he loans them the key to the gates . During the voyage , Lenna explains the dire consequences should the crystals be destroyed : the natural forces of the world would cease , rendering the planet uninhabitable . They resolve to save the crystals , but Zok ' s fears prove to be well - founded and the ship is attacked by a monster called Karlabos . Although the party defeats it , it sucks Syldra into a whirlpool , leaving them adrift . They end up in the Ship Graveyard . After crossing a flooded room , the party dries their clothes with a fire , but Faris protests . During a brief struggle , they learn he is actually a woman . Although shocked , they understand her reasons for disguising herself , and shrug it off . Upon reaching the shore they encounter illusions of their loved ones cast by the Siren and fall unconscious . Bartz sees his mother , Stella , Lenna and Faris are ensnared by King Tycoon , and a young girl appears before Galuf . Galuf has no memory of her and knocks his friends back to their senses , allowing them to defeat the monster . They visit the town of Carwen and soon hear rumors that a wind drake was seen flying to North Mountain , a clue as to the king ' s whereabouts . The party is ambushed by a wife - husband hunter team , Magissa and Forza , on their way up the mountain . Magissa shoots Lenna with a poisoned arrow and tries to kidnap her . Faris leaps across and , though she nearly falls , she climbs back up and throws a rope for Bartz and Galuf . Together the party defeats them . At the top , they find Lenna ' s wind drake , Hiryu , injured . Lenna crosses the mountain ' s poison flowers to get the dragon grass to cure him . The grass works and Hiryu heals Lenna of poison . The Light Warriors pay a visit to Castle Tycoon . During the night , Lenna confronts Faris with the knowledge they are sisters , but Faris denies any such connection . They fly the wind drake to Walse and entreat its king to shut down the amplification machine they use to enhance the Water Crystal ' s powers , as it is weakening the crystal . King Walse refuses , saying that the machine has protected the country and brought them great prosperity . Before they can argue further a second meteorite crashes at Walse Tower , the site of the crystal . The party races to the scene after the king and find that the king and his soldiers have been defeated by Garula , a normally gentle elephantine creature . They find a strangely - dressed soldier at the top who addresses Galuf as " my lord , " but he is mortally wounded by Garula before Galuf can learn anything . The Light Warriors defeat the creature , but it is too late to stop the crystal from shattering . They gain the second set of job classes right before the tower plunges into the sea . Syldra reappears and rescues them before drifting away in the current . Exploring the Walse Meteorite , Bartz steps on a warp point and is whisked away . The rest of the Light Warriors follow and find themselves at Karnak Meteorite . They are arrested on suspicion of being in league with a werewolf that had emerged from the meteorite before them . They meet Cid Previa , the inventor of the crystal amplification machines , in jail . He had realized his mistake , but was imprisoned by Queen Karnak when he tried to shut down the device . Karnak ' s chancellor releases the party at Cid ' s insistence when his expertise is needed to shut down the device after damage to the crystal becomes apparent . The five go to the Fire - Powered Ship and find Queen Karnak in the engine room , clearly possessed . She either becomes or summons a fiery monster , which the party defeats . The werewolf from before joins them in the Crystal Chamber and reveals himself as an ally , also addressing Galuf . A Karnakian soldier — also possessed — turns up the machine to its full power and the crystal shatters . The werewolf aids the party ' s escape at the cost of his own life , and Karnak Castle explodes . The Light Warriors pick up three more crystal shards from the wreckage . Cid blames himself for the crystals ' destruction and holes himself up in Karnak ' s pub , so the Light Warriors go to the Library of the Ancients to figure out their next move . They meet Cid ' s grandson , Mid . When they tell him about his grandfather , Mid rushes to Karnak and snaps Cid out of his funk . The sight of grandfather and grandson triggers something in Galuf ' s memory and he flashes back to a similar scene between him and his granddaughter Krile , the girl Siren showed him . He tells the party he is from another world and that thirty years ago he and three other warriors sealed an evil warlock called Exdeath using the power of the crystals . Now , Exdeath is trying to escape by shattering them via possessing others to carry out the deed . Cid and Mid repair the Fire - Powered Ship and give it to the Light Warriors to find the Earth Crystal , the last one remaining . They visit Crescent Island and lose the ship in an earthquake . The island ' s forest is home to a flying black chocobo and they retrieve the two missing shards of the Fire Crystal . With the chocobo , the party flies over mountains and makes a stop at Lix , Bartz ' s hometown , where he reminisces about his past . Returning to the library , they learn from Cid and Mid that King Tycoon has been spotted flying through the air towards the abandoned town of Gohn . Although they find him there , the king leads the party to a trapdoor and they plunge into underground ruins . Faris calls out to him as " Papa , " finally admitting that she and Lenna are sisters . They escape by a warp point but it overloads as soon as they use it , and they are nearly killed by the explosion . The warp point whisks them to another set of underground ruins where they find the Fire - Powered Ship shortly before Cid and Mid fall through the ceiling , courtesy of the party pulling a lever . The two inventors realize that the ruins , Catapult , were left by the Ancients . Finding an airship alongside the Fire - Powered Ship , Cid fixes it and gives it to the party , who resolve to save the last crystal . The Light Warriors return to Gohn and see the Ronka Ruins rising into the air thanks to the ancient amplification machine , putting the crystal at grave risk . Cid and Mid reinforce the airship ' s hull with adamantite from Galuf ' s meteorite so the party can reach the flying city . They find King Tycoon in the crystal room and try to talk , but he orders them to defeat the Archeoaevis . They oblige , not realizing the creature is actually the crystal ' s guardian . Once it is slain , " Tycoon " prepares to attack them . Though he is possessed , Faris and Lenna refuse to let Bartz and Galuf confront him . Before anything else can happen , another meteorite arrives . Krile bursts into the room and hits Tycoon with a mild spell to break him from his possession . Seeing her again cures Galuf ' s amnesia and King Tycoon reunites with both of his daughters . Their joy is cut short when the Earth Crystal shatters and Exdeath is freed from his prison . He appears before them and taunts Galuf , sets the crystal shards to attack the party , and departs . King Tycoon saves them at the cost of his own life by drawing the crystals ' attack . Now inert , the crystal shards bestow another set of job classes onto the party . With the Earth Crystal gone , the party flees to the airship as the Ronka Ruins crash . Faris and Lenna are given no time to mourn their father ' s death now that Exdeath is back . Galuf tells them the full story of how he and his companions , the Dawn Warriors , fought Exdeath from the other world to this world and sealed him away with the crystals . Although he and the others on his world learned that Exdeath was attempting to free himself and used the meteorites to try and stop him , they were too late to do anything . He declares he and Krile will return to his world to fight Exdeath and forbid the others to follow , saying they would have no way to return . Bartz , Lenna , and Faris say goodbye , but decide they need to go and help . Again consulting Cid and Mid , they collect more adamantite from the meteorites to activate a warp point to the other planet . Bidding goodbyes to their distant homes and loved ones , they jump in one by one and find themselves on a lone island in another world . Exdeath ' s servants capture them and bring them to Castle Exdeath . Galuf , Krile , and an army prepare to cross Big Bridge and assault the castle . Exdeath uses Bartz , Lenna , and Faris as hostages , forcing Galuf to call a retreat . He borrows Krile ' s wind drake and mounts a rescue , fighting Exdeath ' s lackey Gilgamesh during the break - in . They escape across the bridge , fighting their way through monsters and confronting Gilgamesh in a second clash . Before they can reach the other side , Exdeath activates his Barrier Tower s . The barrier hurls the Light Warriors to the far - distant continent of Gloceana . Bartz apologizes for their capture , but Galuf waves it and their thanks away , saying they helped , because the army would have been wiped out if they were on the bridge when the barrier activated . Searching for a way back , they help a moogle escape from a hungry monster . In gratitude , it leads them to Moogle Village . The moogles contact Krile ' s moogle at the Castle of Bal , and her injured wind drake volunteers for the flight to go pick them up . Upon arriving at the castle , the party learns Galuf is King Galuf Halm Baldesion , although he is embarrassed by the revelation and insists they not treat him any differently . Krile tells them the wind drake is dying from the long flight and Lenna suggests dragon grass , which only grows in the dangerous Drakenvale . The party goes anyway and passes through the werewolf town of Quelb . Quelb ' s leader , Kelger Vlondett , is one of Galuf ' s old Dawn Warrior comrades , although he is suspicious of the party and demands Bartz prove himself in a fight . Bartz defeats him using a move taught by his father Dorgann and is stunned when Galuf and Kelger tell him Dorgann had been a Dawn Warrior , the only one who protested leaving Exdeath on the first world and remained to watch over the seal . They find the dragon grass at Drakenvale has turned into a monster , likely causing the extinction of the wind drakes there . It becomes safe after the monster is defeated , but the wind drake refuses to eat it when they bring it back to him . Lenna encourages it by taking a bite herself despite its toxicity to humans . Krile , who has been bedridden from a migraine , gives her a medicine to cure it before collapsing again . Her distress is caused by a psychic call from the sage Ghido , so the Light Warriors go visit him . As soon as they set foot outside Ghido ' s cave , Exdeath sinks it into the sea . Back on the wind drake , they find a fleet of ships preparing to attack one of the Barrier Towers , led by another Dawn Warrior : King Xezat of Surgate , also known as Xezat the Swordsman . They join his plan to infiltrate the tower in a submarine and climb to the top to destroy the antenna . Below , Xezat becomes trapped in the generator room and dies in the explosion . The party escapes and the barrier falls . Using the submarine , they speak to Sage Ghido , an ancient turtle . He tells them to go to the Forest of Moore to stop Exdeath from destroying the crystals kept there , but Exdeath deceives them into destroying the crystals ' guardians . Exdeath arrives and turns the crystals ' magic on the party . Krile flies to the forest and tries to stop him , but is struck down . At the sight of his granddaughter in danger , Galuf rises up in spite of the crystals ' magic and fights Exdeath . He battles to the last limit of his strength , forcing the warlock to flee . The party tries to heal Galuf but he cannot be saved . Using the power of the Guardian Tree , he passes his powers onto Krile so she can take his place as the fourth Light Warrior . The party infiltrates Castle Exdeath and Kelger gives his life to reveal the castle ' s true form , allowing them to fight their way to the top . They encounter Gilgamesh but his poor choice of weapon is no threat and Exdeath banishes him to the Interdimensional Rift for his failure . Exdeath battles the party at the top of the castle and though he appears defeated , he shatters the remaining crystals . The Light Warriors black out and awake near Castle Tycoon , which throws a celebration for the return of the princesses Lenna and Sarisa ( Faris ) . Bartz and Krile slip out to discover why they returned to the first world , and are soon joined by Faris , who grew tired of being royal . They learn from Ghido the two worlds have been merged into one . Long ago , the world was split into two to seal the power of the Void , a destructive power of unknown origin , lest it be used for evil . Now that the world has been restored to its original state the power of the Void has been released to be used by Exdeath . The Light Warriors must obtain the Sealed Weapons , a set of twelve legendary weapons from a thousand years ago , to survive the Interdimensional Rift , an otherworldy dimension existing in the rift between worlds , and destroy Exdeath . Exdeath emerges from a splinter in Krile ' s hand and knocks them out , although Ghido fights him to a standstill . Exdeath uses the Void to destroy several locations by casting them into nothingness leaving but black holes behind , including Castle Tycoon and Lenna with it . After obtaining the first seal from the Pyramid of Moore to unlock the legendary weapons , the party reunites with Lenna , who was saved from the Void by Hiryu . Hiryu sacrifices himself to help drive the demon Melusine from Lenna ' s body so the other Light Warriors can defeat her . Exdeath strikes again with the Void , seemingly to taunt the party as well as removing Sage Ghido . Among the towns he attacks is Lix , enraging Bartz to the degree he almost destroys the airship by pushing it to unreasonable speeds before the others calm him down . They reunite with Cid and Mid after traversing Fork Tower to obtain the Flare and Holy spells , and the pair gives the airship an undersea function . The Light Warriors travel all over the Merged World to unlock the legendary weapons using the seals from the Island Shrine , Great Sea Trench , and Istory Falls , defeating the demons Exdeath sent to stop them . They find Syldra as a summon spirit in the Pirates ' Hideout and Hiryu as the summon Phoenix at the top of Phoenix Tower . Now fully prepared , the Light Warriors fly the airship into the Interdimensional Rift that has opened over Tycoon . They fight through the hodgepodge of environments seemingly put together from the places the Void consumed until they reach the final floors , a world of crystalline darkness . Exdeath reveals his true form : the Moore tree . The Great Forest of Moore had once been used to seal evil spirits , until the day the spirits sealed in a tree became a sentient , malicious being . He tries to destroy the Light Warriors with the Void , but the spirits of Galuf , Xezat , Dorgann , Kelger , and King Tycoon save them , allowing the party to confront Exdeath in battle . Halfway through the fight he is consumed by the Void and becomes Neo Exdeath , an entity — the manifestation of the evil spirits trapped within the Moore tree that was Exdeath — that seeks to turn all of creation to nothingness . At great length , they defeat it . For a short time , the Void lingers . The essences of the elements carried by the party — Hope , Courage , Devotion , and Passion — imbue the crystal shards they carry , and the crystals are reborn in the places that held the weapon seals . It is told the Void existed before the world , and that the crystals that sustain the planet were born in the Void and thus created the world . From this it can be drawn that the Void is the original state of the universe from which all life was formed . King Tycoon and the Dawn Warriors thank the party for saving the world and Krile ' s wind drake appears to take them back . A year later , Krile writes to Mid and tells of what the Light Warriors have been up to . Bartz has resumed wandering . Lenna and Faris returned to Tycoon , although Faris cast aside the life of royalty to rejoin her pirate crew . Krile herself returned to Bal . She visits the Guardian Tree on the anniversary of Galuf ' s death , feeling sad and lonely , but the others join her and remind her she isn ' t alone . Should any of the party have fallen in the final battle , they are revived at the Guardian Tree . Together , they vow to continue protecting the crystals . Development . Hironobu Sakaguchi and Yoshinori Kitase first worked together on " Final Fantasy V " . Kitase has later summarized the experience thusly : Hironobu Sakaguchi was in charge of the overall design , while everyone else carried around their ideas in their own plan books . Tetsuya Nomura , whose first big involvement with " Final Fantasy " was with " Final Fantasy V " , had jobs in mind , such as a ninja with a dog , a gambler who fought with dice and cards , among others . Others typed things out with computers , but to have more impact Nomura wrote handwritten notes and included drawings . After a while , whenever it was time to turn in the plan books , Sakaguchi and Kitase would ask for Nomura ' s book especially . Nomura ' s ideas of a ninja with a dog and a gambler were not used for " Final Fantasy V " , but when work started on " Final Fantasy VI " , they were used for Shadow and Setzer . Sakagutchi has said that sometimes RPGs force too many images and too much sound onto the players robbing them of the feel of control , and to avoid those responses Square did extensive research during " Final Fantasy V " and " VI " in how to make players feel interactively involved in the game while upgrading the visual and sound effects . The original Super Famicom version of " Final Fantasy V " was never released in North America . As translator Ted Woolsey explained in a 1994 interview , " it ' s just not accessible enough to the average gamer . " Plans were made to release the game in 1995 as " Final Fantasy Extreme " , targeting it at " the more experienced gamers who loved the complex character building , " but this never materialized . Woolsey had almost all of the game translated , but Square opted not to ship it because they didn ' t feel the US market was ready for a second flagship RPG after " Final Fantasy II " ( released as " Final Fantasy IV " in Japan ) and they felt they needed something else to get people trained on that style of gaming ; this vision actualized as " Final Fantasy Mystic Quest " . In 1997 , video game studio Top Dog was hired by Square to port the original Super Famicom game to Microsoft Windows - based personal computers for North American release . Although a good deal of the game was completed , ultimately the communication problems between Top Dog and Square ' s Japanese and American branches led to the project ' s demise . During the same year , an English fan translation patch for the " Final Fantasy V " ROM image was released on the Internet by RPGe . The release was well received , and until 1999 was the game ' s only widely available English language version . RPGe ' s translation of " Final Fantasy V " was one of the early major fan - translated works . Releases . PlayStation . In 1999 , a PlayStation compilation " Final Fantasy Anthology " was released , which includes " Final Fantasy V " . Some names were interpreted differently , yielding " Butz " in the fan translation , and " Bartz " in the official . In 2002 , this version of " Final Fantasy V " was released in Europe and Australia ( alongside " Final Fantasy IV " ) . Some fans were unhappy with the dialogue translations , particularly Faris ' s " pirate accent " , which was not part of the original script . When played on the PlayStation 2 , the emulation graphics glitch on the save screen , although the graphics restore on the overworld map . This error causes the game to crash on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable . This bug is not present in the PAL or Greatest Hits versions of " Final Fantasy Anthology " . Game Boy Advance . A port of " Final Fantasy V " for handhelds had been considered by Square ( now Square Enix ) in early 2001 , but the project failed due to the absence of an appropriate platform — the WonderSwan Color was not powerful enough to run the game , and Nintendo did not allow Square to develop on the Game Boy Advance , despite Sakaguchi ' s wish . Years later , after relations between Square and Nintendo improved , the game was successfully ported to the Game Boy Advance under the title " Final Fantasy V Advance " , and was released in North America on November 6th , 2006 . Changes made from previous versions are graphical tweaks and a new translation , four additional jobs , a bestiary , a quick save function , music player , and a new 30 - floor dungeon . Unlike the Advance port of " Final Fantasy IV " , some of the bugs of " Final Fantasy V " were fixed . There is also not as much choppiness and lag in the graphics . Virtual Console . On January 18th , 2011 , a port of the original Super Famicom version of " Final Fantasy V " was released for the Wii ' s Virtual Console service , but only in Japan . PlayStation Network . A port of the PlayStation version of " Final Fantasy V " was released for PlayStation Network in Japan on April 6th , 2011 , in Europe on April 13th , and in North America on November 22nd , 2011 . Mobile . On March 28th , 2013 , an iOS remaster was released worldwide and the Android version on September 26 , 2013 . The game is based on the Game Boy Advance version and thus includes all the bonus content from that version . It has upgraded graphics along with new menu portraits . The graphics are similar to those of " Final Fantasy Dimensions " . The music is of the original Super Famicom version quality , aside the sound effects which have been remastered . The game now includes achievements in the non - Amazon Appstore versions , some of which are missable ( i . e . " Bestiary ( 323 Pages ) " , " Gone Too Far " , etc ) . Because of advances in technology with everything for PlayStation era games and beyond Square has been able to store the data , but for the original Nintendo and Super Nintendo games they did not have the proper means to store the production and so to remake them , Square had to reconstruct everything . This is one reason everything in the mobile version is brand new . The version 1 . 0 . 2 update of the game adds an option for the diagonal movement from the Config menu , where players can turn off the 8 - way movement into the traditional 4 - way movement . On October 22nd , 2014 , the iOS and Android versions received an update that includes new features such as gamepad support , translations for more languages , and cloud saving . On September 18 , 2015 , the Amazon Appstore version received an update that includes Fire TV support , as well as proper controller support and cloud saving , and the size of the app was reduced from 250MB to 150MB . The port has good ratings , scoring 4 . 5 stars average on Google Play and 4 stars average on the Amazon Appstore . Microsoft Windows ( via Steam ) . The mobile port of " Final Fantasy V " became available on Steam on September 24 , 2015 . The game supports a controller and comes with Steam Trading Cards and achievements . Steam Trading Cards . " Final Fantasy V " has five Steam Trading Cards available . Allusions . " Final Fantasy V " makes some allusions to previous " Final Fantasy " games , among others . The new translation for the GBA port makes many pop culture references .