"Take your nuts and spread em over your party" killed me

The Inventor secret job is also pretty good at figuring out basic enemy weaknesses using its Changeable Catapult skill, especially if you give it to someone like Throné with high speed or manage to get the job’s first passive skill.

Another tip: If an area you're about to enter warns it is higher level than you, just don't do it. Anything more than one or two levels above you and you will get your arse handed to you on a platter. There are ways of reducing the encounter rate, and improving your chance of fleeing battle, so you can maybe risk a quick dash through an area, but be sure to save first!

I would argue Temenos as a great starting character. He has guide during the day and can easily recruit and NPC, in Flamechurch Who has mental augmentation, which can be rather useful very early in the game until you get something better. He is also very close to Oswald, throne, and the inventor job class which I stick on him immediately until I recruit one of those two characters. At night he has the coeore skill that you can use to uncover hidden items in towns, discounts at inns, And all other useful things. Instant heals, a quick route to a three party team, one of the two quickest routes to your first secondary job that also allows him to have some physical presence. Add in the fact that he has a skill that restores SP and his light magic being pretty deadly and I would probably amend my statement to say he’s the best character overall to start with.

As someone who had the tail end of his Octopath Traveler run carried by runelord Therion, I was really inclined to start my OT2 story with Throné. Also her starting attributes ahem ahem were a thing to behold! But, since my starting pick in OT1 was Olberic, I had to stay true and go with Hikari. Watching your video and playing the game for about an hour I realized that most of the mechanics in OT2 don't differ much (if at all) from their OT1 counterparts. Which is fine since the original game's formula was pretty spot on. Thanks for the quick tips and may the caits be slow and aplenty!

The nut segment and the pictures you used 😂

Regarding party comp, there's really two good ways to do it. You can split the game in half, playing with two full parties one after the other. The standard teams for this are "all east" and "all west" as this results in good party comp for combats as well as giving you access to every path action in both day and night (and those are the "only" two parties that have access to all path actions during both day and night.) The other way to do it is to use your main, cycle healers (whichever is lower level) and then cycle the bottom two slots into whoever is the lowest level at the time. The up side is that the pacing is better, as doing the "two full parties" method has tonal whiplash after your first team finishes all their chapters, and your second party will find the game very easy since you'll have end game gear. The down side to cycling characters like this is that you'll at times find you won't have access to path actions without having to run back to the tavern.

Apothecary as a starter is my personal preference. Little healing little damage. Id say that might be a good choice as a begginer

I started with Agnea and didnt regret my desicion. She is awesome and get brutaly strong, later in the game :)

Just got this game on the switch and am looking forward to playing it . Ps thanks for the tips

Started with Throne, found Osvald fairly early, but could not for the life of me find Temenos. Suffice to say, Throne's boss fight in a part of Ch. 2 with just two in the party was brutal. Ended up grinding to about 8 levels above the boss just to get through ti, and I had definitely searched for, purchased or stolen all the best gear I could find.

Lovely game. Glad you were able to find time to play this game between showers.

Didn’t know Cid liked Octopath

Can someone tell me why my menu inventory list doesn’t come up during the map on the left side on ps5? I’m only chapter 1 and unlocked 2 characters . Am I missing something? Can’t see inventory list

You sound like Ralph Ineson xD

I like agnea but I also dislike her in my part till I got one alter skill... If this is your first time play I suggest to select her as your main character and find a blanced job for her like scholar or something... I was going to leave her behind till I say this video 😊

Hey, looking for some advice. Are we supposed to gather our party of 4 and then play through their chapters or play through 1st chapters of all 8?

late game, throne is killer w/ the armament job

I'm pretty late to the party here, but if you still read these comments: I'm usually a multiplayer guy (D2, CoD, BF, FFXIV etc.) with the occasional Dark Souls and Souls Like games. But for some reason the past few months I've really been on a Singplayer game streak (God of War i.e.). Now I've heard and seen quite the positive reviews about this piece of entertainment. But would this game really be interesting for someone like me? I like all the Japanese style things and I have quite the weakspot for it (being a weeb in middleschool got me into FFXIV and now 8 or 9-ish years later I still play that). However I've never played a JRPG style game such as this. Is combat fun? Even though you just select an attack etc. Not much of a story guy, but I can appreciate a decent storyline being there. How about time to complete main story/campaign? (Im not into 100% stuff) Is there replayability? If yes, how much so?

I started with Partitio, because i love his personality and story,, i dont care about his combat ability. Just take money and jp for the party, he could buy expensive stuff eventually 😂 .

Oswald suck to start with! Cassti, or Hikari. Casti, Hikari, Throne, Teminos, great starting team.

JUST go right into the content! stop telling us to play it. we know what we clicked on. every damn video does this

Thrones a goat