In the faraway land of Orsterra, eight travelers venture forth.
Step into their shoes and explore their realm as you see fit.
Eight brave souls, each with a unique talent. Eight lands, eight stories to be told.
So tell me, friend... what path will you tread? Embark on an adventure all your own.
Developer: Square Enix, Acquire
Publisher: Square Enix (JP), Nintendo (Others)
Language: English, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Italian (Text) | English, Japanese (Voice)
Play mode: Handheld, Tabletop, Docked
Price: USD59.99 | GBP 49.99 | EUR59.99? | JPY7,344 | AUD89.95 | CND 79.99
Required Space: 3.0GB
Number of Players: 1
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 13/7/2018
A soft-spoken cleric, Ophilia devoutly serves her faith alongside her foster family. When tragedy strikes, she takes up the torch to embark on a pilgrimage that will rekindle light across the realm.
With her path action guide, she can take people along with her and lead them to where they're needed most. She can also summon them in battle as a helper.
Driven from his post at the Royal Academy, Cyrus takes a sabbatical to seek out the answer to a 15-year-old mystery. As a true scholar, he won't rest until he solves this puzzle…and finds a lost tome stolen from the archives.
Scrutinize enables Cyrus to gain insight into people, pick up clues, or even gather secrets and evidence to solve mysteries.
Ambitious beyond her years, Tressa leaves the family business behind to broaden her horizons. With an anonymous journal as her guide, she finds that the world is full of more perils and wonders than she could have dreamed.
As a merchant, Tressa can purchase goods from people all over the realm, sometimes even items that you cannot find in shops.
An erstwhile knight of a fallen kingdom, Olberic hides away in a humble mountain village until a chance encounter sends him after the former comrade turned traitor who slew his liege...Will he rediscover a reason to swing his blade?
Having a warrior blood makes Olberic eager to challenge nearly anyone to a duel.
Primrose's wits and wary nature have kept her alive through the worst of times. After a decade of watching and waiting, she seizes the opportunity to exact revenge against those who slew her father…men who bear the mark of the crow.
If necessary, she can allure others into following wherever she leads, including into battle.
Alfyn is a talented but untested apothecary who strives to make his departed mother proud. Seeking to carry on the legacy of the anonymous traveler who once saved his life, he sets out to ease the suffering of those in need—and not just the ones who can pay.
In order to gain in-depth info and tips, Alfyn can inquire people while conversing with them.
The exploits of this cocky and cynical master thief are told far and wide, though few have seen Therion's face. After a chance meeting during one of his capers, he finds himself tasked with retrieving priceless heirlooms...an offer he can't refuse.
Having such thieving skills, Therion can pilfer items from random people ranging from common items to rare items.
The coolheaded H'aanit is on the prowl with her snow leopard companion to track down her master, who went missing pursuing a terrible fiend. But the trail's a year old, so she'll need to hunt down leads from his acquaintances before it goes stone-cold.
Using beasts that she tamed beforehand, H'aanit can provoke others into combat that is useful for certain situations such as chasing off troublemakers.
Boost System
The Boost system adds a new level of strategy to the game's traditional turn-based battles. As you and your party fight, you'll accumulate one Boost Point per turn up to a maximum of five. You can then use your points to enhance a character's actions either making it stronger or having a chain attack.
Break System
All enemies have at least one vulnerability — a weapon type or element — that can be discovered during battle. By exploiting these weaknesses, you can reduce their Shield Points down to zero causing them to enter Break state. In this state, they are vulnerable and can't attack. Hit them hard while they're down!
Talents
Along with their primary job skills, each traveler has a unique Talent: additional abilities that can aid you in battle or on the road. Some can offer support by revealing enemy weaknesses, while others can summon additional fighters to aid the party.
Job System
Your characters start with a primary job, but that doesn't mean they can't learn another! You can customize your characters by giving them secondary jobs once you obtain them at special shrines across Orsterra. Mix and match jobs to form the perfect party! Do note that you cannot have multiple characters with same secondary job at same time.
Abilities
Do well in battle and you'll earn Job Points, which you can spend to unlock new active skills for each character in any order. Start with basic moves that you'll be able to use frequently or go straight for the seriously powerful (but more draining) stuff. As you unlock skills, the required Job Points to unlock new ones increase. There's also support skills that you can unlock, which depend on how many active skills that has been unlocked. You can build your characters to suit your play style!
The continent of Orsterra is vast and stretches across many lands, from lush forests to desert outposts and snow-swept cathedrals. Each traveler starts in a different land, so you can steer your own journey across Orsterra based on who you choose to play as. After clearing the first chapter of your choosen traveler's story, you are free to explore Orsterra as you like.
Side Story
While exploring Orsterra, you might encounter some unlucky person in need of your help. Help them by utilizing the path actions available in your party and you'll be rewarded.
Each character has his or her own unique character commands called path action that can be used to interact with the people they encounter in a distinct way. Utilize those, and you can turn any situations in your favour.
Noble & Rogue
Each path action can be categorized into 2 categories, which is noble & rogue. The difference between the two is the requirement to use the action. For characters with noble path action, you must meet the required level and/or money.
Meanwhile, rogue path actions don't have this kind of limitation, but instead they are percentage based and each failure will cause the character reputation among the townsfolk suffers. If the reputation suffered to a certain degree, you cannot use the path action at that town. This reputation can be easily recovered through some means...
Does this game worth $60? Isn't it too pricy?
Worthiness of a product is a subjective matter. I'm not the best guy to answer this. Try checking the reviews for this game and construct a conclusion suitable for you.
Actually, you should buy this so that Bravely Third can be funded/greenlighted ;)
Up to 4 characters. You can freely change them at the local tavern, except the one you started with until you beat his/her main story.
Does inactive characters that isn't in current party gain exp/jp?
No.
Do you need to do multiple playthrough in order to experience every characters' story?
No. All 8 character stories can be done in a single save file.
6 languages? But according to eShop listing, it only have 3 languages.
NA eShop page listing is wrong.
Is there any big overarching plot?
No idea. Probably some reviews mentioned something about this.
Is there any adjustable slider such as encounter rate slider like in Bravely series?
Sadly no.
This game's soundtrack is good. Is there OST release by Square Enix?
Yes. For physical, you can import it from any site that ships oversea like Amazon JP. For digital, it might be sold on digital store such as itunes.
Any character interactions?
As far as I know, interaction exist via travel banter. This feature is a bit like Tales of series skits.
Is there post-battle bonus like in Bravely series?
Yes. Untouched Bonus (no damage) for money, Break Bonus (enemy enters break) for exp, Domination Bonus (one turn kill) for jp
About grinding...
Don't worry too much. Pretty sure the community all over the internet will figure out the fastest way to level up your characters.
E3 2018 Character Trailer
April 2018 Update
May 2018 Update
Nintendo Direct September 2017
March 2018 Update
Player Feedback & Developer Update
Behind the Music
Switch Presentation Trailer 2017
I'm out of idea for this section. Just treat this as free space.
*I'll probably update the q&a section as I go through the game. Feel free to suggest some as well. Oh, feel free to correct me in case I made a mistake somewhere in this OT.
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