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Anonymous10/16/26, 07:08No.4131230
Is this a misunderstood masterpiece like Majora's Mask or is it rightfully hated for being shit?
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Anon10/16/26, 07:32No.4131255
It's basically, "What if BoF was a roguelike, complete with post-death progression systems?" Considering how prolific roguelikes are today it could be argued that DQ was ahead of it's time. (Similar, yet different, situation with FF13 and it's battle system which is basically an auto-battler, that genre has taken off these days, and in a sense it was also ahead of it's time.) Ultimately though BoF is about being a power fantasy, and while all dragon transformation systems have guardrails in place to prevent overuse... the guardrails in DQ feel bad because the inch you closer to a game over which is unlike any other game prior. Sure, DQ is built with the idea of unlocking things after deaths and even starting with better gear you banked, but was that the experience your average BoF player wanted at the time?Not really.
You tack on the fact you can't even save without consuming a resource and that is just one too many smacks to the face. For BoF fans who like roguelikes it's a welcome remix of the two. To just plain BoF fans who have no interest in roguelike gameplay... I think they'd rather play BoF1 over it and that's rough man. BoF1 definitely shows it's age.
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Anon10/16/26, 08:08No.4131274
It's good. Not a masterpiece, but it's the best BoF game.
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Anon10/16/26, 08:53No.4131285
Yes.
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Anon10/16/26, 10:22No.4131323
literally nobody has ever heard of this game
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Anon10/16/26, 13:31No.4131403
Awful playing blind or new.Fun and good once it clicks
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Anon10/16/26, 17:12No.4131517
It's fine
Luring enemies into a bomb trap is fun and the exploration is tense, but character movesets are way too boring, the pseudo-tactical system is wasted with fast bosses that you can't really position against, and while clobbering bosses in 1 turn with the dragon mode is very satisfying, the D-counter feels too oppressive to ever use it even occasionally
I wish other developers ripped it off to try to spin it in a more traditional setting
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Anon10/16/26, 17:38No.4131541
What a dumb bait.
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Anon10/16/26, 18:58No.4131612
Yes. Simple but effective story, cool mechanics that you don't see often and don't often see combined, and the art is great. It doesn't play at all like the other BoF games and the tone is also vastly different, so it's understandable to be disappointed or not interested if you're a BoF superfan. But there's no use being bootyblasted about it now.
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Anon10/17/26, 01:30No.4131836
>misunderstood masterpiece
obviously yeah since right after DQ that dev team went to help develop dead rising and look how that got received, despite having very similar game structure and meta progression focus.
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Anon10/17/26, 01:40No.4131846
It's kinda both. Once you "get it" a lot clicks, but then you remember how much the game makes you effectively grind before you get it
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Anon10/17/26, 02:40No.4131908
I would be seen in a better light if it didn't carry the Breath of Fire name
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Anon10/17/26, 11:42No.4132207
It's the best game in the series by far, and an excellent RPG in general.
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Anon10/17/26, 13:06No.4132247
I bought it for 10 bucks and played for a bit but it didn't click with me. Its too different from its beloved predecessors I don't know how they couldn't have expected backlash
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Anon10/18/26, 01:09No.4132931
Did people like Lightning Returns?
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Anon10/19/26, 22:48No.4134817
It's like Unlimited SaGa in that it's shit, then as you play it enough it becomes good, but if you KEEP playing it then it kinda becomes shit again because you've learned too much of how it works and can see the flaws more clearly now.