I'm still deciding on if I should get this game or not

I love JRPG's for the most part. I've played several Final Fantasy games and loved them.
However for some reason I wasn't that impressed with the demo. How is the final version of the game?

Got my SE in the mail today. <3 The game is gorgeous. Set it to hard difficulty and Japanese voices as quickly as I could. I like how you unlock classes by defeating bosses!

Damn, the sub-scenarios are pretty dark...

So far i've found those really well written! It's not a chore to have to read them.

@Emaan If you like Final Fantasy then this is a no brainer! It's been great so far and half of the hand holding is optional. The other half is very well needed. This feels like the glory days of 16bit gaming with all the modern touches!!!

The Florem ones especially! It's only the bright art style that stopped them from being truly terrifying.

I love grinding for XP in this game too, that's new for me, usually most games bore me with the monotony. But in BE you get to find a lot of cool things unlocked as you gain XP then you get new toys to play with while unlocking new things. Finally got Agnes to master white mage, near mastering ninja for Edea, spell fencer for Tiz, and black mage for Ringabel. Ringabel is the coolest lech I have ever seen. lol

Is it weird that the first job I mastered was Performer for Tiz?

I'm satisfied. Hard mode + leaving the encounter slider alone + not using Bravely Second is a suitably hardcore JRPG experience.

@oninowon I actually find rebuilding the village easy even w/o constant streetpass as you can update your game everyday to get some nemesis and workers for the village. 3 at least, per day.

And yes, there is more to the combat than what shows on the surface, but @Tasuki can just choose a specific job to level up to the max and not change.

Unfortunately for me, as old school rpg goes, gotta get them all secrets.

Nope, performer has some nice support abilities, and I'd wager the higher level ones are probably awesome. Really, every job is awesome, in some way. Like the goup-cast all for black mage, mastered support ability.

Performer is a pretty awesome job! Being able to raise your entire party's P.atk by 50% can make lots of battles easier. Plus, Buff Up is perhaps the only permanent way to buff stats in battles.

So far the only jobs I don't like are Ranger (bland, situational skills) and Time Mage (feels like they got all the junk spells that Black and White didn't want). They also have the worst costumes. I'm surprised at how awesome the Red Mage class is in this game, too! Usually it's just a lame mashup of Black and White Magic but in this game the class has its own personality!

I dunno, I've found plenty of use for Time Mage. Second best buff class after Performer, I think (though an argument could be made for Spiritmaster). But yeah, I'm not fond of Ranger. Stats are pretty good, but the only real take-away skill from that class is Bow Lore, if for some reason you want to use a bow with a different class. If you're using a Lore skill anyway, I haven't really found a reason yet to use a bow over a spear or an axe. There aren't enough flying enemies in game to really justify using a bow, in my opinion.

Red Mage though, I dunno. Great in early and midgame, but cap of Lv4 spells really puts a limit on how effective they are in endgame. That, and with mediocre weapon and armor proficiencies, you pretty much have to use up one or two of your ability slots for a Lore skill. They aren't very effective as a physical attacker otherwise. Swords don't really cut it when you have lower Str than other physical classes. It does have really cool support abilities though. Worth a consideration for almost any class, just for those supports.

Speaking of weapon proficiencies, why on earth does Merchant have a natural S rank in spears lol? That would be my nominee for most useless class too. "Spend money to do damage more or less on par with regular attacks from a Thief or Knight." Uh, no thanks...

But More Money is a really cool support ability to use while grinding (and yes, it stacks).

These chapters are long!!! I am only on chapter 1, and I am nearly 15 hours in. Of course I am a slower gamer when it comes to RPGs.

You and me both. I just hit chapter 1 this morning and just over 15 hours. I might be a little overpowered though as my town is about 60% complete. Still don't have nearly enough money to buy anything but that's a good balance.

Yeah my main shops are about fully leveled and my add on shops are over half way. At least I know what the cost for the weapons and armor will be before I waste it on some lower piece at a normal weapons shop.

Anyone else using sleep mode to max out their village? I haven't really turned my 3ds off for almost a week since I am constantly using the nights to build the 8 hour jobs in the village. Just wondering if I am using it too much?

Haha, the friend summoning system is so broke. Someone from my list summons an attack that does over 40,000 damage. I used it up quickly so that I wouldn't be tempted by it in the game's harder sections.

I switched the audio back over to English. It's actually surprisingly good. The crucial decision point for me was Spike Spencer voicing Ringabel. God, he just brings that smarm to life!

Nothing like getting stuck on a boss that could wipe you out with one attack, only to switch up a few jobs, grind for 3 hours, then come back and kick that things butt in a few turns. Now on to chapter 3!

The four heroes yes the voices are pretty good. The rest however go from ok to laughable funny bad. For instance most of the males in the beginning sound constipated.

@devinias I actually never turn my system off anyways. I'm always in sleep mode.

I actually enjoyed the slightly cheesy delivery of the lines from enemy characters. Made them that much more enjoyable. Although I confess my game was on Japanese for most of the intro. I turned it back to English as soon as Ringabel showed up. So far so good.