Octopath Traveler 2018

Is it still worth playing?

Square Enix's 2018 role playing game, made with Acquire, in an HD-2D visual style that combines pixel sprites with polygonal environments and high definition effects. It follows eight adventurers across the fantasy world of Orsterra, and you start by choosing one as your protagonist, each beginning in a different part of the world. That character stays in the party until their story arc, four chapters long, is finished, and the others can be recruited at their starting locations. Each has a distinct job that cannot be changed. Each also has a Path Action for dealing with townspeople. The Warrior can challenge them, the Merchant buys items from them and the Thief steals them. Eight stories and a party you assemble let you decide the order of your journey, and that freedom still shapes how you play.