i love how OT0's Gacha artifact is extremely blatant (+OT0 First Impression)
Finally got myself Octopath 0 and really impressed with the Prologue, it's like extremely FF coded ngl, kinda wish there's an entire Octopath game with this ammount of focus between characters, i really like the bond between Zero, Stia, Phenn and Laurana, i can see them be the "Big Four" of this story.
By the time i finally go trough the Three Main Villain's story i can't help but notice how much of a gacha game's story length the story are:
Act 1: Simple introduction of the villain of the story that last 15-30 minutes
Act 2: Tense chapter that builds up the finale that last 30 minutes (albeit the writting is kinda... eh?)
Act 3: Grand Finale with insane plot progression that last an hour
Compared to other games where each chapter is like 30 minutes long each, i found it both jarring and funny at the same time, i was like "yeah this used to be a Gacha Game, that made sense"
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now, while we're on this topic, i wanna share my first impression of the game.
the game is really fun and as much as Octopath game i wanted to be, but i'm not a huge fan on how your attack doesn't multiply when you boosted, i get it was meant to avoid the shield bloating because how spamable if that's the case, but for the most part i felt like i'm just relying on normal attacks spam than my characters skills, which is something i was looking forward to
another thing that i'm not too fond about right now (for reference, i just beat the main Trio Villain), is that the new characters is just... non existent? like i literally have no impression of characters like Viator, he's just a dude who wants to join my team because of... treasure? or Saoirse joining me because we make a good co-dancer with her. I hope i could witness more of their stories and personality, like i'm really interested on Macy cause she seems like the perfect blend of Alfyn and Castti or Alexia where she sounds unhinged from her battle voice lines, i wanna see more of them than just banters
other than that, i'm really enjoying the game so far, i really love every chapter's Act 3 by far, and i'm excited to reunite with the OT1 cast again, i'm surprised Laurana actually joined relatively late, i was sure she's going to be my 4th party member, but it's Macy instead
i heard a lot of fuzz about Sazantos, so i'm really excited to experience his story
also THE GAME IS OVERSATURATED, please tone down the coloring 😭
i thought the game would look better once i played it, but no it genuinely hurts my eyes for the first few hours of the playtrough
