Bravely Default 2 offers a refined experience with a few exciting elements but doesn't quite grasp the experimental design it was shooting for.
A message was posted on the official Bravely Default account on X (as spotted by user Stealth), to celebrate the third anniversary of the latest game in the series, Bravely Default 2.
The message, written by producer Tomoya Asano, suggests that a new announcement related to the series will be coming later in 2024.
That would be great. I doubt the Switch successor will come this year, probably Spring of '25 (bc of rumors). But that would line up if they made an announcement on Bravely Default III in the Fall. Maybe a cross-platform title?
Yeah it was originally planned for this year but it seems to have been moved to 2025. I wonder when they will announce it though. Anyway I still need to play Bravely II (do already own it).
@Nyxus You know, I still only ever played the demo of Bravely Default II, and loved it. It was just one of those things where I was playing so many other things at the time it came out. Next time I see it on sale I'll pick it up. I'm hardcore on the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters at the moment. I'm really loving them, particularly bc it's the first time that the classics have included actual orchestrated music.
I'm really hoping the Switch successor is backwards compatible, because I have quite a backlog for the system, including several RPGs like Bravely II, Octopath Traveler I and II and Fire Emblem Engage.
Nice. I really enjoyed Bravely Default 2. Surprised they didn't port 1 and Bravely Second at some point.
I'm surprised that didn't happen either, seems like an obvious choice, but then again, I hear Bravely Default 2 didn't do very well.
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"But there such a thing as too comfortable, too complacent. Bravely Default 2 feels like it wants its players to be warm and safe and unprovoked, but its audience might be reaching for something new, something surprising, and Bravely Default 2 is not that."
I still need to see for myself exactly how "safe" it is, but at first, this is a positive for me. Square Enix tries to do "new and surprising things" in Final Fantasy all the time, and it's been very long since I actually loved a FF game...
Between MMORPGs (XI and XIV), single player MMORPG-like (XII), linear (XIII), open world (XV), each with a different battle system, not one of them reaches the heights of the old games. Gee, even VII Remake, when they actually could have played it safer, they tried to innovate and add timelines, whispers and Kingdom Hearts-like dialog and ruined it.
So, coming from Square Enix, playing it safe may actually be a good thing. If I remember well, Dragon Quest XI also doesn't change much from the DQ formula, and it's considered one of the best in the series.