Except the developers decided to copy past the entire freaking game at the halfway point.

Get Fire Emblem. 

xD that's right FE characters have stumps for feet hahaha I have both the demos on my 3DS and enjoyed them both equally.

Fire Emblem.

Bravely Default quickly loses it's luster.

Let me put it this way-

FE:A is tough. Very tough, especially if you play on Classic mose on Hard or Lunatic. You will find that you get much satisfaction out of the game, but more of your time will go into redoing battles cause a character died.

BD isn't nearly as hard per se, but still requires a lot of strategy to beat bosses. If you don't count the amount of time spent soft-resetting in FE:A, BD is longer. Even if you do count that, BD is still probably longer. BD also has a MUCH better story than FE:A. Both lose steam after the first half, but FE:A was just laughably bad in the story department, imo.

And I've played through FE:A four times and BD twice.

Fire Emblem! Its Jizz level is higher plus it has Tharja

FE:Awakening:

Bravley default is a great game but it seems that they didn't even bother to finish the ending half of the game (Still a great game)

FE: Awakening is a great game that is a complete package.

Ok guys true to my word, I actually thought Bravely Default was going to win. Buying FE right now.

Yeah that part was a major turn off! =/

Ha voted before read topic.

Not voting for favorite, but what you should get. No idea why you wouldn't get both. Both are downright amazing. Bravely Default is like Final Fantasy in its glory years, and Fire Emblem is the best in a stellar series.

BD is only longer because they force you to do the same shit over and over again. You haven't beaten BD twice, you beat it 8 times. 

And I didn't even bother reading any of the dialogue of BD, didn't seem like I was missing anything.