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I feel like this game is also way more colorful than the first one. There's much more visual variety within individual locations.
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I think it does a better job of drawing you in. It's clear they learned a bit on presentation from the first one.
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SKULL.GIF posted:I feel like this game is also way more colorful than the first one. There's much more visual variety within individual locations. ImpAtom posted:I think it does a better job of drawing you in. It's clear they learned a bit on presentation from the first one. Agreed. I also love the QoL improvements like being able to change from day to night with the press of a button.
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Feb 25, 2023 04:15
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i love to travel the octopath
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Feb 25, 2023 04:26
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Just wrapped cleric chapter one. If the quality stays steady, this is everything I'd hoped the first game could have been. Also, cleric gives me serious Akechi from p5 vibes. The smugness, the vocal cadence, right down to him being a detective Combat has some real teeth, too. Am I miss remembering or was the first game significantly easier in the early going?
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Feb 25, 2023 05:12
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Anyone know who voices Scrooge McDuck in japanese? Cause Roque is basically human young Scrooge.
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Feb 25, 2023 05:24
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BurningBeard posted:Combat has some real teeth, too. Am I miss remembering or was the first game significantly easier in the early going? You're not misunderstanding it, the Ch1 bosses from OT1 were way easier than this game's. I suspect part of it is padding out the fights to give each character an opporunity to unlock their Latent Power, but I don't unappreciate it.
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Feb 25, 2023 05:28
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Do you still have to go to an inn to change party members? Found that annoying in 1, having to juggle people around just to have access to a particular path action.
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Feb 25, 2023 06:19
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a tavern, but yes.
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Feb 25, 2023 06:19
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Got my 7th Traveller, Partition and goddamn his theme is so good.
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Feb 25, 2023 06:42
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Halfway through recruiting folks today, been enjoying this quite a bit so far. Having everyone’s intro be a solo affair definitely prevents any awkwardness with “I work alone, wanna help me?” like in 1.
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Feb 25, 2023 07:13
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Died twice now in Hikari's Chapter 5. If you've been finishing Chapters slightly underleveled you might want to reconsider when you get to the last Chapters if they're all like this.
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Feb 25, 2023 12:21
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I'm on CH 3 or 4 with everyone and liking this a lot more than the first game. All my characters are underleveled, I really wish they ditched the whole "protagonist" thing in this game which is completely redundant and meaningless. Being able to form exactly 2 parties would be so much better.
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Feb 25, 2023 12:23
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If you're like me and love scrutinizing and interrogating people until you've discovered their every last secret, go to Clockbank. It's a hell of a town.
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Feb 25, 2023 12:54
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Goddamn you guys play fast.
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Feb 25, 2023 15:20
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made up my mind that this will be OST of the Year as soon as I arrived at Throne's gangster city. I don't anticipate much party banter at all given how little Crossed Path things I've seen from videos but at least the intro chapters do give you a feel of each character being sort of loners / mercenaries who struggled to work with others that you temporarily have in their party. That being said it shouldn't have been hard to improve on the last game's interactions and yet they still didn't really do it lol. I'm not really thrown off by it, just surprised they didn't bother.
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Feb 25, 2023 15:27
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BabyRyoga posted:I'm on CH 3 or 4 with everyone and liking this a lot more than the first game. Just do all of one party (that includes your protagonist) and then do all of the other party. Easy and maintains level parity for the second group (even if they'll have gear/item/knowledge advantage).
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Feb 25, 2023 15:34
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I'm still listening to Partitio's theme.
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About how far behind was the release of the OST for the first game, a few weeks?
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Feb 25, 2023 18:22
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The game: Stronger enemies come out at night! Beware! Thronè and Temenos: hold my beer
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Feb 25, 2023 18:36
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How do I beat up Caits to help my party stay at appropriate levels? Also for Octopath 1, gonna continue my game of that when I'm not at my computer.
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Feb 25, 2023 18:41
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Osvald's story is already shaping up to be better than Primrose's story for me. And I want to reiterate that I really like the changes they made to the Scholar.
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Are leaves a lot easier to come by in this one? It definitely feels like it. The last one I was just hoarding money just in case. This one is making feel a little better about spending it.
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Feb 25, 2023 19:11
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MonsieurChoc posted:How do I beat up Caits to help my party stay at appropriate levels? Soulstones don't miss.
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Saxophone posted:Are leaves a lot easier to come by in this one? It definitely feels like it. The last one I was just hoarding money just in case. This one is making feel a little better about spending it. money seems very volatile. i'll regularly think I have a ton of cash (and I do! I think!!), and then go to a shop in the new town and buy a single new weapon for everyone and a single armor upgrade for every and suddenly be dirt poor. obviously shops exist to supplement NPC-obtained items and treasure but due to the nonlinear nature of the game it's wholly possible you won't find or be able to reasonably obtain those at any given point, and even then across an entire party there's a lot of gear slots especially once you start getting secondary jobs. now fortunately having good gear (especially armor) is comically unnecessary but yeah if you want to spend money it's not difficult at all to do so.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Soulstones don't miss. Ohshit you’re right!
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Feb 25, 2023 20:00
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Does Partitio have the money gathering thing Tressa did?
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i'm up to 4 party members now (the Western ones) and kind of exploring now. Going back to towns and taking items from people, hiring good followers, etc. I've managed to kill a couple of those Cait thingies for levels so I'm scraping 20 with my team. Some of the optional dungeons you can find have some great items. Hikari is rocking a shield that regens SP after every action. Just really digging the flow of this game. Not sure why the first game never landed with me but OctoTwo is super comfy. MonsieurChoc posted:How do I beat up Caits to help my party stay at appropriate levels? Hikari's limit break boosted with whatever BP he starts with usually does it for me. But as others have said soulstones/magic are great too. Levantine fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Feb 25, 2023 |
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Feb 25, 2023 20:57
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I’m curious at this point whether I should play out each members intro or just skip and watch a recap on YouTube or something.
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Saxophone posted:I’m curious at this point whether I should play out each members intro or just skip and watch a recap on YouTube or something. If you do play out the intros, you get all the items, experience, and JP that the character accumulated once their intro is finished.
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Found a bunch of fun lore reading in a side quest then found a fancy side dungeon that was a bit above my level but I managed to get through just fine. Pretty sure I just found a rusty staff that will eventually become the ultimate staff weapon after doing who knows what with it. Heck yeah! Game rules.
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I enjoyed doing each prologue, except I rushed Partitio, so I'll probably play that again. I'd recommend playing them if you haven't. I skipped most on my regular save, but played them all in the demo.
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Possibly stupid question: I still have the silver chunk and money purse from the first chapters of Partitio and Agnea, is there any reason to hold on to them or can I sell them? For some reason I feel like I should hold on to them but also that feels dumb
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Lmao this game's writing has the subtlety of a mace thus far. I'm doing Oswald's story and it looks like the guy who sent him to prison was named "Harvey." This has been my favorite story so far but I've been losing momentum for the same reasons as Octopath 1 where wandering through the overworld sections to meet other party members was extremely tedious.
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I find JRPG's (especially ones with a sort of anime/manga artstyle) are doing this more and more now in the Reiwa era almost to where I'm getting used to it, but not still not quite, where for example in Agnea's story arc climax you aren't fighting some hideous potentially world ending fire breathing monster/demon or a really powerful warrior or something ,but having an RPG mechanic transposed emotional climax battle where you're "fighting" some arrogant opera diva in a music competition yet the way it's translated into battle it's like she could theoretically take out an entire party of seasoned end game actual fighters, wizards and what not by singing songs and apparently casting high level AoE spells. Actually a lot of this franchise from the original 2018 game through the mobile game and now seem to have these like emotional climax chapter bosses where it's unrealistic to assume that that character could put up any sort of serious fight or have any sort of real stamina, but for the purposes of the psychological impression of the focus party character they're like an immovable concept to surmount and even appear as such as these gigantic half screen filling sprites. I remember feeling that with Helgenish for example in the original game or say the playwright and actress bosses I saw footage of in the mobile game. Like some rival actress throwing a narcisstic tantrum is a legit boss fight strictly because the focus character sees them as such. It's kind of funny that this somehow draws the other party members into this concept though and they definitely need their help to get through these as it's still mechanically and difficulty wise a real rear end boss fight Anyway I guess it just kind of shows the sort of creativity or conceptual reimagining that probably has to happen with a 40ish year old concept that is turn based JRPG's. dude789 posted:Lmao this game's writing has the subtlety of a mace thus far. I'm doing Oswald's story and it looks like the guy who sent him to prison was named Yeah this franchise definitely has almost Shakespeare like ultra dramatic embellished storytelling and scene direction. It feels like it's very much meant to invoke the idea of watching a play both visually, and story presentation wise.
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A couple tips to improve pacing: You don't *have* to vacuum up every single bit of treasure in every single town. This saves loads of time! Especially a party like e.g., Osvald/Temenos/Throne is going to take ages to fully clear out New Delstra because half your Party Actions are going to trigger combats, but ultimately all you'll get is some mediocre equipment, some leaves, and a few mild discounts/bonuses. Turning on 2x combat speed (+ button) helps to make random encounters less of a drag. I recommend returning to 1x for bosses though.
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SKULL.GIF posted:You don't *have* to vacuum up every single bit of treasure in every single town. wtf
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Typically in the level 1 towns I find it's easier just to hoover poo poo up with the level>skills rather than the more active skills and then you can come back for the rest later if you want.
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Do everything, IMO.
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Anyone got a list of where to search for the guilds? I only got Inventor and Hunter so far.
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