Re: Octopath Traveler 0

I don’t know yet. I’m on the final final battle of the mobile game and I definitely want to finish that before I start Zero. But I’m still stuck between my desire for a physical copy and my dislike of key-cards. I’m leaning toward picking it up digitally, but since I’ve waited a month at this point, I’ll probably wait for a sale.

I’ve had a grand gaming time! In the board gaming arena, I bought and played the new edition of Quacks, a bag building push your luck game. I’ve only played my copy of it once and I was so pleased that my youngest beat me in a wire-to-wire victory. Then I got to explain to him what a wire-to-wire victory was.

I played some Heroes of Might and Magic 3 with the shorn of the Abyss expansion. The just released a new faction for this twenty-five year old game! I don’t get much playtime there, though, because the youngest hogs the computer to play Bloons TD6.

I bought Ace Attorney Investigations, continuing the trend of buying games I happily bought and beat in previous console generations. Vacation is about to end, but I’m flying through the first of the two games included in the collection. I think I’m about halfway through.

In Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent, I’d been eagerly playing a limited time board game mini-game where instead of picking your party and playing, you get random rare temporary recruits. It’s been a blast playing with the third of the game’s characters I never got to experience! I also played a little bit of Octopath II during winter break.

I’m so glad the weekend posts are back! I missed them over the course of late December. I hope y’all have a better 2026 than last year (whether yours was bad or good).

I’m planning on buying “Is This Seat Taken?” For Switch. It’s a cute little puzzle game that my fifth-grader has been asking for. Winter Break from school is a great time for this sort of purchase.

I might also get the Capcom version of Picross.

I wish I could give two upvotes! Filling in the blanks is what I’m missing. Thank you for that description!

I don’t know what I would have wanted from a new game. What I really like is the clever remixes of the old games that show up on my feed from time to time like Mega Man Maker.

Nine and ten were more of the same. But the stages were well-planned and the experience of trying to find the weaknesses without a strategy guide was great.

Maybe what I’d want would be a game that connects the worlds of Mega Man to the world of Mega Man X. But I would only care about the lore, not the game.

I guess what would really excite me would be a clever time travel story line that has you visiting reimagined old stages facing off against all the bots in series history. I’d love new weakness circles that take advantage of these multiple games’ worth of robot masters. I’d like boss chase fights, two bosses at a time fights, multiplayer story mode, a metroidvania-style world…

I realize in my ranting that what I’m looking for isn’t near what they are making. My plan is to be happy for those that are happy.

I almost downvoted the video. I felt like even my nostalgia and love for the series was waning as the announcement dragged on.

If I’d watched it live, I would have noticed the years of original release as the corridor went on and I bet my hype levels would have going in the right direction. But since I knew what it was, all I could do was watch and frown.

I bought nine and ten on day one release for WiiWare, but I’m not sure this is for me anymore (but I am happy for one of my new favorite YouTubers FlamingMercury5; she’s gotta be smiling about this news).

Sorry to be negative today!

DLN-001, that’s Mega Man’s serial number.

DR. Light, robot 1

Protoman is DLN000, and based on the whistle at the end, it’ll be around, too.

Bad news! I don’t remember as much of the game as I thought! But I’m glad we’ve all taken turns enjoying it in these weekly posts.

Good news! The BP is there already! Every character gets BP even if they aren’t in the active party. But I might be thinking of something else. I know XP isn’t for the bench, but I thought everything else was.

It’s role-playing day at the house, but two of the kids can’t make it, so we’ve got board games ready to go:

Things in Rings: I’ve this one mentioned before, I think. It’s like Venn diagram, the board games it’s fun to figure out patterns!

Meeple Circus: stack your little wooden animals and acrobats with time and circus music pressures

Unlock!: these escape room board games are only playable once, but I love to experience them with my wife and then give them away. They come in three adventures per box for a shade under forty bucks. Highly recommended!

On the alone front, I’m still grumpy about Octopath Traveler 0 and the game key situation, but there’s a anniversary event in the mobile game it is based on, so I’m not stressing about it too much.

In a professional note, I am using Kahoot! as the scoring system for an ongoing school game for my civics classes. The students are in their fall season now with six “football” teams playing each other double round robin over the ten weeks of the 2nd quarter of school. Since it’s American football-based, I take the top eleven players from each team to calculate their weekly score and post it for the kids the following day. Since the quarter is winding down, I’m working on the next quarter’s game, based on the March Madness tournaments. Getting 160 kids’ data and scores into 32 teams is a game in itself (on one of my favorite sports: Microsoft Excel).

I thought the guy on the right was the United States president…

I stalled out on Sea of Stars before the last battle. I know I’m strong enough (the game is well designed on that front), but I delayed because I knew the fight would probably be long. Then the summer came. And went. I hope to go back there one day.

I’ve been trying to motivate myself to post but school has been kicking my butt. I managed a little session of Octopath Traveler II today, but with zero of the (at least) eight stories complete, I can’t imagine I’ll have that one done in time for Octopath Traveler 0. I’m not even done with the main story in Champions of the Continent!

I did evangelize a game to someone this weekend: “I Was A Teenage Exocolonist”. I’d be interested to hear thoughts from y’all VN fans to hear how you liked it.

I use https://www.justtherecipe.com/ to strip out the stories.

I actually read the article because I’m so excited about Octopath Traveler 0 but I was reminded again that the Switch 2 version is a game-key. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I love the series so much but I also hate the idea that I’m going to have a cartridge that won’t work if I don’t have Internet. But then again I don’t wanna buy the digital version and solve all my problems. Maybe I’ll just go with Switch 1 so that I can play it while I’m laying in bed or in front of the TV or anywhere on one of the consoles I have in the house.

I’m having a great time watching the direct. He’s so much fun; Sakurai feels like that character that’s always breaking the fourth wall.

I’m happy to see his Direct. He’s fun for me to listen to. Even though I probably won’t buy the game, I love to hear him talk about it.

This game was my wife and my relaxation when we could get the baby to sleep. It was an amazing game (with an amazing post-game that came out a week at a time through DLC if I remember correctly).

I just watched a tool-assisted speed run of someone playing through the game with just the hero. What a nostalgic blast!

Oh my, I did not realize Wario Ware was on Switch with the extension pack. That game is easily one of my top three best gaming values of all time and would be my number one GBA title if it wasn’t for Rhythm Heaven.

I have probably played the jump rope game hundreds of times. It is a genius game that has never been followed up with a 100% better game. Thanks for the memories!

Have you ever heard of the FFVI randomized Beyond Chaos? A lot of my YouTube time is devoted to watching 2-Tone Tony play with randomized sprites, battle abilities, and items. He makes up stories to go with the randomness, too. For example, when a character rolled up with the “Engulf” command, the story became about how that person was secretly a ZoneEater trying to stop herself from eating everything in the world.

For a shortened feel of it, here’s a link to a bingo seed (where he only plays until the Narshe snowfields fight): Final Fantasy VI Beyond Chaos BINGO