I've got a Job for you! - Let's Play Final Fantasy V!

Ew. It's really not.

The fan-translation I played originally called her Cara.

Which, you know... is a good name.

Hey, SkyRender, if people want the other chars to be named and they put in their votes now, you could just go into a hex editor and do a find-and-replace. People would need their names to be exactly 5 characters to keep the code from fucking up, though.

Also, a possible explanation for Krile is to keep the theme of all characters having 5 characters in their names. Bartz, Lenna, Faris, Galuf, and Krile.

Furthermore, I have yet to finish this game. It will be fun to play it through the eyes of another. Er, like 20 others. And I demand you have someone as a spoony bard the entire game once you get the job. (SPOONY IS REDLINED IN FIREFOX I MUST FILE A BUG REPORT)

And lastly, Dickz. May as well have the front rather than the back.

"Claire" would have done that just fine, sounded appropriately unusual, and been 'close enough' to クルル for any reasonable person. �.�

If I could rename Krile I'd call her "Galuf."

- Eddie

That might work on some NES and SNES games, though it would require quite a bit of legwork to pull off. It's a hell of a lot harder to do that on a GBA game, and the legwork is even more excessive. So I'm gonna have to veto that suggestion.

What's wrong with Krile? I mean, I actually know someone with that name.

It's just a really unwieldy name, honestly.

I like that idea of Cara, though.

Well, as pointed out earlier that kind of ruins the whole "All character names are five letters long" thing.

And seriously, I don't see any problem with the name Krile, nor why there's so much debate with her name considering that in the same game is someone named Exdeath.

Or is that Ekusudesu? Or Exodus? Or X-Death?

Man, the Final Fantasy fanbase.

In the spirit of this LP (and as proof, if anyone needed it, that I have no life), I present to you a purty bestiary. (Warning: Guaranteed to look like shit in Internet Explorer. Blame Microsoft. Please let me know (via PM, please) if it works in Opera and, if so, the version you're using so I can include it in the sidebar.)

ETA: Icons for statuses which are recognizable and at most 16x16, and aren't words, would be appreciated.

If that's supposed to look like shit, I'd love to see what it's supposed to look like.

Picture a stretched gradient underneath the monster tables and add FF5A's borders around everything.

Galuf is a has "Gal" right in it.

So it would make more sense for her name to be Guyuf.

"Which, you know... is actually a name."

No one really disputes that Exdeath is Exdeath.

I was pointing out how his name was completely ridiculous, though admittingly that's supposed to be the point.

If you want name disputes, I could go into how three of (or was it all?) the Dawn Warriors have like three names.

Oh, hey, it's that FF game that I probably should like but have never been able to finish! I really should try this again now that I've experienced FF3, DQ9 and DQ6 and am less scared of job-system games.

If we're gonna get bent out of shape over Krile's name, we might as well take Bartz to task as well.

Or, really, just about any FF protagonist ever.

Bury My Heart on Frioniel Mountain

Eh, Zidane isn't a bad name.

Really, if it's less than four syllables and isn't completely unpronouncable/isn't homonyms (or synonyms) with something ridiculous, it's a decent name.

And let's not forget Balthier. That's a pretty nifty name for the main character.

Hey, I'm the main character!

Sure you are, Vaan. You keep telling yourself that and maybe it'll be true some day...

Need I remind you of Balthier's real name?

Seriously, who names their kid Ffamran Mied Bunansa? I mean, I guess Mied is supposed to be a reference to Mid, and Bunansa is just his last name, but Ffamran has no excuse.

This is hard to fault because there are tons of Ivalician names like that. Why complain about consistency?

Well by that logic, there are very few Final Fantasy characters with ridiculous names, as in-universe they're perfectly fine.

Exdeath is a great name. When I see a name like that, I am terrified because I know that I am in for something that is like death, but far more extreme. "Deathaga" would have been an even better name.

But... Vaan never did say that. It was Balth who kept going on and on and on about being "the leading man"


"Balflear"?

Wasn't he called something like "Exedees" in Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals, which happened to be the first commercial translation of FFV names ever?

And, technically, Exodus from FFXII is an amalgam of FFTA's Exodus and Exdeath.

V Advance's soundtrack (and presumably Anthology as well) calls him X-Death, and, well, Ekusudesu is an exact romanization.

That's about five different names right there, though Dissidia just calls him Exdeath.

Then again, Dissidia calls Bartz Butz. So yeah.

I think FFTAs Exodus is also supposed to be ExDeath since both are big scary armored dudes stuck in the middle of a tree.

Only in Japan!

He's Bartz to all of us Americans.

Something like that, yes. That also transliterated Butz as "Batz" and Cid as "Shido."


In Japanese, FFXII's "Exodus" is named Exdeath (エクスデス), straight-up.

(FFTA's Exodus is エクセデス, which is more like "Exedeath." Exodus would be エクソダス.)