Breath of Fire III/YMMV

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These things about Breath of Fire III are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.

  • Awesome Art: All sprites are hand drawn, with an insane amount of detail and commitment to making every frame on model but expressive. This is generally considered one of the game's better points.
  • Broken Base: Is the jazz-styled soundtrack a cool and unique break from the common orchestra or rock soundtracks of JRPG's, or is it ill-fitting, boring and just downright grating?
  • Game Breaker:
    • The hybrid-Rei form is incredibly fast and has a guaranteed crit-strike ability.
    • The Myrmidon is also ridiculously powerful, and both can be maintained longer than Kaiser. It also allows abuse of bonus EX turns with the Resist ability. Also, try this combination: Rei + Burglar Garb + Chain Formation.
    • Although it's only of any use in a TAS, you can get up to 32 hits with Super Combo, which at that point out-damages everything else in the game by a large margin. Even without superhuman speed and reflexes needed to reach the maximum hitcount, if you can land at least 8+ hits, it's still one of the most damaging attacks you can use before you gain access to the Warrior gene.
    • Focus makes your next attack do 2x damage. If your next attack happens to be the same dragon form's Aura spell, you get another 2x damage multiplier on top of that. He ends up doing 2,500+ damage, where even Garr is hitting for puny 300-400s. He does all of this, in a humanoid form, by punching the enemy. No wonder that the power of the Dragonhood is feared by Myria.
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: Deis' theme sounds suspiciously like Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger". "Falling Green" is a dead ringer for Chrono Trigger's "Secret of the Forest". The Game Over theme is basically Chrono Trigger‍'‍s Windy Scene's first notes repeated over and over.
  • Woolseyism: Some of the Dub Name Changes fall into this: the lumberjack Babadel was renamed like legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan, the traitorous Zurusuru was renamed like the Norse Mythology's god Loki, the generic-named Great Wise Tree and Dragon God were given mythological upgrades into Yggdrasil and Ladon and the crystal/fossil pieces found around were switched from "Ghost" to "Chrysm".
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