Don’t get me wrong, battles are still fun, but they’re not AS fun as even the first two games’ demos. Outside of the two boss battles, I rarely used the Brave and Default actions, which let you spend and save BP respectively to either take turns early or stock them up. I love turn-based RPGs, but what’s here lacks the flair in previous Bravely games. This makes the battle system in the demo feel kind of rote, to be honest. This could be the small amount of jobs available, but I found myself sticking with each character’s already assigned job and very rarely using even the sub jobs’ in battle skills. Unfortunately, there aren’t really combinations like this in 2’s demo. In previous games you could create some cool synergies using these systems, like using the Pirate’s provoke ability to take damage and the Dark Knight’s huge boost to attack when low on health.
For example, if Adelle has learned “Bare-Knuckle Brawler” from leveling up Monk, she can then set that skill as any other job to gain its boost to physical attack and accuracy while both hands are empty. In addition, characters can equip certain abilities from any job that they’ve learned.
While your main job determines the weapon proficiencies and the bulk of stats, you’ll also be able to use all that character’s learned skills from their sub job in combat. Your four party members can each take on two jobs at the same time, a main and sub job with only the former gaining Job Points after battles. Yes, the lovely Job System returns in full force here, you start out with five (Freelancer, White Mage, Black Mage, Monk, and Vanguard) with two unlockable through the story (Bard and Beastmaster). The recently released demo gives you a taste of what Bravely Default 2 has to offer, including most of the game’s first chapter and several jobs to play around with. The jump here from the 3DS to the Switch has the same magnitude as going from FF6 to 7, complete with the same caveats too. If Bravely Default and Bravely Second harkened back to Final Fantasy’s 16-bit era, Bravely Default II (for some reason not titled Bravely Third) emulates FF’s 32-bit days.
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