(MY 500TH GAME LOGGED ON BACKLOGGD WOOHOO!)
I'm very happy that the greatest video game soundtrack of all time also came with a free incredible JRPG. Thanks Team Asano!
The best word I can use to describe Octopath 2 is delightful. This world, its various stories and characters, and the emotions that they evoke in the player, are all beautiful. I truly believe that this series has some of the best worldbuilding in video games right now.
I really enjoyed Octopath 1, but I had to always tell people to play the game for its combat, worldbuilding and music, instead of for its characters and story. I'm very happy that I can say Octopath 2 deserves to be played for all of the above. Not every story is a home run (Osvald's started out phenomenally but it started getting extremely messy by the end, and Temenos really deserved a better story given how interesting he is as a character) but the majority are very strong. I have to shout out Partitio's and Castti's in particular. Partitio's story just kept getting better and better until he was my definitive favorite character. Castti's chapter 3 is probably the best chapter in the game and chapter 4 genuinely made me cry.
I won't talk too much about the ending but I will say that the revelations were extremely interesting and the interactions between all eight characters were fantastic. The atmosphere and music were top notch in the final act, too. And of course, the final boss is a banger. It might be one of my favorite final fights in any game ever. Even the very last ending scene had me grinning like an idiot at 2 in the morning.
I struggle to think of what they can improve on if they were to make an Octopath 3, other than tiny quality of life stuff (the random encounter rate is a little high and got frustrating often), but that's just a testament to how fantastic this turned out. Please play this!!!!
I'm very happy that the greatest video game soundtrack of all time also came with a free incredible JRPG. Thanks Team Asano!
The best word I can use to describe Octopath 2 is delightful. This world, its various stories and characters, and the emotions that they evoke in the player, are all beautiful. I truly believe that this series has some of the best worldbuilding in video games right now.
I really enjoyed Octopath 1, but I had to always tell people to play the game for its combat, worldbuilding and music, instead of for its characters and story. I'm very happy that I can say Octopath 2 deserves to be played for all of the above. Not every story is a home run (Osvald's started out phenomenally but it started getting extremely messy by the end, and Temenos really deserved a better story given how interesting he is as a character) but the majority are very strong. I have to shout out Partitio's and Castti's in particular. Partitio's story just kept getting better and better until he was my definitive favorite character. Castti's chapter 3 is probably the best chapter in the game and chapter 4 genuinely made me cry.
I won't talk too much about the ending but I will say that the revelations were extremely interesting and the interactions between all eight characters were fantastic. The atmosphere and music were top notch in the final act, too. And of course, the final boss is a banger. It might be one of my favorite final fights in any game ever. Even the very last ending scene had me grinning like an idiot at 2 in the morning.
I struggle to think of what they can improve on if they were to make an Octopath 3, other than tiny quality of life stuff (the random encounter rate is a little high and got frustrating often), but that's just a testament to how fantastic this turned out. Please play this!!!!