![]() ![]() Its side quests are uniformly fetch-quests, unhappy slogs that do nothing to immerse you in its world or provide a window into those who inhabit it. The central plot is banal in its predictability, its twists openly pinched from other games. Bravely Default 2 refuses to try anything remotely interesting or different to its competition. That’s a dire position for a series this well-liked and respected to find itself in. ![]() If you didn’t know I was talking specifically about Bravely Default 2, would you have ever known the difference between this and a hundred other JRPG’s released every year? Default by name, default by nature Both Elvis and Adelle will join you on your quest to save a vaguely European fantasy world and defeat a pallid, conventionally villainous, queer-coded, one-dimensional villain. Both characters speak in a soup of British and Scottish colloquialisms that can only be the work of an American localisation team. A set of powerful crystals has gone missing and it’s up to you and your team of happy-go-lucky, found-family losers to get them back and earn their place in society AND in history.Īmong your party are the mage Elvis and his strong, unflappable bodyguard Adelle. You are greeted by Princess Gloria and her loyal elderly knight Sir Sloan (cliches both) and are quickly pulled into an urgent quest to save the world. Stop me if you’ve heard this one beforeįrom the moment its protagonist awakens on an unfamiliar beach, suffering amnesia, the groans and eye rolls began in earnest. ![]() Bravely Default 2 is a long, bland parade of JRPG cliches, presenting one after another for 50 consecutive hours. ![]()
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