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Breath of Fire II
Developer	Capcom
Publisher	Capcom, Laguna
Designer	Tokuro Fujiwara (producer)
Released	Super Nintendo JPN December 2, 1994 NA December 10, 1995 EU April 25, 1996 Game Boy Advance JPN December 21, 2001 NA April 16, 2002 EU June 28, 2002 Virtual Console JPN June 26, 2007 EU August 10, 2007 NA August 27, 2007
Genre	Role-playing game
Mode(s)	Single player
Ratings	SNES ESRB: Kids to Adults (6+) Game Boy Advance ESRB: Everyone
Platform(s)	Super Famicom / SNES, Game Boy Advance, Virtual Console
Media	24-megabit Cartridge

Breath of Fire II (ブレスオブファイアII, Buresu obu Faia Tsū^?) is the second role-playing game in the Breath of Fire series. It was originally released for the Super Famicom in Japan in 1994 by Capcom. It was released in North America in 1995 by Capcom, before Laguna released it in Europe in 1996. It was later re-released for the Game Boy Advance in Japan under the name Breath of Fire II: Shimei no Ko, which translates to Breath of Fire II: The Fated Child. It was re-released in North America and Europe in 2002 under the original title. The game has been rated by the ESRB for release on Wii's Virtual Console; Nintendo of Europe's website mistakenly announced it for release on July 27th 2007, but was released two weeks later on August 10th 2007. The game was released on the Virtual Console in North America on August 27th, 2007.

Ryu, the protagonist, and his best friend Bow have recently been accepted into the ranger’s guild. They go on a few missions for the guild until Bow is accused of thievery and is forced into hiding. Ryu goes in search of the real thief to clear Bow’s name. His search takes him through several towns, each one having problems with demons. After helping the towns, one or two of the townspeople decide to join Ryu in his search. When they finally catch up to the thief, Ryu has a large number of friends.

With Bow’s freedom restored, Ryu is free to consider another problem. The demons that Ryu fought are part of a plot by a cult called St. Eva's Church to take over the world and Ryu must find a way to foil the cult. Ryu decides that he and his friends need to attack the headquarters of the church. They travel to the island that the headquarters are on, and confront the high priest. The priest releases many demons on the group as he makes his escape.

The party is able to defeat the demons, with few casualties, and go after the priest. When they find him, he is trying to open an ancient seal that is keeping a horde of demons from flooding the world and destroying it. A few make it into the world but they are stopped and the priest is killed.

The seal is safe for now, but the demons could break free the next day. Ryu decides to enter the world beyond the seal to prevent the rest of the demons from entering our world. Battling through the hordes the party finally reaches the master of the demons; Evan. After an epic battle, Ryu and his friends are able to defeat Evan, ensuring the security of the world.

The characters of Breath of Fire II for the SNES. Starting from left: Katt; back left: Sten; front left: Bow; in back: Rand; front center: Ryu; front right: Nina; next to Nina: Jean; back right: Spar.

Breath of Fire II has nine playable characters, including one secret optional character.

• Ryu, (Japanese: Ryu Bateson) The blue haired protagonist. He is a member of the legendary dragon clan.
• Bow (Japanese: Boche Doggy), a humanoid dog, and Ryu's best friend since childhood. He is not related to Bo from Breath of Fire.
• Rand (Japanese: Land Marks), a young member of the armadillo-like Shell clan and manager of the coliseum.
• Katt (Japanese: Rinpoo Chuan), a sassy young competitor at the coliseum. She is a member of the Fullen (or Woren) tribe (originally named Furen in Japan).
• Nina (Japanese: Nina Windia), princess of the city of Windia, exiled because she has black wings, whereas the rest of her people's wings are white.
• Sten (Japanese: Sten Legacy), a once famous soldier of the monkey-like Highlander tribe. He regains his bravery after a visit to his hometown.
• Jean (Japanese: Ekaru Hoppe de pe Tapeta), the prince of Sima Fort who is transformed into a giant frog by a witch's spell. He speaks with an exaggerated French accent.
• Spar (Japanese: Aspara Gus), the legendary "grass man" of ambiguous gender, waits for people who know something is wrong in the world, unfortunately, this causes Gandaroof to lose his memory.
• Bleu (originally named Deis in Japan), the powerful sorceress from the original Breath of Fire returns as a secret character.

• Official Breath of Fire 2 website (for GBA)
• Breath of Fire II at MobyGames
• Dragon-tear.net English Breath of Fire fansite with in-depth character information, high-quality artwork, and forums.