@MaJoR - I think they learned their lesson. There's no long repeat segments. The game does a neat trick where it acts like everything's going to loop over, but to break the loop all you have to do is press START to trigger a Bravely Second attack. The game tricks you into thinking you've started a New Game+, but just press START during the opening battle with the game's Big Bad, and then the story avoids any looping. Although, if you somehow missed that you're supposed to use Bravely Second (and there are some very big hints, so it's your own fault...) you could theoretically end up replaying the entire game again (but then again, those were some pretty big hints). If you use an FAQ anyway, there's no way you could mess up that badly...
So no, no looping. I will say that the bosses don't seem as hard. I mean, with all the abilities they give in you Bravely Second (you can get almost all of the old jobs from Bravely Default + new ones specific to this game), you can basically make yourself invincible. I beat the final boss on Hard and I didn't get KO'd once. I guess that's just me being great at every game I play
So no, no looping. I will say that the bosses don't seem as hard. I mean, with all the abilities they give in you Bravely Second (you can get almost all of the old jobs from Bravely Default + new ones specific to this game), you can basically make yourself invincible. I beat the final boss on Hard and I didn't get KO'd once. I guess that's just me being great at every game I play