If you know your gacha games, then you’ll be aware of Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent, which has been running in the West since 2022. While many fans of the console games haven’t been ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

The first Octopath Traveler was released in 2018, and marked the first time Square Enix used its HD-2D design aesthetic. Seven years later, and after a series of classic titles remade using the same ...

What if the power you’re given in Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent comes at the cost of your free will? In this theory-driven episode, we explore the mysterious ring, its connection to ...

Josh Cotts is a Senior Contributor at Game Rant. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Arizona State University in 2019 with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Media Studies and has been commended since ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Following the first two Octopath Traveler games, we now have an ...

Maddie Fisher is a writer, journalist and game developer. She was born and raised on the east coast, having started working in games journalism over fifteen years ago. She tends to enjoy musical ...

A stellar combat system and multitude of strategic wrinkles are the glue that holds this well-told, if disjointed, episodic story together. It’s the end of the year as we know it, and we feel ...

Great RPGs can live or die by their final chapters – what's been built up through a long journey could pay off with major revelations that leave a lasting mark or fall flat with cliches that undermine ...