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JooJooFlop's momma would never want to hear them say:
I just want the hat.
Very well.
The plot is incredible. I love the plot. The premise is a good one, and it features one of the coolest scenes I've seen in videogames (for those who've played - when Bosch "kills" Ryu. When I heard that "squrlch" my heart stopped 
). The battle system, while taking some time to get used to, actually brings a good amount of innovation to the typical turn-based thing, and the save system is actually quite welcome, including the random restarts.
However, it has some points which are so damn stupid and annoying as to almost make the game unplayable. You get one dragon form. Throughout the game. And you barely even get to use it. Why? Let me tell you. You have AP, like in previous games, but dragon transforming doesn't eat AP OR a turn. What it does us up your D-counter. A D-counter is this little pusling square in the top right corner of your screen, with a percentage counter below. From 000.00% to 100.00%. The D-counter goes up if you use any dragon powers (D-rushing ups it by .02 every step, unless you use it a LOT, in which case it goes up by .05), plus it goes up .01% every twenty steps you take. If you transform, it goes up 2%, and all the dragon powers use D-counter percentage points as well. What happens when you reach 100%, then?
You die. That's it. Game over. Restart?
Bastard thing is that there is NO WAY to lower your D-counter. If there was some way to manage it, lower it in such a way that I MIGHT BE ABLE to use the Dragon every once in a while without going into paranoid mode, or fucking my game up, this would be less of a problem. As it is, it makes the game NEAR UNPLAYABLE.
There's a steep-ass learning curve, and while some of the new features are neat and welcome, some make me want to PUNCH THE GUY WHO THOUGHT OF IT.
Make yer own choice .
Though the rest of the game is schweet, it bugs me that there's this one thing that renders the game near unplayable if you don't cheat.
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Nicole had this to say about John Romero:
Then go for it. It's worth it, if you can bypass the damn D-counter.Though the rest of the game is schweet, it bugs me that there's this one thing that renders the game near unplayable if you don't cheat.
Yah. You don't get a Breath of Fire game because you look forward to AVOIDING using Dragon power. You get it to kick some serious ass by breathing fire.
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The Dread Pirate Skittles said this about your mom:
BoF 2 was the peak of the series.
No way. BoF 3 was the best.
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The Dread Pirate Skittles spewed forth this undeniable truth:
BoF 2 was the peak of the series.
Have to disagree with you there .
I loved BoF4. The story there was amazing, and I loved how it all had this style, this cinematic quality to it that the other games lacked. BoF has growing pains when it moves to a new system; hence why the 3 graphics were similar to 4 but looked... unrefined. 4 was polished, and I loved it.
Though 3's gene system kicked my ass.
2 was good, but the music... agh! And the fact that there were dragon SUMMONS, NOT dragon transformations irked me.
As far as the hardness level, I don't think its too hard personally. The only times I *needed* to use dragon form was Tantra after killing Deegon and Geegagis, and the two battles where its necessary. Other than that, just used it on the reagents out of laziness. Isn't really too hard to get a 1/4 ratio on the second time through either.
IMHO, rent it. You should be able to do everything within the period of a rental or two. After that, not a lot of reason to replay it again.
[ 09-27-2003: Message edited by: Absolut Blindy ]
GAH! I can do better than that... stupid can't see pixels on the background color...
The dragon gene system is the best dragon system in ANY of the games.
Rei is just a total badass.
I liked how you got all your characters once, then AGAIN when they were grown up, and most had a new, better look to them (Hated young Nina, loved Old Nina). Plus the art was... I dunno. Cleaner? Brighter? Something like that. BoF4 had too many pastels.
Including Peco.
My thread has risen from its grave and has come back to KILL ME!!!
*runs away, screaming*
