Hayato is a reporter for The Occult, a newspaper that focuses on all things paranormal, as well as (of course) gossip. Recently, there are reports of suicides at train stations throughout the area, so Hayato is sent to investigate. While there, a dark figure pushes Hayato into the path of a train, but he is saved by a mysterious woman, who gives him a locked case. When he returns to the office, Hayato meets Lua, a person claiming to be an angel. She is looking for her sister, and was sent to the mortal realm to assist Hayato, who is apparently the Chosen One. The two manage to open the case, which contains the Gangour, an ancient weapon capable of trapping demons. Soon, the Gangour’s power is demonstrated when a monster attacks the pair, who they are able to capture. Now, Hayato and Lua must journey around Japan, solving cases that often cause them to stumble upon the agents of evil.
There have been jokes that the Nintendo Switch is the successor to the PlayStation Vita. Plenty of visual novels are making their way to the console, and it also has become a haven for RPGs. In fact, it’s even starting to find itself the home for a certain specific sort of RPG, the first-person, party-based dungeon-crawler. There were loads of them on Sony’s handheld and now Nintendo’s system is starting to build up its own library.
"2018 has been packed full of incredible RPGs of many varieties so here are the best ones within 9 unique categories." - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums
I think he was making fun of a previous RPG of the year award given to Detroit from another site.
It almost made it but didn't quite outrank any of the games that we ended up choosing. Incredible game, though!
It is funny for me that pokemon won a prize and not octopath. Pokemon is a really bad jrpg....
Perhaps that's why it won "Casual RPG of the Year"?
Octopath isn't a casual RPG.
Because it's a generic JRPG that get's rather repetitive and boring really quick. I'm at 15 hours and SLOGGING through it. I know several people who quit around that mark too.
The complete lack of interaction between characters and their chapter settings is really unfortunate.
The combat and world are pretty nice though. For what that's worth.
Exactly. It's the most overrated RPG of the year. Maybe they should have had a category for that.
Odd that Dragon Quest 11 didn’t make the cut. Did the author not play it? It’s quite good.
The author of the article didn't decide which games would receive awards. The whole staff did. We reviewed DQXI and weren't blown away by it: https://videochums.com/revi...
That is the most anemic list one could possibly conjure. Many of those suck. DQXI and Octopath are well above. Not to mention Torna the Golden Country.
Dragon Quest 11 was easily the best RPG this year, and it's not even on the list.
Not only that, it didn't even have any real competition. Valkyria Chronicles 4 was the closest, but still a distant 2nd.
Kadokawa Games President Yoshimi Yasuda shares his insight as Producer of many games and veteran of the Japanese gaming industry.
Imo, the game seems to be pretty "Meh"...
Enjoyed the game and weird to think this is a sequel to El Shaddai.
Has some unique aspects and sounds pretty solid overall. It might need a sale or price drop to move enough units to be a success though.