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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!

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.

Bad, Horrendous, DON'T GET IT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 40
Date: October 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst game i've ever played! The graphics [stink] and it is an awful story. Never ever get it cuz you'll never want to play it. I sold it after a week. It is the worst game i ever played.

Faithful Rendition of a Tired, Flawed Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 15
Date: March 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Firstly, I've played a lot of RPG's over the years, and own every game in the Breath of Fire series as well... but you'd think that if Capcom was going to re-release an old copy of a game (which had glaring flaws so bad in spots it practically defined what NOT to do for the entire RPG genre,) they'd have at least fixed them (as in Square's classic FFIV; which they remade the RIGHT way with the Chronicals re-release).

You'll see no such thing here. The graphics appear horribly dated in the world and town/dungeon map screens, although the isometric battles look surprisingly good, and include a fair ammount of animation. That's where everything goes downhill, however. The music is boring and repetative for the most part, the storyline isn't anything terribly new (especially since they've made three sequels with practically the same storyline; even including the two SAME main characters in every 'remake,') and the translation is shoddy at best.

That said, is this a bad game? Not entirely. It does have a few redeeming values, such as being one of the first pioneers in the video-game roleplaying genre, or being able put an entire audience of insomniacs to sleep for a good long while. It's just not a GOOD game either.

As for gameplay - the combat system is superb... except for the minor details that you tend to die quite often (ESPECIALLY during boss battles,) and since save points are quite the rarity, you are often sent all the way back to your last play session. While the skills and transormation system is really something new, the impossible boss fights, every third step random encounters and repetative music make it a chore to play through.

As for the gameplay... try to imagine going from town to town, seeing the ONE major important person in town, going into a dungeon, dying, dying again, finally beating it, returning to town to talk to aforementioned important person and having him or her tell you, "Good job. The next town is to the north." Repeat this for the entire duration of the game. Enough said.

Unless you're a die-hard fan of the BoF series or you LOVE doing the same thing over and over again, (may I suggest 'Hoshigami' for the Playstation? Yes, THAT repetative, pass on this game. 'Classic' is not synonomous to 'Great,' and this game is a picture-perfect definer of this.

A Tedious Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Breath of Fire starts with the classic 'wake up, you're town's in trouble' beginning. It then proceeds to assign you a task of rescuing some important figure. As BoF's plot gradually unfolds, you will find that it eventually becomes too tedious to keep track of. If someone requests/tells you to travel to some distant town/cave/dungeon etc., you will find that they don't even hint where it is. This makes you search every possible place for something, making the game irritating and tedious to play. The monster-encounters are especially annoying, as you meet monsters every fifteen-twenty seconds or so, making progress slow.

The graphics are also simple and unsatisfactory for serious gamers. Characters appear to be drawn on Microsoft Paint, and if they walk, their feet simply move up and down. Battles are turn-based, and graphics on spells and attacks are limited. Saving is also a wearisome process, as you MUST save at a certain location.

As you travel around the land, you collect different characters to aid you on your quest. You will find they are all unique and have different abilities to aid you. There are also various items to outfit your party with to balance out attacks and defenses, giving the game a fun view on equipment. The setback, however, is that almost all items are abbreviated. This irritated me, as I could hardly figure out what an item was.

Overall, the game is long and laborious. At first, it might seem exciting, but steadily it declines to a truly dreary game.

Where is it?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: August 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Where os it? O' my bad it was out of stock so didn't even get to play the game. Instead I just my money bad from bad service. I am never going to by from this seller again, and it even took forever to tell me it was out of stock.

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.

decent

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: December 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty good rpg. i think the people who say its the best ever couldn't be more wrong. I like how there is tons of enemies. This game has too much magic so that it gets rather complicated. If you want the best rpg for game boy advance get golden sun. Its straight forward and self explanetory. Me and my friends didn't even need to read the instructions.

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!

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.

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