Square Enix held a live broadcast of “OCTOPATH TRAVELER II” at the Tokyo Game Show today (17th), announced the first wave of publicly available information, and played the world’s first real machine game.
The second generation is still being built by the original development team of the first generation. However, the previous work and this work are not related to the story and characters, so people who have not played the first generation can also play directly from the second generation. The core concept this time around is still that players can choose their favorite main character from among the 8 main characters to start the game.
The eight characters that appear are swordsmen, dancers, merchants, scholars, thieves, priests, hunters and pharmacists. This time, I will meet other characters on the journey and travel together. What is new in this work is a “collaborative story” where the main characters will act together.
There are four improvements in this work, the first of which is that the HD-2D image is more advanced. The second is that the 8 main characters are completely new, and their origins are completely different. The third is that this adventure stage “Solestia” added changes of day and night, and the fourth is a new system that improves the playability of battles.
In the HD-2D part, it can also be seen in the video displayed on the spot that the head-to-body ratio of the characters of “Qilu Traveler 2” is long, but the details of the step elements are also higher. Additionally, there are changes in the movement of the mirror in battle this time. .
Day and night changes will not only affect the scenery, music, and NPC configuration of the entire game environment, but also affect the different map orders held by the main characters.
Swordsman is a “competition” that requires fighting during the day (requires a certain level), and becomes a “buy” at night, which can take a lot of time for players who like to study sideline . After winning the competition, you can learn the opponent’s skills and use them in battle.
The dancer’s skill during the day is “Temptation”, so he can wait with other people to act or even fight, and at night it will become “Begging”, you can get items from other people (a certain level is required ).
This step is the two continents divided by the sea, the east and the west. In the real machine demo, I came to an orc village One of the 8 characters is an orc. In this village, money cannot be used to trade, but meat.. In addition, there is more detail in the whole map this time. For example, the previous work could not enter buildings such as shops, but the this time it is possible.
This live broadcast also showed some battle content, including the parts of “break defense” and “amplification”, while the new steps are “potential”. Potential value is accumulated by taking damage and breaking defense .All 8 characters are different. The trump card skill will be able to control the battle situation.
▲ As of the time of publication, the live broadcast is still ongoing, and the first program is the live broadcast of “Qilu Traveller”.
“Qilu Traveler 2” is scheduled to be released on PS4, PS5, and Switch on February 24, 2023, and the Steam version will be released on the 25th, and pre-orders are currently open.
