Bravely Default looks like the RPG we've all been waiting for

[lestatdark]

RolStoppable said:

lestatdark said:

Those cats are rather easy, haven't been wiped out by normal mobs so far. I'm talking about the special enemy from the third quest on the west cave. It had about 1500 HP, could use Aeroga that took between 300 - 350 HP per hit, most of the time using it twice because it was always using Default and Brave. 

Managed to defeat it now, had to buy a couple of Phoenix Downs though. Once I got two Love Powers going (Attack at 1.5x) and using Tiz Knight with Two-Handed, I was three hitting for 200 per attack. Two-Handed and Multitask is so OP it's not even funny.

The cats aren't easy when they get to act first and cast their spell. I don't think there's anything you can do about it, but at least it's a single-target spell. After a few level ups your own party goes first and can kill that bastard reliably, but up until then it's really annoying to get into such a fight; and that's right at the beginning of the game, so you have to deal with it. It's not that they wipe out your entire party, but it's common that they cast their spell and one guy goes down.

Abilities seem to be the usual Square-Enix stuff. No balancing whatsoever, so if you manage to guess what jobs will earn you good stuff, you get an early advantage. I think it's the performer that has buff up which passively increases attack, defense, m. attack and m. defense by 5% each turn until you've hit the cap of 150%. Quite useful for boss battles, because after ten turns you can start to go all out on offense while obviously taking less damage than initially. And yeah, multitask belongs to the good stuff, because you get another attack. The swordmaster's counter also has its worth while the red mage's turn tables is a bust, because without a successful evade (which usually doesn't happen in boss battles) you won't get an additional brave point for the next turn.

Actually Love Spell increases your whole party's P.Atk by 25% per use, so using it twice nets you the 150%, unless you're talking about a whole different buff which I've yet to see.

I'm using a party of Knight, W.Mage, B.Mage and Swordmaster, pretty basic JPRG party, with W.Mage having performer as sub and Swordmaster with Valkyrie, which i'm gonna switch to a Knight with Valkyrie to test those ultra-damaging Two-Handed Jumps. 

Things are pretty rough on the forest, enemies multiplying their numbers can really destroy your party on Hard. Until I have access to B.Mage level 3 spell, I'll have to take things pretty slowly.