It debuted at TGS, however there’s a full English audio translation

While Octopath Traveler 2 is slated for launch on February 23, 2023, on PC, PS4, PS5, and Switch, we are able to catch a bit of it now. If you wished some Octopath Traveler 2 footage following the latest Nintendo Direct reveal, you bought it! Square Enix simply gave us 20 minutes of it due to a TGS stream. Don’t fear although! Although the stream was performed for TGS, there’s a full reside English translation baked in as audio commentary.

Kicking off at roughly 25:00 within the beneath video, we get a full 20-minute walkthrough of the sport, and a number of the aesthetic and design modifications within the sequel. One large component that the workforce showcases is elevation, which brings “height and depth” to the maps. There’s a little bit of variation concerned with the sport’s designs, with footage of a forest village and an “old west-like town.”

Based on this Octopath Traveler 2 footage, pure time development is in, too, and there will probably be “drastically different music” in some day/night time cycles, together with tracks that sound distinctive in comparison with the unique. The workforce wished to make sure that there wasn’t a way of repetition between enjoying the unique and the sequel, and it gave them a great excuse to “explore different genres” of music as well. The builders mused on how a lot of an endeavor it was, having to design day/night time music for all the places within the recreation, solely a portion of which have been proven off by way of a short have a look at the world map (31:00 in).

Ideally, Octopath Traveler 2 will handle a number of the widespread complaints of the unique (together with how issues homogenize after the person character tales are accomplished): as a result of to this point, they’re nonetheless nailing the aesthetic.

Chris Carter

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