Some are easy enough to find – I came across two of the ‘secret’ jobs entirely by accident – while others are eluding me even now, 60 hours into the game, at roughly level 60 across my party. To do so, however, you’ll need to find the guild for each job to unlock it. Like the original, the battle system comes into its own once you can switch around job roles. Meanwhile, Throné, the thief, can steal during daylight hours, giving the same results of a mugging without the fight.Īlongside those skills, each character also starts with a unique talent, offering battle abilities or passive skills that others won’t be able to use, even after unlocking secondary classes. Castti, an item expert and apothecary, can inquire for the same information you can get from scrutinizing, without any risk – she just has to be a high enough level. However, with eight characters, many path actions overlap. One is scrutinize, a risky way of gleaning information from characters, while the other is mug, where you can duel pretty much any NPC you come across, and steal their possessions if you win. Still, this time, given his gritty backstory, his path actions (abilities and interactions you can make with non-playable characters in towns, and generally any time outside of battles) aren’t your typical black mage traits. He’s this game’s defacto black mag,e with an array of elemental attacks. Osvald, the scholar, starts his journey in prison, accused of killing his wife and child. Still, it’s a little too infrequent – and not enough to get the impression this is a team of heroes helping each other to save the world from various calamities – or become a global dance superstar. These often connect stories and offer up some rewards.
Occasionally there will be some minor banter elements, called “shared stories” where two characters will share a few scenes together. Then you’ll be given the option to play through their origin story, or circle back to it at the local tavern at a time that’s suitable for you. Once you’ve chosen your main character (who will be ‘locked’ into your party until you complete all five chapters of their story), you’ll bump into other travelers.
OP2 tries, only ever so slightly, to convey the idea that you’re on a collective journey. Cameras will pan out and around your characters, as they brood on cliff faces, or as they’re forced to kill their abusive parents. Developers Acquire and Team Asano have amped up the cinematic cutscenes a little more, too. In some of the opening scenes for Hikari the warrior, characters rush past a crowd of 40 or so fighting in a desert.
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Having said that, the team behind this series has realized they can play with the scale a bit more: this is the Nintendo Switch, not a SNES. Half of the appeal is how games like this coax my memories of 16- and 32-bit games. Octopath Traveler 2 doesn’t offer any technical graphical upgrades I need to explain, although there seems to be a little more detail to both the sprites and environments.
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