Heart-to-hearts in XB2 were bad. I was talking about XB1 lol
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Octopath Traveler: Preview Thread
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Yep. Watch the GameXplain preview.
Never played it. :\ Hoping XB1 and XCX are eventually released on Switch.
It's a part of one of the main questions that the game brings up (Initially discussed when Rex looks up at the world tree and wonders about what sort of being the Architect may be in Chapter 1). Why did the creator make the world in the way that they did? And having this question allows Blades to be a tidy core for the gameplay while being an original storytelling mechanism.
My issue with XC2 is that the suffering of various individuals was only alluded to most of the time and not directly shown with developments and that the scope of the story could stand to feel just a bit larger (both of which the Torna Expansion aims to fix), which was an effect of the development and budget allocation more than any incompetency in my opinion.
As for octopath, I think the somewhat shallow party team ups are my main issue, they don't even have to be directly involved in each other stories, having small banter scenes (with maybe some group chats) and a more concrete initial team up scene would be enough for me.
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It's that way because the game isn't about the blades at first. It starts to put a major focus on them later on as Rex starts to learn more about the way the world works.
Shouldn't be surprising that it wasn't the major point at first. Rex is just a kid who accidentally became the driver to Pyra and his first goal is taking Pyra to Elysium. Then it starts to branch out.
Demo was hit and miss for me. Primrose's story was fantastic. Therion's put me to sleep multiple times, though I could have just been tired. Olberic's was decent. It got better as I played, but I haven't even got the three hours out of it yet.
I'll still buy the game, but I'm REALLY enjoying Shining Resonance Refrain at the moment and I really don't need another RPG so I may hold off for a bit.
I'll still buy the game, but I'm REALLY enjoying Shining Resonance Refrain at the moment and I really don't need another RPG so I may hold off for a bit.
Ugh. And here I am, disappointed by XC2 all over again. I need Octopath in my veins ASAP to remove the curse of bad JRPGs I've been playing lately. First it was Persona 5 that let me down, then XC2. Will Octopath be the one to save the day?
finished up the demo last night, was trying to wait until closer to release so I wouldn't finish and just be waiting
did ophilia -> cyrus -> olberic
I'm loving everything about this game. the variety and tone of the different stories was nice. the battle system gets real good once you have multiple party members. also ophilia's summon is awesome. had a cleric which helped out a lot, gave steel defense and would do a multi hit ice attack that helped against olberic's boss. you also start getting into some nice on the fly risk/reward type stuff with who does what when, if you can hold out for another turn, burn a resource now, deplete the sp, brute force an enemy out of there, etc. the environments have been great. the game looks especially good in the snow areas with the depth of field and lighting with those faded twinkles everywhere. enemy designs have been great. boss designs are definitely a highlight. the pacing of the game also seems on point. it always felt like save spots were plentiful and the early leveling seems well paced. for those early random battles it always felt like whenever my sp would dwindle that I would be close enough to the next level to get it back up. that's starting to stop now but I've also got a shit ton of items now so it's less of an issue. and the music is obviously great. can't wait until friday so I can get back to it without a time limit lol
did ophilia -> cyrus -> olberic
I'm loving everything about this game. the variety and tone of the different stories was nice. the battle system gets real good once you have multiple party members. also ophilia's summon is awesome. had a cleric which helped out a lot, gave steel defense and would do a multi hit ice attack that helped against olberic's boss. you also start getting into some nice on the fly risk/reward type stuff with who does what when, if you can hold out for another turn, burn a resource now, deplete the sp, brute force an enemy out of there, etc. the environments have been great. the game looks especially good in the snow areas with the depth of field and lighting with those faded twinkles everywhere. enemy designs have been great. boss designs are definitely a highlight. the pacing of the game also seems on point. it always felt like save spots were plentiful and the early leveling seems well paced. for those early random battles it always felt like whenever my sp would dwindle that I would be close enough to the next level to get it back up. that's starting to stop now but I've also got a shit ton of items now so it's less of an issue. and the music is obviously great. can't wait until friday so I can get back to it without a time limit lol
Xenoblade 2's writing was terrible. Voice acting was even worse.
I'm loving the sound of Octopath's later combat. So refreshing to have a turn-based JRPG whose encounters are challenging by design, rather than because of dungeon attrition or gimmicks—or worse, not at all.
I finally got around to playing the demo.
Seems pretty fun so far. Started with Primrose but I honestly might restart and start with Ophillia.
The FFVI comparison is kinda crazy because the game is like it came from an alternate universe where it was originally named SaGa Frontier 3 (made by the BD folks).
The conversation stuff is a little disappointing, but I'll still need to see how this all comes together especially considering how tight-lipped SE has been on the main story/villain/etc. Plus, there is no way it could handle this in a worse or more insulting way than Chrono Cross did.
Seems pretty fun so far. Started with Primrose but I honestly might restart and start with Ophillia.
The FFVI comparison is kinda crazy because the game is like it came from an alternate universe where it was originally named SaGa Frontier 3 (made by the BD folks).
The conversation stuff is a little disappointing, but I'll still need to see how this all comes together especially considering how tight-lipped SE has been on the main story/villain/etc. Plus, there is no way it could handle this in a worse or more insulting way than Chrono Cross did.
I spent quite a bit of time doing the trick to get Harle in the party during some of the big plot twists, only for her to react just like a stock party member... man...
Nice, this is what I want, so many rpgs recently have been so easy
Criticizing the writing in this is fine and all, but doing it while praising Xenoblade 2's is just wow.
Great to hear, I'm loving the combat in the demo and my only worry was that the late game wouldn't be challenging enough to take advantage of it.
Someone said the dungeons get better later on are you starting to notice that yet?
There have been reports of it not occuring in previews where the reviewer has put over 50 hours in so... if that works for you that's great, play for 60+ hours then get a few hours of party acknowledgement / main plot. But for many people, it's too little too late at that point.
I'm glad we are all aware of it now so we don't have to read people complaining about it in the OT.
Jason you are speaking my language.
This was my favorite part of the demo. System feels nostalgic yet fresh.
Between that and the music, and visual style, I'm excited, even if there ends up being no real overarching plot or converging paths.
You'll get more complaints actually since none of us have played it yet to experience how jarring the no party interaction is.
If you play as H'aanit in the demo you will see that every beast have a limited number of uses, the same as human followers.
In "previews from a reviewer" ? With 50+ hours ?
What are talking about here ?
Very good news. Thanks.
I like good challenge and really get bored very fast when it's too easy.
Is there ressource managing here or do MP/SP or whatever it's called replenish after battles? I love battle-sytems where each battle is like its own puzzle and you can go all out with using skills that aren't tied to a finite ressource that you have to conserve throughout dungeons.
I figured the game would be like SaGa Frontier but with some light overlap between stories and the ability to recruit all characters.
Neither replenish after battle, but on the plus side restoration items are so cheap that you're able to get hundreds of them very easily, especially if you go with a character like Tressa who can earn extra money. There are also a bunch of NPCs and Monsters that certain characters can recruit that potentially give you some pretty OP in-battle MP restoring abilities. I allured some merchant as Primrose and in battle he would pretty much refill my entire mana bar when summoned; it got to the point where I couldn't use my MP in time.
Sorry, how can you know it is that jarring since you didn't play the game ?
SP doesn't replenish after combat, but it replenishes after leveling up, and there are an abundance of abilities, passives, and items to actively restore SP, or even more interesting concepts such as transferring it to other members.
Each battle very much is its own puzzle where you can go all out, and the typical resource attrition we think of in RPGs really isn't very applicable here.
Here.
Guy from Gamefaqs who had posted videos showing a lot of the map said the same thing and he played 60 hours.
Same article says...
https://twinfinite.net/2018/07/octopath-traveler-preview/
Mh, I see - sounds good. Thanks!
I've seen previews talk about the lack of party interactions but haven't seen it called jarring. Sounds like you're injecting your own opinion there
How much harder are the chapter 2 and on bosses compared to chapter 1? The chapter 1 bosses were all pretty easy to me.
Just did. It was pretty short. No mention of it being jarring. Again, think you may be injecting your opinion here, maybe unintentionally
Basically every review has said the combat gets more and more intense. Even in the demo, the optional dungeon bosses are far harder than the prologue bosses.
https://twinfinite.net/2018/07/octopath-traveler-preview/
I don't understand what this would accomplish. Can you elaborate please?
Specifically, if the story is entirely unchanged, and your other party members just kinda show up with no dialogue or actions, or anything of the sort.
I'm not sure what you are trying to do, how did you miss that if you read it? How is party members not interacting with each other isn't jarring anyways?
It would, at the very least, show that your party members don't just disappear into the shadow realm whenever a story beat happens.
It might be jarring—their recruitments were certainly half-baked—but if their stories are dramatically satisfying on their own merits, and their banter interactions tell a believable relationship, it won't matter to me in the slightest.
I read that part. Disorienting is not jarring. Disorienting would be more confusing. Jarring is shocking. Words matter
So again, I think jarring is your personal opinion, and I've not seen anyone else mention this
But then what? Showing them and them having them do absolutely nothing makes them no better than an NPC who accidentally walked into the shot. Worse in some cases.
That's what I'm hoping.
Fucking hell, you're arguing just for the sake of it at this point.