Octopath Traveller is praised by many people and I wanted to see for myself. I don't play many JRPGs myself and this game showed me perfectly why. I don't think I'm the right person for this kind of game.

The gameplay feels outdated and unnecessarily tiring. If you disregard the occasional grinding, you still have to deal with constantly running into towns to change your team. Why can't you do that everywhere? Why can't I always access all character actions?

It was to be expected that the storytelling would be rather weak, if you already have to write eight stories. Some of the stories had interesting beginnings, others never got interesting, but in the end you still have to endure this really superficial writing. Most of the characters, if they are lucky, have one or two traits. The fact that some of the antagonists were simply evil and had nothing else to offer doesn't make it any better.

Exploring the world and finding new items kept me entertained, and the battle system was absolutely fine. Even if the balancing is completely destroyed by the team leader, who can't be changed.

I'm currently in the final chapters and just need a break, maybe I'll return one day. But a JRPG of this type doesn't seem to be for me.