Only rating this as 0 b/c no way it deserves an 8.5 user score. One of, if not the best OSTOn paper, this game should be a strong 8 to low 9. On paper, this game should be a strong 8 to low 9. The characters in this game just won't shut up, and take every opportunity to pontificate with trite dialog.All-in-all, Octopath Traveler successfully recreates the gameplay of nostalgic titles such as Cronotrigger and Xenogears, but doesn't capture the story-telling that made those games truly great. I almost have to deduct a point just for the endless bloviating filled with after-school special moralizing. Also like most JRPGs, the dialogue is overlong, mawkish, and reads like it was written for 12 year-olds. Some of the the end-bosses make up for it though by being quite difficult. Most of the game past chapter 2 is too easy. It has an interesting combat system based on pairing characters with sub-jobs, and finding and exploiting weaknesses for enemies.The challenge of the game is inconsistent. If this game had been released 20 years ago it might have been considered a mild classic next to other Square games.
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