Breath of Fire
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Genre(s) | Role-playing |
Developer(s) | Capcom |
Publisher(s) | Capcom |
Creator(s) | Yoshinori Kawano Tokuro Fujiwara Makoto Ikehara |
Platform(s) | SNES, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Portable, Android, iOS |
First release | Breath of Fire April 3, 1993 |
Latest release | Breath of Fire 6 February 24, 2016 |
Breath of Fire[a] is a role-playing video game series developed by Capcom. It originated on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993. The series has recurring characters and ambiguous continuity; though each game is its own self-contained story, the names of the two lead characters are usually Ryu and Nina.[1]
The story commonly involves an adventurer named Ryu (name usually changeable) who can
Games
Main series
Title | Original release date | ||
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Japan |
North America |
PAL region | |
Breath of Fire | April 3, 1993 | August 10, 1994 | December 14, 2001 (Game Boy Advance) |
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Breath of Fire II | December 2, 1994 | December 10, 1995 | April 25, 1996 |
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Breath of Fire III | September 11, 1997 | April 30, 1998 | October 8, 1998 |
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Breath of Fire IV | April 27, 2000 | November 28, 2000 | August 3, 2001 |
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Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter | November 14, 2002 | February 16, 2003 | November 28, 2003 |
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Breath of Fire 6: Hakuryū no Shugosha-tachi | February 24, 2016 | none | none |
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Mobile games
Beginning in November 2003, Capcom began releasing Breath of Fire titles specifically for
Music
The music of each Breath of Fire games has traditionally been produced by rotating members of Capcom's in-house sound team. While the themes from first game were composed by five members of the company's sound team Alph Lyla, which included Yasuaki Fujita, Mari Yamaguchi, Minae Fuji, Yoko Shimomura and Tatsuya Nishimura, the second game's score was produced entirely by fellow company composer Yuko Takehara.[9] Breath of Fire III's soundtrack took a jazz-inspired approach, and was written by the team of Yoshino Aoki and Akari Kaida, with the music of Breath of Fire IV provided solely by Aoki herself. For the first time in the series, the music of Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter was created by an outside employee, Hitoshi Sakimoto, with Yasunori Mitsuda serving as music producer on the project.[10]
In March 2006, Capcom released the 11-disc Breath of Fire Original Soundtrack Special Box
Reception
Game | First-year sales (Japan only) |
Famitsu | GameRankings | Metacritic |
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Breath of Fire | —
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—
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70%[12]
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79% (GBA Re-release)[13]
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Breath of Fire II | 350,000[14]
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—
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76%[15]
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81% (GBA Re-release)[16]
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Breath of Fire III | 425,000[17]
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28 / 40[18]
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74%[19]
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—
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Breath of Fire IV | 334,000[20]
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31 / 40[21]
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82%[22]
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83%[23]
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Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter | 140,073[24]
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32 / 40[25]
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78%[26]
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78%[27]
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As of the fifth game in the series, the Breath of Fire franchise has sold a total of 3.2 million units worldwide, with Capcom calling it their "best known and most successful role-playing game."
In May 2009, nearly seven years after the release of the latest game, Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, readers of Japanese Famitsu magazine voted the series 6th in the publication's survey of the Top 50 Most Wanted Game Sequels.[31] IGN would later name Breath of Fire the 4th greatest Capcom franchise of all time in June 2010, stating that "Though the Breath of Fire games evolved across the SNES to the PlayStation 2, the core held steadfast to Japanese RPG formulas – something that many gamers still celebrate."[32]
Series future
In a December 2008 interview with gaming website
Appearances in other media
Breath of Fire would later be featured in
Between August 26 - September 2, 2020, an online survey was held for
See also
- List of Japanese role-playing game franchises
Notes
References
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External links
- Breath of Fire Games at Curlie