![]() I'm now kicking myself for spending four years giving too much attention to the criticisms and ignoring this gem. So much so I dropped over 20 hours in so far and just finished my first Ch.2 story after collecting all 8 travellers. I made the silly choice to finally start Octo 1 this past weekend out of interest and curiosity for the sequel and found myself hooked. ![]() missable travel banter), but people made up their minds that it was something other than what it promised from the get go, and no game can live up to that. ![]() Not saying aspects of it execution weren't flawed (e.g. Trusting the player to use their imagination and just have fun a bit more than they probably should have. It was a sandbox game about 8 characters' personal stories, with heavy encouragement of exploration and making your own story. Which path will you choose?' None of the marketing ever alluded to the eight paths converging into some grand narrative halfway through. People really looked at its graphics, heard through games of telephone that it was some spiritual successor to FFVI, and let their imaginations run wild. It was never trying to be some typical JRPG where the party comes together and interacts constantly within one big main quest and some side quests. The fact that you and so many others severely misunderstood its premise does not magically make its premise something other than what it was. The first character will be there in the party of the second one during their chapter 1 story to battle and stuff, but won't say a word, because the dialogues are the same no matter if it's your first character or not. That's where lies the main criticism on the game about character interactions. The second character will always have the first in the party, and third character will have the first and second etc, unlike say SaGa Frontier where each character start alone and may eventually join the others. If i remember right, the chapter 1 of characters have like lv1-5 requirement, while chapter 2 have like lv15-30. Then you go to the town of another character, join them, and start their chapter 1. Finishing chapter 1 of your character, you get locations on the map for the other characters, and the chapter 2 for the first, along their recommended levels. The basic structure is like: At the start of the game, you choose one of the 8 characters and start in their respective town. The world and levels are shared, characters always keep everything. Never actually started a chapter 2 myself, as i dropped the game after doing chapter 1 of 4 characters, so others can confirm it. Maybe you can ignore the other stories and focusing on only one character, but it's definitely something more akin to a challenge run full of grind.
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