Pocket Power: Bravely Default
Handheld gaming is more than a compromise of power and portability. Whether it’s the ability to play anywhere, multitask or hold an entire console in your hands, it’s a special experience consoles have never replicated. In a world where high resolutions and teraflops reign supreme, we take a look at a portable relic every month and reflect on what makes it memorable. Be warned, spoilers may occasionally populate these articles.
In my typical fashion of beginning an article by talking about something that has nothing to do with the game at hand, let’s take a look at Final Fantasy as a series. Final Fantasy was a lot of people’s introductions to JRPGs, whether it it the first, seventh, tenth or fifteenth numbered game. The series has made many changes throughout the decades, and while they’ve all been enjoyable to different degrees, some of the more recent ones have little in common with the early games save for the name and chocobos. As games