If Octopath Traveler were a book, it wouldn’t be a novel but a collection of short stories. The game is not your typical epic JRPG, ambitious and epic, but it’s very modest in scope, telling stories that never intertwine to form a big narrative. Nevertheless, it excels in what it sets out to do, presenting a beautiful world while discussing …
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Does Octopath Traveler have a bigger narrative?
This article contains spoilers for Octopath Traveler (as I hope you would have guessed). “The game is not your typical epic JRPG, ambitious and epic, but is very modest in scope, telling stories that never intertwine to form a big narrative.” When I wrote my review of Octopath Traveler I thought this fragment merited a more in-depth analysis. After all, …
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