Octopath is on sale, should I buy? Is the story pacing good and does it feel lively? I don't want to play something as repetitive as Bravely Default.
I played it for around 40 hours or so and while I loved the artstyle and the soundtrack and I really liked the game, I got bored when I needed to grind again to get a character up a couple of levels to go through with their story. Since I was using the same characters, I always had to grind the character I wanted to go through the story with since I was doing all the characters for each "level". I don't remember if you had to or not (I don't think so), so it might have been my own fault.
I am still glad I played it and I still think it's a good RPG and I don't want to say I will never go back to it, but I remember picking it up to grind a bit more and stop after 2 battles to never pick it up again afterwards.
I never played the Bravely Default/Second games, so I can't compare them, but I know my sister loved Bravely Default. That being said I just can't say Octopath isn't repetitive. It's weird, because I usually don't mind grinding, but I don't like having to grind to progress. I like grinding when I feel like it in games, but since you only level your characters that are in your party and all of them have their own story, it felt to me like I had to do some grinding with some of them. Especially since the battles aren't always easy, especially the boss battles.
It still made a good impression on me though (I still put it in my top 10 of that year irc). I bought it day one for full price as well and I'm still ok that I did, but for some reason I just couldn't go through with that specific part for some reason even though I did enjoy the combat system a lot.
So I guess I'm somewhat torn on the game. I still think it's a good game, it just stopped grabbing my attention for some reason and I'm not 100% sure why.