Baddman said:
how is battlechasers? i am really considering having that as my next game and holding off on octopath traveler |
Well, Octopath clearly is the cooler game, but also more expensive. I like BattleChasers, the combat system is cool, story and characters are likeable. But on the overworld map you walk a very simple stylized map, which may be too simple graphically and actionwise for some. Only on some places you have a real area to explore. Hmm, let me illustrate this with screens.
This is the overworld map. You walk this basically. You follow defined paths (outlayed with these white dots) and see fights from afar (the red circle with monster inside in the upper left):
On some things you have more normal 3D-environments, like these. It includes fights, sometimes puzzles and stuff to find like chests.
The fights are good old turn-based. The overcharge is a nice touch for the battle system. Normal attacks generate additional mana called overcharge that is lost after the fight. So if you only use special abilities that take mana after you generated enough mana, you stay the same. For boss fights this will not be enough. But there are also special abilities that grow stronger with more overcharge. So you can decide to unleash something special now or attack some more normal to gain overcharge.
The characters are fine, but you have a fixed party, no character you can create. You chose perks with level-ups though.
Pretty solid mid-tier RPG if you ask me. But it probably depends on the tastes, I can think some people are thrown off by this overworld map.
So I hope this helps you decide on BattleChasers. But if you like turn-based RPGs, Octopath so far as I played is real cool, you shouldn't hold out on it. Really, I'm happy I chose both, but if I had to decide I would still go with Octopath first.
