More Thoughts From Me #124: Octopath Traveler Gets An Addictive New Demo

Last week during E3, Nintendo and Square Enix released a new demo for Octopath Traveler. We had seen a demo before for the game, but this new one had some improvements and also let you play as any of the eight characters in the full game. I’ve been playing this demo a lot. Here are my thoughts on Octopath Traveler’s newest demo!

Octopath Traveler will be coming to the Nintendo Switch in July. I wish it was July already. This game is so addictive!

The new Octopath Traveler demo will let you play as any of the eight main characters from the full game. You can only play the demo for three hours. The demo, however, doesn’t lock you out of it. If you want, you can totally erase your orignal save and start over as another character. I have one finished three hour save that I’m keeping for the full game (so I continue on from there!! How cool is that?!), but I admit I have started over and over again on another profile on my Switch. I really can’t stop playing this demo.

The combat in Octopath Traveler is a lot of fun. Its a turn-based affair, which I love, but things play out differently depending on what character you use. Each of the characters have special ablities, weapons, and ways in which the fight. All of this keeps the battle system fresh and interesting. Plus the turn-based battles are fast!

I also love how each character have an ability they can use out of battle too. For example, the Thief can steal from people in town and others have interesting things they can do too. I don’t want to spoil too much of the game for my readers so I’m trying to keep things a bit vague.

I won’t tell you about the story at all, but I will say that I do like the game’s character based beginnings so far. Though I have been skipping cutscenes lately in order to play the demo more. I figure I can catch the story sections in the full game.

Octopath Traveler is such a blast to play. Its very old school in many ways, like having save points (it has a lot of them though) and in other ways, its trying things that I haven’t see other rpgs do. I can’t wait till this game gets to the Nintendo Switch in July.

Are you looking forward to Octopath Traveler? Have you played the demo yet? Let me know in the comments!

Next week: My Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion thoughts! What do I think of Splatoon 2’s new single player DLC? Also, since I just got Splatoon 2 last month-I’ll give you some thoughts on what I think of Splatoon 2 as a whole. Is it better than Splatoon 1?

More Thoughts From Me is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed here are mine and mine alone. Back to the Octopath Traveler demo!