It debuted at TGS, however there’s a full English audio translation

Whereas Octopath Traveler 2 is slated for launch on February 23, 2023, on PC, PS4, PS5, and Swap, we are able to catch a bit of it now. Should you needed some Octopath Traveler 2 footage following the latest Nintendo Direct reveal, you bought it! Sq. Enix simply gave us 20 minutes of it due to a TGS stream. Don’t fear although! Though the stream was executed for TGS, there’s a full dwell English translation baked in as audio commentary.

Kicking off at roughly 25:00 within the beneath video, we get a full 20-minute walkthrough of the sport, and among the aesthetic and design modifications within the sequel. One large factor that the crew showcases is elevation, which brings “peak and depth” to the maps. There’s a little bit of variation concerned with the sport’s designs, with footage of a forest village and an “outdated west-like city.”

Based mostly on this Octopath Traveler 2 footage, pure time development is in, too, and there might be “drastically totally different music” in some day/evening cycles, together with tracks that sound distinctive in comparison with the unique. The crew needed to make sure that there wasn’t a way of repetition between taking part in the unique and the sequel, and it gave them a very good excuse to “discover totally different genres” of music in addition. The builders mused on how a lot of an endeavor it was, having to design day/evening music for the entire areas within the sport, solely a portion of which have been proven off by way of a short have a look at the world map (31:00 in).

Ideally, Octopath Traveler 2 will tackle among the frequent complaints of the unique (together with how issues homogenize after the person character tales are accomplished): as a result of to date, they’re nonetheless nailing the aesthetic.