Square Enix has revealed new details for the upcoming RPG Octopath Traveler II by Team Asano and Acquire.
Similar to the initial reveal, we get a look at two more of the cast of eight travellers you can play as. This time it’s the Merchant Partitio Yellowil and the Scholar Osvald V. Vanstein that gets the spotlight.

Partitio begins his tale from in the vast waste of the Wildlands, located in the Northwest of Sollistia. He’s off to new horizons hoping to bring prosperity back with him and help the townsfolk of the pioneering town he calls home.
In Octopath Traveler II, each character has two Path actions- exclusive character abilities that are different depending on the time of day.
For Patritio, he can Purchase in the day, where he can buy items from NPCs. More valuable items costs higher.
He can also Hire people at night, for a price. Depending on who you Hire, the helpers will bring different abilities during battles.
Patritio’s Talent is Business Partners. He can have a business partner that will assist him when shopping (special discounts, free items) and during battle (partner can call in Hired Help, bringing mercenaries to your side).
When his Latent Power gauge is full, Patritio full and instantly replenish a party memeber’s BP- giving them extra turns if you will.
As for the Scholar, Osvald is imprisoned for life after being charged with murdering his wife and daughter. He has spent 1,879 days in a prison cell located in the Winterlands, north Solistia and is seeking revenge.
Osvald’s Path Action lets him Scrutinize people in the day. This will give you information if successful, and should it fail, your reputation in the town suffers. Drop your reputation low enough and you can’t Scrutinize anymore, and the chance of a successful Scrutinize goes higher as Osvald levels up.
At night, he can Mug, which triggers a battle. Win that battle and their items are yours.
Osvald’s Talent is Study Foe, which reveals enemy weaknesses and is triggered automatically at the start of battle.
His Latent Power is Concentrate Spells. Multi-target spells can be casted to just one single target but with higher potency.
Osvald and Patritio will have a Crossed Paths event together. The two will bump across an old friend of Osvald’s and get involved with the troubles he is in.

Also, new to Octopath Traveler II is travelling on water. You can board canoes, and later buy your own ship to travel the seas and find new towns, dungeons and more locations.
Octopath Traveler II will be out on PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch on February 24, 2023. The PC (Steam) version in Asia will release one day later on February 25.