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Octopath Traveler Review Thread
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Yeah. The game is beautiful. But in a genre where you must spend +40 hours beauty is the last feature to pay attention. In a JRPG gameplay and story come first.
everytime I replay DQV, my favourite JRPG ever, I forget that the game has a mandatory 1-2hours long grind to get to lvl 7 or 8 to beat the very first boss
There are three kinds of people who find DQ grindy:
1. only use attack and heal in combat
2. run away from random encounter and become under-leveled
3. want to buy every piece of new equipment in every shop.
Occasionally there are difficulty spikes, but they are rare. You don't grind after every chapter.
No, I think I still would've been extremely aggravated by the repetition. As I wrote in my review, even the bosses are sometimes clones of one another - every single Chapter 2 boss is identical, with two minions that lock off the boss's weaknesses until you defeat them.
When I talk about repetition, I'm not just talking about the dungeon layouts - literally 31 of the 32 chapters are the exact same thing. You go to a town, do some Path Actions, watch some cut-scenes, go into a dungeon, and beat a boss. The routine gets so damn old. Combat being as good as it is makes the game feel like far less of a slog than it could have otherwise, but the repetition is no small thing.
Sure. If you want to be absurdly reductivist about it.
Whats the point of having side paths that don't have a reward at the end? If there's no reward for exploration people aren't going to do it. As other people have stated this is a hallmark of dungeon design from SquareSoft's 16/32-bit output. For a game that's intentionally harkening back to that style of design it would feel weird if the dungeons weren't using similar ideas.
It really annoys me when I'm playing a game and it's structure is so obviously clear that I can almost deconstruct how the game was created. If I know for certain that I'm going to a village, cutscenes will happen which will lead to a dungeon which will lead to outro cutscenes all of my sense of wonder is destroyed. To me magic happens when I have no idea what's coming next and how it will affect the structure of the game.
Do you ever watch a tv show for a while and can get a feel for what the structure of each episode is and then you feel like the story might break that structure but the writers/producers aren't brave enough so they figure out a way to just return to status quo? This annoys me GREATLY and I know some of my friends aren't bothered by either it happening in videogames OR in tv shows.
Bravely Default was TERRIBLE to me in this aspect because each of the 4 kingdoms had independent stories which were standalone and I knew exactly what I was getting into each time, and then I won't talk about the dreaded loop.
If like me you start to think about it all too much the game becomes sort of a like a checklist "Alright let me start this dude's chapter, cutscene, dungeon, end... Alright next" and man this really sucks all the fun out of me.
Do you ever watch a tv show for a while and can get a feel for what the structure of each episode is and then you feel like the story might break that structure but the writers/producers aren't brave enough so they figure out a way to just return to status quo? This annoys me GREATLY and I know some of my friends aren't bothered by either it happening in videogames OR in tv shows.
Bravely Default was TERRIBLE to me in this aspect because each of the 4 kingdoms had independent stories which were standalone and I knew exactly what I was getting into each time, and then I won't talk about the dreaded loop.
If like me you start to think about it all too much the game becomes sort of a like a checklist "Alright let me start this dude's chapter, cutscene, dungeon, end... Alright next" and man this really sucks all the fun out of me.
You usually don't have to grind in RPGs, even older ones (aside from some of the really old ones). People talk about Dragon Quest needing grinding, but that's really not true assuming you aren't trying to speedrun it and are doing more in battles than just hitting attack over and over. I'm figuring that Octopath Traveler probably doesn't really require grinding either, assuming you aren't trying to speed through the game and are using the various elements of the combat system appropriately.
I still don't understand why so people are only giving credence to Jason's review when he is one of many reviewers, all with varied experiences and feelings about the game. Way too much confirmation bias here, when i feel people should make up their own minds. Seems like what i predicted is true of this game. It will be a bit divisive.
I look at all the reviews.
My bummer was more so for him and the game not meeting his expectations. I feel my expectations are pretty tame.
Lol at people not understanding that a 85 metacritic rated game can have deal breakers. Some of you are such fucking aggressive perspection complex that you're the ones making this thread as bad as those with the lame hot takes.
There were many posters like myself that were going to wait to see if the story delivers and comes together. Some reviews mentioned that it doesn't. Then in this thread I see people freaking out and saying shit like, "ERA IS NEVER SATISIFIED", "85 IS GOOD SCORE", etc...
The hot takes here aren't even that bad.
This doesn't compare the Uncharted 4 OT where there was drive by posts that said that Uncharted 4 was a walking sim that had bad gameplay. There were posts calling it a legitimate bad game and over rated, without any explanation.
There were many posters like myself that were going to wait to see if the story delivers and comes together. Some reviews mentioned that it doesn't. Then in this thread I see people freaking out and saying shit like, "ERA IS NEVER SATISIFIED", "85 IS GOOD SCORE", etc...
The hot takes here aren't even that bad.
This doesn't compare the Uncharted 4 OT where there was drive by posts that said that Uncharted 4 was a walking sim that had bad gameplay. There were posts calling it a legitimate bad game and over rated, without any explanation.
I look at all the reviews.
My bummer was more so for him and the game not meeting his expectations. I feel my expectations are pretty tame.
i am sadly in the third category - just to find that the town 25 minutes later has even better equipments
I'm not going to fact check this statement (don't have time atm), but if true that is very awesome to hear.
El Capitan Todd and Octopath Traveler on the same day. Great week to own a Switch.
https://www.gameinformer.com/psa/2018/07/12/wheres-our-octopath-traveler-review
Serious reviewers wait to finish it before reviewing it... oh well.
Serious reviewers wait to finish it before reviewing it... oh well.
Nintendo is publishing OT in every territory except for Japan (Square Enix) so I don't think it will be on other platforms sadly.
I forgot about nier, that's more of an action rpg though, and I wasn't counting expansions
More reviews coming in, Metacritic increased to 85.
Not that you'd know it from reading this thread, though.
Not that you'd know it from reading this thread, though.
I've been yearning for a beautiful, relatively-simple and straightforward grindy-RPG since the Switch came out, and XC2 disappointed me immensely, so I can't wait for this! I've already booked the whole weekend for it lol
You don't need to finish a 60 hour RPG to write an indepth and accurate review of it. That's nonsense.
I see. I personally was a bit bored with the first Ni no Kuni, and its sad that they did even worse with this one. Still nothing stated about the season pass content if i´m not mistaken.
Yeah, I would like some clarification from this guy. What the hell was he talking about?
wtf is this thread, now bringing down other JRPGs to defend a game they haven't played.
Anyway, I've read enough reviews. I usually agree with Schreier's review as he also likes Suikoden.
But I think the game has enough good going for it so I'll probably get the game if I can snag one on the cheap.
Anyway, I've read enough reviews. I usually agree with Schreier's review as he also likes Suikoden.
But I think the game has enough good going for it so I'll probably get the game if I can snag one on the cheap.
Care to actually write something to counteract my point than just post this lazy shit please?
My bafflement extended to angry defender reactions as well.
The overall level of drama here is indistinguishable from an instance where a highly anticipated exlusive game has scored a good ten points below what this has done.
They will lose a number of clicks because of that. Mad respect to them.
The complaints I see most (the story and grinding) are actually something I either don't care about or actually enjoy.
Overall it seems the game is getting pretty decent to good reviews with some negative outliers which is to be expected with this game.
If it wasn't for the fact that I was limited to 3 hours....I would have wanted to grind and just make My 3 characters I got to Haanit, Therion and Alfyn as strong as possible...I actually love grinding...
Overall it seems the game is getting pretty decent to good reviews with some negative outliers which is to be expected with this game.
If it wasn't for the fact that I was limited to 3 hours....I would have wanted to grind and just make My 3 characters I got to Haanit, Therion and Alfyn as strong as possible...I actually love grinding...
I loved it (although it was like 10 hours longer than it should've been and it lost a lot of momentum in the final act).
I don't spend enough time here to understand something. Why are there three different threads for Octopath Traveler? For the last week I have been reading and posting in the preview thread. Now there is a review thread and an "OT" thread. Would you kindly explain to me what is the purpose?
yeah I got some Captain Toad vibes from the demo in that regard which was not something I expected
Yeah, I was bored with the first NNK too, but at least the game has more special moments and a better story and OST than the second one. And you're right, I have the season pass (it was included with my edition of the game) and I don't know if will even play the new content, I finished the game during a free week but I didn't bother to do ANY of the endgame content. I'm sure they will add something to the empty map zones, maybe a new story chapter. If they do this, this will be a clear example of DLC created from cut content in the main game.
