Battle HUD: WEAK callout, Cyrus against three ghosts

About this game

Developer: ACQUIRE Corp. · Publisher: Square Enix · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: HD-2D & retro 3D · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

A manual extraction: the scene-change pass missed this fight and the dense 1 fps scan found it. The only frame in the set showing the WEAK callout — the red serif word that fires when a hit lands on a revealed weakness, the moment the Break loop pays off. Three shields (1, 1, 3) with fire icons already revealed show the scouting already done. Exact ffmpeg -ss 90.5s extraction, chosen over 90.0s (enemy blown out white, heavy chromatic fringing) as the most settled frame. Frame at 90.5s in the ESRB EN - Launch Trailer (Steam). Flaw: the NEXT TURN text is partly covered by a sparkle; the lead enemy is rimmed by the fire arcs.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

status-row portrait-row minimal-hud damage-numbers

Components

Parts on screen.

Banner Portrait Vitals bar Pips Timeline

Screen inventory

solo Cyrus panel at right: HP 127 / 225, SP 46 / 62
'Attack' label
red serif 'WEAK' callout over the lead ghost
damage number 17
three Break shields (1, 1, 3) with revealed fire weaknesses
turn-order ribbon with ice-crystal enemy portraits
dark cave battlefield

Top 3 colors

#091c20 24%#24363a 24%#786f72 17%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© ACQUIRE Corp. / Square Enix, Octopath Traveler screenshot: ESRB EN - BP Trailer and ESRB EN - Launch Trailer (Steam) — Square Enix, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Square Enix.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-06. verified 2026-11-06: exact ffmpeg -ss 90.5s extraction inspected visually at full resolution; Cyrus panel, WEAK callout, damage 17 and all three Break shields with revealed fire weaknesses legible; dense-scan find, not a scene-change candidate; distinct WEAK-feedback state, not a duplicate

No OCTOPATH TRAVELER (2018) video/image posting guideline found (two web searches, 2026-11-06). Square Enix publishes per-title guidelines; the nearest sibling, OCTOPATH TRAVELER II Guidelines for livestreaming and posting videos/images (https://www.square-enix-games.com/en_GB/documents/octopath-traveler-ii-guidelines-for-livestreaming-and-posting-videos-images), permits personal non-commercial use only — no commercial or for-profit use, no use under a corporate body name, no cutscene-only content, with the legal line '© 2023 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.' and spoiler warnings for major story points. An ad-supported gallery is arguably outside that personal-use grant, so no Square Enix permission is claimed. Fallback: keeper frames are stills from the official Steam trailers, unofficial, not endorsed, takedown honoured within 48h. All 13 keepers are gameplay HUD, none are cutscenes.

Rights holders: see Copyright & takedown.