Bravely Default

This game has made me so happy. It really has. I have been searching for forever looking for a game with as much adventure as this game portrays. Well, thanks to Square Enix, Bravely Default is the game that I have had the chance of playing and really enjoying as of late. Me and my boyfriend went and purchased it Saturday. We haven't been able to put the game down. The graphics are beautiful and the background music is amazing. Best of all the characters are amazing. You get the feel of each character. The acting of the characters in English is...pretty bad. I can handle all three of the other characters, but the person that acts as Agnes is just horrible. She has the same voice throughout the game. There isn't any emotion or anything in her voice. She had emotion one time, and that was when her friend Olivia died protecting her. Other than that though, she is stone cold and just horrible as a voice character. But, if you put the game in Japanese, you find that all the characters sound really good and the voice actors are doing a really good job. I just can't stand going through a sad scene and the character seems to not have any remorse or anything. Makes the character look really bad. Anyway though, this game is made real easy for every age. Though, I found myself having to move the difficulty settings from normal to easy. My boyfriend on the other hand, didn't move it and continues through the game challenging every monster that comes in his path. I have to applaud his efforts. I couldn't keep up with him on normal. It was just to difficult for me. I would rather hear the story than fight all day :). You can change the difficulty settings at anytime throughout the game, and also change the encounter rate of monsters. I found myself doing this as well. I put it to the point where I wouldn't encounter monsters at all. Why? Because sometimes my party is just really powerful and they can kill the monsters in no time. I'm usually trying to get somewhere, seeing that the game will take you back and forth to towns a lot.

After playing the game for a while, I have come to find myself loving Edea. She is just so cute. While I was siding towards Agnes through most of the game, I changed my mind after seeing how cold hearted Agnes was toward her fellow team mates and the people around her. Edea is a traitor to her people, and she is struggling to find out about all the wrong that her people have come to do. She has been fed lies about the vestal, and has come to see the truth of the world. Edea is quite funny and entertaining. She shows this strong sense of justice and also a strong sense of stubbornness. She is quite pretty and she looks good with a ton of the job classes that the game gives to you.

Agnes, the wind vestal, is  supposed to go and save the world. She is traveling the world with her fellow companions. She, at first, wanted to make the journey on her own. She cares about a lot of people and doesn't want to see anyone get hurt or have to suffer. She tries her best to make sure that the world is at peace, while also doing her job. Through the game, she has this sense about her that she wants to help everyone, but also get to the crystals and take care of her mission. When her friend, Olivia, died protecting her, she found herself changed, at least to me. She had went from this shy, warm-hearted person, to this mean and cold person that was only looking toward getting the crystals. She even started turning towards Edea, blaming her for Olivia's death because Edea was once on the bad side. The part that made me just so done with Agnes, was the part where they were in Hartschild, and the people were asking them for help. Pretty much begging them for their assistance, but Agnes wouldn't hear it. Even though they were in a war AGAINST the bad guys, she would not see to them. She said she was only going to get the crystal, and then after that they were leaving. She just pretty much left them up to their own fate. Then, they team came to learn that they had children captive, and she wouldn't move a muscle to help. Tiz was the one that stepped up and agreed to help, much to Agnes dismay. They rescued all of the children, and even went back to rescue the kid that was linked to fire vestal. Upon learning that he was linked to the fire vestal AND that he knew a way into the temple, Agnes wanted to talk to him and know everything that he had to know. She didn't even want to let him get any rest. I was like, this has got to be the most heartless person I have ever seen. A witch in sheep's clothing. Don't you agree?

Tiz had suffered a great loss. His hometown, and everyone that he ever knew was swallowed up by a big chasm. Tiz couldn't even save his brother, Til. When he met Agnes, she told him that restoring the crystals should make the hole go away, and so he took it upon himself to follow her upon her journey, wherever it may take them. He has followed her everywhere and made sure that no harm has come to her. Meeting new companions, he has seemed to find a family through them to me. The fact that he likes Agnes is brought up throughout the game by his friend Ringabell. Though, he tends to deny it, his face can't deny much. Him and Agnes, being so simple, kinda tends to make this game quite entertaining. Edea and Ringabell aren't quite as simple as they are, seeing that they are fancy and like to look nice and know quite a bit about things of the world, while Tiz and Agnes tend to only know things about the life that they have lived. They know nothing of the outside world.

Ringabell is more of the comic relief of the game. He goes on and on about girls and fashion. He has no memory of anything that happened in his past, and only has a book that tells the future to go off of. He uses the book throughout the game, to keep the team on track and help them when they don't know what to do in a situation. In the beginning of the game, he tends to use the book quite a lot. As the game progresses, however, we find him pulling the book out less and less.

That's the run through of the characters. The job classes on the game are amazing. The outfits that you wear with the different classes are amazing, and you find yourself sifting through many of the classes trying to make a good team. You can choose two classes, kinda. One class as your main class that you want to level up, and the sub class that you use when you need it. There are some very good combos that I have had the chance to try out myself. Getting all of the classes is a feat to be tried. I have gotten most of them, on my way to get the others.

These are just two of the classes that they have. I do believe, but im not quite sure that the one on the top is a vampire...maybe...I haven't gotten to that one. The one on the bottom is the thief though for sure. I for one want the ninja.

I plan on having Edea be my Ninja with a sub class of sword master or Spell master. I think that would be the best. The Sword master is also stuck on my mind too though, since they are very good at counter attacking. Like I said though, you have to try different things til you find something that works for you. I have found that the Ranger is a very good class to have with you. They take out a bunch of damage. They're literally the only people that you need on your team. Tiz is my Ranger, and he attacks first and gets to do things first as well, and always kills any monster in the first round of battle. So, do get you a ranger if you don't have one already.

Well, that's all that I have to tell about the game. You go around trying to save the world by cleansing the crystals. It might not sound like a good game, but this is a really good game that I haven't been able to put down since I got it. It's a very addicting game and if you haven't went and purchased it, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!?!?!?!?