Ya I'm in the minority that thinks this game looks great. I love the clay / diorama style its giving off.
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Is anyone hyped for Bravely Default II?
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I'm definitely in the mood for a classic JRPG.
When I played the first one I was so pissed by the *twist* that I said I wouldn't play any other Bravely games. But over time I found myself thinking fondly about it. I played Bravely Second, but it came out at a bad time so I never got too far into it.
So yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
When I played the first one I was so pissed by the *twist* that I said I wouldn't play any other Bravely games. But over time I found myself thinking fondly about it. I played Bravely Second, but it came out at a bad time so I never got too far into it.
So yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
I want to be hyped, but I'm currently making my way through my Switch JRPG backlog. Finishing Xenoblade 2: Torna - The Golden Country in the next week and then moving onto DQXIS. I'm hoping to get to this before the end of the year.
Just finished DQXIS. What an awesome game that was.
I'm interested in Bravely Default II but may wait and see if it drops to $50 like a lot of Nintendo games have been doing lately.
Waiting on reviews, Bravely Default story was kinda grating even though the battle system was awesome. It really depends on how the story and characters are received.
I'm looking forward to it, but I'm going to hold off until it drops. I really like the brave and defaulting turn based mechanics, especially over ATB. Hope this one doesn't have the ridiculous post game grind to get a true ending.
I love jrpgs, so this was originally an insta-buy for me, but the demo was a big turn off. Graphics were blurry and characters were ugly. Combat looked wrong the way characters rapidly attack and it just didn't feel good. Story, characters and dialog was not interesting.
I might give it a chance later on when there's nothing else to play, but that won't be for a long while, and it's only because I love turn-based traditional rpgs.
I might give it a chance later on when there's nothing else to play, but that won't be for a long while, and it's only because I love turn-based traditional rpgs.
I mean I do like how that job looks in BD2, but I still think the characters look gross. They're weirdly plasticy, the hair looks bad, their eyes are lifeless, and while there are advantages to the increased level of detail on the characters, it also veers them much closer towards that uncanny valley for me. The models are obviously quite a bit simpler on the 3DS games, but I assume that helps mask the problem I'm having with BD2. Everybody in this game just looks kinda unsettling to me, as opposed to BD1 characters being simple and cute.
I'm buying it because of brand name (Bravely series) and publisher goodwill (Square-Enix). What they decided to showcase from the game didn't look exciting, I didn't specially love any of the two demos and the new art direction seems like a downgrade from the original.
I guess 3 decades of playing JRPGs have dulled my caring of what the graphics look like....I'm interested in the combat system, and less so the story.
I could honestly care less what the character models look like, as most JRPGs have low budgets or hokey anime characters anyways haha.
I could honestly care less what the character models look like, as most JRPGs have low budgets or hokey anime characters anyways haha.
Not really, I've never been able to get more than ten hours into the first one and I'd never go to two without getting through one and Bravely Second.
Absolutely love the first two games, and this series has my favourite turn-based combat ever. So I was pretty hyped for this game before playing the demos. After playing the demos I realized:
So lets just say I'm not pleased with the direction the series has taken. BUT, I'm still a sucker for turn-based RPGs especially with job systems. And this game still retains that feeling of coming up with clever strategies and seeing them in action. So think I'll still enjoy it none the less.
TL:DR -
- The combat has been changed from round-based to turn-based, which devalues Brave and Default system, among other issues.
- The encounter system has been changed from random encounters which could be adjusted to your needs, to visible encounters that can't.
- The art-style has this clash of gorgeous hand drawn backgrounds and the ugly 3d models.
- The majority of QoL features from the original games like encounter sliders, no exp/jp/pg options, preset load-outs, auto-command setups, etc. are all gone.
So lets just say I'm not pleased with the direction the series has taken. BUT, I'm still a sucker for turn-based RPGs especially with job systems. And this game still retains that feeling of coming up with clever strategies and seeing them in action. So think I'll still enjoy it none the less.
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Yeah I'm hyped!
first review, 9/9/9/9 from famitsu
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Famitsu review scores - February 24, 2021
This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows: Bravely Default II (NSW) – 9/9/9/9 Ghosts ‘n Goblins Resurrection (NSW) – 8/8/8/7 Empire of Sin (NSW/PS4/XBO) – 8/7/8/7
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It's not a day one for me, but it is shaping up to be a great turned-based RPG like the original.
I do think that Switch owners should pay attention to it.
I do think that Switch owners should pay attention to it.
Pretty interested, but I've been waiting for the "Switch Pro" for like a year and a half now, and with the recent rumors from "legitimate" leakers, I'll probably just continue to wait. Or knowing my luck, I'll get so sick of waiting to play specific Switch games that I'll end up buying one, only for the new system to be announced a month later.
I'm moderately hyped. Game is preordered, but I'm not sure I'll play it right at release.
I loved the first one except for that weird loop story part.
I loved the first one except for that weird loop story part.
The QOL features might not be present for the demo right? Do we know if they aren't present in the full game?
I only played the first one but I could definitely see how the battle system wouldn't click in a demo. I think it's a great system once you get your head around it and possibilities open up, but I don't know if I would have the patience to wade through the shallows more than once. The first game also had a story that I've never heard a good thing about, so I don't know how excited to be unless the new one has different writers.
Someone on reddit has had an early copy for a week now and he mentioned there weren't any similar options like in previous games. The only one is what we saw in the demo about being able to repeat last action for a party member.
I think the story is great in the first game, the issue is a short sequence at the end that people get their panties in a bunch over because it features repetitiveness (in a JRPG! Shocking!)
Specifically you have to loop through the same sequence of events a few times.
Oh damn that sucks, thanks.
Hopefully they patch those in
Oh man, then you're gonna love Sakaguchi's new game which uses real life diorama's that they built for environments.
A shame it's only mobile but hoping it'll get ported
I don't think the art style in this game is any more or less divisive than the first game. I definitely remember a lot of people hating the "stoned faces" and chibi models.
The game's missing a hook. Characters and character stereotypes as well as story premise look too similar to Bravely Default 1, which makes Bravely Default 2 appear to be more of a sidestep than an evolution. This is a bit weird, since them apologizing for Bravely Second (whose only fault was being too similar to Bravely Default 1) gave off the impression that they were aware that they can't just redo the same thing over and over.
Instead of making changes where they'd have been appreciated, they instead changed up some of underlying game systems which frankly didn't actually need any changing. Bravely Default's combat was great and, judging by the demo, the changes made to it are actively making what once was a really elegant turn-based system worse by making it more difficult to get a predictable graps of the Brave/Default system that gives the game its name.
Instead of making changes where they'd have been appreciated, they instead changed up some of underlying game systems which frankly didn't actually need any changing. Bravely Default's combat was great and, judging by the demo, the changes made to it are actively making what once was a really elegant turn-based system worse by making it more difficult to get a predictable graps of the Brave/Default system that gives the game its name.
Man, what the hell is the point of this sort of stuff? Having fantastic QoL options in one game and then cutting them from the sequel is just the dumbest shit. I didn't even realize how much they had cut.
Hyped? Yes, that would be me! Looking forward to a classic-style RPG, and the gameplay system is great!
There is no random encounters. It's enemy icons you touch on the map to trigger battles. The problem is if there is two enemies on the map that are chasing you, unlike BD1 which you can reduce / increase or turn off the encounter rate, in this particular scenario you'll be fighting basically two battles back to back.
Yeah the second post describes it pretty well I think. The 3DS characters remind me more of this:
The Switch characters more of this:
On Switch, the characters may be smiling, but they're not really smiling, if you know what I mean.
As someone currently replaying the first game, What the hell ?
Very interested to hear opinions. Demo completely failed to sell me, but it has such a good reputation that I'm still somewhat interested.
They all were in the first two games as well to be fair, apart from maybe Edea
are reviews coming today? nintendo-published games usually have their review embargoes lifted 2 days before release.
someone told me on Thursday because that's what happened with octopath.