Final Fantasy V was one of the titles I’d missed during its initial release on the SNES, but playing it in a PC port doesn’t save it from some of the issues it has trying to establish its own stake and character in the game series.
When I was writing regularly two years ago as part of my Blog Post a Day series, a common theme I kept bringing up was the fact that the internet was a double-edged sword. The things that make it great – instant updates and responses, the collective power of online opinion, the ability to create bite-sized ideas that have the potential to invade the mindset of the internet populace – are also the things that make it awful, with terrible consequences. And they can really, really fuck you up.