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The RPG Octopath Traveler of Square Enix and Acquire was released today on Nintendo Switch . This week, the latest information and images were unveiled, so we decided to present them in this article. But to begin, here are two new trailers and a Japanese commercial that have been broadcast to celebrate the launch of the game:

Regarding information, Square Enix has decided to give slightly clearer details about combat clbades . Indeed, in addition to the main clbad, each character can have a combat clbad under certain conditions. By equipping a combat clbad, the parameters and appearance of the character will be changed and the weapons he can use will be more numerous, the same for the skills. Square Enix gives the example of the merchant Tressa with only her main clbad (merchant, therefore), or with the clbades warrior, hunter and dancer. With the latter, she can use powerful attacks and increase the stats of her allies.

Square Enix then detailed the secret clbades that were unveiled at Japan Expo last week. If you do not want to know these clbades, do not read the following.

In addition to the eight clbades (warrior, dancer, merchant, apothecary, thief, hunter, scholar and priest), Octopath Traveler thus contains four additional clbades with very powerful skills . However, it will take a lot of strength to learn them.

The Warlord clbad exploits the best war arts to defeat enemies. The Augure clbad helps with virtually all support units and attributes of other characters to use magic powerful enough to annihilate enemies and protect everyone, which is handy for defense and defense. attack. With the Rune Lord clbad, the character uses the power of the runes to have all the attributes to reinforce the weapons. Finally, the Enchanting clbad uses the divine protection of stars to fight and protect themselves with the ability to use all magical attributes.

The new information ends with the group discussions that will occur as the adventure progresses. Depending on the members in the team, the conversations will be different and will not take place at the same time. Thanks to these debates, we can know the opinion of the characters on the various events that occur during the adventure. Even for an identical event, the discussions will be different depending on the characters. To attend, simply press the + button when a discussion appears on the screen.

Next, Nintendo of America published a new article containing several messages written by the director Keisuke Miyauchi the producer Masashi Takahashi and the character designer Naoki Ikushima / ikusy . On My Nintendo vs 50 Platinum Points Nintendo of America also offers several alternative print covers corresponding to the character illustrations, designed by Naoki Ikushima. For the moment, the offer is only available on the American version of My Nintendo. The page of the Nintendo of Europe official website has also been updated with some information and pictures on the main aspects of the game.

You will also find at this address a new Takahashi interview given to Eurogamer where he reconfirms that the team of Octopath Traveler became the Business Division 11 of Square Enix (as we had learned via the producer Tomoya Asano a few days ago) and that other games are being prepared on Switch … and not only! Indeed, this new division intends to create other titles that will not necessarily be exclusive to the Switch. In addition, it will be new games, developers wanting to focus primarily on new titles like Octopath Traveler. Regarding the possibility that Octopath Traveler becomes a full-fledged series, it is still too early to know, with developers preferring to wait to see player feedback and sales.

An English translation of the review ] Famitsu (the magazine having rated the game 36/40, ie 9/9/9/9 for each tester) is also here. Siliconera also shared conceptual illustrations that were exhibited at a Nintendo-sponsored party iam8bit in Los Angeles to celebrate the release of the game in the United States. We have gathered all the illustrations at the end of the article.

Here is a short video showing the composer Yasunori Nishiki playing the piano at Square Enix Café in Osaka ( more details on the collaboration between Octopath Traveler and Square Enix Café here) to celebrate the launch of the game in Japan:

Nishiki also played several Octopath Traveler themes on the piano several days ago, which you will find on his SoundCloud . Here are also all the illustrations used as countdown before the release of the game that were made by different artists (including Naoki Ikushima, aka ikusy, the character designer of the game):

Finally, ] Francesca Baerald (which we evoked here) to shared the definitive map of Orsterra that she made for Octopath Traveler:

Reminder, a demo Prologue is available since last month (more details here ). A limited edition called Octopath Traveler: Traveler 's Compendium Edition (Treasures of the Traveler edition) is also available and includes Octopath Traveler in box version, an animated book in relief of 8 pages with secret compartments, a double-sided Orsterra card and a replica of a coin of the game currency . The American limited edition, named Wayfarer's Edition has the same content, but also a CD containing some music of the game, which is not included in the European edition. The game is fully translated and localized in French with the possibility of choosing the English and Japanese voices . In Japan, Square Enix Music commercialized the soundtrack of the game, composed by Yasunori Nishiki (see here there and in this news ). It is available in physical and dematerialized form for 4 104 yen . 4 records are included with a total of 80 musics . You will find all the information on the album at this address .

Update July 15 : we could already predict it for several days following the many reservations, Octopath Traveler is now out of stock a little everywhere in Japan. The break is quite important, the account Twitter official Japanese recommends to people to opt for the dematerialized version of the game or for the download card available at Lawson ]. Square Enix probably had not planned enough copies and perhaps did not expect such success in just three days. Next week, we'll see sales for the first week of marketing via Famitsu and Media Create .