Following a string of rumours and leaks, Square Enix have confirmed that yup, they intend to launch Octopath Traveler on PC in June. The retro-styled JRPG, made in collaboration with Acquire, debuted on Nintendo Switch in July 2018 and our Katharine has muttered encouragingly about it ever since. She’s fairly insistent upon attending to overview the PC launch, which I take as an encouraging signal that it’s, y’know, fairly good. Have a peek within the new PC trailer beneath.
Octopath Traveler, I’m led to imagine, is a JRPG which mixes 2D sprites with low-fi 3D backgrounds to fascinating impact. It has eight characters every with their very own story, and… not having a Switch, I largely learn about it from what Katharine has advised me throughout months of our What Are We All Playing This Weekend? posts. Let’s skim a number of of these for perception.
“It’s more Octopath Traveler for me this weekend. I finally discovered you could assign everyone a second job class earlier in the week, which after 30 hours of play was both a wonderful surprise and something of a sweet relief. I know it’s incredibly repetitive, with each of its eight characters’ story chapters very much like the last, but man alive has this thing sunk its hooks into me good.”
For some time. Just a few weeks later, she mentioned “I’ve hit that bit in Octopath Traveler now where 75% of my party is woefully underpowered for their next individual story chapters” and didn’t appear finest happy. But she has since discovered her resolve.
“After stalling on it for a couple of weeks, the news of Octopath Traveler potentially coming to PC in June has given me a renewed vigour to see this thing through to the end. That’s probably still another 30-odd hours off, mind, but I’m determined to draw a line under this before it arrives on PC where I’ll almost certainly be tempted to buy it again, if only for those sweet, sweet, high resolution pixel graphics. So please cast some Haste spells for me this weekend. I’m going to need it.”
Fingers crossed for her to complete it in time to begin over for a PC overview. It sounds… good-ish? Enjoyable with reservations, maybe.
As for the technical nitty-gritty and choices of the PC model, Squeenix don’t say a lot. They do say it’ll have “English and Japanese audio, and English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese text” and… that’s all they are saying.
Octopath Traveler is coming to Windows via Steam on June seventh. Squeenix haven’t but confirmed the PC worth.
That American “Traveler” goes to do my nut in. Traveller, you lot. Two Ls. Take the L.
