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Breath of Fire Improved is a hack by ThegreatBen for the GBA edition of Breath of Fire. Some equipment modifications, leveling rates, altered stat gains, a restored snes palette, and a few other things are on display here. The latest version of the hack can be located here: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3214/ As usual, go search for the rom on your choice of search engine. Time to explore Karma Tower. No new enemies to start with, but that'll change towards the end. Starting out, the staircase to the north leads into the basement with a pair of Herbs to snap up. After that, you can return to the first floor and go west, sticking to the outer wall as you walk clockwise around the room. There'll be a set of stairs leading to one chest plus another chest on the first floor in the southeast corner, both containing M. Drops (Full heal for the team, quite useful). Save at least one for a fetch quest down the road though. Next, go chat with the reaper, Morte. He's not too nasty. Faster than Nina, sure, but no different than what Ryu dealt with really. Just toss up a casting of Fort (buffs defense), then spam the E.Key. Should only have to heal once or twice before Morte collapses. After the battle, take the stairs up to the 2nd floor. A path leading to the southeastern portion of the floor leads to a pair of staircases, resulting in a Cure & Charm to loot. Go counterclockwise on the 2nd floor to reach the 3rd floor. Going north on the third floor leads to a west-east split. West leads to a Charm, east leads to stairs back to the 2nd floor. From there, going north leads to a pair of pits. Ignore them, go up the stairs, claim the Herb, then jump in the upper right pit to get to another part of the first floor. It's a straight shot from there to the 2nd boss with a small detour down a pair of staircases for a Life2. As for the boss...same strats apply here. Buff with Fort, attack with E.Key, heal as needed. After taking the stairs behind the boss, you'll be at the top of the tower. Cross over west, hit a switch behind a door, then head down the stairs the girls were blocking off until you reach the basement area where the zany wizard pulls a fast one on the trio, resulting in an unwinnable battle and one soldier somehow getting back to Windia to request help in saving the princess. Ryu's up for the task and he gets a ride to the tower thanks to Enon. Now, I could try to kill off Enon so Ryu gets full exp, but Enon won't be around for too long. Also, look at his stats. Yeah, Enon ain't dying, that's for sure. Anyways, once Ryu hits the basement Nina went to, he can run right to the zany wizard in the middle of the floor to fight him. Detour west though because the Foil weapon is there and it's damn good. Ok attack power, but it allows Ryu to hit all enemies, even if he so happens to do a counter attack. Anyways, the zany wizard isn't too nasty. A couple spells doing around 10-15 damage and being faster than Ryu, but he knows what to do here. E.Key spam, heal as needed, one dead wizard. Afterwards back at Windia, the king is fine thanks to the Remedy that Nina gave him. Ryu gets permission to go east and also gets Nina to accompany him. The entrance to the east is in the castle basement. More next time!