Here’s a new trailer for the Steam release: For those keeping count, Bravely Default 2 is the third game in the JRPG series, and it stars all-new characters so you needn’t have played the first two on Nintendo DS and 3DS. Its story sounds like pretty standard JRPG stuff, to me at least - four heroes set off to gather crystals representing the four elements and to defeat an ancient evil - but the first two games had big mid-game twists and perhaps Bravely Default 2 does as well. In asking what the future held for RPGs earlier this year, genre expert Kat Bailey said that she’d just finished a 50-hour playthrough of Bravely Default 2, which she described - positively - as “a console RPG that exists solely to rehash Final Fantasy V.” “It’s incredibly fun. The Job System is strong as ever. It’s basically a 30-year-old RPG with better graphics and some quality-of-life improvements,” wrote Kat. Katharine had great things to say about its combat, too. If Kat liked it and Katharine likes it, that’s good enough for me. Bravely Default 2 will launch on Steam on Thursday, September 2nd, and has a 10% discount available from now until September 13th.
