Square Enix held a live broadcast of “OCTOPATH TRAVELER II” at the Tokyo Game Show today (17), announced the first wave of publicly available information, and played the world’s first real machine game.
The second generation is still built by the original first generation development team. However, the previous work and this work are not related to the story and the characters, so people who have not played the first generation can also play directly from the second generation. The central concept this time around is again that players can choose their favorite protagonist from the 8 protagonists 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. The novelty of this work is a “cooperative story” in which the protagonists will act together.
There are four improvements in this work: the first is that the HD-2D image is more evolved. The second is that the 8 protagonists are completely new and their origins are completely different. The third is that this phase of the “Solestia” adventure has added changes of day and night, and the fourth is a new system that improves the playability of the battles.
In the HD-2D part it can also be seen in the video displayed on the spot that the head-body ratio of the characters of “Qilu Traveler 2” is lengthened, but the details of the phase elements are also superior. Also, this time there are changes in the movement of the mirror in the battle.
The day and night changes will not only affect the scenery, music and NPC configuration of the entire game environment, but will also affect the different map controls held by the protagonists.
Swordsman is a “competition” that requires fighting during the day (requires a certain level) and becomes a “buy” at night, which can be time consuming for players who like to study on the sidelines. After winning the competition, you can learn the opponent’s skills and use them in battle.
The skill of the dancer during the day is “Temptation”, so that she can be with other people to act or even fight, and at night it will become “Begging”, you can get items from other people (requires a certain level).
This phase are the two continents divided by the sea, the east and the west. In the real car demo, I arrived in an orc village. One of the 8 characters is an ogre. In this village, money cannot be used for trade, but meat … Also, this time there are more details in the whole map.For example, the previous work could not enter buildings such as shops, but this time it is possible.
This live broadcast also showed some battle content, including the “defense breaking” and “amplification” parts, while the new action is “potential”. Potential value is accumulated by taking damage and breaking defense. Each of the 8 characters is different. It will be the winning skill that can control the battle situation.
▲ At the time of publication, the live broadcast is still in progress and the live broadcast of “Qilu Traveler” is the first program.
“Qilu Traveler 2” is expected 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.
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