Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster Screenshots Show Various Elements
Square Enix released a hefty batch of new screenshots for Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster. The images come alongside a general overview of the remaster of Nintendo 3DS title Bravely Default: Flying Fairy, which is planned to release as a launch title for Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5, 2025.
Bravely Default is set in the world of Luxendarc, where balance is kept by four elemental crystals. After a Great Chasm causes darkness to appear, four warriors end up teaming together on a journey to restore light to the crystals. The main protagonist is Tiz Arrior, a shepherd from the village of Norende whose village and brother were lost when the Great Chasm opened. He resolves to help close the chasm and rebuild Norrende. Tiz joins up with Agnès Oblige, the vestal to the Wind Crystal, who is guided by a fairy named Airy and is on a journey to cleanse the world of darkness by awakening the four crystals.
The pair soon team up with Edea Lee and Ringabel. Edea is the only daughter of the grand marshal of the Duchy of Eternia and a member of its Sky Knights. After being commanded to capture Agnès, she soon turns away from the duchy’s dubious methods. Ringabel is a man who doesn’t know his true identity and is in possession of a mysterious book that has supposedly chronicles future events, joining the party after discovering it mentions Tiz and Agnès’s names.
The HD Remaster version of the game features reworked graphics intending to showcase the original version’s picture book style look in higher fidelity. With the switch from the two screens of the Nintendo 3DS to the single screen of the Nintendo Switch 2, it features a redesigned user interface, including features such as displaying character levels during dungeons and a “Heal All” button. Like the original release, players are able to increase the speed of battle to up to four times, while event scenes can be sped up to twice their original speed. Players can also change the encounter rate with four options from 50% to 200%, though — unlike the original — cannot turn them off completely. The remaster will also include the Nintendo 3DS version’s network functionality where players can summon others’ special attacks. The remaster includes some new mini-games: Luxencheer Rhythm Catch is a karaoke-style rhythm game, while Ringabel’s Panic Cruise involves piloting an airship.
Bravely Default: Flying Fairy‘s turn-based combat revolves around the Brave and Default actions, which let players take multiple actions in a single turn by managing Brave Points (BP). Brave uses up BP, letting players act up to four times in a single turn. Players can use more BP than they currently have; however, they will be unable to act while their BP is negative, with each turn they don’t act restoring a single BP. Meanwhile, Default acts as both a defend action to lessen damage taken and grants the character one BP to use on a future turn without becoming defenseless. Enemies can also use the Brave and Default actions.
The game also heavily involves its Job system. Players will come across numerous powerful foes in both the main story and side quests. Defeating these foes will allow the party to obtain their asterisk stone and let them use that enemy’s Job. Each Job comes with its own particular fighting style as well as command and support abilities that are learned as each Job is levelled up. Command abilities are used in combat, with players able to use command abilities from their primary Job and a selected secondary Job. In addition, characters can equip a number of passive support abilities that they have unlocked from all Jobs. This allows for synergies such as the Freelancer’s examine ability letting players determine an enemy’s weakness before using the appropriate spells from the Black Mage, or utilising the Thief’s boost to agility to be able to make use of the White Mage’s healing abilities more quickly.
Source: Gematsu
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