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When Final Fantasy V was released for the Japanese Super Famicom in 1992, the game was an instant hit, selling two million copies in the first two months alone. With a groundbreaking job system that combined the usual character classes like knights, thieves, and mages with offbeat classes such as chemists, dancers, and bards, the game appeared to be a shoo-in for North American distribution. But the game was dubbed "too hardcore" for a Western audience and was swapped out with Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, a simplistic new game tailor-made for Americans.

That didn't stop a teenage Chris Kohler from tracking down Final Fantasy V. The young RPG fan got a Japanese copy of the game, used it to teach himself Japanese, and with the help of some internet companions created the first-ever comprehensive English-language FAQ of the game. As the internet narrowed the cultural gap between the East and West more each year, the game was eventually translated into English for the PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, and iOS.

Fans in the West finally got to learn what all the fuss was about. Now the acclaimed author of Power-Up and an editor at Kotaku, Kohler is revisiting the game that started his career in games journalism. Based on new, original interviews with Final Fantasy V's director, Hironobu Sakaguchi, as well as previously untranslated interviews with the rest of the development team, Kohler's book weaves history and criticism to examine one of the Final Fantasy series's greatest and most overlooked titles.

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Chris Kohler is the author of Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life, and the founding editor of GameLife, the Webby-nominated video game section of WIRED. He is currently Features Editor of Kotaku, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B074WGTGHF
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 625 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 96 pages

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Chris Kohler is the author of several books about video game culture and history. His career in the games industry spans a quarter century, from journalism to development.

Born in North Branford, CT, he majored in Japanese studies at Tufts University. While living in Kyoto, Japan on a Fulbright scholarship, he wrote his debut book Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life.

From 2005 to 2017, Kohler was an editor at WIRED magazine, founding its Webby-nominated gaming section Game|Life in 2005. He is currently Editorial Director at Digital Eclipse, a game development studio focusing on preserving game history through re-releases of classic games.

He is also the co-host of the Stitcher Award-winning pub trivia podcast Good Job, Brain! and the co-author of the Good Job, Brain! book. In 2017, Kohler released his most recent book, titled Final Fantasy V.

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