Breath of Fire IV

This is a great game of the PS1 era. But the port lacks the various options from an emulator

One of the best JRPGs with memorable characters, beautiful sprites, amazing worldbuilding and storyline. Truly a must play and its awesome to see a re release of this, hopefully Breath Of Fire 3 and the rest of the series follows! Literally 100s of hours of gameplay if you want to do absolutely everything so worth every penny!

This is my all-time favorite JRPG (out of a sizable sample of JRPGs, at that). FIrst and foremost is the story, followed by the mechanics, animations, and the music. It is a crying shame that this game got next to no attention, due to it releasing two months after the release of the PS2. And then the series was murdered by the release of Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter (not a terrible game, apparently, just very difficult to get into, and a drastic departure from the previous games in nearly every way: it should have been treated as a spinoff, not a sequel.) The story, themes, and character writing are head and shoulders above every other JRPG from the PSX era, hands down. There is still a bit of jank here and there, however, this is a clear example of a developer putting all the lessons learned about a particular console system over its lifetime into a game in order to wring out every last drop of quality they could. I believe the choice of using a 3D environment and 2D character sprites led to a far better looking game than the choice of many of its contemporaries (e.g. FF7-9, The Legend of Dragoon, etc.) to use 2D pre-rendered backgrounds and 3D character models, and Capcom was still at the top of its game with sprite art, despite BoF clearly being far from one of its flagship series, e.g. Street Fighter, Megaman, Resident Evil, etc.

this series to me was THE memory of childhoold gaming. The absolute dream would be a new one with gameplay similar so expedition 33

This game brings back so many memories but breath of fire 3 would be better