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Octopath Traveler: Preview Thread
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Is this the first traditional JRPG without any elemental crystals in it? If so, this is a small revolution.
Yes but there is an overall final boss with two phases, soundtrack listing confirmed that
I honestly don't get why Jason should he held to a higher standard of "decency" when discussing games in a casual context like a public forum. He's just using strong words to refer to a game he heavily dislikes, I don't see the issue. If he was to call a game garbage in a review without elaborating on it tho, yeah, that'd be a bad look.
If anything his dislike for XC2 makes me trust his judgment more tho, so cool beans lol.
Nice! I haven't tried all characters yet (will get on that today), but I'm really tempted to start with her, I'm enjoying her premise a lot.
If anything his dislike for XC2 makes me trust his judgment more tho, so cool beans lol.
Chibi Primrose
Nice! I haven't tried all characters yet (will get on that today), but I'm really tempted to start with her, I'm enjoying her premise a lot.
It's great, especially when even a dancer character whose story has lot of sexual undertones looks more dignified than a lot of female characters in modern JRPGs. Plus the Yoshida-like style is gorgeous.
The number of
bosses and optional superbosses, the statement about the reputation system, that there's no vehicles and airships new information.
It also helps that she looks like an actual human being instead of two watermelons nailed to a ironing board in a spandex outfit with high heels
Primrose should be the standard.
These boss information bits are really not hard to guess (he essentially counts one boss per each characters chapter and put a + to it) by current information and especially that he points out there are no vehicles and airships makes me wary. Nobody ever expected that.
It just sounds like a made-up damage control review with him repeating 5 times that there is no overaching epic plot. But who knows?
No... they're not here to leak stuff to you. They'll publish their review when the embargo lifts and we can read it then.
Eh, I've been in other review threads and they didn't have a problem with calling something fake, not commenting on it makes me believe it's real anyways.
Review threads or preview threads?
Also that's not how things work, and that's why you're not supposed to deny or confirm anything until you're allowed to.
Those really don't have anything to do with Octo and it's embargo.
Saying it's fake would break the embargo and there's still the likelihood that few reviewers have finished the entire game yet.
I wonder when the "final boss theme" on YouTube plays. I had assumed that it was whenever the you completed any one of the main plots, like Legend of Mana.
No, the last boss encounter for each storyline has a specific title on the OST.
So there's a song for each story boss and then a song with multiple phases called "Final Battle"...
This makes me think about a final boss for all the characters (The God from Ophilia's story).
People assumed "CS Battle" stood for Character Story, and then the operatic boss music was the "true" final boss. There's a handful of other boss themes as well, but not enough to have a different one for each character arc.
Is discussing the presence or absence of a final boss considered a spoiler? That has been like 2/3rds of the derails in the thread.
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By the by, I made a thread about Octopath's real narrative inspiration (NOT FFVI):
https://www.resetera.com/threads/octopath-travelers-medieval-literary-roots.54054/
Figured it's relevant here, given how frequently this one's been derailed by misquotes of the producer.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/octopath-travelers-medieval-literary-roots.54054/
Figured it's relevant here, given how frequently this one's been derailed by misquotes of the producer.
Reviews, calling ones fake before an embargo wasn't a problem.
It's more speculation than spoiler, because we don't know enough.
I don't get your examples because you can still watch the good ending for games on the same tv monitor you play the game.
Points of no return I get. There you are actually locked away from doing certain things.
Well, despite the fact that I was hoping for greater cohesion between the narratives, I'm pretty sure I'm on board here. I've played enough characters to get the feeling like the game is worth the experience, and I deeply appreciate Nintendo/Square Enix giving me the opportunity to try it via both demos. Really looking forward to seeing where Primrose goes.
It's the experience of playing. Those charecters on the YouTube video aren't my charecters I spent the game playing. I don't know what that Geralt did, I don't know if he was the hardass or the Geralt who gave money to the needy. I don't have a connection to that charecter.
I'm confused by the eShop's wording...I was able to play the US eShop's demos in Japanese, however the eShop didn't list Japanese as a supported language for the (whole) game. Can anyone confirm if the US version will allow me to play in JP?
Each character have a different story so 8 different stories, you can recruit all the characters and use any combination you want.
Actually. Now that I think about it. Jason kinda did call out a fake review one time, i believe before the embargo was over.
Remember FFXV? That was a wild thread
Remember FFXV? That was a wild thread
Yep, that's what I was talking about, I don't think saying if something is fake breaks the embargo, but it's fine if you think differently or don't want to risk it.
It is but you will eventually have to get them since battles will get harder, I also don't think you can finish the game without getting all the characters and finishing their stories.
Developers have said it's technically possible to solo the game, though given how challenging combat becomes and the necessity of targeting weaknesses, that seems highly impractical.
I'm not sure what they meant by that since you can't remove the character you start with.
Speaking of combat, will be magicians in the game? Like summoners.
(Im totally blacked out with the game, but now im curious)
How are you finding it now Jason?
Have any of your opinions on it changed for better or for worse?
It means that technically you could finish the game (i.e., their personal story) with only the character you begin with.
There are multiple magic-using jobs, yes, and Primrose and Ophilia have the ability to summon NPCs into combat, while H'aanit can summon monsters she's tamed.
I guess that could be it but the post in the previous page about there being a final boss made me believe it's only accessible after finishing all the stories.