This is a very special gamers with jobs conference call, spoiler section on Octopath Traveler 2.

I'm here with Andrew and we're going to talk all things Octopath Traveler 2, but do not worry.

We're not going to spoil right away.

So if you have stumbled into this podcast errantly and you're thinking about playing Octopath Traveler 2.

Hang around for a second.

We're going to talk non-spoilery first and then shift into the spoiler section in a very well-telegraphed fashion.

Andrew, thank you for being the only other person on the crew with enough madness to push your way through the

entirety of Octopath Traveler 2. All 80 hours of it. So 10 hours per character. But I will say

this is one of the highlights of my year. This has been a really enjoyable game to play.

So I think I want to just dive right in.

Like, you and I, as we've both played, have talked a little bit, but we've tried to save all the nitty-gritty so that when we record it's all fresh.

So I'm not even sure who you picked as your protagonist.

I think I know.

But tell me who was the first main character you picked?

I picked Temenos, who is the cleric as my protagonist, and I have zero regrets whatsoever

because as a character, Temenos was utterly delightful, even if I don't

necessarily feel like his storyline pulled together everything it was going for, which we'll get

into, we'll get into individual stories in the more spoilery section. But yeah, I was really happy

with Temenos and I basically picked up from Temenos. get into individual stories in the more spoilery section. But yeah, I was really happy with

Temenos. And I basically picked up, from Teminose, I picked up Oswald and then Throne and then

Alcette, Ahcette, and made my way over to the less edge lordy continent to get the other characters. And I think you started with Agnia,

right? Yes, I did. I actually, I poured over the decision for quite a while because in Octopath

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