OCTOPATH TRAVELER™

太无聊了，这八个角色微信摇一摇认识的，根本不认识，也没有任何互动，剧情也无聊，套路还都一样，同样的ppt看8遍，好玩在哪里？

I liked this game. Loved the art style and the music and the surprisingly mature stories for each traveler. I was expecting their stories to all come together much more than actually happens. This title will really try your patience with the lack of direction. I have plenty of time to spend playing video games but come on, the way side quests work just wastes your time for no good reason. Have fun talking to every single NPC on every map. Collection achievements but no in game tracking? You can't even tell if you've been in a dungeon already or not. Having the true ending be an extremely difficult secret super boss behind an eight miniboss gauntlet with no save point wastes your time for no good reason. What's that? You thought you could use your team setup you've grown accustomed to during the entire game? LOL, no, you have to go back and grind your B team up in level and give everyone the min/maxed jobs and gear. Absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Let me rebind keys how I want. I really hope they adjusted some of this stuff in the second and third games.

好玩是好玩，但是感觉8个人没有太多的联系

The final super boss is a piece of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. You spend an hour fighting a set of eight fodder garbage bosses before you even get the chance to attempt the real fight, start the first phase which takes forever to kill, and then get instawiped in the second phase before you get the chance to attack. It wouldn't be so bad, but they decided not to put a save before the fight so you get to redo all the boring trash again. Square Enix, don't do more super bosses. They ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ suck. 3/10 Game gets one point for the music and one point for the artstyle.

很好

this game is very good and i loved every moment. even characters i thought i wouldn't like, the story for each of them was just amazing.

Octopath Traveler review Preface When Octopath Traveler came out in 2018 it felt like a breath of fresh air. JRPGs have come a long way since the 90s. But that's not necessarily always a good thing. While more complex stories, more cinematic experiences, and more action elements can be enticing. The nostalgic simplicity of well-designed turn-based combat seemed to have been largely tossed to the wayside during the 7th console generation. This game is exactly what I wanted and needed in 2018. However, there were flaws with the game back then, as well as more I have found retrospectively. The good It would be wrong to begin this section with anything but the music. Yasunori Nishiki did an unfathomably good job directing the music. So much emotion is conveyed that it's honestly unreal. Conviction, depression, wonder, relaxation, and everything in between. No tutorials are needed for combat; all the puzzle pieces are put in front of you, and it's up to you to put them together in whatever way you find most effective. No confusing link attacks, skill trees, or combos. Just equipment, skills, and jobs. Simplicity is this game's strength; however, don't mistake ease of access for shallowness. There are game-breaking combinations that will annihilate everything besides the game's super boss. It's extraordinarily rewarding to find absurdly powerful combos and then absolutely thrash enemies with them. The HD-2D art style is absolutely gorgeous. Dynamic lighting effects, shadows, bloom, and reflections; 3D assets like water and fire give life to this world. For fans of retro games, it's worth trying one of these HD-2D games just to experience the visuals alone. The bad At release, this game had 2 major criticisms. The first is that the characters hardly interact; every character's story is very separate from one another, despite these 8 characters supposedly traveling together. Ludo-narrative dissonance comes into play often. One example is when you see Ophilia thrown in jail by common villagers in a cutscene. When the gameplay starts again, you see your whole overpowered party is also in jail with her. Characters talk to antagonists in cutscenes as if they have no allies near. Then combat starts, and your whole party is there as if waiting to be called on. It feels video gamey in all the worst ways and really hurts immersion. The second flaw everyone jumped on is that the stories are mediocre. While I do enjoy a simple and straightforward narrative. These 8 tales all have a very clear setup that basically spoils their endings. There are no curveballs or plot twists here. The characters are also serviceable at best. My favorite is H'annit for her Shakespearean parlance and her competent, cool, stoic, and demure demeanor. But this is only personal preference, and in my heart of hearts I know all these characters are, unfortunately, mid. My final gripe is as a completionist. This game requires an Excel spreadsheet to 100%. I'll leave it at that. How Octopath 2 affected my view of this game Square Enix invested significant effort to create the HD-2D architecture, which allows games like Octopath 1 and Triangle Strategy to look as good as they do. I believe this negatively affected the development of Octopath 1. When you have already invested heavy resources into a new project's foundation, it becomes increasingly likely that what you build afterwards will not be allowed the extra time for polish. This happened to another of my favorite franchises, Shantae: Half-Genie Hero. They spent tons of time and money on a new, pretty engine. When that was finally finished the game ended up rushed, and it shows. But what exactly is my evidence? Only the fact that there is basically NOTHING that Octopath 1 does better than Octopath 2. 2's worst story is better than 1's best. 2's music somehow improves upon the perfection of the first game. Every character is deeper and more fleshed out. All the sprite work is more complex with more animation and more detail. Quests are better. The final quest that ties the 8 stories together is infinitely better. 1's best character is worse than 2's worst character. More item diversity adds more depth to the game. Many mechanics present in 1 were revamped or improved in 2, specifically the hunter, apothecary, and warrior classes. 2 has Freeform chapters that don't follow 1's mold of story-dungeon-bossfight. As if all this wasn't enough, there are many dozens of quality-of-life changes that make the game a far more enjoyable experience, such as auto-advance text, combat speed-up x2, and the side quest journal. The only thing I think 1 does better than 2 is how you are forced to only use 1 character in all of the 8 first chapters in Octo 2. It turns the early game into a bit of a slog. In Conclusion Octopath 1 is a good game that has been overshadowed by the absolute masterpiece that is its sequel. While I do recommend this game. I would tell anyone to play Octopath 2 before 1. It's technically a prequel anyways.

Good game even if I was trolled by the secret boss. Remember you need ALL your party members to be decently leveled before doing the last boss. Got lazy since I lost so much progress. Main issue is the lack of QOL. Quests/PurpleChests/Scrutinize a lot of small, but really annoying things. I wanted to go for 100%, but it was just annoying. Definitely still worth playing despite all that.

[h2]An incredible JRPG that excels through flexible progression, a masterful iteration of a Final Fantasy-esque job system, and fantastic combat mechanics. While its story and writing can be a bit lukewarm at times, it offers an amazing adventure and thoroughly challenging bosses.[/h2] [h3]Story and Setting[/h3] Octopath Traveler features a very unique story structure. Unlike most JRPGs, players choose one of eight titular Travelers to begin their adventure and can recruit the others in any order that they wish (or not at all). Each of the characters features four unique chapters to their own unique story before all culminate in a single postgame finale. This story structure is a bit reminiscent of SaGa games and supports the general open structure of being able to tackle any story in the order that they wish, be that focusing on a single character to their conclusion or each simultaneously, though a byproduct is that each chapter feels a bit formulaic in the sense that they are all following the same build-up: Gathering information about the character’s current goal in a town, entering a dungeon, and defeating the chapter boss. This can be a bit tiresome, and each is short enough that it can be difficult at times to stay immersed in that specific story. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3755099931 Another aspect is that, of course, each character can be a bit hit or miss depending on whether the player is specifically interested in that story arc, as there are only hints of the overarching threat to the world until the very end of the game. For instance, I strongly enjoyed Primrose’s story, whom I happened to choose as my starting character but who has comparatively little involvement within the greater scheme than, for example, Cyrus. Primrose’s story is personal: it is one of personal growth through a thoroughly miserable life culminating in a question of whether revenge is truly worth it, whereas Cyrus’ story leads him into uncovering extremely strong hints and connections to the true final boss of the game. This can make OT a bit of a slog for long stretches at a time and invites some story skipping of segments the player may not be interested in to the detriment of story cohesion. The overall quality of each character’s writing is also hampered by the comparatively short chapters, which simply do not allow any single one to develop in a way that other JRPGs would allow. Another venue of character development is party banter, occasional prompts for very brief conversations between characters that are currently in your party. Regrettably, mechanics like these are either very involved and typically tie into deeper systems, for example, Fire Emblem’s Support systems, or are woefully undercooked with only barely offering some flavorful dialogue during otherwise dry gameplay sections, and OT firmly falls into the latter category. Overall what remains is a somewhat formulaic JRPG story, tackling interesting themes with solid character concepts but also stumbling constantly along the way. My enjoyment of the story stood and fell solely on whether I felt invested in the core themes of each character, but I ended up missing a feeling of party cohesion and didn’t feel invested in the True Ending story once I unlocked it because of a lack of proper build-up. This fundamentally means that OT is a game with very high highs superceded by equally low lows, with its story strongly tied to whether you are also invested in its gameplay systems to actively want to challenge yourself after the conclusion of each character arc. [h3]Gameplay[/h3] OT is a job- and turn-based JRPG, meaning that each character comes with a base “class” they are locked into. For example, Primrose is locked to the Dancer, a support role, as per her backstory, and then unlocks the ability to choose a secondary job as the game progresses, which you can freely assign. This is a system that is directly tied to Final Fantasy, from which Octopath Traveler takes a lot of inspiration, and which I am a great fan of, as it allows for incredibly in-depth character and team-building. This also ties into character progression. You do not only earn EXP per battle but also JP (“Job Points”), which allow you to unlock active and passive abilities that can then be freely slotted per character. The fact that characters are locked to a main job felt actually very beneficial to the overall feeling of party progression, as it made me think more deeply as to which job synergizes best with the character I had in mind: do I move Primrose deeper into her support role by giving her another buff/debuff job, or maybe use her as a primary healer, for instance? On top of the job system, there are also both Path actions and Boost Mode to consider. Path actions are social abilities unique to each character. Taking Primrose as another example, she comes with the ability "Allure", which lets her attempt to recruit NPCs in town. Either to solve quests or to use them as Summons during combat. Tressa, your Merchant, comes with the ability to access any NPC’s inventory to buy personalized items from them. And Olberic, your Warrior, can challenge NPCs to combat to unlock guarded houses. This means that you want to also diversify your active party for exploratory gameplay rather than just combat effectiveness. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3753947343 Boost Mode, on the other hand, felt similar to Bravely Default’s titular Brave and Default mechanics, wherein each character has an extra resource available to them that they gain once per turn and which allows them to buff their abilities to a maximum of +4 for strong effects and which can turn the tide of the battle immediately. This is all incredibly well-designed and is near the top of my favorite combat systems in this sphere of Final Fantasy-adjacent titles. However, OT also struggles a bit with balancing itself decently well. The game is insanely grindy and has some notorious difficulty spikes that will inevitably feel a bit frustrating as you progress. In addition to this, the game’s True Ending is, as mentioned, locked to a notoriously difficult postgame boss, which is also a choice that can lead to a bit of a sour experience, both in terms of gameplay due to the rather high difficulty and narratively, as the game’s ending is very abrupt and disappointing if you don’t pursue the True Ending. [h3]Graphics and Sound[/h3] OT kickstarted the trend of HD-2D Square Enix games, attempting to emulate retro graphics of the early Final Fantasy era (specifically I through VI) while evolving its graphical presentation through incredible spritework and graphical depth. I am personally a huge fan of this style, and it absolutely does manage to capture this very nostalgic feeling while also impressing with detail, especially when it comes to environments and boss designs. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3754414049 The soundtrack is also among the best I have heard from Square Enix, as should be expected. From combat tracks like [i]They Who Govern Reason[/i] to environmental music such as [i]Victors Hollow, Jewel of the Forest[/i], OT is consistently a joy to listen to. [h3]Final Thoughts[/h3] Octopath Traveler is a fantastic experience. While its story cannot keep up with most other contemporary Square Enix RPGs, it is nevertheless a refreshing way to present a more traditional JRPG adventure. And even if the overall title may not wow you in the same way that XVI or Bravely Default may, OT will still feature stories that resonate with you and that manage to keep you engaged throughout its runtime. The selling point, however, is the combat, is the depth of its progression systems, and is the challenge even if you are already familiar with other titles in the genre.

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