Bravely Default Walkthrough - Part 1

Good Evening readers, today I'll be starting a weekly Bravely Default play through. To start out though I'll go into the amazing goodies the collector's edition of the game has come with. The game came with a pretty little art book, filled with great colorful illustrations, as well as some AR cards and a beautiful portion of the soundtrack on a CD. The book is a small little thing with pictures of the character concept art, from the main characters to antagonists and supporting cast. Haven't had a chance to try out the AR cards just yet, but the collectors edition came with a set of 36 cards that show little movies when put through the augmented reality viewer in the game. The CD holds 10 tracks of grand musical goodness from the game that are enjoyable to listen to. Enough about the collectors edition, let's get to the game!

So the game starts with an introduction to the main characters of the game, Tiz, Agnes, Edea, and Ringabel, giving a quick little cutscene for each of them, to give a little background on the characters. What do we learn about our characters? Agnes is a priestess or something, Ringabel is on the search for a hot woman friend and has amnesia, Edea is our epic female warrior, and Tiz is our sheep herder. Our first cutscene however ends with Tiz's village Norende being swallowed up along with his family and friends. Poor Tiz, it's quite unfortunate for him, but that's where our adventure begins, with calamity on our main characters hometown!

The Kingdom of Caldisla at night is a truly beautiful sight.

Soon enough we find Tiz waking up in a bed in an unknown place. After a bit of exploring we find it to be the kingdom of Caldisla. We have Tiz go about talking to the King, and are then sent running off to check on Norende alone. How very irresponsible sending the sole survivor of an event to explore a monster covered hole in the ground. Eitherway on the way, we go about and kill some goblins, zombies, and bats, oh my! Ad mist the killing, it's not long till we arrive at the hole in the ground that used to be Norende. Who do we find to be there? It's no other than Agnes who's saying a prayer or whatever to a magical crystal.

These Goblins are adorable.

Sky Pirates, don't look very pirate-y.

Norende is gone, and to top things off, soon enough we're attacked by Sky Pirates! Oh no, whatever shall Tiz and Agnes do! These pirates start to bombard the area with explosive cannon fire and send grunts to attack the two. They turn out to be really easy to defeat and in no time the pirates are defeated and sent to leave for restocking their ammunition. The duo leave the chasm and head back to Caldisla to tell the king about what's going on and such. Soon enough Agnes states that she wants to leave for some lake or whatever, Tiz being the honorable lad decides to guide the way, since Agnes apparently can't navigate anywhere. So ends our adventure for today though, Tiz and Agnes are off to see the nearby lake to see where adventure leads them.

A Little Help for Nintendo!

Okay guys, so I was reading one of the sites I follow for my Nintendo news and I came across an article that riled me up, and then I read the comments and that only got my blood boiling. It made me so mad, that for the first time in the past year that I've been reading that blog, I posted a comment! The comment slowly turned into an essay and I really wanted it to be read, so I'm posting it on my blog. Yes I'm still in midterms, yes I'll regret this later as I stay up late studying for it, but it had to be said. I hope to something that Nintendo will read this themselves and stop shooting their own foot, liked I mention in my essay! 

Note: I edited it for the blog. I typed it in a rage, and so some spelling and grammar was off. I fine-tuned it a little more and added a sentence or two. 

Here is the link to the original article! Original Article

Down below is my comment, easily spotted by its length at the bottom of the totem pole:

In Answer to the Article: This is a very bad publicity move. Nintendo shouldn’t have their fans know that they do not care about them! It’s the fans that’s managing to keep their company a float. I hope Reggie is getting in trouble for this, because this is not a good move for any type of company. 

In Answer to all the Comments: Hardware doesn’t sell software. Case point- 3DS vs Vita. Vita is much more powerful, and personally I think its more well-crafted for a real gamer’s needs, but in the end, 3DS is doing better. Both had a rocky start, but 3DS has already recovered, Vita, not yet. Nintendo has one thing right, software sells hardware which was proven by the 3DS. Sales rose with games like Super Mario 3D Land, Fire Emblem Awakening, Luigi’s Mansion, and Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Wii U needs software desperately and Nintendo is trying their best to crank it out. 

What I think Nintendo is doing wrong are a couple of core things.
First their marketing teams sucks. They need to realize that kids have moved on to other devices such as the tablet and mobile gaming. It isn’t because they dislike the consoles, it’s just that the consoles are too expensive. But a tablet or a phone, their parents will already have, and the kids can play off of their parent’s devices. It’s about what’s readily available. I mean Tamagotachi was really popular, but it wasn’t the most cutting edge. It sold cause it was cheap. Consoles aren’t cheap, and so parents won’t buy their kid such an expensive toy. If Nintendo started focusing on games that adults would like, then they would buy the console for the game they want, and get another game (40-50 for a toy compared to 300-350~!) for their child to play. Everybody wins.

Nintendo has poor 3rd party developer. I don’t know how they would get 3rd party developers, since like some of you said, money makes things happen and with a system that has such a low install base, nothing is gonna move cause it isn’t going to make money. Nintendo really has to get their system out of the ditch, and honestly, these games geared to kids won’t do it because of my first reason mentioned above. They need something that’s unique to the Wii U. Of course adults will buy the PS and XBOX version of a popular game like Call of Duty or Assassins Creed, because they already have those consoles. Instead of spending big bucks for a new console and the same game they can just buy the game for a console they already have! Adults work the same way for themselves as for their kids, cheaper and less spending = better. No one has the money to be spending all that cash for a new console when in their eyes it’s the same thing just a different provider!  

I lied, there is a way for Nintendo to get 3rd party dev onto their Wii Wagon, and that's by increasing their install base. How? It'll have to be an ideal situation. Since Wii U came late to the race in HD, they have to make it up by creating a game that’s so spectacular and so specifically made for the Wii U (i,e. using the game pad) that all the people (the adult people mind, who actually make the money) would HAVE to buy it because it’s just that amazing! Honestly, I’m a Nintendo fan, but I don’t have a Wii U. I don’t have a need of one because they aren’t releasing anything someone my age and gamer type would like. There are tons of people out there who are like that. They don’t need 3rd party developers RIGHT NOW. Later, yes, but now? No. They need a game specifically for the Wii U because if it’s a game that comes for cross-platforms, the gamers will get it for their already owned platform. 

Honestly, I hope Monolith’s X is going to be amazing, and Bayonetta 2 has a large enough fan-base, because right now, Mario won’t move the console anymore. It’s not for everyone, and kids are too poor to buy it. If Nintendo won’t listen to fans’ petitioning because that isn’t where the money’s at, then where the hell are they looking? People have been demanding for a game that uses the gamepad and is amazing, but instead we get another Mario game that doesn’t really need the gamepad and a Donkey Kong game that doesn’t use it at all. Mario and Donkey Kong is fun, but its getting stale. People outgrow it. Look a the market, see where the money flows, follow that stream of gold and snatch the sea of wealth it goes too! 

Sorry, that was really long. i’m very frustrated with how Nintendo keeps shooting their own foot. Thank you for reading it if you did :D

 I really hope that Nintendo reads this. Please spread the word. Thanks for reading:

Always Guree

Midterm Hiatus

Update: My midterms have been moved and so now has my availability. I won't be posting again till Feburary 14, 2014, on Valentines Day after my final Midterm for the quarter. I'm so sorry guys. I am still playing Animal Crossing everyday to have data, I just don't have the time to write posts. Please forgive my unpreparedness and I will try my best to avoid this in the future.

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Hey guys.

I'm sorry, but I won't be posting anything for the next week due to midterms. The Animal Crossing Walkthrough will begin once again on Feburary 10, 2014. I apoligize for the delay and thank all of you who read my blog.

Always Guree