Really? I thought it was supposed to have some super fucked up crazy mindfuck story by the guy who did steins;gate?
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i don't know precisely because i haven't spoiled it myself but from reading impressions here and there i think there is some sort of standard jrpg trope breaking that involve's time travel,that also seems to involve content getting repeated of course :lol
Really? I thought it was supposed to have some super fucked up crazy mindfuck story by the guy who did steins;gate?
I am not done with the game, but so far it is zzZz and I am over half-way. Maybe there will be some shocking twist I haven't experienced yet. I don't think that will save it anyway.
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The chosen one (the wind vestel) travels to each country to awake the wind, water, fire and Earth temple. There is nothing super fucked about it.
Eh, the story's not bad. Kinda by the numbers for most until the neat twist. The conclusion was executed well.
The thing that really hurts the game is
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everything after chapter 4 where everything repeats itself so you have to refight bosses (main story and sidequest bosses) over and over for several chapters because the game is written as though it's a visual novel and could have easily made its point by doing that for fewer chapters than what it did.
Otherwise, the game is fun despite the mechanics and some attacks being easily exploitable.
Been playing and am only up to chapter 2 so far... thought it was pretty crazy how
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you go to the Red Mage's rape basement
Game is great and I like how the sidequests are done - they actually have some slight story and give you new jobs... so much better than the average MMO-influenced quest permeating single-player RPGs nowadays like "collect 5 boar hides and I'll give you this weapon that's slightly more powerful than the one you own".
I think this may be the secret best Final Fantasy game ever.
Just got the true ending. My game time was 78 hrs 27 mins 07 secs. A good chunk of that was power leveling while marathoning four seasons of Community on Hulu. I finished with all my characters at level 99 and all job classes maxed out, including all the optional job classes. The backtracking after chapter 4 would have been really obnoxious had I not been super over leveled. Hopefully they don't pull that crap in the sequel. I can't wait for the sequel!
I like how it integrated StreetPass and Augmented Reality in cool narratives ways…
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Your online and StreetPass friends turn out to be parallel timelines that reveal themselves to be such during the final battle. And the real world (our world) turns out to be the Celestial world. That explains the opening AR scene that had Agnès freaking out in my living room. The Celestial that was inhabiting Tiz was me (or you or whoever is playing the game), that's why at the end of the game, Tiz dies… because I'm not playing the game anymore. I know Bravely Default isn't the first game to break the fourth wall like this. Panzer Dragoon Saga and Earthbound both reference the player as some sort of god controlling events. But it's still a good use of AR in storytelling.
Love the combat and job system. LOVE the fact that you can adjust the encounter rate (up for grinding, down when you just want to plow through to the next boss). I didn't love the voice acting, but it wasn't terrible. Once you muscled through the repeated bosses of the latter part of the game, the story was great overall.
I have FF: The 4 Heroes of Light. I may give that a try in a week or so.