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nope. there's no sidequest list for some reason. weird oversight/decision when the sidequests is numbered
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Bravely Default II |OT| The Four Heroes of Light's Excillant Adventure
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It's pretty fast, I didn't even leave the area.
You need to do 4 card games, 1 of which is a tutorial, before you fight the boss. Just take note that you fight her immediately after the last card game.
My guess it isn't an oversight the feature just wasn't ready and got cut. Game just feels like it could have massively benefitted from more time improving general qol. Still am baffled how there is no presets when it was part of bravely second already. Makes switching between fighting setup and farming setup pretty annoying.
Loving this game! The bosses are fucking hard. And leveling up the jobs are as satisfying as ever!
The beastmaster boss was surprisingly difficult even though I spent the time in the beginning grinding and accumulating items. The silencing was fucking up my team hard and the fight went on for longer than I expected. I'm glad I have so many Phoenix downs and echo herbs, because that would have been hell if you were rushing through.
i hope the game gets a QOL update. It could really use a quest list.
Yeah holy shit at the beastmaster fight on hard mode, it's critical health damage dealing was pumping out crazy numbers and countering all abilities. Died with them having 300 health left ;-;
Definitely some smt style instant party wipes if you aren't paying full attention. Fun tho and a nice breath of fresh air compared to many jrpgs you can sleep walk though
Definitely some smt style instant party wipes if you aren't paying full attention. Fun tho and a nice breath of fresh air compared to many jrpgs you can sleep walk though
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Not sure if this is what you mean, but check the first option in the pause menu (not sure of the English, maybe "travel record" or "trip memories")
You can see the quests there if you press ZR or ZR
Tip:
Items can be really useful for most of these early bosses:
Yeah this game has a few issues like that. I'm getting lots of awkward pauses when starting quests and the frame rate is a bit awkward.
Minor issues aside in surprised how much I love this game. A clear step up from Bravely Second.
i also spent the time to get JP Up and Up. Seems to be worth it long run.
I bought it. Loved the demo and wanted more. The art style isn't as big of a problem as I feared. Kinda grew on me.
Love the Australian accents.
Love the Australian accents.
As a console game it...looks kinda crappy. But as a handheld game and a follow up to Bravely Default, it all looks great and fitting for the series.
Because there's (apparently) 26 jobs I guess that they want it to go quick to encourage experimenting.
Yeah I guess that makes sense! Just feels strange learning high-ish level spells so early
It's all about getting the jobs and giving characters abilities you want them to have. That takes quite some time. 12 per job times 4 if you want all your characters to have them and there are 20 plus jobs too.
Quite enjoying the card game now I've got the hang of it! I feel a bit mean taking cards off kids and little old ladies though
It's more that Black Mage and White Mage are low-ish jobs, you'll want to swap into more advanced classes once you've mastered them.
Yeah. My black mage has them all learned but it's not like it's overpowered when enemies have high HP pools, wasting a whole group of them with black magic can burn through your whole MP pool at low levels. Really you want to move on and get the passives from other jobs to reduce MP cost etc
The texture work on the clothing and monsters is amazing.
Also, the game would have really beneffited from someone like Anihal or Bernard joining the party. Just like the first game, the "hero" and the "princess" have almost no personality and the story is carried by the other two companions, Ringabel and Edea, this time Adelle and Elvis. I'm just on the beastmaster boss fight and at the moment, Seth and Gloria would as well have been two walking stones and the narrative would remain unchanged.
Also, the game would have really beneffited from someone like Anihal or Bernard joining the party. Just like the first game, the "hero" and the "princess" have almost no personality and the story is carried by the other two companions, Ringabel and Edea, this time Adelle and Elvis. I'm just on the beastmaster boss fight and at the moment, Seth and Gloria would as well have been two walking stones and the narrative would remain unchanged.
You can capture a max of 99 for each monster. Don't think types of monster would matter, but I've haven't observed the scaling closely.
Oh wow, does that mean we can get 99+ stats or is there a cap?
I think it's dynamic or at least it has different res values on conversations/fights/dungeons/overworld map, because sometimes the game looks really good and sometimes it looks really blurry. But I think the real big technical issue are the constant "loading times", the game freezes when you open the menu and sometimes even during cutscenes/bossfights the game seems to be struggling to load some animation/asset and stutters for a second.
Finally beat
That was a tough battle. Had to use all my buffs and debuffs available to avoid getting one-shot.
I'm enjoying what this is. I'm not convinced the roaming overworld enemies was a good decision, the way Bravely Default did it was perfect. Characters and story are nice so far, it feels a lot more serious than Bravely Second.
I think artistic decisions is the only thing that puts me off this game so far. I think it's the realistic textures, water & lighting mixed with cartoonish characters, they needed to stylize more of the environments and soften lighting.
Performance isn't perfect either. It's mostly during transitions the game feels like it stutters.
Berserker
That was a tough battle. Had to use all my buffs and debuffs available to avoid getting one-shot.
I'm enjoying what this is. I'm not convinced the roaming overworld enemies was a good decision, the way Bravely Default did it was perfect. Characters and story are nice so far, it feels a lot more serious than Bravely Second.
I think artistic decisions is the only thing that puts me off this game so far. I think it's the realistic textures, water & lighting mixed with cartoonish characters, they needed to stylize more of the environments and soften lighting.
Performance isn't perfect either. It's mostly during transitions the game feels like it stutters.
The stats don't scale 1 to 1 for each monster capture. But since there are a lot of monsters that you can capture, maybe it will eventually reach that? Not sure. I only just unlocked it today, so need more time to check.
Got JP+ and JP++ now just after the first dungeon. Guess the next small section of the game is gonna be really easy lol.
Oh my god...I just did the final desert boss and...I used 3 times the final ability of vanguard combined with beast master raw power and Gloria's special and 30% physical attack buffs and it literally destroyed the boss as if it was nothing.... literally multiple 5k+ damage per hit damn lol.
Perhaps this was asked and answered before, but do certain characters have an affinity for certain jobs? Or can I freely experiment.
Apparently everyone has identical base stats, so every character is equally good with every job. Experiment away!
Unfortunately you have to have the game on, presumably as a measure against changing the system clock.
TBH auto-battle would be completely superfluous, and was only necessary in BD1 because JP farming to master jobs was comparatively glacial.
Here, JP farming can be extremely fast and efficient, and IIRC jobs only need like half as much to master.
If you're wanting to JP farm, just go to a low level area (I use the starter beach), pop a monster lure of whatever type of monster is common (for my example, aquatic), and start 1-shotting everything at 4x speed. You'll get hundreds of JP per encounter, especially after unlocking the JP ups from Freelancer.
You can basically turn encounters off by using a Ward item, so they all run from you. And honestly, by the time I've gotten to any given dungeon, the lower level monsters there are running from me anyway. By the end of the dungeon, all but maybe 1 type are running. The level deficit they start running at is very generous to the player.
Got the Beastmaster, and now to start some JP farming! I miss not having a No Exp toggle though :(
Since JP doesn't seem to really increase by enemy level, it's been fastest for me to just go farm lowbie stuff, which naturally doesn't give enough EXP to worry over. Honestly, EXP gain in this game seems really balanced in a way that overleveling isn't ever a serious concern.
So, there is a quest list while they're active (in the Travelogue), but yeah it's puzzling that quests are numbered yet there's no list of all quests so you can see which you may've missed.
I went back with the helper character from the desert and he basically constantly debuffs and then hit away with the mage. I aso poisened it at the start of the battle and basically defaulted and just hit my party members every time they got charmed. I was looking for a charm immunity item but couldn't find one in the first 2 areas at least.
Oh really? I just assumed it did and didn't even bother grinding in the prologue zone, more so because I was familiar with the desert area from the demo.
Still though, I wanted a no EXP option for those level 1 challenges. Taking away options is one of the disappointments in this game.
Yeah, for regular play I think they did a good job at making the option unnecessary via balancing, but I could see that being a disappointment if you were wanting to do a level 1 challenge. Better to have more QoL/options than less.
Comparing the character models here to the ones from Default/Second, I think they really should have leaned towards the latter. Those character models really accurately conveyed the chibi sprite aesthetic of classic RPGs, whereas the new ones are kind of stretched out and detailed enough to look weird and kind of off-putting without hitting that cutesy chibi look the last two games had.
I'm starting to get the impression
That the asterisks themselves are corrupting people. The difference between some of the characters after their asterisks have been taken away is pretty big and it seems like their power is causing changes in people's personalities
Uhhh, the increase of trees in chapter 2 has caused the performance to drop noticeably...
There's much more stuttering, much more visible texture loading. Still enjoying the game, but that's not great
There's much more stuttering, much more visible texture loading. Still enjoying the game, but that's not great