I hate Momo's tower. Period.
The only good thing that happens there is you get one of the more powerful characters in the game. My first play through of Breath of Fire 3, I was stuck there for about two weeks because of the futching BlitzBots. Definitely one of my least favorite dungeons, second only to the mine after the timeskip.
Ok, we've established that I hate Momo's tower. Well, guess what?
I live there now.
-()-
Ok, I should probably explain. After years of on-and-off looking, I finally found a working PSX emulator and a ROM of Breath of Fire 3. I was excited, naturally, as BoF3 was my first RPG and still one of my favorites, and my copy was damaged about 7 years ago now.
So anyway, I started the game up and everything went fine. I started playing, much excitement all around. Kidnapped, thrown in jail, escaping, kidnapped again, escaping again... Then I came to IT. Momo's tower. Instead of saving and quiting like I was temped to (and oh, was I tempted), I pushed on and entered the tower.
That's when I blacked out.
When I came to it was to the sight of a scary-looking woman standing over me with a large gun aimed at my head. In hindsight, anyone standing over you with a gun aimed at your head probably looks pretty freaky.
So I did what any half-way sensible person would do: I scrambled backwards and started running away, screaming. It didn't take all that long for me to corner myself in a dead end. Of course, once I'd done that, my problem wasn't just the crazy lady with the gun. No, during my mad run, I'd attracted the attention of about a dozen killer robots.
Crazy-Lady apparently decided that the robots were more of a problem than me, and left me to huddle shamelessly in the corner, in fear of my life. It was then that I got my first real look at her.
Momo, the magic-bazooka-wielding rabbit-girl-slash-inventor of Breath of Fire 3 was defending me from what I now recognized as a small army of TankBots. Holy crap.
I looked down when I felt something pulling on my sleeve, and found a smaller, rose colored robot trying to pull me away. Honey. Again, holy crap.
Ok, long story short, I crawled after Honey as the little 'bot lead me out of the way of danger. Momo finished blowing the TankBots to smithereens (which was awesome to watch, by the way), then explained why she had her bazooka trained on me in the first place. Turns out there have been a lot of people trying to loot the place lately and she thought that's why I was here.
And that's where I am now. Momo agreed to let me stay in return for being her assistant – great as Honey is, there's some things a 12" tall robot just can't do – and I've been living here for about four months now. Much as I might miss home, it's not really that bad here.
I grin when I see the two kids running towards the Tower. Eight years, I figure, is the earliest I'll be able to go back home. Deis certainly doesn't have the power to send me back, not after being imprisoned for so long, and the only other person... being I can think of who would have that kind of power is Myria, so my only hope seems to be to somehow con her into it. I'm kinda screwed, aren't I?
I move from my place by the window when the two kids reach the front door.
It begins.
TBC
That's a true story, by the way. All the way up until I get sucked into the game.
Yes, I know it's short. Shut up, it's an introduction chapter.
Ok, I seem to have three problems here.
1. In the game, Ryu's the 'mute hero', and thus doesn't really have much of a chance to be given a personality. Any ideas?
2. I decided to be lazy and used a save that gave me all the dragon genes from the beginning. I somehow didn't realize this would make them not be there for me to pick up later. Now, best I can figure from one of the guides on GameFAQs, Ryu should have the Flame, Defender, and Reverse genes at this point. I'm going to try to keep track of what he should have as I go, but if anyone sees me screw up, do tell me.
3. Any ideas for a weapon would be great. All I've got is rapier, because that's the only think I actually know how to use. Maybe something like Momo's bazooka...
Um, ok, I think that's it, though I would appreciate any help with figuring out a title.
Oh, and if I spelled Deis(Bleu, for those of you who've only played the first two games) or Myria's(Goddess Myr, first games) names wrong... well, it's been a while since I actually saw them, so...
Alu al.