It’s a testament to the writing as well as the performances of the various voice actors portraying these characters that I feel this way. In fact, given the deep roster, I was fully expecting to only like a few of them, but came away liking them all. Still, the presentation only does so much in selling a game, and if I couldn’t feel invested in the tale these eight souls had to tell, it would have all been for naught. Whether I was walking through a sleepy town in the middle of nowhere or doing battle with an unimaginably evil entity, the tone was set perfectly by the accompanying track.Įasily my favorite OST of the year so far. The various boss sprites are some of my favorite visual designs present in the game.Īccentuating the uniquely beautiful visuals was the stellar soundtrack which hit all the right notes. With the release of Octopath Traveler, one more title is added to that short and prestigious list. However, the past is in the past and the difficulty of capturing the pure essence of the classics in meaningful ways seemed evident as only a handful games have managed to achieve that lofty ambition. So when I say that classic JRPGs played an important role in my gaming life, I speak without hyperbole. Since that moment, I have gone on many different journeys but I never for a single moment forgot where it all began.
Still, I sat motionless with my eyes trained on the TV, and with a sweaty controller tightly gripped in hand, I watched the ending credits of Final Fantasy 6 in its glorious entirety.īewitched by the musical culmination of my long journey, I realized for the very first time that video games could be more than just entertainment. The orange glow of the twilight sun shone through the light curtains and my belly grumbled again in protest, letting me know that it had been entirely too long since I last ate. With the SNES I borrowed from my cousin carefully nestled on top of a pillow on the carpet floor, I sat cross-legged on the bed in the master bedroom in front of a 32 inch CRT TV.
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