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New Octopath Traveler Demo June 14th. Progress transfers.
- Thread starter Comfortable
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I just noticed that yesterday, I have mine on lock at Best Buy and saw they've removed the listing entirely. I guess the demo did its job...?
The art style is so beautiful, too damn bad about the insane difficulty level which will never make me want to play this game
In the demo? It might be different for every character (I played the scholar and the merchant), but I never encountered any difficulty problems. Where did you have problems?
This is interesting comment I am not very good at say a Dark Souls type game but this game I haven't had any issues with the difficulty.
What character did you pick? I played Cyrus and never had an issue.
if you're having early troubles, don't forget to spend you're starting cash on some better equipment.
I have been playing Olberic in the demo and thus far its been quite easy / borderline boring.
Wait wait what?!
Who did you play as? Could you go over some of the stuff you were having trouble with?
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Talk to us! We can help you dude! This is my first really traditional turn based JRPG (well apart from Final Fantasy 10) and I haven't hit a difficulty wall yet. Then again I've played a lot of RPGs and am quite familiar with these sorts of mechanics so maybe it came more naturally to me. Very happy to give you some tips though - who did you start as and what's your normal strategy?
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It's my first JRPG since FFX, and the only issue (if it can even be called that) was having to use quite a lot of healing items against Olberic's boss. Is that the norm?
I've had to break out healing items for pretty much every boss I've fought, yes. Honestly, I like it. I'm the type of person who hoards items and never uses them. I've found that Octopath both showers me with healing a boost items, and also demands that I use them generously when needed. That seems like a pretty good balance to me! Kind of in the same way that SMT / Persona games actually force you to use buff / debuff spells for bosses, when typically, those types of spells just go to waste.
After you get your party set up you should be able to heal via magic.
Other tips
make sure you go to shops and upgrade your gear
defend some turns if you are taking too much damage.
Defending is a good idea when you are working up points to spend
Olberic is pretty much a pure bruiser/tank so him going first does end up on you munching healing items everyone was this way in their first chapter really
If a boss is about to do a big attack break them if you can't make sure you are blocking
A little over two weeks. Friday release.
People have chimed in on this already, but I suspect the game will be remembered as too easy, not too hard. There's just so, so much freedom in terms of being able to get higher level gear early, thanks to the Path skills and simple exploration, that there's not a whole lot keeping the players from getting stuff several "tiers" ahead of the curve.
I saw somebody on twitch do some absolutely insane damage with Tressa's Hired Help skill.
Yeah, there's
- Tons of ways to get gold with various Path skills to get money to pay for the top-tiered Hired Help.
- Primrose being able to randomly summon a giant boss to punch to enemies with her crazy RNG skill.
- 100x JP or 100x EXP in the list of things that Primrose can randomly get.
- Caits (Metal Slimes, essentially) early on.
- Save scum Therion's stealing to grab great shit.
- Sell Therion's grabbings to fuel other habits.
- Multiple higher-tiered dungeons with good loot even on the small, low-level loop around the sea that connects towns.
- Save scum Primrose's seduction to get really powerful stuff early on.
- Who knows what else!
I'm so ready for this game! I've played the hell out of the demo and i'm ready for the full thing
Have we finally decided whether this demo is a legit take at the real game? Or are some things blocked off in the demo that we suspect would otherwise be available in the full game? It's what's holding me back from starting the demo. Thanks.
That might be purely for demo purposes just to give you an idea of how things work.
I'm sure they would have thought things like that through given the development time and talent behind the game.
There's no widely accepted solution to open-world game balance. No matter what approach they've taken, there's going to be complaints.
It's a legit take at the real game at least for chapter 1. Im not sure if you can do any of the sidequest *though you can start them* and paths that lead to later game areas are blocked off
There was only one area that the demo didn't allow me to proceed, saying it wasn't available in the demo. But it was some high needed level area
Thanks! I think I'll just hold off. Not too much longer.
Japanese web site updated.
http://www.jp.square-enix.com/octopathtraveler/
And a music player at the top.
My goodness, this could be the GOAT soundtrack for videogames.
http://www.jp.square-enix.com/octopathtraveler/
And a music player at the top.
My goodness, this could be the GOAT soundtrack for videogames.
Nice catch! There are quite a few tracks in the player. Definitely a phenomenal soundtrack; they totally nailed the tone they were going for.
Most of the soundtrack has been ripped and uploaded. Truly excellent OST from top-to-bottom.
Personal favorites:
Battle Musics:
Battle 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltBUkS9-d5E
Stronger Boss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUXtZW00CGQ
Boss 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMrWTqGdp_o
Character Story Boss?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc5L_woyGY8
City & Zone Musics:
Flamesgrace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tIr6Mg7yNQ
Grandport, City of Commerce (2nd or 3rd Coastland city): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L8vXu9C-PY
Frostlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsHluLJlRMM
Flatlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl-krdW5s_s
Awesome, thanks for the tips/feedback guys!
What's the consensus on the quality of the demo/game so far? Interesting to navigate? Engaging and non-repetitive battle system?
The battle system is... fine, but it's difficult to gauge in the demo since it only encompasses the characters' starting areas, and those areas are specifically designed/balanced around having a single character in the party, so enemies are usually weak to that character's specific abilities and weapon set. So it's difficult to see how the game will feel once you have a full party and are in an area that isn't really designed with one character's abilities in mind.
There are some more difficult areas you can go to in the demo. Some mobs in those places can easily kill you if you're not prepared.
Music is superb, and I really like the combat. Not a fan of the aggressive bokeh. I really wish that could be adjusted. Text size in handheld mode is also a bit smaller than I would like. Anyway, still not sure if this will be a day one purchase, but it's now a stronger blip on my radar (it wasn't really before).
I love this so much (I really mean it), Jrpg's are my favorite thing ever july 13th can't come fast enough.
Everyone has their uses. Cyrus is good if you want lower encounter rate and finding enemy weaknesses every fight. Therion is good for stealing in battles and in towns to get potentially strong equipment early. Others are good too. Just try out the demo and see what you like.
Best girl is H'aanit. I think a lot of people like Primrose for hey special? Idk, I've only played with H'aanit and Ophelia in the demo.
I've read that I can only play the demo for 3 hours tho.. Is it enough to try out all 8 characters ?
You can keep restarting the demo as many times as you like. So you can try all 8 if you wish. Just overwrite your save files as necessary.