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Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
PlayStation 2
Released On: Feb 18, 2003
78
6.3
All Platforms
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
78
71% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
25% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
78
71% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
25% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
It’s nice to see the occasional role-playing game that isn’t formulaic, something that shows the developer took some time to create a plot worth living in a game worth playing. Dragon Quarter does that so surprisingly well and in so many different ways, it almost transcends the RPG genre.
The refreshing battle system is worthy of props.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 41 User Ratings
6.3
56% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
17% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
27% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 41 User Ratings
6.3
56% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
17% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
27% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
One of my personal favorite RPG's of all time, Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter has an engaging story and extremely fun combat. It was a bold decision to have the game step away from the formula of it's predecessors and take the series in a different direction and while many loyal fans of the series were disappointed by the changes, it'd be fair to say that had the game not been labelled a Breath of Fire game most of them wouldn't have had an issue.
This is most definitely a game intended to be played over and over again. Partly because unless you are extremely skilled, you aren't going to be able to get through the story on your first attempt due to certain boss battles being extremely difficult on the first play through and starting from the beginning or from your last save with some extra party exp to spread around can make all the difference and secondly in order to unlock all of the cut scenes to learn the entire story behind the events of the game.
The limiting of Ryu to a single dragon form when traditionally he had access to many different forms was a risky one but in my opinion it worked. Instead of having 50 or more forms of which you'd possibly use 5 or 6 throughout the entire game. DQ gives you a single extremely powerful, almost invulnerable form with the catch being that you can only use it so much until you die from it and have to start over from the beginning. It forces you to be strategic about using the form only for tough fights you wouldn't be able to beat otherwise rather than being cheap and using your dragon form for every fight.
Overall Dragon Quarter is a unique experience that changes up an old formula and adds an engaging story and likable characters to a new combat system like nothing any game had offered before it.
+ Great combat system
+ Engaging story
+ Excellent replay value
+ A bold step in a new direction for the series, it's different but by no means bad
- The holding back of certain story elements can leave the player confused as to why certain things happen until later runs through the game
- Environments are very repetitive, especially through the middle part of the game
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PlayStation 2
Played on PlayStation 2.
Gameplay: GOOD.
Story: GOOD.
Graphic: GOOD.
Music/Sound: GOOD.
Dialogue: GOOD.
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PlayStation 2
Short, sweet and tough as a bastard.
One of the most extraordinarily deep and innovative games I've ever experienced. [Apr 2003, p.84]
It’s certainly not going to convert RPG nay sayers, but fans of the genre should find something new here.
Good-looking stuff even if what most gamers will recall from their time with Dragon Quarter is being blinded by the darkness and a PSOne-sponsored shade of the color brown.
The pathetic attributes of this failed experiment are disgusting. Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter is a poor excuse for an RPG. It is an attempt at innovation, perhaps. But it can also be the lazy solution for a group of developers who didn't want to put in the time to make a quality RPG.
I do love Breath of Fire games but Dragon Quarter had an totally annoying mechanic. There was a counter when it reached 100 you died and there was no way going back. If you did not reach the end boss then you could never finish the game. If this death clock would not be in the game it would be one of the best Breath of Fire games ever. But this mechanic made me sell the game. Wish there would be an HD Remaster of this game but WITHOUT that death counter nonesense.
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PlayStation 2
One of the most disappointing RPGs I've ever played... You don't really feel anything for the characters, there is a reason to like or hate them but they are so lackluster in their detail and personality that you just don't want to get attached to a character from the start. The dialogue is almost as bad, nearly every conversation is irrelevant, terribly short or doesn't contribute to the story. The music is also very mediocre. Pivotal emotional moments fail terribly due to all I've stated so far. The pacing of the game is very irritating, some parts are drawn out way too far and having a turn-based battle system with tedious encounters you cannot avoid doesn't help, you just want to rush to the end of the game. Events occur and you just get thrown into action, the way the events occur are clearly not thought out well. There is little sense of direction in the game underground, it's just "we have to reach the surface".
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PlayStation 2
To describe this game as a disappointment would be quite the understatement. It's a game that attempts to be different for what feels like the sake of it at times, and offers not much from prior Breath of Fire games that I enjoyed. Combat is extremely sluggish and uninteresting and makes a lot of things aspects extremely simple almost too a fault. It doesn't feel like you can plan ahead or do much in the way of creative team building in the game due to how rigid the games mechanics are. Even when not looking at the game as a breath of fire game it struggles to provide any bit of enjoyment or intrigue. With half baked mechanics that struggle to capture any desire to continue playing.
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PlayStation 2
This game is nothing like its predecessors. It's monotonous, and guarantees that you will have to restart the game. If you die, you are given the option to restart the game, which you must to in order to keep getting strong enough to tackle the next obstacle. This is fine, however you are limited on how many times you can save! Your saves are as limited as the amount of save coins. The battle system is interesting. You move your characters around like a SRPG, but it doesn't have much function. You will find yourself running over a lot of traps and just dying.I had no desire to continue this game after getting the game over screen 5 separate times. This game is an insult to the Breath of Fire series. It feels incomplete. Worst RPG game I've played.
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PlayStation 2
Summary It's an epic quest of magical proportions. You live in another time... another place... devoid of all light sources. You are now part of the underground world. Foil your menacing enemies to reach your ultimate mission. Only you can discover the way out of the labyrinth-like dungeon that envelops you and your friends. Escape your undergro...
Rated T
for Teen
Platforms:
- PlayStation 2
Initial Release Date: Feb 18, 2003
Developer:
- Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
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