![]() ![]() ![]() Thankfully, Octopath Traveler II’s writing is some of the best in the JRPG genre. Of course, if you are going to stake your game on sub-quests, you better upgrade them to the best sub-quests you can think of, otherwise it’s time to go home right off the bat. In some ways, it’s like taking on eight subquests from a far bigger game, and making that the sole focus. You’re not out to save the world, you’re out to clear your name, avenge yourself on your enemies, or become a famous dancer. Because of this vignette structure, Octopath Traveler II can feel incredibly character-driven and also fragmented. Perhaps the most important part of Octopath as a series is the investment of the player in its eight short stories format, instead of an epic single narrative. Octopath Traveler II seeks to build on its predecessor with even more beautiful, better-balanced battling, and another eightfold story, that this time seeks to enmesh each of the threads together into a whole. The first game wasn’t without its issues – high grinding and difficulty, and criticisms that its eight storylines didn’t really have much to do with each other. Except Octopath Traveler isn’t – through deft character writing and that jaw-dropping 2DHD style that so captivates fans of keeping retro pixelart alive, it’s managed to completely outshine SaGa and satisfy the die-hards and the newcomers alike. Octopath and its new sequel were a hark back to this heyday idea that never really took off outside the SaGa games, and let’s be fair, they’re niche at best. It’s an ambitious storytelling structure for an RPG, generally a genre that goes for epic quests that take a long time to play, and rely on high-content releases. Not so much branching narrative as multiple concurrent ones, not so much two leads as literally eight. Square Enix has long had a love affair with the multi-strand story the recently re-released Saga Frontier, the remake of Live A Live, and the first of the series and now Octopath Traveler II. Do the pieces of eight become a JRPG to treasure? Or is this one disconnected storyline too many? The Finger Guns review: Eight more characters and a new HD2D world to explore in Octopath Traveller II. ![]()
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