I'm most likely going to steal this game away from Jay whenever he gets done playing it. He was trying to explain the basics of the plot to me yesterday but I didn't get it. All I understood was there were some crystals that locked away a baddie, the crystal was broken, and now you're off to recollect the pieces to lock him up again. He also said soemthing about a king.

If anyone could just give me a breif synopsis or point me in the direction of a good one, I would be most grateful. Also, please... no spoilers. Just introduce me to the basics of the game.

One minor spoiler but it's not that shocking really

The hero of the game, Bartz (or Butz, the fan translation) becomes wrapped up in an elaborate war between his world and a parallel world ruled by X-Death; sometimes "Exodus"). With the help of Princess Reina (Lenna in the fan translation), the pirate Faris, and the amnesiac Galuf, he fights X-Death's influence and tries to stop him from plunging the world into the "Void." The party uses the shards of the elemental crystals to learn skills and magic and eventually defeat X-Death.

Final Fantasy V also features the first recurring miniboss of the franchise, Gilgamesh. Bartz and his friends fight him several times over the course of the game, a concept that the series continued with Ultros (Final Fantasy VI), the Turks (Final Fantasy VII), Biggs and Wedge (Final Fantasy VIII), General Beatrix (Final Fantasy IX) and Seymour Guado (Final Fantasy X).

The fan translation is the name that the Japanese version uses.

I'm not sure how breaking a crystal helps defeat X-Death.

Actually without going into to much detail or spoiling it for you, the game starts out with the 4 crystals breaking one at a time. Within the first world you get the story as to why the crystals are important and why they affect X-Death, and it's quite easy to comprehend and catch on to.

And you know what, don't look up anymore on the game. I'm done telling you. I want you to play it because if you find out what happens, I don't think you will feel like you need to paly it then. For an old Final Fantasy game, this story has me really really hooked.

Ok, then only one more to say...

HURRY IT UP!!!

LOL j/k :D

Hey Aztec, when you get to teh place where you have to surface your submarine in the middle of that little pnd/lake and you go into that town, stick around there and level for a while. The next forest you enter will be the one where the Seal Bosses reside in the Elder's Tree or some tree like that. Level up like crazy, have the best equipment and magic you can, and then when you get low on health and MP, heal at the inn for like 40GP.

EDIT: I thought you said you were somewhere before this in the PM.

You know I"m there... I just told you in a PM. lol Either way, I'm not really worried about the Seal bosses. I've never had as much trouble with games as you have :P *burn* Although, I have learned not to underestimate this game... still... it won't take me 5 months. Hell, it wouldn't take my sister 5 months and we all question whether she can breathe properly...

Guys, this is a forum, not a chat. You're just going back and forth to eachother which can easily be done through PM... this is unacceptable.

Closing...