{"id":1762,"date":"2025-08-31T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:43:43","slug":"opinion-hd-2d-might-be-old-news-but-octopath-0s-city-building-has-me-buzzing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/31\/opinion-hd-2d-might-be-old-news-but-octopath-0s-city-building-has-me-buzzing\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: HD-2D Might Be Old News, But Octopath 0&#039;s City Building Has Me Buzzing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pixel by pixel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Given that I love RPGs, I\u2019m sure it\u2019s no surprise that I\u2019m <em>very<\/em> excited for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/octopath-traveler-0\">Octopath Traveler 0<\/a>. What might shock you, however, is that it\u2019s not the return to Osterra, or the excellent turn-based combat, or even the prospect of another new HD-2D game that has me jazzed, nope (I still love all of these things, though, be nice!). The thing I\u2019m most looking forward to? I get to build my own town.<\/p>\n<p>What is it about city building that I love? Is it the allure of making <em>my<\/em> own space? Is it a power fantasy, where I can make my town however I want, a way of expressing my creativity in a whole new way? Or is it simply that I grew up with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/grand-designs\">Grand Designs<\/a><\/strong> (a British TV show about people with money who build their own houses) on in the background?<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/opinion-hd-2d-might-be-old-news-but-octopath-0s-city-building-has-me-buzzing\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pixel by pixel. Given that I love RPGs, I\u2019m sure it\u2019s no surprise that I\u2019m very excited for Octopath Traveler 0. What might shock you, however, is that it\u2019s not the return to Osterra, or the excellent turn-based combat, or even the prospect of another new HD-2D game that has me jazzed, nope (I still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}