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Bravely Default II - Embark on your journey Trailer (Demo [And Survey] Available Now)
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That only happens if you don't use Bravely Second in the first fight versus the Kaiser. I would have missed it I wasn't following a walkthrough lol
I *did* use Bravely Second. The game still wants you to go through all that shit again, and after getting the first couple of jobs that I had to pass up in my first playthrough, I realized it was no longer fun and stopped playing.
I know you did not just diss Edea Lee like this
Hold up, are you serious?
I didn't mind the repetition in the original game because most of it could be skipped... but you're telling me BS does it again? Does it at least let you go straight to the bosses like BD?
BS makes it so that the impossible to win first fight becomes winnable, thus starting a new chain of events in the story. And you can also face the asterisk bosses you chose not to fight the first play through so you can have the full set.
After getting in the dungeon, they really have to do something about this. I'd rather have random battles than a fucking snake coming at you 900mph from nowhere and giving you no chance to react. You need inhuman reaction time that would even challenge the flash. Even if you do react in time, the animation for hitting an enemy is either too slow or it barely doesn't hit them. It doesn't help at all that if you get caught, the enemy gets 1 brave point and attacks first.
The only real negative so far in my opinion.
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There's no repetition like in BD. You only repeat a boss fight before it goes into an entirely new chapter
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The art style looks amazing. Both the characters and the worlds. There is so much personality to everything
Ok, that sounds like something I could excuse like in BD lol. But please... I hope there's nothing like it in BDII.
I am still burnt out from the first two games lol........
probably will try it after I beat Octopath
probably will try it after I beat Octopath
I don't know if it's just the first town but I swear the texture quality looked a hell of a lot higher rez in the trailer.
Just beat the Thief Boss, Holy shit he was really hard, especially compared to Jackal in the first two games, he has a ton of HP and does massive damage to people who aren't defaulting, and a lot of his attacks heal him a good amount, massive battle of attrition, and the lack of a save point before him was really annoying, unless I somehow missed them, there was a heal spot but no save points
The menu looks gorgeous, but I have a ton of issues with the UX so far.
- The tooltips block tons of actual information. You can turn them off in the settings, but I want to read them, just not ALL THE TIME. In the 3DS games, you just pressed L I think to toggle them.
- Takes too long to set jobs, especially primary due to the model changing animation. Same applies to changing equipment EVEN THOUGH the clothing model doesn't update anyway!
- Too much reliance on -/+ buttons. They're high up on the joycons and I dislike having to HOLD + to view my ability descriptions. Feels physically cumbersome.
- You can't easily see how your stats change when unequipping, since you just press - with no other menuing.
- Can't Default with L anymore (at least in two-handed mode).
- Can't easily repeat an action 4 times.
In the 3DS games, before confirming a single action, you could use R to duplicate it for the turn. Now, you have to Brave x4 -> (select ability -> select target) x4.You can brave x4 -> hold the A button for duplicating actions.
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Really happy to see Team Asano finally using their beautiful art for icons, after the minimalistic icons of BD1/Octopath.
The music is so good. I missed Bravely music.
Also the demo is a technical mess. I've not seen a Switch game hitch this much and the battles are rather blurry. Hope they get it figured out by release.
Also the demo is a technical mess. I've not seen a Switch game hitch this much and the battles are rather blurry. Hope they get it figured out by release.
i really need a world map. ends up getting lost while exploring the overworld and cannot find the town lol
unless i missed something and there is a way to pull up bigger map
unless i missed something and there is a way to pull up bigger map
I just started the demo, the game looks BEAUTIFUL. I love the way they approached towns, it retains the feel of the 3ds games but appropriately stepped up for a home console experience. The character models look a lot better than in the first trailer, and I love the job designs. And the music!
ok maybe i'm stupid but how do I make the battles go faster?
The MMO thing where enemies don't drop quest items everytime is annoying.
Loving the rest though.
The MMO thing where enemies don't drop quest items everytime is annoying.
Loving the rest though.
Pressing R pulls up a bigger map, but not a complete one.
In the original Bravely Default there were realistic models used in a cutscene at the start. I hoped this game would use ones that like!
The combat is stellar in these games for sure.
You can hold down the A button to quickly select the same action. Everything else I agree with. Especially the over reliance on plus and minus buttons.
Right d-pad to go faster and left to slow it back down I think.
So wait... are you saying that people complaining about it are being disingenuous, just like the people who claimed that BD makes you "do the entire game over again 4 more times"?
Is there not a way to check the turn order in battle? Also have to agree that I dislike not being able to choose Brave for a single action and choosing actions for the whole party at once.
I was surprised how clean the footage looked. Demo is downloading right now, can't wait!