Square Enix and Silicon Studio are making StreetPasses matter in Bravely Default

Silicon Studio wants to make the guy next to you at the local Pho place into a strangely named Ifrit.

The Nintendo 3DS’s StreetPass profile-sharing service has proven to be one of the handheld’s more addictive timesinks, and Silicon Studio is turning it into a core gameplay feature with Bravely Default, its self-described “really connected” 3DS Japanese role-playing game published by Square Enix. We recently sat down with Nintendo for a hands-on preview of Bravely Default: Flying Fairy’s free 10-hour eShop demo and the game itself, both of which have many opportunities to use StreetPass data.