I want to talk about Bravely Second. I just finished it tonight,

>>378631459
The ending felt very abrupt and while the ending dungeon looked cool, the game did not manage to give me any mounting sense of anticipation. It felt to me like a very, very poor attempt at imitating the concepts of the first game but with none of the correct build-up or decent writing to accompany it. Also, having the Celestial Realm meant to represent the forces of good and being "our" world in Default, then having some evil bitch god from there as the antagonist in Second was fucking retarded. It would have made way more sense if Anne was serving Ouroboros and trying to succeed where Airy fell.

Tiz and Agnes are cute though, so that made it worth it. Oh, and expanding on the background of how the Plague happened was cool too actually. Bravely Third when?

bravely second takes some steps backwards, but its still a pretty good experience

default has its own issues especially with the entire second half of the game, and also they always talk about food way too much, but damn if the battle system isn't dope in both games. It kinda makes slogging through the shitty parts a non issue

I was pretty upset with how they flanderised Edea in to a one note character. I still love her, but I hope if there's a third game its handled by someone else.

>>378631576
I enjoyed the new classes, but I found the battles not to be as challenging even remotely. No 4-way brawls like Default. I had to get to level 99 and still had some struggle with certain battles but I finished everything in Second mid-70s. Barely even got to explore some of the new cool classes you get close to the end.

>>378631678
Oh fucking definitely. What happened to the writer who did Default? Why did he step down?

I like Second over Default purely due to the midgame twist not making the rest of the game a massive slog and improving it instead.

>>378631459
The sequel was super low budget.
New team for the most part, original writers axed, original composer axed, 90% of the game is reused assets from BD, it's just trash.

>>378631983
I'll agree that they made you repeat worlds way too many times in Default, but by contrast I thought that Second didn't have ENOUGH content. Default, while requiring you to repeat scenarios, still had differing dialogue and offered increasingly challenging boss fights. The slight differences between the dimensions made it more tolerable to me, but cutting 5 loops down to 3 would have improved things significantly.

>>378632261
What's the deal with that? BD didn't sell as well as they anticipated, or were they being greedy?

>>378632350
Greed.
They expected AAA mainstream sales from a fucking handheld RPG.
Same with them saying that Chrono Trigger DS selling 1.2 million was major disappointment in sales. They actually fucking expected a port of a SNES game to sell 5 million with a brand new game pricetag.

Square Enix is beyond fucking retarded.

>>378631787

The writer of the original wrote Steins;Gate, I guess he was too busy on other projects so the producers took over joint writing duties. I thought the second game was far inferior writing wise.

New composer, I thought most of his songs were worse than the originals. Worse writing, masses and masses of reused content, even entire dungeons. It was like Bravely Default 1.5, the series deserved a better sequel.

>>378632476
I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not. Poor IP management seems to be their game these days... it's almost like they're competing with Capcom or something.

>>378632486
>writer of Steins;gate
Really? I didn't know. That explains so much about everything.
Agreed about the new composer... the only new song I really liked was the one that played when the dopey soldiers were on-screen. The original had an amazing OST overall.