AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I'm really liking Spell Fencers, yeah.

Anyway, I don't even want to talk about how long it took me to beat Mephilia and her stupid summoning butt. Definitely the toughest fight so far. I also technically beat Ranger Artemia, but Tiz died and that's a lot of wasted experience, soooooooooooooo reset. I'm not too mad, though, she's much easier than the last fight.

Dark Knight/Spell Fencer: destroy everything with free healing. Together with a Freelancer/Performer to give infinite free braves I consistently wreck everything.

Einheria was an absolute joke, but DeRosa gave me a little trouble until I figured out that having everyone do a full out assault on him at once usually doesn't work. By the way, the Red Mage outfits are DANG FINE. Oh yeah, the Land Turtle was pretty easy, too. At the Water Temple, Rusalka was pretty freaking annoying. I only had to try three times, I think, but that fight just rustled me off for the insufferable amount of bull crap it throws at you.

One thing that's been annoying me about Bravely Default is that the main story quests seem kind of like running around in circles for a while until you accomplish your original goal.

Chapter 1: Go to Ancheim, head to the Wind Temple, fight your way to the crystal, find out you can't actually awaken it yet because you need...clothes, go to Yulyana Woods, meet the pervey sage(oh boy, my favorite character trope....), ask him to make you clothes, go to a cave to get....thread?, go back to pervey sage so he can make the clothes, go back to the Win Temple, fight a boss, end of chapter.

Chapter 2: Go to your ship, get your ship wrecked, go through the Miasma Woods, go to Florem, go the the Water Temple, find out you can't awaken it AGAIN because Agnes wants Olivia to do it and she suddenly has no sense of urgency, go back to Florem and find out about a beauty.....contest?, go through a mountain pass, meet up with pervey sage AGAIN, ask him for sexy clothes, Tiz gives a pep talk to Agnes and she decides to wear the vestal garb, walk back EMPTY-HANDED, compete in a freaking beauty contest to get Olivia's attention, find out she's not even there, go through another cave, find Olivia, emotional death scene, THEN we can go awaken the Water Crystal.

There really are better ways to lengthen a game than doing a succession of ultimately pointless tasks.

No reading Marc
Oh boy is he in for a surprise.

OK, Chapter Three, not having too tough of a time with this one yet.

Captain Barbarossa was pretty easy, and so was Praline. Her side quest was kind of annoying, though.

And I knew this game could get kind of dark, but then I'm told about Qada using toxic mist to kill enemies and allies alike and suddenly this game got VERY dark.

Oh yeah, and the Automatons put up a good fight, nearly died there.

I can't even remember how often the Automatons kicked my booty before I managed to defeat them. It got significantly easier once the first one was gone.

So, now that I'll played it about 20 hours, here's some insight. I'm a fan of the job, er, asterisk system, and I like the art and music style a bit. However, I find myself bodaciously going Brave x4 on auto-pilot and one-turning anything that isn't a boss.

I just got the ranger and summoner classes (both made incredibly easy by summoning friends, a feature that is too good not to use but maybe too powerful), and I learned about the ending: SPOILER > allegedly it's just a glorified boss rush, requiring completion FIVE TIMES to get the "good" ending...

Don't know, not sure if I care to complete this game or not.

EDIT: I'm waiting for the fairy to actually be evil and for one of the bad guys *the one with the mask) to be either Edea or Agnes' brother or somesuch. Seems about where things are headed.

all spoilers are about the end of chapter four and beyond.

so through a typo and preexisting suspicion due to her behavior, I realized that if you take the last two words of the English title and remove the F's...
also, digging the story implications of the subsequent dimensions...I was wondering from the beginning if Square would finally make a game where the crystals weren't the pinnacle of ultimate good holiness.

although I can see why a lot of people would have a problem with the last half of the game. I personally don't mind it, though.


and I totally called Ringabel and time/dimension shenanigans. also that the "bad guys" wouldn't be so bad.

Is this game like Final Fantasy or any other popular games? I can't decide whether to buy it or not :/

it's final fantasy in all but name

it more closely resembles the early ones, though. none of this "AAHAHAHAHA" or "game of hallways" bullshit.

It's a pretty succesful combination of good gameplay with the sort of story you'd see in an older Final Fantasy game.