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if i could id give it 3.5

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: November 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

good, but games like golden sun are a lot better. heres how it lays out:
graphics:2
sound:3 nothing special
story:4
gameplay:3 too much magic
overall:3.5 if u want an Rpg, get golden sun instead.

A great RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is an awsome game all in all, the graphics are smooth, gameplay is simple, and the game itself is very challenging. Your this boy Ryu who can change into dragons. Your acompanied by a colorful cast of characters including, moles, wolves, fish, and mages.

The only flaw in this game is the storyline, it kinda [stinks]...................bigtime. But this is one of the most wierdly crafted games to come. Sometimes, you have no idea where to go in the game, or othertimes, you have to find items that are nearly immpossible to locate. This will definatley bother you, as it did me.

But this is a good game to get for yer GBA, and you should definatley give it a try.

Other great RPG GBA games, Golden Sun, Robopon 2 ( both versions ), Megaman Battlenetwork 2, Breath of Fire 2

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 31
Date: August 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this game is sort of like final fantasy IIV (7) except in 2d you go around fighting various creatures and gaining exp and lvls

dont get it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 40
Date: October 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

do not get this game the graphics are bad the spells are limted and the game will almost collect dust in your closet. PLEASE!!!!!!! dont get it you will regret it!! just wait and get golden sun the best game yet!

"Advance" into this great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you've played any of the Breath of Fire series, then you're familiar with the excellent musical score, the intriguing plot, and the interesting characters.

If you haven't, you should give it a try--it's one of the higher ranking RPG series out there.

Although Breath of Fire isn't as great as some of the later games in the series, this is the game that started it all...and it was originally released for the SNES!

I think it's great to be playing old SNES games anywhere. And GBA doesn't distort the graphics at all; in fact, the LCD display has wonderful resolution, perhaps better than that of the SNES on a color television. The only downside is the difficulty to properly light the screen without glare, yet this is not a Breath of Fire problem, it's a GBA problem.

I must highly recommend this excellent game to all; if you're an RPG fan, or a BOF fan, then you MUST get this game!

It's also a great "starter" RPG, as it's not too difficult, but still can be challenging. The puzzles can sometimes require a bit of thought, but the interface is fairly easy to use.

So Advance into this awesome game soon!

Great game, lots of depth

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I never played the SNES version of this game, so it isn't just a matter of nostalgia for me - I really loved this game. The world had so many places to explore and the puzzles were really challenging (just see how easy it is to get anywhere when you can't see the walls). I didn't have to spend all my time leveling either. I genuinely liked the characters and there are lots of different items, weapons, and equipment to play with. The only thing that bothered me was that it only had one save slot. It's definitely easy to make a critically bad decision in this game, so I would have preferred to be able to alternate save files in case I regret something I did later. It uses the typical method of saving only in certain places (usually in towns), but it will keep a temporary save if you need to turn it off.

One of the Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have never played this for the GBA but i have for the super nintendo. The story line is great magic is great and the fighting sceme is blow your mind awsome. The hero of the quest can shapeshift into dragons. The other people all have a special ability too(like transforming into a more powerful fight with other people). All in all this a must have RPG>

A Breath of Fire review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I rated this game 3 stars because, well, it's an okay game. Not the absolute BEST graphics, but they're pretty good. And it has a pretty bad story line, too. I got this game because I rented reath of Fire IX for PlayStation, and it was really fun. I thought this game would be the same... but it wasn't. It is almost impossible to do. I'm 4/5 done the game and I wouldn't have gotten this far if I hadn't looked on-line for help, and in the Nintendo Power Advance magazine. I mean, who wouldn't? It has tons of parts where you have to go back and forth(just like in the Zelda games), and there are parts where you have to go somewhere, and no one tells you even a clue. And when you're real far, you have to go back to near the beginning in order to get something. Now, let's talk about the good parts of this game. It has many characters to mix and match for special abilities, or just to get the advantage of beating your enemy. Unlike most RPG games, you can switch your character in the middle of a battle, and he/she can still go. Every character has a special 'outside' ability. For an example: Ryu can fish, and he can change into a dragon later on in the game. Everyone has their own personalities(even though they don't talk so much, especially Ryu), and each can equip a different variety of weapons, shields, helmets, and even optional parts. In addition to that, everyone is good at something. It can be attack, or magic, or luck, or speed, etc. Well, that's all for my review! Hope you like it!

Wow the plot rocked! joking...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

One of my biggest dissapointments ever. Now I have never played the playstation version, so I can not compare the two, but this game was horrible.

You start out in a small town, its being attacked by some evil family. So some chick turns you all to stone so you will not die, then she attacks this guy. All of a sudden your back in the huge building, and some guy says go on a quest. So you leave for no reason and have no info as to who you are, except you are part of the dragon clan. You go to the first town and you kill some dude in a castle. Now the king tells you "You are awesome!", and tells you to go to some town and find the quake control to stop the earthquakes. Not only was this task stupid, I do not even know why I did it, because I got no reward. Also, couldn't the king have sent his men to clear out the castle? So you go to the town at night and sneak in past the guards. Keep in mind you have not said one thing at all during the game. You kill a knight and turn off the quake control. Now you go back to the king and he says "You rock again! I am too lazy to give you anything so your a hero, now leave!". Then you go to some town and you learn the king is ill. So you play as Nina to go to some other place and get a remedy from a wizard. How did they know the wizard had a remedy? Then you get sent to help Nina kill him. Back at the castle, the king gets up and Nina says "I am going with Ryu because I need to stop evil in the world". So then you leave. Notice you have done 3 quests and got nothing but Nina.

Not only do you have no info about who you are, you are given weird tasks that give you nothing in the end. I am still not sure anyone knows my name. This game is overrated. Also, there are too many random battles. You cannot walk 10 steps withouht having to fight some weak monster. Now if you want an RPG on the game boy advance, get Golden Sun. If you want an RPG that serves no purpose and seems like people made up as they created it, get Breath of Fire.

Do you love RPG? Me too, but don't even bother playing this.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am an RPG lover. For me, simply to control a guy through an huge map is already something fun to do. I though that I would like this game like every other RPG I've played, but I was wrong.

To begin with, this game has very poor storyline. I don't care if it's cliché, but I care if the characters aren't really envolved into it. It's like, you have just beaten the a 'dungeon' in the game and all they tell you is "Thank you hero. You saved us. Now go to north.". Aren't they capable of putting some more role-playing into the story? The bosses in the game also doesn't say anything good. You face the great monster and all it says is "Who are you?", then you fight. In any moment I felt envolved with what was happening.

Second, the people who made the game probably didn't know anything about memory saving. I know that to put an huge game inside these size-limited cartridges is a though work, but they did such horrible choices! Like, you can see the animation of the people greeting you after talking, but you can't even put a name bigger that only 4 letters. The items names are also limited to 6 letters. That's really annoying. The battle animations are also very poor, many of the monsters have the same movements and attacks.

I'm only going to give this game 2 starts because the "outside-graphics", like maps, towns and caves, are nice. But only nice, nothing more. I'm dissappointed with the quality of this game. I think that Capcom could have made something much better. I hope this series have gotten better in the next versions.

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