Choose the path you wish to walk and discover what lies beyond the horizon. Sore Boost Points each turn and spend them at strategic times to strengthn abilities, chain attacks, or provide aid. Discover enemy weaknesses and target them to break through their defenses. The Dancer's alluring charm leads followers into battle, whereas the Apothecary can mix items to heal allies or unleash explosive attacks. Use each character's special abilities to interact with the world and enhance your tactics in turn-based battles. Step into the shoes of a traveler to inherit their struggles and strengths. Will you expand your horizons as the Merchant or track down a traitor as the Warrior? Where will you go? Who will join you? You alone can choose your path. Explore each traveler's story and use their abilities in and out of battle. Eight roles to play in a new world brought to life by Square Enix. Will you expand your horizons as the Merchant or track down a traitor as the Warrior? Where will you go? Who will Eight travelers. It is not a near perfect old school RPG game like Shin Megami Tensei IV or Persona 5, but this is a worthy purchase for fans of classic RPGs or new fans interested in a classic style RPG. This is a wonderful game, a lot of fun, very artistic and challenging. You have the option to skip through story sc enes, so on replay it is much quicker.Īlso I really prefer the original Japanese voices - and thankfully there is an option to use the Japanese with subtitles. Boss battles can be long and require strategy. Unlike Bravely Default (with a battle system that started out fun and then became tedious), this game has a system where you seek enemy weaknesses to cause them to miss a turn - very much like Shin Megami Tensei games. Of course there is very little interaction between the characters, and in this regard the game is very similar to Saga Frontier games - only this game has an excellent battle system.
Your characters all have interesting stories, and you get to play through them all if you like. Just to be fair, this is more 'old school' than most modern RPGs, but it is a wonderfully fun and challenging game. Wow! An RPG that is challenging and presents the player with options and paths? Yes please!
If you like SNES era games you'll love this one. The music is on par with some of the best in gaming, it's that good. It's eash to play but difficult to master.
That's n ot to sah it's easy to do because later enemies take more hits to get past their defense. Learn this mechanic and do it well and enemies won't get turns. Basically hitting enemies with a weapon or magic that it's weak against will make the enemy dazed and nets you an extra turn. Though it has a break mechanic all it's own. It plays like a late to mid 90's RPG like Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy. You could definitely replay it and switch up the order in which you find your various travelers. It's a lenthy RPG so you'll be getting yo your money's worth and then some. It just doesn't do it unnecessarily, only when it's appropriate. That's not to say it doesn't show itself off because it certainly does. The graphics while not realistic have a beautiful color palette and are more about subtlety than flash. Octopath Traveler is one of, if not the best RPG's on the Switch.