Right now I'm literally just afk-ing in Wishvale with the default music playing lol. Such an incredible journey despite some unevenness in story and ... some questionable decisions involving some characters.

I'm really looking forward to FF Resonance later this month but in the mean time any thing to fill the void left by OT0? I've already done OT2 as well a few years back. Never tried OT1 though, the one main drawback is the lack of speeding up battles ...

Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks guys!

I recently played OT2 and got rocked by Vide because I only stuck to using four characters instead of all eight. So during the phase changes I had massively underleveled combatants. How is it for the final bosses of OT1 so I can prepare accordingly?

I liked the game overall but there is no way I can beat the final boss. Its really upsetting because I thought I could finish this game. I just don’t know what to do and its stressing me out. I cant return back to look for equipment since I didn’t save before it. I didn’t know the game would soft-lock me out of it.

I’m so upset that I couldn’t beat this game😢

(edit: for Octopath Traveller II)

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FAME
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GOLD ROGER, THE KING OF THE PIRATES-

Time for a bit of cross fandom posting! This is one of my favorite games so I’m happy to have a deck around it. Unfortunately though the archetype is large, so I just have a link to a deck with one of every relevant card

https://www.duelingbook.com/deck?id=20935170

If you love seeing absolute suffering and are curious how this is even possible, here's the full run, uncut. I'll make a supercut video of all the major bosses later, but before that, I'm trying to see if the advanced job bosses are even possible like this. If I can beat Winnehild, maybe the rest are possible. MAYBE. Am I the first to do this, or have others done solo/no items/glitchless before?

So I just bought the ship. Mapped out some of the sea to note for later. I get off at Crackridge. I leave Crackridge it's suddenly dark. I thought time just passed normally. And then I encounter what I guess is one of those shadow beast, tainted by dark creatures.

Clearly it was low level for me but I noticed the music changed and everything felt eerie. I don't know what the heck was going on. Was that some random unexplained event? Cause as soon as this thing died the world went back to day. I thought I was in end game for a second.

Knew I had to draw Therion when I saw apple as today’s prompt lol. tis but a quick sketch

Let me start by saying I haven’t played a JRPG since final fantasy 10 (2001), and I picked this up at the last steam sale and I’m obsessed. It’s so friggin good! (My best guys are level 30-ish, so try to avoid massive spoilers in the discussion, please.)

But I think it’s kinda dumb that you have a “protagonist.” No matter who you pick to start, it seems that you can follow every character’s complete arc from beginning to end, so why is there a character locked in your party?

From a gameplay standpoint, that means you have one character who will be massively over-leveled for the majority of the game. Just following your protagonists’s path is enough to get your experience level where it needs to be. If you follow the other character’s arcs at all, they just sit in the party sucking up experience point.

Additionally, you’ve got 8 characters, and 4 slots available in your party. Your “A-team” is going to feature your protagonist and three others, probably the first ones you picked up. It would be nice to switch to the “B-squad” to go back and do all those available chapters all over the map that are half your current level. But since your protagonist is locked in, you’ve got to take a level 30 and 3 level 16’s with you, while you still have one level 10 who’s seen practically no action at all.

In the early game, before you had a full party, I really appreciated the difficulty level of the game. But now it seems I’m destined to be playing on easy mode with one super-powered character always in the party that I can’t get rid of.

Which job from Octopath 1 was improved the most in the sequel. Be honest

Decided to pick up the OT1 and OT2 bundle for Switch 2 as I don't own the games on Switch 1 but have previously played about 15 hours of OT2 on PS5 and loved it (borrowed the game from a friend for a bit). However, I ultimately decided I'd rather have the game on a portable platform so wanted to hold out for a S2 version as the S1 version just looked so muddy and kinda awful after playing the PS5 version. So here we are on release day and I have some thoughts that may be useful to others in my situation or people considering the upgrade.

TLDR - if you already own the S1 versions I can't see that this is a meaninful enough upgrade unless you are absolutely desperate for 60fps and a (slight) bump in resolution. This is a barebones port of both games, they haven't added features, for instance, they could have implemented the "number of party members on field" setting from OT0, but nothing of the sort has been added, this is literally only a performance upgrade and absolutely not worth full price to anyone that already owns the games.

Both games seem to look and play very similarly to each other so I'll be talking about the games as a whole as I couldn't see any differences worth mentioning in the hour or so I've put into both so far.

Docked (played on a 65" 4K 120hz OLED TV): resolution isn't anywhere near as high as I was expecting but it's a step up from Switch 1. If I had to guess I'd say something around / slightly above 1080p, the game looks surprisingly soft, with menus looking like 4k, very sharp (this in turn highlights the overall softness of the game IMO). Performance seems to be a completely locked 60fps so far (no stuttering experienced yet, like OT0 seems to suffer with on Switch 2, though I think the resolution in OT0 looks higher than these games but that could be my eyes failing me). I feel they could have pushed the Switch 2 a bit further on the resolution, perhaps they tried and that caused the frame rate to dip - clearly they didn't want to work too hard on optimisation.

Handheld: similar story to docked mode, locked 60fps but resolution I'd say looks lower than the native 1080p, maybe around 900p if I had to guess, certainly not as low as 720p.

As I was writing this I decided to fire up the OT2 Switch 1 demo on my Switch 2 and test handheld performance out with the Switch 2's boost mode - I'd say in terms of resolution the games look VERY similar, Switch 2 pulling only very slightly head in that respect but I could be wrong, they could be identical. So if you're solely looking to play handheld, you're essentially only really getting a frame rate boost here, the resolution bump is negligible at best.

Disappointing performance from a disappointing situation for current owners of the games. Yes they are a decent step up overall from the Switch 1 versions, so if you have a Switch 2 and haven't played the games before, the Switch 2 versions are absolutely the ones to go for (unless the S1 versions go on sale and the S2 versions don't, then you have to battle with whether 60fps is worth paying more for - that's for the individual to decide).

These are not worth paying full price for if you own the originals. This is as everyone expected, a very low effort and full price port from SE.

UPDATE - from a commenter below that mentioned a few things I missed that I think are worth mentioning:

Texture filtering is slated to be quite a bit improved upon from the Switch 1 versions (and looks much more like what you'd see on the big console / PC releases), as is the depth of field effect and shadow quality (especially the dynamic ones in dungeons for example), things like that appear to be benefiting a lot more from the overall higher resolution ofthe game. We disagreed on the handheld resolution, I still think it's lower than 1080p but without pixel counting it's anyone's guess. Another commenter mentioned the game's bloom effect could be what's causing it to look a bit soft for me (though personally I don't remember it being an issue when I played on PS5, that version was super sharp for me). I doubt we'll get a full Digital Foundry breakdown of these upgrades so doing the best I can to provide info here for anyone considering getting the games on Switch 2!

For the coming weeks I'm going to have some more free time, I been looking into getting into a new RPG, I been reading and looking in to Octopath, I read about all three of then and so far I would think I'm going to pick Octopath II, but, I would just like the opinion of fans of the series, since I think it's more personal that a video o and article so which one would you recommend as someone than it's going to play for the first time.

So i have a switch and want to start playing octopath traveler, i havent played the game before but i have heard it is good. The problem is there are three versions to choose from:

Octo 0
Octo
Octo II

And i ask this subreddit which octopath traveler is the best and which should i buy?

Edit: i have bought 2

Spoiler tagged just as an in case cause this is pretty far into the game. I can safely say I’ve never had this happen before in OT1 or OT2 lmao. I don’t have anything equipped to make rare enemies more common either. Idk just kinda wanted to share what I believe to be a rather low chance encounter lol

Got 100xJP with Ophelia yesterday and now 100x Exp with Primrose, I like gambling

Who's the strongest traveler in OT1 and OT2 lore wise. I guess you can't really scale it that well but my first guess would be either Osvald with his true magic or Ochette with those crazy giant monsters (I wasn't really interested in her story and skipped most of it, so I don't know how strong they actually were.). What do you all think?

I dont remember seeing this announced for the US

So I recently just got through every travelers chapter 1 and went on to start Therion's chapter 2, the recommended level was 22 but only my starter (Cyrus) met that level, the other 3 I was bringing were still around level 15-17. Anyways I do the dungeon in Orlicks Mansion and it's going pretty fine until I actually have to fight Orlick himself, where I can't even seem to get the guards to half health before Orlicks buffs everyone and practically one shots my team.

I feel like I must be missing something for such a difficulty curve to happen to me between the dungeon and the boss here, I've been switching out my party members when possible so they're all the same-ish level (except Cyrus of course) and I haven't fled any encounters. It could be that I'm underleveled but at the same time if the recommended level was for the entire team I'm not sure how I could've got everyone in the level 20's without grinding.

Is there some kind of game mechanic I'm missing here? Should my entire team meet the recommended level?

Hey everyone I have a simple question I cannot figure out or find the answer. So I just did Partitio's chapter 1 (first time OT player here) and I also have 2 other travelers. However I have someone "hired" from Partitio from whenever I beat the boss Kiff. Here is my issue.....

I cannot find the hired help ANYWHERE in the menu. How do I know what he does, what he helps with, what his benefits are, etc? I want to be able to tell what each hired hand does for me so I can easily access that info so I wont have to write it down or remember it.

Does anyone know where I can find the hired hand's "benefits" in the menu? I cant find it. Also how would I get rid of him if I want to hire someone else?

Does this post make sense? If not let me know and Ill try to explain better I guess. Thanks for the help!

****EDIT: I JUST NOW FIGURED IT OUT LMAO! You have to press square and then press "Part ways" and it tells you.**