Breath of Fire 3

[Anonymous No.10803986]

SOUL

[Anonymous No.10804007]

I used to love the game but learning about the apprentice system kills the excitement on subsequent replays as I can no longer not bother about them. As are most minmax systems in any game, I suppose.

[Anonymous No.10804008]

>>10804007
Autistic retard

[Anonymous No.10804019]

https://youtu.be/u7zcOiPc-QY

[Anonymous No.10804034]

Deis is cute

[Anonymous No.10804047]

This game has the best interpretation of a desert that I've ever seen in a game

[Anonymous No.10804075]

>>10804007
I get your point to a certain degree. Final Fantasy 6 is similiar. You feel pressured to stay low level until you get all the good espers later on.

[Anonymous No.10804081]

Very nice
The state of it when the camera pans or zooms though

[Anonymous No.10804293]

>>10804081
I kinda like it, how come more SNES didn’t do this?

[Anonymous No.10804301]

>>10804007
The apprentice system and the random encounters are annoying. Had this game simply copied both from Chrono Trigger it would have been much better.

[Anonymous No.10804329]

>>10804034
This is some fap material.
Gonna save it and post in the waifu thread

[Anonymous No.10805368]

>>10804293
This is a PSX game

[Anonymous No.10805715]

>>10804081
But seriously this game is soo gorgoeus and cute

3D backgrounds and 2D sprites are absolutely great together.

[Anonymous No.10805823]

>>10805368
Momo is waifu tier

[Anonymous No.10805897]

>>10804329
Haha imagine her wrapping her tail around you and forcing your dick into her cloaca

[Anonymous No.10806609]

>>10804081
>all the food and plate sprites jiggle around as the camera pans

They have a *soul* of their own indeed

[Anonymous No.10806651]

>>10804007
I played the game like 3 times and never bothered to figure the masters out and it was a breeze every time. Don't think there are any hidden super bosses or anything that really requires the minmax.

[Anonymous No.10806696]

>>10806651
there were actually 2, both in the same area around the last portal. a wizard dude and a robot. they look like regular encounters because there is no boss music playing but they were meant as an endgame challenge, more difficult than what you can encounter anywhere else in the game.

[Anonymous No.10806706]

>>10806696
I tried both of them, can't really call them bosses, more like "one shot or be one shotted" kind of gimmick enemies, they're a matter of figuring out the cheese rather than minmaxing your party.

[Anonymous No.10807720]

I think, this game is the only game I have started playing well into three digits since '99, when my brother and I have gotten this game.
The farthest I have played it is when you break into the mansion at the very beginning.
I don't know why but once I reach that point I just lose all interest up until I play it again a few years later. It's a vicious cycle.
And the worst part of it all?
This game just looks so charming that I can't imagine it not being a good game and I want to like it. But just can't force myself to progress further.

[Anonymous No.10807787]

[Anonymous No.10808243]

What's the best way to play BoF games? The original releases? Looks like they got a lot of followup ports. Did they add anything?

[Anonymous No.10808276]

>>10804034
I know a tall-ass ginger girl who dressed as Bleu/Deis for Halloween in ancient times. Might've been 2001. She's a weirdo. Hey best friend has dressed as Tifa and Rinoa on separate Halloweens

[Anonymous No.10808338]

>>10808243
Original releases for all of them.
No, I'm not memeing you

[Anonymous No.10808393]

>>10803986
Can someone explain Cear Xan/Myria Station? Aliens? Tech advanced culture that blew its final wad? Myria just being a bitch to try and one up [/spoiler]her older sister Deis?[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.10808425]

I have just played #1 and am now playing #2. Hope 3 is similar.

[Anonymous No.10808442]

>>10808425
3 is the best in the series.

[Anonymous No.10808906]

3 came out during capcoms all time peak and it shows. played 3 first and it aged like fine wine. good pacing and formula changes frequently. then played 1 and was shocked in the contrast. then finding out 2 completely justifies the comparison. 1 was babbys first rpg. 1 and 2 play more like true sequels but 3 feels more final fantasy connection even though its still in universe if you look hard enough.
>>10804047
i remember respecting the desert gimmick but im not sure if its as good if i came back to it now. i like how hard it tried to punish the player for ignoring its rules

[Anonymous No.10808916]

>>10808906
i mean we know first person and third person but how many games feature a battle from the second person view?

[Anonymous No.10809083]

>>10808906
it's good that it punishes you. that's what will happen to you in an actual desert

[Anonymous No.10809171]

>>10808393
Play the game and pay attention retard

[Anonymous No.10809172]

I played the german translation back then so I dont know if its the same in the us version but they somehow got the ingame directions for the desert. horus or however the dude was called gave you some directions before you head out and I swear to god me and my friend independently from each other tried whatever he said and we couldnt get past the desert. I remember that I had a 80 hour savestate and I got into the desert area around 30. My friend someday decided to try random directions and somehow got it someday. Really fucked up.

[Anonymous No.10809174]

>>10808243
There are hacks that make the SNES versions more similar to the GBA versions and add a dash button
>>10807720
You are a retard who lacks willpower.

[Anonymous No.10809938]

This is a really special game to me bc it's one of the only oldschool RPGs I sat down and beat start to finish with a friend. It was an older kid who lived in my mom's neighborhood, he taught me how to sell weed. We'd get absolutely blazed and play BoF3 for hours. Adored Pico, a literal onion knight. Getting lost in the desert, the liar in the village. The final city being a broken down robotic advanced civilization in an otherwise mostly medieval game... Man what good memories. I'm due for a revisit

[Anonymous No.10810892]

>>10809171
I have you exhausting cunt.

[Anonymous No.10811164]

>>10809172
I played the French version and there also was a mistake, where west/east are switched for one of the sections. I think it's also the case in the English translation.

[Anonymous No.10811251]

>>10804075
>You feel pressured to stay low level until you get all the good espers later on.
Wait what?

[Anonymous No.10811358]

>>10811251
espers alter your skill gain

[Anonymous No.10811467]

>>10809172
First time I played it was from a pirate disk machine translated to Russian, I was stuck on that part for 2 years until I got an internet connection and can finally look it up. Some years later I was replaying the game in English and still got stuck so I had to consult gamefaqs again. Replayed it a third time in Japanese recently and got it right first time just following the guy's directions.

[Anonymous No.10812129]

>>10804081
god psx spritejank looks so awful

[Anonymous No.10812131]

>>10804293
>how come SNES didn't look like garbage

[Anonymous No.10812174]

>>10809174
>You are a retard who lacks willpower.
not him but if there are better ways to spend willpower than finishing a videogame RPG that exists purely for entertainment.

[Anonymous No.10812178]

[Anonymous No.10812251]

>>10804081
I love the movement/vibration of the objects.

[Anonymous No.10812279]

>>10804007
Completely ignorable.
>>10804081
>>10812129
Duckstation can stabilize all of that

[Anonymous No.10812406]

>>10812174
And still it requires patience

[Anonymous No.10813089]

>>10803986
why? Saga Frontier 2 had better 2D art. and LoM too.
http://www.game-art-hq.com/legend-of-mana-screenshots/

[Anonymous No.10813092]

>>10812279
>Duckstation can stabilize all of that
not the way it was meant to be prayed. original hardware had texture jitters.

[Anonymous No.10813116]

>>10813092
"meant to be played", yes I'm sure the artists original intention was to have their artwork mangled by affine texture warping intrinsic to the shortcomings of the playstations GS chip. very big brain moment anon

[Anonymous No.10813135]

>>10804081
i'm 100% sure this didn't look nearly as bad on an actual console.

[Anonymous No.10814170]

>>10812178
Kek, nice detail

[Anonymous No.10814409]

>>10813135
>100%
Well it did, so you're wrong. Try not to be wrongfully assured in future and leave some margin for error.

[Anonymous No.10815274]

>>10812178
Roast dickbutt

[Anonymous No.10815282]

Someone explain the appeals of these games. I know you can "combine" multiple characters into one as a game mechanic, which sounds so horrifically silly and absurd that I can't see how it makes any sense.

[Anonymous No.10815396]

>>10815282
That's not how the game, and especially the entire series, works at all.

It's a JRPG where the main character is a dragon and can turn into one. Admittedly the first two SNES games treated the transformations more like a summon/magic spell that you just cast, it happens, then you resume the normal fight.

Breath of Fire 3 had a system where you collect dragon genes, and you could combine up to three to create different transformations, which you actually stayed transformed into as long as you had enough MP. One of those genes allowed you to merge with another character but that was hardly the whole gimmick of the game, much less the entire series, it was possible to not even collect that gene.

4 was IMO a step back. You eventually get a small set of dragon "forms" you could turn into, and you do still stay transformed, but for all of them you just turn into the same physical looking form. You are stronger like that, but the "dragon" attacks are still treated more like spells/summons again.

BOF5 was considerably different, you just had one form, that's it. It was essentially invincible and OP as hell... but using it makes a counter go up, if it hits 100% it's game over. There is NO way to lower the counter and it remains the entire game, it's possible to basically make a save file unwinnable if you overuse it.

... BOF6 IMO does not count, it was a mobile-only Japanese-only gacha game. I have no idea how that one even worked.

But the series was never about combining characters, only 3 had that, and only as one of the many optional ways you can transform. The series is basically a JRPG where the main character is from an ancient race that can turn into dragons.

[Anonymous No.10815410]

>>10815396
this is false. Karen can fuse with party members in 1, and the shamans can fuse with party members in 2.

[Anonymous No.10815413]

>>10815410
>and the shamans can fuse with party members in 2

By combining characters I assumed he meant party members, the shamans are barely more than just equipment game-wise.

[Anonymous No.10815415]

>>10815282
That's only in BoF2. You encounter various mystical shamans that can be fused with a character, boosting their stats or giving them a new, more powerful form.
The shamans aren't playable, so from a gameplay perspective they're like an accessory you can equip at specific places (that is removed when a character is KOed).

[Anonymous No.10815419]

>>10815413
their appearances change too

[Anonymous No.10815421]

>>10815415
you can fuse in bof1 too. here's shin the best fusion imo

[Anonymous No.10815509]

>>10815421
I still need to beat BOF1, I'm right before the final 10%

[Anonymous No.10815841]

>>10803986
>>10804034
>>10804081
>>10805368
>>10807787
>>10808393
>>10812178
>>10815396
4 was better and Im tired pretending it wasnt.

[JohnWoo1946 No.10815950]

Breathe of Fire 3 is the first Teen JRPG I can think of where you can see pixelated full-frontal nudity in the game. I'm surprised that the game didn't get censorship for Deis. I remember getting a boner when I first saw her nude in that sphere. Also I liked the games story where you played as a kid from childhood to adulthood and the music is pretty good. I was stuck on the part where you on the desert on the PSP version and I gave up on it until I got the PS1 version so many years later and used a walkthrough and finished the game with all the dragon balls to make me transform. I liked where you start off as a thief instead of a hero at first with 2 different people instead you try to do good things but it just back fires and you have to find them. Getting the 4th one is so expensive online you're better off playing it on an emulator. I did beat the first 2 but man I was lucky trying to beat the 2nd one because I was down to my last potion and luckily I was able to beat the boss.

[Anonymous No.10816024]

>>10815950
The first 1/4 of the game with teepo and rei is easily the highlight of the game.

It's just a very heartwarming and tragic story. 3 orphans helping each other to not frezee or starve to death and then you lose the only family you had.

[Anonymous No.10816040]

The opening is really comfy but I always get burned out and drop it around the time you go to Raphala.

[Anonymous No.10816064]

>>10816040
That part is a little bit boring, but once you reach the black ship, it gets interesting again. Just keep playing.

[Anonymous No.10816117]

>>10815841
Nah it was not

[Anonymous No.10817783]

>>10815950
>Getting the 4th one is so expensive online you're better off playing it on an emulator
Kinda silly how this false dichotomy of "buy or emulate" still persists. PS1 can even be softmodded nowadays!