There are certain games that simply remind us why we love a genre so much, and that is exactly the case with Octopath Traveler titles and turn-based RPGs.
With its gorgeous, nostalgic “HD-2D” visual style and an intricate, multi-character structure, Square Enix’s title immediately captured the industry's attention when it was originally launched back in 2018. And the sequel only doubled down on that charm a few years later, refining the mechanics and proving that the franchise has a very comfortable future ahead of it.
However, there is another prominent aspect of the company’s ongoing release strategy nowadays that has sparked some serious conversation among players across social media platforms lately: the corporate giant's apparent refusal to implement seamless upgrade paths for Nintendo’s most recent hardware.
With the Switch 2 officially out in the wild for about a year now, fans naturally assumed that transitioning their gaming libraries to the upgraded console would be quite a straightforward path. Yet, the newly announced pricing structure for the upcoming Octopath Traveler collection (which includes I & II) features one specific business option that makes almost no logical sense whatsoever, leaving a portion of the fanbase utterly confused.
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