Bravely Second: End Layer recently made its debut in Europe, and it's certainly another one to add to the list of excellent RPG experiences on the 3DS. The sequel delivers on various fronts, and has had a decent start in the UK charts.
On its debut week the Nintendo / Square Enix-published title has secured 12th place in the all-format charts, and a very creditable 9th in the single-format stakes. The only new releases to outperform it were multi-platform efforts, with Far Cry Primal and Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 taking the top two places in the top 40.
Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, after a strong launch week, has maintained reasonable momentum; it dropped from 9th to 15th in the all-format chart.
Some other areas of note - Project X Zone 2 plummeted from 2nd to 19th in the 3DS chart, a sharp drop in its second week. In the Wii U chart Xenoblade Chronicles X had a decent seven days, rising from 7th to 3rd place.
All in all, Nintendo UK may be quietly satisfied with its two 3DS releases showing fairly well in the UK top 40. Next week, of course, will bring the chart entry of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD on Wii U.
[source chart-track.co.uk]
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My copy is still sitting nicely in it's CE box. I had early access to the prelude but never got around to playing it becauce Final Fantasy IX came out on Android. Once I've finished that I'll play the prelude...then I'll get round to the real thing!
The CE is one of the largest I've ever seen and is gorgeous. The artbook is basically like a translated Japanese retail artbook. Wish the soundtrack was the complete one, although I did grab it in Tokyo in September so can't complain
Hope to get round to it after Xenoblade. So perhaps an April / May start!
Hooray for XCX!
Sod waiting to play Bravely Second, I'm juggling both that and Xenoblade right now! (I could literally play Xenoblade for another 3 months if I really wanted to) BS is amazing, I've only finished the prelude chapter and the story is on top form already. The characters are superbly written and the gameplay tweaks are all for the better. Hopefully they don't pull the same trick on as us before with repetitive chapters in the late part of the game.
It makes me happy to see mystery dungeon still doing well. People who were worried after gates should really give this one a go. 50 hours in and its still holding my interest. xD
How about listing the charts also?
I cant believe that XCX is having such a wonderful recovery!
i brought my CE from Nintendo uk and can't stop playing it, such an amazing game the squeal doesn't disappoint. ^^
Bravely Second is superb, just like I was excepting it to be.
As someone who views FF5 as one of the best games in the Final Fantasy series, it's awesome we finally have an entire series that does the job system just as fine, if not better than that game.
@Thegentleman a surprised woohoo from here as well. the discount really helped, i see. mira deserves more residents. maybe if enough buy it, there will be major dlc.
@Jamotello well the game came with a few dlc's all ready for free japan had to pay for them.
(ps i'd rather the team work on the next game after the ending, i wont say much but yeah...)
@kenrulei i read about those, but i mean major story dlc. i am still at chapter 11, that means one chapter left. i really don't think all the loose ends of mira will be resolved then. i needs me more!
okay, will wait for the ending.
Very nice.
Too bad the CE in NA doesn't include the figure
Not sure if TP HD will make much of a splash chart wise, not when you can pick up the Wii version for pennies in somewhere like CeX...and play it on your Wii U as well, Wolf Link amiibo or not.
Thankfully, there's at least 2 more big games on the way this month (Pokken Tournament and Hyrule Warrior Legends) that might fair better...
Seriously doubt it'll sell as well as the original. Seems too similar for selling another million.
@Dezzy u never know though, the amiibo could be the key thing it has midna on it, meaning many will buy it for her being there alone.
This are looking up on the game releases front. I have enough from the last couple of months to last into the middle of the year. Much better than the end of last year. Feeling a bit more positive.
I must say that I have been enjoying this immensely.
My guess is that sales for this game will take a nosedive in light of the censorship of the branching endings that have all been removed from the game...
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