OCTOPATH TRAVELER Reviews

Played this game pretty heavy for about a year. Grinded out the account, leveled up characters. The whole thing. Now they do this with a new app and new company. Now I can’t transfer any of my data from my old account. Nothing. All of my progress is gone and I will not be starting over. This game was already struggling and now this? This game is doomed.

So i played this game and invested a few hundred dollars into it back when it released years ago. I stopped playing about 8 months to a year ago and didn’t know about the transfer. I come back and everything i put in is gone. All the time and money. I feel like I’ve been robbed. Now i have to start over and the absolute worst part is having to sit through the slowest, longest, and most boring cutscenes in the history of video games with no skip option. This game seems like it’s doing its absolute best to waste your life. The QOL department is non existent. Why the main games 1 & 2 have cutscene skip options but the mobile game makes you sit through 10 minutes of garbage text dialogue every 2-3 minutes is absurd. If you enjoy fun don’t download this game.

I downloaded this game earlier this year and had a blast. Recently I decided to delete it because I don’t play it as much and I wanted to free up storage space. When I went to Switch User and pressed the Delete Account button, it did nothing. No extra screen asking if I was sure I wanted to delete the my account or a screen or anything. Some help would be great.

Besides the the bad localization, I’m shocked by the mismanagement of transitioning from one owner to another. OCTOPATHTRAVELER continues to crash and I keep getting error messages saying that I need to wait over a week for the transfer data to take effect before I can play. Deciding to try it on a different account I was shocked when OCTOPATHTRAVELER crashed AGAIN. It’s so disappointing to see a game I loved go down the dumps like this.

Since the update about two weeks ago, the game almost always crashes when loading from the main menu. Even after successfully loading the game, there is a consistent pattern of crashing in various menus/after winning battles. I don’t even dare to start any fights that can’t be finish within one minute since I almost always have to start everything all over again with the game going to black screen and crashing the moment I kill the last enemy. This was never the case before the update. I have tried to resolve the issue on my end by reinstalling the game 10 times. But nothing bloody works.

This is amazingly bad….
And to those who “Love” it I think you mistake “fun” for addictive cycles.

The game prays on those who are neurodivergent so let’s not mince that. Everything’s about building benign numbers. It all centers around it, of course gambling system.

You roll for a chance to get the Character you want, just like in most of the trash on this insipid market place.

I honestly no longer believe Apple has any value outside of garbage games. There is nothing on the Apple App Store that’s worth playing ever.

Apple itself encourage this apple itself rewards this avoid opening the Apple marketplace at all costs. They will do nothing but manipulate you. Do not let Apple have a card number saved for you do this and you will live a happier life don’t do this, and you will lose all your finances in order to gamble them absolutely nothing absolutely nothing

The game plays wonderfully! Personally transfer went smoothly and the gameplay is fine. My issue comes from the localization coming from this new team taking over. The side Solistia that’s been anticipated for so long by me and many returning players has such a jarring translation. Typos, choppy words, bad punctuation and grammar that make the localization just feel soulless, especially in comparison to how smoothly the Orsterra translation has been. Even Partitio doesn’t sound like himself? There’s indications of ChatGPT being used and frankly it’s disappointing. This is one of my favorite games, Octopath is a wonderful series and I had so much fun progressing through COTC partially because of the story. I really want to rate it 5/5 but this is just upsetting.

Is it fun to play, yes. Towards the end, it becomes just a cash sink that loses all appeal.
I have a lot of hours in the game, but all the god characters that are worth pulling are randomly drawn at such a low rate it is apparent that the only way to pull them is to sink a lot of money into it.
If you’re going to have a rate that you have to pay for, remove all the low level characters that are at such a high rate in every other pull.
The other thought is to have one that has all the characters that were only for a limited time. I was never able to grab A2 or O Odin, and it’s likely unless you bring them back that I never will.

Putting this under reviews as I currently have no other way to contact support. Ive been playing COTC since Squeenix was in charge of OCTOPATHTRAVELER , and while Netease has done a great job implementing faster gameplay and quality of life improvements, the translation and localization of new content are awful. Whether or not all of it has been translated by AI I have no idea, but consistent syntax, grammar and spelling errors make the new content a lot harder to enjoy. I will not be making any in-app purchases until more effort and love is put in to making the localization less jarring.

The updates made to performance are great. The game runs so much more smoothly than before. However, the localization is some of the worst I’ve ever seen. The English is riddled with typos, inconsistent capitalization, and flat out errors, even for things that have official translation (how they got Bralando region from ブラトランド地方 I’ll never understand, especially when it’s just called “The Brightlands” in the English version of Octopath Traveler 2). It’s clear that no native English speakers were involved in the localization and that really needs to change. It needs to be proofread if nothing else.

I had my account on my iPad and now everything i work towards is gone cause y’all shut it down. So i can’t get nothing from it. Now i’ve started over the game is a little better but we should still be able to recover it or soemthing. Still a fun game and always will be a fav in my books.

I had played the square enix version up until one of the last chapters of the final story and I loved the game, I am very happy about the quality of life updates and the new storyline OCTOPATHTRAVELER will bring, however I lost my data in the transfer. Thankfully the support team has been patiently helping me!

Same game as the other app, which ran for approximately 2.5 years. New company running operations is clearly using AI for a majority (if not all) of new content translation which does diminish the experience. They’ve addressed it, though, so hopefully that fixes soon. I appreciate the QOL updates and cheaper rubies. Passes and special supply under “activity” are good purchases for those coming from the last app.

Must play for all Octopath fans.

NetEase: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PUT MORE MONEY INTO LOCALIZATION. I love this game, but all the new content feels like it was sent through google translate when being translated. I would give this five stars if you would do better localization, and I know many other players would like you to do better than your currently pathetic localization efforts. Thanks a million if you are reading this. 👍

One of the greatest series i’ve ever blindly jumped into and I couldn’t be happier with the gameplay, story, art, environments, music it is all superb and should be tried by everyone who loves RPGs or pixal art style, Almost 800 hours in and loved every second

I’ve played these types of games since FF Record Keeper and Puzzles and Dragons came out over ten years ago. I’ve never been a spender, usually happy to give a reasonable amount if I think the developers earned it.

This is not a normal gacha game. This is AAA story and music, easily on par with OCTOPATH Traveler 2. In fact, I think the gameplay balance and party construction is much more engaging here. Truly feels like a premium game.

The gacha element is ENTIRELY OPTIONAL. You do not need to spend a dime to play these excellent, massive single player storylines here. It just takes strategy and understanding of game mechanics. I paid $25 and that was after deciding this game was easily worth that.

This is a AAA experience and not predatory in any way. Enjoy it and if you want to support the devs I’d honestly encourage it because they’ve done brilliant work. 10/10 phone game, 8.5/10 if this was a game on Steam paying full price.

This might be my second review ever, this is hands down the best mobile game I’ve ever installed. Packed with content to keep you entertained and playing. The gatcha system isn’t intrusive and the free currency is generous enough. Give this a try if you’re into jrpgs and loved the octopath games!

What happened to the twitter log in? Many people used twitter to log in and play but now that the option isn’t there, what do we do now?

I’ve put many hours into this game and have enjoyed all of them! There is so much to do and the progression is very rewarding. I have played this game multiple times through and absolutely love it every time. Incredible replay value. It has been consistently updated with new and engaging content, and recently a big update happened with promises of continued updates. This game is very fun and rewarding and I would recommend everyone give it a try!

I’ve been a big fan of Octopath travelers since it has been I have nothing but great things to say about this game and best wishes for this. I’ve spent countless hours playing this game and I honestly am happy with everything about the game except for one thing, would it be possible to get controller support?(Backbone controller) the only reason I say this is because for me it’s kind of difficult to swipe on screen and use the touch functions because my hands will cramp up a lot faster that way, and using something like a Backbone controller would be just a little easier so if controller support is something that we get in the future, I would be over the moon ecstatic