Producer And Composer Of Bravely Default II Share Their Thoughts Following The Big Reveal

That is pretty nice. This definitely was the highlight of the show, at least as far as announcements are concerned! Surely gonna pick this one up, I already have the collectors editions of both previous games.

Yeah, will get this game. Liked the first BD (never played Second), also liked Octopath Traveler.

Probably the only announcement that interested me during TGA. Truth be told, I when I saw the Switch logo and then the Square Enix one, I immediately thought it was Kingdom Hearts 1.5, 2.5, and 2.8 coming to Switch

Hell blade 2 nuff said

day one purchase for me. I only played the first one. haven’t finished it tho. But the score and art design were memorable af

I enjoyed the first, but I was unable to beat the 2nd as I thought the story was awful.

Say what you will about bravely default - but the music was extremely good. Insanely good.

The only announcement that made the show worth watching for me.

My big issues with Bravely Second were the reused cast, world, and the lack of Revo, and this sequel addresses all of that. So I'm sure I'll love it.

BD’s score was perfect, half cheesy half epic. Good news indeed!

I never played any of the games in this series but I'm more than willing to try it out due to the fact that I am a huge jrpg fan and a bona fide Square Enix fan. I'm truly enjoying the Nintendo switch this generation.

Yes I am getting this game for my Switch. This is just one game from my list that I plan on getting for my system in 2020 after I get Wargroove for Christmas.

Can’t wait! I really enjoyed the first 2.

The first 2 were perhaps my favourite 3DS games. Definitely stoked by this announcement. It’s tempting to brush the dust off the old handheld to be honest.

Totally hyped for this one! But I hope they port the others too

Awesome series. It rivals Final Fantasy to me. Super excited!

I'm excited, but I would have preferred a remaster of the previous 2 games for a start.

Kinda hoped they made characters a semi chibi version of Final Fantasy Zodiac Age since they are on stronger hardware. Like concept art proportions...

@CupidStunt second had a way better story and more interesting characters imo. First was massively ruined by the need to repeat every dungeon/boss not once, not twice, but four whole times. Ugh.

@Aurumonado Not as legendary as Octopath though

@Baker1000 Yes I hated that repition too, but I felt the main game was more boring in 2nd Layer. I did love in the first the repeat boss fights with 4 at a time, as the strategies involved were great, but it could have been more streamlined.

Can't wait for Bravely Second 2

you should play bravely default if you haven't every member of the party is a great character with strong motivations and the story hits every emotion, the games are really clever too.

Do you think guys we need to play the others (at least the first) to enjoy this one?
I haven't played them, the first because of what they said about the end, and the second because... well, it's a sequel lol.

Damnit! My backlog gets even bigger.

I enjoyed the first one, but never got around to playing Second Layer. I don't think I will be playing this one even though I had some good memories with the first.

Would of been interested but, alas no gameplay was shown

I hope "Bravely Default II" is a place holder name. The original "Bravely Default" was a really dumb name. "Bravely Second: End Layer" is a truly awful name. They have the opportunity for a mind shatteringly terrible title for the third installment.

I liked the infrastructure of the first one, but damn if I didn’t go nuts redoing the last steps over and over. Really felt like 1/2 a game stretched out to make it work.

Unpopular opinion: The Bravely series completely and utterly sucks.
I was first in line to preorder the original and was so hyped for it as it seemed it was a true old school RPG which is where my roots are 100%. In this I was sorely disappointed. The major points being:

• Despite the gorgeous art, there is ZERO exploration for towns. You can only enter one building per town, being the story objective location, and even the shops are just menus. Where are the houses, back alleys and closets to explore for treasure (ala FF9)? Where are the dynamic camera perspectives to add variety?
• The dungeons, ALL of them, were no more than birds-eye view rat mazes. Completely uninspired and boring from the start.
• The story had some interesting points, but ended up being painfully shallow with only mere traces of character arcs. The "story" got so bad that the last 10 hours were literally repeating the same events over and over again. Like, the story was literally like, "you have to relive a huge section of the game over and over" for a dozen hours. I seriously thought I had broken the game somehow but nope, it was just that bad. I was literally laughing g outloud as I played in disbelief.
• The character designs were charming at first but get jankier looking with each installment, Bravely 2's looking downright weird in the Switch's better graphics.
  I could go on forever but I'll stop there. If you're excited, that's awesome. But meanwhile I'll be playing Chrono Trigger, FF6 - FF9, or Legend of Dragoon for my old school RPG fix, where exploration, variety, and story happen. They just don't make em like they used to.

Part of the charm of this game and the one before was the 3D. The backgrounds looked like a popup picture book.

@invictus4000
Counterpoint: being a portable game, BD made a bolder effort than most of streamlining the 'classic' jRPG experience. They basically stripped away anything they deemed superfluous: giving players control over random encounter rates, refilling HP/MP, auto-saving everywhere (even for each dungeon floor), eliminating town exploration as you mentioned, and doling out most of the story in that weird, stage-like perspective where everybody's just kinda on screen standing there talking at each other. I don't agree with all these features, personally, but it certainly made the game manageable in bite-sized chunks on-the-go.