Question for someone not super familiar with the series. I played the demo and liked it well enough, but don't Default and Brave mechanics basically encourage long drawn out battles? I didn't have much of a problem with it since I played the demo only up until that Bard boss but I could see that getting old. I also wouldn't be surprised if I was just playing the game wrong either.
Regular encounters can potentially be blasted immediately by doing 4x turns right off the bat, but if you estimate wrong you'll probably just die as the enemy gets 4x turns in a row while you count back up out of negatives.
Boss fights are a different game entirely. Both of the boss fights in the demo had a bunch of adds, and were generally quite long. Adds play very nicely with the system as there's a legitimate decision on whether to burn them down fast to take less damage in the long run, even if you're more exposed in the short run.
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Generally, the areas where the game seems to be much better designed than the original are:
- Boss fights (more emphasis on having multiple targets in fights). They seem far more designed around the game mechanics.
- The World Map (more locations and treasures and special encounters)
- Character Job designs (vastly more detailed designs, great re-concepting of Final Fantasy classics, totally different for each of the four characters which is the first for a 3D FF game).
- Dungeon design. Dungeons in FFG and BD1 totally fucking sucked. These look like a big improvement.
