You told me you expected mid 70s.
MC is showing me a whopping 85 right now.
Edit: 84.
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Octopath Traveler Review Thread
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MC is showing me a whopping 85 right now.
Edit: 84.
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If all the dungeons look the same I feel like the game should have lower scores. Thats just.. dare I say it lazy? If not its a bad game design philosophy for this kind of game. I'm becoming suspicious lol
It's not his opinion of disliking it but his specific criticisms that are concerning. It's hard to put a positive spin on each chapter structure being the same or every dungeon layout being identical or believe that you would interpret it differently.
I see 83 on Opencritic, 85 on Metacritic, with 8/9/10 reviews being the bulk of it, so yeah, those are strong and glowing reviews. Most people really liked the game.
Negative reviews for a generally well received game get more clicks.
Just to make sure, the story of each character doesn't intertwine with each other and there isn't one overall story?
Lol. Kotaku/Jason is the "bad review" and people are jumping out of windows.
You guys realize that it's the same review and it's a single person's opinion, right? I'd read/watch some others before you cancel your preorder and throw your Switch in the garbage.
This game... lol
You guys realize that it's the same review and it's a single person's opinion, right? I'd read/watch some others before you cancel your preorder and throw your Switch in the garbage.
This game... lol
Not necessarily. In my experience each player had their own unique goals that drove them. The party being together is mostly happenstance and the things they face usually furthered only a single persons plot. There were obviously plots they did as a group but it wasnt really the heart of what we did. Octopath seems like its taking the character arcs of each character and making it the focus. The reason they're together is largely inconsequential.
Do you think the "soul-crushing grinding" would make this a good podcast or second screen activity? I definitely can't just grind constantly like the good 'ole days of summer breaks from school, but having something to kind of mindlessly do while watching/listening to something else could be nice.
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Oh screw that. Can't deal with that particular wrinkle of old school JRPGs anymore. Man, what a bummer. Could you potentially mitigate the issue by being super proactive about switching in and out new characters for each story mission?
True, but based on his comments on Era it seems like he just hated the game apart from things like the art and music, while others have small, similar gripes, loved it.
Really glad with the scores, if the gameplay is FUN I don't mind grinding for hours and OT has amazing gameplay/combat. Really hyped for tomorrow.
I mean, considering it sounds like a lot of the other reviewers didnt finish the game, I'll take the opinion of someone who actually finished it with more weight than the others.
Stay excited. Go into it being excited. Don't let other peoples' opinions tarnish your excitement, especially when there are a bunch of other people who have positive things to say about it. If you're interested in it and are excited about it, why would you allow a small number of individuals to revoke you from forming your own opinion?
Like, if everyone was shitting on the game, I understand. But it has an 80+ aggregate score so far. This isn't reason to have your excitement just disappear...
My Special Edition is on the way, will arrive tomorrow, I'm so excited!
I think the structual problems won't bother me. I love everything I've seen so far.
I think the structual problems won't bother me. I love everything I've seen so far.
Nope. I was thoroughly unsold by many factors of the game including navigation system, convoluted battle systems, random-rare blades, voice acting and technical performance. These are observations before and after release.
It's nice that you and others have enjoyed it, but I was able to parse and then snip it out completely through pre-release content and post-release reviews/videos (especially the ones that seemed to skim over all the glaring flaws).
Octopath Traveler is likely going to follow suit. I even played the first demo in this case.
Yeah I don't get it. Jason has tons and tons of experience with JRPGs. His opinion may differ from yours but he's not out writing hit pieces on JRPGs or something. He happened not to like this and XB2. If you don't agree, that's fine, but discounting his opinion from now on because he happened not to enjoy two specific JRPGs is....something.
yall we can talk about all of the reviews without grabbing the pitchforks over jason's review or shitting on his past opinions to come at his credibility on jrpgs or whatever nonsense
no really, that's an actual thing that we can do
no really, that's an actual thing that we can do
Meristation have it a 9.5
http://meristation.as.com/nintendo-switch/octopath-traveler/analisis-juego/2267989
http://meristation.as.com/nintendo-switch/octopath-traveler/analisis-juego/2267989
Every review thread is like this. It's either over the top optimism or world ending pessimism. Sit back and enjoy, it's just another amusing facet of playing video games.
Kotaku doesn't use a scoring system, and I don't think Jason is hurting for clicks.
I respect Jason and his opinions, it's a good review. But that critique about the dungeons is a bit weird. Didn't he really like the dungeons in FFXV? And those also follow that same pattern, like 90% of all JRPG dungeons ever. I can't even remember if there were puzzles in FFXV (don't know if there are any in OT).
Whoa that quote I'm out on that note. I can't grind like that anymore like at all nowadays
I hate when y'all do this Ffxv has nothing to do with this game or his opinion of this game
Well their complaints are my biggest problems with these types of games, so yes it is disappointing I agree. Good combat and a cool aesthetic can only go so far.
It's only a couple of points below that.
If that differential separates great games from soul-crushing disappointments than I dunno.
But..... that's exactly what the majority of the reviewers did.... the things he hates are exactly the things some other reviewers like and say the opposite.
What is it about this reviewer that make you all give him so much credence over the others? It's a personal opinion.
I don't understand at all their decision to make all these stories separate. The key art for the game reveal was all of them hanging out in a tavern, why on earth isn't this the heart of the game? The game still looks cool but I really have to question their vision here. Doing individual stories with one character and 3 ghosts (essentially) doesn't seem fun at all.
Even if the game is good it sounds like a huge wasted opportunity. And I was so hyped on the game too, can't believed how it's been defleted in just a month.
Even if the game is good it sounds like a huge wasted opportunity. And I was so hyped on the game too, can't believed how it's been defleted in just a month.
As a quote this really sells me on the game. The idea of a JRPG that's just kind of a series of happenstance tales is extremely interesting to me.
The dude that hates Xenoblade but loves Ni No Kuni 2 doesn't like this game.
It should be right up my street then.
It should be right up my street then.
I do not know, personally what to have to grind, story that deflates at the end and repetitive dungeons are things that could perfectly apply to Persona 5 and I loved Persona 5.
The worst reviews are from outlets I trust. It's a no brainer why I am worried.
I wish Square Enix was playing 4D chess with us and announced a DLC campaign where all the characters come together to achieve a common goal and interact.
The main character stories are honestly pretty short (45-90 minutes per chapter, several chapters per character) so long as you're the appropriate level, tbh. Grinding takes up a lot of time though, as there's no EXP share between characters who aren't in the current party and each character must be present for their own story beats, when means inevitably you hit a situation where you need somebody to be level 25 for their Chapter 2 and you have to grind them up from Level 10 or whatever.