I am insanely hyped for this game. FF6 and CT are two of my favorite games.
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"Octopath Traveler has been developed as a spiritual successor of FFVI" Takahashi-san
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There's a difference between I am Setsuna devs and Octopath Traveler devs.
In regards to how the PR branch of Square Enix coaches those going into interviews? I doubt it
Oookay. I forgot we were dealing with an expert on Japanese PR here
Jason, can you give us a subtle hint as to whether it is up there with FFVI or CT?
The visual style is great, I get the same feeling I had back then when I'd see screenshots of a new JRPG that was in development in some magazine.
Don't have to be an expert. Not really that hard to put two things together, especially if you work in a big corporation and understand how PR works and how the standard practices are handled in every organization when speaking with an outside entity.
This is PR when all is said and done. The devs will say anything to sell their game.
Don't forget it.
Art-wise, I see it. From the demo and writing, it feels much more like Bravely Default (which for me is fantastic - I'm already lamenting the demo being over).
And yes I do understand how Bravely Default is meant to feel like FF, but there are differences.
And yes I do understand how Bravely Default is meant to feel like FF, but there are differences.
I'm not gonna break embargo, but just from the demo you can tell that this is more of a SaGa game than a FFVI or a CT. It's about eight different stories, not one.
I don't like those kind of comparisons because then my brain immediately starts comparing both of them and I have to say, FFVI is EXTREMELY high in my Best of All Time list.
I'm still buying it and I'm super hyped for it, but still, just because of those comments, now I will be comparing the two, and it may hurt my final feelings for the game. Oh well.
I'm still buying it and I'm super hyped for it, but still, just because of those comments, now I will be comparing the two, and it may hurt my final feelings for the game. Oh well.
Oooooh snap! But true. I used to love Kefka, but each replay has had him cool for me.
Heh, finding out about a game in a magazine. You old peeps did wild things alright ;)
Not even a cryptic one :D
Thanks anyway, figured it was worth a shot.
This is the feeling I get from what I am hearing about the game.
By the way just finished your book it was great.
This is such a cynical way to see these kinds of statements. If you decide that everything developers say is decided and handed down by a committee and there's 0 genuine authorial intent or expression in the video game industry... then that's a pretty bleak outlook. I see this as a developer happily sharing his inspiration and the effort he went through to get a game he wanted to see exist made, which is not all that uncommon really. Calling renowned games from the SNES era as inspiration for new ones isn't something exclusive to SE at all. Developers share their inspirations all the time.
If there is a single story he may not have reached it yet since he's just 20 hrs in
If each characeters story is 3 hrs for example then single story wouldn't start until 24 hrs possibly
I love this response, haha. Reminds me of how my friend and I are always needlessly butting heads over FFVI vs FFVII, even though I haven't ever played FFVII and he hasn't ever played FFVI.
It won't be a spiritual successor to FFVI to me unless it has a second half where you need to explore the now-ruined world and reunite with all characters for the final dungeon.
That is what defines FFVI the most to me, and why I think it's the best JRPG ever.
That is what defines FFVI the most to me, and why I think it's the best JRPG ever.
LOL
An off-the-cuff interview where a producer talks about his creative influences.
"PR coaching"
That's a new one.
That's a really long time to spend on getting the characters alone, didn't some people speedrun the 3 hour demo and got all of them?
Yea but maybe you have to finish the story of each character before the single story starts, not just get the characters
Just guessing
But....but most of us are already like
all we ask is for a tiny morsel.
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This probably wouldn't be that difficult, as the only intro you actually have to play through is your first character. There's an option to skip the intros of everyone else you add to your party.
I haven't played the demo but from what I hear, I sure hope they changed it for the full game. It was disappointing to hear that it didn't matter who's story you chose, you would just run into the other characters and they would agree to join with no reason or context.
They said they had to do the starting chapters that way because of how open ended the beginning was
Up until this post I was hoping it was just 15 hours for the 8 individual character intros, then 25-30 hours of grand linear story after. Yeah, they shouldn't be calling it a spiritual successor to VI.
No it wasnt, it was inspired by CT, there's a difference.
Cosmic Star Heroine is probably the game thats closest to a CT Spiritual Successor.
To quote Jason Shreier "Cosmic Star Heroine is like a cross between Phantasy Star and Chrono Trigger"
This is great to know! I did play the 3DS demo quite a bit, but for whatever reason, I skipped the full version (there was a LOT of complaining about a certain chapter IIRC?). I'm pretty excited for Octopath, so maybe it's time to go back and play the 3DS Bravely games. I'm assuming Bravely Second is good too?
To be honest SaGa is far less marketable and hardly anybody played this series even in ERA so I'm not surprised the people at the Octopath staff isn't pushing this angle as much as they do FF6.
We already knew every character has their own set of chapters. How many and what happens after that, we dont know
Octopath Traveler |OT| Final SaGa Trigger Mana RPG
Octopath Traveler |OT| We all know most of you are starting with Primrose
Octopath Traveler |OT| The Real Final Fantasy VII
Octopath Traveler |OT| 8 Characters and none of them are Lightning
Octopath Traveler |OT| We all know most of you are starting with Primrose
Octopath Traveler |OT| The Real Final Fantasy VII
Octopath Traveler |OT| 8 Characters and none of them are Lightning
Are we so cynical as to reduce this developer talking about how his childhood influences informed his professional desire to create spiritual successors to PR speak?
FFVI's mark on Octopath is as clear as FFV's on Bravely. It doesn't have to be the same game with a similar story to be a spiritual successor. Judging from the collective Internet's immediate squeeing for a FFVI remake in its style, Octopath's evocation of FFVI is powerful.
Structurally, FFVI's beginning of course wasn't as partitioned between characters, but it absolutely had a large cast often with separate vignettes and personal storylines with ever-changing PoVs.
FFVI's mark on Octopath is as clear as FFV's on Bravely. It doesn't have to be the same game with a similar story to be a spiritual successor. Judging from the collective Internet's immediate squeeing for a FFVI remake in its style, Octopath's evocation of FFVI is powerful.
Structurally, FFVI's beginning of course wasn't as partitioned between characters, but it absolutely had a large cast often with separate vignettes and personal storylines with ever-changing PoVs.
The complaints about Bravely Default are due to a timeloop you get stuck in at the end of the game. Literally the end, as it's about the last ~5 hours or so of a 60 hour game. Many people felt significant pacing issues during this sequence. But you can actually just power through most of it in like an hour or two. It has story reasons for existing, but outside of that, it's more or less just an optional boss-rush mode that fleshes out the antagonists of the game, gives you insight to their backstories and motivations, etc. You don't even need to do any of that to get the true ending. Personally, I liked it. Some of those boss fights were quite challenging and encouraged you to play around with and break the job system. It's how I learned that the Spiritmaster job was OP as fuck.
Bravely Second is a good game too. Complaints centered around its heavy use of recycled assets. You definitely notice its slashed budget.
this would be funny but I feel like it'd gather lots of salt and drive by shit posts