Should I breathe the "Breath of Fire"? (Another RPG thread by Tom)

[Tommy]

Just a random question.

How are the Breath of Fire games? I was thinking of picking up breat hof Fire V 10$ for PS2 but I wanted to know if these games were good. Does it revolve around story, puzzles, battle system, or characters?

And the final question is: Which of the Five is the best?

[CookinLikeSanji]

Personally I love BoF 2, that's just me though.

If anything, start from the first game and work your way up, the earlier BoF the better really.

[Myoti]

I think I need to play BoF2 again, as I never got around to beating it. :l

[MasterDias]

In my mind, Breath of Fire is a decent although unexceptional RPG series.
I've played I,II, and IV but haven't finished any of them.

I-IV are essentially standard RPGs.

V : Dragon Quarter takes a number of liberties with the genre and series, and winds up being a game that you will either love or hate(in addition to being a big financial failure for Capcom). It's also supposed to be quite difficult.

[Tommy]

Well, I havent played an RPG I haven`t liked, (I disliked Mario Super Star Saga for an amount of time, but that`s becuase I looked at it in a wrong light) and i haven`t tried Unlimited SaGa. Are the PS1 BoF games rare?

Are the plots connected?

[Azier the Swordsman]

Breath of Fire II is my personal favorite and the one I would recommend the most. And, no, they aren't really connected. The PS1 games shouldn't be that hard to find, especially online.

[Myoti]

Don't they all have someone named Ryu though?

[MasterDias]

Yes.

The main characters are always a dragon-transforming boy named Ryu and a winged girl named Nina.

[Tommy]

I`ll get them on gameboy soon.