LogFAQs > #905147428

I have been playing Octopath Traveler all weekend and I have thoughts.

Pro:

-amazing music
-great aesthetics
-excellent turn based battle system
-good writing/characters

Con:

-because of level scaling you're basically required to collect all 8 heroes before moving on in any of their stories. I've got 6 of them now and every time I stop playing because I feel like it and not because I have something to do I do so right when I reach the next hero. This is because I'm going to have to play through their origin story which means maybe 20 minutes of reading is coming my way. They're nice stories and they're important to enjoying the game but it's becoming pretty draining. After that you've got another 40 minutes or so to play out the conflict in their stories (note: I'm not timing this, just guessing). At least you get your party and you crawl a dungeon for those but the structure is very repetitive.

-fellow party members don't show up in the cutscenes for each other's stories. It's weird. You'll run up to a boss room for Therion's origin with your lead character in front and three others behind him, then the cutscene begins and only Therion is standing there. It's odd to me that they couldn't make this work so that at least your lead character would be in the shot and chime in once or twice.

Anyway, the game is definitely good but seems extremely long so I probably won't finish it. I'm just very ready to have all of the octopath travelers.