Truth comes out. In actuality, though my impressions of it aren’t the most favorable, as we shall see, I can respect Breath of Fire as a standard for what traditional RPGs are to be in my view. Capcom sequel.Ī foundational game which inspired Capcom’s best known RPG franchise, Breath of Fire also served as an introduction to RPGs for a young version of myself. This game was really my first (at least the first RPG I can definitively remember completing on my own) and I appreciate having been able to jump in to the series from the very first game, something which I was too young to do in 1987 with the first Final Fantasy. You have no idea how much I wished for a Breath of Fire character in a Marvel vs. That’s why there were so many characters in Marvel vs. It also might’ve meant that Capcom would not give up on their own intellectual properties so easily, run them into the grave of blandness and then refuse to revive them, e.g. They ought to have continued that partnership since it might’ve greatly aided the poor translation of Breath of Fire II, which Capcom handled alone, and it might’ve meant even more optimum RPGs in the 90’s and not less. Breath of Fire feels more as if it belonged on the NES rather than the SNES but this is Capcom’s first attempt at developing a full-fledged RPG after dabbling with role-playing elements in their Game Boy title Gargoyle’s Quest and their Japan-only survival horror RPG Sweet Home.Ĭreated in tandem with Squaresoft who handled the North American release and translation, Breath of Fire was notable as a cooperative effort between Capcom and Square. Big on dungeon crawling and battles but short on innovation, it hasn’t aged as gracefully as its contemporaries, namely the Final Fantasy ( IV and VI) games against which it is often contrasted. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”īreath of Fire is as traditional as you can get with an RPG, though not all classics are created equal.
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