Breath of Fire IV pt 2

Author's Note: This is being written months away from the game. Coming back I realized I never completed this. So here goes nothing.

Chambra. It's freakin' desolate. There's a bunch of workers that are trying to clean out the city from the "hex" a magical based weapon that apparently causes purple smoke. And DEATH. Or poison or something. So after some wandering around, no one wants to help you. Because they're normal freakin' people, helping complete strangers clean up their town so they can live there, and not helping 3 random dudes get through town.
The view switches to the outside of the gate, something lurking closer....
and closer.....
and closer....
and BOOM!
Enter Ershin, The asexual robot that speaks only in third person. So after persuading said robot to your cause, the rush through poison town is real. Trials and tribulations of typical JRPG fare await and you end up on the other side. Also, you're chased by a dragon, worm, wyrm thing. See what I did there?
You end up at a dam. Ryu and company cross it. Dragon is still there and breaks the dam with the party escaping just in the nick of time. There's a cutscene that involves the cliffs and seeing the dragon thing again. I don't remember why. It happens.
The next town is Kyria. It's freakin' awful. Think of the Hunger Games compared to Battle Royale. Now think of Home Alone compared to Kyria. Pits of doom, bear traps, explosives and cages. What the actual..... anyway,  super lame.
After pulling a few stints of B&E you enter the Mayor's house and get trapped in a cage where Ryu has an ever so eloquent conversation with a Parrot. Main Character? Check. Intelligence? Swing and a miss.
After said discussion, the team goes to the nearby woods to find Mr. Mayor. But, puzzles galore await. In this instance, you gotta chase a bird pig thing into the forest to find this jerk. After the arbitrary ::mic voice activated:: BOSSSSSSSS BAATTTTTLLLLEEEEE::: you go back to town, and speak with Senor Mayor. His helpful tidbit? Yeah, sure bro, there's an underground tunnel that allows you entrance to the town of Synesta.
Thanks guy....
Synesta is a lovely desert town, that has seen better days. Torn apart from war, there is now a run down orphanage being run by a nun. The kids run amok and apparently have free reign.
There's a not so optional minigame of hide and seek where you have to hunt down the little vagrants.
I may not remember as much of this story as I thought when I started this post, but you know what I do remember? These mini games SUCK. This was a huge pain in the ass.
After hunting down all the kids, you go and realize one of the little miscreants is hiding in the abandoned dungeon. After finding the dog-boy, he tells you that Nina's sister had come in to the orphanage to help. I totally forgot that the whole premise of this game started with looking for her. Because the amazing party to save the world obviously needs to be everybody's slave first. What happens next you ask?
You fight a musclehead boss. Because. BOSSSSSS BATTTTTLLLEEEEE.
After some serious pwnage you talk to a mob boss that dresses like a pirate and he sends you on grunt work. Go steal back stuff that was stolen from him, then clean up his warehouse. All while leaving poor Nina with Marlok. There's a lot to be read from the context provided here, but I'll let you figure it out on your own should you care.
I can't believe I'm still writing this. I'm definitely going to be more diligent because this is getting ridiculous.  To be continued

Breath of Fire IV Part I

So you start this game as a winged chick (Princess Nina) and a Man Tiger (Cray). They're rollin' across the desert (smokin' endo sippin' on gin and juice)  on a landspeeder ala star wars that's slightly more pirate-y. I'm into this. Neat atmosphere, and the change from the Dragon dude to birdy chick is day to night contrast. Some talking ensues about finding her sister. I forgot her name. We'll call her TalonClaw.

I might have gotten the order kinda twisted. This is from memory and I played this part like a month ago.  ANYWAY, the ground starts shaking and OUT COMES A..... giant.... fleshlight dragon. SAIL AWAY! Oh noes!! The ship crashed. And is broken.
Well, Mr tiger needs to stay behind to guard the crashed sandflier so bandits don't get it. (I despise those Jawas. Disgusting creatures). Let's send the princess to go find help. Because royalty knows how to interact with the lower echelon. This totes can't go wrong.
So anyway princess birdfeather travels through an expansive desert . She comes across a merchant that gets sucked into a sink hole. So she looks over the edge to see, and FALLS IN. Then she gets attacked by a scary dragon-werewolf looking thing. She has wings. She fell in a hole. A HOLE.

Anyway, the dragon roars and flies off. She notices a naked dude. (The main character? who I'm 73.67 percent sure was just birthed from the dragon thing. Anywho, he gets dressed and doesn't really know his shit so Nina's all, "you're a completely perfect stranger that I don't know, but SURE come hang with me it'll be mad netflix and chill." They leave and travel through this giant ass desert of death (there are monsters and bugs and lots of SUN).
During one scene Nina plummets like a brick down a cliff. Ryu jumps down after her, only to pass by here because she used her wings. They bond.
Using the moon as a framing device, the camera switches to this badass emperor dude (Fou Lu) that's a dragon who's like a billion years old. Older than Christ would potentially apply, but that involves Christ being in this universe, and as of yet, that's not super feasible. This dude is awesome. I killed lots of T Rexes like they were nothing. Oh... I'm the legendary Dragon of Doom. I also speak in shakespearean tongue.  I'm being hunted by the imperial army of the time like I had the hidden plans for the Death Star. The woods are set on fire in a hope that *that* will kill me. I mean, C'mon, if I'm a super old king dragon dude, who the hell thought it was a good idea to be like, "let's use fire!!" That's like giving a chemo patient hair clippers for a congrats on losing your hair from radiation present. Bad Ass God Emperor gets trapped on a rope bridge. By Yohm General of the Imperial Army who uses an ifrit style summon to knock me off the bridge...fade to black...

Back to Nina and Ryu... they come to a town, and after some wandering due to both camera and control issues, I end up in a bar. 'Barkeep fetch me some sandflier parts!"
Nah bro, this is a bar. We serve beverages. and food.

*fuzziness of the memory for a bit*

You get in a fight with some dude, and ultimately end up going behind the bar to the "black market". Worst black market ever. Dude literally in the supply closet of the bar. Cops would NEVER think to look there. He's all like, go into the desert ship grave yard and get your own stuff. So, you do.
(I was wrong, bar fight happens after you collect the parts and come back)
BOSS FIGHT!!!
You're literally fighting a genie from the bottle lookin' guy. KICK HIS ASS BRO!!!
ftw.

Ryu jumps in and attacks Boss Genie's master. After slashing at him, you and Nina GTFO quick!
The party finds themselves in the middle of the desert being closed in by Imperial troops. How the hell did the army find you to be able to surround you? This seems like a serious misuse of manpower. A merchant that you helped at the bar comes to your rescue and smuggles you out to a town called Chamba. Deus Ex Machina.