What is /vrpg/ opinion on Octopath Traveler as a series?
>>41247158 different stories that go nowhere. Did not deserve the attention it got.
absolutely fantastic voice workthe plot of each character path is nothing specialcharacters have almost no story interaction or dynamics with each other
>>4124715Needs way more if/then autism re: who is in your party and when but it's a solid 6/10 to me which is fine. I hope they get better at that in the next entry.
Wasted potential.The world is incredibly immersive, with amazing graphics and music, so I enjoyed playing the games overall.But there are no real dungeons, so the gameplay feels missing and the stories are necessarily shallow due to the fundamentally flawed concept.
>>4124715I don't care for it. The combat is decent, but not quite good enough to carry the games by itself, and everything else is half-assed at best.
Sex with Ochette
>>4124715The whole concept is flawed. 8 protagonists with 8 stories each spanning 4 chapters means you'll get 8 vapid stories with 32 extremely formulaic "town -> cutscene -> dungeon -> cutscene -> boss" chapters. I was exhausted halfway through and didn't finish. They should've just made something like FFVI or the Bravely games, I enjoyed those.
I really like it. And i like how briskly the first one plays. You're always moving, jumping around. Little dungeons, then a story beat. Great music. I look forward to playing 2.
>>4125244Spiritually brown post
>>4124715HD2D slop
>>4126772Nigga the series invented hd2d
>>4124715As others have said, the games would have been much better if they were more traditional in terms of structure. Both gameplay and story suffers from the formulaeic structure. I don't think that it would be impossible to pull off well, but I don't think that Squenix is the company to do it.I guess you'd just end up with Bravely again, but two out of three of those games were good, so you're playing with decent odds.
