Bravely Second was typical anime slice of life schlock. It was perfectly inoffensive, but overall it didn’t take as much risk as the first one. The main cast suffers by taking out two feisty individuals and replacing them with inoffensive warm dumplings - and that makes three of them against one fiery Enea who sadly is not enough to liven up the chemistry between the four. Not to mention the story is an insanely jointed mess. In the last act the game basically goes “oh yeah, there was this thing” and all of the actual story that was fordhadowed in the first game is crammed into the last bit and awfully clashes with the rest of the story. Although no, scratch that - the story is disjointed before that, with the events barely even connecting together. The party just stumbles into things. Say what you will about the first game, but at least it knew where it was going from the start and everything that happened along the way made sense as part of that journey. Also, the jobs are way more broken and unbalanced, which is sad. And the music was inferior on all levels.

I still enjoyed it when I played it. But while I wanted more after the first game, finishing the second made me just want to move on to something else and forget about it.