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Finally started Octopath Traveller and I honestly still can't get over how beautiful looking this game is.
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Great looking game, but a super disappointing story and a real lack of cohesion between the characters due to the way it told its story. Kinda felt like a game built purely out of side quests/side stories from a main FF game.
never finished it so maybe it picks up?
never finished it so maybe it picks up?
Playing Bravely Default 2 right now and reeeeally missing Octopath. BD2 falls victim to vaseline screen pretty bad whereas Octopath was a pleasure to look at all the way through. I especially enjoyed the simple battle screen. Exactly what I want from that kind of game and I hope we get more like it
That's the intent of the short story format. Very similar to SaGa Frontier /Unlimited SaGa in that regard, with short stories that are finally diverse. OT has much more character interaction, however, and there's not the repeat content that normally comes with different playthroughs.
BD2 will likely do well enough to justify ports. The game would look pretty good on PC with a super high resolution mixed with the depth effects.
Beautiful looking and beautiful sounding. They definitely nailed the sensory experience of playing the game.
I understand why a lot of people don't care for the game and their gripes, but it's one of my absolute favorites of this gen. Up there with God of War and Breath of the Wild for me. I know. Sounds crazy. But I got so much enjoyment out of it. Same for Three Houses!
Visuals and music are definitely top notch. I didn't think the actual game was very good, but it's absolutely beautiful and sounds amazing.
I thought the same initially, but as I progressed through the game there was one thing I just couldn't help but find extremely disappointing: the spritework. The game looks gorgeous in screenshots and backgrounds never cease to impress, but the sprites have so few different animations it's almost baffling. Each playable character has exactly one smooth-looking animation: the one you see when they use their unique field skill. The rest is just a bunch of "arms raised", "eyes closed" basic two-frame animations that's the same as every basic NPC. Really poor stuff compared to the likes of FF6.
I mean, one of your characters is a dancer and they didn't bother giving her a dancing animation. She just has a couple of poses and the screen fades to black whenever she's on stage.
I mean, one of your characters is a dancer and they didn't bother giving her a dancing animation. She just has a couple of poses and the screen fades to black whenever she's on stage.
xbox if you play on the TV mostly imo, 60 fps is great and load times are really great. if you are gonna play mostly portable then obviously switch is better. Plus you get achievements on xbox.
I've been playing for a week or so, ~4 hours or so. Some of the visuals are pretty good, the music is great, but some of the visuals look incredibly bad to me (on a series X). I can't even tell sometimes what some of the background stuff is supposed to be, mountains and stuff look awful, and the mini map is really bad so far. Still, enjoying it for the most part although my most recent JRPG is Dragon Quest XI-S and I'd rate that as far better in pretty much everything, but its not really a fair comparison either.
Agreed, they could have done a lot more in the animation department, it clearly had a smaller budget than most RPGs.
I love DQXIS, but Octopath has both a better and deeper battle system + a way better soundtrack.
Still, they are two of my favorite JRPGs of the generation.
I kind of dropped off the game after I unlocked all the characters but it is gorgeous and the OST is amazing.
Primrose's theme is one I revisit often and I even have it set up on my bard in FF14 thats how much I love it.
Hopefully we get another turn-based RPG with this art style and a more traditional story in the future.
Project Triangle looks great but I know that I dont have the willpower to see a tactical RPG through to the end.
Primrose's theme is one I revisit often and I even have it set up on my bard in FF14 thats how much I love it.
Hopefully we get another turn-based RPG with this art style and a more traditional story in the future.
Project Triangle looks great but I know that I dont have the willpower to see a tactical RPG through to the end.
Stick to the Switch, then you can go portable if you need. The game doesn't really need 60fps with the type of game it is.
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