/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6126047
I like IV more because
-the music
-it just looks nicer, in general
-best party
-best Ryu design
-it has a shitton of symbolism and thematic shit that the other games don't have
-IT DOESN'T FUCKING HAVE FUCKING SHISU

>>4887185
>None of its mentioned in game.

Well of course, I'm not arguing its canonical, I'm arguing its a possibility, a Probable Theory, that Four can somehow link up to the other three games. After all it is a game that shows a possible origin for Dragonkind and fake Gods like Myria. I also don't believe it requires a lot of hand-waving and retcon, I think it offers explanations for things that don't necessarily need to be explained. Just because its a possible prequel doesn't mean that it somehow undermines the significance of the other games.
We already know BoF3 Myria is a fake god, so what if we know an era in the world when real gods were released from the world and mankind found the ability to make their own gods?
Yuna doesn't even need to produce a single god if he can produce the method for creating them and pass that knowledge on to humans misuse it and become demons or gods on their own.

I can agree that BoF4 is a standalone game in the sense that it has nothing to do with the Myria saga and Yuna's line at the end could've just been a little easter egg/teaser about maybe making Myria as a nod.

I'm getting the feeling you're very attached to the original Myria plot and see any aberration to it threatening, almost blindingly so. So in the interest of fairness I will point out another hole I can't seem to close: BoF4 has the same broken ancient robots presented in 3, except that in 3 the high technology stuff is centered around Myria as if her original pre-desert people built it. There's no way that 4 could be a prequel if it has even shittier and more outdated malfunctioning robots floating around its ancient ruins. I never really know whats up with those anyway, was that something in 1 & 2?

>>2355154
>BoF4
>Boring

Breath of Fire 4 was very well paced.

>>2193780
>, while 4 has oriental themes.

Only as far as the empire is concerned. The woren clan is decidedly native american and the kingdom has the whole Medieval Europe thing going. The game just spends the bulk of it's time in the Imperial territories so we see the Oriental stuff.

Which I for one, LOVE. The chinese korean setting is a much welcome change of pace.

http://lparchive.org/Breath-of-Fire-IV/Update%2029/

interesting read