Octopath Traveler developer Purchase has been bought by FromSoftware’s father or mother firm, the Kadokawa Company, for an undisclosed sum. The Japanese conglomerate introduced the acquisition in a quarterly earnings report printed immediately,
The acquisition makes Purchase a sister firm to FromSoftware and Spike Chunsoft, amongst others. For the uninitiated, FromSoftware is the developer behind little recognized video games like Darkish Souls, Elden Ring and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Spike Chunsoft can be no slouch, because it’s behind the Danganronpa and AI: The Somnium Information franchises.
Purchase has made many video games past Octopath Traveler and its sequel, together with No Heroes Allowed VR, Akiba’s Beat and Akiba’s Journey: Undead and Undressed. Kadokawa mentioned the acquisition ought to assist the corporate “generate synergies” with its “current game-related subsidiaries.” We don’t know what meaning, however hopefully it refers to a weird Octopath Traveler and Elden Ring crossover title.
Kadokawa additionally says the transfer will improve its “line-up of console video games.” That is true, as the unique Octopath Traveler and the sequel These are huge numbers for JRPGs with old-school mechanics. The corporate hasn’t introduced whether or not it’ll nonetheless depend on Sq. Enix for publishing future entries within the Octopath franchise, however with these gross sales numbers it’s a reasonably secure guess.
Final yr’s Octopath Traveler 2 arrived to principally optimistic opinions, for a similar cause many individuals The eight storylines don’t intersect sufficient, making the entire thing appear type of random and disconnected. Nonetheless, the video games are beautiful and handle to capitalize on nostalgia for retro gameplay mechanics. They “really feel” like basic Sq. Enix RPGs, even when they battle with among the execution.
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