Leveling is slow, and there are arbitrary levels set on each chapter of each character's story. You end up in these weird double binds: "I need to level Hikari, Throne, and Ochette, but that's a physical dominant party without a good healer or support."
Do you compromise party balance? Do you compromise time, and succumb to grinding levels? Do you compromise the strength of the party, and just accept whittling down a boss for half an hour? Every choice feels wrong
I love the unique spritework that results from all of the job pairings, but functionally speaking there just aren't that many good combinations. "Latent Powers" funnel characters into predefined roles, and those roles aren't served by most of the other jobs (or their stats). When you pair this with the need to shuffle your party constantly, jobs almost feel like artifice. I can put a warrior in cleric's clothes, but it won't change the best actions to use their turn
Less positively: I'm not sure I have it in me to finish this game. I don't actually think the battle and progression systems are balanced well, because I feel so burdened by all of the random encounters and team management.
You have a party of 4, but you need all 8 party members leveled to be able to progress, and 1 of those slots is locked to your starting character. That means you constantly have to fumble & reshuffle combat roles AND gear into only 3 open spots
Dipping back into Octopath Traveler 2, since I have some travel coming up, and I really don't want to end up halfway through a 60-80 hour RPG on a TV console only to abandon it for a week. some scattered thoughts:
+ this soundtrack is unbelievable
+ such a freaking look to this game
+ the "path actions" and the way they are incentivized leads to REALLY cool player stories. I could (might?) write a blog post about the roleplaying mechanics of buying a boat as Partitio
Cowboys & Calculations.
There's no formula for this one, darlin'.
We'll have to write things down as we go.
Octopath Traveller 2 got free dlc yesterday and I hear it is great if you need harder battles, like really hard.
I crawled across the finish, so I am merely awaiting the fanart/fic with glee.
Been banging my head against this boss in #octopath2 for goddamn ages. Going a few levels, try again. Grind a few more levels, try again. Screw it, I’m just gonna try a different quest lol
Going to start Octopath Traveler 2 tonight, finally. Need to disengage for a while. Loved the first one, it was a surprise hit for me. Oh and that soundtrack - so good. I put a couple of hundred hours into the first one, so hopefully this one can distract me for a while.
#Nintendo #Switch #NintendoSwitch #Octopath2 #OctopathTraveler2
just finished hikari chapter 2. impressed with the writing so far. next: fy capitalism #octopath2
Another suggestion for #VGMWednesday
This one is from Octopath Traveler II. Scarlet Folk Song. I didn't want the piece to end when it played in game.
#Octopath2 (the video has mild environmental spoilers so mind the visuals)
Hikari's story now done. Even at level 58, that final boss nearly wrecked me in the last round. So far, the 4 final bosses I've beat were infinitely more memorable than anything in the original game.
#octopath2
Finished Partitio's story last night. While that final boss was awesome, I feel a bit disappointed that there was no suplex joke.
Several months later, I finally finished a story arch in #octopath2 and for some reason it was Agnea's. It was about as good as I expected her story to get. (And even then it was probably better than half the stories in the first game)
I *think* I'm near the end of Octopath 2 and this boss fight is annoying. I hope I can finish it tonight cause I have other plans tomorrow 🤓
#Octopath2 #NintendoSwitch #videogames #RPG
Finished Agnea's story in #Octopath2. Still my least favorite, just couldn't get into the "dancing makes me happy!" storyline. The song during the final battle was cool though 😊
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More Octopath 2 ramblings. Just a small design detail that I appreciate. I love how the music playing during a dialogue scene gradually transitions into the boss theme. #octopath2 #octopathtraveler2 #jrpg #music #bosstheme
I have finished all the Octopath 2 sidequests I could find, except for the one at ???.
More importantly I have all the music. Priorities!
I have run out of side quests in #Octopath2 (that I know of). I have several secret jobs (Osvald ... looks ... AMAZING). Enough stalling.
Tomorrow I need to finish the last 'path (go go Hikari!) and find out what horrors post game delivers.
