If you managed to miss the Nintendo Direct Mini that silently dropped during March 26th like a deuce on the mall floor from a shorts-wearing scoundrel riding an escalator, don’t worry because nearly every blogger and propaganda peddler who hasn’t been laid off or put out of work due to Mistress Corona-chan slapped together an article about it.
One of the news bits tucked away in the middle of the direct was about Square Enix’s Bravely Default II, which is prepping to release on the Switch sometime later this year.
A free demo is currently available to download over on the Nintendo eShop website.
The demo will give you a small glimpse of the story and some of the combat mechanics. They also did a brief deep dive into how the combat system works with the video trailer below.
The game still uses the turn-based mechanics from the previous entries, and you’ll have the option of either using Brave points to string together special combos or attacks, or the Default, which will place the character in a guard mode where they will regain their Brave points at the expense of taking damage.
The objective is to wager between being Brave or falling back to the Default as you battle against various enemies. Along the way you’ll gain relics that will allow you to alter your job class, much like in Final Fantasy V, replete with the option to have a secondary class attached to the character as well.
The more relics you attain from defeated enemies, the more classes you’ll unlock.
I do wonder, though, if some of the iconic classes from the older games will make an appearance? Some of you might remember that Square Enix and Nintendo censored Bravely Second: End Layer’s native American outfit following the screeches and howls from Social Justice Warriors, as detailed by Techno Buffalo and Censored Gaming.
Those some racists also had Super Smash Bros. Ultimate censored, forcing Nintendo to censor the Native American gesture from a Game & Watch animation.
There’s no telling what sort of censorship will befall Bravely Default II, but now that we know that Square Enix has an Ethics Department that pre-censors content before the public is even made aware of it, it’s unlikely that the game will make it through the censorship screening process unscathed.