r/breathoffire

Here's a playthrough where the trio took their suffering under Balio and Sunder personally, and decided to get big.

Ryu and Nina have both been getting swole under Fahl from their first level-ups onwards. Momo's also apprenticed to Fahl, but she's had 7 D'Lonzos first to get through the contest and help against the bullies and Stallion. I don't plan on using Garr much for this run, so he was used to get skills from Bunyan and Meryleep. Peco's untouched.

Ok, so the babies are not game-wrecking monsters yet, but they're trying.

Because I am a Boss Goblin Babe beading

I recently finished this BOF3 / CT crossover illustration and thought I’d share. I’ve always loved Momo and Lucca’s character designs and felt they’d make for a great engineer mash-up. It took me just shy of 13h and roughly 13,700 strokes. I have a timelapse of the process if anyone’s interested. Enjoy!

Edit: fun fact - I nearly forgot Lucca’s glasses and had to overpaint them in during the last 5-10m or so. Easy fix but unforgivable mistake! 😅

Picked up Breath of Fire — ¥4,400 and Breath of Fire II — ¥4,400 for the Super Famicom today!

I’ve actually beaten both of these before, although it’s been a long time. I played the first Breath of Fire as a kid but could never get very far. I honestly can’t remember exactly when I finally beat it, but I think it was sometime in college and I definitely needed a guide.

The big problem I always had with the first game was figuring out where the hell I was supposed to go. I don’t know if it was the translation, the lack of hints, or just how games were designed back then, but I remember constantly getting lost. Some of the dungeons were especially rough without a guide. There’s one where everything moves around and you have to keep track of which direction you’re facing, and that dungeon still sticks in my mind all these years later.

And then there was that stupid goblin boss early in the game. As a kid, I could NEVER beat that guy. Every time I played Breath of Fire I’d basically get to him and that was the end of my adventure. When I finally played through the game years later, I just grinded until I could get past him.

I actually beat Breath of Fire II before I ever finished the first game, and I have much better memories of II. It’s definitely grindy, and that final dungeon is pretty notorious, but overall I remember having a lot of fun with it.

I did have one huge roadblock, though. There’s a point where you need to use Katt’s field ability to break through a wooden barrier, and I had absolutely no idea you could do that there. I understood that the characters had their own special abilities, but it never occurred to me that I was supposed to use hers on something in the environment like that. I wandered around forever trying to figure out what I had missed. When I finally figured it out, I was just happy I could continue the damn game.

So overall I have much fonder memories of II, although there’s something I still really like about the first game’s very traditional old-school RPG feeling. That said, Breath of Fire I isn’t exactly a game I’ve spent the last 20+ years dying to replay.

Still, I’m really happy to have both of these in the SFC retro JRPG collection. I like the series a lot, and it’s honestly a shame that Breath of Fire has been dormant for so long. I’d love to see Capcom do something with it again someday a new game, remakes, or even just a nice collection of the older games.

Also, the Japanese Super Famicom versions are just really cool physical releases. The manuals are surprisingly detailed, and I absolutely love the cover art. Looking at these and then remembering some of the funny Americanized artwork we got in the West is quite the contrast.

Anyway, I thought you guys might enjoy seeing them

I tried searching for a consistent method of farming Goo King for exp, but found nothing so I'm being the change I want to see. The method I'm about to discuss is meant for players who can abuse save states, console players will have to rely on luck and a Rei with an agility score above 90.

Goo King is a skittish mob in BoF3 that offers a lot of exp every time it's killed. 5k for 3 surviving members, 7.5k for 2 surviving members, and 15k for 1 surviving member. More often than not he will escape before you have a chance to kill him. His Achilles Heel is that he **loves** the Green Apple in his pocket and will not part with it for anything which is why you'll have Rei mug him for it. Goo King **hates this** and wants his precious apple back.

Heres the method: Myria Station is where you will find Goo King. You will progress the area as normal until you defeat the Chimera and get Key Card B. Once you have that card you will navigate back to the main lobby and follow the green path. The path will take you up a set of stairs to a door. Upon entering the door you will take the escalator and walk through the door at the top. The room is a healing room just like the one on the Chimera side. Abuse. This. Room. You will then walk out and see a room just like the image above. Walking along the edges of the room (red arrows) will not trigger combat. You will walk to the end of the room and run back and forth along the wall multiple times using the up and right d-pad inputs. Once you feel like you have done this enough, you will stop just above the shiny green tiles next to the wall and create a save state. After you save, use the down d-pad input. If you've done it right, you will enter into combat after a step or two. If it's not Goo King, boot the save state and repeat until he shows up.

Now you're fighting the King himself. Save the game state again. Make sure you have Rei and use pilfer. If he escapes before you can pilfer, load the save state and try again. Once you get the Green Apple the Goo King will stay and read you the riot act. Make sure you have heavy hitters in your party to make it as short a fight as possible since Tornado can drop everyone to 1HP and Ragnarok can damage the whole party. I made sure Ryu had Aura and Nina had Myollnir before doing this loop. After the fight run to the healing room and repeat the process. If you're feeling extra greedy, slap him with charm and abuse save states just before the final blow and get the Goo King Sword.

Happy hunting!

I'm even following a guide on the side, this is Ross ' house, I'm trying to rescue her daughter. This one should open with nothing more other than having Karn in the First position right?

You can see part of the Cedar Woods intro sequence with Rei, Ryu, and the Currs on the side screen. This is a still taken from the Capcom Friendly Club CFC Style VHS Vol. 1 (May '96), given out to club members.

Link to the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_elcyzNXA

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/2222-d-d-beyonds-august-drop-sewers-and-treasures

D&D Beyond’s August Drop: Sewers and Treasures! by staff member Jay Jani.

It's nice to see the series is popular enough to be described among stuff like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. I say this call out makes sense as the game D&D Beyond is named after is called Dungeons & Dragons, and you do turn into dragons in Breath of Fire.

The 200,000 unit increase is no doubt thanks to Breath of Fire IV’s PC re-release on GOG and Steam. Keep up the good work, BoF fans!

The sales numbers are taken from Capcom's recent August 7th sales data update and reflect sales data up to June 30, 2026: https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/business/salesdata.html

Looks like Nina took that kiss personally. Oh, and Momo at least got in a shot as well (meanwhile, Ryu's just there for the XP).

Nina's still apprenticed to Bunyan since level 5, while Momo's had some changes (12 levels of D'Lonzo, 8 Meryleep, 14 Fahl plus another with this battle). Ryu's still under Deis since lv11 (with 500 life shards and 200 proteins thrown in).

Man wanted some Nina. He got it.