Publisher Square Enix and developer Acquire have launched new info and screenshots for Octopath Traveler II introducing the tales of Ochette the Hunter and Castti the Apothecary, story constructions, side tales, and game speed.
Get the details beneath.
■ Concept
About
This game is a brand-new entry in the Octopath Traveler collection, the first installment of which was initially launched in 2018 and bought over three million copies worldwide.
It takes the collection’ HD-2D graphics, a fusion of retro pixel artwork and 3D CG, to even larger heights. In the world of Solistia, eight new vacationers enterprise forth into an thrilling new period.
Where will you go? What will you do? Whose story will you convey to life? Every path is yours to take. Embark on an adventure all your personal.
New World, New Tales
The story takes place in Solistia, a land comprising an japanese and western continent divided by the sea.
It is a bustling period, whereby massive vessels navigate busy sea routes and the energy of steam offers delivery to new applied sciences.
Some individuals thrill to glamorous stars of the stage and business, whereas others are delivered to tears by conflict, plague, and poverty.
In this faraway realm, eight vacationers hailing from completely different areas enterprise forth for their very own causes. Step into their sneakers and discover the land as you see match.
■ Ochette, the Hunter (voiced by Suzie Yeung in English, Aya Hirano in Japanese)
Your title is Ochette, and you’re a hunter. Your story begins on the isle of Toto’haha alongside your fellow beastlings.
Despite your troubles with the human islanders, you reside a carefree life. That is, till you study of an encroaching calamity often called the Night of the Scarlet Moon.
“All right, Master Juvah. I’ll do it. I’ll find those Creatures of Legend and bring them back.”
Desperate to save lots of your private home, you set sail looking for those that may help..
■ Characters in Ochette’s Tale
Isle Warden, Juvah – Master (voiced by Jaimeson Price in English, Yasuhiro Mamiya in Japanese)
Ochette’s grasp and chief of the beastlings who stay on Toto’haha. He hopes she’s going to sooner or later turn into a protector of the island.
Akala – Companion (voiced by Daman Mills in English, Ryo Sugisaki in Japanese)
A lajackal, radiant in the solar’s grace. He acts as each a youthful and older brother to Ochette alongside her journey.
Mahima – Companion (voiced by Cristina Vee in English, Marie Miyake in Japanese)
A malamaowl, serene in the grace of the moon. She acts as each a youthful and older sister to Ochette alongside her journey.
■ Ochette’s Tale Begins in Toto’haha
Southeastern Solistia is dominated by an ocean dotted by numerous islands of all shapes and sizes. The largest of those is Toto’haha, which was first encountered by continental pioneers twenty years in the past. In its western reaches reside the beastlings, a petite individuals with fluffy tails.
On the east of Toto’haha lies the city of Tropu’hopu, which was established by the first continental pioneers to decide on the island. The harbor city’s proximity to New Delsta brought on it to be developed as a resort for the rich. In addition, it produces many luxurious items, corresponding to scrumptious espresso beans, and now serves as an necessary cease alongside the commerce routes between japanese and western continents.
—Solistia’s Isles, Toto’haha
—Beasting Village
—Tropu’hopu, a cease alongside commerce routes.
■ Ochette’s Path Actions
Provoke
Challenge townspeople to battle. Fail, and your popularity will endure.
—Ochette can set a monster on a townsperson and provoke a battle. Win, and they are going to be knocked unconscious. But fail too many occasions and your popularity will endure, which suggests you gained’t be allowed to make use of any Path Actions.
Befriend
Take a townsperson alongside in your journey. You will need to have a particular merchandise to befriend them.
—You will want particular gadgets like jerky to befriend somebody. Your new good friend will be summoned that will help you in battle.
■ Ochette’s Talents: Capture & Prepare
Ochette can seize monsters and even flip them into gadgets by getting ready them.
—Ochette can seize monsters. Her success charges improve when an enemy’s HP is lowered, their weaknesses are uncovered, they’re troubled with standing illnesses, and/or if they’re damaged. After defeating a monster, Ochette additionally has a set probability of robotically capturing it.
—Captured monsters will be summoned in battle. Although there’s a restrict to the variety of monsters Ochette can seize, they are often summoned as many occasions as wanted, making them highly effective allies. They also can compensate for the parts and expertise that Ochette can’t use.
—You can put together captured monsters to show them into helpful gadgets. This will be achieved at any time on the area, or when you will have too many monsters in your celebration.
—Prepared gadgets can be utilized for restoration, and even to befriend townspeople at night time. The stronger the monster, the higher the merchandise, and the extra highly effective the individuals you possibly can befriend.
■ Ochette’s Latent Power: Animal Instincts
When her latent energy gauge is full, Ochette can let her interior beast free and achieve entry to particular expertise.
—Ochette’s particular expertise embrace Beastly Claws, which assails all foes with a robust bodily assault, and Beastly Fangs, which unleashes a extremely highly effective bodily assault on a single enemy.
—Animal Instincts’ expertise don’t eat any SP, making for easy and efficient assaults.
■ Castti Florenz, the Apothecary (voiced by Sarah Weidenheft in English, Michiko Neya in Japanese)
Your title is Castti Florenz, and you’re an apothecary. Your story begins in a port city of the Harborlands.
Discovered adrift at sea, you awoke to the realization that you possibly can not recall your personal title. The solely clues to your identification are your satchel and expertise as an apothecary.
“I need to rediscover who I am. And…there’s something else. Something important I’m forgetting…”
Unable to disregard the nagging feeling inside you, you embark on a journey to get better what you misplaced…
■ A Character in Castti’s Tale
Since Castti has misplaced her reminiscences, her connections are shrouded in thriller.
Malaya (voiced by Heather Gonzalez in English, Megmumi Toyoguchi in Japanese)
A touring apothecary who’s awestruck by Castti, whose expertise persist regardless of her reminiscence loss. She is moved by Castti’s need to assist the townspeople and decides to lend her a serving to hand.
■ Castti’s Adventure Begins in The Harborlands
Southern Solistia is dwelling to lengthy tracts of twisting shoreline, alongside which one can discover the bustling port of Canalbrine. During the Age of Exploration—roughly 100 years in the past—ships launched from this city’s piers would uncover the sea routes that led to the japanese continent.
Canalbrine’s image is its colossal lighthouse, which guides ships from all corners of the world safely into its harbor. Erected roughly twenty years in the past by a cadre of engineers who fled the destruction of the U, it boasts a singular design. Special ore was polished to a mirror sheen and long-established right into a reflector plate, and the gentle it emits can supposedly be seen all the method in New Delsta.
Today, Canalbrine’s church is a vital launching level for proselytizers and evangelists who come from the japanese continent to unfold the teachings of the Sacred Flame.
—The Harborland, an unlimited coastal area.
—The port city of Canalbrine.
—Canalbrine’s church.
■ Castti’s Path Actions
Inquire
Obtain info from townspeople. You have to be the acceptable degree to succeed.
—If Castti’s degree is excessive sufficient, she will be able to inquire to glean info from townspeople.
Soothe
Allay a townsperson’s ache, permitting them to sleep. You will need to have a particular merchandise to assuage them.
—Castti can use particular gadgets to assuage townspeople. The obligatory merchandise relies on who she is treating.
■ Castti’s Talent: Concoct
Castti can mix components to craft therapeutic and hazardous compounds.
–Castti can mix a number of components to make therapeutic and hazardous concoctions. You can enhance to extend the variety of components and, relying on the compound, may even heal the complete celebration.
—Combine the proper components to assail an enemy’s weak factors with a hazardous compound and you might be able to simply break them or inflict standing illnesses.
■ Castti’s Latent Power: Every Drop Counts
When her latent energy gauge is full, Castti can concoct with out expending any supplies.
—Every Drop Counts permits Castti to concoct with out utilizing up any treasured supplies. At max enhance, you possibly can even preserve as much as 5 supplies in a single go. This is a helpful energy to have when aiding the celebration in each regular and boss battles.
■ Crossed Paths: Castti and Ochette
This installment contains Crossed Paths, that are tales involving two vacationers.
Castti and Ochette arrive in the energetic little village of Cropdale the place they hear searching has been poor these days. The two then head deep into the woods to analyze…
■ Different Stories, Different Structures
Each traveler’s story has a special construction. Some have a couple of goal, and you’re free to decide on the way you wish to proceed.
Throne, the thief, should resolve whether or not to pursue Mother or Father first.
—If opting to pursue Father, Throne will make for the thieves’ city of Winterbloom the place her goal awaits.
—If selecting to pursue Mother, Throne will head to Oresrush to seek out clues on her goal’s whereabouts.
The service provider, Partitio, can head to his subsequent most important story goal or observe the Scent of Commerce round the realm.
—You by no means know what treasures chances are you’ll discover throughout Partitio’s story..
The hunter, Ochette, should select which companion to convey on her journey.
—Either Mahinaor Akalā will allow you to in your journey. You can’t change your companion later, so select properly.
—Mahina
A malamaowl, serene in the grace of the moon.
She makes a speciality of elemental assaults, and proactively assails the enemy’s weak factors.
She is sort of a sister to Ochette.
–Akala
A lajackal, radiant in the solar’s grace.
He makes a speciality of bodily assaults, and proactively assails the enemy’s weak factors.
He is sort of a brother to Ochette.
■ Side Stories
There are numerous side tales along with the eight most important tales. Some issues have a couple of answer, so make the most of your Path Actions to assist resolve the townspeople’s troubles.
—A service provider is at a loss when her horses all of a sudden go lacking. Is there a method to assist her earlier than she should shut her doorways for good…?
—You can discover the thief and Challenge him to a duel or Ambush him to get the horses again. Or…
—You can Allure or Guide a shorthanded rancher and introduce him to the service provider to assist her discover new make use of.
■ Game Speed
In this installment, you possibly can fast-forward occasion scenes and the computerized textual content speed at the contact of a button. You also can alter the speed throughout battle, permitting you to take pleasure in the game at your most popular tempo.
—Event scenes and battles will be fast-forwarded to double their unique speed, smoothing out leveling up and different actions.
