TheFLYINGManga_Ka
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Bravely Default |OT| A better Final Fantasy than Final Fantasy
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but crescent moon does hardly any damage...
So wait,
6-7-8 make you refight the same bosses again? No plot spoilers please.
How is hard mode in this game? I have heard mixed reviews on the balancing in hard mode and being forced to go overly defensive. I tend to prefer to play games that I enjoy on hard since it forces you to fully learn and utilize all the systems in the game but not if it is a tedious slog.
Tell me about it. I bought A Link Between Worlds to kill the time.
butman
Member
ALBW is for live the time, not killing it. Careful there.
qualitydisc
Member
Wired's review of BD is positively glowing. And the title of their newest podcast is "Why You Should Go Play Bravely Default This Instant." Congrats to SE.
theprodigy
Member
Yes. But 7 and 8 puts the bosses in groups and has some awesome dialogue. Much better than 5 and 6, more challenging as well
@grinding
Arcanist/Black Mage with
Target All (was a Black Mage support ability, I think)
StatusEffect+ (Arcanist support ability)
Death-All (Death is Black Magic LV6 iirc, with target all you...yea can do what the name says, that is use single target spells on the entire group at once)
is the best way to grind.
Or the Conjurer's Support Ability Exterminante (Auslöschen in German) which will simply kill all enemies which are a certain level below yours at the start of the battle automatically.
Go to Florem. Get tons of XP, JP and monies.
theprodigy
Member
Yes. So please ask in your interview WTF were they thinking.
iirc in Chapter 8 she's in a group with Quada and Lord Lester. Victoria and Quada are their blood-lusty selves in this Chapter, so Lester asks himself if Braev paired him up with them as a punishment. There also was a battle with her before that I think, but I can't remember her group atm.
TheyTookOurJobs
Member
I'm playing the NA demo, and I'm having trouble with
the 2nd boss the hardshell rock creature. What level should I be?
Just so you know, don't do the sidequests in chapter 5 for the plot. It's so miniscule it's not worth it. The only reason to do them is the battle system. If you really enjoy it, then these optional fights are great, but not for the plot.
In chapter 6, it's the same, but you can earn the final job in the game, which is its own reward.
It's slightly better in chapter 7, which also mixes up the fights. Chapter 8's sidequests are post-game content. I did them before the final boss, but they are much harder.
Having gone through them all, I would now recommend to anyone to move past chapter 5 as quickly as possible, get the job in 6, quickly move past 7, finish the game, and then do 8's sidequests.
Starwolf_UK
Member
I know there is a demo thread dead somewhere and I have generally been on media blackout so what better to do than to head into a minefield of spoilers but, experienced players (at least player who know the controls) are best to ask re: this.
My demo appears to soft lock in battle quite often. What happens is I select my actions. The enemy starts to do something (animation stars to play, text box at top appears but no text yet) and everything stops. Music continues to play, I can press the Y button to make the word auto appear and vanish and I notice in bottom right corner a pause button is flashing.
This makes me hope I've hit a button to pause the battle (likely, I am a bit of a masher). Pressing buttons does not seem to unpause (maybe I missed some or it is a combination that is required here). I would look at a manual only this demo doesn't have one (nice one, NOE). So how do I unpause?
In the event of it being impossible, I've not tried L+R+S to see if soft reset works yet (I'm not wasting another use if it is easily preventable and that fails) but if it does at worst I could soldier through saving after every battle and using encounter -100% for sanity to achieve that.
p.s. the streetpass icon is from the Japanese version; it says for the sequel (the pixels seem to be a 3-3-6 pattern)
My demo appears to soft lock in battle quite often. What happens is I select my actions. The enemy starts to do something (animation stars to play, text box at top appears but no text yet) and everything stops. Music continues to play, I can press the Y button to make the word auto appear and vanish and I notice in bottom right corner a pause button is flashing.
This makes me hope I've hit a button to pause the battle (likely, I am a bit of a masher). Pressing buttons does not seem to unpause (maybe I missed some or it is a combination that is required here). I would look at a manual only this demo doesn't have one (nice one, NOE). So how do I unpause?
In the event of it being impossible, I've not tried L+R+S to see if soft reset works yet (I'm not wasting another use if it is easily preventable and that fails) but if it does at worst I could soldier through saving after every battle and using encounter -100% for sanity to achieve that.
p.s. the streetpass icon is from the Japanese version; it says for the sequel (the pixels seem to be a 3-3-6 pattern)
It looks like you've pressed left on the dpad to pause the battle animations. Left and right slow down/speed up the battle animations - all the way left pauses completely including a pause icon. Press right to carry on.
DrForester
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Stupid question.
How do you buy from the village shops? I only get options to build them and keep leveling them up.
How do you buy from the village shops? I only get options to build them and keep leveling them up.
Speak to the red adventurer guy that saves your game
D
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Well that was a long side quest. Probably not even going to use the job I got from it.
Gottacatchemall
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theprodigy
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Well, my last session was pretty humbling.
I tried to beat the nemesis
on normal with my characters being one or two levels above the requirement. I rocked a generic party of one dark mage, one healer and two melee fighters. It started of well, then as I chipped away at its health
to a point where there was absolutely no way to avoid two of my characters getting killed per turn.
I'm thinking about what I did wrong. Do Nemeses battles usually require you to completely finetune your job setup for the needs of that one fight? Are they just a big difficulty spike compared to the main quest? Or do you actually need to be well above the level requirement to beat them?
I tried to beat the nemesis
Mammon
its Death Claw ability started to do an insane amount of damage
I'm thinking about what I did wrong. Do Nemeses battles usually require you to completely finetune your job setup for the needs of that one fight? Are they just a big difficulty spike compared to the main quest? Or do you actually need to be well above the level requirement to beat them?
Raises hand
too late lol now I'm in chapter 6 and I can't believe I did all that
Dead Prince
Banned
Contact amazon. unless you want it to not be delivered the day of.
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
I really like this turn of phrase.
theprodigy
Member
Called them. Rep I talked to didn't know diddly, since it hasn't released yet. Hopefully it will change in the next couple of days.
If it turns out that they won't deliver my CE copy because its sold out, I'm going to be disappointed.
Dark Octave
Banned
About how long does the demo take to download? I'm at a starbucks right now.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
I knew the answer would make me feel silly.
Chrono Helix
Member
You'll have to do this if you're fighting them at the minimum level recommended. Are you dispelling his buffs? That'll help a lot. And never go below 1 Brave in case he drains BP.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
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What?! You should've bought Link Between Worlds months ago!
It's actually a good way to pass the time.
Darn Nintendo and Friday releases!
podracer35
Member
It's funny how as a kid, I used to wish for more Friday/summer releases since it meant more time to play. And now I want games out asap, so I don't have to wait the extra few days.
What?! You should've bought Link Between Worlds months ago!
It's actually a good way to pass the time.
Darn Nintendo and Friday releases!
This has been one of the worst releases for me. The wait between the original release for the rest of the world and NA has been awful. And the final nail in the coffin is having to wait till Friday.
Welcome to what PAL land feels when it comes to atlus games!
that sentence was slightly outdated so I fixed that for you.
Velcro Fly
Member
Not only did we have to go through it with the demo but with the full release too.
Not the end of the world. I know EU is suffering with no SMT4 and waited awhile for Fire Emblem too. I can definitely be patient so long as I eventually get what I ordered from Amazon!
Not the end of the world. I know EU is suffering with no SMT4 and waited awhile for Fire Emblem too. I can definitely be patient so long as I eventually get what I ordered from Amazon!
Thanks! Then I'm gonna wait a little bit as my job progress is still pretty puny. Hell, I don't even have any dispelling magic yet.
toastyToast
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We had to wait a couple months for Fire Emblem
so what? they had to wait a year for xenoblade, tls and even longer for pandora . and at least 3 years for inazuma eleven... and there were many other examples like that in the past few years.
I'd say it's pretty evened out now. Sometimes we get to wait, sometimes they get to wait
and slowly but surely I am really getting sick of Europeans playing the victim all the time when it's factually not true any more (atlus excluded).
Aveyn Knight
Member
I wasted Mammon at Level 25, but I already beat the game so I had experience. Abate fire helps loads since Firaja is its main source of damage.
The other nemeses can be a bit iffy. Level 99 Asmodeus and Beelzebub are proving quite tricky; I have a feeling Asmodeus can't be beaten without ONE broken combo.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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I've been powering my way through the game and earlier got to Victor and Victoria.
They obliterated me! The first time I've been defeated so far.
I tried again and lost again.
I tried again..... and lost again!
I've passed them now but reconsidering my entire party/job set-up.
Does the game get notably harder after this point?
I'd say we have it better in Europe now than the US and have done for a little while. We even get better box arts too!
They obliterated me! The first time I've been defeated so far.
I tried again and lost again.
I tried again..... and lost again!
I've passed them now but reconsidering my entire party/job set-up.
Does the game get notably harder after this point?
I'd say we have it better in Europe now than the US and have done for a little while. We even get better box arts too!
theprodigy
Member
*happening intensifies*
....but shit wouldn't the 360 version actually do something out here in the west
Ok, let's include 360 SKU as well.
Bravely Default - 12th
Lighting Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
PS3 - 14th
360 - 85th
Happening bunker upgraded.
I can usually tank its Blizzaja, now Death Claw on the other hand...
On I slightly different note, my only gripe with the game is just how much it gives you free hand in shaping the difficulty. Just like at the nemesis fight, I'm constantly questioning myself whether I'm playing it right. Changing the difficulty from normal to hard then back all the time because I want random encounters to be a challange and not just cannon fodder but I also don't want to struggle too much with evil tree #344. It's not the game's fault though. I'm just weak.