The Octopath Traveler 2 Review w/Jason Schreier

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.5 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

All of life's paths intersect and intertwine, so it was inevitable the Axe of the Blood God would walk down Octopath Traveler 2's twisted roads. This week we're joined by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, who was less than enthused about the original Octopath Traveler. How does its sequel fare? Let's just say a game studio can learn a lot in five years. Also in this episode: The Last of Us on HBO will steal your emotions and make you its slave Nadia is watching a cat destroy the world (in Dragon Ball Super) Is Mass Effect still deserving of being in the Pantheon? Nadia's new saga: Sex, Death, and Zip Ties--the Life of a Pigeon Music used in this episode: Do Your Best! [Breath of Fire III] Intro theme [Octopath Traveler 2] Partitio's theme [Octopath Traveler 2] Torn from the Heavens [Final Fantasy XIV] A Curious Tale [Secret of Mana] Partitio's theme 2 [Octopath Traveler 2] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Hello and welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God, the weekly show where we talk about all things, RPGs, and often not just RPGs.
0:53.0	Nadia, you're here looking prime for a pit. How are you
0:56.7	feeling? I feel like a pit. I'm just so, I'm so tired. I was up all night playing Octo 2.
1:04.2	Oh, we will be talking about some Octopath too. I am Eric Van Allen, one of your hosts alongside
1:08.3	Nadia Oxford. Kat Bailey could not be here.
1:11.9	Once again, so many packs of cigarettes she goes out for out on the high seas, you know.
1:17.7	She leaves and doesn't tell us.
1:18.9	Once in a while she mixes it up and says, I'm going out for some milk.
1:21.9	And it takes a long time to pick up milk, you know.
1:23.6	Mm-hmm.
1:24.1	Mm-hmm.
1:24.4	About two weeks.
1:25.6	You have to find the cow it's a whole thing as always we are here to talk about
1:29.1	all things RPGs and this week that includes octopath traveler too which as of this recording
1:35.0	came out yesterday by the time you are listening uh y'all have probably already put some hours into
1:40.5	this game and we got the one the only jason schreyer on to talk a little bit about Octopath Traveler, too.
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