Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8481 in Video Games
• ESRB Rating: Kids to Adults
• Platform: Nintendo Super NES

Customer Reviews

The best Breath of Fire, hands down!
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.

THE BEST BOF AND ONE OF THE BEST RPG EVER!!!!!!
Breath of fire 2 is the BEST of ALL BOF , has MULTI ENDINGS , INTELIGENT DIALOG , the characters are very deep , *NOTE* i HATE what they did to BOF in the playstation ....... the WORLD MAP just VANISH , and the put that STUPID DOTTED MAP ARRRGGG , BOF 2 in the last of the series that has a DECENT WORLD MAP .

The ONLY thing bad was the tranlation , VARIOUS REFERENCES to the FRIST game have beem MISPELLED, but nothing that bad anyway ^^

Good Game...........You gotta buy it
I bought this game right before they took it off the store shelfs and rose the price up.I loved the game for the most part but it took me almost 3 years to finish the game yes I know what your thinking "How Lame is that" but I got stuck in this one part and I couldn't figure out what to do but anyway. The game has Ryu the hero, a hunter Bow, Nina the princess of Windia, Sten a monkey that creeps me out, Spar a grassman, Katt a young lady warrior, Rand a large creature who personally I hate,And Bleu the snake lady makes her comeback to this game. The game is really about Ryu finding himself and his origin in this world, also In some main parts its about the townspeople's religion and how its taken over their lives and how it needs to be stopped. Some of the new stuff they have added in this game are shamans that give charecters special powers and looks, also you can build your own town that was pretty fun.I think the only problem I had in this game was that you had to buy the guide book to find some of the secrets but besides that you should buy this game you won't be upset with your purchase.