OCTOPATH TRAVELER: CotC ١٢+

I’ve never written an App Store review in 10 years of mobile game. But I just wanted to say that OCTOPATH Travelers of the Continent is a great experience. For being a mobile game it’s story and attention to some small details make it enjoyable for what it is. This is free content, I played the main story without any purchases. With that in my I had to write something because as they state when you load this game it’s a single player experience which for mobile gaming can be less lucrative in terms of monetary gain. But perhaps this iteration was just made on the side as advertisement to lead people to the main series. Whatever the case my only complaint is the lack of challenge scaling early on. For example if the first main story the player chooses gets them to around level 25. Then instead of that being the case for most of the stories have the subsequent main stories scale to maintain challenge. However early on the main attraction is supposed to be the dialogue anyways, but I could see some people who are more here for the gameplay lose interest early on if they’re just breezing through fights thinking it’s not gonna get harder. Regardless I think this is worth its price (your time) and has definitely made me want to purchase the main series soon.

This is my first Octopath game and so far… I’m really digging it. I’ve always had interest in this series and have played many SQEX games so this type of genre was easy to fit into. Each Individual Character feels unique, they’ve got they’re own VA, own skillsets and it really works out well with how much diversity the gameplay is. However!! Although I’m enjoying the game my only complaints is that there isn’t a “SKIP” or “AUTO” dialogue implemented into the game. I really do appreciate the work put into the VAs and Story but this is the first SQEX game I’ve played without these option, and the fact that this ALSO gacha game makes it so i wish i could “SKIP/AUTO” dialogue so that i could save myself some time. The only time you CAN skip is if your are viewing memoirs or if you’ve gone through the cutscene already. The game is really time consuming and adding these functions would really make my experience a whole lot better. That being said the gacha part… well its gacha, a whole lot of rng. One of the best thing about most SQEX Gacha I’ve played so far is the step-up banners. No other gacha I’ve played has that. 9/10 for me so far until skip/auto dialogue is added 🙂

My wife and I loved OCTOPATH on the Switch when it came out, so when I heard they were making a mobile game I was eager to see what it would be like. I have to say, I’m really enjoying their implementation so far. This is a gacha style game, but I don’t feel pressured to pay tons of money to try and get one of the god tier characters, granted I’m still in the early game, so many something may change later, but I’m perfectly happy to play with the characters I got from my free rolls.
The game definitely feels like OCTOPATH still, which for me is a huge plus.
I have two negative comments though to make: 1) The price for rubies (the premium currency in this game) is stupid high IMO. 2) While you can earn rubies by just playing the game they distinguish between free (earned rubies) and paid for rubies, which is super annoying because it mean some banners only accept paid for rubies even if you have enough free ones to roll on it.
Lastly, I don’t know this for sure, but I can’t find anything about whether or not this game has a pity system on rolls/wishes, so keep that in mind if you choose to partake in the gacha.