LogFAQs > #979130312

Gotta come here because I just don't trust randos on this.

I've seen a LOT of praise for OT2 since it's release, and that's still going on today. It's more than enough to have me interested.

However, the first Octopath got a decent amount of praise too, and I thought that game was truly horrendous. I reaaaaaally didn't like it. A lot of the people I'm seeing praise OT2 are people who also thought the first one was good, so that makes this hard to take at face value.

I really wanna know if that could maybe change here for the sequel. Here's what I disliked about OT1 for reference.

• Voice acting was terrible, script was dull, repetitive, and generic. Nothing in the game gave me any drive to continue forward whatsoever.

• Party dynamic is extremely important for me in a jRPG, more than even the main plot. OT1 basically didn't even have party due to it's structure, for all intents and purposes it was just people who happened to be together on your combat screen. I want my characters to talk together, feel like they're meant to be together in scenes, actually feel like a group. Preferably it's indistinguishable from a game where you don't add characters into your party at undetermined points in time. For the extreme comparison, I felt even Cold Steel 2 suffered harshly from being able to take a limited number of characters of your choice to any particular event.

Anything other than this was a nitpick I could get over.