Final Bravely

So I played through the prologue, which was subpar at best and did not make me want to start on “the real story.” Now before you jump down my throat, let me tell you why. A prologue is meant to be the introduction to a story, and this one leaves much to be desired. One of the things that I love about RPG Maker games is adding description wherever you want. I love exploring my environment and reading even the most mundane of texts. From the prologue—and I don't know if this is changed in the actual story—there's none of that. So that takes away the curiosity of the player. Next up, the music is too intense during battle. I listened to it and wondered whether or not I was in a final boss battle. It would work well for bosses—which I'm unsure whether or not the battles I had were that. Speaking of battles in general, before the prologue even starts you are told that the fights are not the goal. Here's a question: If they are not the goal, then why were they added? They could've simply been removed and still told a good story. Something else that the prologue lacked was the emotion. The place that you start in barely feels alive. There's nothing about it that makes you go, “Oh! This is a lovely little place.” It has no character whatsoever. It's the blandest of the white breads. And because of that, what happens next does not affect you. Because nothing was built in the first place and now we're meant to feel bad for the main character? No, I don't think so. And speaking of the main character, what is their character even? There's little to no interaction between them and the other villagers, which means that you don't get anything from it. Now, you can get a sense of their personality with how they interact with the environment, but I already established that there is none of that. Also, how the main character interacts with their family is baffling to me. That is not how people speak. Onto the next thing: bad pacing. Now, a lot of the time it's best to keep a prologue short. However, if you keep it too short and trim stuff that could've been important in some way, then the pacing of the whole thing suffers. This is no exception to that. It lacks so much of the other points that I made that when you get to the end of things, it's not satisfying at all. You're left confused when you should be curious and wanting to find out what happened next. In short: if the prologue is bad, you're setting yourself up for failure.

Très bon RPG, ça me rappelle beaucoup les dragon quest sur DS. Le jeu a une très bonne durée de vie vu son prix. Il n'y a pas de phase de leveling pénible. Le jeu n'est pas trop linéaire comme les rpg type final fantasy, on doit faire attention aux éléments du jeu, ce qui lui donne une âme et c'est très bien. Il y a quelques bugs, mais c'est rarement génant et très vite corrigé. Bref vu le prix, si vous aimez Dragon quest et les vieux final fantasy, je conseille fortement!

It's available in French or English versions. The developer seems to be just a one-man team, and it's made using RPG-Maker. But he's responsive to comments and suggestions and genuinely wants people to enjoy playing the game. It is an RPG-Maker game, and i know a lot of those seem like they're someone's first attempt at making their own game by following YouTube tutorials. But this one was fun. It offers some neat character customization options. You can choose your character's appearance from over 20 options. Then you choose your "job class" from more than a dozen options, and that will determine your skills & magic and the equipment you can use. Each of those will completely change your combat style, leading to some replayability for this game if you're the type of person who likes to try out different character classes. The story is straightforward but interesting (for the best experience I recommend playing the prologue when the game gives you that option). The combat is not always easy but it is very well balanced and it never feels like a grind. It is turn-based combat where each character's turn speed is determined by their agility stat. The main story and game progression in general are pretty well paced, and levelups come naturally as you go. Side quests are VERY optional. There is an arena, a casino, and an adventurer guild where you can participate in various activities to earn some decent rewards. (The adventurer guild rewards are VERY expensive though.) There is a crafting system where you can build the best weapon in the game as well as some nice rings, a bunch of orbs that will increase your weapon and armor properties, and some very useful consumable items.

A noter que je n'ai pas encore fini le jeu, je suis au village enneigé, il se peut que je puisse avec de nouvelles remarques dans ce qui va suivre. Points positifs : 1) introduction réussit (moment où on retrace l'histoire de la faucheuse) 2) ne nécessite pas un PC performant pour pouvoir y jouer, ce qui est très cool (perso, j'ai rejoint steam en achetant Hitman Absolution, malheureusement, mon PC n'est pas assez puissant pour le faire tourner correctement, ça a été de même avec Resident Evil 4 HD) 3) un tactic RPG à la Final Fantasy (ne manque plus qu'à mettre des invocations, ce qui fairait un excellent clin d'oeil à la série) 4) musique entrainante 5) design soigné Points ni positifs, ni négatifs : 1) jeu en français uniquement 2) le niveau de difficulté monte en crescendo, que ce soit pour les mobs tout comme pour les boss 3) nécessite beaucoup de xp pour gagner un nouveau niveau 4) les skins du roi, de la reine et la princesse de zoziotown sont les mêmes que ceux de la forteresse (à moins que les rois soient frères jumeaux, les reines, des soeurs jumelles, idem pour les princesses) Points négatifs : 1) une narration pas trop captivante, voire trop simpliste avec aucun effet de surprise ou d'événements inatendus 2) absence de map (se généralise dans les RPG) 3) on n'apprend pas à mieux connaitre les personnages qui composent l'équipe 4) absence de succès 5) le chant du coq à chaque fois qu'on essaye de quitter un combat, ça fait rire quand on découvre cela, mais à force, ça donne envie de couper le son 6) absence de message vocal dans les phases de combat, ce qui aurait donné une vraie originalité dans le jeu (du genre "take this", "kyaaaa", "sorry", des trucs dans ce genre là)

fun and has good music

Just a straight up gem, can be a little difficult at parts and the translation isn't perfect but that's part of the charm, its like 6 Australian dollars, I say get it.

this game is awesome