Originally Posted by
Lord Chainsaw
I rather liked the story of Breath of Fire II. It represents a conflict of traditional lifestyle values versus bigger and better ideas and doctrines that sound too good to be true (and usually are).
Breath of Fire II represents the ultimate scam and weighs in on the priority of values. It's a game that makes you decide whether it would be in your best interest to forsake your homely belief and adapt to a change simply for the sake of it sounding a bit better off than your current scenario, despite the fact that you will have to renounce everything that defined your old traits. It's about loyalty, and the compromises one must make. All religions cannot offer the greatest answers to every universal question, or else we'd only have one universal religion.
Regarding the villainous party, in Breath of Fire II it is very clear cut. We have a pretty good idea of what the big pyramid scheme is towards the end, and who's on the evil side. Extending the theme to reality will reveal the villain not to be this obvious, but for all purposes of the video game, they do a very good job of using the final boss as the very incarnation of all that is wrong with those zealot scams we see so much every day.
Indulgences? Scientology? Pretty good stuff.
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