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This is the last time - I promise!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 41 / 69
Date: February 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have written and rewritten this review, and this is my final offer. Any would-be buyers of this game, PLEASE take this as a caveat; I really want to convey just how lousy this game is. Any comparison of this game to the rest of the series is ludicrous, but anyway...

As I said before, you play the game as the character Ryu, a government grunt. Mankind has been forced to live under the earth due to reasons lost in antiquity, and the citizens are placed into their positions via a rating system (a ratio - the closer the ratio is to 1, the more potential a person has, and thus the greater station this person is allowed to have). Surprisingly, the higher your ratio, the closer to the surface you are allowed to live, despite the conviction that the outside world is poisonous. Anyway, the purpose of the game is to climb out from the bowels of the earth in an attempt to reach the sky. This is the story. If you find it excellent, well, to each his own, but personally,I don't think this tale stands up to the likes of Xenosaga, .hack:infection, Suikoden III, FFX, etc.

However, complicating matters is the D-Hunger gauge, against which I have railed in the past. As you progress through the game, this gauge constantly rises (increasing about 1/100 of a percent every 2-3 seconds on its own). SHould your character transform into a dragon (or use other special abilities), the rate of increase rises dramatically. Assuming you never use ANY of these abilities, however, you essentially have 20000-30000 seconds to finish your game (or about 6-8 hours). Failing at this, it is game over. In fact, you have to restart your game from the beginning. There is NO carrying over of statistics; what CAN be carried over are the weapons and armor you have equipped, any items you have stored away, the skills you have learned and "party experience", which can be used to boost your characters upon the replay. Furthermore, if you are considering beating the game on your first go around, don't. It is physically impossible (I know, I tried it out). I have a lot of words to describe this atrocious system, but "realistic" isn't the first to come to mind.

I believe in innovation, when it makes a game more fun. However, this is absurd. You want the trick to beat the game? Simply play through as far as you go twice, remembering to store all of your acquired items and NEVER use party experience. That way, on your third time through, you can buff up your characters so much that they will destroy any enemy they come across (yes, I decided to go back and finish the game). Hence, an 8 hour game becomes a 24 hour game, since every scene is seen three times. The fact that you can't save often is a blessing in disguise - saving doesn't really help you anyway (the D-Hunger gauge isn't going anywhere). Oh, and for a more "realistic" gaming experience, notice that you have a "quit" command. This command essentially allows you to save at a certain spot, and then use you dragon abilities to try to acquire certain skills and items you might not otherwise be able to acquire. Oh sure, you'll die, but you can start over at the save spot, with all of the abililities now in your repertoire. In fact, the guide (which may be the most useless instruction guide in all of gaming, oftem times confusing me more than instructing me) tells you to use this strategically. The realism is overwhelming. The moral is: if you try to beat the game on one walkthrough, forget it! Instead, the system rewards ineptitude over ingenuity.

If you are one of those (sad to say many) people who simply cannot stand the mainstream, and would sooner gouge out their eyes than play a game everyone else is playing, this might be for you. To be sure, the system is innovative, and I am sure it will never rear its ugly head again. However, if you enjoy fun game, or if you simply don't want to waste fifty bucks on a stinker, stay the hell away from this abomination. Play Xenosaga (another innovative game), or .hack, or even Final Fantasy X for the nth time. This game reeks...

OMG I can't believe this...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 18
Date: June 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm sorry but this game just put a big tarnish on the BoF series it is the most horrible game I've ever played! I mean it steers completely away from what the old BoF was like and the whole system of having to restart your game countless times is nuts...more frustrating then fun...-4 stars out of 4

Breath of fire that went into a blender

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: July 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was Horrible! You use to much of your dragon powers and puff your dead!I picked up this game because I love Breath of fire! But this game is the worst one yet! I DO NOT reconmend that you buy this game at all.

Not So Good

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: September 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge RPG fan and there aren't many games that I haven't played. I am also a quite a fan of BofF but I was very disappointed. I had to restart from the beginning of the game 3 times because I couldn't find any save token for the last 1/3 of the game. I had to let the PS2 run for 3 days because I couldn't find any save tokens. It Sucked!!!!! Especially when your girlfriend tripped over a power cord and had to restart again!!!!!!

Although Capcom had newer battle tactics and different try out for this game, you were limited with only 3 characters through out the game and you had to finish the game with a charcter who kept dying on every boss you face.

If you are a truly huge fan of BofF and have to play this game, it's an interesting game. However, if you just want to try this game, please don't buy it. Just rent it...

I am SO disappointed!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game thinking it would bear a slight resemblance to the other games in this series which I loved. However, I found this game to be frustrating to the extreme. I couldn't even get past the first mission due to the goofy save system which punished you every time you died. The only way to save is to use a save token, which apparently appear randomly after defeating enemies. My brother-in-law had also bought it and hated it for this reason, and also because of the dragon meter feature. Evidently, there is the ability for your main character to transform into a powerful dragon. The only problem is, every time you do so, it adds to the dragon meter, which, once full changes your character into a dragon permanently, and then GAME OVER! Why even put that stupid thing in there? Why do game designers have to make saving such a chore? I want to be able to save anywhere I please, at any time. We aren't popping quarters into a machine, so what's the point!?

I really wanted to like this game, and I believe it would have been really good if the save system were user friendly, and if they'd left out that ridiculous dragon meter. I have never in my years of gaming (about 20) been this frustrated with and RPG, and that's my favorite game genre.

So, in conclusion, unless you're a serious masochist, steer clear of this game! Consider yourselves warned.

If you love the BOF games then stay far away from this one!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: July 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am so dissillusioned about this game. It is the worst game I've ever played....ever! It's so frustrating, you can't save unless you have a save token well thats all good and well but they're so hard to find. Whenever you use the dragon meter you pretty much kill yourself and if you don't have enough dragon meter points at the end you can't kill the final boss so whats the point of playing it for 7 weeks and getting to the final boss only to find out you only have a few dragon points left and then you have to start from the very beginning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I played it for a few days and then couldn't even look at it anymore. ahhhhhhhh
The people who created this game need to be locked in a cave for the rest of their natural lives.
This is just a horrible game its nothing like its predecessors.
I would have given it 0 stars if I had the choice.

Capcom, this is the worst game ever!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 19
Date: July 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was a COMPLETE waste of money, for me. I liked it the first time I played it. WHEN IT WAS CALLED WILD ARMS AND HAD A DECENT PLOT!!! It's a tired concept, with one twist. Unlike most "rehashes" It has NO improvements whatsoever over any other games. Go buy Wild Arms 3. It's much better. Better yet, boycott capcom alltogether. Maybe they'll get the hint and stop producing games like this.

So... mind numbingly... boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: February 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Wow. I wasted a whole hour of my life on this. When I first played it, I watched the opening and thought "This has to own.) I was dead wrong. The music score is terrible, the combat system reeks, and the enemies are so unamagitive. To start it off, all Breath of Fire own, not this one. The music is boring and repetitive. Enuogh said. The combat is ike this: Run, X, any attack (All the animations are the same.), repeat. I only played and hour worth, and I couldn't stand it it was so boring. All in all, avoid at all costs.

Just Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

By far this is the worst Breath of Fire game I have ever played. I couldnt even finish the game, because I was so frustrated with so many flaws in the game. It has possibly the worst start of any game I have ever played, so that didnt help, but even once I got past that majority of the game was just a waste of my time, so I stopped playing and went to my local gamestop and sold it and bought another game. Plain and Simple do not buy this game unless your a video game collector who collects the breath of fire series, but other then that its not worth wasting your time on.

This game was some ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: April 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I never thought a breath of fire game could be this horrible.... all breath of fire games have been good except for this piece of ... I mean seriously... this game does not carry on ANY traditional qualities besides you being able to play ryu and turning into a dragon... Why the hell are there guns in this game.... what the hell does this have to do with Breath Of Fire.... the best thing about this game is the box... go to the store take your game back (if you already bought it) and buy something like Dynasty Warriors 4.

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