![]() ![]() Designed to evoke memories of FF4 or something. Octopath Traveler is your really oldschool throwback. If you liked the old Active Time Battle it’s very much worth a look. ![]() Despite being made by a western team it’s very much in the style of FF7 specifically. Also don’t let the VIII scare you off, all the Ys games are completely independent of each other (except I & II) and can be enjoyed in any order.įor your more turn-based FF7-style game, Battle Chasers is probably the best choice. As you play you’ll gain access to new areas to explore and new traversal methods. The game is semi-open, almost a Metroidvania in structure. It’s action combat but you have a party, and style-wise it’s JRPG lite. Ys VIII is probably the best installment so far in what is an incredibly overlooked series. I found it to be quite a slow burn though. The combat is sort of MMO-like as well, in that you basically have a hotbar-based action system. Big huge open areas filled with monsters and fetch quests that can sometimes be a bit MMO-like. Xenoblade 2 is the best open-world Action-oriented JRPG. IMO the ‘best’ JRPG on the Switch depends on the style you want something open or not: That being said, be interested to see if Square add anything to Octopath to retroactively appeal to those alienated by its okd school appeal? I think with games being generally focus tested and pivoted to appeal to as many as possible we get caught out now when something comes out that’s targeted at a specific audience in a world where so many games (anything UBI as an example) are becoming cookie cutter then i’m all for niche – if it means I don’t get to play them as they’re not really my thing (resident evil/dead space being good examples) then so be it, at least fans of it get a treat instead of a mass market watered down catch all. ![]() Souls has become far more liked universally since then but I argued at the time that being such an old git I’d long since gotten used to the fact that a good game doesn’t necessarily mean it’s something for me – Another World/Flashback from the genesis days & anything Mario/platform proved that to me many moons ago… I remember having a lot of similar discussions when Dark Souls first came out a particular highlight being a friends take that “a good game is one that appeals to all regardless of whether or not you’re a fan of the genre” and thus Dark Souls was/is too niche to be a truly good game. The more interesting question right now: if someone asked you what JRPG they should play on the Switch first – and let’s discount Zelda here, given its many Western influences – would you suggest Octopath Traveler? Or something like Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or I Am Setsuna first? More From Kotaku Australia Obviously, a ton of things are highlighted (or not shown) for comedic/creative effect here. And dunkey’s video below illustrates exactly why that is: the writing, mechanics and structure are very reminiscent of an era that the industry has well and truly left behind. Nonetheless, it did remind me of where Octopath Traveler landed: a JRPG that diehard fans will appreciate, but not a game you’d use to introduce people to the genre. It was a weird conversation to listen to. In fact, if they weren’t hardcore JRPG players, why were they reviewing the game at all? Why were they even employed? They started talking about how Octopath was a true JRPG, and it was heresy that reviewers didn’t acknowledge that. They mentioned a review of some kind – I don’t think it was ours, but couldn’t be sure – and the conversation got heated, very quickly. Nearby, a group started talking about Octopath Traveler. I was in a bar the other week, quietly having a drink. ![]()
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