But maybe that’s because nudging a series from 3DS to Switch is pretty tricky, especially when your whole art style was devised and perfected around a tiny little 800×240 screen. Optimization – for both handheld and docked gameplay – leaves a lot to be desired. What’s not so nice is the weird, choppy animation, the low-poly models of the human characters, the not-uncommon lag in battles that’ll cause the game to miss showing you why an enemy absorbed your attacks, or why they countered you and you’re now sat on the Game Over screen. The OST, as you’d expect from a Square Enix game, also matches all of these varied locales with effortless verve and charm. Though many may be color-swapped models, at least the developer respects its environments enough to unify dungeon inhabitants with a few extra puffs of mold here and there, or cover them in mud, or make them wear little plant hats, or whatever, depending on where they live. Every single dungeon you enter comes to life with its own palette, its own graphical asset pool, its own unique monsters. Fun, self-aware and engaging voice actingĮvery single town you visit looks incredible.
Performance ranges from smooth to choppy, seemingly on a whim.Peculiar mix of art styles – some gorgeous, some ugly.and that can have an impact on the game as a whole. As much as the development team is daring to dip its feet into new waters, it often feels scared of fully committing to the plunge. The world itself is broader, and more varied – at the cost of feeling empty or soulless, at times. The combat is harder and revels in overwhelming you with options and making you solve puzzles in order to progress. In many ways, Bravely Default 2 iterates on Bravely Default and Bravely Second the story is darker, and loses the sanitized YA sheen the first game had. But, for all the flourishes and revisions to the core RPG formula it's made, Bravely Default 2 still feels hemmed in and hamstrung by its obsession with Final Fantasy 3 or The 4 Heroes of Light. The game is meant to be a fully new chapter in the series – much in the vein of numbered Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest games establishing a whole new world with each entry – and as a fresh start for players that want to get their teeth into a new role-playing adventure, it excels.
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