{"id":118251,"date":"2020-09-18T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/?p=6532"},"modified":"2020-09-18T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:21:00","slug":"heres-when-octopath-traveler-champions-of-the-continent-launches-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/18\/heres-when-octopath-traveler-champions-of-the-continent-launches-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s when Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent launches in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/heres-when-octopath-traveler-champions-of-the-continent-launches-in-japan.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"intro_text\">Square Enix has announced the Japanese release date for the highly anticipated free-to-play mobile JRPG <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/octopath-traveler-champions-of-the-continent\" rel=\"noopener\">Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent<\/a>. Pre-registration is now live in Japan for <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.square_enix.android_googleplay.octopathj\" rel=\"noopener\">Android<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.apple.com\/jp\/app\/id1438083823\" rel=\"noopener\">iOS<\/a>, and the game will be available to play from October 28, 2020. A localisation and international release date are yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know much about Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent as of yet, though Square Enix has revealed the combat features a command battle system with parties consisting of up to eight members. It is a prequel to the much-beloved Octopath Traveler and set in the same locale of Osterra. The original Octopath Traveler is a turn-based role-playing game, which initially released on Nintendo Switch in 2018 followed by PC, and Google Stadia in later years.<\/p>\n<p>Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent is already proving to be extremely popular, and as of now has surpassed 500,000 pre-registered accounts. To commemorate this milestone, composer Yasunori Nishiki, best known for his work on the original Octopath Traveler soundtrack, has released a brand new song.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the new trailer below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-container\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3IgnLXSBRWk?modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed]<\/div>\n<p>Be sure to check back here to be updated on the international release date when we get it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square Enix has announced the Japanese release date for the highly anticipated free-to-play mobile JRPG Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent. Pre-registration is now live in Japan for Android and iOS, and the game will be available to play from October 28, 2020. A localisation and international release date are yet to be announced. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[853,966,203,1173,990],"class_list":["post-118251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases","tag-android","tag-free-to-play","tag-ios","tag-octopath-traveler-champions-of-the-continent","tag-rpg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}