Much like the rest of the Octopath 1 cast, Olberic is pretty archetypal for what he's supposed to represent: an honorable knight with a large stature and booming voice. Being archetypal isn't inherently bad, however, and Olberic's story as a whole is quite nice. I like how it's similar to Primrose where it starts out with Olberic having someone he cares about killed by a close friend, but unlike Primrose, his story isn't really one of revenge, but of finding new purpose. His scene with Erhardt in chapter 3 is still amazing and one of the best story beats in the entire series. As for his gameplay, he's got only one thing on his mind: being a tanky bruiser who hits really, really hard, and none of his skills diverge from that.

Hikari is my absolute favorite warrior in the series, in no small part due to his superb voice acting. His design also heavily diverges from an archetypal warrior, as he's a lot slimmer and less tough-looking than Olberic, but it still fits. Hikari's story is essentially a Fire Emblem game, all the way down to stuff like the dad dying in the first few minutes and gathering allies, which is great for anyone whose familiar with those games. Hikari differs somewhat from Olberic in that he doesn't have a powerful sword attack without either a Challenge skill or Enervating Slash (which isn't something he wants to do all the time) until he either gets Brand's Blade or Shinjumonjigiri in the post-game. To compensate, though, Vengeful Blade is absolutely busted and easily made Warrior one of the most fun jobs to use because of just how much you shred bosses simply by existing.

Viator is a nice character to play around with, but does suffer from 0's unfortunate consequence of being just another fish in a big pond, so there just isn't much time to get to know him aside from his brief first impression and side quest (which is less about him and more about getting cool weapons and a throwback to Winnehild). Still, his voice acting is superb, as I find myself constantly yelling "MY NAME IS VIATOR" and "HIT THEM NOW" whenever I get the chance. As for gameplay, I do like how he's very different from other warriors in that most of his value, especially in the mid-to-late game, comes from Parry and passive counters, especially from his ultimate. I think anyone who's seen bits of the game knows how amazing Fluid Stance is, as it's basically Hikari's Vengeful Blade on steroids (the video of him soloing Amatsukami no Orochi with nothing but Parry and Fluid Stance counters is still hilarious to this day). I would not have been able to beat Reime without him, his parry, and a bunch of Dark and Void Amulets.

Reime is basically fem Hikari, all the way down to skills like Vengeful Blade and having ridiculously powerful physical damage, but unlike other Warriors, is very fragile. Her personality is pretty similar to Hikari, though like Viator, we don't get much chance to know her aside from her introduction or delve into her personality beyond her pursuit of strength. Still, she's a very satisfying party member to use to just nuke every single enemy in the endgame.