Bravely Default 2 (Switch, Squeenix JRPG (if you couldn’t tell from the daft title), 77 Metascore, out now)

Mini-rant: the dungeons in this game are absolute wank. That’s hardly new to Bravely Default 2 (or indeed the franchise, since 1 had the same problem), but for the most part they’re boring featureless corridors that seem designed to get the player lost. Why not include a map? Because stuff you that’s why. Miasma Woods has to be the worst so far, but I’m on a watery dungeon in chapter 5 and it’s almost as bad.

Balladeer wrote:Mini-rant: the dungeons in this game are absolute wank. That’s hardly new to Bravely Default 2 (or indeed the franchise, since 1 had the same problem), but for the most part they’re boring featureless corridors that seem designed to get the player lost. Why not include a map? Because stuff you that’s why. Miasma Woods has to be the worst so far, but I’m on a watery dungeon in chapter 5 and it’s almost as bad.

did you not have the ability that protects from terrain hazards?

I did - maybe I’m not talking about Miasma actually. The foggy one. Miasma at least tried something...

i think im on that chapter 4 boss you were griping about. though ive read a good sounding trick for it just need to get adelle up one more job level

Which one of them?

Balladeer wrote:Which one of them?

addam

Got the boss and on to chapter 5 and found a lot of side quests

Yep there are suddenly loooooooads of the bastards.

What was your secret tactic?

Balladeer wrote:Yep there are suddenly loooooooads of the bastards.

What was your secret tactic?

by combining a max level phantom whose second specialty allows you to expend 40mp to ensure a moves secondary effect applies with a salve makers compound I was able to have him paralysed for most of the fight. He still healed at the end of turn but he couldn’t do the thing that healed 9000 hp so I was able to whittle him down

Ahhhhh. That feels a bit cheap! But no harm in that if you enjoy it more that way. I think the only time I’ve properly needed to cheap out on a fight was the Thief - still bitter about that fight, prick hits like a fighter jet. :dread:

Balladeer wrote:Ahhhhh. That feels a bit cheap! But no harm in that if you enjoy it more that way. I think the only time I’ve properly needed to cheap out on a fight was the Thief - still bitter about that fight, prick hits like a fighter jet.

he had far too many counters

That and he hit like a fighter jet. Anyway. Couple of tamed Minotaurs sorted him right out.

Just beat a really tough quest boss (Jormungandr) at the start of chapter 6 and am considering renaming this topic to Godspeed Strike: The Game.

im up to the boss fight against edna and it is brutal although ive read inflicting her with contagion and draining her mp is a good tactic

And that’s me done. Slightly disappointing end, although with godlike music as is par for the course with Revo. I could hoover up the last few bits from the bonus job portals but... nah. Good place to stop, just in time for Monster Hunter.

Overall, I liked it. Great battle system, probably the best pure turn-based battle system I’ve played, let down by absolute drudges of dungeons. Everything else (apart from the divine music) had its ups and downs. Better than Octopath but uglier, less good than Bravely Second but prettier. 7/10, recommended if you have 110h free. :shifty:

im nearly done as well, just got the last job theres too many fake endings

Yep the story ‘gimmick’ is definitely the worst out of the three games. Ah well, at least it didn’t do the original game’s ‘play the same thing four more times’ bullshit.

Balladeer wrote:Yep the story ‘gimmick’ is definitely the worst out of the three games. Ah well, at least it didn’t do the original game’s ‘play the same thing four more times’ bullshit.

didnt help that first new boss after that was beyond brutal

btw do you know what that creepy purple thing at the bottom of the file select is?

It’s your ticket to the endgame!

Balladeer wrote:It’s your ticket to the endgame!

good to know

Bravely Default 2 (Switch, Squeenix JRPG (if you couldn’t tell from the daft title), 77 Metascore, out now)

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