OCTOPATH TRAVELER™

Absolutely too many random encounters, little to no overarching plot, nothing ties these people together nor do they really interact with each other at all. I spent entirely too much time wondering what the point of what I was doing was, and waiting for some grand "aha" moment where everything comes together...and it never comes. It's just more disjointed side-stories. Edit: Played the whole game. Did the "secret" boss that ties all the plots together. Still ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Still terrible pacing. ABSOLUTELY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ storytelling. I don't understand how this got so popular. Were people really starved for a pixel art JRPG on consoles? I don't see what made this such a big deal when it was released. I guess I was expecting something like Secret of Mana 3 (Trials of Mana) where you had to select a party out of the 8 and their plot lines sometimes intertwine with each other and they interact. This...so far...is not that. It's just...a bunch of random side stories. Maybe if they focused on ONE story, they would have a game...but this is just...me spending hours waiting for the "real" game to begin only to find out this is it. This could work if the world was interesting and well designed...but it isn't. Actually the world feels extremely shallow and amateurishly put together. Languages and accents, culture and even technology whiplash wildly from cities just a few feet from each other to the point that it doesn't feel even remotely believable. It feels like you're wandering around a Disney or Universal park where you walk 3 feet and you're in desert town only to walk a few more feet to be in the frozen north. It feels VERY contrived and just makes the world feel small and "video gamey." I'm going to keep playing it to get my money's worth, but I somehow doubt the game will magically turn around.

I've only completed the first chapters so far, but from what I've heard this doesn't change much: The stories differ a _lot_ in terms of quality. You have some stories that are super poorly written and which you will absolutely not care about, and you have others (hello Primrose) which make it seem like the devs had just remembered that they can actually do something interesting. However, even when a story segment is good, it only lasts for (at most) an hour at a time. For me personally, this is rather unsatisfying, as that doesn't give me enough time to connect to the characters. That being said, the visuals, the gameplay and the music are all fantastic. They are what make me want to play this game recently. However, I do not think that that's worth the hefty price, only if you get it with a good discount.

I read the reviews, saw people talking about the lackluster story, decided to give it a shot either way. It's been about 20 hours of gameplay, and I just don't think I'll return to it. Here's what I enjoyed about it, first! 1. Gameplay Honestly the combat is fun, I enjoy the animations, the type of combat they made in this game is actually fun. With each character feeling unique with their own type of gimmick that helps the player succeed. Although it does get grindier later, in general I'd say the combat is probably one of the best things to this game. 2. Graphics The art design for this game is what really made me so curious, it looks amazing and fun, which it is! I think I've never loved a game's art design this much before. Normally people praise a game's "realism" but for this game, it's just an insane art design that looks gorgeous. From night to day, shady trees in a forest to a sandy sparkly beach, it's actually been so nice to journey 3. Music The music in this game is amazing, each story having it's own style, as well as biomes and bosses. That, mixed with it's graphics make it such a beautiful game!! 4. Characters Despite some of my gripes, the characters do feel genuinely unique! Aesthetically and design wise Now despite these things I love about the game, I cannot finish it, and here's why: 1. Game Design Now idk if you've ever been driving, and see someone else and wonder "wonder where they're going?" or "what's their life story?" and I think this game really takes that thought process and turns it into a game. The way they designed it is that there are several people doing their own separate stories and others just are along for the ride. Honestly the concept isn't a bad idea, but the way they did it was bad. You are constantly starting a new story after getting motivated by one you just started. It's like replaying the same, obnoxious, cutscene because you lost the boss fight and have to watch it again to try and fight the boss and hopefully win. It doesn't feel super rewarding. Once you get slightly invested into one story, you're forced by their leveling system to progress through other characters story, kind of rewriting your focus and motivation. 2. Story Surprise, the story feels bad. Primrose is definitely the best from the start, but then others like Ophilia, which just felt me more confused and pissed off by their lazy writing than I did in any other game I've played in a long time. Ultimately this game's weakness IS the story, hands down. Their writing for Ophilia's introduction story sucked so much I genuinely HATED it. Now here's the thing, they have legendary voice actors and actresses. Ophi's VA is Cristina Valenzuela, who voices Riven(LoL), Velvet Crowe (tales of Berseria), Cyberpunk, Bleach, Pokemon, countless anime dubs from 2005 onwards. She's a fkin legend. They set her up for FAILURE. She over voices her lines, because I think they recorded everyone separately, so she sounds like she's just terribly overdoing it compared to everyone else. It is also terribly written, their family dynamic of Ophi feeling like she never had a dad, yet that dude was voicing his love the ENTIRE time, yet cares way more about her sister, who's grieving, while her loving "absent" dad is dying in the next room over.. felt like someone who was an only child tried to write a family dynamic, it's terrible. Ophi's story was rough, but I could oversee that, if I was still invested. Everytime I get into a story they've made, they make you watch another 15-20 minute story of someone new, which really just feels bad. 3. Their World Now their world does feel different, with different biomes and such, but I think in general it's just battle simulators. Each map has a few sections between city to city, each section has a different level, which isn't scaled by the player, so it's more along the lines of a linear open world story, limiting where you can go in order to direct/forcing you to collect other party members. It's kind of making you waste time to gain levels so you can eventually progress through the first character's story after starting 3 others.. Because of these, I just feel like it's a game I have no investment, no emotional value that I am getting out of it, it's all shallow story, mixed with linear paths and battle grinding city to city to restart a new campaign in the middle of my other ones.

Frustratingly dull, this game has all the allure of a stylized flowchart. I struggled against my better judgement to find value in the individual stories. On completion of my first character arc (60+ hours in taking my time, progressing each of the other 7) the un-skippable credits rolled, and it was clear this game goes nowhere. Without a really cohesive story the grind becomes the focus of the game, and unfortunately, the grind is only moderately entertaining at best. I'd falsely hoped that whatever resources they saved in defaulting to the pixel art graphics would be redistributed to developing battle complexity, but every encounter followed a simple variation of the same formula. I rarely leave reviews, but unfortunately this game just left me feeling scammed. How do you charge $60 for this? I've played too many great games to lower my expectations to Octopath Traveler. While the reviews I'd read beforehand weren't perfect, the sea of positivity surrounding these games is grossly misleading.

想了很久，最终还是给了一个差评。 如果我在游戏刚开智的时候接触这个游戏，我可能会很喜欢这个游戏。但是这个游戏的硬伤太严重了。 他的优点非常多： 丰富的玩法，支线任务的巧思，用心的音乐，战斗的策略化和BD构筑.... 这些就不过多列举了，如果你们想玩的话可以去好好探索，确实很好玩 缺点就两条，但是这两条都是决定性扣分 1.堆怪极其严重，后期战斗模板化 他的堆怪机制是根据你的运动步数，也就是你的探索欲越旺盛，你就要支付更高的代价，但是探索到的收益非常廉价，非常打击玩家的探索欲。堆怪本身不是缺点，关键缺点在于堆怪的单一性和奖励的幽默性。“猫头鹰”的开拓者系列也堆怪严重（尤其是高难度下），但是他们的有较好的正反馈（剧情的隐藏信息，一些事件，或者比较重要的奖励）。但是八方旅人的奖励非常幽默，通常给你一个只能用来卖钱的装备，和一些可以在商店买到的果子（尤其是带商人，中后期钱是完全溢出的）。但是你需要进行不探索的6-7倍的战斗（这些战斗基本上怪物是一样的，比如低级打鸟人，中期打鸟人II，后期打鸟人III） 2.剧情非常不用心 他的每个角色剧情可以简单概括为： 单个任务：先来一个小游戏，用用角色技能（比如小偷任务就要偷东西，学者要打听，舞娘神官就是引导/魅惑），之后就是去副本打怪，打完怪过个剧情结束。每个任务基本上都是这个流程 人物事件线：开局交代背景，然后开始反转（这些反转根本没有惊喜，基本上一眼就能看出正派或者反派，你唯一不知道的就是他们什么时候跳反/洗白），最后开始回忆。 总计来说，就是在一个八股文模板下写了8个故事，最后用隐藏任务把这个8个八股文穿起来。删去水字数的情节，8个人+魔神（隐藏任务）的剧情可能大致浓缩到2000字。如果喜欢看剧情的玩家是真的有福了，很快你也会开始长按跳过。 假如没有这些硬伤，我觉得他在现在也能算是一个还可以的游戏。但是这些硬伤确实太减分了。他的优点和缺点一样显著，只是可能我更无法接受他的缺点。总之，我在不及格和差强人意中犹豫了很久。最后还是给它差评了。

I thought this game was stupid when it first came out. Many years later and I find myself very much enjoying it on Steam Deck. Safe to say, this game is an awesome intro to JRPGs. Sometimes games just don't find you at the right time. Glad I gave it a second chance.

[h1] 八方/歧路旅人:八方各有八方的好，一方更有一方的妙 [/h1] 歧路旅人这款作品我是真的闻名已久了，前段时间浅尝了一下《八方旅人0》，虽然八方这个IP已经出了差不多七年了，但说来惭愧，0是我玩过的第一部八方，也是这段时间得知《歧路/八方旅人》，也就是1代打折以后想着是时候尝尝这部新作了，于是也是玩了一段时间。 对于HD—2D的游戏我已经不是第一次接触了，早在三年前就已经玩过了第一部HD2D的《时空勇士》，再后来也是花了老大力气通关了《幻想水浒传》的精神续作《百英雄传》，对于这类JRPG已经不是很陌生了。 我自己的JRPG其实玩的有蛮多的，但像八方旅人这类纯正的回合制倒还真屈指可数，就在去年我还把《最终幻想》1到6的HD版打了一遍，也正是因为玩了这些JRPG以后，我也从本作里看见了不少老前辈游戏的影子，真的是在用新技术重现经典了。 [h1][quote=] [table] [tr] [th] 欢迎关注 [b][u][i]U_U鉴赏家培养计划[/i][/u][/b][/th] [/tr] [tr] [th] 关注U_U鉴赏家，开启精彩游戏之旅。 [/th] [/tr] [/table] [/quote][/h1] [h2] 八方旅人，各自的冒险 [/h2] 游戏的主角正如游戏名一样，一共8位。《歧路旅人》是一款很容易让人“先被画面吸引，再被系统留住”的角色扮演游戏。初看它时，最抢眼的当然是画面风格，哪怕在HD—2D这个大分类里游戏画面也是极好的，既有老派JRPG的怀旧感，又有现代游戏的层次与质感。 就剧情体验来说，游戏最大的特色不是“宏大主线”，而是“八位主角，各自成章”。每名角色都有独立的人生目标、背景和命运线：有人为了复仇，有人追求真相，有人踏上学术之旅，也有人只是为了寻找财富、自由或自我价值。这种结构的优点很明显。 大家玩的时候随便选哪个角色开局都行，没有任何硬性要求，因为每条故事线都能保持鲜明的个人色彩，人物出发点也很清楚，我们也很容易在短时间内对角色形成印象。与其说这是一部拯救世界的传统史诗，不如说它更像八篇风格不同的旅途小说。 我个人认为，这种分章节的叙事方式很适合《歧路旅人》的气质。它让整个游戏世界看起来更广阔，也更有人味，因为每位角色面对的都不是抽象的灾难，而是非常具体的人生问题：仇恨、信念、阶级、背叛、失落、责任与成长。 尤其是在一些角色的后期章节里，情绪张力是相当到位的，既有戏剧性，也能让人感受到角色一路走来的变化。虽然它的文本不算特别复杂，但胜在表达直接，人物动机清晰，整体完成度很高。 不过，剧情上的短板也同样明显。八位主角虽然同行，却在主线叙事上缺乏足够强的互动，这几乎是所有玩家都会感受到的问题。理论上大家一起冒险，但实际剧情演出时，常常还是明显感觉到每个人其实是单独的剧情，仅作为队友出战时有交集，队友的存在感偏弱。于是很容易让人觉得自己玩到的是八条平行的单人剧本，而不是一个真正彼此交织的群像故事。这种设计虽然并不至于让剧情失色，但确实削弱了队伍同伴之间的情感联结，少了那么一点激情。 [h2] 游戏玩法:回归传统 [/h2] 如果把目光放到玩法上，《歧路旅人》的表现就明显更强了。它最核心的战斗系统就是建立在回合制基础上的破防和增幅机制。敌人都有护盾值和弱点，玩家需要通过观察、试探和针对属性或武器类型来打出Break，一旦成功，敌人会陷入失衡状态，承受更高伤害并失去行动节奏。不复杂，但需要讲究方法。同时也需要根据敌人的数量以及弱点发布考虑使用群体技能或者单体技能 与此同时，角色还能积累BP点数，在关键时机进行增幅攻击、强化技能效果或打出爆发输出。这个系统看似简单，实际玩起来非常讲究节奏感，既要求判断，也强调资源管理。 这套战斗机制最精彩的地方就是把回合制玩出了策略上的主动感。很多传统回合制游戏到了中后期容易变成数值碾压，但本作不会让玩家只靠等级轻松横推，尤其是面对精英怪和BOSS时，什么时候破盾、什么时候存BP、什么时候集中火力，往往比单纯堆伤害更重要。玩家不是机械地放技能，而是在不断思考这一回合先铺垫，还是下一回合一口气爆发，这种战斗思路让整个过程始终保持新鲜感。 职业系统也是游戏非常耐玩的部分。初始八位角色各有固定主职业，定位鲜明，而随着流程推进，玩家还能让角色拥有更灵活的技能搭配与战术空间。比如原本偏输出的角色可以补足辅助能力，擅长支援的人也能转向攻击型配置。职业之间的组合乐趣很强，既能满足喜欢研究Build的玩家，也让队伍养成更有深度。后期当玩家逐渐理解各职业的联动逻辑时，会明显感受到这个系统的设计是有层次的。 探索部分则带有一种很经典的老式JRPG味道。城镇、野外、迷宫、隐藏宝箱、支线任务，再加上每位主角各自拥有的地图指令，共同构成了游戏的探索节奏。我们可以挑战NPC、偷取道具、打听情报、招募随从，这些设计不只是功能差异，也强化了角色本身的个性设定。游戏的遇怪机制是地雷式遇怪，说实话打起来真的和最终幻想1蛮像的，地图迷宫不算复杂，但清怪确实有够麻烦的。 当然，本作的玩法并非没有门槛。部分章节节奏比较慢，练级需求在某些阶段也会稍微明显，尤其是当玩家想同时推进多位角色剧情时，容易感受到队伍养成上的分散感。再加上随机遇敌、部分迷宫设计偏传统，对于喜欢快节奏推进的玩家来说，可能会觉得它有些旧时代，这也是我前面反复讲到的东西。 但换个角度看，这种略带复古的节奏，恰恰也是它风格统一的一部分：它希望玩家慢下来，去感受旅途，而不是只追着剧情节点冲刺。 音乐是本作绝对不能忽略的一环。很多时候，《歧路旅人》的情绪并不是靠台词堆出来的，而是靠场景旋律和战斗配乐一点点推上去。无论是主角个人主题、地图曲，还是BOSS战时的音乐层层推进，都很有记忆点。它和画面一起构成了这部作品最稳定、也最打动人的气质，让游戏即使在剧情连接不够紧密的时候，依然能维持强烈的沉浸感。 [h2] 结语 [/h2] 综合来看，本作虽不是那种剧情完美无缺的神作，它在群像叙事和角色互动上确实留有遗憾，但它依然是一部很有魅力的作品。它用八位主角的旅程拼出一个丰富的世界，用精巧的回合制系统撑起了策略性的战斗体验，再用画面与音乐把整个冒险撑起得更生动。 如果你喜欢老式JRPG，对传统回合制的build与各类搭配感兴趣，也愿意接受这种故事的独特叙事方式，那么游玩《歧路旅人》的过程将会是一段相当值得回味的异世界之旅。

After 6h there is no overarching story, no common goals, no character-motivations to travel together, not even interactions between party members. How did they unlearn the basics of making a compelling RPG? The gameplay itself is fine, but definitely not good enough to solo-carry.

不推荐，不值八方，最多二方 即使是到了这个年代，JRPG那些缺点是一个都不改，空有HD-2D的外表 剧情就是经典的JRPG，大概6+，经典子供向，每个角色的剧情真就完全独立，那组这个队干什么，所谓的剧情交叉点只出现在背景故事里 音乐很不错，可以说支持我玩下去的就是这个音乐了，特别是舞娘的音乐，但是舞娘的剧情真就是何意味，一副做好觉悟的样子，剧情又儿女情长拖拖拉拉，我都无语了 配音那肯定是好啊，全是大牌配音演员 角色设计确实不错，特别是商人，每个副职业都有个小帽子，而且因为这个背包，感觉模型比别的角色大一圈，配音也配的很可爱活泼，别的角色个个苦大仇深，商人的剧情就是酒被抢了，过于欢乐向了，而且手记这个设定太适合做开头和结尾了，只有商人是真出来旅行的，真制作组亲女儿吧 翻译真挺拉的，地图全是音译，就记得一个鹅卵石村，这片假名地狱日本人玩就不难受？ 玩法可太老套了，典中典暗雷，概率高的离谱，平衡做的稀烂，魔法伤害不能闪避，伤害高还一堆群伤，物理系纯坐牢，只有战士后期把属性堆上去才能看，加buff不用bp等于浪费回合数，用bp下回合又不回bp，满bp的buff秘技又一堆限制，属实是烂完了 还有最逆天的切换角色，只能上四个角色，换人还必须去酒馆，用个专属技能要来回跑一趟，看个特殊对话又要跑一趟，拆装备又要跑一趟，经验还不共享，经验和技能点加成buff还给放到大后期，你踏马最终boss要分两个队还敢搞这套，你不知道有的角色只能当挂件吗，RPG Maker小黄油都没这么弱智的 说到最终boss就更气了，十连boss战一个存档都没有，制作组自己玩过游戏吗 还有很多设计简直就是专门为了逃课用的，比如说商人，跟学者放那么近，45级副本也在边上，仿佛就是为了刷钱而设计的，旁边就是一堆商人的大后期城镇，刷完钱直接花，技能还有偷钱，比盗贼还盗贼，角色属性更是中庸，其他角色只有一两个属性比商人高，完美补位，有物理有魔法有恢复有清空debuff，父母那就能直接买下最后几个支线的奖励饰品，还能花钱叫人，最适合速通的角色，甚至符文大师这个职业还是定制的，紧急闪避稍作休息全体生效，完美补位变成完美辅助，物理系boss最严厉的母亲，盗贼舞娘神官猎人药师都多余啊，当然，有其他角色辅助的情况下也能当主攻 成就系统更彰显日厂的垃圾技术，“不虚此行”死都点不亮，收集还一堆可错过要素，不知道的还以为这是世纪初的游戏呢

他者レビューで多くの不評点として挙がっているぶつ切りストーリーはそこまで気にならなかった。 ただ入れ替え前提のゲームで控えメンバーが一切成長しないのはどうにもストレス過ぎてリタイア。 雑魚専がめんどくさいゲームで控え育成とかちょっと無理だったよ…