Bravely Default: Finally. It is finished. 104 hours later.
Final boss was weird; for the most part he's freaking pathetic, yet he still managed to make me use Bravely Second toward the end. Minor gameplay spoilers: Most of his skillset is just *trash*, for all that solo bosses in any RPG have this problem in general. Physical is not scary, Demonic Touch is waste-a-turn on buffs (oh noes), Celestial Touch trades 1:1 with Dispel giving me 3 other turns, Divergence is worthless, etc. Disaster is an MT OHKO, but because this is BD, MT OHKOs are strangely not that scary - oh no, MT 4HKO thanks to Default Guard, revive anyone who wasn't Defaulting. Well, unless he uses Disaster 2 turns in a row - then both the healer and the revived person die. Still, the remaining party members can easily patch up - oh wait, there might be a 3rd Disaster so somebody *must* Default, crap. Despite his AI fairly rarely using Disaster before (1 in every 5 turns, perhaps?) I had a sequence of him using Disaster 4 or 5 times in a row, which is not survivable without some Bravely Seconding in there, hence the battle taking a few extra days of real time to get the SP back.
As a side note, Spiritmaster strangely kinda worthless in the final sequence, despite being awesome for Bugzilla 1 & 2 (both in Finale: LA, and the earlier battle in Finale: Bravely Default). Bugzilla 3 spams Acedia way too often to bother trying to undo it, and Singing for MDef boosts would have been far more useful for the Beast, although I guess the MT status immunity is vaguely okay vs. Zero Dimension.
Plotwise, Finale: Bravely Default was frustrating, although the one plot twist they saved for it (rather than in Finale: LA) was amusing, I thought. I thought the implication toward the end of C6 was that if you continue onward, the party is "in on it" who the Deceiver is, but are playing along because they have a Cunning Plan, or trust Agnes to do something surprising. They have to lure out Oury to end this once and for all, or they need to steal the power of the connected worlds themselves to restart Creation, or something. Instead everyone acts just as surprised as if you do the ending earlier. Sigh.
The "invade the Celestial Realm" stuff was amusing though. Haha at using the 3DS facecam for that, I see what you did there. So Tiz has the fragment of a celestial = he's being controlled by me, and Oury wants to invade the real world. Got it, Hideo Kojima would approve, etc. Except... they seem to go a different direction in the ending ending? Which may be fine, I suppose it does have more sequel possibilities. So... Tiz was in a tank remote-controlling zombie Tiz the whole time, and being really really coy about it? Is where "real Tiz" is from the Celestial Realm? Or is it the future, hence the comment about "the same era as me?" Future would be weird though, since I know Agnes is supposed to show up in Bravely Second... for all that I'd rather they tell a different story, sigh. If it's set in a new world, that'd be fine by me, though, move on.
