Breath of Fire 3 was bad. The game had about 5 dungeons at the end where you had to take a particular character into your group to open the boss door. If she's not in your party she's underleveled and useless as fuck, and the dungeon won't let you change members inside. Clear the place, realize theres a door you can't open, clear it again on the way out, switch characters, clear it with your cripple character in the back, open door, clear it again on the way out, switch back to your actual team, clear it again, kill boss. After the third time this happened I was really, really angry. I tortured myself to the final boss of the game and kaiser'd her dumb ass in a couple turns for the easiest and most disappointing bossfight in history as well.
No, I have not played MK9 and i really don't want too. The only Mortal Kombat i like it MK3 and that it's. I may just not like MK type fighters.
MK3 is the best title of the series anyway. You're not missing out on the others.