These run the gambit from fetch quests to impressive mini-story arcs that resonate as powerfully in some cases as the best moments of the primary narrative.
The side-quests themselves can be quite small and insignificant in some cases, but challenging and extremely expansive in others.
Layer guild licences atop this, granting characters the ability to add a second job to the mix, further enhancing each’s capabilities, and nestled deep within the game are a range of advanced jobs that grant even more depth.Ī Day/Night cycle has been added to Octopath Traveler II which increases the threat in the darkness, but also a range of path actions open up that can only be utlised in the light of day and dark of night, actions that impact the core campaign, as well as many of the one hundred side-quests in the game. Creating the right party blends that allows you to maximise the strengths of each Latent Power as well as the party’s different classes, makes the combat even more immersive than before. Latent Powers are one of the most engaging new additions, with each of the eight adventures having their own unique skills, that can be called upon to devastate opponents with intense physical attacks, boost HP and BP, concentrate already powerful spells on single opponents, or even act multiple times in a turn. In the combat arena is where we’ve seen the most evolution in Octopath Traveler II. While these stories, that bridges the conclusion to each characters narrative arc with the climactic end-game convergence of events. One of the primary concerns emanating from the original Octopath Traveler was the lack of interaction between the various party members’ stories, despite being on a globe-trotting adventure together, to Square-Enix’s answer to that are the Crossed Paths narratives. Octopath Traveler II brings a range of new systems to the fore, that, while not particularly revolutionary, evolve the formula in meaningful ways that offer more depth of storytelling and gameplay to keep players hooked for well over 50 hours just to see the golden path to its conclusion. Octopath Traveler II retains many of the core elements of the original game, from it’s wonderful use of the HD-2D engine to realise its beautifully designed environments, to the constantly engaging boost and break systems in combat, and of course, as well as the eight playable protagonists and their converging plights.
Now wave 2 of development for the engine has kicked off with Square-Enix reflecting upon the numerous successes of the original game to inform the development of Octopath Traveler II, a game that improves nearly every aspect of the original game. The proliferation of remasters and remakes of their beloved classics has been a key pillar in their resurgence, as has the birth of the HD-2D engine, and the likes of Octopath Traveler, Triangle Strategy, and Live A Live that have all been realised using the engine. The back-end of the decade though has seen a change in fortune for all int he space however, and for Square-Enix it has proven to be looking back to their past that has helped inform and inspire their future. At the genre’s peak in the 90’s and early 2000’s, the genre’s heartbeat was strong with the likes of Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and Dragon Quest all leading the way, but the 2005-2015 window was not at all kind to Square-Enix or fans of the genre as the mega-publisher seemingly lost its way, and even their competitors were failing to fire. The popularity of JRPGs has fluctuate over the years almost exclusively based on the successes or failures of Square-Enix.
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