[ SECRET POST #2619 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2619 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes]


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03.
[Pushing Daisies]


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04.
[Dallas Buyers Club]


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05.
[Bravely Default]


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06.
[Fake & Kuroko no Basuke]


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07.
[Warehouse 13]


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08.
[Willem Dafoe]


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09.
[Dexter]


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10.
[Rooster Teeth]


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11.
[Lost Girl]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 028 secrets from Secret Submission Post #374.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've been thinking about picking this up. Aside from creepiness, is it any good?

[(Anonymous)]

If you like JRPGS, you'll probably love it.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I think Kotaku gave a fair and accurate review:

http://kotaku.com/bravely-default-the-kotaku-review-1518209522

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, although I'll add a spoiler-ish warning that the latter half of the game requires redoing events that happened in the first half several times. How long it takes depends on how much you want to explore again.

I'm having a lot of fun with it aside from that, but it's a decent enough chunk that I felt it deserved mentioning.

[inevitableentresol]

I'm on the second half now and I'm enjoying the re-do. The best characters were killed far too quickly the first time round.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I like seeing the best characters again (although I tried to avoid mentioning that because it seemed too spoilery), but I've also got a lot of other JRPGS and my last year of schoolwork to do, so I am not as much a fan of the redo as I may have been when I didn't have to time manage so carefully.

I've got a while before the other games I really want hit, at least.

[inevitableentresol]

It's not so spoilery unless you mention how it happens or what happens to the characters.

At least, I was spoiled lightly and I didn't mind. I was looking forward to it when I worked out what 'first time you battle these guys' implied on the forums.

[(Anonymous)]

I personally don't care since I made sure I knew what I was getting into when I waited on this (my BFF is European and got it when it came out), but everyone is different, so I hedged just in case.

[inevitableentresol]

Speaking of Europe, I love how you can connect to the internet and get villagers from players all over the world to come to you. My village is built now but I like to connect anyway just to see which country other players are from. I get lots of French players.

I've also streetpassed once and that was more enjoyable than it had a right to be.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, I love that too! I got some really strong Japan players from my net invites, and I'm lucky enough to go to a huge school where I can get some streetpasses. I think the largest amount I ever managed was 11 in one day. It helps that everyone hides in the library around midterms and stuff.

[inevitableentresol]

The Japanese players I tend to get are super strong ones who're doing it all over again on 'hard'. I feel like I'm collecting countries now. I think Israel and Spain last time.

At the start, all the Nemeses I got from net invites were level 99 and I was level 5. I'd only started playing it in January when it was already out a month even in the UK. And I had no clue what a Nemesis was so that helped. Luckily, you can just ignore them, even if they look kind of scary.

I had to go to the local Burger King (or stand outside it) to do my one and only streetpass. But it worked! Wwwoooo! (It really should not have been that much fun.)

[inevitableentresol]

It's very good and very long. Lots of value for your money if you like rpgs.

Most of the creepy stories are side-quests you can avoid (unless you want to collect all the jobs, which you'll probably want to do anyway).

I thought the skeeviest quest which you can't escape is the one that involves a beauty contest. There are several male characters who incessantly comment on how much skin the girl in the contest needs to show, and it goes on forever and they keep referring back to her embarrassing outfit later for lols. I did not need that, especially as the art makes them all chibi and young.

Apart from the skeevy sexism above, other creepiness includes:

- a compulsory storyline involving child slaves in a mine
- children being killed/taken over by plants (and their own stupidity)
- a storyline which includes people suffering of thirst
- a storyline about an abandoned child which does not end well

And of course the main gameplay is about battles, so you kill a cast of thousands. But you're cute as you do it.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I actually thought the beauty contest was funny, because the writers make no attempt to give Ringabel and Yulyanna any dignity at all while they perv out over bikinis. They're very clearly the butt of the joke, even if they don't realize it. ("Every woman to put it on has instantly and irrevocably hated me!")

Also, I give the game kudos for not actually making Agnes wear that thing. Putting it on just wouldn't be in-character for her.

Re: OP

[inevitableentresol]

Those were the two main saving graces for that storyline: that the skeevy men were clearly labelled as such by the other characters, and Agnes stayed in character and decided not to wear the revealing dress.

Still, I did feel like the writers were having their cake and eating it. There was the morality lesson at the end, while the writers still got to put in all the creepy references.

It was funny, but only in parts. It would have been a lot less creepy if the humour had been more consistently good.

[cakemage]

I just finished it, and while there were a few moments here and there that fell flat to me and the voice acting wasn't all that great, overall I just adore it, not least because of what happens to the ultra-annoying character I hated from the start. The weird thing is, it's kind of made me want to replay FFXII for some reason. Not entirely sure why, but I'm certainly not complaining.