■ Concept

About

This crippled is simply a brand-new introduction successful the Octopath Traveler series, the archetypal installment of which was initially released successful 2018 and sold implicit 3 cardinal copies worldwide.

It takes the series’ HD-2D graphics, a fusion of retro pixel creation and 3D CG, to adjacent greater heights. In the satellite of Solistia, 8 caller travelers task distant into an breathtaking caller era.

Where volition you go? What volition you do? Whose communicative volition you bring to life? Every way is yours to take. Embark connected an adventure each your own.

New World, New Tales

The communicative takes spot successful Solistia, a onshore comprising an eastbound and occidental continent divided by the sea.

It is simply a bustling era, wherein ample vessels navigate engaged oversea routes and the powerfulness of steam gives commencement to caller technologies.

Some radical thrill to glamorous stars of the signifier and industry, portion others are brought to tears by war, plague, and poverty.

In this faraway realm, 8 travelers hailing from antithetic regions task distant for their ain reasons. Step into their shoes and research the onshore arsenic you spot fit.

■ Ochette, the Hunter (voiced by Suzie Yeung successful English, Aya Hirano successful Japanese)

Your sanction is Ochette, and you are a hunter. Your communicative begins connected the isle of Toto’haha alongside your chap beastlings.

Despite your troubles with the quality islanders, you unrecorded a carefree life. That is, until you larn of an encroaching calamity known arsenic the Night of the Scarlet Moon.

“All right, Master Juvah. I’ll bash it. I’ll find those Creatures of Legend and bring them back.”

Desperate to prevention your home, you acceptable sail successful hunt of those who tin help..

■ Characters successful Ochette’s Tale

Isle Warden, Juvah – Master (voiced by Jaimeson Price successful English, Yasuhiro Mamiya successful Japanese)

Ochette’s maestro and person of the beastlings who unrecorded connected Toto’haha. He hopes she volition 1 time go a protector of the island.

Akala – Companion (voiced by Daman Mills successful English, Ryo Sugisaki successful Japanese)

A lajackal, radiant successful the sun’s grace. He acts arsenic some a younger and older member to Ochette on her journey.

Mahima – Companion (voiced by Cristina Vee successful English, Marie Miyake successful Japanese)

A malamaowl, serene successful the grace of the moon. She acts arsenic some a younger and older sister to Ochette on her journey.

■ Ochette’s Tale Begins successful Toto’haha

Southeastern Solistia is dominated by an water dotted by countless islands of each shapes and sizes. The largest of these is Toto’haha, which was archetypal encountered by continental pioneers 20 years ago. In its occidental reaches reside the beastlings, a petite radical with fluffy tails.

On the eastbound of Toto’haha lies the municipality of Tropu’hopu, which was established by the archetypal continental pioneers to settee connected the island. The harbor town’s proximity to New Delsta caused it to beryllium developed arsenic a edifice for the wealthy. In addition, it produces galore luxury goods, specified arsenic delicious java beans, and present serves arsenic an important halt on the commercialized routes betwixt eastbound and occidental continents.

—Solistia’s Isles, Toto’haha

—Beasting Village

—Tropu’hopu, a halt on commercialized routes.

■ Ochette’s Path Actions

Provoke

Challenge townspeople to battle. Fail, and your estimation volition suffer.

—Ochette tin acceptable a monster connected a townsperson and initiate a battle. Win, and they volition beryllium knocked unconscious. But neglect excessively galore times and your estimation volition suffer, which means you won’t beryllium allowed to usage immoderate Path Actions.

Befriend

Take a townsperson on connected your journey. You indispensable person a circumstantial point to befriend them.

—You volition request circumstantial items similar jerky to befriend someone. Your caller person tin beryllium summoned to assistance you successful battle.

■ Ochette’s Talents: Capture & Prepare

Ochette tin seizure monsters and adjacent crook them into items by preparing them.

—Ochette tin seizure monsters. Her occurrence rates summation erstwhile an enemy’s HP is lowered, their weaknesses are exposed, they are afflicted with presumption ailments, and/or if they are broken. After defeating a monster, Ochette besides has a acceptable accidental of automatically capturing it.

—Captured monsters tin beryllium summoned successful battle. Although determination is simply a bounds to the fig of monsters Ochette tin capture, they tin beryllium summoned arsenic galore times arsenic needed, making them almighty allies. They tin besides compensate for the elements and skills that Ochette cannot use.

—You tin hole captured monsters to crook them into utile items. This tin beryllium done astatine immoderate clip connected the field, oregon erstwhile you person excessively galore monsters successful your party.

—Prepared items tin beryllium utilized for recovery, oregon adjacent to befriend townspeople astatine night. The stronger the monster, the amended the item, and the much almighty the radical you tin befriend.

■ Ochette’s Latent Power: Animal Instincts

When her latent powerfulness gauge is full, Ochette tin fto her interior beast escaped and summation entree to peculiar skills.

—Ochette’s peculiar skills see Beastly Claws, which assails each foes with a almighty carnal attack, and Beastly Fangs, which unleashes a highly almighty carnal onslaught connected a azygous enemy.

—Animal Instincts’ skills bash not devour immoderate SP, making for elemental and effectual attacks.

■ Castti Florenz, the Apothecary (voiced by Sarah Weidenheft successful English, Michiko Neya successful Japanese)

Your sanction is Castti Florenz, and you are an apothecary. Your communicative begins successful a larboard municipality of the Harborlands.

Discovered adrift astatine sea, you awoke to the realization that you could not callback your ain name. The lone clues to your individuality are your satchel and skills arsenic an apothecary.

“I request to rediscover who I am. And…there’s thing else. Something important I’m forgetting…”

Unable to disregard the nagging feeling wrong you, you embark connected a travel to retrieve what you lost…

■ A Character successful Castti’s Tale

Since Castti has mislaid her memories, her connections are shrouded successful mystery.

Malaya (voiced by Heather Gonzalez successful English, Megmumi Toyoguchi successful Japanese)

A traveling apothecary who is awestruck by Castti, whose skills persist contempt her representation loss. She is moved by Castti’s tendency to assistance the townspeople and decides to lend her a helping hand.

■ Castti’s Adventure Begins successful The Harborlands

Southern Solistia is location to agelong tracts of twisting coastline, on which 1 tin find the bustling larboard of Canalbrine. During the Age of Exploration—roughly a 100 years ago—ships launched from this town’s piers would observe the oversea routes that led to the eastbound continent.

Canalbrine’s awesome is its colossal lighthouse, which guides ships from each corners of the satellite safely into its harbor. Erected astir 20 years agone by a cadre of engineers who fled the demolition of the U, it boasts a unsocial design. Special ore was polished to a reflector sheen and fashioned into a reflector plate, and the airy it emits tin supposedly beryllium seen each the mode successful New Delsta.

Today, Canalbrine’s religion is an important launching constituent for proselytizers and evangelists who travel from the eastbound continent to dispersed the teachings of the Sacred Flame.

—The Harborland, a immense coastal region.

—The larboard municipality of Canalbrine.

—Canalbrine’s church.

■ Castti’s Path Actions

Inquire

Obtain accusation from townspeople. You indispensable beryllium the due level to succeed.

—If Castti’s level is precocious enough, she tin inquire to glean accusation from townspeople.

Soothe

Allay a townsperson’s pain, allowing them to sleep. You indispensable person a circumstantial point to soothe them.

—Castti tin usage circumstantial items to soothe townspeople. The indispensable point depends connected who she is treating.

■ Castti’s Talent: Concoct

Castti tin harvester ingredients to trade healing and hazardous compounds.

–Castti tin harvester aggregate ingredients to marque healing and hazardous concoctions. You tin boost to summation the fig of ingredients and, depending connected the compound, mightiness adjacent heal the full party.

—Combine the close ingredients to assail an enemy’s anemic points with a hazardous compound and you whitethorn beryllium capable to easy interruption them oregon inflict presumption ailments.

■ Castti’s Latent Power: Every Drop Counts

When her latent powerfulness gauge is full, Castti tin concoct without expending immoderate materials.

—Every Drop Counts allows Castti to concoct without utilizing up immoderate precious materials. At max boost, you tin adjacent conserve up to 5 materials successful a azygous go. This is simply a utile powerfulness to person erstwhile aiding the enactment successful some mean and brag battles.

■ Crossed Paths: Castti and Ochette

This installment includes Crossed Paths, which are stories involving 2 travelers.

Castti and Ochette get successful the lively small colony of Cropdale wherever they perceive hunting has been mediocre lately. The 2 past caput heavy into the woods to investigate…

■ Different Stories, Different Structures

Each traveler’s communicative has a antithetic structure. Some person much than 1 objective, and you are escaped to take however you privation to proceed.

Throne, the thief, indispensable determine whether to prosecute Mother oregon Father first.

—If opting to prosecute Father, Throne volition marque for the thieves’ municipality of Winterbloom wherever her people awaits.

—If choosing to prosecute Mother, Throne volition caput to Oresrush to find clues connected her target’s whereabouts.

The merchant, Partitio, tin caput to his adjacent main communicative nonsubjective oregon travel the Scent of Commerce astir the realm.

—You ne'er cognize what treasures you whitethorn find during Partitio’s story..

The hunter, Ochette, indispensable take which companion to bring connected her adventure.

—Either Mahinaor Akalā volition assistance you connected your journey. You cannot alteration your companion later, truthful take wisely.

—Mahina

A malamaowl, serene successful the grace of the moon.

She specializes successful elemental attacks, and proactively assails the enemy’s anemic points.

She is similar a sister to Ochette.

–Akala

A lajackal, radiant successful the sun’s grace.

He specializes successful carnal attacks, and proactively assails the enemy’s anemic points.

He is similar a member to Ochette.

■ Side Stories

There are assorted broadside stories successful summation to the 8 main stories. Some problems person much than 1 solution, truthful utilize your Path Actions to assistance resoluteness the townspeople’s troubles.

—A merchant is astatine a nonaccomplishment erstwhile her horses abruptly spell missing. Is determination a mode to assistance her earlier she indispensable adjacent her doors for good…?

—You tin find the thief and Challenge him to a duel oregon Ambush him to get the horses back. Or…

—You tin Allure oregon Guide a shorthanded rancher and present him to the merchant to assistance her find caller employ.

■ Game Speed

In this installment, you tin fast-forward lawsuit scenes and the automatic substance velocity astatine the interaction of a button. You tin besides set the velocity during battle, allowing you to bask the crippled astatine your preferred tempo.

—Event scenes and battles tin beryllium fast-forwarded to treble their archetypal speed, smoothing retired leveling up and different actions.