System: Switch
Release date: July 13, 2018
Developer: Square Enix / Acquire
Publisher: Nintendo
When Octopath Traveler was first pitched at Nintendo’s January 2017 Switch unveiling event, Square Enix’s brief trailer talked up a classic-style JRPG something akin to The Canterbury Tales. Its focus on the stories of eight travelers with its key art of each character exchanging tales in a pub evoked the timeless format of Chaucer’s narrative poem. For a less distant comparison to this style of fantasy RPG, Octopath Traveler pitched something closer to tabletop role playing games. *You* choose your path. In a very loose sense, this remains true. The game has an unconventional structure where you do pick the characters and the order that you want to play their stories out. Once you lock yourself into one of the game’s roughly hour-long story chapters, they play out linearly with no room for meaningful deviation and almost no regard for the unique path you’ve taken to that point. The final game, as it turns out, makes very little use of what could have been a very ambitious project of offering player-driven crossover stories. Realistically, this idea was probably always too ambitious for a game of this style. As glaring as the dissonance between story and play often is, it’s more productive to look at what Octopath Traveler gets right, rather than what it doesn’t prioritize.
Several new games out came out this week on the eShop. If you’re interested in checking out what’s new in screenshot form, take a look at the gallery below.
With the new Fire Emblem Heroes event that has kicked off, the Festival in Hoshido event has brought along some new Paralogue Maps. Check out footage of the latest content below.
The mobile version of Pokemon Quest generated $3 million in its first week on the App Store on Google Play. That number has since climbed to $8 million in its first month, Sensor Tower reports.
34% of Pokemon Quest’s revenue on mobile has come from Japan. The next highest percentage is the United States at 24%, followed by South Korea at 12%.
This week’s episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta are joined by a couple of guests to play a game of Monopoly Gamer: Mario Kart. Check out the full episode below.
Nintendo World Report has posted a video showing the first 30 minutes from Little Dragons Cafe. Watch the footage below.
Now that the Dragon Ball FighterZ beta has started on Switch, we’re able to see how the Switch version compares to the Xbox One release. View a comparison video below.
Flyhigh Works has announced its next Flyhigh Express presentation. The event will be held tonight in North America, and tomorrow in other parts of the world.
It’ll go live at the following times:
As part of the latest update this week, Attack on Titan 2 added Kenny Ackerman’s hat. Check out some footage in the video below.
Doom Eternal is coming to Switch, Bethesda announced at QuakeCon today. Panic Button will be working on this version of the game, as was the case with the previous entry in the series.
Here’s a rundown of information shared during today’s presentation:
