Sq. Enix have launched a brand new trailer for Octopath Traveler II, highlighting two of the sport’s eight protagonists: Ochette, the hunter, and Castti, the apothecary. The trailer additionally provides gamers a have a look at how story development will work within the recreation.
New vacationers: Meet Ochette and Castti
OCTOPATH TRAVELER II options eight new playable characters. Each comes from a really totally different stroll of life and has their very own distinct expertise and skills to make use of out and in of fight.
Listed below are simply two:
Ochette
Voiced by: Suzie Yeung
Your title is Ochette, and you’re a hunter. Your story begins on the isle of Toto’haha alongside your fellow beastlings.
Regardless of your troubles with the human islanders, you reside a carefree life. That’s, till you study of an encroaching calamity often known as the Evening of the Scarlet Moon.
“All proper, Grasp Juvah. I’ll do it. I’ll discover these Creatures of Legend and produce them again.”
Determined to save lots of your house, you set sail searching for those that will help…
A number of the characters in Ochette’s story
As you’d anticipate, Ochette is surrounded by many attention-grabbing characters. Nevertheless, what could shock you is that not all are human…
Isle Warden, Juvah
Voiced by: Jaimeson Worth
Ochette’s grasp and chief of the beastlings who stay on Toto’haha. He hopes she is going to someday turn into a protector of the island.
Akalā
Voiced by: Daman Mills
A lājackal, radiant within the solar’s grace. He acts as each a youthful and older brother to Ochette alongside her journey.
Mahina
Voiced by: Cristina Vee
A malamaowl, serene within the grace of the moon. She acts as each a youthful and older sister to Ochette alongside her journey.
Ochette’s story begins in Toto’haha
Southeastern Solistia is dominated by an ocean dotted by numerous islands of all sizes and shapes. The most important of those is Toto’haha, which was first encountered by continental pioneers twenty years in the past.
In its western reaches reside the beastlings, a petite individuals with fluffy tails.
On the east of Toto’haha lies the city of Tropu’hopu, which was established by the primary continental pioneers to decide on the island.
The harbor city’s proximity to New Delsta precipitated it to be developed as a resort for the rich. As well as, it produces many luxurious items, corresponding to scrumptious espresso beans, and now serves as an vital cease alongside the commerce routes between jap and western continents.
Ochette’s Path Actions
All of the playable characters in OCTOPATH TRAVELER II can use particular Path Actions. These are expertise that allow you to work together with NPCs, uncover data or objects and extra.
Characters have two Path Actions – one which they’ll use throughout the day, and one other for night time. Listed below are Ochette’s:
Daytime: Provoke
Ochette can set a monster on a townsperson and provoke a battle.
Win, and they are going to be knocked unconscious. However fail too many instances and your repute will endure, which suggests you gained’t be allowed to make use of any Path Actions.
Evening time: Befriend
This motion enables you to take a townsperson alongside in your journey and summon them that can assist you in battle.
You will have particular objects, corresponding to jerky, to befriend somebody.
Ochette’s Abilities: Seize and Put together
Ochette can seize monsters and even flip them into objects by getting ready them.
Her success charges at capturing monsters improve when an enemy’s HP is lowered, their weaknesses are uncovered, they’re bothered with standing illnesses, and/or if they’re damaged.
After defeating a monster, Ochette additionally has a set likelihood of robotically capturing it.
Captured monsters might be summoned in battle. Though there’s a restrict to the variety of monsters Ochette can seize, they are often summoned as many instances as wanted, making them highly effective allies. They will additionally compensate for the weather and expertise that Ochette can’t use.
You’ll be able to put together captured monsters to show them into helpful objects. This may be achieved at any time on the sector, or when you’ve too many monsters in your get together.
Ready objects can be utilized for restoration, and even to befriend townspeople at night time. The stronger the monster, the higher the merchandise, and the extra highly effective the individuals you may befriend.
Ochette’s Latent Energy: Animal Instincts
Every hero in OCTOPATH TRAVELER II has a Latent Energy, which they’ll unleash throughout fight when their gauge is full.
When Ochette’s latent energy gauge is full, she will let her inside beast unfastened and achieve entry to particular expertise.
Ochette’s particular expertise embody Beastly Claws, which assails all foes with a strong bodily assault, and Beastly Fangs, which unleashes a extremely highly effective bodily assault on a single enemy.
Animal Instincts’ expertise don’t devour any SP, making for easy and efficient assaults.
Castti Florenz
Voiced by: Sarah Weidenheft
Your title is Castti Florenz, and you might be an apothecary. Your story begins in a port city of the Harborlands.
Found adrift at sea, you awoke to the conclusion that you might not recall your individual title. The one clues to your identification are your satchel and expertise as an apothecary.
“I have to rediscover who I’m. And…there’s one thing else. One thing vital I’m forgetting…”
Unable to disregard the nagging feeling inside you, you embark on a journey to get better what you misplaced…
A personality in Castti’s story
Since Castti has misplaced her reminiscences, her connections are shrouded in thriller.
Voiced by: Heather Gonzalez
A touring apothecary who’s awestruck by Castti, whose expertise persist regardless of her reminiscence loss. She is moved by Castti’s want to assist the townspeople and decides to lend her a serving to hand.
Castti’s journey begins within the Harborlands
Southern Solistia is house to lengthy tracts of twisting shoreline, alongside which one can discover the bustling port of Canalbrine. Through the Age of Exploration – roughly 100 years in the past -ships launched from this city’s piers would uncover the ocean routes that led to the jap continent.
Canalbrine’s image is its colossal lighthouse, which guides ships from all corners of the world safely into its harbor. Erected roughly twenty years in the past by a cadre of engineers who fled the destruction of the U, it boasts a singular design. Particular ore was polished to a mirror sheen and customary right into a reflector plate, and the sunshine it emits can supposedly be seen all the best way in New Delsta.
At the moment, Canalbrine’s church is a crucial launching level for proselytizers and evangelists who come from the jap continent to unfold the teachings of the Sacred Flame.
Castti’s Path Actions
Daytime: Inquire
If Castti’s degree is excessive sufficient, she will inquire to glean data from townspeople.
Evening time: Soothe
Allay a townsperson’s ache, permitting them to sleep.
Castti can use particular objects to appease townspeople, and the mandatory merchandise is dependent upon who she is treating.
Castti’s Expertise: Concoct
Castti can mix a number of components to make therapeutic and dangerous concoctions. You’ll be able to enhance to extend the variety of components and, relying on the compound, may even heal the complete get together.
Mix the best components to assail an enemy’s weak factors with a hazardous compound and also you might be able to simply break them or inflict standing illnesses.
Castti’s Latent Energy: Each Drop Counts
Each Drop Counts permits Castti to concoct with out utilizing up any valuable supplies. At max enhance, you may even preserve as much as 5 supplies in a single go.
This can be a helpful energy to have when aiding the get together in each regular and boss battles.
Crossed Paths: Castti and Ochette
New to OCTOPATH TRAVELER II are Crossed Paths – tales that contain two vacationers.
Castti and Ochette arrive within the vigorous little village of Cropdale, the place they hear searching has been poor recently.
The 2 then head deep into the woods to research…
Totally different tales have totally different buildings
Every traveler’s story in OCTOPATH TRAVELER II has a distinct construction. Some have multiple goal, and you might be free to decide on the way you wish to proceed. Let’s have a look at two characters we’ve beforehand showcased for examples.
For instance, Throné, the thief, should resolve whether or not to pursue Mom or Father first.
If opting to pursue Father, Throné will make for the thieves’ city of Winterbloom the place her goal awaits.
If selecting to pursue Mom, Throné will head to Oresrush to search out clues on her goal’s whereabouts.
The service provider, Partitio, can head to his subsequent predominant story goal or comply with the Scent of Commerce across the realm.
You by no means know what treasures it’s possible you’ll discover throughout Partitio’s story…
Facet Tales
Along with the eight traveler’s predominant tales, there are numerous facet tales to find. Some issues have multiple resolution, so make the most of your Path Actions to assist resolve the townspeople’s troubles.
A service provider is at a loss when her horses immediately go lacking. Is there a means to assist her earlier than she should shut her doorways for good…?
You will discover the thief and Problem him to a duel or Ambush him to get the horses again. Or…
You’ll be able to Attract or Information a shorthanded rancher and introduce him to the service provider to assist her discover new make use of.
Recreation Pace
In OCTOPATH TRAVELER II, you may fast-forward occasion scenes and the automated textual content velocity on the contact of a button. It’s also possible to alter the velocity throughout battle, permitting you to benefit from the recreation at your most popular tempo.
Octopath Traveler II will launch on Change subsequent month, on February 24.