I don't recall anyone complaining about Odyssey's price. But even if this is true, then you have also provided a valid reason as to why some people would complain, and therefore have a self-defeating argument.

Secondly, high fidelity does NOT refer to the level of stylization, it refers to games that are using cutting edge graphical technology that typically require a large expense to implement. So, Octopath Traveler would have been high-fidelity maybe in 1998, but not so much in 2018, it's nowhere near cutting edge.

Well I beat Horizon Zero Dawn, as 60 dollar game at launch, with 89% trophy completion (would have the plat if I put in 5 more hours) in 45 hours.

Seeing how Octopath will give me many more hours and the gameplay mechanics and story are woven together better than many other games out there, I do not see how "looking like a upgraded 3DS game" has anything to do with it.  They are selling content, not graphics.

You are entitled to your opinion though.

The gameplay mechanics and writing is beyond many "high fidelity" titles however.  If having "high fidelity" visuals was all that mattered, The Order 1886 would not have recieved the criticism that it did.

This is not directed at people who do not like JRPGs.  If you do not like those games, you won't like this one either.  I am talking about people that try to say it is overpriced due to visuals alone.  The content makes it worth more than 60 dollars TBH.

Not that I know of, but I what level were they?  Like many JRPGs, you can grind to insanely high levels for the task at hand and breeze through when you actually do them.  From my understanding, playing through normally without heavy grinding will offer you quite a challenge.

Honestly never even knew this game existed until after launch, I'm interested. My Switch is a desert for games right now with nothing cool coming out the remainder of this year. My Xbox and PC have kept me sane for the short while, but my Switch has done nothing, not since the launch of Mario Odyssey really. For its 2D nature, I think $60 is asking a tad bit too much, no matter its game length in this case. It is still worth it, just not the best choice of pricing. Nintendo doesn't really have a history of putting their games on sale, so this is the price for the game for the next 10 years.

It’s an RPG, if you approach stuff under leveled it will be challenging, if you approach stuff overleveled it will be easy...

(0:21) "Exclusive to Switch, it takes the traditional top down style of SNES greats like FFVI and blends it with the cutting edge rendering techniques of Unreal Engine 4."

I'm not familiar with The Order 1886 (I have hardly played a non-Nintendo platform since PS2). But whether or not it's the only thing that matters is another argument. The point is that people are misrepresenting the arguments of others (game time length, people being too poor, etc...), and instead make up other things to argue against rather than tackling the actual criticism; it's effectively a straw man argument.

The people are arguing that the game is not worth the price because it lacks the high-fidelity they require to make it worth it. They have a good argument, it's been widely established in the industry that lower-fidelity games are priced lower. This game, as a result, comes off as over-priced.

Persona 5 on Easy and Normal is a very different game than Persona 5 on Hard and Merciless.

From what I can see it's not really the levels that matter but the 'break' mechanic. Where any sort of attack that would be even somewhat dangerous to the party is telegraphed a round or 2 ahead giving you ample time to 'break' the boss before their strong attack happens. Having the ability to steal tons of loot, inquire to get tons of hidden items, having crazy strong passive/support abilities, all these things lend to a very easy game for anyone with a moderate experience with JRPGs.

The flaw in your argument is the high fidelity part as from what many people have played of the game the gameplay, story and content are of high quality better than a number of other full price games while the visuals are stylised to look retro while utilising UE4's advanced features this isn't a lower fidelity game it's just not one of those hyped up AAA.

No one has criticised anyone who says they don't have the money it's the other argument you're pressing on high and low fidelity people are tackling because when you ask people pushing this notion to explain what they mean all many of then come up with are the visuals.

It's a personal decision-making-process if a product is worth the price. Everybody has one, but this one is mine for full-priced games:

1. Do I want to play the new game X more than some of my unfinished games?

• No.  ->  Play the unfinished games instead, especially if they are even better than the new game X.
• Yes. ->  Go to 2

It's moderate difficulty if you know what you're doing, break only works if you hit enemies with their weakness and how long it takes for a break to happen depends on how much damage your characters can deal out when they hit the weakness so levels do matter, you won't be able to break many bosses before their attacks as a result even when you're equal level.

Abilities take a while to unlock as each new ability you unlock increases the requirement for the next ability it's not as abusable as you think.