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Developer:
Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
System Requirements:Playstation,ePSXe
or CVGS.
I Recommend: ePSXe
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Breath
of Fire 3 review
Breath
of Fire III is a old school RPG, that does not innovate much
in the RPG gene. Being the third
game in this popular series, BOF3
has you play the role of a young dragon boy name Ryu, the
last of a proud race called the Brood. Later he joins a band
of thieves who are terrorizing a small farming town and his
adventures begin thereforth. He robs a yuppie’s manor,
makes friends with a princess and then gets chased around
half the world by two Horse-Humanoids, and even has a onion
for a party member and so on. Games don’t get more bizarre
than this.
Despite
all this weirdness I have to admit, the first ten hours of
this game were boring, I took a lot of will power to continue
playing this game, but once you get past Ryu’s child
portion of the game, The game starts to liven up.
The story,
although unique is rather unsatisfying to me, Ryu has the
personality of a doormat. And all the other characters are
stereotypes. The princess love interest, the technology driven
scientist, the guilt stricken thief, we’ve seen these
characters in a hundred RPGs before and that’s what separates
a good RPG from a great RPG is memorable, loveable characters.
Sadly Breath Of Fire III only has one, a walking onion man.
The graphics
are a mixture of Game-Sprites and 3d polygons with a fixed
isometric camera view. The Graphics are well implemented for
the Playstation. Breath Of Fire III still suffers pixelation
in some areas but it is not too noticeable. The spells are
as beautiful as well as fast, especially the dragon transformations
which is one Breath of Fire 3’s greatest strengths. You
select up to 3 different dragon "genes" resulting
in different unique transformations depending on which genes
you used, a major portion of this game is finding all the
genes and using them to creating the ultimate dragon.
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Game battles
on the other hand happen way too often, you can t move for less
that a few steps before another game battle commences. Making exploring
very tedious. The path movement for your characters is inaccurate,
I seen my party members get stuck on objects in the game world resorting
to the game "warping" them back on to the screen. Very
annoying!
The Game music
is noting to write home about, but it gets the job done and also
bring back nausea form older RPGs .
Though it may
seem that I am trashing this game, I have a lot of fun playing it.
There is a lot of fun here for a RPG gamer, you’ll just need
to take it’s problems with a grain of salt.
-Chip
Scheppel
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The
Good
+Cool
graphics
+Dragon
gene system
+It has
a walking onion in it
+Original
story
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The
Bad.
-Ryu’s
childhood is BORING BORING BORING!
-All playable
characters are stereotypes.
-Story
is unsatisfying
-A couple
gramical errors
-Party
movement path errors (say that ten times fast)
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Bottom
Line: If you’re a die hard RPGer don’t hesitate
to pick this up, but if you never liked RPGs this wont convert
you.
Total
7.1
out of 10
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