Wolf Kanno
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Uggghhhh

You know what, okay. The game looks great as is. I'm confident it will be good, and if it's successful and they decide to add sequels later with just as much effort and passion out into it, I'm fine with that. Just don't push for more games before XV's release please

Thank God for TabatA, seriously

Yeah, I can see that. Though on the other hand, the material is already familiar to the fanbase considering how everyone had their eyes on the development process, so, who knows? In any case, yeah, I would also prefer XV to be self-contained, but on the bright side, at least it's not three games instead of one. A movie and 5-episode anime (with 10-minute episodes) are comparatively easy to catch up on.

Well, Ive seen the first episode and it's aight. It's really more about promoting the game than being an anime on its own, so it's good for what it is. Nicely showcases the character personalities.

I'm on the fence about the movie, though. I mean, it's cool that we get Regis' perspective, but I don't like how off-model the characters are and that they brought big-name actors just for the movie for important characters that won't reprise their roles in the games. I mean, I don't know about Sean Bean, but I know Lena Headey isn't gonna voice Luna in-game

I haven't played the demo for either, but I heard the second one is really worth it as it's more like chapter 0 for Bravely Second. You still shouldn't play it before you beat BD because spoilers

Definitely. I'm a big fan of deconstruction, personally, so I'm very fine with that

So the FFXV thing exploded

Can't speak for Bravely Second just yet, but Bravely Default also nicely deconstructs the classic crystals narrative. Sadly, that leads into the game's fatal flaw, but I still think that it works great with the narrative. The religion of evil that has been done to death in JRPGs is also handled incredibly well!

I have to play that someday!

Yeah, thought you might like that Though I know that there is a way to get all the missing jobs much later, but all that is still entirely optional. Actually, besides the first four and penultimate four jobs, none of the jobs in Bravely Default were necessary.

Still, it's a pretty great series so far and I hope they keep making more. Default had one gigantic flaw but was pretty excellent besides that, and now I see Second has even more improved gameplay, I hear that one flaw is gone, but sadly, the composer and lead writer have been replaced. The music has grown on me, however, and the writing seems good so far with some of the meta stuff kept in, so we'll see how it goes later.

So you just have to play these once you get 4 Heroes of Light over with

Yeah, it was pretty okay, though I'm probably even more tired than before.

Bravely Second is great so far. There's a couple strange design choices that actually make the game pretty unique, which I think you might like. For example, there's quite a bit of new jobs, but you can't gain access to all jobs from Default until much later. First you have to make a choice within a sidequests. For example, in my last sidequest I had a moral dilemma posed to me and depending on my choice on how to resolve it, I'd either unlock the red mage or the thief.