9 2018 Video Games That Wasted Their Biggest Selling Points

5. A Traditional JRPG Experience - Octopath Traveller

Octopath Traveller has everything from snappy, enjoyable combat to a FANTASTIC array of characters all starting out with unique stories and engaging opening chapters. It has a great world with religious themes, warrior-fronted armies, merchant trade rules and thief circles in one big spaghetti pile of potential.

One thing it doesn't have though? A group dynamic.

Even though you're playing as eight characters, they only interact - literally, they only acknowledge each other exist - in darkened cutaway vignettes. There aren't any cutscenes or group dialogue scenes, and all eight characters get their own plotlines, seeing anyone other than the character in question disappearing when talking to NPCs.

As party dynamics and moving through a story as an ever-expanding group kinda defines the 90s JRPG heyday this was going for, Octopath discarding that altogether was just bizarre.