Breath of Fire III [42F] End of an Era

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Breath of Fire III (1997)
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That would have been more convincing if she hadn't, y'know, incited a genocide of an entire race. Although do I believe Ryu could somehow solve the desertification problem? No, not really. How would he?

Breath of Fire III was fine. It had its moments, narratively, but Ryu being a silent protagonist really robbed much of the story of its weight. Would Ryu have handled the power well? I honestly don't know. He's like s soulless husk. I guess so?

The combat was fine, but the battle animations were far too long (which resulted in me liberally fast-forwarding by the end). The battles were trivial, even with my sub-par stat distribution. It just came down to putting Ryu in dragon form and having him wail on bosses while everyone else tried to stay alive.

At the same time, battles could quickly turn south if the wrong status effects were applied to your party. It made certain areas incredibly risky because if Ryu went rogue, he could easily kill off the rest of the party, and then get killed by an instant death spell.

The lack of AP recovery items did increase the amount of strategy involved, but it ultimately ended up in me just using normal attacks in every battle, since that was a resource that I needed to save for the bosses.

The game certainly felt padded out, with the shisu quest being a low point where I almost quit the game. That, combined with the absolutely terrible minigames, didn't add anything to it. In addition to *that*, having to move the camera around to find hidden items was an atrocious idea, and I think I would have quit if I wasn't following a guide.

The text boxes were also too slow, with too little text being placed in each box. It broke the flow of the conversations.

As shallow as it is to say, the best part of this was the visuals, which were absolutely gorgeous. The environments had some great texturing, and the pixel art for the characters was top notch. I especially appreciated Ryu's evolution of sword usage, going from waving a sword in front of him to attacking assertively.

I imagine I'll get to Breath of Fire IV eventually, but playing through this has put me off of JRPGs for a while. Long, turn-based ones at least.



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