Octopath Traveler (Nintendo Switch 2018)

unless that book is the novelization of octopath traveler in which case play the game

Imo if you’re playing a JRPG for the writing read a book

lol i thought this was 'lamo' but i see it is 'imo' -- idk, i'm playing it for the battle system but i do wish the writing was less bad, one doesn't go to action movies for 'the writing' but the first couple terminator movies are a lot better written than suicide squad

Fair enough

the book version of the game of the novelization, though. Best in class

yeah i don't think a novelization of, say, ff7 would be very good but as a rpg scenario it lands its story beats strongly

octopath is mostly doomed from the start because the 8 short stories thing doesn't really work

idk it worked fine in dragon quest iv

i've never played any of the SaGa games w/ this gimmick or Live A Live, and i am curious now to see if they tick me off any less. the tonal inconsistency is what does it, the gross slippage from 'what if the merchant was the protagonist of the rpg?' (n.b. this is the fifth time i have seen this question answered) to the revenge thriller ft. human trafficking

I have 70 hours in this but I am doomed to never finish it

dear lord, does it get slower? i'm 18 hours in with 12 quests done

No I just “took a break” after getting crushed in a boss fight and then our daughter took over the Switch for Minecraft and Splatoon purposes. I got another Switch for the adults and moved my game over, but have been anxious about diving in again. I feel like at this point I’ve forgotten how to win and it’s not going to be like a bicycle and the boss fight isn’t going to be any easier even this I’m intellectually 100% sure of what I got wrong. And so forth. Ugh.

live a live is cool

all the other games that do this thing have you play each story separately rather than putting all the protags in the same party (or else they do that much later in the game)

And 70 hours seems like such a sunk cost I don’t want to start over. Double ugh.

My ex played this, sunk ~100 hours into it and didn't bother for full completion because... ~boring~

Me I'm gonna finally play Secret Of Mana and then Seiken Densetsu 3

most things are boring after 100 hours!

i hit full completion in 55 hours, and its not like you can rush in this game since its got random encounters..

Yeah but you’re, like, actually good at video games I think

only the ones that don't require dodge rolling

thirty hours in, about to finish my lead character's level 4 so i can swap her out. is this about when i ought to go looking for the other job shrines or are those really just a post-game thing?

you can beat the bosses for those when your party is around level 40 iirc. or maybe a bit less even but they're tough

thx. i did one of them that seemed fairly straightforward and now the game seems to have some more interesting tactical decisions available. i do feel like if i focus on clearing the rest the remaining lv 3 and lv 4 quests are going to be entirely trivial, tho

this game is super chill. i picked it up again and have been enjoying it

also, i didn't have to fight any bosses in the job shrines?? i've only just finished chapter 2 and i've found 5 of them

still slowly working my way through this every few months. an enemy just used a move called "These Nuts" on me

top 5 Switch game

before i argue, what are your other 4

and why!

I am planning to say why. However i've been playing more, and Tressa's story has turned into Karate Kid but where the karate is replaced with "selling geodes". well, i'm not so confident anymore.

hahaha