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  reggie wrote:

  Breath of Fire II is a console role playing game developed and published by Capcom in 1994. The game was licensed to Laguna for the European market and was published in 1996. The game is a sequel to Breath of Fire I and was later on released for the Game Boy Advance. The game was also ported on Nintendo’s Virtual Console Wii in 2007 in North America.

The story is set 500 years after the original Breath of Fire, and focuses on an orphan named Ryu Bateson, whose family suddenly disappeared long time ago. His friend is falsely accused of crime and therefore the main character embarks on a journey to clear his name and to find out what happened to his lost family.

The game features two-dimensional character sprites and environments, players viewing the game from a top-down perspective. They can move the characters in four different directions across the map, including in towns and dungeons. The playable characters can interact with non-playable characters on the map and have to battle enemies to advance through the game.

The game brings in a redesigned text-based menu, compared to the first installment, which featured an icon-based menu. There is also a new Monster Meter indicating the chance of meeting monsters in a given area on the map. Players can’t choose their own path, they will have to follow a pre-set route dictated by the story and therefore encounter many enemies along the way. The player can’t advance if the opponent is not defeated.

New characters come along with Ryu as the game progresses, but only four may be in a party at a given time, just like in the previous installment. Each character has their unique Personal Action that can be performed outside a battle. This allows players to access areas, destroy objects, move around the game easier or avoid traps.

The game features a new town-building option, which allows the player to populate their village with special characters found in the game. Characters have their own jobs and can be invited to live in houses. The game features six different Shamans, each of them having an elemental alignment. Up to two may be used in the same time. If Ryu joins a Shaman, he will become stronger and will have access to more information within a battle.

The original version for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was popular and scored good feedback on the internet. No less than 623 users on GameSpot rated the game with 8.6, while five critics were a bit harsher and offered the game a rating of7.9 out of 10.

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