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[quote]Eight travelers. Eight adventures. Eight roles to play. Embark on an epic journey across the vast and wondrous world of Orsterra and discover the captivating stories of each of the eight travelers[/quote]
Octopath Traveler is such an awesome game! I love all eight characters and the world and music are simply fabulous! Previously a Switch exclusive, it's coming to Steam on June 7, 2019! (steam price unknown) so I hope many more people will get to enjoy this game!My personal favorite character:
Therion ~ Thief

Have it on Switch, 6.5/10 genre entry.

But Steam's jrpg selection is dire so I guess good news for PC-only jrpg fans.

May have to search up some gameplay videos on it.

I still need to play this. (Yes, I still remember I said I'd get it soon xD )

I liked the concept when I heard each character had a different ability, and loved the throwback to pixel art.

Need more suggestion and recommendation threads like this, just dedicated to the specific games, in order to discuss them easier and answer questions on them.

Played the demo on the switch, slightly underwhelmed by the game. Some nice retro throwbacks, bit ultimately decided it wasn't a must purchase for me. Certainly not at full console price. I might look again next time it is on sale

Lloydiboy wrote:Played the demo on the switch, slightly underwhelmed by the game. Some nice retro throwbacks, bit ultimately decided it wasn't a must purchase for me. Certainly not at full console price. I might look again next time it is on sale

What underwhelmed you?

I'm not sure, I guess I just wasn't feeling it, and there had been a fair amount of hype. And the name, what's with the name!

Lloydiboy wrote:I'm not sure, I guess I just wasn't feeling it, and there had been a fair amount of hype. And the name, what's with the name!

Maybe you could try the demo again and see if you like it more now? Maybe choose a different person to start with?

well....8 travelers....8 paths. 8 = Oct.
Octopath Traveler!
also:
Ophelia
Cyrus
Tressa
Olberic
Primrose
Alfyn
Therion
H'aanit

I should probably get round to finishing it at some point

Avios Estaria wrote:I should probably get round to finishing it at some point

Technically......I haven't finished it yet....since the true final boss stuff is sooooooooooo time consuming :/ and once you start, you can't save.

Usagi wrote:Maybe you could try the demo again and see if you like it more now? Maybe choose a different person to start with?

well....8 travelers....8 paths. 8 = Oct.
Octopath Traveler!
also:
Ophelia
Cyrus
Tressa
Olberic
Primrose
Alfyn
Therion
H'aanit

I understand the significance of the name, just think its terrible! Also I'm sure it was only meant to be a placeholder title whilst the game was in development.

It's a shame as I loved the Bravely titles.
I'm sure I will break out the demo again at some point and end up buying it eventually!

H'aanit with soldier sub class. Show me better weapon coverage on a single person. You can't.

Coding wrote:H'aanit with soldier sub class. Show me better weapon coverage on a single person. You can't.

This statement is funny cause you CAN! Won't go into details cause spoilers but you can get fantastic weapon coverage on ANY of the 8 characters.

Lloydiboy wrote:I understand the significance of the name, just think its terrible! Also I'm sure it was only meant to be a placeholder title whilst the game was in development.

It's a shame as I loved the Bravely titles.
I'm sure I will break out the demo again at some point and end up buying it eventually!

It doesn't get any better as it goes on. It's a stylized but otherwise highly generic JRPG.

It would have been better if they had bothered writing actual interesting interactions between the 8 main characters, but instead all you do is pick one, help the other 7 with fetch quests or other bog standard RPG busy work to recruit them, and then they're pretty much just in your party as a generic member. Then you grind through the game advancing each of the 8 generally uninteresting, uninspired stories, each time with the 7 characters who aren't having their arcs advanced at the time just tagging along as silent observers.

It's 8 boring stories mashed into one game as though it were some sort of interesting gimmick, except they forgot to actually add a gimmick.

It's kinda like playing 8 budget Kemco games at once.