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I am so bummed I can’t use a voucher on this. The demo has me hungry.
StarTopic Octopath Traveler II |ST| Boosted Journey Day & Night
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RealUncleNintendo
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Played both xenoblade 3 and bravely default 2… haven’t tried harvestella yet
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I found her story to be the weakest as well, but I will say that her final chapter salvages it quite a bit IMO. It's really well done.
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Had such a satisfying moment during Hikari’s finale!
Scraped my way to the last phase and got wiped just before I could wrap it up. Took a look over my skills and realized that Rest — a skill I have basically never needed to use until this point — pairs incredibly well with the Arcanist job, which is how Partitio was already set up! Absolutely breezed through it the next time. Hikari’s was my fave ending so far (and my initial character!).
RealUncleNintendo
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I agree I always go with warrior first. It’s my go to.
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Finished five of the last chapters now. I have no idea how much ‘postgame’ there is, but I’m eager to start linking things together!
And I see what people mean about Thrones finale:
And I see what people mean about Thrones finale:
I actually kind of like that as a twist and a setup for a villain, but it felt a bit too… abrupt? I think it would’ve been stronger with a bit more foreshadowing or hints or something.
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You were right, what a beautiful victory lap that was.
I can still squeeze some extra hours out of this game with the super boss, but man...
MAN
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That ending was everything I could have asked
Maronic03
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Very reminiscent of Undertale in a way, which is always a good thing.
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Quick question about the endgame because I’m starting to feel the heat in finishing this before it’s due back at the library: how long is the epilogue once you finish everyone’s tale, and about what level should I be for it?
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It's actually really fast, like 1- 2 hours (there's a lot of story and there is no final dungeon, you revisit 3 temples and a couple of boss fights) and the fight with the final boss. For levels as long as they are well equipped and have good monsters for ochette and abilities learnd from Hikari, and have good sinnergy with the team primary and secondary jobs (you are going to use all of the characters in the final battle) around 50 should be okay, 60 if you need more life / sp for some characters.
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Thank you for the reply! OK, I am feeling a lot better about being able to finish this week then. I have been using 3 members for most of the game and swapping out the 4th when necessary to advance the story, so my team is already ~Lv60 with two final chapters to go! Sounds like if I do a little gear lap and spendathon before the epilogue I should be alright
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yeah, worst case just use merchant hire help at max level with the soliders or the assasins at the final boss, at that point you don't really use money for anything elseThank you for the reply! OK, I am feeling a lot better about being able to finish this week then. I have been using 3 members for most of the game and swapping out the 4th when necessary to advance the story, so my team is already ~Lv60 with two final chapters to go! Sounds like if I do a little gear lap and spendathon before the epilogue I should be alright
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Finished all 8 stories and crossed paths now. Probably not a whole lot left, although I have a fair few sidequests still not done.
One cool thing that took me way too long to realize about the character’s stories and their antagonists:
That’s a cool idea and thematic link for all the stories.
One cool thing that took me way too long to realize about the character’s stories and their antagonists:
Every main antagonist of everyone’s main plot arc is an evil, or at least twisted/selfish, version of themself/their class. You’re basically fighting against what can happen when your job classes aren’t used for good and get corrupted.
The one exception being Ochette, I guess, but since you fight her corrupted companion animal it still mostly fits.
The one exception being Ochette, I guess, but since you fight her corrupted companion animal it still mostly fits.
That’s a cool idea and thematic link for all the stories.
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Finished Partitio's story, I can now remove him from my party.
But Arcanist Partitio is so good I'm probably not going to, lmao.
But Arcanist Partitio is so good I'm probably not going to, lmao.
LonkFromPA
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How do you track sidequests?
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In the journal press R and it will display the sidequest per area
LonkFromPA
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OMG THANK YOU!!! Is it me or is that not very intuitive?
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And with Osvald and Ochette down, I'm halfway through the stories now. I can't wait to get to the rest of them.
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Okay, now that I'm done with the 8 Paths, I have to rank them:
- Best Theme Music: Has to be Partitio. The sax cannot be beat. Honorable mention to Agnea for the excellent fiddle.
- Best Overall Path: Cassti or Temenos, I can't decide. Both were very good. Honorable mention to Osvald.
- Best Finale/final boss: Somehow... Agnea?! She's probably my overall least favorite path, but her finale was incredible. Although I'm probably bumping it up a lot of points for Song of Hope alone (which is STILL stuck in my head days later)
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Glory to the sax, and yeah, that's pretty much my ranking too with Cassti in second plance and Temenos in 4th
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Ooh, story comparisons!
I loved them all but I think my ranking would be-
Castii
Temenos
Partitio
Hikari
Oswald
Throne
Ochette
Agnea
The first three I found to be really interesting takes on characters. Castii is one of my favourite characters in any JRPG, her no-nonsense drive isn’t just some saintly self-sacrificing healer, she’s pretty grounded in being reasonable and practical too. For a character who isn’t one of those with a ‘follow me’ skill, she’s a natural leader, and it’s cool that her chapter 2 flags this up before chapter 3 explains why.
Partitio is so weird but so upbeat and engaging too. It’s almost weird he’s in a job role where he pays people to work for him when he’s one of the most inspiring characters. I like the way Castii teases him in some of the travel banter.
Temenos I found interesting to dig into, as his initial out-there smugness has real depths of gentility and guidance. He’d be a great character in a murder mystery show, that’s what he reminded me of, a sort of weird cleric/detective. Him and Crick were my favourite double act (closely followed by Castii and the warrior she gets on with in chapter 2).
I think I put Ochette and Agnea at the bottom as there wasn’t a lot of intrigue really, just straight ‘go here, do that’, with Ochette
not even meeting the Dark Hunter and it being resolved in a cut scene in the endgame. I get that most of the characters are up against a dark mirror so they thought the companion you didn’t pick was more poignant, but it would have been cool to find out a bit more about the why of what the Dark Hunter was actually up to outside of evil ritual blah blah blah.
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