One Of Square Enix's Best RPGs Appears To Be Getting A Well-deserved Remaster

Over 10 years after the reason that launch of Bravely Default, the sport’s producer has strongly hinted {that a} remaster could already be within the works.

The unique Bravely Default stays among the best video games on the 3DS and the best RPGs launched previously decade. It advised the story of a world thrown into chaos when the fundamental crystals that maintain it in steadiness are consumed by darkness, and also you managed the 4 characters attempting to deliver it again to peace.

The 4 central characters – disgraced priest Agnès Oblige, catastrophe survivor Tiz Arrior, amnesiac Ringabel, and the defector Edea Lee – have been fascinating protagonists who poked at tropes and traditions of the JRPG style at each flip.

The sport spawned a superb sequel, Bravely Default 2, however, the authentic stays lodged in my coronary heart.

“A remaster […] could be the absolute best factor and one thing followers would need,” Bravely Default producer Tomoya Asano mentioned in a 10th-anniversary Livestream, translated by Gematsu. “For now, I am sadly unable to announce something like that. ‘For now, let’s simply say.”

We won’t take this as an affirmation of a Bravely Default remaster, however, Asano’s feedback, coupled with the stream opening with a high-resolution model of the sport’s opening cinematic, make it very seemingly.

Fortune favours the courageous

Bravely Default is properly deserving of a remaster, it pushed the boundaries of the JRPG in several daring and attention-grabbing methods, gently poking holes in RPG conventions whereas by no means straying too removed from what makes the style nice. It boasts meta-commentary paying homage to Nier Replicant alongside a job-based fight system that refines and perfects a few of the most cherished features of JRPG sport design.

A remaster would additionally open up the traditional to a lot of gamers who missed it the primary time round when it was solely launched on 3DS. A remaster would seemingly seem on the Nintendo Change, the place its sequel already confirmed the sequence may simply work on single-screen {hardware}.

And, on condition that Bravely Default 2 was additionally launched on PC, we would see a PC model of a possible Bravely Default remaster, too. Bravely Default sinister frozen city concept art

(Picture credit score: Sq. Enix)

A remaster would even be a terrific alternative to jazz up the unique character fashions. Although the environments stay attractive to this present day, the unique 3D character fashions in Bravely Default present their age 10 years on. I would not wish to see a graphics revamp at the expense of the unique, extremely distinctive character designs.

Sq. Enix has leaned closely into remasters lately, with a string of Closing Fantasy rereleases. Closing Fantasy 7 Disaster Core is subsequent on the radar and from what I’ve performed it is respiratory new life into the PSP traditional. And, after all, it is also going one step additional with the Closing Fantasy 7 Remake.

With the hope of a Bravely Default remaster down the road, it appears as if the great instances have solely simply begun for JRPG followers. Ought to remasters proceed to achieve success, maybe we’ll see Sq. Enix experimented with extra time-tested sport mechanics in its newer titles, too.