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Octopath Traveler II (Switch) - I've been playing this for 3 months and put 90 hours into it, but now I've truly beaten it. Well, aside from the super boss, but I don't care about that.

Tough game to evaluate for me. It was very chill to play, lots of freedom and it improved on the first game in basically every way. However, those improvements do feel like edits to me moreso than grand changes that might have made it completely transform into something truly amazing. It is very good, very solid, lots of content. The latent powers end up being pretty important by the end, so that gameplay change made a bigger impact than they initially seemed to. The game also at least tries to play around with its structure a bit, even if it's not always that significant or deep. The stories and characters are more interesting, but the problem is that for me the increase in scope and epicness doesn't really translate well to the short story format. The game also felt easy, which can be prevented, but still. The final battle was really cool though.

A game that I liked a lot for what it is and I respect that the developers tried their best to combine their own vision with the criticisms of the first game, even if it's fairly minimalistic in its impact. I don't think it's a vastly different experience compared to OT1, but the small improvements and little things they put in do add up.