OCTOPATH TRAVELER 0

After an ambitious and amazing Octopath Traveler 2, this installment is more of a return to the ways of OT1. Unfortunately that also means that most of the music and cities are "asset flipped" from OT1, but that should be compensated by a story that is much more vast than both OT1 and OT2 had (noting that this game is essentially a PC port of Champions Of The Continent, with the corresponding consequences), with more game hours of content than any of its predecessors. The writing and feels in the cutscenes are overall not quite as deep and striking as OT2. The fighting system is careful to not take the deliberations of OT1 and OT2 that led to game breaking character builds, instead balancing this with free SP/HP refills and a backup row to switch individually at any time. Together with most abilities now being very generic (do specific damage type X times at Y mana cost), the fighting system just doesnt have that tension it used to in the previous titles. Many abilities from the previous titles got removed, without any new special abilities introduced beyond the backup row. The wishvale "home town" system is a double-edged sword bestowing you with additional grinding missions particularly in the beginning, while also later yielding free resources. If you are smart about it, you can get massively overlevelled and have an explosion of gold without any additional farming effort. Not having been familiar with COTC before, I did not expect such a mechanic in a game like this, but it doesn't fit too badly with the existing paths mechanics. As a fan of the series I am most of all happy to get to play another installment and experience a fully new story, however I will note that while Octopath Traveler 0 is a worthy successor to Octopath Traveler 1, it does not fulfill the standards set by Octopath Traveler 2 to me and I hope that for the next title, the developers will get more innovative.

170 hours in i finally get the true ending. Honestly one of my favorite games of all time

[h2]100% Review | Perfect #87[/h2] [b]Achievements[/b]: There are no missables ("The Summoned" is possibly bugged, so look that one up to be safe), no annoying minigames to master, and the superboss is fairly easy to beat. Expect and enjoy a long journey. First thing's first: Ignore anyone who tries to tell you this game is just a "gacha port" of CotC. They are wrong and likely bots/trolls posting engagement bait. Now that what should be obvious is out of the way, onto the game itself. This is a long JRPG about you attempting to rebuild your town, going on adventures, and fighting tyrants. You get to make your own MC in this game and can freely swap between 8 classes. There are a ton of characters to recruit and all of them are unique (meaning that there's no dual-classing in this one) but you get to make a party of 8 characters instead of 4 this time around. [b]Gameplay[/b] The battle system is a blast and I never got bored of it throughout the 107 hours clocked on my save file. You're given a lot of freedom with how you want to build your characters and the difficulty isn't that high, so a lot of builds are viable. While the job system only exists for the protagonist, you can equip active and passive skills on other characters to customize them. Everything else that you would expect from an Octopath Traveler game is here. You travel to towns and use path actions to interact with NPCs, explore and fight monsters, and play through story chapters. Level up your characters, learn skills, try to break the game with synergies. If you need something to tide you over until Octopath 3 happens, this game will keep you busy. [b]Story[/b] The narrative is entertaining and remains consistently good throughout the game, yet the length of the game may wear on you over time and tempt you to skip cutscenes. This game is not for the impatient; there is a *lot* of story here. If you like reading and listening to dialogue then you'll probably enjoy this as much as I did. I want to say that around 40% of the game is original story and content while the remaining percentage is adapted from Champions of the Continent. The CotC stories range in quality but I found most of them to be enjoyable at the least, and I'm glad that they can be experienced in a single-player RPG instead of trapped on some mediocre phone game that could be taken down at any time. [b]Music[/b] Yasunori Nishiki cooked again. The new music in this game is so good that I bought the Octopath Traveler 0 soundtrack CD. There's some old Octopath Traveler music in here as well (like the victory theme and many CotC tracks) that is used where it feels appropriate. If music makes-or-breaks games for you like it does for me, you'll likely find yourself coming back to this game for the music alone. [b]Voice Acting[/b] This game's voice cast is massive and because the voice acting is good across the board, I'm giving the voice actors their own section in this review as a thank-you to all of them. I personally loved the performances of Grant George (Phenn), Judy Alice Lee (my MC), and Bill Butts (Bargello). Everyone who recorded their voices for this game did a wonderful job bringing these characters to life! [b]Conclusion[/b] This game is fantastic and a welcome addition to the Octopath Traveler series. If you like Octopath Traveler, you'll love this. If you haven't played an Octopath Traveler game yet, this is a good place to start! Keep in mind that this is a very long game, though, so you'll be playing this for a while. Worth every penny.

非常好玩

Jogo lindo. Combates excelentes e a construção da cidade encanta e quebra um pouco do ritmo do jogo de forma positiva

The good: - Octopath art style! - Cool monsters - An interesting NPC system that makes NPCs provide some value to adventurers - Town building! - Parties of eight so you can actually try interesting classes, instead of sticking to the basics The bad: - Boss battles that just take forever and have multiple phases of forever - You don't really do the Octopath thing where each class has its own intro adventure. This feels... wrong? It's just more of a straight forward RPG with multiple storylines that you can complete at your leisure. - Really strange choices for keyboard controls that take a bit to get used to.

You dont build enough connection with your party members. The first 10 hours lets say, is so boring to play through, but then you start getting Octopath traveller 2 vibes. Given you have significant number of candidates to choose from (for your party) it feels more like pokemon rather than OT2 (which each character had its backstory), this game is more like oh cool this character has access to these skills, must be good for the team.

It's a fair amount of misery porn, but behind that is a good game. Follow the objectives, skip the cutscenes, and ignore the story, your enjoyment doubles. None of your choices matter, so there's no actual skin in the game. It's a recommendation purely because the gameplay makes up for it. Fire the writers, make the railroad sections clearer, and it's game of the year.