Can't wait for Breath of Fire II! It was one of the first RPGs I managed to beat back in the day, although my understanding of the English language was very poor at the time. The very basic translation might have helped a bit, I guess.
There is a very good chance that when the game was released your understanding of English was not much worse than those that translated this game.
BoF II has a historically bad translation for a JRPG.