Nice piece. And man, it brought back memories!
I really miss this series. It could really have the potential to be the ff of capcom...
To bad that this title, the 5th one, wasn't their best... tbh takingaway the dragon powers was really a bad idea. And yes, I do know you could still tf, but to have to hold back... hope somebody might revive the title in the future.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I have all the titles in this series, minus the 6th one which was a Japan-only mobile game. I really only got this one to say I had the whole series, but I did play it. It had some good potential, but lacked the uniqueness of Breath of Fire. No dragon forms, no quirky characters, no anthros really, no minigames, and can't remember if there were any cameos of characters from other games in the series. It felt kinda like ordering a steak dinner but getting a hamburger by itself. Fine, but very disappointing.

Actually the only people like Easter eggs were the fairies. Which they also had the mini game with the ants to unlock secret boss.... but still...ants... really...??
The 5th game could have potential, if it stick to the basic formula of 6 heroes, and dragon forms. The setting might have been darker, but still it was a decent enough story. The thing is, companies do tend to "test" new things, which is cool and all, as this plays part in creating new things, but no matter what, they must not forget the core that made their franchises known too. If you take the core of the title, then yeah, the next title will be a fail...