Never Have I Seen a Game Run Out of Steam So Gracelessly

What happened Bravely Default
You were so good for so long.
Then the gameplay got terrible, the story got stupid, and the game just became and overall disrespect for my time.
I've never seen a game do a U turn like this. Halfway through the game, the balance goes down the toilet, and you're made to redo plot points... plot points that introduce plot holes that would never have been there if they weren't so lazy as to reuse the half of the same dialog (or sometimes just repeat it wholesale) and this wouldn't even be THAT bad if they didn't make you do it so many times.
The plot twist becomes insanely obvious, yet you're forced to watch the characters meander through it all the same, what's more, this could have been averted if one of the many characters who knew what was going on had just explained themselves, rather than randomly trying to kill everyone
But seriously, the balance. Oh man. As the game progresses, you're suddenly presented with a wide variety of generic enemies all capable of casting instant death moves. Sometimes on the entire party. It wasn't long before I jsut turned off random encounters, because the rewards weren't very good and the risk was insane. Meanwhile, the bosses they had me refight were cakewalks that only got easier as the game showered me with powerful equipment and my jobs leveled up. What's worse is that the setups required for bosses get increasingly weird and specific, severely limiting your freedom to fight how you want, in a Job system that is already more limited than the one from FF5
There are no new dungeons to explore after Chapter 4, but they have you go through those same dungeons multiple times anyways
This is one of the ugliest attempts to overstep ones limits I've ever seen. One of the cheapest, laziest excuses of game lengthening I've had the displeasure of playing.
Currently I got the 'bad' ending, and I'm gonna start slogging my way towards the true end now, which promises to have at least a little bit of new content.

But man, talk about a complete reversal, the start of the game is so solid