

I really enjoyed this part of the game, as it pulled back the curtain behind these characters. These interactions really helped to understand these characters and served as a vehicle to develop characters and grant them perspective. They go further after the cutscenes with Party Chat to flesh out more details behind plans and to even share personal stories and details from their lives. Bravely Default II employs cutscenes for characters to discuss situations and how they’d plan on handling them. Throughout their journey, you really get to know these characters and see their bond start to grow. Instead, I found myself being fully invested in the development of each character, both as a member of the party and the NPCs that were interacted with, and the insane twists I never saw coming. Sure, it was a bit formulaic throughout in the fact that the premise revolved around going from place to place to find the crystals, only to be greeted with a kingdom in danger of collapse after these crystals had gone haywire. I found myself really enjoying the story of Bravely Default II from the first moments of the game. However, there are forces that stand in their way who are corrupting and destroying the land with asterisks and misuse of the crystals. band together to find the four elemental crystals, fire, earth, wind, and water in order to save and restore order to the world. When he arrives on the beach, he’s met by Gloria, a princess of the destroyed kingdom of Musa, Elvis, a scholar in search of Asterisks to decrypt an old book, and Adelle, a mercenary searching for her lost sister. Before he ends his days in a watery grave, he’s saved by fate to be an integral part of the salvation of the continent and its various kingdoms. In Bravely Default II, you start out as a pirate named Seth (The only character whose name can change, primarily for online purposes.) who washes up on shore after a shipwreck at sea.

With Bravely Default II, they’ve done just that and set the bar for any other games to come in the franchise. Now, Square Enix has returned to the Bravely Default series, with Claytechworks at the helm, intent on creating a quality sequel that would live up to its groundbreaking predecessor. The next game in the series, Bravely Second: End Layer (2015-2016), while still a mostly well-received game didn’t live up to expectations set from the first, primarily due to a lacking story. It became a critical and financial success, as players purchased over 1,000,000 copies for the Nintendo 3DS. A Beautiful, Epic Return to the World of Bravely DefaultĪbout 9 years ago, Square Enix and Silicon Studio introduced the gaming world to a new JRPG turn-based franchise known as Bravely Default.
