Octopath Traveler II [Part 140]: Journey for the Dawn (Part 2)

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WHAT?!?!?!?! I haven't even gotten over the shock of Ori being evil, and now there's this?!

Kazan being the mastermind of all the behind the scenes stuff maybe shouldn't have been as surprising as it was, since he's the one who always has a plan, but pulling all the strings for a different end is not something I ever expected. I certainly didn't think he was the brother from Ori's journals earlier, even if the clues were there. Oboro's Journal makes so much more sense now.

I don't remember the huntress character being mentioned in Ori's journals, but it's really interesting to see the jackal as part of this whole sequence. I wonder if that part of the sequence changes substantially if you choose the jackal as your companion? Maybe that's why it's more self-contained than the other three.

I feel as though I wasn't supposed to read Ori's journals earlier, so I'm curious why they were available to me before starting the journey. Clearly items can spawn globally after the journey starts, like with Tanzy's journal. I'm glad I was right though and Ori had second thoughts in the end. I was hoping to find her after, but alas, I could not.

And MINDT IS ARCANETTE?!?!?! That was SO out of the blue, I would NEVER have guessed that. I guess having the Kaldena fight and the Ori journals was really well-designed to throw us off the scent, and Mindt is just such a sweet character (before she turns out to be evil, of course). I had my head in my hands the whole cutscene from the shock of it.

Note: I had to step away from 20:20 to 22:10. There is no gameplay during this time.

Played on December 14th, 2025.