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At times, the plot feels almost simplistic, but there are complexities under the surface just waiting to be explored. After a few more scenes, the game goes to ‘present day’, where Ryu is grown up and living as a mercenary. When he awakens, he finds that the entire village has forgotten him and his family is nowhere to be found. One day he falls asleep in the forest behind the village. The hero, Ryu, a young boy when the game begins, lives with his father, a priest, and sister in a small town in the woods.

The game opens with one of the best introductions I’ve encountered in a game. Despite lacking much of the depth and complexity of the titles produced by Square and Enix, Breath of Fire II managed to be an impressive title that still deserves attention today. This game introduced a hunting mini-game, as well as introducing a more complex fishing game, something that would become a series staple. Like other JRPGs, Breath of Fire II is quite linear, however there are few restrictions on where the player can travel early in the game. Capcom released the Breath of Fire series with some very heavy competition, yet the games manage to stand among the better RPGs of the Super Nintendo and PlayStation.Īfter the reasonable success of the first title in the series, Capcom decided to expand upon the elements that made the first work. Emerging giants Squaresoft and Enix released hit after hit, laying the groundwork for almost all JRPGs that followed. 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.The mid-90s were a golden era for console RPGs. 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.