The Scholar will cast magic, the Warrior wields weapons, and the Cleric heals and casts holy light magic. Sure, all eight characters maintain the same classes and general dispositions from the first game. Take to the fieldĮven combat has seen a pretty noteworthy shift. I’m sure there’s what some might consider grinding, but it’s under enough layers of interesting meta-interactions and systems that I’m barely even noticing it. There are always new sights to see, towns to explore, quests to undertake, and objectives to task myself with. Ultimately, I’m glad I did, because Octopath Traveler 2 feels like making good on the blueprint laid out by its predecessor.Īll of this builds to a world that feels so much more alive in Octopath Traveler 2. Or maybe it was the idea that Acquire and Square Enix could take the criticisms of the first Octopath and craft a better version of it, where the eight-legged story wasn’t weighed down by its writing. It could have been lingering good-will from the Live A Live remake. So I’m not sure what it was that drew me in, almost last-minute, to Octopath Traveler 2. A soaring soundtrack and gorgeous presentation couldn’t lift the stories high enough to make me want to see things through to the finale myself. In reality, it can be a delicate dance.įor a full disclosure, I wasn’t too keen on the first Octopath Traveler.
These eight heroes grow into their own in their stories and then, once established in their own right, join together to fight the ultimate challenge awaiting them.
Octopath Traveler, and its follow-up Octopath Traveler 2, both start off with an interesting but challenging narrative format: take eight adventurers, tell their origin stories, and weave their fates together into a greater anthology. Halfway in, and Octopath 2 feels like it’s surpassing its predecessor
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