This week’s Famitsu magazine (Weekly Famitsu Magazine August 09, 2025 Issue) includes an interview on theOctopath Travelerprequel,Tairiku no Hasha, and also touches onBravely Default 2, coming exclusively toSwitch. Both series have different development teams but share a Producer, Tomoya Asano. In an interview together with Yuuki Yokoyama, the two producers shared interesting tidbits onOctopath Traveler, which we covered, but also on how theBravely Defaultteam and theOctopath Travelerteam were hit differently by the Covid-19 pandemic.In the Famitsu interview, Yuuki Yokoyama mentioned theOctopath Travelerteam was previously strengthening itself, hiring a lot of staff and in the process consolidated its communication tools. Creating an environment that makes development easy even through remote work. As such, even when the Covid-19 situation started, the game’s development stayed smooth.In counterpart, Tomoya Asano explained that theBravely Default 2team didn’t have a remote work environment already planned out like theOctopath TravelerTairiku no Hashateam, so the game’s development suffered a lot because of that. He explained that when the Corona virus state of emergency happened in Japan, from April 8 until May 6. they forcibly switched to remote work without a lot of preparation. And now ever since it was lifted, they’re going back to the studio, while being wary of theThree Cs.
Judging from all this, the development ofBravely Default 2was quite the ordeal. However, we learned since June thatthe game is in its final stages of development.Moreover, theBravely Default Japanese Twitterteasedin mid October that we’ll get news soon. This will possibly be a release date. For now,Bravely Default 2is only planned for “2020”.
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