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Hello everyone, I'm just finishing up a replay of octopath traveler 2 and am missing only a few achievements to get the 100% on steam. I played it on switch a couple years ago and decided to buy it again (first game I've ever bought twice) because i wanted to play it on better hardware and generally just wanted to play it again.

I know this is probably a very common question in this sub, so I'll just specificy what i particularly like about 2 so i can hopefully get some answers on 0. I decided to ask it instead of just buying 0 because obviously it's more expensive than 2 and because the reception surrounding it isn't all positive like with 2.

The things that i like the most about octopath 2 are: dynamic music switching between day and night, fun and deep combat system with lots of options at any given time because of the job variety, various support skills and fun latent powers, exploring cities while systematically using my path actions towards every citizen, and then the thing i liked the most was the exploration and finding secrets both in dungeons, and finding the secret dungeons themselves in the game's routes.

I do know 0 is a port that includes some (or all?) the content from a mobile game so it's not gonna feel like a dedicated console octopath game, and i did hear that because of its mobile nature, everything's more linear, there's no character selection at the start, routes are hallways (?) and not at all like octopath 2 (which again is what i liked the most about it), and other stuff similar to it.

So would octopath 0 still be a recommendation or not? Personally i haven't mentioned story stuff because outside of particular story beats i found most of it really predictable and plain (yeah sorry agnea) and it felt like i already knew what was gonna happen during my first playthrough. So if the story isn't that good in 0, that wouldn't be a deal breaker. I'm mostly looking for a good jrpg from a gameplay perspective.

Hey everyone, i was trying to rewatch everything stranger than heaven related and i wanted to make sure i was getting everything in a single playlist. So far what i saved are:

-the original trailers where the game was still project century

-the stranger than heaven name reveal

-the may trailer with the banger song

-the combat demonstration from roughly 2 weeks ago

-the start of the game section with Makoto in america that they showed not even a week ago

Am i missing anything? All the clips from their twitter/instagram is just stuff taken from these bigger trailers right? I feel like the game's marketing with how often they show stuff multiple times, makes it hard to understand if some footage is actually new or not at a glance.

I've been using a longsword progression guide while playing to game just to have an objective set for myself, like a weapon to craft or armor to craft based on where I'm at in the story and i found it fun. I started iceborne not too long ago and am trying to make a build to fight through it since my high rank gear is worthless.

In the guide i was using, it mentiones expert jewels level 4 can drop from "flora frostbite", although I've now done about 10 attempts and I've never gotten it, and i only get like 2 decorations per run which doesn't seem efficient. Can they actually drop there and if so isn't there a better way to get them? I guess even lower level ones are fine long as i can get them now

Question is basically the title. I was watching a few videos on youtube that could answer my question but almost every video gives a different answer on which material is better to watch. So what i wanted to ask is, does it make sense to read the manga as the primary source and then, maybe after finishing an arc, watch that arc adapted?

Because i heard some say the early anime is way too outdated and not enjoyable anymore for non fans and others say that the manga is difficult to follow at times while that's never a problem in the anime.

Does the anime add to the original storyline? Is it "meant" to be watched alongside the manga or as a replacement, or the other way around (manga instead of the anime)?

What are these blue footprints that have been popping up in hunts? They don't allow me to "follow" the monster because it doesn't appear as question marks in the bottom left when opening the map. I've just beat the pink rathian and unlocked 7 star quests for reference.

I just got the optional 6 star zorah magdaros quest and was wondering if it was worth it to do it each time it appears for materials and whatnot. And if so, what's the quickest sort of cycle to use to deal the most damage cause if i gotta spend 20 minutes each time like i just did, yeah it's not happening ever again

So i just got to high rank 6 star missions, I've crafted myself a dazzling flash 1 but i don't know what to do in terms of armor and also how to utilize the grey "slots" on armor pieces or weapons. Is a weapon/armor with a lot of them good? Better on average than one with more raw stats (higher attack/defense) but fewer slots?

Also what type of skills should i prioritize besides hp boost? That way i can understand which armor i want for myself.

Hello everyone, i just got to hr 9-10, am using the longsword and as my main weapon I've got the second weapon in the tzitzi ya ku tree, which was recommended to me by a longsword progression guide. I found it kinda fun to farm parts to "achieve" or just generally get the recommended weapon as i was getting bored of the main story because i don't like any of the characters.

I was just wondering, what should a player around this level do? Should i just keep on going with the main story to unlock even more weapon options or should i take the time and get the best weapon/armor for where I'm at? I know this'll be useless at some point due to the powercreep of equipment, but i just tried some 5 star hunts and i got slaughtered by a big red dragon and one called kirin. I legit fell 3 times in a row basically, not really dealing damage at all.

This seems like a bigger "wall" in optional content than before (jump from 3 stars to 4 starts for instance). What to do?

So I've just unlocked the third area of the game and was wondering at what point i should seriously think about upping my skill. I've seen a couple videos on how to use my weapon, the long sword, but in an actual fight i can never actually put in practice the shorter combos with the little swipe that repositions the character and the parry is completely out of the question. I mostly just default to spamming the normal combo and hope to hit the final roundslash but most of the times i get smacked around and it makes combat feel really heavy, drawn out and boring.

But the training area is useless outside of getting some muscle memory since the target is stationary. What should i do? Is there a better sword like weapon that's faster and requires less commitment for attacks? Cause i really don't know how I'm supposed to put in practice all these tips especially when enemies fly around and keep moving at insane paces compared to the slow and clunky player movement

I'm upgrading my long sword, i have to choose between a hard bone shotel I with 429 attack or blazing shotel I with 462 attack, -20% affinity and 150 fire damage. What's best generally? Maybe the fire damage could be annoying to have against monsters that resist it?

I've been rerolling since launch day, currently at around 40 rerolls (yes, 40) and i haven't gotten him once. I find it very suspicious that I've never hit that 2% chance even once.

i'm playing through the early game of mh world, i just got to the first 3 star mission and i've been doing some of the investigations, i did one exploration to do some of those fetch quests. however, this first 3 star mission, i've failed. i ran out of time because the chicken just wouldn't spawn, so i decided to wait instead of just immediately killing a jagras, which made it so when the time ran out, the chicken was enraged and not dead (i was probably really close?).

my main question is: what's the best playstile to adopt? super aggressive slamming dick against the monsters, or the contrary? and whenever there's a story mission, is it smart to explore at all or should i just try and do what the objective is and just explore during the "explorations" that have no time limit?