Octopath Traveler hits 2 Million Sold on Switch

I hope ikusy draws another one of these.

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I surpised it's managed to get this far too

I liked it enough to autisticly speedrun for about a month. Wish the stories had more interactions but other than that I fucking loved it.

check the japanese switch news channel

SONY BROS WTF HAPPENED

pretty shitty massive waste of money. I wish they ports all the DQ instead/

something something drought
something something good for them actually, the game was ok and understandable what expectation would have been if there really were 8 interacting characters that needed those rotues established when picking each character in a specific order but it really starting hitting flat notes by the end of each character story

I just want dragon quest V
the story seems really nice after watching the movie

How do I even do that? My news feed is a mess of European, American and Japanese news due to multiple accounts.

>Have a friend who bought it
>hasn't actually played it for any significant amount of time because he looked at options of which character to start with and couldn't decide
>Still hasn't played it, as far as I know

He claims decision paralysis, but I think he can just be right autistic sometimes.

I just went with Primrose because sex lady. It isn't hard.

I didn't mind the writing and repetitiveness, destroying things with bullshit like Apothecary/Cleric/Warmaster divine skills didn't get old for me
I wish more Japanese games in the near future allow free-roam and getting powerful equipment earlier than you're supposed to

I heard Japan hated the movie for some reason. Haven't seen it, myself. Was it because of the ending...?

I actually kind of had fun filling in blanks between the story points and coming up with how interactions could have gone myself. That's probably just some "cope" shit or whatever, but I still like playing the game in insane chapter orders so that I'm tackling some shit way sooner than I should and then bulldozing other chapters I should've done sooner. If the narrative suffers for that kind of crazy freedom, I'll accept the compromise. I'll even be kind of disappointed if they do a sequel and it ends up streamlining progress for the sake of making the stories "closer together". I know people even said the stories are pretty shit, but I appreciated the change of pace and how low stakes they ended up being in the grand scheme. It's just eight adventures that happen to be overlapping a little bit, so these guys help each other out. I always tended to prefer the "side storylines" closely associated to the party members rather than whatever save the world plot was going on in most games, so this game just gives me the stuff I like in presentation I can admire. I love the boss sprites, and the soundtrack is fucking amazing.

I love this god damn game, but I get why it catches so much shit too. I'll just enjoy this one for what it is while I wait and see if anything else comes from it.

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I really enjoyed my time with this game and I loved the final boss.
Cyrus is based and Tressa is cute btw
youtube.com/watch?v=HxprIHuxG_s

yeah, but honestly i quite liked it. though it is very fast paced
you'll have to find the channel manually if you dont have the game

Oh wait, I found it, it's also on my EU news update about the sale, not just the Japanese one. It's Therion leaping over the 2M number after stealing an apple slice off one of those apple enemies from Bravely Second, kek.

>>I'm curious how the PC version is doing.

probably not very well, it's over priced as shit on PC

buy Bravely Default 2

DQV is just a long game and a movie can't do it justice. Also the movie basically calls anyone who plays the game and cares about the characters a fucking loser too

I am essentially a Team Asano shill so yeah, I will.

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>I actually kind of had fun filling in blanks between the story points and coming up with how interactions could have gone myself. That's probably just some "cope" shit
I did the same thing. I really enjoyed it since it made it feel more like I was actually role playing im my role playing game

Honestly, it had a lot of flaws, although you have to admit that the combat was great. Especially the job system.

It's been on sale in the japanese eShop from time to time.

>What were your thoughts on the game? Killer soundtrack and visuals, but I'm still not sure how I feel overall.
Agreed on both the soundtrack and visuals, personally I had a lot of fun with the game the stories not being connected until the very end didn't bother me as I knew what I was heading into when the game came out, although one could argue some stories were more relevant than others. Either way loved this more classic-esque JRPG, looking towards BD2.

I loved Octopath Traveler. Did pretty much everything I could possibly do in it. The weakest aspect is the overall plot, but I really enjoyed the individual characters and setting so for me that made up for it. Plus I really liked the music and never got tired of the combat system. I'm glad it did well despite some people saying it's the worst shit ever (often due to the price tag)

Tressa kinda passes as the token (fake)loli in the same way Yuffie sort of did in FF7. Both of them are the 'young' party member, and are treated like kids by the rest. And naturally, Tressa is best girl.

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>still no sequel
>even that mobile spinoff seemingly went nowhere
Huh

From what they said, it seems like they intend on alternating between Bravely and Octopath.

>02/04
>03/18

???????????????

I was interesting in it at first and enjoyed the demo, but I've heard a fair number of disappointing impressions from those who got the full game. The devs are pretty passionate though from what I've heard, so I'm at least happy for them.

Thought it was cool at first then I realised how terrible the writing is. Also the pacing is a mess cos you have to do each person's chapter one at a time. The characters are flat with no personalities and there is no development or relationships between any of them. The combat was cool at first but turned into a repetitive bore within an hour or 2.
General gameplay and level design was very ordinary, field areas linear as fuck and dungeon design that was uninspired.
Title screen music was ok.
One of the characters was completely "localized" and speaks with a pseudo middle ages ye olde English dialect, except the "localizer" didn't do any research and just made it up in the style of what he has heard in the past, as a result all of her dialogue is both grammatically incorrect and a chore to read/decipher.
Really though the main problem is the writing that is even below the standards of SNES rpgs.
Oh and it looks awful, the sprites don't scale correctly, they break apart unevenly when the screen zooms, to compensate they filtered them heavily, causing massive blur. Then there's the bloom which is awful.
It's a 5/10 at best.

It reminded me of playing RPGs on the SNES, back when I didn't have sky high expectations for everything.

youtube.com/watch?v=wCcCaptk-YY

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It's decent, but selling it for $50 full price is a crime, it's a AA game at best and should be $20 by now, $10 on sale.

I didn't mind filling in some gaps either but sometimes the party chat system could get retarded like in Ophilia's chapter 4 where there are some conversation that happen as she's put in the prison cell, implying that the random cultists managed to get the jump on the entire party which is pretty ridiculous. Sometimes it's obvious the story scenes were written for only one character being there.

What's a better alternative to this game?
I've never played a turn based JRPG and want to try.
The closest Ive been is the Tales Of series, which I didnt really enjoy, and One Way Heroics, which I love.

Dragon Quest XI.

So did Cyrus marry the princess or the commoner?

He married that forbidden book.

I think in those instances you're supposed to assume it was just her and the person she's talking to. And you meet up with the other party members later, or something like that.

Pretty much every time there's incidental dialogue between the focus character and one other party member it feels more like it's a duo that just happened to meet up and work together somehow than an actual team. Like a "fellow traveler" sort of thing.

Absolutely shit story/ies, absolutely shit visuals, passable combat BUT inferior to bravely combat and out of combat skills were a fucking nuisance and doubled up

All the men in this game are fags. They have girls throwing themselves at them (the rich girl in Therions story, the student in Cyrus's story etc) and they just ignore it.

Cant have anything that threatens those fujoshit headcanons.

Well the girls generally don't give a shit about men either.

>until 02/04
What the fuck do I care about a sale that ended almost a month and a half ago

This game really shows the problem with reviewers. Only 2 or 3 of the reviews on metacritic have pointed out the flaws in this game. The rest gave it glowing praise. This highlights just how inexperienced reviewers are, because if they had any experience at all, they would have played some jrpgs already and they would instantly see how unoriginal and insipid octopath traveler is. This is driven in further when you hear people say it's like an old school snes rpg, when in reality if they played any snes rpgs they'd know that octopath is a poor imitation.

It's either this or the majority of reviewers just played it for a very short time and went "yaaaaaassss! Pixels!" and then wrote their 9/10 review.

The girls don't really have love interests in their stories like the guys do, I guess there's Ali in Tressas story but that's about it

Ugh no! Why are people buying these piece of snot? It looks like a SNES game.

Are Switch owners really that starved for new content?

>lack of party interactions
This
The "no one exists except the party member whose quest you're on" thing was awful

Cyrus is doubly a faggot because Therese has the same voice as best girl Dana from Ys VIII.

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That’s typical Chad behavior actually. If you have a lot of something you don’t really value it.

Disregard bitches, acquire knowledge

How did it sell so many? It was entirely mediocre and started to drag on fast.

also kill bitches who acquire more knowledge than you

Pretty sure Haanit is a lesbo based on how she talks to Primrose at the tavern.

Will that include physical copies?

Maybe. She even blushes at Ophilia twice.

WHY are all the stories so bad

Where does it say 2 million on Switch?

I kinda regret not finishing the final final boss fight. I think you have to grind way too much to do it without relying on a tactic id rather not have to try.

Nintendo wouldn't even be made aware of Steam sales numbers.