Electronic Gaming Monthly's Top 7 Breath of Fire Games
67Some role-playing game franchises can seemingly go on forever, like Final Fantasy and The Elder Scrolls. Others are doomed to play out like the Breath of Fire franchise, where you have a couple big hits early on, only to eventually fizzle out after a handful of increasingly disappointing sequels. All this talk about Breath of Fire made me wonder what Electronic Gaming Monthly thought of this fan-favorite RPG back in the day. What was their favorite installment?
Now, before you ask, EGM managed to review seven games in the Breath of Fire franchise. That is to say, they reviewed all five console games, as well as the two ports that hit the Game Boy Advance in the early 2000s. The only game they did not cover was Breath of Fire 6, which not only came out seven years after the magazine folded, but was a mobile phone game that never made its way outside of Japan. Thankfully, they reviewed everything else, which should make for a really fun list. What we’re going to do today is count down the best and worst Breath of Fire games using Electronic Gaming Monthly’s own words and scores. There's no editorializing here, we're going to focus on what the critics said back when these games first came out. So, go and figure out what dragon you want to morph into, because that’s going to be surprisingly important in this episode of EGM Ranks Breath of Fire.
0:00 – Introduction
1:34 – Commercial: Breath of Fire II (Japan)
1:50 – Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter (PS2)
2:55 – Breath of Fire IV (PS1)
3:46 – Breath of Fire II (Super NES)
4:20 – Breath of Fire (GBA)
5:10 – Breath of Fire II (GBA)
6:09 – Breath of Fire (Super NES)
6:43 – Breath of Fire III (PS1)
7:22 – Question of the Day
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