Topic: Bravely Default II (Nintendo Switch)

I'm glad that they addressed most of the issues. My main issue was the difficulty and was the first thing mentioned to be addressed. While I may have preferred the speed turn initiative of the first two games, I am fine with the solution of including a turn bar and exclamation icons for the enemies. That can help the player plan their strategy depending on the type of enemies. Definitely will buy it

Ya I’m very happy with the changes. Difficulty, turn order and the menu interface were my big ones. All of which were addressed. And I like the new active time battle bars for turn order. That’s great. Multiple difficulty options is also a huge win. Especially since they said boss battles will continue to be engaging regardless of difficulty.

By the way, I am really interested in the Beastmaster job of this game. Sure, it was first in Octopath, but many jobs/characters from that game are based on the Bravely games and Final Fantasy games. They just give them some variety.

I also wonder if the Templar job would return. In the trailer recent, we see both the Vanguard asterisk holder and the Knight asterisk holder. Unless the the longhaired villain from the recent trailer is using that job. But I doubt it, as he looks very different. He looks like he has a either a new job or a new costume version of the Kaiser job.

While the Templar wasn't my favorite job to use, I liked using it as a sub job and used his critical magic and critical item support abilities. Although there's a chance that those support abilities are in other jobs, like they did from Bravely Default to Bravely Second.

@SheenaGemini93 I defintively like the story and gameplay in bravely better than Octopath Traveler.

I'm 100% with you. Couldn't make it more than 12 hours. Only 4 job classes, just repeat to get 8, disjointed story - not doing it for me. I'm watching this one with the same concern....

@SheenaGemini93 @mack73 Octo didn't have much of a connecting story to it. They kind of linked in the end, but not great overall. Both previous bravely games had a story to them. They weren't perfect games or anything, but certainly fun with a decent length.

Octopath was a good game, but the lack of a true overarching story made it a quick one-play for me. The quests definitely started to get cookie-cutter as I get deeper into the game; the only thing that kept me going was that some characters on their own were pretty cool and some of the quests/locations were neat.

It really made me want a brand-new, large and high quality pixel RPG though.

Another bravely demo has been released!

Damn the demo is that same annoying area again.

Anybody like this “final” demo more than the extremely disappointing original?

I might download and play this around Christmas. Maybe. I just find it odd that the demo this time around occurs during a chunk of the actual story, unlike previous series demos. I'm pretty much guaranteed to get this anyway unless final impressions (reviews, footage, etc.) are unfavorable.

I’m hyped. Playing the new demo, and I love it.

Who’s played it? I wanna talk shop.

@scoobdoo
Yes.

This demo is good. Download it and play it. For real. It’s good.

For starters, it actually starts you off at the beginning of a story arc, which gets you engaged in what’s going on in the world. It has good character development and really impressive voice acting (if there’s one thing that has impressed me most, it’s the voice acting). For a JRPG, story is crucial. It’s hard to get people hooked on this kind of game without the story. So that’s number one.

For two, they fixed a lot of the issues I had with the original demo (which I thought the core game was fantastic but the difficulty was too high, it just started you off doing dungeons and things without any real narrative purpose, The menus were convoluted, turn order wasn’t shown, etc) but now, not only have they addressed most of those complaints, there are 3 difficulties which can be toggled at will, at any time.

I can’t point to any one thing in particular that makes this demo stand out as better (aside from the immediate story set up and character development with good voice acting, which is definitely part of it), but I think it’s just a mix of a little bit of everything which, as a whole, works together to provide a much larger sum of its parts than the previous demo did.

Just started the demo, and, frankly, it's already better than the last one.

Quick recommendation to everyone: go into the settings and disable the horrible blurring effect in towns. The game looks SO much cleaner without it.

I’ll try that.

Saw the option but didn’t think it would look good without it, since I really liked the Octopath effect. But maybe I just need to see it for myself to have something to compare with.

Glasses off:

Glasses on:

The effect isn't even as noticeable in screenshots. On the TV, the difference is staggering.

@JaxonH The thing about Octopath is that the visuals are so heavily post-processed that the blur is just part of the effect. It's a bit like Yoshi's Woolly World in that way. All it really does in Bravely is make part of the image look worse. I think it's a big part of why I thought the town looked ugly in that first demo.

Although something about the graphics feels different overall. I can't quite put my finger on it, though.

@Ralizah How long is the demo this time? I plan on starting it after I finish Castlestorm 2.

I have started the demo but as it does not let you use the progress on the final build, it has a limit of time and a lot to grasp I decided to just not play it as I am already sold on the game regardless

@komodo182 if I remember correctly you can play it for 4h or 5h but not at the start of the game and therefore you cannot use the progress on the retail version

@Balta666 im sold on the game so i probably wont play this

@komodo182 I finished it in three hours.