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Boss battles mix things up a bit by alternating weaknesses, summoning mobbs that can block their weaknesses for them, and they usually have some sort of super attack that is projected one turn in advance that will force you to guard at worst, or break them asap at best. OT2 is about breaking the game as much as you possibly can. THEN, on top of all of that, everyone can equip a secondary job which gives them access to even more skills and attack types. Some characters can recruit townspeople who, in addition to having their own weapons, can sometimes FAR outpower any of your party members. Hikari can beat up townspeople to learn their skills and thus gain access to weapon attacks beyond what he has equipped. Ochette can have multiple monsters she’s captured to exploit both weapon and elemental weaknesses.
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This creates a combat system that prevents you from (or punishes you for) overly relying on auto-attack, unless you vastly overpower your enemies. The game also rewards you for combat efficiency. Every encounter becomes a unique puzzle to figure out how to succeed, given your chosen party configuration.Īs far as weaknesses, there are multiple weapon and elemental weaknesses for you to exploit, as well as Target-all attacks with those weapons and sometimes even multi-hits to ensure you remove multiple shields in a single turn. Of course, that’s just getting into the base-line skills for classes. After removing all of an enemy’s shields which varies in amount based on the opponent, they become stunned for 1-2 turns (Depending on if they had a move already during the turn you broke them).
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Through trial and error (or scanning) you will discover their weaknesses, which remove a Shield. What is breaking? Glad you asked! This is where the game has a lot in common with the SMT Franchise.Įvery enemy has a set of unknown weaknesses at the start of combat. For instance, if you BREAK an enemy, once they recover they are guaranteed to get their turn first. The turn order can be manually manipulated with abilities, and sometimes it will change based on the enemy state. At the top of the screen, you can see who is going in what order for that turn. It functions on the now staple of modern turn-based RPGs, the turn order bar. So, Let’s start off by talking about what I think the game does well. First, I would like to say that the combat is phenomenal! It absolutely smacks of Shin Megami Tensei, and you know I am always down for that, but it also has this pairing of Final Fantasy X. These franchises are Bravely Default which is 3 games deep, and Octopath Traveler which is 2 games and a mobile game. For those of us who have been disappointed with the direction the FF franchise seems to be taking, it may be time to accept that it won’t be returning to its roots anytime soon. Octopath Traveler is an interesting franchise because it has Final Fantasy-esque elements while still being something new. It gives the vibe that SQUARE ENIX is using two franchises to satiate us turn-based combat lovers while Final Fantasy continues to go completely off the rails into the realm of the action genre. Given the sales of OT2, it looks like they will have a chance to correct them in part 3. There are things that I praised Chained Echoes for that could have absolutely benefited the Octopath franchise by a LOT. It is by no means a perfect game, as it takes a few too many homages from previous games in the genre, specifically retro rpgs. Octopath Traveler II takes everything that made the first game interesting and unique, and dialed it up to 11. We recommend you take a peek at his awesome work! His video review has been attached to this article. LoffterGames is an external contributor to Never Ending Realm, and not one of our official game reviewers.
Editor’s Note: This Octopath Traveler 2 review is a transcript of LoffterGame’s video review of the game.
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