Some balance exists for your gear, luckily, with the introduction of a weight system. These fights were always fun and interesting, not to mention quite rewarding, often giving equipment that ended up further trivializing mandatory story content. Luckily, the game does sprinkle a good number of ‘rare’ monsters around the map which are incredibly strong monsters, typically with a fun type of gimmick to overcome.
Combined with the fact you can no longer simply turn off experience gain to farm job points, anyone wishing to keep their new jobs maxed out will find themselves overleveled for a significant portion of the game.Įven on hard mode it wasn’t difficult to overwhelmingly decimate a majority of story bosses, most of which are asterisk users. Such a variety of customization is quite fun, but of course it also makes balancing the game a bit of a nightmare. From the get-go you’re able to further enhance each character by equipping passives earned by leveling each job. Each character can choose a main job and a sub job, allowing you to use the main job’s unique special abilities as well as both job’s set of skills. Especially given there are a whopping 24 jobs this time. The old system used to feel somewhat inconsistent at times so this is a marked improvement.Īsterisks also make a return, imparting unique jobs onto your characters and allowing for a fairly generous medley of team compositions. It also means you have much more control over the flow of battle. This seemingly small change significantly increases the usefulness of the speed stat, as your fastest character could easily perform three actions by the time your slowest performs one. Now instead of choosing all four of your character’s actions and then executing them in sequence, each character acts independently. Unlike the original however, Bravely Default 2 decided to disconnect each character’s turn. You’re able to Brave up to 3 times in a turn to perform 4 actions, or Default to store your turn and defend. It wouldn’t be Bravely Default without the beloved Brave and Default system, which functions exactly as it did in the original. It’s clear from the outset that much care and attention was put into preserving a lot of the series’ former glory whilst also injecting fresh ideas and improvements. Bravely Default 2 sets off on a brand new adventure in a different universe featuring an entirely new cast of characters, but it still retains the essence of what made the original such a classic.