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Bravely Default: Flying Fairy Discussion (Nintendo 3DS) [game]
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02/09/14, 17:48 Edited: 02/09/14, 17:48
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@Mop it up You mean break a crystal? The weird thing is the game clearly wants you to try that, there is some huge hint about not listening to Airy, and the crystals are the only part where you're actively listening to Airy yet from what I read it is a false ending? But yeah the story makes no sense. And it makes even less sense now that I've pushed further, because there is this dramatic part where your main character is convincing one of the girls that none of this was your fault and you couldn't have known it would happen and I'm like seriously?! It was pretty much spelled out a long time ago and the characters kept pushing forward... why exactly?!Anyway, finished the Airy fight, which was actually super easy once I realized that I could use the move that makes all of your characters immune to elemental attacks and basically make my characters immune to 90% of the attacks. In fact, except for a few random single attacks here and there, nothing could touch me. I don't think I even had to heal in the second part of it (and only did in the first part because I kept attacking during the spike thingy which makes the boss counter...) I'm at about level 83? now, trying to decide if I should even attempt the end or just focusing on leveling up for now... |
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Welp it is done. End boss was surprisingly easy, albeit I had all of my characters at level 99 with level 14 jobs (something I have never done in an RPG before, max out characters), but still... piece of cake. Only form that was even remotely challenging was the last one with that move that stops you from being able to do anything, but it didn't matter too much because I had two healers and only once or twice did both get hit with it at the same time.
68 hours total, uggggggggg. I mean, I don't mind long RPGs, but a large portion of that was just grinding.
I have some very conflicted thoughts about this game. I'm more conflicted on it than most anything else I can think of in recent memory. It does so many things very well (graphics / sound, loved the job system, how easy it is to keep track of quests, being able to adjust / turn off enemy encounters, etc.), but has so many huge annoyances too. The main one being how UTTERLY REPETITIVE things get near the end. Fighting the same bosses over and over and over and over. So dumb.
But it's done. I doubt I'll play the sequel. If the game were half as long, maybe, but it took a lot out of me. One was enough. |
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Well, if you recall from Double Dash 7.9 is the worst score ever so...
Ok that's half a joke, but honestly anything below an 8 I rarely finish, I get sick of it and give up. For better or for worse I wanted to stick with this game because it did have a bunch of compelling parts. It's conflicted for me in that I think it has some REALLY GOOD stuff (like, stuff I'd score a 9 or higher) and some really mediocre / annoying stuff (stuff I'd score a 7 or lower) so I guess that averages out to about a 8. The main annoying thing, repeating all of the boss fights over and over and over, became less annoying once I realized that they weren't getting significantly harder every time so I could just burn through them all without having to waste a whole lot of time leveling up (thank god for being able to turn off random enemy encounters.) Though they do get somewhat harder, and I still DID spend a lot of during that stuff, but not as much as it originally seemed like it was going to be, and in part it was because I was still seeking out new jobs I didn't have yet and such, which helped break up the monotony a bit.
Also scores are kind of relative. An 8 for me is getting into near mediocre territory. (Mediocre doesn't mean bad, just... not particularly standout.) I rarely hand out below an 8. I've only scored about a page of games in our database below an 8, out of the 15+ pages of games I have scored. And you'll notice that I didn't even finish most of those games.
I suppose what I meant by conflicted is that the things I like and don't like about this game are on pretty extreme ends of like and don't like. Versus some other games I have scored around an 8 that were just kind of "ok" on most every level.
So yeah, 8.1 feels about right. A decent game that could have been an amazing game if they fixed a few key annoyances. I'd still recommend it to people, they just have to know what they're getting into. |
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