Octopath Traveller 2 Review: less than the sum of its parts
The bustling streets of New Delsta hide a dark secret. Organized crime has a vice-like grip on the city. From the shadows, the sinister Blacksnakes control everything. Throné is an indentured servant to the Blacksnake’s grim hierarchs. Coerced into a life of crime, she faces abuse, corporal punishment, and danger on a regular basis. Part of a twisted power game played by the gang’s leaders, Throné is forced to fight her closest confidant to the death. She triumphs, but something in her breaks. She resolves to escape the yoke of the Blacksnakes and find her freedom. Enter: Agnea, a dancer from a pleasant village in the Leaflands. Wholesome, charming, and delightful, the aspiring starlet seems to have stepped out of a Disney movie. And here is Octopath Traveller 2 ’s biggest problem: many of its central stories are at complete thematic odds with each other. Octopath Traveller 2 is a turn-based JRPG for the Nintendo Switch, boasting gorgeous pixel art graphics and a...