It was interesting to see how Sony complained about Microsoft when they bought Activision Blizzard and was struck by the fear that sagas are important to their business and loyalty gamers from PlayStation, they will remain exclusive to Xbox. If in addition to the franchise that the Japanese themselves have, they usually cooperate with others publishers how Square-Enix.
Square and Enix were the two big studios of the 90s that worked separately and often exclusively for Nintendo, and when years later it was Sony which had established itself as a core brand with the PlayStation, made the leap, leaving its old commitments behind. So it’s okay to see how Square Enix It continues to promote sagas that do not reach the competition, as is the case with Xbox.
A great game from Square-Enix that comes with Game Pass
The fact is that in the last few hours we have learned that one of those games that came out on PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and PC has decided to also appear on Xbox, practically a year later, which is still a comparative insult for which there is no better explanation than Sony’s intervention to prevent it from happening. Although eventually the problem was fixed.
In this case, you already have it in stock Xbox Game Pass to such Octopath Traveler IIsequel to one of the most famous role-playing games of the last decade, which managed to revive the old genre of classic cartridges with the appearance pixel art 16-bit, but with modern graphical enhancements. A perspective they called 2.5D and which has been undisputedly victorious throughout this time.
The fact is that Octopath Traveler II already among us, as a novelty for the platform Xbox and free as part of our subscription. So we can consider this as a day one launch Microsoft managed to bring its ecosystem without costing all its subscribers a single euro.
An exceptional JRPG before
One of the keys to Octoparch Traveler (I and II) is not only its story, the plot and the characters that we can control, in addition to the eight different beginnings and endings that the adventure has, but also in the graphic aspect that pays tribute to the great patrons of the 90s, before of everything for the Super Nintendo, but adding an almost 3D layer that suits it beautifully.
Moreover, the first Octopath Traveler launched in 2018, which spawned a small school of similar products that have appeared in recent years to revive various (and almost pixel art) to pay tribute to the great classic of the 90s: the saga of Mannasome Final Fantasy etc. So now you know, you already have this little 2.5D wonder in your catalog of titles. Xbox Game Pass. Especially on console, where Square-Enix still had to settle the score.
