Breath of Fire II Review

Breath of Fire is another RPG classic series.It was Capcom's experiment into the genre as Squaresoft ventured on with their Final Fantasy series. When I first heard of Breath of Fire, I played the first game for Super NES and liked it.Breath of Fire 3 just wasn't all that great to me, and while it wasn't a terrible game, it didn't have the classic feel the first game had.My friend Karl (reviewer Karl Jordan, Kudos to him) enlightened me by showing me Breath of Fire 2.
And boy have I been enlightened.After playing hours on end of this game, BREATH OF FIRE 3 IS VASTLY OVERRATED.This game has all the classic elements an RPG needs!
THE GOOD
A wonderful storyline involving a fake religion and Ryu's "misplaced childhood" is one of the best written RPG stories.This same storyline has been used countless times, even within the series, but no other game pulled it off as well as this.The characters are awesome and I think this has the best Ryu and Nina out of all the Breath of Fire games.The graphics are reasonably good, considering it's an early SNES game.The music?Very good, indeed.There are times when it sounds like Final Fantasy and at others, Mega Man X!Simply great music.Not perfect, why carp?The battle system is also good in the fact that you can do different abilities (examples: Nina can use "Will" to revive her MP, Sten uses "RiP" to play dead, etc. etc.).For some odd reason, this hasn't carried over into the other games in the series afterwards.
THE BAD
The only bad things I can say about the game are these:
1) Ryu's dragon transformation is really lackluster here, and it's been improved upon in later BoF entries.
2) The translation isn't all that great.
OVERALL
CLASSIC.Definitely a fine RPG if I ever saw one.I'm not sure why BoF 3 is considered the best by many; then again, in this day and age, hardly anyone ever cares for the old games.BoF 3, in my opinion, is a decent game overall but lacks the great qualities that this game possesses.It's a shame that this game goes unnoticed in today's gamers.

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