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 offers gamers a have a look at how story development will work within the sport.
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 abilities and skills to make use of out and in of fight.
Listed here are simply two:
Ochette
Voiced by: Suzie Yeung
Your identify 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 referred to as the Night time of the Scarlet Moon.
“All proper, Grasp Juvah. I’ll do it. I’ll discover these Creatures of Legend and convey them again.”
Determined to avoid wasting your own home, you set sail searching for those that might help…
A few of the characters in Ochette’s story
As you’d anticipate, Ochette is surrounded by many fascinating characters. Nevertheless, what might shock you is that not all are human…
Isle Warden, Juvah
Voiced by: Jaimeson Value
Ochette’s grasp and chief of the beastlings who reside on Toto’haha. He hopes she is going to someday grow to be 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 styles. 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 choose the island.
The harbor city’s proximity to New Delsta prompted it to be developed as a resort for the rich. As well as, it produces many luxurious items, comparable to scrumptious espresso beans, and now serves as an essential cease alongside the commerce routes between japanese and western continents.
Ochette’s Path Actions
All of the playable characters in OCTOPATH TRAVELER II can use particular Path Actions. These are abilities that allow you to work together with NPCs, uncover info or objects and extra.
Characters have two Path Actions – one which they’ll use throughout the day, and one other for evening. Listed here 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 fame will undergo, which implies you gained’t be allowed to make use of any Path Actions.
Night time time: Befriend
This motion allows you to take a townsperson alongside in your journey and summon them that will help you in battle.
You will have particular objects, comparable to jerky, to befriend somebody.
Ochette’s Skills: Seize and Put together
Ochette can seize monsters and even flip them into objects by making ready them.
Her success charges at capturing monsters enhance when an enemy’s HP is lowered, their weaknesses are uncovered, they’re with standing illnesses, and/or if they’re damaged.
After defeating a monster, Ochette additionally has a set likelihood of routinely capturing it.
Captured monsters could 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 abilities that Ochette can not use.
You may put together captured monsters to show them into helpful objects. This may be performed at any time on the sector, or when you’ve got too many monsters in your get together.
Ready objects can be utilized for restoration, and even to befriend townspeople at evening. 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 interior beast free and achieve entry to particular abilities.
Ochette’s particular abilities embody Beastly Claws, which assails all foes with a robust bodily assault, and Beastly Fangs, which unleashes a extremely highly effective bodily assault on a single enemy.
Animal Instincts’ abilities don’t devour any SP, making for easy and efficient assaults.
Castti Florenz
Voiced by: Sarah Weidenheft
Your identify 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 could possibly not recall your personal identify. The one clues to your identification are your satchel and abilities as an apothecary.
“I must rediscover who I’m. And…there’s one thing else. One thing essential I’m forgetting…”
Unable to disregard the nagging feeling inside you, you embark on a journey to get well 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 abilities persist regardless of her reminiscence loss. She is moved by Castti’s need to assist the townspeople and decides to lend her a serving to hand.
Castti’s journey begins within the Harborlands
Southern Solistia is residence 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 japanese 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 novel design. Particular ore was polished to a mirror sheen and original right into a reflector plate, and the sunshine it emits can supposedly be seen all the best way in New Delsta.
Right this moment, Canalbrine’s church is a crucial launching level for proselytizers and evangelists who come from the japanese 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 info from townspeople.
Night time time: Soothe
Allay a townsperson’s ache, permitting them to sleep.
Castti can use particular objects to appease townspeople, and the required merchandise depends upon who she is treating.
Castti’s Expertise: Concoct
Castti can mix a number of substances to make therapeutic and unsafe concoctions. You may enhance to extend the variety of substances and, relying on the compound, may even heal the complete get together.
Mix the suitable substances to assail an enemy’s weak factors with a hazardous compound and also you could possibly 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 treasured 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 full of life little village of Cropdale, the place they hear looking has been poor currently.
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 primary story goal or observe the Scent of Commerce across the realm.
You by no means know what treasures you might discover throughout Partitio’s story…
Facet Tales
Along with the eight traveler’s primary 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 approach 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 may Attract or Information a shorthanded rancher and introduce him to the service provider to assist her discover new make use of.
Recreation Velocity
In OCTOPATH TRAVELER II, you may fast-forward occasion scenes and the automated textual content pace on the contact of a button. It’s also possible to regulate the pace throughout battle, permitting you to benefit from the sport at your most well-liked tempo.
Octopath Traveler II will launch on Change subsequent month, on February 24.