Recap of Breath of Fire III (RECAPitation)
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Definitely one of my most favorite rpgs from back in the days, ty for making this one. So much nostalgia
I dont see anywhere near enough content about this absolute classic.
The storyline alone makes it one of my favorite RPGs, add in the dragon Gene mixing system it's strait up a masterpiece
I'd love to see the game stays an underrated game, part of the myth behind this and BoF IV is that it's not known by many people these days and you don't see it plastered and watered down everywhere
yes unfortunately I think this game came out at the same time ff7 came out
@@kcidd12 almost 8 months after
"Resourcefully sneaking into McNeil Manor..." Literally Rei falling through a wall 😂
I'm glad this video got made. BoF3 is one of my all time favorite RPGs. I've played through this game so many times over the years since it came out, finally got a Goo King Sword about 12 years ago. I feel like 4 did a lot of stuff better, but the story didn't quite hold up as strongly and the dragon system was nowhere near as good as 3's.
I got Goo King Sword after fighting my first goo king (1st playthrough), I laughed
@@Oddragnar Lucky SoB. I went 13 years give or take a few before I got mine legitimately.
Same man. Best game, i reolay it at least once a year with about 40 playthroughs so far. I try a new goal every time, and last goal I grinded out as close as I could get to a 100% completion game. All chars lvl capped, best equips, one of each weapon, armour etc where possible, maxed masters etc. I gotta say, gooking sword grind sucked. Dragonfang grind sucked the most by far though. God damn
goo king sword is a myth. stop.
@@richardleston5237 We're not on early 00s message boards any more. Knock it off.
I swear man, you should have at leats 500k subs, the content is so worth it. Great work as always. Out of curiosity, ever though of doind some Fire Emblems?
Fire Emblem is absolutely on the queue. I just need to wrap up some series first (like BoF... have Dragon Quarter left)
Yah been following oni for awhile dude puts in alot work, great vid again thanks for the upload for a classic title love me so bof
@@OniBlackMage if I ever needed another reason to live, you have given me another one, my dude.
@@OniBlackMage any chance for more suikoden content?
The only bad thing about this game is to only being able to have 3 party members... All of them are AWESOME! It was very nice the way they did in BoF 4, having all the members divided in front and back row
My sister's favorite RPG, possibly game, of all time. Her and I played this when I was around 12 and her 13, and I remember that I accidently saved over her save one time! I was so in the habit of going through the menu that I made a mistake and her yknow, 60 hour save file was gone forever. I felt so bad lol
It's been over 20 years since I've played this, I'm shocked by how much went over my head as a kid.
Play it again! It's amazing!!!! Try getting a perfect file. Challenging as all hell.
this is one of my favorite games of all time.
I loved going to the mall and seeing what I could find at the Electronics Boutique.
found out about some weird games that way
Fantastic recap. This BoF was really close to my childhood, I love it so much.
This is my favorite Breath of Fire game, my favorite JRPG is Star Ocean the Second Story. Can’t wait for that recap.
This battle system needs a come back. Love the fact that the party fight on the same grounds as your given path.
That was a extremely overlooked mechanic, I always thought it was awesome how there's no cutaway to a generic background. Not to mention party formations with their own benefits really expanded the combat to feel more real, like it wasn't just a random battle but a foe standing in your way.
Last year, for the first time in over 20 years, when playing this game i got the Goo King Sword. It's was a very lucky find. I was happy but also sad, because im finding every thing there is to find of this game. I miss breath of fire a lot.
Did you get the dragon claws for peco? Those took me the longest to drop from the fire/ice drakes. Nina's ultimate armor was another annoying drop too, but finally beating the Arch Mage, getting Rei ultimate weapon, an Berserkers were my final challenge. It's surreal realizing that you 100% a game that's been with you for so long
@@nobodyspecial115 Yes i did, along with the LifeStealer for Rei, And the Rufad Spear for Garr
The tapestry in the intro is a depiction of the first game's final battle, so i've always believed BoF3 is a sequel to 1, not sure how 2 would fit in the timeline though
Great work as always buddy
From what I’m told, 2 takes place 500 years after 1, so, logically, 3 takes place a long time after 2.
@@Kasaaz really? Never heard of that. Funny how there can be publishing issues within the same company huh?
@@whatevr99 makes sense with the Windyans losing their flying power over many generations; BOF3 Nina can't fly at all by this point
What wahtevr99 is correct. 2 takes place 500 years after 1 and Deathevn in 2, the final big bad is a child of the boss of 1. And the final boss of 1 was misnamed in english as Tyr due to character restraints for names. Original name is Myrria, the final boss of 3. And Deis refesr to Myrria as sister, so quite possibly they are two parts of the same whole, like Ryu and Fou-lu in 4, so the theory that 4 is a prequal has some footholds. And DQ is after 3 since civilization was forced underground, possibly due to a certain dessert a certain goddess was holding back reaching over across the great sea.
@@jamesdickens3120 come to think of it, 4 is pretty much a huge desert, if it is a prequel it would mean that was the desert Myria was holding back all along. It also makes sense with 4 being the techno age mentioned in 3
This series is as interesting as it is confusing lol
Used to love playing this game just for the fishing, I could spend days fishing there
Thanks for what you do. These recapitations help me appreciate my favourite games even more
The single most underrated RPG ever made. I'm glad he showed the FIN screen but for the people that were less familiar I wish he would have mentioned the bulb shown was insinuated to be Peco aka Yggdrasil doing what Myria could not and fighting against the desert rather than just partitioning it from more fertile lands.
Myria never fought the desert, that was her convenient lie. The endless always lived in the desert, in the first game Deis lives in the floating castle in the desert (sound familiar) while in the 2nd game it isn't flying anymore but Deis temple is still in the desert. Coincidentally in the 3rd game Myria has taken up residence in a flying castle in the desert and Deis is imprisoned. Hmmm... sounds like Myrias squatting in Deis castle to me, which just happens to be in a deadly desert that kills Myria's followers, followers Deis didn't need for prayers but Myria does. Anyone whose played 1 and 2 knows Myria isn't benevolent and in fact a parasitic deity.
Damn you got told
For real I finished this game like 7 times and to this date still can beat the story of today's RPGs..
The twist and turn of events how the world is built and how the party interact with each other was just beautiful.
That damn desert part... It took me two entire days to get through that part when I was a Kid because I didn't understand the directions
Great Recapitation as always! This one was my favorite in the series. Kinda like Persona 3 or Castlevania SOTN, I think this is the one that really kinda changed and solidified the format of the series for the better.
I laughed out loud at the chickens bit. Good include OBM
I just wanted you to know I fucking love your channel and watch every video I come across
Possibly my favorite entry in what is possibly my favorite video game franchise. Nothing pains me more than acknowledging this series's demise (Hiatus?).
OBM always has these little nods in his videos. I caught that Power Rangers Zeo reference at 19:41
Man I really wish they would port this game to steam. It is one of the first jrpgs I ever played, and by far one of my favorites
My first JRPG too! Feel in love with the genre instantly
Notification squad Represent!
This game is awesome, and the nostalgia makes me cry a little. This game was from a time when I could hang out with my best friends a couple of times a week instead of a couple of times a year...
i happened to stumble upon a livestream for this game on tiktok so i just HAD TO KNOW WHAT WAS UP!!! gosh this game sounds so cool
Thank you TH-cam algorithm for fueling my Breath Of Fire 3 love.
Funny thing I started watching a TAS run of this last night!
Yay!!! I have been waiting for this! Thank you! 🙌🏽
Thank you so much for the recapitulation!
Feels like im playing this great game again back in my childhood. Thanks for the superb recap .
Highlights:
2:56-2:57-...What?
5:08-Research purposes, *again?!* Ok.
15:40-Another one bites the dust.
16:26-*Manly Tears!*
21:55-Spider-Man!
*Spider-Man appears to give advice as said in Family Guy*
Spider-Man: Everybody gets one.
24:32-*NIGHTMARE FUEL*
24:53-24:54-Whoa! Her sister? Didn’t see that coming.
*Bonus*
Belldandy is a much better Goddess than Myria.
Jrpgs love killing god
So, did no one else catch the Soul Calibur references in this summary? Haha
Thank you for these videos, by the way! So much nostalgia, not to mention your summaries have helped fill in more gaps in my memory/knowledge of these games than I realized I had.
Thank YOU for noticing the references 😁
@@OniBlackMage Those lines are too iconic to miss! Or maybe that particular fighter wasn't as popular as I originally thought :(
BoF3 is one of the best RPG's ever in my opinion and your patented recaptiation did it a great service. Thank you
Thanks for recap, got halfway through the game but had to bail, needed a short summary so i could see last half :)
This is my favourite game of all time, with the possible exception of Wild Arms or Alundra. I sunk hours and hours into this game when I was 12. I still remember how insanely happy I was on getting the Goo King Sword on my second encounter with the Goo King. Good times
this is one of those underrated jrpgs that you just have to play, i got lucky and got this game for 1$ at a yard sale when i was younger and this was prolly the best game ive ever found having no idea how legendary how this game was going to be lol
I swear I've not been getting notifications from you I can't believe I missed this. BoF3 is one of my favorite games and I've been waiting for this!
"The Dragons were SERIOUSLY WOUNDED, BUT THE SOUL STILL BURNS! FINAL BATTLE...... FIGHT!!!!!"
Whoever liked this dumb comment is a real OG. Soul Calibur FTW
This was an amazing recap! Thank you so much!!
Man. I miss this one very, very much.
Strangers of paradise pls.
This game's story still holds up really well since it's overarching story isn't a battle of good and evil. Evil exists in the world to be sure, but the source of the conflict isn't simply because of some villain trying to take over the world. In most any other story Myria would be revealed to just a controlling sociopath. In this game she instead turns out to be someone who actually does have good intentions, the problem is that she wants a world of stagnancy because she feels mortals can't be left to their own devices.
Myria's defeat even paints her in a sympathetic light as she wonders if everything she did was for nothing and how the world will survive without her.
And if BOF 4 is in the same timeline there is even merit to Myria's argument as the world is mostly desert there now.
Ummm Myria's a parasitic deity that lives off of the life energy siphoned from her followers, hence the zombie like people on the other side. She took out any who could stop her from turning the world into her personal plaything. She simply implies that she is trying to stop the desert but given the fact that it's always where they've lived makes that hard to believe. The first game Deis live in a floating castle in the desert (sound familiar) in the 2nd game her temple is still in the desert although not flying anymore. Coincidentally in the 3rd game Myria taken up residence in a flying castle in the desert and Deis is imprisoned... Hmmmm, sounds like Myria locked her sister up an is squatting in her castle. Unfortunately Myria needs prayers an followers for greater power an when you try to bring a bunch of people into a desert no matter how advanced they are the desert slowly kills them off. I feel like Myria by the end is suffering from a reverse of Stockholm syndrome where she's actually started to believe her lie that she's doing this all for "her children"
@@cac1700 but it's stated multiple times throughout 4 that it's taking place in a parallel universe separate from the first 3 games universe.
@@nobodyspecial115 The reverse of Stockholm Syndrome is actually called the Lima Syndrome.
@@dragonstormx ah didn't know it had it's own classification
Honestly the first BoF game I played, gotta thank the PSP for that
Wow I just watched your other breath of fire videos for the first time just two days ago, talk about perfect timing
Ahh, good ole BoF 3. I haven't spent as much time on this one as I have some of the other BoFs, I still love this one a lot. A coming of age tale, of learning that all actions have consequences, and sometimes the innocent suffer from actions undertaken with the best of intentions; also the importance of responsibility is touched upon powerfully right there at the end. Yggdrasil also accomplished his mission. At the very end of the game, we observe a sproutling of a new Yggdrasil tree, planted somewhere in the desert with the intent of spreading life to it once again.
Thank you for your RECAPitation. I'll rendezvous with you on the next battlefield.
Lulz I experienced throughout:
1.) ... walk in on the current McNeila getting some... nighttime exercise. This was a great, big lul.
2.) ... copious amounts of reference material for... research purposes. I giggled.
3.) ... the group makes some legendary shisu so good it makes grown men cry with national pride. Big lul.
The Music Bhain Chood, wow. My memories started flushing inn.. Wow
Love this game. I bought a PS1 physical copy after not playing it for fifteen years roughly, just as good as I remembered. I beat it a month ago and started it over again trying to get a better time and using different masters. There’s quite a bit of replay value, even just simply by changing up mains and masters. My team ended up very different this time, but not as good as my first playthrough. Go figure.
Should've added that Rei got back at Loki by attacking him for being set up in the past, haha. XD
THANKS so much for the review I remember I beat this game but the story was so bland cant remember any of it. Gunna do a Breath of fire binge and hopefully remember!
one of my absolute favorite games. may mains were ryu, rei and momo
I always thought all five games was on one world. Four is the prequel, shows how the gods came and how Myria was made. Then its one, two, and three. The world slowly turns into a desert after three which forces the humans underground. Peco slowly turns the surface back into a green world and that's when five takes place.
I always assumed this one was way past the 2nd game, Myria finally awoke so many centuries after Evan's defeat and instantly began her campaign to eliminate the Brood. With them gone her control was absolute. I always figured 500 years for her to awake an then 400 years of her rule puts BoF 3 about 900 years after BoF 2 an 1400 after the first game. If this series ever comes back they should do a prequel where the original hero an 7 companions lock Myria away with the goddess keys.
Nice! I must have missed the streams. That sucks. Must be subbed to too many channels, they all get muddled together in my head. Hopefully he enjoyed this more than BoF2, which was still a great game imho.
Wow it's been a while for a new one. Yey.
I never got past the desert section so it's good to know what happens after, thanks Oni!
Yeah there is a misstep or something in the directions you get or something but eventually I got past that damn desert of death. Its gunna kinda piss you off when you realize the teleporter in the container yard actually takes you across the desert but that damn shipping container is in your way and you can only break it from one side.....after you cross the desert.
This game single handedly shaped my love for pixel art and RPGs, and forced me to learn basic level english as a kid. Lovely characters, amazing story and cool dragons. An all time favourite of mine, and an actually great game to boot.
It pains me how much the series has fallen into oblivion. I'll never forgive Capcom for killing it so unceremoniously.
Also, the australian-pink-mecha-terrorist-dolphin is one of the greatest things ever created.
I've been waiting for this one for years. My favorite BoF game
i played this in the 90s, 1996, i think. its one of the best jrpgs of the era, bested only by ff6
New to this channel. This is good.
Just repurchased this for the PSP and PS1. It is *still* freaking amazing. I think the game plays a little smoother on the PS1, but the PSP version is fine - although when it comes to the PSP I think may run better on a 2000 or 3000 model. I remember it running worse on a PSP I had years ago, and that may have been a 1000 model which has less ram. That said, this along with Wild Arms and Wild Arms 2, I'd take these over the PS1 Final Fantasies any day. I want to get BoFIV here, but I was never as big on IV as I was III.
I love Peco he's an omniscient tree god, I always make him insanely powerful, I don't care if he starts at level 1.
I played this on PSP and loved it
I've been waiting for this one a long time.
Just the way Peco shot up in prominence was amazing to me.
The interesting thing is that the final boss for 3 is supposedly the mother of the final boss from 2. Although I don't know how that effects the timeline or not but figured I'd point that info out.
Strange, I remember a point in this story where the party got lost walking aimlessly for weeks in the desert... weird
This is my first BoF game and my most favorite. It's just too bad I never got to own a copy 😢. Capcom should release a BoF collection on consoles and on steam. I'm really dying to play them all again.
Aw man I missed the premiere of my favourite ps1 game's recapitation =(
Love these videos. Try putting some gameplay of you playing.
Ah my favorite game of all time ❤
One of my favorites, deserves to be on all systems.
The story sounded so much better than I remember it as a child.
I would like to see a properly done sequel to this game in the future, I dont care if it isn't from capcom since they seem to have their priorities somewhere else.
That or going back to the original hero an 7 companions who locked Myria away the first time using the 6 goddess keys an stopping the civil war between the light an dark dragon clans.
Man I loved this game as a kid.
i feel so sad for Gar. ;n; I wish we could've saved him from his stone sleep and take him with us as we escaped... He did not deserve to die... He deserved to live and see the changed world as imho he redeemed himself... ;w;
I always felt that his race could simply go into a deep slumber until summoned again by their goddess, then again he wanted to be atoned for his war crimes and sins despite the good actions taken to help Ryu to find the truth, he could had stayed longer with the team, however I respect his decision by the end, he sure was a chad of a individual
I've been waiting for this!
What Ryu is your favorite:
Scion (1)
Warrior (2)
Paladin (3)
Mystic (4)
Freelancer (5)
The Adventure of Paladin Ryu
They don’t make them like this anymore. This is my favorite game tied at 1st place with Chrono trigger.
I played this game A LOT back in the day. So many fond memories. I know exactly where I bought this game. It was random. I don’t know what I wanted. But I knew I was going to buy a game before I left. It was 40$ At a Best Buy. In the 90’s the video game aisle was huge. If you didn’t read about the game in a magazine. You took a chance by the cover art and reading the summary on the back.
Garr never said "time to die". that was a translation error in the game. When Garr became stone, his last words were "finally, peace".
TEEPO!! Q_Q Why do the best always have to die?
I wish there was a way to save Teepo.
If you think about it, each game in the series has a "Teepo". Bof1 had Alan and Cerl but especially Jade. Bof2 had Ray the premiere of the Church of St. Eva. Bof4 of course has Fau Lu. This type of character has a "duty" to be likable yet to the hero's opposition in writing. If you care that they died in a given story you find them in, they were written right! ^_^
My man!
Damn bought this in 98 and put it down, finished the game the last few days.
This game feels like a sequel to Breath of Fire 1 and the Breath of Fire 4 feels like a prequel since it seems to resemble the age of technology
I believe the order goes 4>1>2>3, with Dragon Quarter being set in an alternate timeline.
I tried beating this game at least 3 times but my save file always disappeared for some reason, I was WAY too young to understand the whole concept of this story thank you for your recap!
recapitation, i like that
rei has always been my favorite character in bofIII
Man this game was long... I need to play it again
Best rpg of all time undoubtedly
It is definitely a distant sequel to the second game.
It even has a literal recurring party member.
This is the best one, THE BEST ONE! Series goes downhill from here, 4 is a step down, 5 had them kinda step to the side and accidentally tumble off an f ing cliff and the series has been dead ever since, don't even see them in cameos.
4:06 Imagine how much hassle could've been saved if Nina wasn't a complete idiot lol
Such an underappreciated series. If there's anything I want capcom to bring back, it is Breath of Fire. Breath of Fire 2 was my childhood RPG alongside Baldur's Gate. They introduced the genres of JRPG and WRPG to me respectively. While I love Breath of Fire 2 for nostalgia's sake, I think Breath of Fire 3 is possibly the best in the series. 4 is almost as good, it certainly isn't as 'traditional' as 3 but I still love it. 5, is controversial, but I absolutely loved it. Dragon Quarter might be my favourite depending on the day of the week, it is either that or 3. I love how the theme of a dark, depressing, harsh, unfair, cruel world is replicated in the extremely punishing dungeon crawler gameplay (alongside the best OST in the series) but I understand that it isn't everyone's cup of tea. 2 is a better version of 1 and let's forget 6 exists.
I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one who liked Dragon Quarter, I really felt that it took part in a parallel universe were the war between the dragon clans took a severe curbstomp unlike number 1 where things got fixed eventually. And number 6 , yeah let's forget that even existed.
My favourite rpg and i wish they would make more.
An honest to God breath of fire 5!!! Not dragon quarter a breath of fire tale but BREATH OF FIRE 5!!!
@@Lownamebrand I really liked BOF5. But it felt more like a spin off series. BOF3 will always be #1. This recap was awesome btw.
I thought you did one for BOF 3 before, Im surprised you haven't
YES!!!! FINALLY!!
Thank you so much
IMO?
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BoF3 is at least a sequel to BoF1 because of the mural. I'm of the impression that it's likely a sequel to BoF2 as well because Mikba is a member of the demon clan which are of Deathevan's making so Deathevan must have come before Mikba. However, there is the question of the guardians and stone sleep. I mean if Myria dies and the Guardians petrify? Well there's reason to believe if Deathevan dies then perhaps something happens to members of the demon clan. Then again is Deathevan truly dead? It's implied he isn't at the end of BoF2. Then again, is Myria even truly dead? It's not like her defeat in BoF1 permanently got rid of her, so what's truly different this time around? It's all hard to say.
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It's really hard to rank the BoF games. The first game is really bland in the character and plot department, but for it's time it was good. BoF2 has a lot of problems in the plot department but it did a lot better in characterization. BoF3 is even better in characterization and while it's a marked improvement in the plot compared to BoF2 it's plot is still weak. BoF4 is perhaps a half-step down in the characterization department but it's plot is much better. Dragon Quarter is probably the best in the series--I know, controversial opinion--but it's plot and characterization is far better for only having three main characters to juggle, it's setting is immersive and compelling, and I could gush on and on about it but I'll just set DQ to the side.
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If you had to put a gun to my head and make me rank them? I'd probably rank BoF3 at the top because it's initial quest is so compelling. You really do care for Rei and Teepo and when they're just taken from you like that and the duo responsible keep instigating conflict... I mean it's hard not to be invested. It's just Balio and Sunder is the little engine keeping the story going and the second they're wiped from the board... things start moving at a snail's pace. Rhapala doesn't help either. Pure filler area.
BoF4 has the bare bones of that same initial quest. Ryu3 was on a quest to search out where Rei and Teepo are? Well Nina and Cray are on a quest to search out for their loved one too with Elena--only problem is that as Ryu3 you got to personally get invested in Teepo and Rei and Ryu4 is literally just found on the side of the road and has zero personal connection with Nina and Cray and we don't get any time with Elena to get to know her, care for her, and get invested in finding her. It just doesn't work as well. Nevertheless, the climax in BoF4 blows BoF3's climax right out of the water, IMO.
BoF2 is second to last.
BoF1 is last.