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Bravely Default HD Remaster comes to PC and Xbox

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After releasing exclusively on Switch 2 as a launch title, the remaster of the original Bravely Default game has today been released on PC (Steam and Microsoft Store) and Xbox with little in the way of fanfare or publicity. The JRPG from 2012 received rave reviews on in its original 3DS incarnation, with the remaster largely just making the game more accessible to modern audiences. The title is noted to be Steam Deck Verified, as well as compatible with ROG Xbox Ally.

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I saw a wario64 tweet about this and ran back to check if it had been previously announced. Feels like a weird thing to shadow drop.

Frankly, BD Remastered has been my favorite switch 2 exclusive so maybe it really is just time to sell the thing...
 
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I'm expecting this to run as amazing as DQ VII Reimagined on the Steam Deck. Will update here after trying out.

UPDATE: It's near perfect. 85-90fps(OLED) around town and stable 90fps everywhere else, and that's just the first 10 minutes of the game(skipped the dialogue just for the test).
Too bad it doesn't support 16:10 aspect ratio, sooooo black bars.
 
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Scarlet said:

After releasing exclusively on Switch 2 as a launch title, the remaster of the original Bravely Default game has today been released on PC (Steam and Microsoft Store) and Xbox with little in the way of fanfare or publicity. The JRPG from 2012 received rave reviews on in its original 3DS incarnation, with the remaster largely just making the game more accessible to modern audiences. The title is noted to be Steam Deck Verified, as well as compatible with ROG Xbox Ally.

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Still haven’t finished the 3DS version
 
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It was good fun, although I did think it was weird to have to "beat the game" another 3 or 4 times at the end lol
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Yeah, it’s the one thing that stops me truly recommending it to all but avid JRPG fans. By the end of the game it felt like I had to break the job system to win and it was just kind of…off?
 
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Yeah, it’s the one thing that stops me truly recommending it to all but avid JRPG fans. By the end of the game it felt like I had to break the job system to win and it was just kind of…off?
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I feel like it comes down to whether or not you like breaking job systems. I do so I found a lot of fun in this series
 
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PC, eh?

Hopefully that means it's possible to mod in 0% encounter rate (an option that was in the 3DS original, mind you, AND in Bravely Second, aside from a few endgame areas that force 100% encounter rate - don't know why they decided to remove it, when it's so useful at times).
Oh, and mod in the original Japanese outfits, before they got censored in the international 3DS release (which was easy to mod in with LayeredFS - just place the Japanese files within the BD romfs folder).

Those are literally the exact reasons I haven't bothered buying the Switch 2 version - I already have Bravely Default on 3DS, which has 0%/50%/100%/150%/200% encounter rates (instead of just 50% and up) and which has the Japanese outfits, so why would I bother with the inferior Switch 2 "remaster"?
 
ok so I don't really care if it's a lazy upscale and not really a remaster

is the port actually good? stable, and performs well?
 

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