Octopath Traveler 2 footage

Square Enix just gave us 20 minutes of Octopath Traveler 2 footage

It debuted at TGS, but thereā€™s a full English audio translation

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While Octopath Traveler 2 is slated for release on February 23, 2023, on PC, PS4, PS5, and Switch, we can catch a chunk of it now. If you wanted some Octopath Traveler 2 footage following the recent Nintendo Direct reveal, you got it! Square Enix just gave us 20 minutes of it thanks to a TGS stream. Donā€™t worry though! Although the stream was done for TGS, thereā€™s a full live English translation baked in as audio commentary.

Kicking off at roughly 25:00 in the below video, we get a full 20-minute walkthrough of the game, and some of the aesthetic and design changes in the sequel. One big element that the team showcases is elevation, which brings ā€œheight and depthā€ to the maps. Thereā€™s a bit of variation involved with the gameā€™s designs, with footage of a forest village and an ā€œold west-like town.ā€

Based on this Octopath Traveler 2 footage, natural time progression is in, too, and there will be ā€œdrastically different musicā€ in some day/night cycles, including tracks that sound unique compared to the original. The team wanted to ensure that there wasnā€™t a sense of repetition between playing the original and the sequel, and it gave them a good excuse to ā€œexplore different genresā€ of music to boot. The developers mused on how much of an undertaking it was, having to design day/night music for all of the locations in the game, only a portion of which were shown off via a brief look at the world map (31:00 in).

Ideally, Octopath Traveler 2 will address some of the common complaints of the original (including how things homogenize after the individual character stories are completed): because so far, theyā€™re still nailing the aesthetic.


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