Recap by Ben.
Summary
| Recap terminology | |
| Game term | Recap term |
| Dragon | Non-Dragon |
| World Map | Not!WorldMap |
| Minigame | Minitorture |
| Carronade | Cockonade |
Relevant recap ships:
- Hamlet/Hagrid
- (Canon) Ruley/Sandy and Clay/Elina
See also: Breath of Fire IV cast.
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