Octopath Traveler 0 – Announcement Trailer
Submitted 3 weeks ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klKrQZXDWkI
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jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
christian@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I tried the first one a few years back and it seemed right up my alley as far as art style and gameplay but I gave up after finding my fourth character because all four of them had personalities and dialogue that were grating on me. I like jrpgs and I can’t remember another one I bailed on explicitly because I found the dialogue annoying.
When I looked through reviews it seemed mostly positive, and even for the critical reviews that did share my complaint it was mostly an afterthought to other concerns, most of which didn’t bother me. If anyone felt similarly and also tried out the sequel I’d really like to know if it’s any better in that regard because I really wanted to like the first one.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No, I feel you. I did finish the game and enjoyed it overall, but the dialogue and writing was jarring. I’m not sure what exactly it was, but I was particularly annoyed by the writing being cliché lots of times and the dialogue in the cutscenes being soooo slow (overused animations, dramatic pauses in every sentence, …).
christian@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Being clichés was exactly it, I would find all of the other things perfectly tolerable if the characters had depth. I think three of the four introductions I saw just felt like “this character has actual values that you, the player, will totally align with” but completely hamfisted. (The fourth came across as a generic oonga boonga beast woman so not exactly reason for optimism.) If the protagonists are going to be the good guys then a story making that clear should be enough, rather than having “being the good guy” be an entire personality at the very start.
I expected they’re all going to be given more depth as the story advances but I didn’t feel excited to wait around to see if that makes them less annoying, especially with four more intro stories remaining.
If you’ve played the second game I would like an opinion on if the second game has a better cast.
Mist101@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Played through 1, still need to go fight the
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secret end boss.
Hoping 2 and 0 are worth it because 1 was a nice return to retro gaming style and so easy to pickup and put down.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I never finished the 1st one because I found the complete lack of connection between the stories frustrating. I get that they wanted you to be able to play with any combination of the 8 characters, but the story suffered heavily.
It was just 8 separate games played at once with the same mechanics, and the lack of any real overarching story meant the narative scope of everything felt small.
Mist101@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s a fair point. The narrative was very much a choose your own adventure with mostly interchangeable parts.
I enjoyed it for those reasons, though, because it gave me the feeling of old FF games when players got to decide completely on party makeup. I thought it was nice that I could get my chosen team to level 60 and then just blaze through the characters I hated and focus on what I wanted to do.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
2 was exceptionally good. It fixed a lot of the bad fights/progression/story issues. I had a good time with it. Much better than 1.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I liked 1 enough until the first 2 chapters of all the characters were complete, but then it immediately felt like it hit a grind wall. With 8 stories it’s long enough already–why would they pad it out any further?
tomkatt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I really like the first one, but OT2 felt very padded. At 30 hours I think I was less than halfway through the game. I got frustrated and put it down, never got back to it.
Mist101@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When you say padded, do you mean like most anime where they just add unnecessary conflict to fill out the story, or was it more like extra steps to get to the main story?
The one thing I didn’t enjoy so much from 1 was the way each story followed the exact same arch.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Same, played the first into late game and
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Secret classes/bosses
Second I played most of the characters to their third quest maybe about halfway though the game and the day/night addition was fun but the narrative style and level gating in the second could use more work imo.