Nintendo ended the VC with the Wii U and 3DS, and considering NSO downloads only provide for temporary ownership for subscribers (as in, as long as they’re subscribing), there’s no way to own them on their current platform. The first two games have only been rereleased through Nintendo’s Virtual Console and Nintendo Switch Online services. It’s possible there wouldn’t be any way to play most of the BoF titles these days if it wasn’t for retro gaming services. The games are more difficult to play on modern platforms than they should be, proof that even one of the most port-happy publishers around is far from perfect at preserving their software library. They’re unwilling to do the same for the Breath of Fire series to the same extent, but should do so given the quality of each game in the series. They’ve done the same for other franchises like Mega Man (kept alive solely through rereleases at one point), Street Fighter, and Devil May Cry. I can’t count the number of times each Resident Evil game, for instance, has been rereleased for several consoles across generations.
It’s no secret that Capcom rereleases games a lot. This is all great, but it raises another question: What about rereleasing the games? Word has it that if a Breath of Fire post lacks Tatsuya Yoshikawa’s art, it’s bad. The Steam versions are DRM free, and it’s difficult to complain about the $8 price. Capcom hasn’t been a stranger to releasing some BoF soundtracks in the last few years, previously doing so for the first three games through their official store as DRM-free MP3s, but the offer was too good to last (the link to them is dead now). Capcom released a good batch of soundtracks on Steam a couple of weeks ago, with the Breath of Fire soundtracks being the most notable among them - news brought to the Damage Control staff’s attention by Angela in our Discord channel (feel free to join!).
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