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Octopath Traveler 2 - 20 Minute Gameplay (TGS 2022)
- Thread starter Exentryk
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I was planning to ignore Octopath 2 if it's similar to Octopath 1 with its strength only being in combat and ost, but this seems night and day difference from Octopath 1.
Even if story is still bad, I think I'll enjoy this a lot. My gripe so far is that it looks rather dim even during day time. If it's because of a filter I hope they let us disable it. Triangle Strategy looks brighter and better after disabling the filter.
Even if story is still bad, I think I'll enjoy this a lot. My gripe so far is that it looks rather dim even during day time. If it's because of a filter I hope they let us disable it. Triangle Strategy looks brighter and better after disabling the filter.
So this confirms there's a Double Speed mode you can toggle for battle. Buuuut, the damage numbers show up for way too short of time, which is trash, and a common problem for this type of game speed boost. Bravely and Trails have that same problem.
Overall just looks like the original, but with several times the budget.
You can see that three of the characters appears twice on the world map for their next chapters, and the merchant appears FOUR times. I'd have first assumed that this is because one of them was a Connected Path chapter, but the Merchant has some Gold icons next to his map icons so there's likely some alternative progression method for his campaign, like Armic/Torneko's campaigns in previous multi-protag RPGs. IMO I think my guess in an earlier thread is right and there there's a Town Construction sidequest for him, which is the 3 icons with Gold, while his main chapter is the icon without Gold.
Overall just looks like the original, but with several times the budget.
You can see that three of the characters appears twice on the world map for their next chapters, and the merchant appears FOUR times. I'd have first assumed that this is because one of them was a Connected Path chapter, but the Merchant has some Gold icons next to his map icons so there's likely some alternative progression method for his campaign, like Armic/Torneko's campaigns in previous multi-protag RPGs. IMO I think my guess in an earlier thread is right and there there's a Town Construction sidequest for him, which is the 3 icons with Gold, while his main chapter is the icon without Gold.
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Man, this new music by Yasunori Nishiki. The soundtrack is far and away the thing I'm looking forward to most about OT2.
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Unrelated, but I'm also excited about this upcoming Chrono Trigger-like game
View: https://twitter.com/seaofstarsgame/status/1570774128092925957?s=20&t=9DXm8RqRbBdcA2ddziZQ3g
View: https://twitter.com/seaofstarsgame/status/1570774128092925957?s=20&t=9DXm8RqRbBdcA2ddziZQ3g
So beyond the new game campaign structure that varies by character, we also see an allied character fighting during the Warrior's opening chapter, which is new. You give commands and they have a health bar so they aren't just a simple summon/ally.
They already showed off one of the joint chapters in the previews (A level 8 side chapter with two characters). What do you want, exactly? This is still 8 mostly distinct campaigns, except the previous game's 180 party interaction scenes and 100 side quests have kind of been fused together to give people what they want, but they aren't changing the basic pitch of the game. This is still "SaGa short story campaigns, but you do all 8 distinct campaigns on one save file while using the other characters as your party members".
They already showed off one of the joint chapters in the previews (A level 8 side chapter with two characters). What do you want, exactly? This is still 8 mostly distinct campaigns, except the previous game's 180 party interaction scenes and 100 side quests have kind of been fused together to give people what they want, but they aren't changing the basic pitch of the game. This is still "SaGa short story campaigns, but you do all 8 distinct campaigns on one save file while using the other characters as your party members".