Customer Reviews

Breath of Fire II

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

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.

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.

Well. I'm a 28 old dude playing a looot around and I must say that being a Final Fantasy series fan, that BOF2 is a REALLY unmissable classic. I'm warning you, this game is not easy. It's far more difficult than FF6. More or les like FF 4 ( final fantasy 2 in america). You WILL die a lot if you don't buy many cures and level up always. A good challenge.

THE GOOD:
*Many twists and turns in very well done plot.
*Character fighting animation above all other RPG's of that time (really surpassing final fantasy and others.
*The music is awsome. You will remember always some melodies.
*Many minigames that are very fun!
*Fast paced combat action.
*BIG CHARACTERS AND BOSSES. unlike other rpgs that the characters look like kids, I'm telling again all these are the best monster, boss, character animation in any kind of snes rpgs.

THE BAD:
*Not so in-dept character development.
*When you talk to townspeople the chat is a little simple.

Conclusion: This game is 5 stars all the way. It's flaws are very little to make it lose a star.
If you're a fan of RPG's and your are tired of the new Rpg's "without a soul". You will be for sure satisfied with this great series fo RPG's of Capcom. It's a shame that the didn't release a new installment for the PS3.

This is actually one of the few games I finished to the very end and enjoyed it. Even though I must confess I might not have managed as well had I not used the game genie. The game genie was no help when it came to boss fights and the end bosses however. So I guess I can give myself some credit. Anyway it is a great game. Bringing up treasure chests with the fishing pole is quite an ordeal. I like to start new games just to see what I can get along the way from fighting the monsters. When you're lucky a monster might drop a rare item. This to me is more fun than anything else.

Oh wow! I just love this game to bits! The characters, the colors, the never-boring story. There are very few things wrong with this, but the things that are bad are very appearant. For example, the HORRIBLE translation. Bad grammar really gets on my nerves. In fact, the translation is so bad that in the mini fishing game, it says "equip LOD and bait". What the heck is a lod? Some microscopic organism? The music isn't too bad, but there are a few parts in the game that could have been made much more emotional, but weren't, probably due to the bad English AND music. Otherwise, this is definitely a good purchase, and an even better download. Let's face it, roms are more reliable.

Part one was awesome. Part 2 is even better. Everything you love in part 1. You love in part 2. A lot more to do in here. If you do the side quest. You can see the originals characters from part one into part 2. If you find a right side quest. YOu can play as one of the original characters from BOF from part 1. Great game, great story.

This is the best BOF. The thing that sucks about this one and the fisrt BOF is the dragons. Not bad, though. Second only to Zelda!!

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 ^^

Breath of Fire 2 is a game that many of my friends and much of family enjoyed to an tremendous extent. The fact is, BOF2 is a game that you don't want to miss. I've played and beaten Breath of Fire 1, 2, 3, and 4 but still found 2 to be my all time favorite. Sure, the translation may not be all that good, but it's not hard to figure out what they mean and it doesn't bother me a bit. The game has an excellent storyline that never seems to stop moving and is never boring. All in all, Breath of Fire2 is the way to go.

Now people however Bof3 got a better review is beyond me. Breath of Fire 2 is on par with Final fantasy 3!!! This game is definitley worth buying and playing over and over. The translation I don't really notice as being so bad. The Lod thing I didn't notice. The story is not that badly translated. In closing, if you can't choose between 1 2 3 and 4 get 2.