Players just starting the game won't find any kind of overarching narrative that unites all the heroes together - instead, each of the character's stories are told in discrete segments, with each new chapter building upon the characters and situations from previous chapters.Ĭyrus definitely isn't into the whole brevity thing. Side quests are available through specific non-player characters, and town merchants offer healing items, armor, weapons, accessories, and various other goodies. Of course, being a JRPG, the general tone of the game should be pretty familiar to genre fans: after a hero is chosen, he or she will eventually stumble across new towns with different heroes at various stages of their own adventures. Not only that, heroes can also learn passive abilities that can be equipped no matter which secondary job is chosen, giving players a huge amount of options for party customization.
This means that any hero can make use of the attribute bonuses and skills for any other job class in the game. Each of the game's eight different heroes start with one default job class, but later jobs can be unlocked by finding shrines, allowing players to assign secondary jobs to each hero. Like with the graphics, the gameplay itself too appears simple but with a few modern touches. Octopath Traveler's graphics blend old-school charm with modern-day fidelity. However, the visual style is bolstered by a number of modern effects that blur backgrounds at further distances, make sandy shores glint in the sunlight, and cast dramatic shadows across battle arenas when enemies or characters are struck with weapons or spells. The game functions like just about any other 2D RPG from the Super NES era, where characters are represented by flat sprites and can move around in largely two-dimensional environments. One of the biggest draws to Octopath Traveler is the title's unique "HD-2D" style of graphics.
Octopath Traveler represents the best of just about everything players hope for in throwback JRPG, all neatly bundled together in an attractive package that contains way more content and depth than players might expect from a classically-styled release. Despite developers' best efforts to rejuvenate the traditional JRPG form, nothing seemed to really stick - until now. Through time, that classic JRPG feeling was eventually lost in a flood of new titles touting white-knuckle action and gritty, ultra-realistic graphics. In the mid-to-late 90s, the video game scene was bustling with great Japanese role-playing games offering interesting stories and in-depth combat mechanics. It's not very often that a game like Octopath Traveler comes around.
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