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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:311:''"[[ArcWords Have the courage to think and act on your own. And have the courage to disobey.]]"'']] |
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| 4 | ->''"When your world is in peril. You must risk everything to save it. Even when Bravery is all you have left."'' |
| 5 | -->-- U.S. Commercial |
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| 7 | ''Bravely Default'' (subtitled ''Flying Fairy'' in Japan and ''Where the Fairy Flies'' everywhere else) is an EasternRPG for UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS developed by Silicon Studio, written by Naotaka Hayashi[[note]]of ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' fame[[/note]], scored by Revo[[note]]of Music/SoundHorizon fame[[/note]] and published by Creator/SquareEnix. While it [[WhatCouldHaveBeen started]] as sequel to ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light]]'', the game serves as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' as a whole, particularly ''FF I'' through ''VI''. ''Bravely Default'' is notable for adding a new layer of strategy to the usual turn-based RPG fare with the [[TitleDrop eponymous Bravely Default]] battle system. By using "Brave", you can spend up to 4 turns immediately. "Default" meanwhile allows you to bank your current turn for use later. |
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| 9 | In the HighFantasy world of Luxendarc, four elemental {{Power Crystal}}s control all aspects of Wind, Water, Fire and Earth. But when a massive chasm consumes the [[DoomedHometown small town]] of Norende and the crystals are [[TheCorruption enveloped by darkness]], it falls to four heroes set things right: Tiz Arrior, the SoleSurvivor of Norende; Agnès Oblige, the {{High Priest}}ess of the Wind Crystal; Ringabel, an enigmatic [[TheCasanova Casanova]] with IdentityAmnesia; and Edea Lee, an Eternian knight [[DefectorFromDecadence originally sent to capture Agnès]]. Aided by a Crystal FairyCompanion called Airy, the four embark on a grand journey to purify the crystals and heal their world. |
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| 11 | Opposing them are [[BigBad Braev]] [[TinTyrant Lee]] and his allies, the Job Masters of Edea's homeland, [[TheEmpire the Duchy of Eternia]], who seek to capture or kill the Priestesses of the Crystals, and seize the Crystals' power for themselves. They also must deal with [[HiddenVillain a mysterious enemy known only as the "Evil One"]], who may have some connection to Eternia. |
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| 13 | ''Flying Fairy'' was released in Japan on October 11, 2012, with an UpdatedRerelease, ''For The Sequel'', released on December 5, 2013. That version was then released as ''Where The Fairy Flies'' in Europe on December 6, 2013, and in North American on February 7, 2014. |
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| 15 | Since then, the game has been followed by a browser {{Spinoff}}, ''Bravely Default: Praying Brage'', a mobile spinoff, ''Bravely Default: Fairy's Effect'', and a 3DS direct sequel, ''VideoGame/BravelySecond''. ''VideoGame/BravelyDefaultII'', a new installment set in an entirely new world, was released on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in 2021. |
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| 17 | On July 14, 2021, Square Enix announced ''Bravely Default: Brilliant Lights'', a new game for [=iOS=] and Android phones. |
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| 20 | !!''Bravely Default'' contains examples of: |
| 21 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 23 | [[folder: A-D]] |
| 24 | * AbilityDepletionPenalty: The signature Brave Point (BP) system incorporates this. Each turn, a character can "Default" to both {{defend|Command}} and store a BP, or "Brave" to spend their BP and take multiple actions in a single turn, up to a total of four. Even if a character doesn't have enough BP, they can still go into the negative, but they'll be unable to act at all until enough turns have passed for their BP to go back to zero. |
| 25 | * AbsurdlyLowLevelCap: With the right items, you can hit max level 99 ''halfway'' through the game. Luckily, endgame content is built around level [=90s=] teams, so you'll never be without a challenge. |
| 26 | * ActionInitiative: Your characters and enemies act from highest Agility / Speed to lowest. However, some actions will get priority regardless of stats: |
| 27 | ## [[DefendCommand Default]] always occurs first in a round, before any other action whatsoever |
| 28 | ## Skills that execute "at the start of the turn" (Ironclad, Nothing Ventured, Shippujinrai, etc.) |
| 29 | ## Normal actions (attacks, skills, items, etc.) |
| 30 | ## Skills that execute "at the end of the turn" (Hidden Dragon, Jump, First Aid, etc.) |
| 31 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: [[spoiler:Ominas's]] entire team gets in on this in the BossRush when Edea insults him. |
| 32 | -->[[spoiler:'''Ominas''']]: Aww, were you hoping for a rest? T-t-tt... TOO BAD!\ |
| 33 | '''Edea''': ...We know! No need to gloat, you little weasel!\ |
| 34 | [[spoiler:'''Mephilia''']]: (...He really is.)\ |
| 35 | [[spoiler:'''Yulyana''']]: Ho ho ho.\ |
| 36 | [[spoiler:'''Qada''']]: No argument here. |
| 37 | * AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: Karl the Innkeeper starts as a friend that lets you stay at his inn for free. Eventually he starts charging, though, becoming one of the most expensive inns in the game. There's actually a [[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration story reason for this]]: [[spoiler:You're in {{Alternate Universe}}s where Karl never knew your party.]] |
| 38 | * AdjectiveAnimalAlehouse: The Drunken Pig tavern aboard Grandship. [[spoiler:Later loops replace it with the Sea Slug, which is filthy, pathetic, and horrid, though cleans up as loops go on.]] |
| 39 | * AerithAndBob: Character names include Agnès, Holly, Owen, Karl, Olivia, Victoria, Eleanor...and Tiz, Ominas, Alternis, Mahzer, Qada, Datz. Oh, and ''Ringabel'' (though Ringabel did [[IdentityAmnesia make it up]]). |
| 40 | * AfterCombatRecovery: The White Mage's "Self-Healing" support ability automatically cures Poison, Silence, and Blind status ailments after battle, the Vampire's "Self-Restore" ability refills HP after battle, and the Conjurer's "Post-Battle MP" ability restores MP by up to 25% of max. (And yes, they can be combined.) |
| 41 | * AintTooProudToBeg: The Freelancer's "Mislead" ability has your character drop to their knees and grovel pathetically. This reduces the character's 'aggro' level, making enemies less likely to target the character with attacks. |
| 42 | * AIBreaker: Hasten World, which doubles the amount of turns enemies and allies get. Many bosses have entire routines that will never trigger if they're above 0 BP, leading them to repeat the same actions every single turn. This can either be [[ArtificialStupidity very good]] or [[LimitBreak very bad]] for you. |
| 43 | * AllThereInTheManual: In-universe. D's Journal contains a hundred pages worth of backstory and trivia never mentioned in the story itself. These include how Tiz ended up in the Caldisla Inn, what happened between the Great Chasm opening and the game proper, and background info on the Job Masters and other {{Non Player Character}}s. |
| 44 | * AllTheWorldsAreAStage: BonusDungeon "The Dimension's Hasp", an illusory realm conjured by [[spoiler:Sage Yulyana]]. Each floor is a replica of a past area, specifically: Vestment Cave, Harena Ruins, the Wind Temple, Mount Fragmentum, the Witherwood, Florem Gardens, Starkfort, the Underflow, Central Command and Everlast Tower. Most of these areas are also where you met [[spoiler:the Adventurer]], who is the dungeon's {{Superboss}}. |
| 45 | * AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: |
| 46 | ** Asterisk bearer {{Boss Battle}}s all happen in glowing blue magic circles created by the asterisks' power to stop you from [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere escaping]]. |
| 47 | ** The TrueFinalBoss [[spoiler:Ouroboros]] is fought in space, with giant blue planets [[spoiler:each an alternate version of Luxendarc]], and eventually a 3DS camera picture of ''the player's face'', floating around. |
| 48 | * AmazonBrigade: Eternia's Bloodrose Legion is entirely made up of female {{mooks}}, [[spoiler:save its leader, Fiore [=DeRosa=]]]. |
| 49 | * {{Angrish}}: When irritated, Edea tends to yell "Mrgrgr". |
| 50 | * AnimalEaredHeadband: Edea and Agnès get rabbit ear headbands in the Performer job and bat eared ones in the Vampire job. |
| 51 | * AntiGrinding: The JP needed to level a job past level 9 goes up exponentially (typically 800 -> 3500). This encourages players to keep trying new jobs until later chapters, where you can get [=100s=] of JP per enemy. |
| 52 | * AntiFrustrationFeatures: Quite a few are incorporated to make some common problems of the genre less pronounced. |
| 53 | ** You can turn off or boost random encounters at any time. This makes backtracking to town to heal before a boss fight much easier. |
| 54 | ** The Brave system encourages you to spam attacks to finish random encounters on the first turn, and will even reward you with bonus GP, XP and JP for it. |
| 55 | ** The Adventurer shows up in virtually every dungeon, usually right before a BossBattle, allowing you to save and stock up on healing items. |
| 56 | ** You can enable auto-save, which saves your game every time you move between areas/dungeon floors, and right before boss battles. |
| 57 | ** If a character can't complete an action, BP won't be spent on it and is available on their next turn. |
| 58 | ** After you get the "normal" ending, the game will return you to right before you were locked into it so you can get the GoldenEnding too. (And with all your levels and equipment to boot.) Likewise, getting the GoldenEnding will [[spoiler:return all the crystals to their un-awakened state]] so that you can get the normal ending again. |
| 59 | ** The Conjurer jobs' "Obliterate" command instantly kills enemies 20+ levels below you, to make grinding ''way'' more convenient. |
| 60 | ** All your dungeon progress, including the seal on De Rosso's door, carries over [[spoiler:between worlds]]. It doesn't make a lick of sense, but it makes HundredPercentCompletion much more convenient. |
| 61 | ** If you live in an area devoid of other ''Bravely Default'' players, you can "Update Data" on the save menu to get 3-4 Streetpass invites through the internet a day. This guarantees a steady supply of friend summons and villagers for Norende. |
| 62 | ** When compounding as a Salve-Maker, the menu will tell you exactly what a given item combination will do, so you [[GuideDangIt don't have to try dozens of item mixes just to see their effects]]. |
| 63 | * AntiPoopSocking: Downplayed. The game doesn't actively discourage you from playing for long periods of time, but instead encourages taking breaks in a few ways. |
| 64 | ** Norende village will count the time while the 3DS is in sleep mode toward rebuilding, making it beneficial to close your 3DS and do something else. |
| 65 | ** The Bravely Second feature is powered by Sleep Points, which you primarily get from putting the 3DS in sleep mode. |
| 66 | * AntiquatedLinguistics: Generally, characters speak in the fashion of early 1900s England. |
| 67 | * AntiVillain: Most of the Eternian forces. |
| 68 | ** The ghost ship of Barbarossa, the pirate in Eisenberg, [[spoiler:belonged to a close friend, and he took command so he could complete his friend's quest and let the crew's spirits rest in peace.]] He also happily accepts the heroes' challenge and actually laughs when he joins his own ghost crew. |
| 69 | ** Ciggma Khint, the hired help of Khamer and Profiteur, [[spoiler:was [[HeroOfAnotherStory the former commander of the pacifistic 'Eternian Occupation' group]], and [[HitmanWithAHeart all his earnings went to the progression of medicine in Eternia, to help treat his sick daughter.]]]] |
| 70 | ** Heinkel and Barras, two of the brutish sky knights who invade Caldisla, [[spoiler:both rush to protect and encourage their ally Ominas, even when they're on their last legs.]] |
| 71 | ** Holly, the sadist white mage, [[spoiler:started as a trainee healers working under Khint, and is in a loving relationship with Barras.]] |
| 72 | ** Khamer, the heartless ruler of Ancheim, [[spoiler:[[WellIntentionedExtremist really does want to help his city progress, despite the means Profiteur convinced him to use]]. And when Eternia calls for his aid, he even intimidates Profiteur into helping their shared ally.]] |
| 73 | ** Braev Lee, Grand Marshall of Eternia who destroyed the heart of the Crystal Orthodoxy, watched as one of his men cut down the Earth Vestal, and fought his own daughter [[spoiler:Destroyed the Eternian Orthodoxy because it was horribly corrupt, standing by as a plague consumed the world, and fought his daughter because she was unknowingly causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]] |
| 74 | * ArcWords: |
| 75 | ** "Bravely Default", which are both battle commands, and are spoken throughout the story. The Grand Mashall of Eternia is even named "Braev Lee". |
| 76 | ** "Have the courage to think and act on your own. And have the courage to disobey." is repeated throughout the story. [[spoiler:Interestingly, it's disobeying what the game and Yulyana imply you should do that nets the GoldenEnding.]] |
| 77 | ** "Accept me and I shall grant life everlasting. Though it shall be filled with grief, thou shalt have all eternity to wreak vengeance upon thine enemies." for [=DeRosso=]'s side-story. [[spoiler:They turn out to be the last words of [=DeRosso=] himself as he reaches into the past to create a StableTimeLoop, right before he performs a HeroicSacrifice.]] |
| 78 | * ArmorOfInvincibility: The Crystal Armor and Helm (Heavy Armor and Helmet), the Crystal Vest, Lordly Robes, Ribbon, and Royal Crown (Light Armor and Hat), and the Aegis Shield (Shield) are the best defensives of their types. The team can obtain four each of the Crystal equipment and two Aegis Shields without using NewGamePlus. |
| 79 | * ArtificialStupidity: |
| 80 | ** If the {{Superboss}}, [[spoiler:the Adventurer]], loses her companion, they'll always resummon them and then sit there. No matter how many times you kill their ally, or how much BP they have. |
| 81 | ** The New Year Kamiizumi Nemesis will only uses his overpowered {{Counter Attack}}s if he's at 0 BP. Meaning you can abuse Hasten World to cut off the majority of his moveset. Taking down a 1 million HP boss who can spam full-party summons and get 3 BP on command still isn't very easy. |
| 82 | ** The first time you fight Barras, he keeps using "Invigorate" even though it has a large chance to damage and eventually kill him and Holly. This gets even worse on the Nemesis version, where he damages Holly ''every time'' he Invigorates. |
| 83 | * AsLethalAsItNeedsToBe: Defeating an Asterisk-holder usually kills them, but if they're particularly sympathetic they tend to survive. |
| 84 | * AssKicksYou: The "Gobbler" enemies, when they're not busy [[MetalSlime running away from you]], like to use a move called "Rear-Ender" which is easily capable of a one-hit KO at that point of the game. |
| 85 | * AudioAdaptation: Featuring the Japanese voice actors for the four protagonists and a few of the asterisk holders. |
| 86 | ** The first drama CD was titled ''~Reunion Festival~'' and featured the protagonists attending a celebration party that seems to be the Luxendarc equivalent to Christmas and New Year's. The cast also includes Fiore [=DeRosa=], Lord [=DeRosso=], Sage Yulyana, Braev Lee, and Alternis Dim. |
| 87 | ** A second drama CD has been announced and will be titled ''~Bracelets of Eternity~''. The cast includes the four protagonists, Braev Lee, Nobutsuna Kamiizumi, Ciggma Khint, and the Jackal. |
| 88 | * AuthorAppeal: Let's just say that it's obvious that the author of ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' wrote this. [[spoiler:Time travel, alternate worlds, multiple copies of the same character on different sides of the conflict]]... |
| 89 | * AutoCannibalism: Certain Undead enemies' "Self-Cannibalize" ability, which grants them an attack buff in exchange for some HP. |
| 90 | * AutoRevive: The "Reraise" status buff (Lv.6 Time Magic and Salve-Makers compound) instantly revives a character upon KO. The Vampire job's "Rise From Dead" has a 50% chance to revive the user from a KO at the end of each turn. White Mages' "Conservation of Life" meanwhile revives everyone ''else'' from a KO the first time they die. |
| 91 | * AwesomeButImpractical: |
| 92 | ** Bravely Second mode allows you to freeze time and have a character perform up to four actions within a turn, using SP instead of BP, and while keeping their own turn. This is a huge help in tough fights, but the fact that SP are gained at an ''extremely'' slow rate (1 SP per 8 hours of console sleep time) means this is a skill useful only in rare emergencies. Furthermore, SP are saved separately to your files, which means if you use some on a tough fight and fail, they'll be gone when you retry. |
| 93 | ** The Freelancer job gets more powerful with each job you master, meaning that in the endgame, it can become truly fearsome. However, you're limited to using the somewhat lackluster Freelancer abilities (apart from the very exploitable Mimic) as opposed to more damaging alternatives, and even with the passive stat boost gained from mastering other jobs, you need to use various Lore abilities to make most out of endgame weapons since the Late Bloomer skill only applies to your base stats and not your equipment ratings (Freelancers have a mid B rank in every type of equipment). |
| 94 | * BackgroundMusicOverride: When a character uses a special attack the battle theme is temporarily replaced with a character-specific one. It holds a gameplay purpose, as any buffs granted by the special attack last only as long as a character theme is playing. |
| 95 | * BarelyThereSwimwear: The "Bravo Bikini", Sage Yulyana's "forbidden clothing" that every girl he has asked to wear hated him "immediately and irrevocably" for. Agnès even wonders if it is even clothing when she sees it for the first time. |
| 96 | * BigBad: [[spoiler:[[EvilAllAlong Airy]]]]. |
| 97 | * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The parties of your Summon Friends will come to your aid in the final boss fight.]] |
| 98 | * BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:By the end of the game, many friends were lost along the way, and even the supposed villains have been shown in a sympathetic light. In the False Ending, Ringabel is left to lament his failure to save his friends of his original universe. In the True Ending, Tiz returns his life force to the Celestial Beings, seemingly killing himself in the process, although he is later shown to have been abducted and alive.]] |
| 99 | * BlackAndWhiteMorality: It's evident from the beginning that the Eternians are going out of their way to be evil for the sake of it. [[spoiler:Switches over to BlackAndGrayMorality, and eventually GreyAndGrayMorality when the looping starts, before landing on the full spectrum: the White heroes, the Gray Eternians, and the Jet-Black [[BigBad Airy]]]]. It's also Edea's mindset about how the world works initially. |
| 100 | * BlackAndGreyMorality: The Eisenberg civil war is this, as Agnès points out. The Shieldbearers are sympathetic and claim to be the land's defenders, but they need to conscript people and kill as an inevitable part of war. The Swordbearers, on the other hand, are out to use Eisenberg's strength to start conquering surrounding territories and have the backing of Eternia, who does [[SarcasmMode lovely]] things like ''gas hundreds of thousands of troops and civilians at once''. |
| 101 | * BloodlessCarnage: Sure there's a ''lot'' of death and destruction, but it's all very stylized and glossed-over. |
| 102 | * BonusDungeon: Dimension's Hasp can be unlocked during the final chapter, though the method varies slightly depending on which version of said chapter you're in. It features only one save point (near the entrance) and Teleport Stones don't work inside it. |
| 103 | * BossAlteringConsequence: The boss fights against [[VideoGameStealing Jackal]], [[CastFromMoney Erutus Profiteur]], and [[TimeMaster Eloch Quentis Khamer]] have them all being assisted by [[MagicKnight Ciggma Khint]], who is the more offensive fighter for all three. However, when [[spoiler:going through the time loops up until the fifth time]], defeating Khint alongside Khamer first will cause both Jackal and Profiteur to be all alone in their respective fights and make them much easier to handle. |
| 104 | * BossGame: The game basically becomes this starting in Chapter [[spoiler:5. There are no new dungeons to explore, no new characters to meet and very little plot development (other than some {{Foreshadowing}} about Airy's true nature). In order to progress, players just have to beat all four dungeon bosses all over again (and the Asterisk holders, which are optional but provide some interesting interactions), then repeat the same process three more times before finally unlocking the final dungeon]]. |
| 105 | * BossRush: Complete Chapter 8's side quests and they will culminate in an epic showdown of asterisk-bearers in Eternian Central Command, including a nonstop battle against all 23 of them (fought four at a time). |
| 106 | * {{Bowdlerise}}: The PAL and NTSC versions have censored some of the skimpier character clothing, [[http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=219841 as confirmed here]], and upped the ages of characters that were once 15 to 18. Some non-Japanese gamers found the original extra skimpy clothing to simply be too skimpy for teenagers (Western attitudes about sexuality are indeed different from Japanese attitudes). While the updated clothing still may be a bit revealing or fetishistic, upping the character ages has at least caused some Westerners to feel there are less underage sexual implications, as well as match their looks and personalities better. Oddly, however, the actual dialogue coming from the characters is still extremely raunchy, and even with the edits the game has the saltiest writing in the entire series next to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV.'' |
| 107 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: |
| 108 | ** The demo ends with the characters addressing the player directly while the Prime Minister asks them who they're talking to. |
| 109 | ** The game begins with a fairy directly addressing the player, saying how they have a 'fire in their eyes' and whatever they start they'll see through to the end. |
| 110 | ** When you use Bravely Second, sometimes the characters will tell you to put the system in sleep mode to gain SP. |
| 111 | ** During the true ending, this happens a couple of times: |
| 112 | *** [[spoiler:The Celestial Realm uses the system's camera, so when you see it in-game, ''your'' face is there.]] |
| 113 | *** The TrueFinalBoss is defeated by [[spoiler:everyone on your 3DS friend list who also have a copy of the game helping you by destroying the part of Ouroboros attacking their world.]] |
| 114 | ** If anything, the game takes this to an art form: making deliberate use of this trope just enough, alongside the gameplay elements, to keep the characters separate from the player like in typical [=JRPGs=], yet still engaging the player enough to have them continue playing [[spoiler:as the player's actual role in the game is as a Celestial, inhabiting the body of Tiz Arrior, one of the characters, guiding the party towards their objective]]. |
| 115 | * BribingYourWayToVictory: |
| 116 | ** In-universe. The Merchant class uses in-game cash to fuel most of its abilities. Its final ability outright ends any battle (except boss fights) by bribing the enemies to go away, though thankfully you still get your goodies as if you actually fought it out. |
| 117 | ** A straight example is the SP drinks which are purchased from the Nintendo [=eShop=] with real money. These can give a large edge by allowing up to 3 Bravely Seconds per fight, but they don't make ''that'' big of a difference in the long run, and SP can be naturally accrued by [[RewardingInactivity leaving the 3DS in Sleep Mode, which the player will likely do anyway to build Norende]]. |
| 118 | * BrokenAesop: According to WordOfGod, the title is supposed to reference the need to sometimes "bravely go against what's expected of you." Yet, applying this in-game when the opportunity becomes a plot point [[spoiler:gets you the poorer of the two endings, cutting the story short with no real closure. Only by ignoring the {{Foreshadowing}} regarding Airy and blindly helping her awaken the crystals four times over can you unlock the TrueFinalBoss and the perfect ending.]] |
| 119 | ** [[spoiler:From another point of view, you "go against" what the ''Sage'' expects of you, pushing forward once Ringabel remembers that the pattern on Airy's wings are numbers, counting down with each loop - essentially moving to find what Airy's counting down to. In some sense, by taking the risk and continuing to do what you were told to from the start, the goal becomes to [[{{Pun}} Bravely Default]].]] |
| 120 | * BrokenBridge: Played literally in Caldisla, where a broken bridge prevents the party from exploring to the north until the plot requires them to do so. Later, if the player attempts SequenceBreaking, the characters will simply comment that they don't need to go in there right now and refuse to enter the area. |
| 121 | ** The sequence of awakening the four crystals for the first time plays out like this, mostly due to the party lacking transportation that can take them across all of Luxendarc. The party goes to awaken the Wind Crystal first, due to Agnès being in charge of praying to it. When their airship is rendered unable to fly, they must go to the Water Crystal next to purify the seas and allow them to be accessible again. They then sail to the region of the Fire Crystal, and are finally able to access the terrain of the Earth Crystal due to acquiring the mighty Grandship that can fly above Eternia's raised mountains. |
| 122 | * ButtonMashing: Whenever you awaken a crystal, you have to mash the X button. A lot. [[spoiler:Also, if you want to ''break'' a crystal from Chapter 5 onwards, you need to mash even harder after Airy tells you to stop.]] |
| 123 | * {{Cap}}: Some of the most readily observed numerical limits in this game are: |
| 124 | ** A 9999HP / 999MP cap on damage/recovery in battle (during Bravely Second, the limit is raised to 999,999HP / 9,999MP). |
| 125 | ** BP caps out at +3 (+4 with BP Limit Up, e.g. Templars) and bottoms out at -4. A character with -4 BP not only loses their next three turns while it recharges, but if they attempt to take any further actions during the current turn it will fail outright ("not enough BP!"). |
| 126 | ** Buffs to attack/defense/speed cap out at 150% and bottom out at 75%. Buffs to your hit count cap at 200% and buffs to critical-hit rate cap at 1000% (yes, 10x normal, which basically guarantees you get one). However, buffs from special moves stack separately from normally-applied buffs, allowing for higher achievements if used in a timely manner. |
| 127 | ** JP gains cap out at 999 per battle, and basically every boss after Chapter 4 gives out this much. |
| 128 | ** One interesting exception is there is no apparent cap on a character's HP or MP, allowing you to raise them up to 5 and 4 digits respectively with the right passive abilities (and [[RareCandy Buns]]). If you can get a character's HP into five digits you can even survive attacks that would normally inflict 9999 damage. |
| 129 | * CastAsAMask: |
| 130 | ** [[spoiler:Airy and her sister]] have the same voice actor, to hide the fact that they're actually different characters. |
| 131 | ** Likewise, [[spoiler:Ringabel and Alternis]] share a voice actor, but in their case the similarity is hidden by the vastly different speech patterns and the fact that the latter is [[spoiler:speaking from inside a helmet]]. |
| 132 | * CastFromHitPoints: The Dark Knight class mainly uses HP to fuel its abilities. |
| 133 | * CastingGag |
| 134 | ** Creator/RachelRobinson voices [[WhiteMage Holly Whyte]] who [[spoiler:in the first world]] threatens to beat Agnés within an inch of her life and heal her, repeating the process until her mind breaks - the exact thing that happened to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Fang]] (although she was saved before it went too far), one of Robinson's other characters. |
| 135 | ** Creator/MichaelSinterniklaas voices Jackal, abandoned by his parents - in other words, an [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Orphan]]. |
| 136 | * CentralTheme: Sometimes it is defiance that requires the most courage. |
| 137 | * CerebusRollercoaster: There's generally a lot of dissonance between the main plot, [[CerebusSyndrome which starts out fairly light, but gets progressively darker]], and the sidequests, [[ReverseCerebusSyndrome which start out]] ''[[ReverseCerebusSyndrome extremely]]'' [[ReverseCerebusSyndrome dark, but then become lighter]]. This is most evident [[spoiler:in the fourth and fifth worlds: depending on the order you do things, the protagonists will either suspect Airy to have ulterior motives, or KNOW she does but be going along with her plan in order to defeat the creature she intends to summon; contrast Victoria hosting a Girl Power club and Praline running off with Jackal because they're confusing Khint and Kamiizumi.]] |
| 138 | * ChallengeRun: The game's Difficulty menu offers options to customize the game's difficulty, like disabling EXP, money, and JP gain and altering the encounter rate, in case you wanted to try, say, a no-level run. |
| 139 | * ChekhovsGun: |
| 140 | ** During the ''very first'' time you meet the mysterious Adventurer, they are wearing green and hand you a Strange Hourglass before allowing you to save. When you come back moments later, they're wearing red. It takes ''[[VideoGame/BravelySecond two]]'' entire quests to explain ''either'' oddity. |
| 141 | ** When returning to Florem after visiting Yulyana, Edea and Ringabel try one last time to convince Agnès to [[spoiler:wear the bravo bikini]], and it's specifically mentioned that Edea took it with her. Guess who ends up using it in a sidequest that becomes available right about the same time? |
| 142 | ** You the player will probably notice [[spoiler:stone obelisks]] scattered across the world map, yet nobody seems to have any information about them (or even acknowledge them) whatsoever -- until Chapter 4 where a sidequest asks you to seek them out, even implying that you can already guess what he's talking about. |
| 143 | * ChekhovsGunman: |
| 144 | ** The fairy in the opening movie. [[spoiler:She's not Airy, she's Airy's sister, recruiting you to stop Airy's plot]]. |
| 145 | ** While staying in Hartschild, Ringabel talks about one peculiar skirt he was chasing and got away from him ... [[spoiler:a.k.a. Konoe Kikyo, an Eternian ninja who is covertly stalking Shieldbearer officers]]. |
| 146 | * ChipTune: The game's official soundtrack includes a bonus track reprising the game's various BattleThemeMusic in 8-bit style. |
| 147 | * ClassAndLevelSystem: What the game's gameplay revolves around; this applies to the enemies, too. |
| 148 | * ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Changing Jobs automatically changes each character's outfit to one matching the Job, though this can be averted if one unlocks and equips the bonus outfits that keep a character's appearance consistent regardless of which class they are. |
| 149 | * ColdBloodedTorture: In D's journal, you will read that the author suffered debilitating burns after falling into lava, and after being rescued was turned over for healing... to a sadistic drug maker who had a grudge against him. He spent the next several days unable to move at all as he was injected with the most painful concoctions his "healer" could devise, until he was rescued by someone else who spent about a week healing him properly. |
| 150 | * CombatMedic: Like in many other games that allow mixing {{Character Class}}es, one can give a healing class competent fighting abilities and vice versa. Even the healing classes usually have at least one means to inflict damage: White Mages have [[HolyHandGrenade Holy]] and [[BlowYouAway Aero-type]] spells and Salve Makers can inflict several different types of damage with Compound (provided the right items) and Turn Poison. Only Spiritmasters have no intrinsic damage abilities, though usually these are coupled with White Magic abilities anyway. |
| 151 | * CombinationAttack: Two-headed crystal boss Orthros has fire breath and ice breath from its respective heads, plus a (much more powerful) "Blazzard" from both heads at once. If you can disable one of the heads, the other head can't Blazzard you. |
| 152 | * TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: One important thing the game does NOT cheat is the BP system -- if a boss drives their BP down into the negatives, even they will have to wait out extra turn(s) before moving again. Even so, as the game starts getting harder it starts to bend its own rules to provide extra challenge; there are also subtle differences in job-based Abilities between the boss who holds the Asterisk and when you get it. Notable examples include: |
| 153 | ** Potions heal for 150 HP, right? Not if The Jackal steals them off your party and uses them on himself, in which case they heal 500 (the same as a Hi-Potion). |
| 154 | ** The Knight job's "Protect Ally" ability automatically shields any ally who is critically low on HP, but Knight Heinkel's version of it shields his fellow archers ''at all times''. If the player wants to do the same with their own Knights, they must use the Full Cover ability each turn and it only works on one other ally per use. |
| 155 | ** Praline's "My Hero". For the player, it has a 2 BP cost that generally prevents it from being spammable. For Praline, however, this cost seems to have been waived, so she can constantly give her teammates one extra BP, making her by far the most dangerous member of the group. |
| 156 | ** Qada using Fire Bane on your entire party [[spoiler:in the Eternian Command gauntlet.]] Yes, the Salve-Maker class can create single-target Fire Banes, and yes they can also use Widen Area to make single-target items affect the entire party ... but not at the same time! |
| 157 | ** While Lord [=DeRosso=] requires 1 BP to cast Energy Burst (the same as you do), he does ''not'' require 2 BP to follow it up with Bone Crush. |
| 158 | ** Barras is an earlier example -- "Invigorate" is stated to have a 25% chance of damaging the user instead of the usual ATK boost. Barras's Invigorate not only replaces the effect for a self-destruct effect that damages everyone including his party (even characters currently offscreen due to using a Jump), but ''it activates all the time when he's low on HP,'' which is bad news for you as the attack can be a TotalPartyKill. The Nemesis version of Barras and Holly run on with this strategy by using Invigorate ''twice'' after a single Default and annihilating an entire party if unprepared, and debilitating Barras is hard to do because his Defense is so high you will only do ScratchDamage to him unless using fixed damage items or skills. His explosions aren't an issue to Holly who sports a hell lot of HP to survive two 9999 hits. |
| 159 | ** [[spoiler:Sage Yulyana]] can use Amped Strike (Piracy) and Meteor (Time Magic) in addition to Invocation, effectively having access to three different Job Commands at the same time (where you are limited to two). As part of the Mega Magic team in Chapter 8, he trades these off for Reflect (White Magic) and Firaga (Black Magic)... which still gives him three Job Commands (Red Magic stops at Lv.4, so it can cast Reflect but not Firaga). Though it's justified since [[spoiler:he was the one who created the asterisks in the first place; he could have access to their powers anyway - or he could have created a game-breaker Sage asterisk purely for his own use]]. |
| 160 | ** Qada and Alternis Dim have [[HealthDamageAsymmetry much more HP than your party]], and can use moves that deal the user's "missing HP" in damage. After you knock down around 5-10% of their HP, they will be able to one hit KO any given party member, with no penalty to themselves. And Alternis specifically doesn't start using this technique until halfway through the battle when he's low on HP. |
| 161 | ** A lot of enemies don't ever seem to [[NotPlayingFairWithResources run out of MP]]; even if you deal over 999 MP damage, they'll still somehow find a way to cast their spells. In fact, many of the enemies and bosses actually have '''9999''' MP, far and away above what's reasonable to remove with the weak MP damage available in the game. One exception is Einheria, partly because most of her skills are BP-based instead of MP-based, and her "Spirit Barrier" causes her to receive MP damage instead of HP damage (the barrier wears off after ten turns, or if you deplete her MP). |
| 162 | ** Allies that have been Charmed seem to ignore MP and BP consumption, except if they are hit with Charm while in negative BP. For example, a charmed Valkyrie with 0 BP will use Judgment on an ally, likely crippling or killing them outright, and ''not'' spend 2 BP to do it! |
| 163 | ** The AI of ''Bravely Default'' is in fact extremely sophisticated. The enemies are programmed to respond to your commands, attack low defense characters, and when possible use debilitating status effects. This is a nice touch for challenge when you are about equal in attack to monsters, and slightly faster. But if you for instance, go to stronger areas (which should be challenging, but doable), to try to grind faster, you're in for a nasty surprise. Being programmed to respond to commands, attacking weak monsters, and using status with higher attack and speed translates as ''reading the the player's commands and '''preemptively countering them''', dealing in an attack range of 125-400 a typical of closer to 365, and especially paralyzing or sleeping party members about to use a brave chain''. The first one very definitely is cheating, since the player has no idea what the enemy/boss will do. Thankfully, this is better on Easy, mainly because enemies can't hit as hard. |
| 164 | ** The computer seems to be allowed to either target KO'd party members (something you can't do to the enemy) or change targets on the fly. As mentioned above, the enemy AI will actively target more vulnerable teammates... such as a freshly-revived party member with a measly 200 health. If the turn order doesn't line up in your favor, this can result in [[CycleOfHurting a never-ending loop]] of teammates being revived only to be swatted back into unconsciousness mid-turn before they can be properly healed, even though they shouldn't have been available as targets for attack before the turn started. The only way around this is to Brave and hope you won't need to heal again for another turn or two, or use other teammates to chip in [[MortonsFork and hope you didn't need to deal that extra bit of damage you just missed out on.]] |
| 165 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Agnes agrees to enter the Sacred Flower Festival in Florem, Tiz pledges to help her however he can. He immediately has to point out to Ringabel that he's not, in fact, planning to do so by actually entering the competition himself. |
| 166 | * ContinueYourMissionDammit: Airy will constantly remind you of your next objective as you go shopping, grind, do Sub-scenarios, etc. Thankfully she doesn't do it audibly, but she does remind you every single time you go to the menu to change jobs or equipment. |
| 167 | ** It gets worse after the half way point. She has custom messages for virtually every area in the game, but will still conclude each one with some variant of [[spoiler:go awaken the crystals. Again.]] |
| 168 | * CorruptChurch: The good news is that you never run up against this firsthand -- any political corruption within the Crystal Orthodoxy was largely confined to the Orthodoxy's head temple only (the other Crystal temples are innocent). The bad news? Just how deep the corruption in the head temple went: [[spoiler:Its first leader was appointed through a rigged/bought election, with his right hand led a purge against rivals and political enemies on fabricated charges. Then, as they started to lose power and influence among the people, they turned to fearmongering and witch-hunts. And when a plague reached the country, they quarantined entire villages to die rather than attempt to heal them -- going so far as to outright slaughter refugees. Then they attempted to use a forbidden "Grand Ritual" to recapture the public eye despite that said ritual could put the whole world at risk]]. Suffice it to say, the templar had a darned good reason to lead an uprising against them. |
| 169 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Chairman Erutus Profiteur, who sells water to the denizens of a desert town [[spoiler:then pays bandits to harass anyone who goes to the oasis to slake their thirst]]. |
| 170 | * CounterAttack: The Swordmaster job specializes in these. Instead of attacking normally, they brace themselves for a certain type of attack (either physical, magical, from a specific enemy, or when at critical HP), taking reduced damage and then hitting back for massive damage. Note that certain enemies possess counterattacking skills as well, some of which can be deadly powerful (such as Cerberus's Payback, which easily scores 4000-5000 damage). |
| 171 | * CreepyChildrenSinging: The Nemesis Ba'al Turtle Dove / Goldie music [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMnUxfpH41M battle theme]] includes this. |
| 172 | * CriticalHitClass: Katanas (and by extension, jobs that specialize in it, like the Swordmaster) have naturally high critical-hit rates. The Templar class gets skills to enable magic and items to do critical hits, as well as another skill to make critical hits do much more damage. |
| 173 | * CrystalDragonJesus: Take Catholicism, replace the Holy Trinity with the four crystals, and you pretty much got Crystalism in a nutshell. |
| 174 | * DamnYouMuscleMemory: Used to pressing Start to pause the game in the middle of battle, ''a la'' Franchise/FinalFantasy? Congratulations, you just stopped time instead. [[DownplayedTrope Fortunately]], sitting in the Bravely Second menu doesn't consume SP, so with the exception of any ongoing animations continuing to the end, it'll serve the same purpose in a pinch. |
| 175 | * DarkIsNotEvil: |
| 176 | ** The summons all look very shadowy (not to mention [[TechnologyIsEvil high-tech]]), but there's no indication that they may be more or less evil than any other spell. |
| 177 | ** The Dark Knight and Arcanist jobs specialize in the Dark element, and are perfectly usable by your party members. The Jobmaster for the former is even one of more noble characters in the game [[spoiler:as well as one of the protagonists]]. |
| 178 | * DeathFromAbove: Valkyries specialize in this as the SpiritualSuccessor to the Dragoon. |
| 179 | * DeathOfTheOldGods: The Eternians have been incorporating the message of rejecting the teachings of Crystalism into their conquering of the world. [[spoiler:Which, to be fair, is because the people at the head of Crystalism are corrupt themselves]]. [[TheEmpire Needless to say]], they BecameTheirOwnAntithesis before the story began. |
| 180 | * DefendCommand: The "Default" command not only halves damage from all attacks, it effectively saves the ''actual turn'' for later use (as a "Brave Point") so you can take multiple actions on a later turn. Be warned, enemies can do this too -- if you see an enemy using "Default" for a turn or two, chances are pretty good they'll unleash a flurry of simultaneous attacks soon. And Templars get to learn an upgraded Default command that reduces damage by an ''extra'' half. |
| 181 | * DemoBonus: Playing the demo gives you some extra items at the start of the full game, the exact type and amount depending on how many of its 7 goals you accomplish: they include just playing the demo, beating all of its bosses and maxing out the demo version's Norende. The items you get are generally base-level equipment you'd otherwise be purchasing from shops (thus making the start of the game somewhat easier). Furthermore, any villagers obtained from [=StreetPassing=] people with the demo (up to 20) are transferred to the full game, making it easier to start the reconstruction of Norende village. |
| 182 | * DevelopersForesight: |
| 183 | ** When you beat a Job Master in battle, they'll usually say something when you beat them. If there's more than one boss, the surviving boss will usually comment on this, either swearing to defeat you for them, or being annoyed they were beaten. [[spoiler:If you beat Victor and Victoria at the same time, they both talk to each other before the battle ends.]] |
| 184 | ** During Chapters 5 and 6, the game accounted for several of the bosses being fought out of order. [[spoiler:If Khint is killed in the fight with Khamer, he won't appear during the fights with Jackal or Profiteur.]] |
| 185 | *** Similarly, you can do some SequenceBreaking and [=NPCs=] will comment on it. For instance, you can awaken the Fire Crystal before ever actually talking to the Shieldbeareres or entering Hartschild, which were mandatory the first time around. |
| 186 | ** Starting with Chapter 5, Airy's bottom-screen comments prioritize the crystals above all else; if you go anywhere near any dungeon that isn't one of the crystal temples, she tells you to stop wasting time and get going. The area around Starkfort, however, has a merchant with stuff that you can't get anywhere else, and like all shops, it gets updated in Chapter 5; if you don't go into the dungeon section of Starkfort, she just says that "We'd better not get too close". |
| 187 | * DiscOneNuke: |
| 188 | ** Norende rebuilding sidequest unlocks some ''nice'' equipment -- like the Angel Bow (best when coupled with the Thief job), the Blessed Shield (a high-level shield, plus using it as an item triggers a free Cura spell), and so on. Eventually these will be outclassed by regular items later in the game, but they make things much easier if you unlock them early. |
| 189 | ** The Abilink and Send options are these by their nature: with them, you can give anyone on your friend list instant access to not only your learned job skills, but single-use Special Attacks that you can call on any time. They can break the 9999 damage limit by default, and thus kill a lot of early (and, if sufficiently powerful, later) bosses instantly. |
| 190 | ** Natural Talent, the final ability of the Monk class (conveniently, one of the first two you get). While it takes some grinding, once you have it on every character pretty much every boss up 'til Chapter 7 or so can be finished in one or two turns just by spamming fist attacks. |
| 191 | * DoomyDoomsOfDoom: Each of the four Crystal bosses has a formal title to the tune of "The _____[[note]](Bringer, Mark, Portent, Propagator, whatever)[[/note]] of Doom". |
| 192 | * {{Dracolich}}: The Dragon Zombie, a powerful OptionalBoss created by the Eternian Forces by feeding a special chemical agent to wild dragons. [[ReviveKillsZombie Like every other undead enemy however, its HP can be quickly whittled down using healing and reviving items and spells]]. |
| 193 | * DualWielding: Entirely possible with almost any equipment setup (with the exception of two-handed weapons such as bows and knuckles). It does come with a hefty drop in damage output, though (at least without the Ninja's Dual Wielding ability), and some weapons are just better off wielded with both hands. And a skill in the Knight job allows you to dual wield ''shields'' (in which case you can't execute a basic attack, but the Knight has other skills to replace it -- the "Super Charge" is practically made for equipping Dual Shields). |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
| 195 | [[folder: E-H]] |
| 196 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: To put it concisely, the heroes suffer through ''a lot'' to finally see their mission through. In another sense, this is the difference between the MultipleEndings. While the false ending only fights the BigBad as the final boss and is a BittersweetEnding, the true ending faces a harder BigBad ''and'' the TrueFinalBoss but the ending is happier. |
| 197 | * EarthAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Celestial Realm is implied to be this: almost all the summon monsters are FantasyCounterpartCulture versions of everyday things such as trains, planes and radio towers or include them one way or another, the final dungeon has things such as lampposts and girders visible in it and when you defeat the final boss and the gate to the Celestial Realm opens briefly, the game splices in an image of what's currently shown in the 3DS's camera.]] |
| 198 | * EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:Ouroboros does this to "Someone's Planet" to show off his immense power, threatening to destroy ''all'' the parallel worlds if the heroes keep resisting him. This is nearly enough to push Agnés through the DespairEventHorizon.]] |
| 199 | * EasyLevelsHardBosses: Basic enemy encounters are, generally speaking, unlikely to give you trouble. Good thing too, since you'll need all the Job levels you can get for the bosses. Particularly because of the Brave/Default system. There is no downside to having everyone Brave 4 attacks in the first turn when you're certain you can end the battle with it -- but if you fail, you're effectively giving the enemy ''three free turns in a row'' -- a recipe for disaster if you attempt this against a boss. One of the earliest lessons in this comes from Ominas Crowe (the game's second boss), who will Fire and Poison your party into oblivion with his free 3 turns if you try to bumrush him like a normal encounter. |
| 200 | ** Gets inverted shortly before leaving the first world, especially on Hard. By then, the player has access to most jobs/abilities they'll need and likely has a feel for how to engage a boss with proper precautions, and most of the ones in Eternia are quite easy to begin with -- but certain random encounters in Everlast Tower or Vampire Castle can demolish your party in a single turn if they do their strongest attacks all at once (or heaven forbid, get extra BP or a First Strike). |
| 201 | * EldritchAbomination: Nothing short of this will describe the final boss better... |
| 202 | * ElementalDragon: |
| 203 | ** The series has recurring enemies called D'gons, small dragons selectively bred by the Eternian army's Monstrous Weapons Division for combat purposes. Their extreme sensitivity to changes in the environment eventually allowed for the creation of Fire and Ice D'gons, mutated species that can inflicting fire and water elemental damage. |
| 204 | ** There are also recurring {{Optional Boss}}es in the form of six dragons who revolve around the types of elemental damage, known as Salamander (Fire), Mizuchi (Water), Wyvern (Wind), Ladon (Earth), Shinryu (Light), and Jabberwock (Dark). They all possess monstrous stats and share the same gimmick of decreasing your resistance to their respective elements so their attacks can become powerful enough to cause a Total Party Kill. |
| 205 | * TheEmpire: Eternia, which is sending out knights in airships everywhere to TakeOverTheWorld, and has many lieutenants who are kill or torture-happy. |
| 206 | * EncounterBait: In addition to being able to adjust the frequency of RandomEncounters at any time, equipping the "Taunt Bangle" doubles the current encounter rate. Its FlavorText actually portrays it positively, as a tool voluntarily used for training purposes. Freelancers also get this as an equippable support ability called "Lure Enemy". |
| 207 | * EndGamePlus: Completing the game's short ending rewards you with Agnès's vestal garb as an equippable costume, and promptly returns you to [[spoiler:before your attempt to destroy the Crystal]]. If you want the NewGamePlus instead, you have to see your quest through to the long ending. |
| 208 | * TheEndOrIsIt: The lesser of the game's two endings, whereupon [[spoiler:defeating Airy, her dying words reveal she were just an emissary of a greater evil and pray that His Malevolence will appear somewhere, someday. Nonetheless, you ''did'' buy about 5,000 years of non-TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, and your characters are free to return to their lives in peace]]. |
| 209 | * EnemyScan: The Freelancer's Examine ability does this. Most of the info learned[[note]]stats, monster family/families it belongs to, weaknesses[[/note]] is kept permanently and can be accessed at almost any time in battle by pressing left on the Control Pad. The info will also apply to stronger versions of enemies with the same name and appearance, letting you see their updated stats without having to scan them again, [[spoiler:including the rematches with the bosses in subsequent worlds]]. Remaining HP, however, only applies to the specific enemy that you scanned, other enemies of the same type have to be scanned separately to see their HP, even if they're in the same battle. It does get tracked in real time though, so it can be useful when dealing with bosses that TurnRed. |
| 210 | * EnemySummoner: Several monsters have the power to summon more of themselves like the Myconid's Spore ability (which summons one), or the Deathstalker scorpion's Pheromone Plus (which summons two). |
| 211 | * EscapeRope: Teleport Stones can be purchased in shops and will return you to the entrance of a dungeon (though not remove you from it entirely). The "Teleport" Time Magic performs the same function (and also doubles as a quick escape from battles). |
| 212 | * EternalRecurrence: [[spoiler:Awakening the four crystals and summoning the Holy Pillar is what causes the Great Chasm in the next world over.]] Lather, rinse, repeat [[spoiler:for millions of years]]. |
| 213 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Not that she herself is evil, but still, Edea is none too pleased at the harsh methods that her comrades are carrying out, which is probably why she joined up with Agnès and the others. |
| 214 | * EverybodyLives: The murder mystery sidequest can be solved without any deaths, but it requires [[spoiler:inspecting the "corpse" of the first victim ''seventeen times'', with only the first and the last having any apparent effect]]. [[GuideDangIt The game provides precisely zero hints that this is possible]]. [[spoiler:It's significantly easier in later loops]]. |
| 215 | * EvilAllAlong: The end-game reveals that the [[BigBad main antagonist]] is [[spoiler:Airy]]. |
| 216 | * EvilIsBigger: In the tradition of classic ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games, the heroes have SuperDeformed chibi models. The antagonists on the other hand, have significantly taller, more realistically proportioned models. With the exception of Alternis Dim, whose model has similar proportions to that of the party [[spoiler:because Ringabel is actually an amnesiac Alternis from an [[PunnyName alternate version of Luxendarc]] who failed to save Edea and the party from Airy, and fell into the Holy Pillar]]. |
| 217 | * EvilMakesYouUgly: Human {{Mooks}} (Sky Knight recruits and Merchantry thugs) are pasty and hunchbacked, with jaundiced eyes. Averted with [[AmazonBrigade the Blood Rose Legion]] [[spoiler:and [[CuteIsEvil Airy]]]]. |
| 218 | * EvolvingTitleScreen: Towards the end of the game, on certain paths (including the one for the true ending), it changes to show the true meaning of the subtitle: [[spoiler:Airy Lies or alternatively, Lying Airy]]. |
| 219 | * ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Defied. [[spoiler:Ouroboros devouring world after world in the final battle is played for all the horror it's due. He even stops to explicitly point out the sheer gravity of eating even one world in case you thought to fall into this trope.]] |
| 220 | * ExploitedImmunity: |
| 221 | ** The Valkyrie's Decimate ability is essentially this. It instant kills anyone below 10% HP, enemy or ally. |
| 222 | ** Dark Knight's Dark Nebula is likely meant to be used this way. It deals heavy darkness elemental physical damage to everyone, but it's no problem for the player party if they've been given immunity (or even better, [[FeedItWithFire absorption]]) to the darkness element. |
| 223 | ** This is largely the shtick of the Arcanist class, as it inflicts heavy Dark damage on enemies (or allies) that are afflicted with a vulnerability like Sleep or Poison, making it complementary with Black Magic. |
| 224 | * ExploitingTheFourthWall: You, the player, are a tangible force within the game's world. The [[BigBad True antagonists]] directly acknowledge your involvement with the party. |
| 225 | * ExtraTurn: The Brave Points (BP) system. Generally speaking, the number of Brave Points a character has indicates the number of {{Extra Turn}}s they can take (up to 3) at that time, and a major strategic element is the player doesn't have to stock the BP before using them -- they're allowed to take these extra turns ''in advance'' any time they need to. Enemies and bosses have access to the Brave/Default system just like the player; any time a monster flashes red, it indicates they're about to take an extra action. Beyond this: |
| 226 | ** There are a few techniques here and there that can alter BP, such as granting BP to an ally or draining BP from an enemy. |
| 227 | ** The Red Mage job class specializes in support abilities that grant extra BP under specific circumstances. This comboes well with its final ability (which boosts M.Atk if you purposely drive your BP into the negative). |
| 228 | ** Battles may start with pre-emptive strikes (where one side gets a free turn) or "Brave Attacks" (where one side gets +1 BP right off the bat). |
| 229 | ** The "Bravely Second" ability (acquired early in the game) allows you to [[TimeStandsStill stop time]] and take an ExtraTurn at any time you need it, albeit at the cost of rare SP (Sleep Points) instead of BP. Just like BP, you can save up the SP before using Bravely Second ''or'' use the SP in advance and recharge it later. |
| 230 | * FakeInteractivity: During the opening FMV where the cryst-fairy asks the player "I just need to hear it from you -- say you'll stay, to the very end"; the game probably ''could'' use the 3DS's microphone to listen for a player response, but the fairy just pauses a second, nods, then says "with that out of the way..." and continues on. (On the other hand, [[spoiler:in the game's Special Movie, when Magnolia is attempting to get Tiz's attention, this ''does'' require the player to orient the 3DS in Magnolia's direction before the movie proceeds.]]) |
| 231 | * FantasyCounterpartCulture: |
| 232 | ** The mythical land of Wa, "an island nation that vanished centuries ago", has elements of Japanese culture (Katanas, Samurai and Tengu) and Atlantis (it sunk in the sea ages before the game). In fact, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_(Japan) Wa-no-Kuni (Country of Harmony)]] is an expression used to indicate Japan. |
| 233 | ** Luxendarc in general seems like a mish-mash of various European cultures. Some item descriptions talk about [[Myth/ClassicalMythology The Age of Myths]] that came before the Old Faith. Excalibur's description talks about a boy who [[ExcaliburInTheStone drew it from a stone and became king]], while Durandal's refers to it as "the sword of the legendary hero [[Literature/TheSongOfRoland Roland]]". Other notable weapons and figures that appear are [[Myth/NorseMythology Gungnir, Valkyries]] and [[UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} Longinus]], both of which are incorporated in Luxendarc's mythology. Furthermore, it's stated that Zweihander means "Two-Handed" in [[UsefulNotes/GermanLanguage Eisen Language]]. That said, it may be only a case of PublicDomainArtifact. |
| 234 | *** In some of the party chats [[spoiler:and in the Special Movie]] the Language of Flowers, Florem's native language, is used. This Language of Flowers is actually French, just as Eisen Language is German. |
| 235 | * FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Ouroboros. This guy casually talks to your party in a rather bored voice about how he's going to destroy all of the other worlds and spread chaos. He takes great joy in the shock and horror your party experience at his massacre of multiple worlds, making his somewhat wry demeanour that much more horrifying.]] |
| 236 | ** To some extent Qada is this. Despite having a very foppish voice and an absolutely hilarious battle animation and character design, he's one of the most despicable characters in the game. |
| 237 | * {{Fauxshadow}}: There are some early indications that [[spoiler:Ringabel might be Alternis Dim sent to spy on the party, as he is conveniently absent the first time you encounter him, and Ringabel later claims to have been knocked silly by a girl he tried to hit on just after Alternis is shown being attacked by Victoria]]. [[spoiler:He is Alternis, but he's actually the one from the world before yours.]] |
| 238 | * FighterMageThief: The party's stat growths subtly fit these archetypes: Edea is the [[GlacierWaif Fighter]], Agnès is the [[SquishyWizard Mage]], Ringabel is the [[FragileSpeedster Thief]], and Tiz is the JackOfAllStats. That said, one is free to customize their party however one wishes with classes and equipment. |
| 239 | * TheFinalTemptation: The Sage Side-Quest in Chapter 6, where [[spoiler:the world the cast is in has their counterparts dead; but nobody is aware that the protagonists are versions from another world; and each of the four is given the opportunity to take their place.]] |
| 240 | * FinishingMove: The Valkyrie's Decimate ability automatically finishes off any character with 10% HP or less (yes, even bosses). However, this also happens to ''allies'' if they're also low too. |
| 241 | * FiveSecondForeshadowing: After defeating Dark Knight Alternis Dim, [[spoiler:the action is broken, once again, by the cutscene where Tiz receives an asterisk. Cut to the sample space where the party samples their Dark Knight looks, and Ringabel's outfit [[AlternateSelf is the same as that of Alternis]].]] |
| 242 | * FixedDamageAttack: There are quite a few of them, actually... |
| 243 | ** Attack items do a fixed 500 or 1500 damage regardless of the target's Defense or Default (but it ''does'' acknowledge ElementalRockPaperScissors). |
| 244 | ** The Merchant's "Takeover" skill does fixed damage by throwing an equal amount of cash, and the damage dealt scales with level, too. |
| 245 | ** Certain Salve-maker compounds can inflict damage equal to the user's HP, or the user's 'missing'[[note]](max - current)[[/note]] HP. Using Convert Poison on a Potion, Hi-Potion, or X Potion will inflict the amount it normally heals as damage plus poison the target, but this is affected by resistance/vulnerability to poison damage. |
| 246 | ** The Dark Knight's "Minus Strike" skill also deals fixed damage equal to the user's missing HP. Alternis Dim infamously uses it to 9999 your party members with impunity. |
| 247 | ** The "Bone Crush" skill hits all targets and deals damage equal to each individual's 'missing HP' (max - current). In other words, it doubles the damage they've already sustained (so any individual with less than 50% HP is instantly KO). |
| 248 | ** Time magic Gravity and Graviga inflict damage equal to 50% or 75% of a target's maximum HP, and will thus instantly kill anything with less HP than that ... [[UselessUsefulSpell assuming it hits]]. |
| 249 | * FlashStep: One of the Thief's abilities, Godspeed Strike, incorporates this. It ignores the target's Physical Defense and inflicts damage based on the user's Speed rather than Physical Attack. |
| 250 | * FoodPorn: D's Journal, as well as many of the Party Chats, go on at length about what kind of food is popular in each locale and which tastes each of the heroes prefer. |
| 251 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: All over the place, but one particular stand-out example comes when [[spoiler:Tiz first meets Airy]]. |
| 252 | -->[[spoiler:'''Tiz''': Ah! A miniature monster!]] |
| 253 | ** As early as the first crystal we get indications of what is to come. Edea comments on the 'awakened' crystal looking as though it would explode before Agnes had finished, and Ringabel finds its light familiar. [[spoiler:By following Airy's instructions, Agnes is unwittingly overloading the crystal, and Ringabel recalls the light of the Holy Pillar and Edea's death within it.]] None of these things are followed up on fully until four or five chapters later. |
| 254 | ** While not very obvious, Mephillia had mentioned [[spoiler:seeing an angel inside Tiz from the first world. Come to the true ending path and you find the truth to her words and also the fact that Tiz had the celestial with him.]] |
| 255 | ** After defeating Red Mage deRosa in a sidequest in Chapter 2 [[spoiler:he drops a red journal bearing an '''R''' for de'''R'''osa. This is an early hint that the black '''D''''s Journal belongs to the black-clad Alternis '''D'''im.]] |
| 256 | * FourIsDeath: Almost all of the Arcanist's abilities that deal dark-elemental damage or cause instant death one way or another cost 4 MP to use. |
| 257 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: Tiz - Phlegmatic, Agnès - Melancholic, Ringabel - Sanguine, Edea - Choleric. |
| 258 | * TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler:Ouroboros' ultimate goal is to break into the Celestial Realm, which is revealed during the final battle to be OUR world. The game projects a feed of what the 3DS camera sees during the last bit. It's also heavily implied beforehand - in a speech that shows that EvilCannotComprehendGood, he assumes that the player has only been pretending to feel bad for the characters inside. Whether that's true or not, is based entirely on said player's nature. Said speech also implies that Tiz is supposed to be the audience's surrogate.]] |
| 259 | * FullFrontalAssault: Implied with the Monk's class "Natural Talent", which doubles your attack in exchange for wearing nothing at all. |
| 260 | ** Referenced by Barras Lehr, the Monk Asterisk holder. In his dialogues with Holly Whyte, already full of innuendo, he says: [[AttackAttackAttack "There are only two tactics a real warrior needs! Frontal assault, and death by frontal assault!"]] |
| 261 | * GameplayAndStoryIntegration: When De Rosa confronts you after using his Love Perfume on Edea, she begins the battle with the Charm status. |
| 262 | ** This also extends into the GoldenEnding and the events that lead to it: [[spoiler:the pendant Agnès carries is the made from the core of a crystal, and as it's been established in the story, crystals are able to connect multiple worlds together, which enables it to both summon heroes from other worlds to help you in battle as well as borrow their skills with Abilink. When Ouroboros starts destroying the worlds that've been linked together, the ones that fight against it and lend you their power are the players you're currently Abilinked with, although he still manages to destroy one/some(?) of the worlds of the people you have on your friend list.]] |
| 263 | * GameplayAndStorySegregation: |
| 264 | ** As is expected from many an RPG, first there's the issue of a PlotlineDeath versus an in-gameplay KO (e.g., when the first MauveShirt dies, you probably do have a character classed as a White Mage and thus logically able to heal them -- note they were alive enough to share some final words before croaking) |
| 265 | ** In a Chapter 6 sidequest, Edea's father recognizes her by her style of swordplay, regardless of what in-combat role she's performing (or whether she's even armed with a sword) at the time. |
| 266 | ** Then there are several examples relating specifically to [[spoiler:the multiple world effect]]. |
| 267 | ** No matter how much you have restored Norende, the Great Chasm will never show any effects of reconstruction. [[spoiler:Likewise, no matter how many worlds you go through, Norende's restoration is never undone.]] |
| 268 | ** [[spoiler:If a dungeon puzzle was completed in the first world, then it will be complete in the second world, and the third, and so on. This extends to the keystones for the door of Castle Frostcoffin, although the dragons are up for a rematch after each Holy Pillar]]. |
| 269 | ** After you gain the Ranger asterisk, there is a party chat that basically makes a joke out of Agnès' complete lack of knowledge about how bows and arrows work, even if you have equipped her with a bow for hours beforehand. |
| 270 | ** Even though you gain the Vestal Garb in a story-related event early on, you cannot equip it as an alternate outfit for Agnès right then; you must unlock it by completing the game's "false" ending. Though this could be excused as being of major importance to awakening the crystals and thus cannot risk damage to it from combat, no one says a word about Edea wearing [[BarelyThereSwimwear the Bravo Bikini]] in combat after she receives it in a Sub-scenario. |
| 271 | * GlassCannon: Several classes fall under this trope, but it is perhaps best demonstrated by the Natural Talent ability for the Monk, which doubles your attack power if you wear no equipment whatsoever. (The lack of defense power is somewhat mitigated by the Monk's naturally high HP). Of course, if you put Knuckle Lore and Natural Talent on a job that is '''already''' a Glass Cannon to begin with... |
| 272 | * TheGlomp: [[spoiler: Holly actually does this to Barras in the third loop.]] |
| 273 | * GodWasMyCopilot: [[spoiler:''YOU'' are this for Tiz and the rest of the group by proxy. Turns out our world is the Celestial Realm and we are "Celestials" ourselves. The BigBad (and Mephilia in the first world) spots you inside Tiz's soul and blames your direct interference and guidance on why these particular versions of the heroes are so powerful. He promises you pain for your interference.]] |
| 274 | * GoldenEnding: The true ending chapter is called [[TitleDrop Bravely Default]] while the "false" ending is Flying Fairy / Where The Fairy Flies [[spoiler:AKA Lying Airy / Airy Lies]] depending on your localization. This true ending, while ultimately happier, [[EarnYourHappyEnding has a much more vicious final boss]] than the false one. |
| 275 | * GoodMorningCrono: How the game starts by giving you control of Tiz. [[spoiler:Then you go through the same event four times more. It has sort of become a MemeticMutation in the fandom as a result]]. |
| 276 | * GratuitousEnglish: The title, which makes close to zero sense in English. According to Website/TheOtherWiki, [[WordOfGod Naotaka Hayashi]], the game's writer, has stated that the title means "have courage and renounce the promises and responsibilities that are expected of you." The game makes it something of a [[TitleDrop title drop]], in that the more unique aspects of the battle system are named 'Brave' and 'Default', which is to attack or defend. |
| 277 | * GreatBigBookOfEverything: D's Journal eventually becomes one. One wonders when Ringabel finds the time to write about every single event, person, item, and monster that they encounter. |
| 278 | * GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:[[GodOfEvil Ouroboros]], whom [[BigBad Airy]] is secretly working for as TheMole]]. |
| 279 | * GrimUpNorth: Averted. Despite being a cold, mountainous land, Eternia doesn't seem that bad of a place to live and the people are certainly nice enough (not to mention have free health care). |
| 280 | * GroundhogDayLoop: A variation. [[spoiler:The characters don't travel through time, but in different worlds. However, because they end up at the same moment their journey began (When Tiz wakes up following Norende's destruction), it effectively counts as a GroundhogDayLoop.]] |
| 281 | * GuideDangIt: You can actually skip the murder mystery plot in the ninja sidequest by [[spoiler:talking with the culprit 20 times.]] |
| 282 | * HealingBoss: |
| 283 | ** Holly Whyte can use healing magic to restore her allies' HP or her own. The same applies for her appearance in ''Second''. |
| 284 | ** Victor S. Court can cast healing magic to restore his allies' HP or his own. |
| 285 | ** When battling the {{Superboss}}, [[spoiler:The Adventurer and The Comrade, the latter can cast Curaga when the HP of either of them is low. The Adventurer can also use Call Comrade to revive The Comrade should the latter be defeated the previous turn.]] |
| 286 | * HealingVat: At least one is seen in the Eternian Central Command. Victor uses it to treat Victoria's seizures. |
| 287 | * HelloInsertNameHere: The heroes have set names, but past a certain point in the story, you can rename them however you like. Not that it affects the voice-acting, of course.... |
| 288 | * HopelessBossFight: |
| 289 | ** The first fight against Victoria and Victor is like this. They're far more powerful than anything else you encounter at that point, and the fight automatically ends after a number of turns (or if you get wiped out - a high probability if Victoria successfully executes her Poison+Exterminate combo). Also is a case of TheBattleDidntCount, as even if you use a mega-attack via NewGamePlus or a Friend Summons to drive their Hit Points to 0, the plot ignores this (although it does end the fight earlier). |
| 290 | ** If you try to go for [[spoiler:the false ending]], you'll have one of these against [[spoiler:Airy]]. You are missing Agnès during the fight and after a few turns, the boss will use Slaughter, which will instantly end the fight. |
| 291 | * HotWitch: The female Black Mage costume, consisting of a LittleBlackDress, hooker boots (which nets you ZettaiRyouiki), a cape (which can be easily mistaken for a ShowgirlSkirt), and a witch's hat. The White Mage outfit is largely similar, but it's white with red trim. Mephilia and Holly are also examples. |
| 292 | * HPToOne: The Dark Knight class can do it to itself with the Rage ability, casting Dark Bane until his/her HP drops to 1. This is particularly deadly combined with Minus Strike. The Monk class similarly has Phoenix Flight, which hits an enemy for your current health total and spends it all, leaving you at 1 HP (also deadly with Minus Strike, and acknowledge in-game to boot). There is also the "Chomp" skill used by the Valtora panthers in Eisenberg (which is also learnable as a Genome ability, having a base accuracy of 50%). |
| 293 | * HurricaneOfPuns: Many, many of the character names, particularly the main party and those who are connected to them, have a pun of some sort. |
| 294 | [[/folder]] |
| 295 | [[folder: I-M]] |
| 296 | * IdiotBall: |
| 297 | ** The villains toss one between each other, and it grows larger the more you play through the game. Many of the villains in the game are some shade of AntiVillain that have perfectly understandable motives and goals in opposing the party, and it's repeatedly hinted they know secrets about the party's goals that are what convinces them to oppose the party. Yet, whenever the party talks to them and tries to reason with them, the conversation ends up being a lecture from the villain that the party are naive fools who do not understand what they are doing, and then they attack. As PoorCommunicationKills further down the page explains, the villains seem to prefer fighting to the death rather than trying to explain to the party ''why'' [[spoiler:awakening the Crystals is a bad idea]]. |
| 298 | ** Ringabel notes in his journal that the Great Chasm's opening resembles [[spoiler:the Holy Pillar]], and from there it seems that he's drawing the conclusion that [[spoiler:''they'' are the ones causing the Great Chasm in each world]]. And yet again, even though most of the party picks up on this as well, they just keep on going. Additionally, dialogue and flashbacks that change the longer you play through the game suggest the party knows that [[spoiler:awakening the Crystals is exactly what the villain wants, and it's also implied they know Airy is untrustworthy]], yet they keep doing it. It's given a small justification at the end of Chapter 6, which suggests that [[spoiler:the party knows about Airy's true nature, the link between the Holy Pillar and Great Chasm, and are merely biding time before exposing the true foe at the end of Airy's countdown]]. However, this again brings up the problem that [[spoiler:the party knows they are going along with the villain's plan and keep going along with it, not really sure what'll happen when it succeeds.]] |
| 299 | * IdleAnimation: Party members shift their poses a little while you're busy navigating menus and deciding actions to take in battle. Monsters and bosses, on the other hand, do not... except for [[IdolSinger Praline]], who ''never stops dancing''. |
| 300 | * IdleGame: The city builder minigame, which takes several hours to build shops and clear territory. Just put the game into sleep mode (which has the added benefit of refilling your Sleep Points) and go to work/bed, come home/wake up to a new shop. |
| 301 | * InconsistentDub: In the Book of D, the description of Kamiizumi states that he counters magic with "Cold Shoulder" and single target attacks with "Know Thy Enemy". In the game, these skills were renamed respectively "Before Swine" and "Know Thine Enemy". |
| 302 | * InfinityMinusOneSword: The weapons found in locked blue chests are the best weapons you can get during the story without hitting the ending sequence. These include: |
| 303 | ** Chaos Blade, a sword with a chance to inflict confusion on attack; |
| 304 | ** Death Axe, which induces Kill magic when used; |
| 305 | ** Longinus, a spear that does extra damage to aquatic monsters; |
| 306 | ** Wonder Rod, which casts random Black Magic when used as an item; |
| 307 | ** Gale Staff, which boosts Aero magic and other wind attacks; |
| 308 | ** Air Knife, a dagger that deals wind damage on attack; |
| 309 | ** Yoichi's Bow, which has a critical rate comparable to katanas; |
| 310 | ** Muramasa, a katana that activates the Piracy command Defang when used as an item; |
| 311 | ** Hadean Claws, which deal dark damage on attack |
| 312 | * InfinityPlusOneSword: The [[spoiler:Dimension's Hasp, unlocked during either final chapter,]] has the best armaments in the game for each class hidden in its depths: Durandal (Sword), Earthbreaker (Axe), Gungnir (Spear), Demon's Rod (Rod), Demon's Staff ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Staff]]), Yatagarasu (Knife), Artemis's Bow ([[RuleOfThree Bow]]), Ama-no-Murakumo (Katana), and Kaiser Knuckles ([[OverlyLongGag Knuckles]]). The Kaiser Knuckles technically grant the strongest attack stat, but are a two-handed weapon; Ama-no-Murakumo is the strongest weapon that can be used in conjunction with a shield, be dual wielded or two-handed (in the latter most case doubling it's attack power). |
| 313 | * InGameNovel: D's Journal, specifically the written accounts of the author. The "Enigmatic Writings" section is available in its entirety when you first obtain Ringabel, and later in the game [[spoiler:Alternis Dim's journal is also acquired.]] |
| 314 | * InjuredVulnerability: The Arcanist specializes in skills that strike opponents currently inflicted with some form of status ailment, while the Valkyrie's "Decimate" skill will instantly finish off anything with less than 10% of its maximum HP, and the "Bone Crush" monster skill effectively doubles whatever damage a target has already sustained (thus it's harmless if the target is at full health, and a OneHitKill if they're at half or less). |
| 315 | * InstantExpert: |
| 316 | ** The player characters can use any new weapon as soon as they get them, although their efficiency with each type depends on their current job and abilities. |
| 317 | ** Asterisks instantly make a character a specialized class, granting the knowledge and skill of previous masters of that class. While you normally still have to level up that class to get access to all the abilities, having a friend abilinked will grant all the abilities he has unlocked. |
| 318 | * InterfaceSpoiler: [[spoiler:You're at the end of chapter 4, you've apparently defeated the BigBad, all four crystals have been awakened, and there's a massive pillar of light floating in the southeastern ocean. But wait... there's still two more empty slots in the Job screen! Of course, we all know now that's because chapter 4 isn't the end...]] |
| 319 | * {{Irony}}: Agnès spends most of the prologue worrying about whether she can trust [[AmnesiacHero Ringabel]] and [[DefectorFromDecadence Edea]]. [[spoiler:It's Airy she needs to worry about.]] |
| 320 | * JobSystem: All of the [=PCs=] have access to all available jobs, and are able to use a secondary job command and a mix of support abilities from any combination of jobs up to the limit of 5 points, with each ability costing anywhere from 1-4 points to equip depending on its overall strength. The jobs are obtained from major [=NPCs=] who possess the said jobs, the defeat of which bestows the respective job asterisk to the [=PCs=]. The asterisks themselves are hexagonal gemstones that only [[spoiler:Sage Yulyana]] knows how to make and are theorized to be a magical variation of PowersAsPrograms. The previous method of granting jobs involved crystals in some form and the reason for the change was [[spoiler:again due to Yulyana's creation of the asterisks, which the greedy Orthodoxy saw as a more efficient way to extort money from people, but Yulyana's actual goal for creating them was so that he could have a monopoly on the jobs as one of the aspects of his grand plan due to the fact that he's the only one who knows how to make the asterisks.]] |
| 321 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: The ultimate katana, Ama-no-murakumo, is equal or superior to the ultimate sword, Durandal, in every aspect. |
| 322 | * KonamiCode: Using this in the main menu screen unlocks the teaser movie for ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'' without having to finish the game first. |
| 323 | * LampshadeHanging: If anyone does this, it's Ringabel: |
| 324 | --> '''Ringabel:''' [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud Sigh]]. Why must [[BossBattle the big ones]] always come at the end? |
| 325 | * LastChanceHitPoint: Freelancers learn the "Stand Ground" support skill at job level 13. At 3 ability points it's an expensive ability to equip, but it provides a 75% chance that they'll survive an otherwise-fatal attack with 1 HP. |
| 326 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: A Party Chat early in the game that occurs if Norende's population is low enough concerns the lack of support for the rebuilding effort. After painful reminders that Tiz and Agnès don't know anyone alive and Edea turned traitor on everyone she knows (and a humourous retort that Ringabel is not putting ladies to work), Edea tells them all to go someplace with a lot of people and try their luck... which is pretty much the ideal strategy for ANY game utilizing the 3DS's [=StreetPass=] feature. |
| 327 | * LeaveYourQuestTest: [[spoiler:Each character is given one in the Conjurer job sidequest, courtesy of Yulyana: due to the circumstances in the third world, each party member's counterpart in that world is dead and their loved ones or friends are either alive or much more accepting of them, which leaves the party free to take their place in what's essentially an ideal world for them.]] |
| 328 | * LegacyBossBattle: |
| 329 | ** The game features {{optional boss}}es from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight'' . |
| 330 | ** Hidden in one of the dungeons, [[spoiler:the Adventurer and Faithful Fox]] can be fought. |
| 331 | * TheLegendOfChekhov: An old fellow in Ancheim talks about a mythical two-headed beast named Orthros ... care to guess what your first Crystal boss is? |
| 332 | * LevelLimiter: The Golden Egg accessory doubles your money intake in exchange for reducing EXP and JP gained to zero. |
| 333 | * LighterAndSofter: In game. Each [[spoiler:alternate reality the party visits]] is less dark (especially from the main characters' point of view). For example [[spoiler:Eternia's worst war crimes from the first world either haven't occurred in the second (in the case of using child slave labour in the Mythril mine in Eisenberg) or have the blame for them shifted to de Rosa and Khamer acting against Edea's father's orders. In the final couple of worlds it's not confirmed that the toxic mist WMD was used, the bosses become wackier, with Holly changing from torture happy sadist to DeadpanSnarker and even Victoria just trying to form a girl power group, and there are express orders that the vestal is not to be harmed which can be contrasted with Holly's threats in the first world. In the final world the bosses are explicitly just [[OnlyTheWorthyMayPass testing your strength]] and the fights are non-lethal.]] This is in stark contrast to the main quest, which gets progressively more oppressive the further along you go. |
| 334 | * LightIsNotGood: |
| 335 | ** Holly Whyte is a WhiteMage and [[spoiler:the first time around]] a complete sadist. She threatens that when she captures Agnès she'll [[BreakTheCutie have her beaten to within an inch of her life and then heal her, over and over, until her mind snaps]] while [[ExactWords keeping her word]] to Tiz that Agnès won't be killed. |
| 336 | ** Also [[spoiler:Lying Airy, although she goes very dark once you find this out.]] |
| 337 | * LimitBreak: In form of somewhat blandly-named Special Attacks. The one you can use at any given time is determined by your currently equipped weapon and the requirements for each one involve repeating a specific battle action a set number of times. You can also power them up by attaching things called "parts" to them which include raw damage boosts, elemental properties, additional damage against specific types of enemies and StatusEffects, and each one also has an additional fixed-length party-wide boost when used that can be stacked by using multiple Special Attacks in rapid succession that ends when [[ThemeMusicPowerUp the song that starts playing when you use one ends.]] |
| 338 | ** To actually break the damage limit of 9999, you have to use Bravely Second or summon a friend who sent an attack used during Bravely Second. |
| 339 | * LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: Inverted in the case of offensive magic. While warriors and black mages are roughly on even footing towards the beginning, magic first loses its monopoly on weakness exploitation upon obtaining the spell fencer class, then the MP cost of higher level spells inflates rapidly until it becomes ridiculous, and finally the physical classes simply vastly outstrip them in terms of options and potential for damage output. Healing and support magic, however, stays consistently useful throughout the whole game. |
| 340 | * LockedRoomMystery: The Ninja sidequest is one of these, complete with classic tropes like EveryoneIsASuspect and LightsOffSomebodyDies. [[spoiler:And TheButlerDidIt. Sort of. Via FakingTheDead.]] |
| 341 | * LostInTranslation: Late in the game (by virtue of how expensive they are), you can buy alternate costumes for your characters. The description makes it sound like the outfits change as the game progresses as a sort of NewGamePlus bonus, but it's actually supposed to say that the costume will override whatever class outfit the character would be wearing. |
| 342 | ** There's also a ''major'' mistranslation with the Merchant's "More Money" ability. The money bonus does ''not'' stack when multiple characters have the ability, but it ''does'' stack with the Golden Egg's money multiplier. The in-game description, however, says the exact opposite. |
| 343 | * LoveBeforeFirstSight: Ringabel is smitten with Edea based on her description in his future-telling journal. Since their personalities are almost completely incompatible, he's somewhat disillusioned after their first meeting, though he resumes his pursuit as time goes on. As [[spoiler:he's actually gone through ChildhoodFriendRomance and been hit with EasyAmnesia]]. |
| 344 | * LoveTheme: "Under the Hollow Moon" for Tiz and Agnès. |
| 345 | * LowLevelRun: The game's "Difficulty" options allow you to not only adjust things like your random encounter rate, but also individually enable/disable acquisition of EXP, money, and job point. |
| 346 | * MaamShock: An oddly translated line results in a strange gender-inversion of this in the English version, where Ringabel is utterly taken aback when the two little girls looking for hairpins call him "Mister". In the Japanese version, they called him "Ojiichan" (grandpa). |
| 347 | * MagicKnight: A possible and versatile character setup is to give a melee-proficient class a magic-related Ability. As for Jobs, there's Spell Fencers and Red Mages. |
| 348 | * MagikarpPower: The Freelancer's Late Bloomer innate ability will permanently modify a character's stats as a Freelancer when they fully master a Job. As the game progresses, this makes the Freelancer more and more powerful until it surpasses any other class stats-wise. |
| 349 | * MascotVillain: [[spoiler:Airy is a cute little fairy who serves Agnés and her group in awaking the crystals. However she exhibits suspicious behavior and a lack of care for anyone who is not the Wind Vestal]]. She is actually TheDragon to [[BigBad Ouroboros]], and is using Agnés and the crystals to link multiple parallel worlds together so that Ouroboros can destroy them. [[WasItAllALie Agnés dosn't take this betrayal well.]] On top of that before the boss fight with her in the Dark Aurora she [[KickTheDog pretends that she was Brainwashed all along and then gloats about Agnés actually buying that]]. |
| 350 | * MechaMooks: |
| 351 | ** Automatons, powerful mechanical soldiers created to serve the Eternian army. The final dungeon has a stronger counterpart known as Spriggans, whose bio in ''Second'' {{retcon}}s them as being upgraded versions of the Automatons that were sealed underground after they proved too powerful to control. |
| 352 | ** There is also the Guardian, a boss version of the Automaton that serves as one of the gatekeepers to the Duchy of Eternia's headquarters. |
| 353 | * MetalSlime: Enemies belonging to the Chomper family are more likely to run away outright than fight you, but if you have the means to take them out, they drop considerably higher JP than other enemies in their area. The most powerful, of course, is the green Guzzler: It drops 500 JP upon defeat (the [[{{Cap}} cap]] for JP gain in a single battle is 999) and you can steal Megalixirs from them (which normally fall solidly under TooAwesomeToUse), but it has very high defense, its counterattack inflicts a good chunk of damage and a ton of status effects (the normal attack is similar). Of course, if you outspeed it and then spam [[FixedDamageAttack Pantheon's Wrath items]] (for the JP) and/or repeatedly drain their BP (in order to keep them alive and steal the Megalixirs), [[GameBreaker well...]] |
| 354 | * MeteorSummoningAttack: Meteor, a high level spell belonging to the Time Mage job class, deals four large amounts of non-elemental damage to random targets. |
| 355 | * MotiveRant: Nearly every Jobmaster gets a long scene where they rant about who they are or why they do what they do before the battle begins. |
| 356 | * MsFanservice: |
| 357 | ** Agnès's artwork and images [[http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/4/49/BDFF_Woman.jpg are quite gratuitous]], and the first English trailer for the game had a lot of MaleGaze focused on her back and thighs. |
| 358 | ** Edea and [[FairySexy Airy]], especially in the [=FMV=]s. The former [[DefectorFromDecadence sort of]] falls into BeautyIsBad [[spoiler: and ''[[BitchInSheepsClothing especially]]'' the latter]]. |
| 359 | %%** Then there's the infamous Bravo Bikini scene in Florem... |
| 360 | ** The Vampire outfits for Agnès and Edea in the Japanese version, and their Spellfencer outfits in all versions. |
| 361 | * MultiplayerOnlyItem: The game has abilink, which allows for using moves and skills that were sent or learned, respectively, by anyone on your 3DS friend list. |
| 362 | * MultipleEndings: The game never actually asks you what branch of the plot you want to choose, but you nonetheless have the option starting from Chapter 5. [[spoiler:You can get the normal ending by continuing to mash X while awakening a crystal, in spite of Airy's warnings that you'll shatter it, which is what you're repeatedly hinted may be the best course of action. However, continuing to awaken the crystals like Airy asks you to will have similar consequences, with the difference that doing so will also reveal the true villian behind the scenes]]. |
| 363 | * MusicalSpoiler: Whenever the main characters' leitmotif instruments are ordered, be it when they're used in the main menu theme, the ordering of the characters' special move themes on the soundtrack, or [[spoiler:during the final boss battle]], it's always in the order of Tiz, Agnés, Edea, Ringabel. This despite Ringabel being the third member of the party you get, before you get Edea. There's a reason for this: [[spoiler:as it turns out, Tiz, Agnés and Edea have been doing this adventure ''long'' before Ringabel joined the gang]]. |
| 364 | [[/folder]] |
| 365 | [[folder: N-R]] |
| 366 | * NewGamePlus: After [[spoiler:Ouroboros]] is defeated. You even get to choose the stuff you want to carry over (Levels, money, how far Norende has been reconstructed, classes...). |
| 367 | * NewMediaAreEvil: Pretty much any new fad or change from tradition is part of a plot made by the villains. |
| 368 | * NoKillLikeOverkill: In addition to the secondary use of Bravely Second described below, the game also encourages you to do this via post-battle bonuses: killing all the enemies in a single attack, within a single turn, and/or without taking damage gets you bonus [[GlobalCurrency pg]], EXP and JP (respectively) and if you do each one multiple times in a row, the amount of bonus you get increases as well. |
| 369 | * [[NoteFromEd Note From Edea]]: Some entries in D's Journal have little interjections from Edea written in. |
| 370 | * NotHelpingYourCase: While several of the Eternian commanders are {{Anti Villain}}s with understandable motives and their own sense of honor, others of them are AxCrazy sociopaths who just love to hurt people and laugh about it. The unwillingness of the good ones to explain their actions to the party makes it difficult to tell them apart from the bad ones sometimes. |
| 371 | * NothingIsScarier: [[spoiler:After Airy reveals her true colors and leaves, the part of the menu she normally pops up in is blank. After a whole game's worth of it, it can be a bit unnerving.]] |
| 372 | * ObviouslyEvil: If there's a character who strangely towers a head above all other characters in the game, including adult [=NPC=]s, and seems to be wearing a fancy outfit, chances are that guy is an Asterisk bearer and (in some way) your enemy. |
| 373 | * OminousLatinChanting: The final boss theme contains a good amount of it. It's also really kickass. |
| 374 | * OneHandedZweihander: Not only is there an in-game "Zweihander" you can readily purchase and equip (in just one hand, no less), you can also ''DualWield'' them! Also applies to any number of enormous weapons, such as axes that look like they weigh more than the characters (and have been used as ship anchors) but which can be equipped in one hand. |
| 375 | * OneSteveLimit: While not exactly the same, many people may confuse [=DeRosa=] and [=DeRosso=] the first few times. It's like the difference between Steve and Steven. |
| 376 | * PaletteSwap: Many enemies do this though stronger versions do have more differences. |
| 377 | ** It's a little more jarring for actual people, especially Egil. He's got palette swaps in the canary boys (pink-haired) and [[spoiler:in Til]] (gray-haired), who was possibly the go-to design who spread the design. |
| 378 | * PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling: |
| 379 | ** Grapp Keep in chapter 3 is a small dungeon that contains nothing but undead enemies. If you turn up encounters to 100%, equip your party with sage staffs (which cast Raise when used as an item), and [[ReviveKillsZombie sic them on the enemies there]], you can pump up weak jobs to level 9 in as little as half an hour. This seems intentionally designed as well, with a difficulty increase in Chapter 3 accompanied with several new and powerful jobs available. |
| 380 | ** Florem is another great place, particularly in later chapters, with some monster encounters easily pushing the JP gain to the limit of 999 per battle. |
| 381 | ** [[spoiler:De Rosso's castle]] houses some of the game's strongest enemies. But with the Arcanist/Black mage combo, as well as the appropriate skills (easy to have with Abilink), you can insta-kill most, if not all of them. Put it on Auto, and you will rack up JP and experience pretty easily. That, or a party with Assassin's Knife dual-equipped (at least in chapter 4). |
| 382 | ** On the same beach as the Keystone that houses the Earth Dragon in Eternia, you can encounter monsters called Guzzlers starting in Chapter 5. The encounter has three of them and although they are tough to beat (unless you're using the Conjurer's Obliterate skill) they drop 333 JP each. Again, put the fight on Auto and watch your job levels soar, with a level 1 Job gaining ''five levels'' after just one go. There's also a [[PaletteSwap red]] counterpart in the Underflow starting in the same chapter, however these little guys are best used to grind for pg, of which no less than ''15,000'' can be earned per battle. |
| 383 | ** Actually pretty much the whole ''world'' becomes this in Chapter 5. After the [[spoiler:GroundhogDayLoop resets the world,]] all the jobmasters can be fought again, and they give a hefty 999 JP each. Plus, the enemies in every dungeon get stronger - meaning the undead in Grapp Keep give out even ''better'' goodies. |
| 384 | ** And in Chapter 6, after you get the [[spoiler:Conjurer]] job and learn Obliterate, the world becomes your oyster as you will automatically win 90% of all random encounters with low-level mobs and you'll get the whole XP and JP reward - so buy a Growth Egg to get the XP bonuses, choose a low-level area, start running circles with +100% encounter rate, and you'll be maxed out in a couple hours. |
| 385 | * PhraseCatcher: Nearly every single mention of the country of Wa will also mention that it was "a mysterious island nation that vanished centuries ago." |
| 386 | * [[ViewersAreGoldfish Players Are Goldfish]]: Airy seems to think so. She will constantly ask if you need a re-explanation on how to awaken the crystals [[spoiler:from chapter 5 onward]], for every. Single. ONE. Even if the only thing you did between crystals was fly in your airship to another crystal. |
| 387 | * PlayboyBunny: A large statue of one overlooks part of Florem. Its silhouette in Florem's EstablishingShot indicates that something is not quite right with the supposedly pious and devout city. |
| 388 | * PointOfNoReturn: An interesting take on the trope at the end of Chapter 4. After summoning the Holy Pillar, Airy warns everyone to make sure they've wrapped up any loose ends before they go in. [[spoiler:On the other side of the Holy Pillar is... the exact same map you entered it from, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation right down to all the chests being opened]] and [[AntiFrustrationFeatures any solved puzzles being as they were before]]. However, all the monsters have been replaced with stronger variants, with the ones in the initial world now locked behind a BonusDungeon that only opens during in the endings; some of the initially-encountered monsters can use [[PowerCopying Genome Abilities]] that their stronger counterparts may not have. Furthermore, although any asterisks missed in the initial world can be obtained through alternative sidequests starting with the second, this involves going through stronger versions of the boss fights, as well. Thus, the advice to the player is less "collect anything before you can't get at it" and more "get your LevelGrinding done before you CantCatchUp".]] |
| 389 | * PoisonAndCureGambit: The plan for corrupt Eternian Forces members [=DeRosa=], Profiteur, and Qada [[spoiler:in the fourth world]]. Qada has concocted a lethal poison, a dilutant, and a cure. The plan is as follows: [=DeRosa=] spreads the dilutant to all but a few key victims, then releases the poison in Eternian Central Command. The targets die, and Eternia is left a hellhouse. Profiteur then provides the cure to the poison, thus being hailed as a savior. Qada has a choice to make - the hero who was responsible for the miracle cure, or the mad genius who created history's most diabolic weapon. |
| 390 | * PoorCommunicationKills: |
| 391 | ** For all their criticism of the party viewing things in BlackAndWhiteMorality, the Eternian Forces are ''very'' bad at explaining their side, especially ridiculous since Edea is their Grand Marshal's daughter. Edea herself is also bad at this, as she refuses to explain that she had a problem with Ominas Crowe (or a good deal of the other Eternian commanders) committing war crimes. The party (other than Edea) is rather aware of this but are reluctant to address it other than LampshadeHanging. [[spoiler:Especially absurd that it takes a variant of a GroundhogDayLoop where it takes killing characters off ''several times'' and getting their FinalSpeech and then working off that to get ''another'' FinalSpeech until the main characters finally know what to say to start a conversation.]] |
| 392 | ** The heroes themselves, despite realizing there is some kind of [[spoiler:GroundHogDayLoop going on, get mixed up with what happened in which iteration; which causes confusion and antagonism to who they're talking to. One of the Alternis Dims attacks the party when Edea rants about actions he never did; which causes him to accuse her of not being Edea. Which is technically true, as she wasn't ''his'' Edea.]] |
| 393 | * PosthumousVillainVictory: Ciggma Khint is bought out with an entire treasury's worth of [[FictionalCurrency pg]], which ensures that your (third) battle with him is to the death (compared to the first two, where he eventually bails out). Even upon being killed, [[spoiler:he still accomplished his mission; rake enough funds for his sick daughter back home]]. |
| 394 | * ThePowerOfBlood: The description for the Dark Shield reads: "A jet-black shield imbued with demonic wrath by bathing it for 120 years in fresh blood [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill harvested from an archdemon who was captured and slowly bled without killing him]]." |
| 395 | * ThePowerOfFriendship: The pendant that Agnès uses can call people from other games (be they guests or friends in your list) to assist the party with an attack. [[spoiler:Interestingly done when the TrueFinalBoss begins to devour worlds to restore himself, it also tries to devour the worlds of players on your friend list. While one's world succumbs, the rest manage to resist this and has their party come to your aid in order to make the boss killable. Also in a bit of GameplayAndStoryIntegration, the boss will begin using a move that puts a character in a PocketDimension, but they can still act by using Summon Friend.]] |
| 396 | * PowerCopying: How Asterisks work: to gain access to a Job (class) and its powers, defeat the Asterisk holder in battle. |
| 397 | * PowerFloats: You know characters like the Arcanist and Conjurer mean business when their combat pose involves them simply hovering in mid-air. Especially in the Conjurer's case, since he ''isn't'' shown hovering out of combat. Meanwhile, characters like the Spiritmaster and Time Mage don't themselves float, but their weapons do. |
| 398 | * PreMortemOneLiner: Discussed in a Party Chat about what to say when using Special Moves, where Ringabell points out that the traditional "This blow will be your last" makes you look like an idiot if your opponent survives. The alternatives of "This will probably defeat you, maybe!", "Gosh, this would be great if this defeats you!", and "Prepare for mild to severe discomfort!" were deemed not to be acceptable replacements. (Not to mention that those lines are way too long to fit in the text box anyway.) |
| 399 | * PunnyName: If a character's name isn't an anagram or a MeaningfulName in another language, it's likely a pun. |
| 400 | * PuzzleBoss: Many of the Jobmasters are [[DamageSpongeBoss Damage Sponge Bosses]] if you try brute-forcing your way through them and become much easier if you figure out how to use Brave/Default properly. If you don't know each boss's gimmicks ahead of time, this can turn into TrialAndErrorGameplay unless you can adapt quickly -- especially for bosses like the Swordmaster (who specializes in counterattacks; if you try to rush him when he picks "Nothing Ventured", you'll probably end up with a GameOver pretty quick). |
| 401 | * {{Railroading}}: You actually get access to an airship fairly early in the game. Except there's no where to land it thanks to stagnant, rotting, acidic oceanwater. And a few areas are cut off thanks to a BrokenBridge. And trying to go into an area before it is relevant to the plot leads to the characters saying that there's nothing of interest there and booting you back to the world map. |
| 402 | * RandomEncounters: Noteworthy in that you can actually set the frequency of them yourself in the Settings menu during any point of the game, including turning them off completely. (This was one of the additional features added to the ''For the Sequel'' update, and the international versions based on it.) The game even gives you a tutorial screen about it -- but at the same time cautioning that if you don't get enough LevelGrinding won't be able to take on later bosses. |
| 403 | * RapeAsDrama: It is very heavily implied that [[spoiler:Fiore [=DeRosa=]]] is a rapist. This is ''not'' PlayedForLaughs at all. In fact, the game goes out of its way to stress just how evil this makes him. This is probably one of the main reasons why the ages were upped. [[spoiler:A 15-year old wearing a very revealing bikini while going out with a (tall-looking) 37-year old?]] |
| 404 | ** There are similarly disturbing implications [[spoiler:from Second/Third World Jackal. His vagueness about what his second 'family' used him for (as a child no less) before he lost his usefulness doesn't help.]] |
| 405 | * RedHerring: The biggest one is the Sage's advice, "have the courage to think and act on your own, and ''the courage to disobey''." Combined with all the foreshadowing and reveals you get during Chapter 6, you may think it means you should [[spoiler:overload and destroy a Crystal instead of awaken it]], but this actually nets you the game's lesser ending; the 'true' ending is reached by [[spoiler:ignoring this advice and staying the course until the pattern on Airy's wings counts down to zero and she reveals her true plans]]. |
| 406 | * RenovatingThePlayerHeadquarters: A little ways into the game, the player begins reconstruction efforts on the protagonist's DoomedHometown. As population increases through the game's Streetpass and Spotpass features, more villagers can be assigned to quicken the pace of facility reconstruction, on such buildings as general stores and armour shops, some of which contain items not found in the main game, like the part shop, allowing you to customize your party's LimitBreak abilities. This sidequest is also the player's ticket to Streetpass/Spotpass-delivered {{Superboss}} encounters, called Nemeses. |
| 407 | * ReverseGrip: Party members wield daggers in this fashion. |
| 408 | * RewardingInactivity: The Rebuild Norende minigame will keep progressing while the game is open, whether you're actually playing it or not. One of the more efficient ways to get high-tier building upgrades is to set villagers to work on them, put the 3DS into sleep mode, then just do something else. Likewise, this is the only free way to recharge SP for using Bravely Second. |
| 409 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: [[spoiler:Since most of the events play in a similar manner in each of the worlds the party travels to, they can use their foreknowledge of the events to save their and the player's time, either by forcing the bosses into showing their true nature right away with proof of their deeds (for example, Profiteur's water racketeering) or just foiling their plans with a scheme of their own.]] |
| 410 | * RocketPunch: Several robot enemies are equipped with this weapon. |
| 411 | * RomanticismVersusEnlightenment: Very apparent in the conflict between Crystalism and Anticrystalism. The game seems firmly on the side of Crystalism (Romanticism) [[spoiler:until you actually go to the hub of Anticrystalism, Eternia.]] |
| 412 | * RougeAnglesOfSatin: The Holy Pillar description has one typo, in which instead of Holy Pillar, Holly Pillar is written. |
| 413 | [[/folder]] |
| 414 | |
| 415 | [[folder: S-U]] |
| 416 | * SamuraiShinobi: It is possible to utilize both the Swordmaster and Ninja job as either the main or the secondary job for the heroes. The two jobs combo well with each other, since the Swordmaster's specialty is [[CounterAttack counter attacking]], while the Ninja's specialty is dodging attacks. |
| 417 | * SceneryPorn: The attention to detail and lighting of the gorgeous backgrounds makes them the star of the released screenshots. The UpdatedRerelease improves on them even further. |
| 418 | * SequelHook: [[spoiler:After the True Ending, a scene is played in which Tiz is freed from a strange contraption by Magnolia Arch.]] |
| 419 | ** The Nemesis Ba'al battles feature enemies from Bravely Second, specifically "Goldie" and "Turtle Dove". [[spoiler:During the secret movie, if you watch the top left window while Magnolia's fighting, you can see the fish-Ba'al destroying a fleet of airships.]] |
| 420 | * ShaggyDogStory: After the [[spoiler:Third World]] being able to communicate ideals stops being an issue, for some reason, as [[spoiler:a lot of the events leading to death stop happening; even the battles with Eternian asterisk bearers become LighterAndSofter, presented as mere tests of skill than true fights to the death.]] |
| 421 | * ShiningCity: [[spoiler:Eternia, ironically. Who would have thought the EvilEmpire would provide universal health care?]] |
| 422 | * ShipTease: Tiz x Agnès. Tiz cares for her a lot to the point where many characters tease him about his relationship with her. Agnès usually goes to Tiz for comfort or when she has to make a decision. [[spoiler:She chooses Tiz as her most trusted ally when visiting Yulyana in the cave.]] And then there's Chapter 6, when Tiz deliberately allows Ringabel and Edea to believe that he and Agnès absconded off on a date [[spoiler:when it was really used to discuss Ringabel's incriminating memories about Airy with Sage Yulyana]]. |
| 423 | * ShoutOut: |
| 424 | ** There is an helm called Manga/TigerMask, its description states that "it covers the head, face and neck. Wearers have the inexplicable desire to stand somewhere up high with their arms folded." The Tiger Mask has been an item in the Final Fantasy series for a while, but the description is new. |
| 425 | ** Think Ringabel's [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131126015607/finalfantasy/images/9/9c/BDFF_Ringabel_Composer.png Melodist's Shirt]] looks a bit familiar? Try googling [[http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff165/oholechai/SoundHorizonLiveDVDRevo-DreamPort00.jpg the game's composer.]] |
| 426 | ** Tiz' unlockable costume, the Onion Shirt, is a reference to the Onion Knight class from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' (which originally worked much like the Freelancer class now). |
| 427 | ** The order in which the crystals are awakened are the reverse of the order in the original ''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy|I}}'' (Earth, Fire, Water, Wind) as well as the same order they are shattered in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV''. |
| 428 | ** The Time Mage uniform has a distinctly [[Series/DoctorWho Gallifreyan]] aesthetic. |
| 429 | ** The Spell Fencer's female outfit has the same {{Stripperific}} sensibilities as ''Final Fantasy V'''s. (The male outfit is similar--both have an Arabian flavor--but has a burnoose rather than a turban.) |
| 430 | ** This may be unintentional, but [[http://img.youtube.com/vi/MXmdReTlUwc/0.jpg Lord Derosso's sword]] looks identical to [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120207094618/adventuretimewithfinnandjake/images/6/66/S3e25_Demonsword.png Finn's Demon Blood sword]] from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. |
| 431 | ** Challenge Ominas Crowe to a battle in Chapter 7 and he will claim to summon Bahamut; when the battle starts, he's in fact accompanied by a small dragon named "Bahamut" sporting a fireball BreathWeapon named "Pico Flare" (because it's obviously too small to launch a proper Mega Flare). |
| 432 | ** The male Performer outfit looks like Elvis Presley's signature white jumpsuit. |
| 433 | ** Chaugmar, the boss of the Fire Crystal, is a dead ringer for [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Mother Brain]]. |
| 434 | * SignsOfDisrepair: After one of the big plot-twisting reveals, parts of the game's subtitle ("Flying Fairy" / "Where the Fairy Flies") on the title screen turn red and disappear. The remaining letters spell out [[spoiler:"Lying Airy" and "Airy Lies"]], respectively. |
| 435 | * SocializationBonus: You can send a character to use an ability in battle. Everyone on your friends list and people you streetpass with the game can then use it once. Furthermore, Friends let you use "Ablink" which allows one of your characters to get that player's highest job levels while Streetpass gives you villagers to build up your village faster. |
| 436 | * SpectacularSpinning: Combine Piracy skills with a bow and arrow, and the character will pirouette, flip, and spin-jump while launching arrows. |
| 437 | * SplashDamage: Equip the Black Mage's "Damage Dispersion" support ability and any time the character takes a single-target attack (physical or magical does not matter), they distribute some of that damage party-wide (specifically, 15% for each adjacent ally). The good news is how it reduces damage to compensate for their SquishyWizard status; the bad news is how it can accidentally KO an ally if they're at critical HP. |
| 438 | * StabTheSky: All the party members' casting animations consist of this. Characters afflicted with Stop are frozen in this stance to visually differentiate it from Paralyze. |
| 439 | * StaminaBurn: The games use Brave Points, which allow you to act up to four times but renders you unable to act for the next couple of turns. There are Special Attacks that can be modified so they can decrease up to ''three'' of the enemy's Brave Points. There are also certain job abilities that allow you to decrease brave points as listed below: |
| 440 | ** The Time Mage's Slow World, which lowers the BP of all allies and enemies by 1 every two turns. |
| 441 | ** The Swordmaster's Squeaky Wheel, which reduces a target's BP by 1, but only works 30% of the time on certain enemies and bosses. |
| 442 | ** The Spiritmaster's Moderation, which reduces BP of all allies and enemies with 1 or more by 1 and vice-versa. |
| 443 | ** The Vampire's Battle Thirst, which allows the user to absorb 1 BP from the target. |
| 444 | * StatusEffects: Charm, Poison, Sleep, Stop, Confuse, Blind, Paralyze, Silence, Berserk and a new one named Dread, which prevents the use of Brave and Default. Poison, Silence, and Blind are the only ones that persist until cured (the rest randomly wear off at the end of a turn, and unconditionally wear off at the end of a battle). Paralyze and Stop are virtually identical except their manner of curing differs (Esuna for Paralyze and Dispel for Stop). In an excellent [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of UselessUsefulSpell, just about every boss in the game can be afflicted with at least one status ailment. The usual stereotype of Poison damage being useless on {{Mook}}s is also mitigated by the Arcanist's Exterminate ability, which hits anything afflicted with Poison for extra damage. |
| 445 | * StealthPun: |
| 446 | ** As a Templar, Braev likes to use defensive moves. So Braev Lee Defaults. |
| 447 | ** Additionally, Edea Lee sees the world in black and white, and her name sounds like "ideally" |
| 448 | ** Braev's wife is named Mahzer, so she is Mazher Lee (motherly) |
| 449 | ** Ringabel has amnesia and has forgotten his name: does that ring-a-bell? |
| 450 | ** Tiz Arrior: "This Warrior" |
| 451 | ** Agnes Oblige: "Noblesse Oblige" |
| 452 | ** Barras Lehr: "Bear-Wrestler" |
| 453 | ** Ciggma Khint: Anagram of Magic Knight |
| 454 | ** Alternis Dim [[spoiler:Alternate Dimensions]] |
| 455 | * StormingTheCastle: When Egil is taken prisoner in the Starkfort, the party contemplates how to rescue him. Tiz boldly states that they're just going to walk right in and fight their way to him. |
| 456 | * {{Stripperific}}: In-universe, the [[BarelyThereSwimwear Bravo Bikini]] really does not leave much to the imagination, even by swimwear standards. Agnès [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl hates the idea]] of having to wear one for plot purposes and Edea is also somewhat embarrassed by it, but still wears it for a covert sting operation. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Seriously.]] |
| 457 | * StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: Interestingly, an ''in-universe'' example. [[spoiler:When continuing the game after getting the normal ending, the party will have additional dialog upon entering the Pillar of Light, to the effect of "even though we know Airy is evil, we have to go along with her plan in order to kill Ouroborous, or else we risk him coming back later."]] |
| 458 | * SummonMagic: Functions the same as the [[Franchise/FinalFantasy original series]], but the method of acquiring additional summons beyond the initial one is unique: each one is gotten from an owl mage via having them first use it on you, and if you survive it without succumbing to TotalPartyWipe, you're deemed strong enough to be able to use it yourself. |
| 459 | ** Technically speaking, you get every summon this way since the holder of the Summoner asterisk is basically guaranteed to use the initial summon on you at least once and thus you get both the job and the test for summon's worthiness from the same battle. |
| 460 | ** The Summons are in Order: |
| 461 | *** Girtablulu ([[DishingOutDirt Earth]]): A GiantEnemyCrab (scorpion?) with a city on its back. Inspired by the scorpion men of Akkadian myth and named for their appearnce in the Babylonian version of ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh''. |
| 462 | *** Hresvelgr ([[BlowYouAway Wind]]): A [[VisualPun Jet Black]] Eagle. Based on the corpse eater of Myth/NorseMythology. |
| 463 | *** Ziusudra's Sin ([[MakingASplash Water]]): Named for a Sumerian king, a likely {{Expy}} of Final Fantasy's Shiva. |
| 464 | *** Promethean [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]: A flaming dragon-train hybrid. Named for Prometheus, the titan that gave fire to man and was punished by Zeus for it in Myth/ClassicalMythology. |
| 465 | *** Deus Ex ([[ShockAndAwe Lightning]]): A Clockwork GiantSpider named for the Latin phrase DeusExMachina ("god from the machine"). |
| 466 | *** Susano-o (NonElemental): A towering giant wielding a [[ImprobableWeaponUser radio tower]] as a sword. Based on Susano-o, the thunder god of Japanese myth and thus brother of Amaterasu and Tsukiyomi, with the radio tower referencing his blade, the Ama-no-Murakumo (which you can get in game). [[spoiler:Susano-o is also plot relevant. It was the summon Mephilia's lover Suleiman was looking for, and Mephillia herself, with help from Barbarossa and Einheria, reclaims her sanity and becomes worthy of the summon]]. |
| 467 | * {{Superboss}}: |
| 468 | ** Aside from the cameo bosses mentioned above, players can receive Nemeses, optional bosses obtained and fought via Norende. These include the Demon Lords from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight'', as well as two Level 99 Ba'al monsters that seem to serve as a ''Bravely Second'' tie-in. |
| 469 | ** You can fight [[spoiler:the Adventurer and her fox]] in the BonusDungeon, also like in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight''. |
| 470 | * SuperDeformed: Outside the opening cutscenes, pretty much everyone is rendered about 3 heads tall. This also becomes an easy way for you to tell who's a good guy and who's a bad guy, as the good guys are always shown to be short and a little simple-looking, while the bad guys are the ones who strangely tower above everyone else in the world. There are exceptions for both sides: for the good side, you have Datz and Mazher Lee; for the bad side, you have the even more so SuperDeformed Victoria [[spoiler:who only really looks like that because she's an ill girl whom got affected by banned alchemy practices]] and Alternis Dim [[spoiler:because he's literally Ringabel from a parallel world]]. |
| 471 | * SupportPartyMember: Several Jobs have means to deal damage, but the main point is to buff up allies (offensively and defensively), debuff enemies, or keep the party healthy. Such Jobs include the White Mage, Merchant, Performer, Salve-Maker, and Spiritmaster. |
| 472 | * TakeYourTime: One of the first examples is when the Black Mage Ominas Crowe threatens to burn down one building in Caldisla every night until he finds the Wind Vestal ... but you're free to spend as many nights at the inn (or day-night cycles on the world map) as you want, and Caldisla is no worse for it. Then there's the time when Grandship starts sinking "fast" -- fast enough to spur a mass evacuation of its residents, but slow enough that you can sail to a neighboring country on a FetchQuest for a plot trinket to fix the issue (or whatever other side quests interest you). |
| 473 | * TakeThatAudience: In the "False" Ending, the "Evil One" gives the party a breaking TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how [[spoiler:easily they were manipulated. This speech extends to the player to a considerable degree, seeing as how they are the ones who command the party to do anything]]. |
| 474 | -->'''Edea''': [[spoiler:You lied to us]]\ |
| 475 | '''[[spoiler:Lying Airy]]''': [[spoiler:And you made it so easy. A fine pack of puppets, you lot. Not a thought of your own, so eager to obey. Because obeying is so easy, hmm? [[JustFollowingOrders You're never responsible when you're only following orders]]. And who would deny what seems so obvious? [[ArcWords Who bears the courage to disobey]]? [[ThisIsReality Precious few. Not one human in a thousand]]]]. |
| 476 | * TakingTheBullet: |
| 477 | ** Gameplay wise, the Knight's "Protect Ally" ability causes that character to take any attack aimed at a party member in critical health, and the "Full Cover" ability allows them to take attacks for any specified party member (and at half damage) for one turn. The Merchant, meanwhile, gets an inverted version in "White Knight": if the Merchant is at critical HP, an ally with the most HP is forced to take the attack instead. Ninjas also get an ability called "Kairai" which forces enemies to attack a designated party member. |
| 478 | ** Story wise, at the end of Chapter 2 [[spoiler:when confronted by Victor and Victoria, the water vestal Olivia shields Agnes from one of Victoria's spells; she dies shortly afterwards]]. |
| 479 | * TakingYouWithMe: The Dark Knight ability SeeYouInHell inflicts massive damage (quadruple that of a standard attack) to all enemies when the user is knocked out. Summoners have a similar ability, "Summon Substitute" that unleashes a random summon on the enemies (and for free) when knocked out. |
| 480 | * TheTeam: |
| 481 | ** TheHero, TheLeader, and TheHeart: Agnès Oblige works as a combination of all three. She's the hero as the main character, she's the one who has the final say in group decisions (Tiz is just the more talkative one) and she's the heart because, in the end, she's the one who is keeping them all glued together. |
| 482 | ** TheLancer, TheHeart, and TheFace: Tiz Arrior works as all three. He's the one most likely to take charge when Agnès can't, his emotions and his love for his friends makes him the heart, and he's the face in that, when the chips are down and talking is needed, he's the one who will do the talking. |
| 483 | ** TheSmartGuy: Surprisingly, despite his nature, Ringabel fits the criteria needed. He's the one piloting your ship, and multiple situations are resolved because of his quick thinking. For example, when [[spoiler:Konoe pretends to be a dead maid in the Goodman household]], he's the only one who finds that there is [[spoiler:something off about the corpse.]] Also, he's the entire reason [[spoiler:Edea was able to avoid being experimented on by De Rosa, as he was able to find the secret passage based on where he last saw De Rosa.]] Fittingly enough, Ringabel also has [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration the highest base intelligence stat of all four characters.]] |
| 484 | ** TheBigGuy: Edea fits this as, while she's by no means ''stupid'', she herself admits she sees the world in black and white, and she is usually the first to try brute forcing something. Thankfully for her, brute force usually works. Like Ringabel, this is also reflected in her stats: she has the highest base strength, making her the most suited for jobs that rely mainly on brute physical force. |
| 485 | * ThemeMusicPowerUp: When using Special Attacks. Most of the bonuses you get from them will last until the music stops (about 90 seconds, and measured in real time not turns), but you can combine several effects by using the next one before the music stops. |
| 486 | * TimeStandsStill: How Bravely Second works. It's powered by Sleep Points, which max out at 3 and which you gain either by [[AntiPoopSocking leaving the game in sleep mode for a total of 8 hours]] for each one or by [[BribingYourWayToVictory buying SP drinks from Nintendo eShop]] and using them to instantly max out your SP. In return, you can freeze the battle at any point, even in the middle of an enemy's attack, and give any one of your characters up to 4 actions to turn the tide of the battle. They're also the only way to break the normal 9999 damage {{cap}}, allowing you to do up to [[NoKillLikeOverKill 999,999]] damage with a lv3 Special with the correct racial and elemental multipliers on a weak enemy, for example. |
| 487 | * TitleDrop: |
| 488 | ** The [[http://www.siliconera.com/2012/06/25/bravely-defaults-third-demo-introduces-the-battle-system-this-week/ Brave and Default system]] seems to be this. |
| 489 | ** Also, the last chapter title is "Bravely Default". [[spoiler:That is, if you're on the GoldenEnding Route.]] |
| 490 | * TooAwesomeToUse: |
| 491 | ** Aside from the traditional item examples and strong Friend Summons, some of the Special Attacks due to the conditions that have to be met for them. For example, Axes require the user to ''kill'' (not just damage, but KO) a number of enemies with physical attacks, making it impossible to charge their Specials in most boss battles. |
| 492 | ** Bravely Second, which allows you to temporarily stop time and act at any point in battle, even in the middle of an enemy's attack, as well as having a higher damage {{cap}}. You can earn it by leaving the system in sleep mode for 8 hours, or by giving Square Enix your money. Even more fitting of this trope is taking multiple turns in this mode, which can be done even if you only have one turn of Bravely Second available, but puts you in negative SP, which means you'll have to wait longer to get your next Bravely Second turn or just pay for them. |
| 493 | * TookALevelInBadass: Late in the game, all the asterisk holders band together to provide a BossRush, putting together teams of four to oppose you in turn. They get ''smart'' and dangerous in these fights -- the teams are well-picked, varied in their strategy, the members work together to support each other, and they make effective use of the best abilities their classes offer. |
| 494 | * TrapIsTheOnlyOption: |
| 495 | ** In the introductory chapter, the party realizes Heinkel is almost certainly just baiting them into getting onto the Eschalot (where they'll be trapped) but choose to follow him anyway because it's still the only chance they have of securing a ship. |
| 496 | ** At the end of Chapter 6, [[spoiler:dialogue with the party suggests they know they're walking into a trap of Airy's devising, but are pressing forward to get to their true foe. (Although this doesn't quite line up with their reactions once Airy finally does drop the façade.)]] |
| 497 | * TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: A few examples. For instance [[spoiler:Kikyo's plan to assassinate the Shieldbearers' leaders will be put in motion when you visit the Goodman mansion after awakening the fire Crystal, you will find Olivia in the second loop moments before the Venus sisters arrive, and during the fourth loop you will always meet the Eternian division before they fall back to Eternia]]. |
| 498 | * UndeadCounterpart: There are several monsters who are undead versions of existing ones. Among them are Zombie Wolves (Wolf), Zombie Sharks (Mad Shark), Minotaur Zombies (Minotaur), and Dragon Zombies (Dragon). |
| 499 | * UpdatedRerelease: Almost by tradition of Creator/SquareEnix, ''Bravely Default: For the Sequel'' added some additional scenarios and the highly requested additional save slots. Additionally, it features an updated battle and user-interface systems which came about from developing the sequel, and thus backported to the original. Luckily for everyone outside Japan, [[PALBonus this is the version localized]]. [[spoiler:Furthermore, there is a new post-credits cutscene (game engine based) that is basically a teaser for ''Bravely Second'', featuring new protagonist Magnolia Arch apparently rescuing Tiz.]] |
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| 501 | [[folder: V-Z]] |
| 502 | * VideoGameTime: The entire game spans about 8 months from the day Tiz is rescued to the end of the game. [[spoiler:And that's without counting the five time loops to the true ending.]] |
| 503 | * VillainBall: During Chapter 1 through Chapter 4, the Eternian forces are stuck carrying it; it's obvious to Edea and Agnes that they have to be wrong about everything because they keep going out of their way to be evil bastards to the point where it actually gets in the way of achieving their goals. Near the beginning of the game, Agnes decides to surrender herself to the Eternian forces so they'll stop ravaging Caldisia. When she actually goes through with it, Holly Whyte proceeds to talk about how she's going to torture Agnes on the trip back to Eternia, at which point Tiz and Agnes decide that surrender is no longer an option. |
| 504 | * WakeUpCallBoss: |
| 505 | ** The first few bosses can be difficult considering you don't have many jobs or commands to use (though one of which is, thankfully, free HP recovery), and you're probably just getting used to the game's Brave and Default system. The Temple Bosses in particular are very nasty the first time you meet them, because you won't have many options to deal with their numerous party-wide attacks. |
| 506 | ** Even before that, there's Heinkel. Prior to that, you can brute force through much of the prologue with the Freelancer class, but everything about that fight is designed just to force you to understand the value of magic to both exploit Heinkel's vulnerability to it and to bypass him shielding his flunkies. |
| 507 | * WasItAllALie: [[spoiler:Agnès to Airy in the false ending route. Airy's answer is a cruel type 1, as not only does she taunt her for her foolishness]], but she even pretends to have been possessed to give her a HopeSpot. |
| 508 | * WhamEpisode: The end of Chapter 4. [[spoiler:You've just defeated Alternis, but the boat is rocking wildly. In the chaos, Alternis's mask breaks, revealing that he and Ringabel look exactly alike. He then falls over the edge of Grandship, dropping a journal that bears an uncanny resemblance to Ringabel's. Finally, Grandship, unable to stabilize, ends up sucked into the holy pillar... Cue Tiz and company waking up in Caldisla, with everything seemingly as it was the day after the attack by Ominas Crowe.]] |
| 509 | * WhamLine: After finally finishing your quest, cleansing the crystals, defeating the Duchy of Eternia, and going into the Holy Pillar to save the world, what is the first thing you hear? |
| 510 | -->[[spoiler:'''Karl the Inkeep''': ...ning. ...ood morning. Time to wake up. The sun is out. Come now, that's it.]] |
| 511 | * WheelOfPain: A giant one powers all of the machinery in Ancheim. It's turned by the entire populace when the windmills are out of order. |
| 512 | * WithLyrics: Select songs from the soundtrack have "Vocalized Versions" performed by [[Music/SoundHorizon Linked Horizon]], the music collective formed by composer Revo. |
| 513 | %%* WorldOfHam: |
| 514 | * WrongContextMagic: The Merchant class is a class that supposedly has no magical powers and ostensibly uses wealth, connections and business knowledge to influence battle. While most of its skills make sense in that light (selling items to enemies, purchasing premium BP recovery items unavailable through normal means, purchasing recovery items anywhere and bribing the enemy to throw the match), it's never explained how the merchant can use money to literally hurt people (takeover), use money to shield themself (hedge risk), or ''warp the physical laws of the universe'' (full leverage, low leverage). |
| 515 | * YouAreNotAlone: When things look their absolute most bleak during the true final boss, the voice of the Celestial being reassures the heroes this. [[spoiler:Then the combined power of all the remaining parallel versions of the party from other worlds is channeled through Agnés' pendant, and the fight resumes.]] |
| 516 | * YouCantThwartStageOne: With regards to the BigBad's plot to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, you actually can: [[spoiler:By destroying one of the crystals, you derail Ouroboros' plans for a few thousand years while a new crystal regenerates, even if you don't permanently break the cycle.]] But considering that [[spoiler:they've already spent millions of years getting this far, making a five thousand year delay paltry by comparison]], you might wonder if this really counts as thwarting them. A late-game sidequest also has the party thwart a PoisonAndCureGambit scheme by [=DeRosa=], Profiteur, and Qada before it begins. |
| 517 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Two instances: it seems that Airy has done this with the heroes in many of the timelines, killing the current group that she is working with and moving on to a new one in a new world whenever they start getting too strong or figuring out her plan. The second case actually has Airy on the receiving end. In the fight against her during the true ending, Ouroboros keeps healing her to full health whenever you bring her to zero...until he just gets tired of her and lets the party finish her.]] |
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