Each of these chapters recommends level 45. This was a lot of fun and I pretty much just went and discovered all of the shrines before even continuing the story progression.Ĭhapter 4 for each character is where I started falling off again. I also started discovering job shrines, which let you assign a second job to each character, increasing the variety of things you can accomplish in battle. Chapters 2 and 3 for each of your characters continue their story and there is an implied order for you to run through by giving you a recommended level for each story point. The story did ramp up for me after these introductions. In a lot of cases, I arrived at the end of a cave just to turn around and head to a town instead. I would try to spice things up in between these sections by exploring the random caves that you could come across, but a lot of those areas aren’t able to be completed because you must be engaged in a side story with other NPCs for many of them. You progress by traveling to a town, start characters story, go through story elements and cut scenes, get sent to side area with monsters/treasure, kill boss then complete chapter with a small epilogue. I think that the core narrative for each character is unique enough, but executing those stories into gameplay end up becoming the same thing. One of the main reasons for this is lack of variety in each of the characters chapters. It’s strange because this didn’t bother me at first, but became noticeable towards the fifth or sixth story. The problem that you run into is that you essentially are playing through the beginning chapter of a traditional RPG eight times before things get ramped up.
OCTOPATH TRAVELER OST FOR KNOWLEDGE FULL
This character essentially becomes your main character, and you can’t remove them from the party until you complete their full story.įrom this first character, you are free to travel the world and acquire the other seven characters. You pick one of the eight characters to start with. The game is structured in a very particular way. I think that this is where I and many others eventually had a hard time. Alfyn the Apothecary seeks to travel the world to help people and expand on his knowledge, Olberic the Warrior broods over revenge, purpose and understanding, Ophilia the Cleric takes on her sister’s pilgrimage once their father becomes ill and so on. This means that each of the eight characters in the game have their own singular story to play out. Instead of having this grand ‘save-the-world’ narrative interweaved throughout your main party’s adventure, Octopath handles things on an individual level. The game name itself, Octopath Traveler, gives you the hint that you have eight main characters to travel the world with, nothing extraordinary in the RPG realm. We’ve already jumped off the rails of traditional RPG storytelling right at the start of the game. I actually tried to resist purchasing this one but eventually succumbed to the pull of wanting to play a new RPG. Developed by Square-Enix and published by Nintendo, it’s one of those combinations that should at least grab your attention if you’re a fan of gaming and RPGs. Octopath Traveler is a new JRPG released exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
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