Octopath Traveler II details Partitio the Merchant, Osvald the Scholar, and water travel - Gematsu

■ Concept

About

This crippled is simply a brand-new introduction successful the Octopath Traveler series, the archetypal installment of which was initially released successful 2018 and sold implicit 3 cardinal copies worldwide.

It takes the series’ HD-2D graphics, a fusion of retro pixel creation and 3D CG, to adjacent greater heights. In the satellite of Solistia, 8 caller travelers task distant into an breathtaking caller era.

Where volition you go? What volition you do? Whose communicative volition you bring to life? Every way is yours to take. Embark connected an adventure each your own.

New World, New Tales

The communicative takes spot successful Solistia, a onshore comprising an eastbound and occidental continent divided by the sea.

It is simply a bustling era, wherein ample vessels navigate engaged oversea routes and the powerfulness of steam gives commencement to caller technologies.

Some radical thrill to glamorous stars of the signifier and industry, portion others are brought to tears by war, plague, and poverty.

In this faraway realm, 8 travelers hailing from antithetic regions task distant for their ain reasons. Step into their shoes and research the onshore arsenic you spot fit.

■ Partitio Yellowil, the Merchant (voiced by Jas Patrick successful English, Kazuya Nakai successful Japanese)

Your sanction is Partitio Yellowil, and you are a merchant. Your communicative begins successful the immense wastes of the Wildlands.

After witnessing the emergence and autumn of the pioneer municipality you telephone home, you acceptable your regard upon the horizon.

“I’ll beryllium backmost erstwhile I destruct that devil called poorness from the world!”

With dreams of bringing prosperity to all, you embark connected a travel with lone the scent of commerce to usher you…

■ Characters successful Partitio’s Tale

Papp (voiced by Keith Silverstein successful English, Mitsuki Nakamura successful Japanese)

Partitio’s father, and the antheral who taught him each helium knows astir commerce. He came to this barren onshore 16 years agone and helped physique Oresrush from the crushed up.

Roque (voiced by Richard Tatum successful English, Takaya Hashi successful Japanese)

Papp’s concern partner. He and Papp purchased a promising crippled of land, anticipating it would beryllium affluent successful silver. It has since bloomed into the municipality of Oresrush. Partitio admires him for being a pioneer successful business.

Ori (voiced by Jeannie Tirado successful English, Fairouz Ai successful Japanese)

A scrivener for the Delsta Times who travels the satellite looking for the latest scoop. Partitio’s actions person caught her eye, and she seemingly appears retired of bladed aerial to get each the juicy details.

■ Partitio’s Adventure Begins successful The Wildlands

Northwest Solistia is simply a barren wasteland—a blasted expanse of volcanic stone that resists adjacent the loneliest leaf of grass. The fewer brave souls who eke retired their beingness present person agelong suffered the sulfuric whims of Fiatsuro and its unstable neighbors. But beingness ever finds a way. Among the stone and chromatic dwell the golt, an unusually ample breed of goat who subsist connected a meager fare of section weed. The food produced from their beverage is particularly scrumptious, and has go a section specialty. The volcanic ungraded conceals a wealthiness of invaluable minerals. Many tiny mining towns person sprung up here, including the confederate municipality of Oresrush, established by metallic merchants Papp and Roque.

—A immense and barren land.

—Silver mine.

—Oresrush.

■ Partitio’s Path Actions

Purchase

Obtain items from people. You indispensable person capable wealth to acquisition their belongings.

—The much invaluable the item, the higher the price. Put your concern prowess to the test.

Hire

Bring radical on connected your journey. You indispensable person capable wealth to prosecute someone.

—Hired helpers tin beryllium summoned during conflict to supply aid.

—Different radical supply antithetic benefits. Use your funds wisely to prosecute a assortment of helpers.

■ Partitio’s Talent: Business Partners

Depending connected who you person hired, you mightiness person benefits successful concern and battle.

You could beryllium granted a discount erstwhile shopping, person much leaves erstwhile selling items, wage little erstwhile utilizing definite skills successful battle, and more.

—Some partners tin negociate a discount erstwhile purchasing. Others springiness you a accidental to get items for free…

—Merchants tin usage Hired Help to summon mercenaries into battle. Your spouse whitethorn beryllium capable to little the mercenary’s cost.

■ Partitio’s Latent Power: Hoot and Holler

When his latent powerfulness gauge is full, Partitio tin afloat and instantly replenish a enactment member’s BP to crook the tide of battle.

—Partitio’s latent powerfulness tin replenish each BP successful an instant, whether astatine the onset of conflict oregon instantly aft exhausting each points.

—Use BP nevertheless you spot fit. The merchant quality Donate BP besides allows you to assistance BP to allies.

■ Osvald V. Vanstein, the Scholar (voiced by Alejandro Saab successful English, Jouji Nakata successful Japanese)

Your sanction is Osvald V. Vanstein, and you are a scholar. Your communicative begins successful the snowswept reaches of the Winterlands.

You person been sentenced to beingness successful situation for murdering your woman and daughter, and person since spent 1,879 days locked wrong a frigid cell.

“Harvey—the antheral who took everything from me— shall dice by my hand. I curse it.”

Not adjacent the bitter acold tin extinguish the raging occurrence successful your breast. And truthful you acceptable retired to nonstop your revenge…

■ Characters successful Osvald’s Tale

Harvey (voiced by Craig Lee Thomas successful English, Takehito Koyasu successful Japanese)

A student of magic who is connected par with Osvald. He continues his probe into the seventh root of magic, which differs from the six known elements of fire, ice, lightning, wind, light, and darkness.

Emerald (voiced by Andy Barnett successful English, Eiji Takeuchi successful Japanese)

A chap captive of Osvald’s connected Frigit Isle. He leverages his cognition arsenic an informant to assistance Osvald escape.

Lady Clarissa (voiced by Leigha Horton successful English, Yoko Soumi successful Japanese)

Osvald’s probe assistant. She believes that Osvald is guiltless and watches implicit his survey successful his absence.

■ Osval’s Adventure Begins successful The Winterlands

Northern Solistia is simply a frozen spot of snowfall and ice. Its superior is Stormhail, a mountainous metropolis that houses the Sacred Guard. Established astir 380 years ago, the Sacred Guard was the brainchild of Archbishop Kinchler. After the acold drawback that assailed the eastbound continent successful the erstwhile century, the bid established its office here. To this day, this beatified organization’s ngo remains unchanged: to uphold instrumentality and bid crossed the continent. Travel towards the coast, and you volition find the sportfishing municipality of Cape Cold. Great hauls of salmon, trout, mackerel, squid, and much are brought successful astir daily. In addition, galore who dwell present enactment successful agriculture oregon textiles, and lately, a hardy taxon of cold-resistant barley has caused rather a stir.

—A onshore of snowfall and ice.

—Frigit Isle, an icy prison.

—Stormhail.

■ Osvald’s Path Actions

Scrutinize

Glean accusation from radical (with a fixed probability). Fail, and your estimation successful municipality volition suffer.

—You won’t beryllium capable to usage Path Actions if your estimation suffers. Raise Osvald’s level to summation his chances of success.

Mug

Obtain items from people. You indispensable champion them successful conflict to get the spoils you seek.

—Mug idiosyncratic to commence the battle. Emerge victorious, and you tin instrumentality each their belongings.

■ Osvald’s Talent: Study Foe

Osvald tin summation penetration into 1 of a foe’s anemic points astatine the commencement of battle.

—Osvald volition automatically usage Study Foe erstwhile the conflict begins. Knowing an enemy’s weakness is invaluable erstwhile strategizing.

—Utilize scholarly spells to exploit force weaknesses and interruption foes.

■ Osvald’s Latent Power: Concentrate Spells

When his latent powerfulness gauge is full, Osvald tin absorption spells that usually people each foes onto a azygous people with accrued potency. Boosting tin further heighten this magical might.

—Many of Osvald’s magic skills people each foes. His latent powerfulness allows you to woody dense harm to bosses and different almighty enemies.

■ Travel connected the Water

In this installment, you tin committee canoes to research towns and caverns similar ne'er before. Traverse some onshore and oversea to task to each country of the realm.

—You tin committee a canoe to research towns, dungeons, and more. What treasures await connected the realm’s isolated isles?

—Enjoy the nautical journey, but beware of enemies lurking beneath the water’s surface.

■ A Vessel All Your Own

Advance done the story, and you tin get your ain nautical vessel. Use it to travel betwixt continents, oregon illustration your ain people retired to oversea and disembark connected unexplored islands. The satellite is yours to explore.

—You tin take your vessel’s colour and sail emblem.

—There are places lone your vas tin reach, similar mysterious islands and sunken ships.

■ Crossed Paths: Osvald and Partitio

This installment includes Crossed Paths, which are stories involving 2 travelers.

Osvald and Partitio travel crossed a antheral who has collapsed connected the street. He turns retired to beryllium an aged person of Osvald’s and an Astronomer. Intrigued by his story, the 2 yet find themselves embroiled successful his troubles…