Breath of Fire IV

Amazing game, super stoked they made a port for this and gives me hope for more amazing game ports to come.

I'm not too far into the game yet, but it's been fun so far. The characters are charming and the gameplay's pretty fun. Twenty-five years old and this game has aged pretty gracefully. But there is one fault with the game, namely that the music and sound effects don't loop properly. To my knowledge this is because the sound files are coded/stored in a format that can't loop the way the game would require them to. Music will abruptly cut off and start over from the beginning, and sound effects meant to be played repeatedly sound choppy. It's a very minor issue, but a little jarring when you notice it happening. I can't imagine the effort required to fix the issue, so I wouldn't be surprised if it can't actually be fixed.

This is one of my favorite RPG's back in the day and it's a true gem. From the art style to the music, the classic RPG game play and some cool additions makes this one of the best games of my childhood. This one and Breath of Fire 3 are the best entries of the franchise in my opinion and are a ton of fun. Many hours of grinding and hidden things to find for completionists, but the rewards are well worth it. Very happy to see this brought to new systems.

As an avid participant of the emulation community, we've had one singular complaint, the ability to buy these games in a legitimate fashion. This is a perfect port of Breath of Fire 4, complete with resolution settings, and controller mapping. The tone and storytelling of the BOF series proved that Capcom once had the chops to go toe to toe with Squaresoft. While BOF 3 is my favorite of the series, (please put that up for purchase at some point in time CAPCOM.) BOF 4 has some of the best sprite work in any of Capcom's titles outside of their fighting/beat'em up games from the same time period. While these games are older, it doesn't show in their presentation and solid gameplay formulas that have proven the test of time. This is an easy to get into series, featuring a boy named Ryu in all of them, who always seems to have a great hold on being a great protagonist. Try this game out if you love well made turn based JRPGS with amazing music and an unforgettable story.

I never played this one so it's interesting how they expanded on the combat since the 3rd entry. Combos and special abilities that derive from making those combos really freshen up the flow of combat. You can also switch out characters mid battle and the ones benched will recover their AP (or mana equivalent). Just started playing so I'm looking forward to finally knowing this story.