Difference between revisions of "Breath of Fire IV"

Revision as of 14:53, 25 January 2013

Recapper(s):	Ben
Begun:	7.27.03
Latest:	6.6.11
Status:	Active
See also:	Breath of Fire IV cast

Summary

Relevant recap ships:

• Hamlet/Hagrid
• (Canon) Ruley/Sandy and Clay/Elina

Notes/memes:

• Silent Hero
• One-note character (Clay and his obsession with finding Elina)
• Fetch quests within fetch quests
• Mandatory minigames / minigame overload (oh so much)
• Missing princess (go originality!)
• Wow, my Nina/Sandy hate was pretty over-the-top in earlier recaps (and some references sound uncomfortably misogynistic…ugh)
• Black screen of…
• Fluent in Wankese (Sandy)
• Pretentious text overlays
• And now for someone completely different! (the multiple viewpoint switches between Ruley and Hamlet)
• Old English (much of Hamlet's dialogue)
• Infuriating camera angles
• I can write a rainbow! / Coloured Text of Importance
• It also represents a penis (the Carronade, multiple dragons, etc)
• Everyone is a total spaz
• Comic-relief character with hidden depths (TikTok)
• Haven't we had this conversation before? (anything Clay says)
• Poisonously poisonous poison (hexed Chamba)
• Deceptively-deadly enemy (Toxic Flies. Ugh)
• Filler dungeons
• Redundant tutorials ("Here's how to rotate the analog stick! Listen carefully now!")
• The Trappings of Traps (Kyria is full of them)
• Random accent (the Australian parrot in Kyria)
• Ineffectual bodyguard (Kahn the Crack Addict)
• Speaking in the third person (TikTok)
• Evil Empire
• Contrived coincidences ("Oh, are you the aqueduct repairmen? Come on in!")
• Absurdly amazing character (Scias)
• Too dumb to live ("Hmm, how to get down from this high tree? If only I had wings…")
• Furries