I've dropped them in favor of Best Buy. Free shipping on everything as well. No membership required.
Nah. I would not say that Octopath was a boring slog! The combat was a lot of fun in fact! The story was the huge letdown there.
Demo transfers to the full game so definitely try for yourself. I tried the demo and it put me to sleep. I played about an hour, and probably 50 minutes of that was just people I don’t care about standing in one place talking in circles. It was like the world’s worst YA novel.
Thanks for the response! Well I will at least try the demo.
It's definitely a slow demo; agreed. I'm just hoping the final package delivers. I didn't expect the reviews to be this positive.
If you have had trouble getting into tactics games, the most approachable is Final Fantasy Tactics Advance on GBA. It's also on Wii U.
It should, that's why I haven't jumped into the latest demo. I'm not buying this game right away, but I do plan to get it down the line, so I didn't want to get invested into the start of the game only to let it go cold on me for months.
Same. But again I am reminded of Octopath. Seemed like everybody (including me) was enamored by the game’s style. It got high reviews and I heard nothing but good things about it for the first week or so. Then it seemed like reality set in and almost everyone flipped on it when they realized it wasn’t in the same league as the classic games it was inspired by.
). I was already interested and enjoyed the first demo (haven't gotten to the second one yet) and some of these reviews are addressing my main concerns:
Thanks!
I'm pretty strongly opposed to excessive nostalgia at times so I'm not going to align with your opinions on that one. It's true that Octopath isn't as great as FFVI or something, but I enjoyed it. I think the episodic structure was a unique way to set up an RPG in this modern attention-deficit age, that I honestly appreciated. Gave me an end goal in sight so I could progress in smaller chunks rather than an 80 hour slog. The battle system was as good as anything on SNES, or better. The graphics were definitely better than anything on SNES. Music was okay. Story was okay. Seemed like an enjoyable 8/10 to me. No actual real deficits, just some areas that were a bit mediocre, amongst other elements that were very solid.
I don't think they have done that for years (after they ditched the 20% pre-order discount and release-day delivery). I now just order from Target in the AM and pick up after work.
Taking off the nostalgia filters, I thought it was every bit as good as the SNES games it was inspired by. The "thin plot" is no more thin than many other RPGs of that era, but it was a lot bigger in scope.
Oh god! There are dozens of JRPG's that have incomprehensible names. Many with '\' and ':' in the titles. MANY MANY other worse ones.
What does he mean by this?
I get that you have some kind of hate boner against Nintendo but this game made by Square Enix, the naming has nothing to do with Nintendo.
That's my mistake then. I generally do not like how they do things, it's true. No hiding that.
Triangle Strategy is actually rather inoffensive of a name compared to many jRPGs - even it's predecessor Octopath Traveler has a stranger name. But jRPGs and bizarre names is nothing new:
Yeah, I"m pretty sure that's the one I played because I never played it on PS1 or PS2 or whatever Sony console it was on. I am a big fan of Fire Emblem so I'm not sure why FFT never clicked. Well since there is a demo for Triangle Strategy I'll give it a shot before making a decision.
That's fine. Insult anything except Xbox or PlayStation and no one here seems to care.
