Customer Ratings & Reviews

Good game lots to take in from the story. Fun for anyone into PlayStation 1 style rpgs with upgraded graphics.

Excellent game overall, nice story, graphics/visuals! Game to pass the time and not a sleeper at all! Highly recommended, espeically on the switch platform :)

Yes they do. Great games, great service! Found this at a discount but absolutely worth the full price.

Bravely Default II, as the title suggests, is an excellent JRPG. In a day and age where turn-based combat systems are becoming less marketable, it sticks closer to the classic final fantasy style of taking turns to select actions from a menu - with allies on one side and enemies on the other, albeit with the fantastic new mechanics of braving and defaulting found in the Bravely series. As of the time of writing this review, I’ve played about 10 hours of Default II and the aspects that stand out most to me have been: 1. The graphics. They look excellent, unique, and at times are just jaw dropping in beauty and creativity. At first I didn’t care for the look of the in-game characters, but they quickly began to grow on me within the first several hours alone. The handrawn looking backgrounds of the city scapes, the diorama-esk environments, etc. It all adds to the charm and feel of this game. 2. The characters. I wasn’t sure if I’d like the main cast this time around. In my time with Bravely default on the 3DS, I grew to really love Tis, Ringabel, Agnes, and Edea. The trailers leading up to the release of Default II didn’t convince me this time around. However, within the first several hours I quickly came around and found that I rather enjoyed all four of the new heroes, both individually and as a group (regarding their meaningful and entertaining reactions with each other). 3. The party chats in this game have all been anything from funny and charming to heartwarming, and have all been interesting. They really help to make the group feel real - often showing a more mundane side to the characters interactions with each other and the world around them, though at times are entirely about that’s happening in the main story events as well. All in all, they are very welcome in helping add personality and depth to the four heroes of light. 4. The story. While I enjoyed the majority of the general story in Bravely Default, it wasn’t the best I’ve ever experienced in a Jrpg. With Bravely II, while I can’t speak of it on the whole, I can easily say that it’s already gripped me. I have found myself every hour, every step of the way excited and genuinely interested and engaged with what’s happening and wondering what will happen next. While the foundational premise is nothing new (four warriors of light destined to fight back the darkness; a fantasy story involving crystals), it doesn’t at all mean that it doesn’t work - really, I think it works quite well. And it helps being someone who hasn’t played every single classic Final Fantasy game. I’ve heard there’s some supervision of tropes and twists along the way, so I’ll be anxious to see how it all plays out. 5. The combat. The turn-based gameplay in Default II is amazing. It’s surprisingly easy to get a hang of, but holds a high ceiling regarding strategy and depth to be mined and exploited. Not only from risking or saving actions through the brave and default system and all that results from this, but equally from the various job classes you obtain throughout the play through. Boss battles are sufficiently challenging and even standard enemies on the over-world require a moderate amount of attention as they can easily put you in a difficult situation if you’re not careful. The combat is snappy, strategic, and most importantly - downright fun to engage with. 6. The quality of life features. While Default II does away with the ability to turn off enemy encounters completely (they are now visible on the overworld), it does provide some ability to avoid them by running around them if you choose to forgo grinding at that particular moment. In addition, there is an easy difficulty setting (which is much appreciated - but still, in my opinion, a bit too hard), as well as there are several speed up options both for character dialogue and for attack animations in battle. 7. The music. Like Bravely Default, some familiar tunes return in Default II and this brings a nice feeling of nostalgia. The new tracks are excellent and I’ve found all the music so far to be enjoyable to listen to, and nothing has become annoying as I’ve spent time grinding or making my away through the story bits and town exploration. Always a plus! 8. Lastly, and while I could say much more about my experiences with this game so far, I’ll point out that the sailing exploration feature has been surprisingly useful — to set sail, put my Switch in sleep mode and then 12 hours later reap rewards (character stat and job class experience items) has been super helpful. Overall, this game has really impressed me so far and I don’t see it letting up anytime soon. my only caution for newcomers to this series or the JRPG genre is the difficulty here. It starts off fairly easy and can lull you into thinking you can casually make your way throughout combat encounters, but I can’t stress enough how untrue this is — especially as the game progresses. Enemies don’t hold back, and the name of the game here is exploiting weaknesses which boils down to, in an almost puzzle like manner, figuring out the correct method to take down each increasingly difficulty boss fight. Grinding is a necessity as well. So if a higher challenge puts you off, you might be better off to look elsewhere at more friendly and forgiving games/experiences such as the recent Persona games, the Trails of Cold Steel series, etc — all of which provide easier and more forgiving difficulty settings and allow you to get through boss battles without too much effort (which is helpful if a boss is the reason you can’t progress the story).

I haven't completed the game, yet, so I can't give an in depth review, but so far, I like it. I'll start off with what I don't like first. The cons are: 1. No demo bonuses. Bravely Default and Bravely Second both had demo bonuses and it was disappointing this one didn't. 2. In Bravely Default and Bravely Second, the idle features were on the bottom screen and so long as you didn't power off the system, they'd work. In this game, I think you actively have to not be playing for anything to happen. If that's not how it works, then I misunderstood. 3. Monks are available earlier than they're able to be effective in battle. Unlike in the demo, in the full game, Monks are like Dark Knights and use HP, not MP or BP, for a lot of abilities. When you first get Monks, you don't have much HP, so you can only use abilities once. I ended up only punching things and then, changing to class that doesn't suck. It's disappointing, since Monks were good in the other games. 4. The auto battle and enemy encounter set up in Bravely Second was perfect and IDK why it was changed. I liked being able to set encounters to 0-100% and when I was grinding, auto for weaknesses was great. In this game, you have to use items to do everything and you can only auto per turn instead of an entire battle, which makes grinding less fun. I already know I'm setting plants on fire. Just let me set them on fire faster. I also don't want to fight a bajillion Caterpie just to reach a treasure chest. 4. I miss the bestiary being in character. Ringabel and Yew's crew had such interesting personalities and not being able to see that for Seth, Gloria, Elvis, and Adelle is disappointing, especially since Elvis is a scholar. I would've liked to read his garbage bestiary. As of now, that's all. I like everything else. After playing Pokemon, this was a welcome change to turn based RPGs. The saving up turns and using them in advance gimmick is great, fun gimmick. I like how challenging all of the monsters and bosses are. That was one of my favorite things about the earlier games, so I like that all of that was kept. I haven't unlocked all of the jobs, yet, but one thing I noticed, so far, is that it looks like costumes go by personality instead of gender, which I like. It always bugged me Agnes would use jobs with outfits as skimpy as the Bravo/Bimbo Bikini when she hated that. I like all the new jobs. Beastmasters are a fun twist on Blue Mages. The graphics are great. Really pretty. The soundtrack is fantastic too! I'm wondering if there's a lore reason the Bravely Default games have Revo, while Bravely X has supercell. Someone working on this game is an Elvis Presley fan to the point where if you know anything about him, you can correctly guess plot points. I actually laughed. None of this is played for comedy. It's awesome.

i played this for a while until the grinding to get the jobs I needed leveled up got a bit much and put it down for a while. When I returned a while later, wow, the last half of the game is smart and challenging. The Bravely/Default (Take extra turns, miss the next few, or don't take a turn and build them up is very interesting) There are so many jobs, and some combinations of jobs work better together than other, and you might be missing a job you need for a boss. Treats are your friends (to level up jobs fast), internet websites with job tips are your friends, it is a rewarding game. When the credits roll at the end of Chapter 5, reload the new save file and keep on going, the story is still going on. This game is a long one, but one that a lot of thought was put into. If you love old turn-based games like the original Final Fantasy games, this is a must play.

Braverly Default 2 is a gem, a true old school type of JRPG. I feel like this game isn't being talked about enough throughout the JRPG community, but it deserves a lot of attention. It does almost everything right, great story, fun combat system, cool characters and villain, and the graphics are nice for the switch. The performance is not that smooth, but hopefully when the switch pro comes out it will fix all the little framerate drops and hitches. Other than that, the game is one of my favorites this year. 100+ hours on hard mode, currently doing all the side quest beating the super bosses. If you love the snes-ps1 era jprgs get this game, you wont regret it.

This is one of the best in the Bravely series. The voice acting actually drew me in and caused me to want to see what happens next. The side quest part is a little frustrating since you have to keep going back to cities to see if you have completed all the quests, but all in all it is a solid game. I like the ability to change jobs and sub jobs and experiment with what works best rather than just being stuck with an already put together band of heroes so to speak. I actually have a hard time putting it down.

Listen i know it says Bravely Default 2. No you don't have to play the first one (Even though technically there's 2 games before this one). It's a Square game, so think of it like a Final Fantasy game. 7 has nothing to do with X, and 2 has nothing to do with 6. If the game looks like it'd be up your RPG loving Alley. Then give it a shot. Modern Square has been on roll. Got this on sale too btw.

I still haven't finished it but it is very similar to the other games' gameplay. This time it has different characters and takes place on a different continent. Art style of the game is still great and it looks really good on the TV in docked mode. voice acting is still on point. Music is as great as always for a Square game. would highly recommend for RPG fans.

Bravely default scratches a nostalgic itch for games from another era, but with a breath of fresh air. Classic turn based combat with your typical statuses, magic/weapon triangle, and various skills each character can use to either support or deal damage. This concept was freshened up with a system literally in the games name itself- Brave, and default. Defaulting in a turn is almost like choosing "defend" in games of old. But the catch is you're rewarded- there is a point system for however many turns you "default" that you can then spend to be "Brave". Braving in a turn allows your character to do multiple actions at once, Ex- A character uses 2 brave points- They can attack, use an item, and them a job skill all within one single turn. This dynamic makes for extremely interesting gameplay in an otherwise extremely predictable format, especially since the enemies can also use it. The story is somewhat typical of any square enix game- interesting characters but takes itself a bit seriously at times. The world was liveable and extremely interesting- all of the visuals of the town looked great in portable and console mode. All in all the game is worth a try if you're a fan of the genre- otherwise, I might look elsewhere to spend the $60.

Great game with great gameplay and better story than the original

The first Bravely Default garnered a reputation as rather difficult, and the third game in the series definitely lives up to that rep. It is much harder than the first, and with the absence of an auto-mode in this entry you can't just run around an easy area and build up experience. Even battling nearly every enemy that comes across your way for the first 20 hours of game time still puts you at a serious disadvantage against bosses, with one of the tougher fights of the first 20 hours easily taking 45-60 minutes to complete while burning through many of your Mini-Ethers and Phoenix Downs on the Normal difficulty setting. Easily the hardest RPG from Square/SquareEnix that I've ever tried to tackle, out of a pool of about about twenty. Do not try it unless you're willing to put up with a lot of tedious grinding, a few battles that can go 10 minutes plus, and dungeon areas that might take an hour or more to clear. It also performs very badly. Even in docked mode, the game has noticeable frameskips while walking around the overworld and the audio can stall for a half second at times at the start of cutscenes. No idea why - there's not that much going on in the game that should cause such performance drops. I'm shocked that a Switch exclusive performs this way, an that SquareEnix hasn't fixed/improved it yet, three weeks after release. I personally enjoy the game (except for the performance issues) but can't recommend it to the general gaming public. Only hardcore RPG fans will find it bearable.

Tl;dr Game is average, combat is bland with no diversity in characters abilities. Story is more of the same from early Final Fantasy days stories. Voice acting is mediocre at times. I still enjoyed it for what it was. I'd still recommend it for a time killer. Game is essentially an average Final Fantasy game with job implementation. There's not really any diversity in characters abilities, so you can build anyone however you want which is a good or a bad thing depending on how you want the game to play. The first Bravely Default's game has a much better and fuller feeling story. The story for this one is mediocre and is your typical Final Fantasy collect the four crystals and become warriors of light to save the world. Voice acting is alright, although it can come across as annoying and out of place with some characters at times. The voice actors did a decent job altogether though. Gameplay changes are welcome and unwelcome at the same time as the combat can be frustrating when the enemies can counter specific things you do in the middle of your turn, making your turns more thought out but also leaving you more open to more damage when most bosses can one shot your squishier classes. I enjoyed the challenge but the fights just feel more cookie cut at that point almost forcing me to have to use specific strategies to beat bosses with no diversity over what I think other players would use.

The game its not that hard to master, the length of the game its maybe his weak side, focusing on the main objectives it would take you around 50 to 60 hours and its doesn't really have a replay value. Other than that its a solid hame with good storyline if you are looking for chill and casual play

Compared to the previous Bravely Default titles, II has more polished gameplay and job system mechanics. It was very fun to play, if not a bit grindy. Biggest complaint is a cast of unmemorable characters and a subpar story. These characters are not as charming as the ones in the original game nor End Layer. If you are in the mood to play a game with a job system or want to keep playing Bravely Default, pick it up. If not, you can move on.

I LOVE this game. Final Fantasy vibes all the way through, a classic SE game. World is beautiful. The default combat makes it tactically interesting while providing a fast paced turn based combat that isn’t too slow or boring for classic RPG lovers. Music = amazing. Artwork of the world is unique and gorgeous. Would pay lots of money to see the early Final Fantasy games 1-6 remade in this style. Only drawback for me was how terrible dag was with his voicing and writing was over the top. Story isn’t the most riveting thing ever but I like it still. Characters are fun. No issues with anything else so far. If you’re a FF and SE fan you’ll love it!

This is a polished JRPG complete with turn based combat and quests a-plenty. Great voice acting and beautiful story book style and design. Some of the dialog is long winded at times. The graphics are poor during zoomed in scenes. Be prepared to do some grinding to level up your characters. Some of the battles are difficult if you're not prepared.

If you're a fan of classic RPG's then this is certainly a must buy. Has probably the best town art aesthetic I've seen in recent years and the job system is the right balance between accessible and robust.

Fantastic classic JRPG for people who like a challenge. Combat is fun, job system is engaging, and soundtrack is phenomenal. Looking forward to additional titles in the series in the future.