Dragon Quest (1986) established a turn-based gameplay template that most other Japanese studios would emulate over the next few years, while Final Fantasy (1987) offered an even more appealing visual style in which characters could be seen from a third-person perspective while battling oversized monsters. Please consider supporting that website, as its staff tirelessly catalogs key information and art assets for an often ephemeral medium.Įnix and Square brought the role-playing game (RPG) genre to Japan in the late 1980s following a decade of RPGs like Wizardry (1981) and Ultima (1981) being restricted to Western audiences. Cover art is from MobyGames unless otherwise noted. This week we’ll be inhaling the history of Breath of Fire. Older entries can be found in the archive here. Players view the game from a top-down perspective and move their characters in four directions across various environments including towns and dungeons while interacting with non-player characters and battling enemies to advance the story.Welcome back to Franchise Festival, a fortnightly column where we explore and discuss noteworthy video game series from the last four decades. After his friend is falsely accused of a crime, Ryu embarks on a journey to clear his name.īreath of Fire II is a traditional role-playing video game featuring two-dimensional character sprites and environments. Set 500 years after the original game, the story centers on an orphan named Ryu Bateson, whose family vanished mysteriously long ago. Unlike later installments in the series, Breath of Fire II is a direct sequel to Breath of Fire. In 2019, it was released for the Nintendo Switch SNES games library. In 2016, it was released for the New Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console. In 2013, it was released for the Wii U Virtual Console. Nintendo of Europe’s website mistakenly announced it for release on July 27, 2007, but it was in fact released two weeks later, on August 10, 2007. The game was released on Wii’s Virtual Console in North America on August 27, 2007. It was later ported to Game Boy Advance and re-released worldwide. It is the second entry in the Breath of Fire series.
First released in 1994, the game was licensed to Laguna for European release in 1996. Breath of Fire II is a role-playing video game developed and published by Capcom.
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