Nearly 25 years later, cult classic PS1 JRPG Breath of Fire 4 returns to PC thanks to over 23,000 fans who voted for its comeback

Screenshot from Breath of Fire 4's intro cutscene, showing a black haired anime girl in red armor frowning.
(Image credit: Capcom)

Nearly 25 years after its first release, cult classic JRPG 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Breath of Fire 4 is back thanks to 23,000🅘 fans who champi𒉰oned its return.

CD Projekt-owned digital storefront GOG just announced that a new batch of classics have come to the platform as part of its game preservation initiative, which previously gave us re-releases of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:first three Resident Evils, the two Dino Crisis games, OG Diablo, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Monolith Productions' F.E.A.🦩R. (RIP).

Good Old Games has now enshrined Ultima Underworld 1 and 2, Ultima 9: Ascension, Worms Armageddon, Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood, Realms of the Haunting, Tex Murphy: Under a Kꦿilling Moon, Stonekeep, and most notably, Breath of Fire 4 on PC.

Capcom's be🧸loved but oft-forgotten turn-based series managed to stand out in the subgenre's very crowded golden age, but they we🧸re never huge sales successes, prompting the publisher to put the series on ice for years. Nowadays, you can play the first two SNES entries with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, though Breath of Fire 3 and 4 are much harder to come by unless you can dig out a PS1 and pay extortionate fees for an old copy of the classics.

How come the fourquel gets a GOG release and the others don't? Well, Breath of Fire 4 was the only one that enjoyed a limited PC release back in the early 2000s, makꦦing this much easier to pull off since GOG itself doesn't have the legal rights🧸 to fully port an SNES/PS1 series to new platforms. Plus, around 23,000 fans voted for it to make a comeback via , which lets players have a say too.

In case you're not in the know, GOG's ♕preservation effort provides "convenience and compatibility with modern systems, even if the original developers of the game do not support it anymore," and everything is DRM-free, so you can play it without an internet connection or spe𓄧cific launchers.

includes both English and Japanese localization, full support for most modern controllers, improved mini-games, new rendering options, and much more for $10. Hopefully it does well enough for Capcom to consider a full remaster in the vein of the recent Suikoden or 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Lunar collections.

For now, check out some of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best JRPGs of all time.

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