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I'm trying to play the bravely default demo a bit more, just to give it a chance. I've warmed up to it a smidgeon, but I'm still probably not buying it.

Is there any way to recover MP without visiting an inn? You cannot buy a recovery item for it, as far as I've seen, and it's the dumbest thing ever to just have to turn tail and run back to town because you can't do anything anymore.

You can buy ethers from the peddler if you restore the village enough.

With a little more time invested, I found ti easier to warm up to bravely default, The job system is neat, Not wholly original, but atleast borrowing things worth borrowing.

Leveling up the different classes and then reaping the benefit in through cross class skills is neat. Some things didn't make much sense, like how knights two handed ability is cross class-able but Ninja's dual weird ability is class locked. Probably because it'd be OP otherwise.

I recall that in FFXI(The first MMO.), mages would subclass ninja to get dual weird for solo grinding. You could do more DPS with you hammers and wands early on, and later on, you could reap the stat bonuses of two weapons at once. Oh and they could dodge tank, but that was hella expensive.

You could do that in this game, I know. There's a weapon you can get late in the demo that gives evade+20, and in the hands of a ninja, it's their most powerful weapon.

Ninjas are probably actually the best class in this game, for strategic play. Utsusemi is OP as usual, but in this game it neither consumes an item, nor an ounce of magic. If you don't have it up constantly, you're a bad ninjer.

Swords master is also pretty boss. They start with "nothing wagered" which is a baller cross class skill for knights, and they end up with a skill called multitasking, which gives them a free attack pretty frequently, which is a great cross class skill for anything that does damage. (Ninja with 2 weapons, hitting twice as much per attack, with the 4th level ninja skill that doubles the number of hits for one BP +this = Short boss fights.)

And it's not even hard to get all this. By the time you end the demo, you'll probably need to have fought enough to max out 3 jobs to level 4.

I can see that getting dumb later on, though. If the jobs max out at 4 in the main game too. You'd peak out and have your ideal build so early in the game, and then messing with other jobs would just be a nuisance.

I dunno. This game makes me feel like a pedantic sort of uber nerd, and I'm not usually very good at stat maxing and abusing systems ;P Maybe that's a sign that the game's system isn't that hard to grasp? I dunno. All the jargon is classic Final Fantasy fair. The job system was initially confusing, but I had it working in my favor before the first boss. The fetch quests could become very annoying, but mostly they were tutorials, giving me monsters to hunt down while I figured out my jobs, and best of all, they didn't take very long to complete.

Today's late dinner was a quesadilla.

Oh, but not just any quesadilla, my firends. This quesadilla was pan fried in olive out, with a little salt, and that's normal, but also it was filled with sliced steamed broccoli florets and crunchy toasted pecans. The cheese holding this together was a blend of pepper-jack and 2 kinds of cheddar. One of the cheddars was REALLY sharp. Almost like they added a little vinegar to it. It was almost fruity, in a rotten milk sort of way. But cheddar. I added a drizzle of trader joes black bean puree soup to get the cheese really runny. When it was all folded up and almost finished I rubbed on a little garlic powder and balsamic vinegar and caramelized the s**t out of it. Making the crust ever so slightly sweet and tangy...

And then I ate that sucker! ******** yeah. The broccoli florets are always nice. I add them to my quesadillas for body pretty often. It's a case of two great textures that go great together. The pecans are a newer thing and I must say, I stand by it. They stay crunchy, but are by nature, kinda crumbly and soft, so it's not jarring, like if I put peanuts in. It's wonderful.

Texture is, in my opinion, tantamount in importance to flavor in good food. And we should talk about food more.

For my lunch today I made Tomato soup. Softened some onion in butter, added a can of diced tomatoes and once it had cooked for about 15 added salt, pepper, oregano and basil. Then I put it in an oven safe soup bowl and topped it with Mozzarella and broiled it so it was kinda like having French onion soup. Soooo good. For desert I had a piece of Apple pie I baked during work this morning

I DID try red mage. It was one of the first classes I maxed. Since you never really NEED cura in the demo, except for maybe group heals, I think it worked out pretty well. Raise would have been handy a few times early on, maybe.