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The original game in the long-running ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' series, released on the [[Super NES]] in April 1993 in Japan and August 1994 for North America. It was later ported out to the [[Game Boy Advance]] in July 2001 in Japan and December 2001 in Europe and North America, with updated [[Character Portrait|Character Portraits]], a dash button, graphical upgrades on the menu screen and a trade option between games (complete with a few new items as bonus).
Being the first game on the series, its story is not as ambitious as following sequels:
Cut to many, many years after:
One aspect who's well known about this game is the story behind its localization:
There exists a [[Breath of Fire/Characters|character sheet]] for the series. Place any character-related tropes there.
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* [[Abusive Precursors]]: The feuding Dragon Clans who brought about the Goddess War.
* [[Always Night]]: When it comes to Goddess keys, [[Meaningful Name|Bleak]] definitely got the short end of the stick.
* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The American release replaced the anime inspired box art with something vaguely resembling Conan.
* [[And Now for Someone Completely Different]]: Nina is introduced with her going on a quest of her own, accompanied by two [[Spear Carrier|guards]]; later on,
* [[Asteroids Monster]]: The SlimeX boss.
** Actually, this is an inverted version of that. It starts out as three slime monsters; when you defeat all three, they [[Fusion Dance|merge]] into one large one.
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* [[Bowdlerise]]: Minor details, mostly concerning the [[Sidequest|Side Quests]] on Auria: one bar patron's hangover is changed to a '[[Alcohol Hic|case of the hiccups]]', while a [[Dirty Old Man]]'s request for a massage is rendered more or less nonsuggestively.
* [[Broken Bridge]]: Everywhere! Literal cases includes the bridge following Tantar/Tuntar, the bridge on Guts and the small bridge before Scande. Other examples include a frozen waterfall and an underwater chasm.
** The worst would have to be arriving at the Big Bad's lair, Scande... only to find that the [[Broken Bridge|one working elevator]] is broken. Mind you, the Dark Dragons can simply fly up to Zog's tower if they wish, but it's still conspicuous how they don't just fix it themselves.
* [[Build Like an Egyptian]]: The desert tomb of Krypt.
* [[But Thou Must!]]: ''Repeatedly!''
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** [[Canon Immigrant]]: The two [[No Name Given|nameless]] guards on the game were given names in the GBA port, taken from two characters from ''Princess of the Wings'', Sieg and Raifel.
* [[Cave Behind the Falls]]: The waterfall in Spring Town.
* [[Chain of Deals]]: Several instances through the game, particularly the Auria arc:
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Two instances: the robed guy who keeps popping up to help the party {{spoiler|is revealed to be Jade, helping you overthrow Zog}}, while in Tunlan, {{spoiler|the Nina look-alike ends up being Nina after time travel shenanigans
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]:
* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: Two, under the subtitles ''The Dragon Warrior'' and ''Princess of The Wing''. There's also an [[Spin-Off]] pseudo-sequel
* [[Compressed Adaptation]]: ''The Dragon Warrior'' manga adaptation, which crams most of the game's main plot into 6 chapters, leaving out several events while meshing together others. Most notably, the existence of the Four Devas (Jade's [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]) is mentioned, but only one out of the 4 (Mote/Sigmund) makes an actual appearance.
* [[Creepy Child]]: Tyr's initial form. The concept art takes it to [[Nightmare Fuel|ridiculous extremes...]]
* [[Degraded Boss]]: Usually the less important ones (Gremlin, PincherX, the three dragon tests, SlimeX...).
* [[Desperation Attack]]: When low on health, the characters will speed up their attacks.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: ..did the party save Ox from near death by ''kicking the crap outta death itself''!?
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* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: Zog's throne room at Scande. Also, the [[Captain Obvious|Goddess Tower]].
* [[Far Side Island]]: Upon [[Stuff Blowing Up|blowing up]] the Dark Dragon ship and jumping overboard, the whole party is marooned on this. And the only way out is to pay Gobi [[Adam Smith Hates Your Guts|1000000 GP]].
** [[Cutscene Incompetence|Despite the fact that Nina can cast]] [[Warp Whistle|Warp
* [[Fiction 500]]: The town of Auria is literally paved with gold, due to its proximity to the Light Key.
* [[Five-Bad Band]]:
** [[
** [[The Big Bad]]: Zog.
** [[The Dragon]]: Jade {{spoiler|([[The Starscream|at first]])}}.
** [[The Evil Genius]]: Both Cort ([[Mad Scientist|
** [[The Brute]]: Goda.
** [[The Dark Chick]]: Cerl {{spoiler|(until her change of heart)}}.
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]: Ryu.
** [[The Lancer]]: Bo.
** [[The Smart Guy]]: Deis/Bleu.
** [[The Big Guy]]: Ox.
** [[The Chick]]: Nina.
* [[Flying Seafood Special]]: At first, they appear underwater, so it's not so rare... but when they start coming out on dry land, well...
* [[The Goomba]]: Nine times out of ten, your first random battle from leaving Drogon at the beginning of the game will be up against a blue Slime with an HP of 12, and Ryu at Level 1 can defeat each Slime with one attack. Later on, the party may encounter a gold version of the Slime with ten times the HP. Although the P.Bugs have 8 HP, they are more annoying as they may poison a party member.
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: The Goddess Keys. Nabbing one will result in a triumphant [[Item Get]].
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* [[Healing Spring]]: Drinking off these restores everything.
* [[I Have Your Wife]]: The Dark Dragons kidnapped all women on Ox's hometown to force the men into building them a weapon.
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: The battle with
* [[Immortality Immorality]]: Tunlan's queen was charmed by Zog into giving the Goddess key in her possession with the prospect of eternal youth.
** It is also the ambition of the [[Evil Sorcerer|Wizard]] from Karma Tower.
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** You can deposit some of them in the bank, however, if you need to free some inventory space.
* [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]]: Mote's stitch is to capture his targets into a dreamworld of his creation. He does this twice (once to Mogu, later to the whole party), and it eventually leads to a [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]].
* [[Late Character Syndrome]]: Mogu comes out quite late on the story, and since he has very little redeeming qualities, he tends to be stuck on the back.
* [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]]:
* [[Merchant City]]: Prima, [[Underwater City]] home of the [[Proud Merchant Race]].
* [[Mistaken for Spies]]
* [[Mock Guffin]]: The anticlimatic 'Book of Thieves' hidden in Krypt's basement. The logic being: if he's made it that far, Karn is ''already'' the world's greatest thief, and therefore doesn't need a handbook.
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Starts out the trend. Two endings, depending on {{spoiler|if you get the last dragon form and use it on the last boss
* [[Mysterious Informant]]: The nameless, cloaked man who periodically shows up whenever your party hits a [[Broken Bridge]].
* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: Mote's
** Another one counts also as a [[Prophetic Name]] and [[Bilingual Bonus]] in Japan:
** If you live in a town called [[Night of the Living Dead|Romero]], don't be surprised if zombies come out at night, just sayin'.
* [[Noob Cave]]: Camlon Castle.
* [[Ominous Floating Castle]]
* [[Our Founder]]: Camlon is the very first [[Adventure Towns|Adventure Town]] Ryu visits. When he returns in the game's second half, the populace have erected a statue of Ryu in the square.
* [[Palette Swap]]: Like the Slime mentioned above, enemies from the random battles encountered early in the game may re-appear later-on in different colours, and more tougher than their cousins.
* [[Peninsula of Power Leveling]]: The island where Pagoda is found.
* [[Planet of Hats]]: Most of the tribes are overspecialized in one job: Gobi's clan is a [[Proud Merchant Race]], Ox's clan is a [[The Blacksmith|tribe of blacksmiths]], Bo's clan is a [[The Hunter|hunting clan]], etc...
* [[Playing Both Sides]]:
* [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]]:
* [[Plot Coupon That Does Something]]: Out of the six Goddess Keys, only 3 can be used in-game: the Light and Dark Key switches daytime/nightime, and the Earth Key mimics an earthquake attack.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Poor {{spoiler|Cerl
** In ''The Dragon Warrior'' manga, {{spoiler|Jade gets one as well}}, paired with a [[Together in Death]] with {{spoiler|his lover Sara
* [[Sequence Breaking]]: After you get Karn, you can open any locked door.
* [[Ship Level]]: The Dark Dragons' galleon.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The leader of the golden city Auria is named Rosewater in the original, from the main character of [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s story
** Sieg and Rai on the GBA port can be seen as one too.
** Arguably, but the sprite for the various town chiefs is suspiciously similar to [[Mega Man (video game)|Dr. Wily]].
* [[Shout-Out Theme Naming]]: Bo's
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: Ryu meets
* [[Take Over the World]]: Zog's a rather typical [[Evil Overlord]].
* [[The Three Trials]]: There are [[Rule of Three|three]] shrines where Ryu is put to a test before having his dragon forms unsealed. {{spoiler|The fourth and final dragon form, interestingly, requires no such trial and is granted instantly
* [[Time Stands Still]]: Cerl places this curse over the town of Carmen.
* [[Tragic Monster]]:
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: The fate of those who piss Mote off.
* [[Turns Red]]: ''Every freaking boss'' has a secondary, '''[[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|invisible]]''' lifebar once the first one is depleted, often twice as large as the original.
* [[Video Game Geography]]: Type 1 "toroid".
** [[Wrap Around]]
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifter]]: Ryu and his dragon morphs, Karn and his [[Fusion Dance]] magic, plus
* [[War Was Beginning]]: The prologue establishes that the Dark Dragons are bad news.
* [[Weather Control Machine]]: The Sky Key and, by extension, the Spyre where it is located.
* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Juda offers this at one point to the party. [[But Thou Must!|Even if you accept, you can't do nothing but stand still
* [[Wretched Hive]]: Bleak. [[Inn Security|Even the Inn]] isn't safe.
* [[Yoko Shimomura]]: Composed part of the music.
* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]:
* {{spoiler|[[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: As if anyone thought Zog would be the end}}...
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