Nintendo Switch

[MayImilae]

To offer up a contrary position, I was hella disappointed by Octopath Traveler. No overarching plot but instead 8 little stories of varying quality that don't intersect at all, zero interaction between characters, needing to have characters in party to gain exp increasing grinding, very repetitive in large part to the separation between the cast, and poor difficulty balancing made it either way too hard or way too easy for any given situation even when overleveled. As someone who adores JRPGs... I abandoned it and won't be finishing it. It's just doesn't have what I come to RPGs for: good plot, good characters, and interactions between them.

The combat system is really interesting, but most of the game is really easy so you never need to know how to min max it until you hit a difficulty spike that DEMANDS tightly optimized strategies. Not to mention different difficulty spikes need different flavors of cheese to overcome them, otherwise it will just destroy you. Just, bleh, very poorly done.

To each their own of course, and your taste in games is very different from mine, but I wanted to temper your expectations. It is generally regarded as an interesting but flawed JRPG experiment. IMO, play Bravely Default instead. That game had an even better combat system with great story and great characters!