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Octopath traveler is such a good game
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OT takes a wildly different approach to it's progression and story telling than most JRPGs, so it doesn't appeal to everybody. I personally like that.
OT is a great JRPG with wonderful music and graphics, likeable characters and the best turn-based combat system ever put together.
It's structure is a bit repetetive and the stories, while enjoyable, could've been better.
It's a flawed gem. I can't for a sequel that will be even better than OT!
It's structure is a bit repetetive and the stories, while enjoyable, could've been better.
It's a flawed gem. I can't for a sequel that will be even better than OT!
Because the combat is great, the music is great, the art is great. I also liked most of the characters. And I wouldn't say that the story is actively bad, it's just pretty average. Overall I really enjoyed my time with the game (75 hours)
I think it has fantastic elements, battle system and aesthetic for example, but it's extremely repetitive with very little of value to break up the monotony.
one of the best jrpgs of the last decade. game is so good and has so much variety in its different aspects. goat-tier battle system, goat-tier art style, goat-tier ost. good stuff.
i stopped playing after a few hours but i plan on going back. i loved pretty much everything about it, except for the idea of 8 separate adventures.
i really hope for a sequel they can keep the awesome style and music and battle system but just go for a different, less repetitive structure.
i really hope for a sequel they can keep the awesome style and music and battle system but just go for a different, less repetitive structure.
The combat is a lot of fun, but eventually things just seem to take a little bit too long for my liking.
My biggest issue was not the fact there was no combined story for all 8 characters, or not even really there were very few interactions between characters. It was that the stories became really disjointed if you attempted to do all 8 characters first chapters, then second chapters, and so on. Playing 7 hours before getting to Cyrus' level 2 chapter just really made me not care at all about what was going on. It also didn't help that the game truly showed you that the entire game was enter town>use character ability to find out information>dungeon>boss fight, which is fine and works well for literally every other JRPG because that's pretty much how they all go, but something about this game, maybe it was the fact you're doing it 30 times in a relatively short time span, just really shined a light on it.
My biggest issue was not the fact there was no combined story for all 8 characters, or not even really there were very few interactions between characters. It was that the stories became really disjointed if you attempted to do all 8 characters first chapters, then second chapters, and so on. Playing 7 hours before getting to Cyrus' level 2 chapter just really made me not care at all about what was going on. It also didn't help that the game truly showed you that the entire game was enter town>use character ability to find out information>dungeon>boss fight, which is fine and works well for literally every other JRPG because that's pretty much how they all go, but something about this game, maybe it was the fact you're doing it 30 times in a relatively short time span, just really shined a light on it.
The gameplay loop is incredibly basic, it literally doesn't change until the very end of the game. Not only that, but environments (Towns/etc) tend to be very samey (Not in look, but in design). Once you have seen a chapter, you have seen them all.
There are no minigames, dungeons with puzzles, city building, massive world map, etc to keep things fresh and shake the formula.
It's probably the most fun turn base game I've played. The battle mechanics are just great.
Conceptually they could have done some really fun stuff but yeah, the story becomes a copy and paste for almost each character. Being a surprise hit, they will no doubt focus on fixing that in the sequel.
Conceptually they could have done some really fun stuff but yeah, the story becomes a copy and paste for almost each character. Being a surprise hit, they will no doubt focus on fixing that in the sequel.
It is, OP, but much of what you'll find around here is hyperbolic negativity, vitriol, and reductive description.
Octopath did things its own way, and I love it for that. It has one of the best OSTs among JRPGs, the best traditional turn-based battle system I've ever played (which requires and rewards the player for creative thinking), charming personal short stories featuring some protagonists who were a breath of fresh air in the genre, an open-ended structure that's incredibly rewarding of curiosity and exploration, and a beautifully unique graphical style.
Octopath did things its own way, and I love it for that. It has one of the best OSTs among JRPGs, the best traditional turn-based battle system I've ever played (which requires and rewards the player for creative thinking), charming personal short stories featuring some protagonists who were a breath of fresh air in the genre, an open-ended structure that's incredibly rewarding of curiosity and exploration, and a beautifully unique graphical style.
It's a wonderful game, with satisfying turn-based combat. The only thing I didn't like about it was the writing (I only cared about 4 of the 8 characters' stories); hopefully they improve upon it with the sequel.
It's a great game. The music is amazing, combat is great and I found the world and characters really charming.
Heck yeah. Under-appreciated gem- maybe not under-appreciated at lunch, but post-launch reception for the game has definitely been way more lukewarm than what it deserves.
The mistake everybody makes is trying to do all 8 characters in one playthrough. If you do 4 first, and save the other 4 for a fresh run/NG+, you'll have a much much better time. One of the developers even said as much, but nay, people were actively looking for ways to hate this game, because apparently, that makes you look cool these days.
Playing all the characters given to you =/= looking for ways to hate on the game, that's a wack take
I went through the game with all 8 characters and loved it enough to sink over 80 hours into the game, but on a replay I'm going to try this method. Sounds like a good idea.
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Atleast it feels kinda open, you can explore a lot. A normal gameplay loop is town -> field -> dungeon in most rpgs.
I thought it was pretty boring, with super uninteresting individual stories that don't really intersect, horrible dungeons with requisite 2 or 3 "hidden" chests, all with basically the same layout. Boss fights were pretty cool, and the combat and music were good. Unfortunately, the game just asks you to do the exact same thing like 32 times and I couldn't stomach it for more than 10 or 15 hours. There were lots of good ideas in there, but the execution was highly lacking.
I would have gladly traded seven of its stories for one proper one with an actual party. The RP part of the RPG was ruined for me by the token, unconvincing effort to make it seem like I had an actual party of characters and not just eight individuals.
I'm glad it wasn't a big deal for some people, but it ruined the game for me. At least it was pretty though.
I'm glad it wasn't a big deal for some people, but it ruined the game for me. At least it was pretty though.
I am at 20 hours into the game and I am having a hard time returning to it. While I totally enjoy the round based fighting and the music, I just cannot enjoy the story. It is told poorly and boring. It just is too repetitive, as other people already pointed out. Plus: I literally hate that I have to keep, who ever I started the game with, in my party. I'd love to drop this character but I can't and now I am stuck with this character in my party...
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Battle system and mechanics? Never played this one, but that did It for me in the Last Remanant.
Played 20hours. Enjoyed the first 15 hours like anything. Played the first 15 hours over 3 days. The next 5 hours over 1 month. It's repetitive
It's not difficult to see how some people will never like this kind of game when you compare it to other traditional JRPGs like Xenogears, Suikoden, Dragon Quest, Star Ocean, Lunar, Wild Arms etc. Be it critically acclaimed or mixed reviews, they all have something OT doesn't, and I would rather play the ones that received mixed reviews over OT.
I'm just thankful OT has a demo that made me scream 'No, never again'.
I'm just thankful OT has a demo that made me scream 'No, never again'.
I played them all at the same time and loved the game.
The game just isnt for everyone. Its cool for people to just not like what was offered. I found the game refreshing though and the battle system is top 5 all time. It is so fucking good.
Pretty well every JRPG has a bad story as far as I'm concerned.
The game is fantastic!
It shows that you don't need huge amounts of money to create RPGs better than some AAA out there.
Even a simple story, simple graphics and an old style battle system can be outstanding when done with care (and an amazing OST).
As a matter of fact, my favorite story was Teressa's, the merchant.
It was the simplest one, but it was written and voiced with such care, and with such an amazing soundtrack that the journey was pure joy.
And I can't get enough of the battle system.
We need more!
It shows that you don't need huge amounts of money to create RPGs better than some AAA out there.
Even a simple story, simple graphics and an old style battle system can be outstanding when done with care (and an amazing OST).
As a matter of fact, my favorite story was Teressa's, the merchant.
It was the simplest one, but it was written and voiced with such care, and with such an amazing soundtrack that the journey was pure joy.
And I can't get enough of the battle system.
We need more!
I unfourtunately found it too repetitive for it's own good. The battle system, art style and music are great, and the eight individual stories is an interesting concept, but they are just so boring and uninspired that everything became like a chore and I ended up dropping it.
The transitions from character specific pre-fight loops to the boss themes are something every JRPG, hell every game needs to learn from. These are my favorites:
Decisive Battle I (Primrose)
Decisive Battle II (Tressa)
Battle at Journey's End (Olberic)
Decisive Battle I (Primrose)
Decisive Battle II (Tressa)
Battle at Journey's End (Olberic)
The music is amazing.
I stopped halfway through because it was so repetitive.
It would have been an amazing 20-hour JRPG.
I stopped halfway through because it was so repetitive.
It would have been an amazing 20-hour JRPG.
It's a really good game, but everything dragged on for far too long. Sure, you don't HAVE to play all stories and characters, but completing the entire content the game has to offer shouldn't see you engage in such repetitive, drawn-out sequences. Every story setpiece is the exact same structure every time, with no surprises, no variations. Every dungeon is essentially the same totally linear path with some tiny branching "secrets". Every fight ends up boiling down to the same pattern. It got really boring after a while.
It is H'aanit, any suggestions?
I have Ophilia with Dancer, Cyrus with Cleric and the third character is drop-in/drop-out depending on which Chapter I have to play, however, I tend to put Olberic in that position.
This game is fantastic. The combat and job systems mesh so well together and many of the battles feel more like puzzles you need to solve than standard boring JRPG battles. Especially the boss fights.
Some of the skill combos get a bit broken towards the end trivializing battles, but other than that I really loved this game.
Some of the skill combos get a bit broken towards the end trivializing battles, but other than that I really loved this game.
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They need to go back to the drawing board with regards to the game's core structure. It would have been much better if each character had their own distinct game style, IMO. 8 totally different dungeon themes/concepts/layouts, with mechanics that specifically cater to the type of character you're playing would have been preferable to the "walk up for 3 screens and kill a boss" copy paste trash dungeons in the game.
H'aanit/Warrior is goode. Excludest Olberic fromst thine partye, replacen with thine merchant/scholar