Breath of Fire... Dragon Quarter.Follow

Whilst I know a lot of people tend to really dislike Dragon Quarter, I'd have to say that I actually rather enjoyed it when I played through it. I also don't tend to think of it as a direct installment in the Breath of fire series, having said to people I would like to see a 5th installment as opposed to asking for a 6th.

The big complaint I see with the game is with regards to the dragon counter, it makes it very difficult to gauge how much you can grind on your first play through since you don't know the distance to go. This did make a couple of the fights difficult and could be seen badly. Personally I actually rather liked it, it added an extra bit of tension to the story, would I be able to make it to the end? Would spending that 6% mean I would fall short of the finish post? I genuinely thought it was a good mechanic as opposed to a lot of games where you could just spam the currently most powerful move to obliterate everything in your path, the dragon form was really that powerful but you knew you could only use it as a last resort.

As for the game over aspect, I think it was a fairly natural change of pace. In at least three there was the looming threat of losing control and the loss of humanity, from accessing a certain dragon form early and with regards to a lot of the closing story. Only difference was not letting you avoid that fate and a heavier focus on that outcome.

Some of the fights are a tad vicious though, although it's been a while I'm sure they're all beatable on the first play through though. (yes if you did worry about it you could end up new gaming your story a lot.)

*edit* /sigh I have enough on my plate to work through at the moment... but now I want to replay this as well... my poor free time ; ;

Edited, Mar 29th 2009 10:06pm by Enimachia

Personally I loved Dragon Quarter. Best of the BoF series IMO. The story and setting was great, the gameplay solid, and the replay value surprisingly high for an RPG. The Dragon Counter was a really interesting feature as well because it gave you an insane cheap out option but made you really scared to use it.

Breath of Fire 3 was the best of the series, hands down no question asked or listened to. The Master system was well rounded, the dragon genes was interesting, the story was good, and it had those searoaches. Just figuring out how to make Rei's Weretiger form useful was fun.

Scuttle, scuttle, scuttle, Romeo ...

It's definitely worth a play through. It's VERY different from the other BoF games but it's a great game regardless. Personally I like it more than the other BoF games just because it's so different, and overall a much more interesting game.

I actually may play it anyway. I really want to play a console RPG, it's been so long since I've played one, crappy or not, it's just a matter of finding a copy.