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Topic	My impressions as I play Octopath Traveler for the first time.
BakusaiTenketsu 09/04/20 3:36:42 AM #147:	Alfyn, Chapter 4 Well... I get my first taste of two characters slightly intertwined as I find out who Graham Crossford is. So, the writer of Tressa's adventuring journal, and the man who saved Alfyn as a boy are one and the same! There's quite a bit of convenience in this Chapter, similar to Tressa's Chapter 3, where what I didn't know I was going to be looking for just happened to be in the adjoining hostile area. The boss of this Chapter also signifies my first fight where I am attacking a target that is an actual antagonist to the character's story. There's some interesting fateful mechanics at play in this Chapter, and really more of Alfyn's story as a whole. Alfyn's whole story seems more about personal growth, but the part where fate really shines is that he is saved by Graham so that he may one day save Ogen, and how everything from the personal journey down to the disease is all interconnected. It's hard to really judge this Chapter on it's own since it really just brings the whole story together instead of being something more climactic. I did enjoy it a bit more than the closure I got from Tressa's story though. I would probably have been a tad disappointed if I had chosen Alfyn as my lead character though. Alfyn's story isn't really that adventurous, and he had no real foil other than his self confidence. The rather abrupt conclusion to his story was a bit jarring. He just goes off to heal more people, but after the cutscenes I'm back in his hometown for no reason what-so-ever. He didn't say he was going back to Clearbrook, and didn't appear to have any business there. In hindsight, I wish I had done Alfyn"s Chapter 4 before Tressa's. I think the diary owner reveal would have felt more impactful to me. Of the 4 Chapters I've completed, only Ophilia's has really felt like it had a conclusive ending, which resolved more so after the credits rolled, and I'm wondering if that was because of her being the main character for my game, and that she got additional "footage" so to speak. Now that I got my first taste of interconnected stories, I'm eager for the final 4 Chapters to conclude. --- https://tinyurl.com/yaumw2p7 <cite>BakusaiTenketsu posted [p:944191633] in My impress... [t:78864370]...</cite> <quote>Alfyn, Chapter 4 Well... I get my first taste of two characters slightly intertwined as I find out who Graham Crossford is. So, the writer of Tressa's adventuring journal, and the man who saved Alfyn as a boy are one and the same! There's quite a bit of convenience in this Chapter, similar to Tressa's Chapter 3, where what I didn't know I was going to be looking for just happened to be in the adjoining hostile area. The boss of this Chapter also signifies my first fight where I am attacking a target that is an actual antagonist to the character's story. There's some interesting fateful mechanics at play in this Chapter, and really more of Alfyn's story as a whole. Alfyn's whole story seems more about personal growth, but the part where fate really shines is that he is saved by Graham so that he may one day save Ogen, and how everything from the personal journey down to the disease is all interconnected. It's hard to really judge this Chapter on it's own since it really just brings the whole story together instead of being something more climactic. I did enjoy it a bit more than the closure I got from Tressa's story though. I would probably have been a tad disappointed if I had chosen Alfyn as my lead character though. Alfyn's story isn't really that adventurous, and he had no real foil other than his self confidence. The rather abrupt conclusion to his story was a bit jarring. He just goes off to heal more people, but after the cutscenes I'm back in his hometown for no reason what-so-ever. He didn't say he was going back to Clearbrook, and didn't appear to have any business there. In hindsight, I wish I had done Alfyn"s Chapter 4 before Tressa's. I think the diary owner reveal would have felt more impactful to me. Of the 4 Chapters I've completed, only Ophilia's has really felt like it had a conclusive ending, which resolved more so after the credits rolled, and I'm wondering if that was because of her being the main character for my game, and that she got additional "footage" so to speak. Now that I got my first taste of interconnected stories, I'm eager for the final 4 Chapters to conclude. --- https://tinyurl.com/yaumw2p7</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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