On Friday, the highly anticipated Octopath Traveler for Nintendo Switch finally launched, capping off what has been a long and exhaustive road from reveal to release. The game has a lot going for it, much of which ties it to the JRPGs of our youth. Its HD-2D presentation is absolutely stunning, and the focus on the different jobs of the playable characters is one of the reasons I keep coming back to this genre. I love a good job system and we touched on the topic late last year when I ask the staff to name their favorite RPG class.
Because of Octopath, classes and jobs have been on my mind all week and I thought it’d be fun to approach the subject once more from a different angle. Most of us who write for Destructoid don’t do it full time. We have other jobs, some have careers, which bring home the bacon and allow us to dabble in this charade we call games journalism. I myself work in state government. I don’t particularly care for it, but it’s better than being flat broke all the time.
Perhaps I would enjoy it more if my job was more like something I’d find in one of those JRPGs. After all, if my career were more like the jobs and classes of Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy, I wouldn’t be stuck in an office all day replying to emails, pushing papers, and placing orders for more Wite-Out. I’d be out on an adventure, playing second fiddle to whatever warrior-class barbarian is leading my team. That’s where my head has been, so I asked the rest of the Destructoid staff to get there as well for this week’s question.
Source: Destructoid What if your real-life career was a JRPG job?