Octopath Traveler

I really really like this game lads

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Lads...

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Now post the princess in love with her gardener.
      That princess was actually a pretty good summon for me, multi-dagger and triple fire is a good combo.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >/ss/ with a tomboy princess

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      To be fair, there's a lot of dark/ messed up flavor text when scrutinizing in this game.

      That said, /ss/ is top tier fap material.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It flat out says they dont even love each other.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It says they don't know true love yet but they will with the power of /ss/

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Beat the game
    >Feel empty inside because its over

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      you grieve because it was so good

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's time for some questioning!

    I really like a lot of the lines they used as well as the battle and post battle ones. Ochette's AWOOO~! never gets old. I also noticed, at least for Throne, that characters have specific max boost quotes against their story bosses. I'll have to remember to try it out for the other characters and see. She's usually the only one I have max boosting for Aeber's, so that's probably why I didn't see it for any of the others yet.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      speaking of story bosses ochette can apparently capture some of them

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You can capture Tera but I don't know if you have to or if it just ends the battle quicker

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You can capture Tera but I don't know if you have to or if it just ends the battle quicker

        You're forced to since Tera and Glacis are locked to have a minimum of 1hp in their fights.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I heard you can go back into some dungeons to fight bosses again for captures, but i've only tried with Roque's factory and the doggo boss didn't show back up.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Correct, but it's best not to fill your lineup with them, unless you're planning to boost spam. Boss captures can only be summoned at max boost, and usually only once per battle

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Unless you use the Provoke bug.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      IVE GOT MORE GRIT THAN I CAN HANDLE

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Anybody who speaks nip who would be willing to translate some of the battle cries?
      I refuse to play with english voices, everybody sounds like a bored teenager, regardless of age or what's happening

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        i only know a little bit of jap from consuming media and from what I'm hearing they have a lot of contextual dialogue like Temenos praising Crick when he breaks enemies in his chapter 1 (he uses his "lost lamb" nickname) or having specific lines relating to their story bosses like Throne with Father

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I just wanna know what Ochette screams at max boost
          something something kono peco-da?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            havent used Ochette outside her ch1 but half her win quotes are some variations "i'm hungry" or "i want to eat"

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >havent used Ochette outside her ch1
              homosexual

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I'd take a bored teenagers over typical JP voice acting tbh

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          JP voices are actually good for once. Even Ochette, the character you'd expect to have a grating screechy "moe" voice, is actually pleasant to listen to.
          Also JP Osvald sounds like ear sex.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Ochette was such a surprise. The character I expected to be the worst ended up being charming as hell.
            >GAOOOOOOOOOO...he he!

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I like her awoos better

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            JP Castti sounds like a grandma without teeth.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Missing out on DIO BRANDO as HARVEY

          How old are the cast? The only one that was obvious is Partitio at 24. I'm guessing Osvald and Castii are the oldest? Are the ages ever mentioned in-game for other characters?

          Ochette: 20
          Castti: 29
          Throne: 23
          Osvald: 38
          Partitio: 24
          Agnea: 18
          Temenos: 30
          Hikari: 21

          According to the wiki

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Temenos: 30
            This is the most surprising one for me, wouldn't have guessed he was older than Castii.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Temenos is 30 wtf? He looks very young

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              He drinks babies blood.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous
              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                very cute

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Trolling people keeps him young.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            JP voices are actually good for once. Even Ochette, the character you'd expect to have a grating screechy "moe" voice, is actually pleasant to listen to.
            Also JP Osvald sounds like ear sex.

            This, Harvey and Dolcinea voices are pure kino

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I like that cleric twink and also everyone else, they're really fun

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Feeding Ochette my meat!

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >on my way to the solo ruins
    >fail to run from a couple of ants half my level three turns in a row
    why do they want to get squished so bad

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone have the Partitio image that's like, "Just learned about poverty. That really sucks."

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      you bet

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is there any good reason to buy the boat? Is there a lot of stuff to do at sea that you can’t access without the boat?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You need the boat to complete the game

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What the fugg really

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          100k is surprisingly easy to gather, anon

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Okay partitio

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >stealing
              >whoring
              >mugging
              >getting superior gear from diving into filthy hellholes instead of buying it in shops like a chump
              >collecting from richgay bosses
              >Agnea AoE collect from mobs
              >guy in the Merchant's guild that saves you 30% on all purchases
              >lady in Oresrush that gives you a 25% bonus on all sales
              >Prosperity Charm
              >Grows on Trees
              being poor is a choice

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Full Power
                >A Step Ahead
                >Cait Powder
                >More Rare Monsters
                >Hired a man with 30% More Profit from Collect
                These are trying times, and my wife needs 50 more Diffusing Serum. Please understand.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Hired a man with 30% More Profit from Collect
                where? highest i could find was 20% i think. or 25%, but certainly not 30%

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >100k
            Bro, your hire... don't pay more than 70k for the boat.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You have to buy the boat to get to Partitio's ch 4, so it's required.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I will not lie I was losing my mind for this whole fight, absolutely incredible VA work, music, setting, fight mechanics

    better the second time around cause I got blown the frick out when his super triggered post mid-fight cutscene

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >discover the element of love
      >too autistic to realize it's love
      It was pretty good.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      https://files.catbox.moe/uyw6gg.mp3

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >mfw english dub sounds like a sitcom dad

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think it's hilarious that if you're not fast enough during the second half of the battle, Harvey's set-up attack outright kills him, just like in the cutscene.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Meanwhile, Kaldena reads her lines in the most monotone way.

      The dub is good, but some actors really fricked up their lines.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Dub discrepancies are obviously much for obvious.

        Am I right that just like in the first game theres eventually a point where youre forced to make all 8 party members good?

        Yes. But that's not for a long time and grinding is actually easier in this game.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >But that's not for a long time
          Is it required for the superboss or final battles?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            superboss yes chapter finales no
            gear will carry you through nearly all the bosses in the game, for the superboss you'll need to figure out some broken combo (try doing it on your own instead of checking the internet, it's more fun), or squeeze extra efficiency out of a dozen or so more levels

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            https://www.saveeditonline.com/
            It can read OT2 saves. Cut out the time waste and give yourself the EXP for lvl 999

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ooOOOOOOOSUUBARUDOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i think it's hilarious that alrond's 80 billion actually shows up in your bank account

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    which do you guys think had the better overall outfits for each sub job? personally:
    >Hunter: 2
    >Apothecary: 1, barely
    >Thief: Tie
    >Scholar: 2, barely
    >Merchant: 2
    >Dancer: 1
    >Cleric: 1
    >Warrior: 2

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm just glad scholar didn't make everyone look like a hobo like Osvald.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If we grow many animals in cages and then put them in a butchering machine we can maximize the amount of jerky that is produced

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      let her cook

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I just started as Castii, she feels quite nice to have as a Salvemaker/Chemist in a pinch while being able to lay down some hurt when needed. Throne subbing Dancer started off strong for me but she feels a bit MP reliant and the speed stacking gimmick doesn't compare to the versatility that Ochette subclassing Warrior has. My last member is Partitio as a Merchant/Scholar to sweep random encounters and lay some magic damage down or BP battery for Caits/Octopuffs/bosses.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Throne really shines with the Inventor for obvious reasons and crazy enough Conjurer. Abusing her latent power to stack two elements on everyone's weapons absolutely wrecks anything with two elemental weaknesses.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Sounds wild and reminds me of the shenanigans Runemaster did in the first game. I'm still pretty early in and haven't found any secret jobs yet, let alone get all the licenses with my party sitting at around 28-30. Are those off the beaten path as usual or locked behind side quests?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Inventor aside all the other secret jobs you will find in level 45+ areas. Normal jobs are learned often found in the second cities from the starting ones or along the way to them. The hunter class for example is on the path between her starting city and the other city northeast in Toto'haha.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          one of the secret jobs is incredibly early, outside one of the starting towns
          the other 3 are lategame, in 3rd tier areas, two of them are behind sidequests, one of which requires you to beat Hikari's story first, and the third is in a somewhat hidden dungeon

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Inventor for obvious reasons
        I don't know how inventor works, why is she a good inventor?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I didn’t know those stacked. I thought the newer element would overwrite the previous one.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Abusing her latent power to stack two elements on everyone's weapons absolutely wrecks anything with two elemental weaknesses.
        those don't stack

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The difficulty getting the OST is surreal to me in 2023.
    >CD is out-of-stock and on a watchlist on the SE website
    >Apple Music and iTunes pages are region-locked
    >No torrents up
    >Youtube videos for them keep getting taken down
    Am I missing something here? Any route to get the audio files themselves instead of streaming it?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >No torrents up
      bro it's on nyaa

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Thanks anon. I was not aware nyaa did audio. Appreciate that a lot.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >No torrents up
          bro it's on nyaa

          >vidya OST on nyaa
          first time I've seen it outside VNs
          good shit

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >fighting the superboss
    >Tenemos is dead
    >accidentally waste Hikari’s turn by attacking normally
    >boss gets out of break next turn and even if I had invulnerability stacks the first action is immediately throwing buffs into the trash
    >throw large soulstone because frick it I’m going to die anyways maybe I’ll get the meme kill
    >doesn’t kill
    >double frick it have Agnea summon her waifu because maybe she’ll somehow block enough damage for Agnea to get another turn
    >”Giselle, when you stumble…”
    >“…you get back on your feet Agnea!”
    >hits for absolutely no real damage
    >die like a chump immediately after
    just kidding it killed him and I’m just left laughing in confusion
    All the stupid broken stuff I brought to the table
    Aeber nukes
    Castti concoct deleting the first phase by itself because Castti is the most broken character by such a ridiculous margin it’s funny
    Ochette beast spam
    Partitio spamming Aelfrics and assassins
    Hikari ripping apart Galdera’s parts without even breaking them through sheer force
    Agnea throwing around AOE coil and letting Hikari make the entire team invulnerable (except those were wastes of time because he spams buff removal all the time anyways)
    Throne copying Partitio to spam Aelfrics even harder
    Osvald and Tenemos crying in a corner because magic sucks so hard (at least Tenemos can overheal and spam alefrics)
    All the stupid meme strategies I did like double thief strats, actually trying to make Osvald and Tenemos into supernukes and still doing less damage than Hikari or Castti anyways because magic
    All that broken shit
    And this is what actually kills him

    Frick it I’m going to bed I don’t have time for this nonsense

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Jut equip everybody with merchant job.
      You did the optional fight for improved help where you can summon assassins for 50k and they also heal hp and sp besides doing 9999 damage right?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        He’s already dead

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >You did the optional fight for improved help where you can summon assassins for 50k and they also heal hp and sp besides doing 9999 damage right?

        who ???? No, what is that ?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I feel like a lot of people are going to get some surreal stories out of this superboss if they try their own strats. I kept a rank 3 High Wolf on me all game with Ochette which I found to be useful for breaking enemies with knife weaknesses. Even after catching a Chubby Cait and a bunch of rank 10s, I never got rid of this one shit tier monster. And it ended up breaking the superboss at the last phase and saving me seven turns of total devastation.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah I paid the Omniscient Eye money to frick off it's fricking funny

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Technically Castti's concoct is magic so magic isn't THAT bad.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How to make Concoct do the big damage? I have one Dark boosting weapon and even with Strengthening Powder I'm getting nowhere near the damage I've seen anons posting about

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Anon...

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      His jap VA keeps screaming Oshtor at start of fights which reminds me the MC of the utawarerumono series.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >something very serious and dramatic happens
    >enter boss fight out of cutscene
    >"To work..."
    Why the FRICK are the voice lines in this game so botched? They constantly play, are distracting, and are usually ill-fitting. I'm so sick of this shit it's unreal. If you aren't going to comprehend how to properly implement these, don't even put them in.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How can one mentally ill healer be so perfect?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I've been expecting this exact image for like 5 threads now. Based.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >other than the expected Temenos/Crick, Osvald/Partitio is picking up steam fast along with Hikari/Partitio for some reason

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Where

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      who is ochette banging

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Me

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Whoever is able to supply her with the most food, so Partitio or Hikari. and HIkari is for Agnea, so Partitio/Ochette is canon now

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Partitio already fricked Castti

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            You mean Castti pegged Partitio

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        pam
        lots of greasy eating during fat slappy sex

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Two males are friends
      >MUST BE GAY
      yaoitroons should be burned alive

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >ship random people
      >not shipping Pala and Mikka when the actual in-game quest is gay as frick

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There was another anon who was going to do Solo Hikari and I took some notes.

    - Vengeful Blade hard carries early to mid
    - Starsplitter isn't the highest atk. sword you can get but the chance to Def. Down on counter is worth the small loss in stats
    - Everything in the Chapter 4 dungeon is basically weak to Bow so if you get one of the multi-hit Bow skills and use the ch.3 duel's 2 hit sword it's the most efficient farming I found to prep for Mugen
    - Mugen is a total dickwad, You'll want to save Every single Wriggle Root you get to heal+clear Terror just before breaking him Cause you can't drag him into a drawn out fight and win (he'll eventually drop you to 1hp then finish the job with his other actions)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I was one of the ones debating it. I'm running through the Journey to Dawn finale, but looking at my options.
      Hikari seems like the obvious pick, being tanky, strong, and his unique talent letting him break damn near anything with some preperation.
      Osvald is also tempting since Mug would let you level pretty good and get tons of free shit.
      Also Partitio for constant access to merchant since it's just a strong job in general.

      I'm sure Ochette's a solid pick too since she can also duel people and level pretty solidly.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Actually also considered another point in Ochette's favor is if she can finish her own story, the Provoke Beasts glitch gives her probably the strongest nuke turn in the game

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Hikari was fun, running around dueling people for the proper skills for specific areas/dungeons/bosses was cool but while I was able to beat Rai Mei at like 34 I was near 50 when I beat Mugen because I kept trying different things and he kept beating my ass ruthlessly

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm gonna start my Osvald solo wish me luck lads

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >made of tissue paper during earlygame
      >requires tons of inn rest and/or plums which means huge financial problems

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I like making myself suffer, thanks anon

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Do you have a plan going in? I'm the HIkari bro and I was thinking about Doing Casti next cause I love her but if you had cool ideas for Osvald I'd love to hear em

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I might rush Warrior subclass and then grab the spear and sword fire boost weapon. Other than that I'll probably just make shit up along the way.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Holy shit Ori is really in Osvald's ch1 on the left this b***h

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You can see her in a large number of chapters in the background.
      And she's at the very back of the auditorium in the epilogue.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Hell, she even pops up and speaks directly to Castti in her last chapter but her name's just "scrivener"

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pick one

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Tressa is my wife!

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why does TOTO get a lot more art than CHAP?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Temenos, Throne, and Osvald are the go-to team for utility and AOE so chances are that most people gravitated to them. Temenos probably being the biggest one - even before his smug personality - with his base class group heal because healers are generally important in rpgs.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because it really feels like this game was just meant to be quadropath traveler and the western continent was just hastily added in once the devs realized that they already named the game octopath again.
      That's why all the stories of CHAP are so shit compared to OTTO

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because Ochette and Osvald are the best characters, and OTTO is the only team comp that works for them.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        But I used OPAH and COTT (pairing up the Crossed Paths characters) and both parties worked amazingly well together. Hell, with how malleable the jobs are, any party is feasible.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >playing the first game
    >finish all the stories
    >get ready to go for the real final boss
    >find out I need to use everyone so I have to grind up the four I didn't use who are all at level 30
    Killed any desire I had to finish. Leveling is way too fricking slow in this game for this bullshit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Leveling is way too fricking slow
      Bro, your Alrond?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        He was playing the first game.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I don't think Alrond is in the first game

          Bros... my reading comprehension...

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I don't think Alrond is in the first game

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It wouldn't be if you didn't go full moron and use only 4 members.
      If you cycle 7 members with your main you will be lvl 60 once you finish all quests.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If i really hated how the eight characters and their stories were really disjointed and you had to travel halfway across the worst just to get to the next part, will i like 2 better? Did they fix the flow of the game?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No, OT2 has a similar structure to OT1

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's too bad Teach is fricking useless because the animation for it is kind of funny

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      literally what I thought of

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Has any one tried risk it all + seduction on teach?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yes, use the +1 buff duration from dancer and the double recovery speed from conjurer and you get 3 buffed to the max characters for free. Using Seduction on Casti EX skill does the same but better though.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Any mod /cheat /save edit to change my main character?
    With a party of 4 but 8 total characters there is good way to switch them around to keep them at similar level.
    I want to do two 4man parties and do their quests in order but the whole main character can't be benched is a b***h

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You can bench your main after beating their story.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        being forced to carry my main around for 80% of the game isn't a good solution

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You can cheat/save edit in the items that let you get EXP and JP on benched party members if it bothers you enough, or just focus on your protagonists route.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >items that let you get EXP and JP on benched party members
            that's a thing?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Not in the normal game obviously.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >they have the means to do it
                >chose not to add it in
                frick you squeenix

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    God, why is Osvald so good!

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    what did she mean by this???

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      she doesn't know how staffs work

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >but I have a sheath for your staff right here, inquisitor... 🙂

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Temenos should have fugged her afterward

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Some staffs don't need to be sheathed
      Is that meant to mean temenos takes wiener?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Are straights really this oblivious lmao

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        He’s being autistic by pointing out using “staff” as an innuendo for his penis and “sheathe” as an innuendo for her vegana doesn’t make sense because actual staffs don’t use sheathes. He is not gay.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Can you find her in post game?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Those houses disappear the next time you go up that road.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    partitio with arcanist secondary is fricking broken
    enjoy no one ever getting hit again

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Sidestep is shit because everything can be beaten in the first few turns.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I finished the game today and miss it already. Such powerful story telling and SOUL.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Such powerful story telling
      At least in 4 of the 8 stories, yes.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I saw in an interview for Octopath 1 that the lead writer only actually wrote 3 of the 8 stories. This has left me wondering what the distribution was like for Octo 2. I think the only story that felt a bit shallow to me was Ozvald, but some were clearly better than others, like Castti and Throne's.

        Now, and if this offends you I don't apologize, I think Agnea is the litmus test for taste with Octo 2. Her story perfectly aligns with the themes of the games and conveys it not through intense battling but through inspiring people with passion. Anyone who doesn't like Agnea in my opinion has no eye for story telling and just cares about the surface level elements of a plot like how many assassins or betrayals there are.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Anyone who doesn't like Agnea in my opinion has no eye for story telling
          yeah Giselle suddenly getting stage fright for no reason and then getting over it instantly is truly peak storytelling

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Seeing a mentally handicapped person like Agnea try her best motivated her

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          throne's is the second-worst story, after hikari.
          it's conspicuous how the most martial characters are also the most pathetic, while the healers are the most assertive and aggressive. this fits well with the EXTREMELY childish themes of the game. Agnea fits perfectly within it, as does Partitio. but the game is indeed a good litmus test for one's eye for story telling, since it's literally naturo-tier "I punch my enemies in the face and then they become my friends :)", as if what actually happens when partitio gives the various business goons new jobs isn't that they go straight back to their old ways right away. the whole game is at the level of sesame street, though probably worse since at least sesame street has actually good messages as well, simple though they may be. like, you watch an episode where one guy wants donuts, and he gets donuts form everyone ,and then he eats too many of them and throws up, and the message of the episode is too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. that's unironically more complex than octopath traveller's messages and themes.
          I can't believe people above the age of 8 are seriously treating this game's story as if it's not embarrassing. I would say the game was obviously written for preschool children, except it's full of murder and rape and torturing children then sacrificing them to dark gods, it's obviously aimed at adults, or at beast young adults, yet it's TOLD as if it's for children.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I disregard any opinion from frogposters since they are always wrong.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Frog website.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Frogposter can't appreciate saccharine storytelling
            Not everything has to be SICKDARK you fricking homosexual, and besides, this game still shows
            >Mass Murder
            >Genocide of entire nations
            >Child murder
            >Dementia
            >Parental loss
            >Beheadings
            etc.
            Your problem seems to be that the main characters in this game are good people that want to do good in a world that's neither good nor evil.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >castti
          >better
          Her story feels so rushed like it was thr last one they had to make and just had to quickly hack something together to make the launch date.
          Most of her chapters don't even have a dungeon or boss and are just endless walls of text.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Ch 3 is the only one without a boss

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Most of her chapters don't even have a dungeon or boss and are just endless walls of text.
            pretty sure she has a dungeon for every chapter, even the one without a boss

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              There’s no dungeon in Winterbloom but there is a boss

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I don't like Agnea story only because it's the generic cliche story done a billion times. Compared to Castti, Ochette or Osvald it's just weak and uninteresting. Agnea being mediocre as a gameplay unit doesn't help either

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >I saw in an interview for Octopath 1 that the lead writer only actually wrote 3 of the 8 stories. This has left me wondering what the distribution was like for Octo 2.
          This explains so much. Throughout the whole of OT2 I was troubled by the stark divergence in quality between stories, and thought they had to have different writers. It explains why some of the stories have great dialogue and others are hot garbage. I thought it might even be poor English localisation.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I think the only weak story is Hikari's, which isn't necessarily even bad. Anyone else's story is a perfectly acceptable answer if I were to ask which is the best story in the game.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I really ended up liking Hikari's. It had a tournament arc that felt much more like a tournament compared to Olberic's, Chapter 3 was filler tier, Chapter 4 had a cool 'flashback duel' with Young Hikari who had his own skills and everything makes me wish he had 'story skills' like Ochette's story beasts, I felt really bad for getting rid of Hachimonjigiri, and his Chapter 5 was great. Finally killing Ritsu, the Shadow Duel, beating Mugen.
          Sure it's cliche as frick and might as well be ripped straight out of say, Fire Emblem, but I like it anyway. It's told well enough for the most part.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    For some reason I keep forgetting to check if bosses can be captured via Ochette's ability unless it's one of her story specific ones. I realize no story bosses can be captured, but have I missed out on any big ones from optional dungeons? I accidentally killed Lord of the Sands before trying to capture it and same with the whirlpool boss.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think most bosses are untamable when you fight them as a boss and you have to wait until they become a random encounter after you beat them. Lord of Sands I know shows up as a random encounter, as does the shark

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is this game worth trying at all if I couldn't stand how shallow the first game was? It was just too casual both mechanics and story wise, every single facet of it felt inoffensive and meaningless. It was the ultimate nostalgia bait made to appeal to everyone (and at the same time no one in particular). The whole thing was just a slog that you would only play to pass time, the game never challenged you and the story didn't have anything interesting to say.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If you didn't like the first one then no this one probably didn't change/add enough to change your mind on it

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My three favorite final boss fights were Osvald's, Hikari's and Partitio's.

    Osvalds became a shonen battle out of nowhere which was hilarious, Hikari had multiple fights in one chapter with a good story, and Partitio just owning Roque and his invention was cool. He really is a miracle man.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is darkling supposed to be fricking bullshit or I just suck? I know that just deleting boss before it can act is a thing but if you ever let this thing to act it immediately nukes half the party by moving multiple times in a row and having access to down your characters to 1 hp attack. They couldn't just make bosses you burst or die, even less story ones

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I didn't struggle too much but I had the Owl boss so I don't know if they were different. From what I've read in earlier threads, doing damage too fast is actually dangerous because it has thresholds for using certain moves. If you damage it too quickly, it will use all these insane moves in a row that are nearly impossible to survive. Also avoid leghold trap as it can frick you into it using its bring to 1hp move and then using a move right after. You need to be able to heal between its attacks rather than it attacking 2-3 times in a row at the end of the turn.

      I just wanna know what Ochette screams at max boost
      something something kono peco-da?

      I'm partial to the "Rododododo" myself

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I was doing owl too and it thoroughly destroyed my ass. And apparently it is bullshit because i did partitio next and train got to red before i could even actually deal huge damage to it

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i didn't think octo 1 was particularly good but for some reason i'm really enjoying this one, i think the characters are just way better, doing my first team of Oswald, Partitio, Throne and Temenos and every single one of their stories has been interesting so far. Just fought Father and it was actually kinda sad.
    Hoping the other 4s stories are also good.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >OT1 comes out
      >say it's boring, get called a dunkey shill
      >OT2 comes out
      >suddenly everyone agrees that OT1 had a bunch of flaws that OT2 fixed
      lol

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Only 2 of the stories in 1 were outright bad, the rest were decent to amazing.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          from what I remember, the only story I liked in 1 was the Apothecary, everyone else's was kinda boring

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Everything has flaws, but Octo 1 was still good fun. Octo 2 is about 95% the same with some minor tweaks.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Everyone understood the flaws of OT1 tbh

          what are the flaws of ot1?
          im planning of playing it after i finish 2

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Everyone understood the flaws of OT1 tbh

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I did everyone's chapter 2 and working on thier chapter 3s now. Having a problem finding good gear, have like 200k but cant find any decent gear at the venders. What cities should I be looking for to buy good stuff?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      honestly most of my good gear was gotten through stealing and mug

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I havent done any of that

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          there's some good gear, so just bust out Agnea or Throne
          even the starting towns have some great gear

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >buying equipment
      >ever
      Couldn't be me. The funny scholar who beats people up at night (or buying it if you're of the more peaceful sort) and dungeon diving is the way to go. Sidequests have good stuff, too.

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Play a chapter or two
    >Take a break and do something else
    >Play a chapter or two
    >Take a break and do something else
    >Rinse repeat until I beat the game
    Am I autistic? I feel like the episodic nature of these chapters makes it easier for me to take my time

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Am I autistic?
      Yes, not for playing that way, but for asking this on Ganker

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    bawd

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They flirt on several occasions. She would be a good fit for him and his wild attitude.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Partitio already fricked Castti

      What the frick is this translation changes or does she say she’s getting raw dogged in JP too?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        She just teases him to give a practical joke about what amnesia feels like, whether it actually happened is left ambiguous.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >YWN be wiener teased by Castti
          Why even fricking live

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How old are the cast? The only one that was obvious is Partitio at 24. I'm guessing Osvald and Castii are the oldest? Are the ages ever mentioned in-game for other characters?

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    this group seems pretty popular in fanart, much moreso than the western folks

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think it’s just the people who do one team of four first just recruit the ones who are nearby.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah but you rarely see group fanart of Castti/Hikari/Agnea/Partitio. It's usually just Agnea/Hikari or solo Partitio

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Any good Throne coomer art out there?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Temenos is pretty much the MC of the game
      >all the stories there are at least good with only Throne going fullmoron but otherwise it was great
      >their competition in the western continent is Casti and kinda Partitio

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Temenos is pretty much the MC of the game
        He's the one with the closest ties to the main plot, but Hikari is the one who has the most legit reason to travel around the entire fricking world and recruiting the whole party.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Because the plot is relevant and I can buy him befriending everyone.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, placing the spear girl in another corner of world definitively made sense and wasn't just for convenience.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why is Thrones story full moron? I mean yeah it's not the best and the reveal at the end is what the frick but otherwise it's alright imo

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think people likes to associate them because it's the team that can do some morally questionable stuff, in both story and path actions. Ochette is a funny contrast to the other 3 too, being the girl who's so pure darkness fears her and yet can send her monsters to attack random people.

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Partitio: should we draw up a written contract about this 80 billion loan you’re giving me?
    >Alrond: haha no don’t worry about it

    Is he moronic

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Alrond wants Partitio's dick so bad

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Actually recieving that money and having you buy the rights from Roque was surprisingly kino

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Hikari
    >Deep Sleep
    >anti-sleep accessory
    >five counter attacks in the buffer
    Literally immortal what the frick

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is Kazan always the final big bad guy or would it have been someone else if I had picked a different MC?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It was Pala for me and I picked Agnea as MC.

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >doing hikari/agnea's crossed fate
    >Agnea:what's that sound
    >Hikari: That's a Lute! an instrument from Ku!
    why the frick didn't they just leave it a Biwa if they were going to keep it a Ku-ese instrument? I know Biwa is a type of Lute, but why would Hikari?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      fr some reason troonylations are mostly done by troonhouse so you shouldn't ever expect competence from them. It's amazing we don't have apollo's hamburgers yet

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Listening to travel banter during hikari chapter 4
    >Another conversation of implying Castti is the team's mom with comparisons to hikari's mom
    >Osvald gets distracted by a complex escape plan and forgets he has magic
    >Hikari talks about his mom and how he wishes agnea could have met her
    Dunno why but I just found it all funny considering the chapter was meant to be very serious and backstory heavy.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That chapter is like the stupidest one in the game.

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is the woman Throné doesn't save in Winterbloom meant to be the same woman who asks her to kill her baby in Lostseed? I got the same impression from them but there was no recognition on either's part

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      One was a blonde and the other was a brunette so no.

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What kind of personalities do you want for the octopath 3 party? I vote pic related for the Apothecary next time. She can have the detective quest instead of Temenos.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Male Dancer
      Female Warrior martial artist

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Male Dancer
        seems a bit odd in a medieval setting, although i'm sure they could make it work if they wanted to.
        >Female Warrior martial artist
        Would they add a fist weapon type for her? or would she still just be swords/spears/axes?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >seems a bit odd in a medieval setting
          This game ended with trains being invented. I don't think its a medieval setting anymore.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          its funny that a good male dancer will be much harder to pull off than a female warrior

          Just make him a beastling so he’s more of a War Dancer

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        its funny that a good male dancer will be much harder to pull off than a female warrior

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Tribal dancer, super jacked, tanned and with body paint.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If they do this again I want 8 totally new classes honestly.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What classes would be cool?

        A blue mage job would be interesting

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >blue mage
          so Hikari/Ochette?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Necromancer
          They can capture various undead type mobs like Ochette and use them in battle. Other class abilities involve life and SP taps and curses and debuffs for mobs.

          Path action lets them talk to spirits of dead people at night that nobody else can see.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Pretty interesting concept

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I want a Paladin tbh, some Warrior/Cleric Hybrid
          I know you can get that right now by making Hikari a Cleric, but it just doesn't feel the same

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          A gunslinger might work

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Monk class

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They could do hybrid classes. That'd be neat to explore.

          Warrior/Cleric could be Paladin.
          Thief/Hunter could be Bandit.
          Scholar/Dancer could be Artist.
          Apothecary/Merchant could be Lobbyist.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I don't really see the point in forcing "new" classes, you'd just end up with like "Knight" instead of Warrior and "Sorcerer" instead of Scholar. Aside from changing Dancer to Bard there aren't that many interesting ways to tweak the eight classes

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I want the Apothecary be a drug dealer in the next game and have the criminal background.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'd like to see a Hunter that has to assimilate into a more modern society. Like he's part of a semi-autonomous tribe [think the Nord in Kiseki or the Karaya in Suikoden 3] and gets drafted as a soldier by the tribe's parent state.

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Ok bros, which characters final boss is the best and why?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I liked Agneas but maybe only because it's such a big contrast in quality to the rest of her story.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Hikaris story is just sleep inducing boring.
          It was the only story where I actually skipped some cutscenes because it was just so bad and boring.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            But he fights for his friends

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Hikaris story is just sleep inducing boring
            I think it's supposed to be like classic samurai stories. It's kinda nice having an extremely straightforward character like Hikari after the angsty Osvald and Throne stories.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Osvlads.
      Due to the VAs

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Miles clear of Engage

  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    We’re never going to get Octopath 3..

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Give it 4-5 more years.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Probably not, yeah.
      2 flopped BIGLY so it will be the last entry of the series.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >2 flopped BIGLY
        no it didn't

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Source?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I just want Triangle Strategy II

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Triangle Story was kinda meh. Not as good as Fire Emblem at all. Octopath or Bravely are better series to focus on.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Not as good as Fire Emblem at all.
          Jesus christ that is some horrid taste

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >some ironic FE weeb actually got filtered by Triangle
          Top kek

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Not as good as Fire Emblem at all
          the only thing that fire emblem ever created that was as good as triangle strategy was dimitri, everything else is utter shite

  55. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  56. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The problem with Hikari's route is that it's framed as an east asian feudal war drama, but Ku is so culturally and geographically removed from the rest of Solistia that it doesn't work. This isn't to say that all of Japan or China are homogenous, but normally if you're exiled from Region A and go to raise an Army in Region B, you see some of the effects of Region A's tyranny on your journey, and your own efforts in Region B will have some ripple effect in the wider nation because everything is more inter-connected. Hikari's events just feel like they're checking items off of a list rather than being immediately relevant to Hinoeuma [especially Rai Mei having a castle on the other side of the world because ???], which itself is only composed of Ku, one other town and one outpost. To say nothing of the fact that we don't see Mugen expand his 'flames of war' outside of Hinoeuma either. I think ideally you'd want to have Hikari participate in another War elsewhere in Ch2 in order to gain experience as a commander [wherein you'd meet up with Kazan] and then have the rest of his chapters take place in Hinoeuma itself, winning back territories in the outskirts of Ku before taking back Ku itself. The other thing working against it is that Mugen is a pretty shite villain.

    Throne's story is bad because the asspull at the end doesn't really land and just comes off as strange rather than profound. I'm almost positive that they were going to go for a 'Blacksnakes are Homunculi" angle before deciding it was too cliched, but the "I impregnated countless women" comes off as completely nonsensical. It doesn't really wrap up Throne's development outside of just trying to mindfrick her before she comes back to her senses, which is a shame because she's a very good character and Ch3 was kino.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think it's hilarious that a desert Nation has a vassal Clan on LITERALLY the other side of the world who quake in their boots at the thought of disappointing their master.
      That's not how geopolitics works...at all. Especially not in times when the fast way to travel was by horse

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        i think maybe just maybe it would have worked if Mugen went full Fire Lord Ozai and started actually conquering the world, and had taken Stormhail some years prior, but it's just kind of there because "well it just is ok". like even if it was a long-held Ku settlement, I'm pretty sure it'd be hard to defend logistically, especially when there's not a single Ku soldier in Stormhail or anywhere outside of Ku.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The world is round

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They don't know that yet. NPCs mention that Montwise is at the eastern edge of the known world. Meaning all of Osterra would be to the west.

          It's even more nonsensical that the Church's military arm has its base there too. Which group was there first and how did they allow this other powerful military group to stake a claim in this era? None of it makes any sense logistically.

          >Stormhail residents keep bringing up feud between Clan Mei and the Church
          >It is never addressed

          They could do hybrid classes. That'd be neat to explore.

          Warrior/Cleric could be Paladin.
          Thief/Hunter could be Bandit.
          Scholar/Dancer could be Artist.
          Apothecary/Merchant could be Lobbyist.

          >Apothecary/Merchant
          Snake Oil Salesman

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >has a vassal Clan on LITERALLY the other side of the world who quake in their boots at the thought of disappointing their master.
        that's literally how it works irl
        a good modern example would be germany and japan
        plus i don't really get why are you all so hung up on it when the clan is basically planted there as an outpost to mount assault on the east continent and the clan leader is deathly afraid of Mugen murdering her for insubordination (which he definitely will)

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's even more nonsensical that the Church's military arm has its base there too. Which group was there first and how did they allow this other powerful military group to stake a claim in this era? None of it makes any sense logistically.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think Hikari's story just doesn't really work in the Octopath format, it needs more room to flesh everything out, moreso than the other stories

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That's because it's basically a footnotes version of Fire Emblem.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Peace loving prince, cast out of his home by "evil force"
          >goes looking for his friends, only to end up leading a slave rebellion
          >Also spends his downtime helping a gang of weirdos with their own quests
          I'm only 2 chapters in, but the math certainly checks out.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Don't forget the quintessential red emperor archetype

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Given the implication of his latent power/cursed blood/evil side and he really starts to look closer to the post-awakening FE MCs even before the truth of it all gets laid out for you. I'm actually curios how well he'd score on an FE protag checklist/bingo sheet

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >sword user
              >exiled from home
              >recruits ragtag group
              >fights evil man in big armor
              >mysterious power from bloodline
              >travels across the land solving problems before retaking his home

              I think he hits every point except for having his own legendary sword and a strange hair colour

  57. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Used to play a ton of Golden Sun/Final Fantasy V and VI on my GBA when I was a kid
    >Kinda lost interest in JRPGs afterwards
    >Start playing OT2
    >Can't tear myself away from it, feel like those summers twenty years ago
    This game is so good bros

  58. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Castii asks about Ochette's ears
    >only animal ears on top of head, area where human ears would be is completely empty
    I see.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      why would she have human ears?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        some artists are moronic

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I prefer double sets of ears, feels much more traditional catgirl-esque

  59. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Legit question, any gay/lesbo/troony characters?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      just one: (You)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Veronica seems to be gay for Dolcinea. I liked her boss sprite she seemed to have big fat breasts.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This game is full of lesbians
        Castii and Malaya
        Dolcinea and Veronica
        Pala and Mikka

        Aaaaand skip.

        thx bros.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This game is full of lesbians
      Castii and Malaya
      Dolcinea and Veronica
      Pala and Mikka

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        don't forget that one princess in timberrain

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >autist doesn't understand friendship

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          pala and mikka is gay as frick

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Pala literally calls Mikka her wife lol

            dumbass

            >replying to it
            why?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Pala literally calls Mikka her wife lol

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          dumbass

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Castii
        You wish Malaya.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's not cheating if you're pegging someone

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Castii and Malaya
        Holy cope
        >Pala and Mikka
        She's a kid you stupid coomer

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >She's a kid you stupid coomer
          do Mikka's follow-up quest

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Pala literally calls her "my wife". It's ogre for you.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Castii
        You wish Malaya.

        >Castii and Malaya
        Holy cope
        >Pala and Mikka
        She's a kid you stupid coomer

        Poor Andy.

  60. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Did literally anyone not pick Mahina?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I picked Akala. The owl is gay.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I thought everyone picked Akala

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It feels like most people picked her

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >picking the owl

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'd guess like ~90+% picked Mahina, simply because she is way more prominent on Ochettes character art.
      I didn't even know Akala was even on there until I double checked after the decision.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I picked Akala. It's a cooler name plus dogs > hooters.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I figured elemental weaknesses were more useful on a physical class

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yep this is why I picked her, plus I like owls
        It's a lot harder to probe for elemental weaknesses than it is for physicals, Mahina automatically telling you what it is makes it a lot simpler to plan around breaks

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >It's a lot harder to probe for elemental weaknesses than it is for physicals
          Analyze and Osvald exist

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Analyze and Osvald are both just as good if not better on average at finding physical weaknesses than magical ones.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Magic sucks so figuring out elements is more problematic so it's better to figure physical first then analyze for the rest, usually very few elementals
              plus someone said in the threads that jackal is smart enough to use finisher on broken enemies anytime while owl isn't and needs all weaknesses shown

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >plus someone said in the threads that jackal is smart enough to use finisher on broken enemies anytime while owl isn't and needs all weaknesses shown
                And you're just going to take their word for it? Mahina uses Arcane Blade on broken enemies 100% of the time.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >plus someone said in the threads that jackal is smart enough to use finisher on broken enemies anytime while owl isn't and needs all weaknesses shown
                And you're just going to take their word for it? Mahina uses Arcane Blade on broken enemies 100% of the time.

                Oh nevermind i see what you meant to say. Akala prioritizes using "Finishing Blow" on broken enemies over breaking non-broken enemies, whereas Mahina uses Arcane Blade on ALL enemies, but only when they're all broken, otherwise she continues using elemental attacks to break enemies shields.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >It's a lot harder to probe for elemental weaknesses than it is for physicals
          Lol, call me when physical has a skill like Elemental Barrage for checking weaknesses.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >when physical has a skill like Elemental Barrage for checking weaknesses.
            sixfold strike

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >enemy mogs you by being weak to dark, wind, or light
            Elemental Barrage is good but you're a retars.

  61. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Where is that little girl that runs out of Crackridge going?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the rape hut

  62. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Story any good this time round?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      yeah

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      yes, better than the first IMO. the individual stories are deeper (and several go WAY darker) and have more time to breathe since they aren't locked to only 3 chapters after recruitment, there's Crossed Paths chapters where two characters actively adventure together, and the overall reveal comes together a bit better than OT1's epilogue IMO.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        yes, better than the first IMO. the individual stories are deeper (and several go WAY darker) and have more time to breathe since they aren't locked to only 3 chapters after recruitment, there's Crossed Paths chapters where two characters actively adventure together, and the overall reveal comes together a bit better than OT1's epilogue IMO.

        yeah

        Like FF9/Chrono Trigger/Xeno good? Or just better than the original OT? I gotta set my expectations...

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          you're not getting a grand epic adventure, you're getting concurrent stories all stemming from the same problem. so, better than OT1, but it's not the type of story that FF9/CT is

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >FF9/Chrono Trigger/Xeno

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Those are wholly different types of stories. Best description for OT2 was the writers actually succeeded in what they were originally trying to do with the first game.

  63. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What do I do about the guy who just keeps asking for a grape and a plum in New Desta?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      lug his father from canalbrine to him

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You need to bring his Dad along with you to give him a stern talking to, I don't remember which city he's in though

      [...]
      [...]
      Like FF9/Chrono Trigger/Xeno good? Or just better than the original OT? I gotta set my expectations...

      for me it's an 8.5/10. i have different opinions on those 3 games than you but it's a very good RPG that's worth playing

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Have Temenos beat the shit out of him until you find out what town his dad is in, you should be able to figure the out the rest from that.

  64. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >33 hours in
    >main team is level 64-66
    >just got 8th traveler
    I think I'm ready for chapter II

  65. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i wish my autism allowed me to keep stupid skills like these for funny moments

  66. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >use seduction on Castii
    >max boost EX skill
    >repeat
    You just steamroll everything. Found out that the 'skill to everyone' buff applies to Warriors counter stance, break shields all day erry day

  67. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      cute

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      These two are just friends btw.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Tem is busy grieving over his roommate Crick to give Throne the time of day.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        friends with each other's penises

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I really wasn't interested in OT1 but I might pick up this one for the qt priest

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        He's ultra sassy, it's a great character and kinda unexpected after how bland Ophilia was

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >I will get answers

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >.............So it goes.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >May the sacred flame guide you... or something like that

  68. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    owl is ugly and fits more for the final boss anyway

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I saw the warped version of Akala, and warped Makina looks FAR more menacing as a Darkling, otherwise it is just another cliche beast.

  69. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Any particular reason why this game is getting much more fan art than the first?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it's a better game

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Dunno. Characters are more likable and better written this time. Maybe that's why.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Where the frick is the porn

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      characters have much more breadth and depth, and interact with each other in interesting ways that are fun to draw/depict

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Multiplat, more people know about it thanks to the first game's existence, more relationship dynamics.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because jrpgs are more mainstream now than it's ever been.
      In general anime and other media has progressively gotten a larger crowd of consumers since a lot of the people who were 14 when octopath came out are now 18 and adults.
      They can finally participate in discussion by a game that may have been nostalgic for them as a teenager.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Any particular reason why this game is getting much more fan art than the first?

      better game
      better characters
      simple as

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      More interesting and emotive characters, more interaction, better story

  70. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think it's hilarious that you can start as Agnea and recruit both of them
      >Hey, I'm on my way to travel the world to become a superstar
      >We are convicted criminals on a journey to kill the people who wronged us
      >Wanna join up? :3
      >Sure why not

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        She works better as a recruited character were her sister begs you to be her travel buddy to keep her safe.

  71. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  72. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Where the frick is the "tingly meat" recipe? The only town i haven't been in is the throne's final chapter one

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's one of the early towns, maybe New Delsta?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's one of the early towns, maybe New Delsta?

      Old lady in Tropu'hopu and her spicy chicken recipe actually.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Which quest is that, is that the beastling one in Ochette’s village? You get the spicy chicken recipe in Tropohopu or whatever it’s called

        bullshit i was totally sure i checked the entire place

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          day/night?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            theater and apparently not when you do agnea's mission

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Which quest is that, is that the beastling one in Ochette’s village? You get the spicy chicken recipe in Tropohopu or whatever it’s called

  73. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  74. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Do the characters still not interact with each other in any way making it feel like 8 completely redundant slogs?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      every single chapter has multiple travel banters in it (which you can view from the journal), bench characters show up in taverns, there are Crossed Paths now where character pairs have their own quests separate from their main storylines, and the endgame/postgame has a bunch of interaction.
      The characters also all yap and jabber nonstop to each other during combat

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Travel Banters return but they're all permanent in the journal if you miss them or didn't even have the right party member with you
        Paired chapters are fairly short but as the name implies pair 2 characters for a few chapters
        True endgame has some chapters dedicated to all of them in the party with the true final boss looming at the end

        So no, pass from me then. I'll wait until they use this engine for an actually good game, like a remake of Final Fantasy 5 or 6.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >wants character interaction
          >cites a game where there's all of 30-40 lines of the party interacting with each other
          >the other game has characters permanently going silent once they're recruited in the second world

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          bro isn't there even less party interaction in those games

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >wants character interaction
            >cites a game where there's all of 30-40 lines of the party interacting with each other
            >the other game has characters permanently going silent once they're recruited in the second world

            This has to be bait lmao

            That's not the gimmick of those games morons, those games have actual stories.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              so you went from asking about character interactions to demanding a main story?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          This has to be bait lmao

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >The characters also all yap and jabber nonstop to each other during combat
        So utterly pointless bullshit then,

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >we want characters interacting with each other!
          ok, the characters interact during their individual chapters, they interact during explicit paired-off chapters, and they converse during battle
          >n-no! that's utterly pointless bullshit!

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            At this point just assume anyone who asks about "character interactions" is not asking in good faith

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Travel Banters return but they're all permanent in the journal if you miss them or didn't even have the right party member with you
      Paired chapters are fairly short but as the name implies pair 2 characters for a few chapters
      True endgame has some chapters dedicated to all of them in the party with the true final boss looming at the end

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The sequel is exactly the same as the first game, just with different characters. So the writing/charaterization is just as bad, the enemy weakness system is just as much of a crapshoot, and the battles are just as artificially drawn out as long as possible

  75. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Am I right that just like in the first game theres eventually a point where youre forced to make all 8 party members good?

  76. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I mean, I'd love a full remake of FF6 using this HD2D style. Places like Zozo and Vector would look great

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      In the pixel remaster, they use that style for Celes opera scene

  77. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >buffs the shit out of your entire party

  78. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Where can I get a Great Blade?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      sold in sai, soldier at night in sai, guard house hidden item in timberain

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's sold in a shop but I can't recall the city

  79. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I just used Drastic Measures Castti in a debuff-centric team and I have been baptized by those numbers

  80. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  81. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What's Partitios accent like in the Jap dub? The American cowboy-forrest Gump accent is hilarious but it really grows on you

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think he just talks in Osaka-ben, so a similar hick accent if not as distinctly outdated as cowboy talk is.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Bumpkin dialect with a drawl. Pretty much what his VA usually does: see Moses from Tales of Legendia.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      idk but it sounds amazing when using inventor skills

  82. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Did Temenos pus a baby in Ochette? that kid is way too smol to be the regular Ochette.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        who wouldn't?

  83. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I really dig Osvald's design, something about a shaggy homeless professor is cool as hell.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Don't forget that he's canonically shredded too. Like his mug ability isn't him using magic to beat people up, he does it even when his magic is sealed.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Actual muscle wizard

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I love that he's straight up like "Gotta stay fit to keep the mind healthy". It all just comes back to wanting to do everything he can to be as smart as he can.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah I love the concept
      Brilliant Professor who is also built like a truck and spends his days reading and his nights going around town serving knuckle sandwiches

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >extracts your info during the day
        >extracts your belongings at night
        Professor Chad

  84. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Might be a stupid question but do attack effects on equipment on weapons only work if you do an actual basic attack with them? Trying to figure out if I should swap out the conqueror's sword since I barely use the associated skill on my armsmaster and I already have other blades that have 100+ atk power over its base attack. On a similar note how does stacking bonuses work for weapons and attacks that don't use a specific weapon anyway?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i remember testing the Conquerer's Sword vs any other weapon and Conquerer's did more damage because of the +250 atk when broken even when i was using a skill and not just the basic attack.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Not 100% on this, but i think any weapon passives apply to any skill that uses that weapon, and if a skill doesn't specify a weapon i think it equips the one with the highest attack and applies that weapon's effects to the attack.

  85. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    tbh the big thing i appreciate about this game is how it doesn't fall into the same tropes/pitfalls of jrpg writing, obviously it has /some/ but there are such good counterexamples. not even just the ch 1 fake death scares with master juvah and papp but also

    >Throne actually killing Mother and Father like she initially set out to do, even after the whole bullshit sympathy scene for both of them, especially Father [whom Throne herself feels some sympathy for]. Any other JRPG protag would have forgiven them like a b***h
    >Castti going against her nature as an apothecary and killing Trousseau, then dropping the most badass quote in the game about "I had to extend a hand to take one life, in order to save many" when Trousseau tries to unnerve her
    >Then finally Hikari, who looked to be the worst offender with his classic "Demon power that doesn't actually harm or kill anyone but just makes the character strong and edgy", This came off as pretty lame and cliched for the first few chapters until they drop the reveal that the edgy demon power DID actually kill people when Hikari was a child, and that the fact that it hasn't consumed Hikari since is actually a testament to his own inner strength and conviction, which is shown in contrast to Mugen, who is completely consumed, and likely King Jigo as well. Very cool way of subverting that trope honestly
    basically it's neat to have main characters with actual convictions instead of baby bullshit morality appeals when villains need to die

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's been like that in the 1st game like Miguel Twinspears from Alfyn's ch3.

      So why is everyone a zombie in Lostseed?

      Incest babies
      Failed attempts at creating vessels to house youknowwho

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Hikari
      wasn't it actually because of his mother's blood that he doesn't lose his shit? Jigo probably just fricked her so much he absorbed some of her pussy juice magic and that's why he mellowed out when he got older.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        MUGEN WAS RIGHT
        HOW DARE SHE TAINT THE BLOODLINE

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Hikari is an unironic half devil/half angel.

        How much more fricking chuuni can you get.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I vaguely remember Mugen mentioning that, maybe it just got memory holed in favor of headcanon. I guess I gave them too much credit

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Honestly the best thing about the writing in these games has always been the willingness to have mature themes and somewhat subvert standard jrpg expectations. I really thought I was going to hate Alfyn's chapters in OT1 because his personality was terrible, but I was pleasantly surprised that after his intro they basically used every subsequent chapter to tell a parable about a different part of medical ethics, with some pretty decent moral complexity.

  86. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    So why is everyone a zombie in Lostseed?

  87. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Jesus, Partitio's Ch3 boss sucked. My team is starting to feel a bit weak. Is it even worth trying to use dancer or should I just stick to Thief secondary for debuffs?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >throne + more damage passive
      >use latent power
      >first turn use speed buff
      >2nd turn aebers reckoning
      Rip bosses

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Most shit melts before Blessing of Darkness even runs out so you don't even need the extra turn for a speed buff

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Depends on your team setup. I had more mileage with Thief doing support though. Armor Corrosive is basically Lion Dance for the whole party in a boss.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This is one thing I like about this games, is that debuffs and status effects actually work on bosses. Many RPGs usually make them immune to any of that.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I've been spoiled by Etrian Odyssey, so having debuffs and afflictions (poison in this case) actually work - extremely well - like in that series makes me happy.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, I think I'll switch Temenos back to Thief. Dancer only really gives me Elem Attack Up, Armor Corrosive and the ATK down debuffs seems more useful.

  88. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Does it really shit the bed on switch? I kinda want to play it while being comfy

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's smooth enough overall but I was playing Castti's final chapter earlier and I thought it was going to explode

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I understand the second half of that dungeon was supposed to show how dangerous the situation was with all the rain and fog/humidity but my Switch was chugging a bit, so I had to kill the boss as quickly as possible.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          This is probably the hardest final boss imo, and also there's something kino about fighting someone dressed as a plague doctor

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Agnea's final boss was actually the most difficult for me because of the removal of party members during the fight along with the Charm'ing.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm playing it on a switch from 2017 and it only ever drops frames when using icewind in certain places and during some travel banners for whatever reason.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        banters*

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I have insane frame drops during travel banners too. Got my Switch in 2018

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Some areas have dog vomit performance but you can just OC the switch slightly
      Portable works fine
      In either case it's a fricking turn based jrpg, as long as it doesn't drop to unplayable performance (it doesn't) it's okay

      I've been spoiled by Etrian Odyssey, so having debuffs and afflictions (poison in this case) actually work - extremely well - like in that series makes me happy.

      Poison is near useless and confuse/sleep outright don't work so unlike EO the statuses here suck. Blind is great though as are debuffs

  89. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Are there jobs other than the party member ones? I've got all of them except Scholar and wondering if I missed something.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes there's 4 extra jobs

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Ah ok thanks. Do you get them from guilds like the other ones?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          No, they're different, you get them from certain npcs.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          First one you can get is just outside Throne's starting city which will operate like a guild. The next two you get around mid-game and the last one is locked behind completing Hikari's story.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You get them from NPC's. One is super easy to find, just explore around Throne's starting point, but all the others are going to be in late game areas or hidden behind a difficult boss so don't worry too much about them while going through the story. As long as you explore everywhere as you play you'll find them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes there's 4 extra jobs

      Most are obtained kinda late game though

  90. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Who did you use the nuts on? I've been giving all speed and evasion to Throne and Elem Attack/SP to Osvald. Not sure about the rest.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I game the elemental defense ones to temenos, and the physical defense ones to hikari, and attack ones spread between throne and hikari, and critical ones to ochette

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If you didn't nut all over Ochette you're doing something wrong.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >If you didn't nut all over Partitio you're doing something wrong.
        fixed

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ph attack, accuracy and critical nuts to your phys damage dealers
      sp nuts generally went to the people with two non-caster jobs since they end up with terrible pools
      hp nuts to the caster types to help them survive
      all speed nuts to throne obviously
      ele def nuts to healers
      ele attack nuts to magic nukers until they can cap at 999 with whatever element boost weapons you need on them

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i plan to keep a save right before the superboss to play around with so i've used none of them yet, seeing as they're unnecessary to break the rest of the game

  91. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is Donate BP on Agnea as nuts as it sounds with her talent?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it doesn't work with her latent
      but the inventor skill does work with her latent

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      not as nuts as what Castii can just do as a baseline with whatever secondary job you still want to slap on her

  92. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I have to say something I really like about Hikari and his power is that it kinda represents Ku as a whole - immense power with the possibility to use it for war or peace. Jigo and Mugen were corrupted by it because they just wanted power and their kingdom for expansion (at least for most of Jigo's life) whereas Hikari can use his power without issue most of the time even before it changes to Light because he doesn't intend to use it for power, he just wants to help people, just like what he wants for Ku.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Does the game ever spell out whether Hikari's lowborn mom had Lumina family heritage? I assumed that was what balanced out his demon heritage and made him more of a perfect yin yang then than Mugen and his father.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Does the game ever spell out whether Hikari's lowborn mom had Lumina family heritage? I assumed that was what balanced out his demon heritage and made him more of a perfect yin yang then than Mugen and his father.
        I'm not sure although it makes perfect sense for that to be the case

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >unspoilering the spoiler

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            my bad, I'm a little bit moronic

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yah. His mom used her "battling uterus" to stop the evil bloodline.

  93. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Alright frens, what would be your ideal 4 character party, if you could mix the characters from both Octopath games? For me it's
    >Tressa
    >Osvald
    >Castii
    >Temenos

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Four Tressa's

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Elrica
      Castti
      Tressa
      Osvald

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Olberic. Partitio. Ochette. Castii.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Hikari, Castii, Agnaea, Throne

  94. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >decided to get into a 45 level area with level 30 characters
    >actually blazed through it because lol Hikari MC
    >there's a town with a debt collector at the end of it
    >my fricking face when i get the class from the blacksmith and equip it on Hikari

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I feel like Armsmaster is a waste in Hikari since he can get good weaponskills from dueling anyway.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        His weapon skills from dueling will have a shit for damage unless he can wield those weapon types. Armsmaster solves that issue and also gives him a frick huge elemental attack so he can be a semi competent elemental attacker on top of it since he gets some absolutely bullshit 3-elemental attacks from his blue magic.

        Besides, some skills are still better than armsmaster's. There's Squall of Arrows which is a 3-5 bow attack on all foes which is easier to utilize than the armsmaster's version.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >3-5 bow attack
          lol try 4-8

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Jesus christ

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I'm actually having trouble figuring out what's optimal on him when you have shit like:
              >limb from limb, single 4 hits sword
              >vicious rally, aoe 2 hits axe w/ 2 turn atk buff
              >frenzied fire, aoe 4-8 hits bow
              >fatal fang, random 4-8 hits dagger w/ poison chance
              >aggressive thrust, 4-8 random spear
              >mythical bore, single 1 hit spear that uses all sp and buffs damage based on the amount of sp used
              >deep sleep, 4 turn sleep (that can be nulled by a sleep prevention accessory) that restores 50/65/80/100% hp and sp
              >divine protection, invincibility buff that's affected by dancer's ult
              he even gets an ally guard and a knock off bp donation and sidestep so you don't have to sub merchant. and an enemy heal for kicks. they did not skimp on his blue mage skills.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >let us makethe dedicated physical powerhouse into a blue mage on top of it
                Love it but they really needed to give you more slots
                At least Armsmaster takes a load off his blue magic skills quite a bit

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Limb for Limb with Sealticge is enough damage for literally every fight in the game. Bring other useful or fun stuff.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Turn 1: Arcanist - Diffusion
                >Turn 2: Hikari - Let's End This and Arcanist - Inversion
                Now you have both attack and both defense ups and if done right the enemy won't get to attack for the half turn you have defense down.
                I also really like Twin Serpents as it is the only spear all skill in the game, hits twice, and when using Rai Mei's spear you get thunder pursuit on it as well.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Can you actually get a double 99k from his second EX skill if his ph attack is at or near 999?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, I had the crit boost accessory and the boost damage accessory equipped with around 950 physical attack with setup

  95. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I really love Ochette. She is such a joy. I could play a whole game with her as a protagonist.
    I like the other characters a lot too though. I am just saying.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      When compared to the Hunter from the first game Ochette is basicallt God. Frick I hated Hannit

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Her weird accent was off-putting

  96. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw want to hug Tressa
    Why does she have so many cute outfits

  97. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Running increases the encounter rate.
    But you also move faster.

    If we're talking distance. Do you get further by walking or running?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Running

  98. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I finally see Shooting Stars after wanting it all game
    >it's used by fricking Mindt
    FRICK YOU b***h GIVE IT BACK
    I WANT MY WIND/LIGHT/DARK COVERAGE BACK

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I will never forgive them for hosing down the secret classes so badly

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The secret classes give you easier access to the setups in octopath 1. You even get inventor early game with zero effort. What are you b***hing about?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I will never forgive them for hosing down the secret classes so badly

      the new secret classes are more fun

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I agree in general, I just really liked Shooting Stars as an ability.
        Kinda miss the "Attack With All Elements" skill, too. We didn't even get a weak version of it like we did with Warmaster's via Sixfold Strike.

  99. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How did you guys explore the world? Did you rush for everyone’s chapter 1’s? And did you guys just rotate the other members with your main character? Or make 2 separate parties?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >ran around and recruited everybody
      >make two parties
      >do the entire stories for Party 1
      >use Party 1 to unlock all 4 Advanced Jobs (MC was Hikari, lucky)
      >use 2 Jobs in Party 1 (Armsmaster, Inventor) and save the other two for Party 2
      >with the crazy weapons, all jobs, near infinite money, and all towns available from start, treat Party 2 as a New Game+
      >still have some dungeons left over so it's not like they're left in the dark completely, plus they travel by night so more EXP inherently
      It all comes out in the wash. They even ended up slightly higher leveled than Party 1 come endgame, but not by too much. In OT1, I kept Olberic (my MC) in the party from start to finish and all the levels were fricked, so I don't think it's the right call.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I never removed Partitio and Osvald in my party and at the end its was pretty ok. They were 61-62 the rest were 55-58.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          If anything, I feel like the level curve in this game is just much smoother overall. My two parties were averaged around Level 45 and 50ish respectively near the end of their two stories. I was worried I was skipping over too many encounters with group one since I was running Evasive Maneuvers and traveling by daylight, but they only ended up a couple levels below.
          Fighting enemies above your level (which is encouraged thanks to Break) nets you insane levels, so there's never really any issue.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      1211111112222222223333334444445555

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I explored until I was around level 60 before I did anyone's story

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I was switching characters around for all Chapter 2's, but then I just stuck with one party until I finished their stories, and now I'm having a blast treating the second party like a Bew Game +. Area levels barely matter because of all the advanced equipment so even at mid-20's I'm doing just fine at the story bosses recommended for level 34+.

  100. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >armsmaster staff attack animation
    They had a shit ton of fun designing these over the top animations

  101. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This game desperately needs a mod that doubles or triples boss HP

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >HP bloat bad!
      >We need HP bloat!
      what did Ganker mean by this

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Ganker is not a singular entity
        I greatly enjoyed Untold 2's boss/foe HP for example because it pushed the party to its limit instead of allowing me to braindead through with burst strats.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        different contexts. part of enjoying octopath is finding all the fun combinations, but then the bosses die in like 2 rounds if you use any of the fun combinations so you barely get to use any of them.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          If you have half a brain you'll never see most of the boss mechanics because they explode in turn 3

          unequip your weapons morons

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        If you have half a brain you'll never see most of the boss mechanics because they explode in turn 3

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Hopefully we see a Journey's End style mod eventually

      [...]
      unequip your weapons morons

      >want to have a satisfying final chapter fight while going all-out with the skills and gear you collected
      >hurr just gimp yourself moron

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >hurr boss is too easy
        >hurrrrr boss is now too hard
        durrrrrr

  102. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Anons, final boss first form music or 2nd form?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The track while you're talking to Oboro It's track 114 on the OST list

  103. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Seriously what the hell is with fricking darkling and why ochette gets the most bullshit final chapter boss

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Just hit it really hard and defend a bunch until the scripted events end and the game lets you deplete its last hp.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >the game lets you deplete its last hp.
        assuming it didn't nuke most of your party already with 1hp+immediate followups bullshit

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          sound like a skill issue

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >bro jsut look up the boss gimmick beforehand
            meanwhile most final chapter bosses are a complete joke, even the ones not intended to be jokes like train or dolcinea

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              You do realize that it doesn't lower all 4 members' HP to 1 at the same time right? If all 4 die at the same time I don't know about you but that's definitely a skill issue. That fight was just annoying at worst.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I got filtered by Dolcinaea and gameover'd on the first try while I beat the rest soundly without many problems, other than losing Temenos at the last turn for both Ochette's and Hikari's.

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