Reception for the soundtrack was lukewarm, with some critics stating the album did not live up to the Final Fantasy IV soundtrack. The soundtrack was nevertheless released as a two-disc set. Nobuo Uematsu felt the number would make the album unpurchasable for the children in the audience, as it would require a two-disc release, and cut down the track list to 50 tunes. Because the game was not released outside of Japan until the PlayStation version was produced, the soundtrack was virtually unknown in the music industry until the release of Final Fantasy V Anthology.ĭuring production, Final Fantasy V was originally designed to include more than a hundred different themes.
Final Fantasy V: Original Sound Version is the complete soundtrack of Final Fantasy V.