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Etrian Odyssey Community Thread: The Ongoing Adventures of Fight and Heal
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Day 1:
The team is picked out a quiet spot to the west of the floor. Nothing will touch us here, the leader said, noticeably ignoring the giant Wyvern just lying north of us.
Day 2:
We just spent a day walking in circles, while said Wyvern blasted lightning ineffectually around the place. Sometimes I look at her, lurking across the waters, and wonder why it doesn't just fly at us. But then, perhaps it's better this way.
Day 3:
Halfway through, the leader said. Let us just continue on our splendid tour of our little corner of the Labyrinth. Meanwhile, our troubadour has ran out of songs to sing. I pity her.
Day 4:
The lightning. Just make it stop.
Day ???:
Today, a guard found us. He was wondering what happened to our guild, fearing the worst. After reassuring him that I was fine, he asked me why I are still wandering around B8F. The trial has ended, he said. But he lies. He just want us to fail. He cannot be allowed to let us fail. Let me fail. The lightning god commands it.
The team is picked out a quiet spot to the west of the floor. Nothing will touch us here, the leader said, noticeably ignoring the giant Wyvern just lying north of us.
Day 2:
We just spent a day walking in circles, while said Wyvern blasted lightning ineffectually around the place. Sometimes I look at her, lurking across the waters, and wonder why it doesn't just fly at us. But then, perhaps it's better this way.
Day 3:
Halfway through, the leader said. Let us just continue on our splendid tour of our little corner of the Labyrinth. Meanwhile, our troubadour has ran out of songs to sing. I pity her.
Day 4:
The lightning. Just make it stop.
Day ???:
Today, a guard found us. He was wondering what happened to our guild, fearing the worst. After reassuring him that I was fine, he asked me why I are still wandering around B8F. The trial has ended, he said. But he lies. He just want us to fail. He cannot be allowed to let us fail. Let me fail. The lightning god commands it.
Expert Cernunnos down! It only took 3 Amritas >.< Both my DH and Ronin have so small TP pools that they cannot last even half the battle. I wonder if using the TP regen drink might be needed. Also, my Troubadour seems a little useless. The buffs are nice but she cannot do much else.
But I'm not gonna replace Mau-chan...
whiterabbit
Member
The EO:U music cd is so good! It's really high quality music.
I'm at the 4th stratum of EO3 now, and so far I'm really enjoying it! EO3 is just a much more polished game than 1 and 2 are, although it also seems quite a bit easier than EO2 was. Although bosses just have a lot more health, incoming damage in general in EO3 is a lot lower than EO2. I like that, though, because battles in EO3 feel less like I have to either disable enemies or kill them as quickly as possible.
I'm also really liking the OST for EO3 so far more than the other games. The music in this game is definitely a nice step up from the previous ones. Hopefully they'll get around to making a remake of 3, because I'm interested to see how that's handled!
I'm also really liking the OST for EO3 so far more than the other games. The music in this game is definitely a nice step up from the previous ones. Hopefully they'll get around to making a remake of 3, because I'm interested to see how that's handled!
Or just get one Ninja.
crabhammer
Member
the only part of EO3 that I found lacking was the sea map, honestly. The rest of that game is stellar.
Speaking of, I expect we'll hear about an EO3U soon? And some more EO5 news. The wait has been murder.
Speaking of, I expect we'll hear about an EO3U soon? And some more EO5 news. The wait has been murder.
Fifth stratum's really great if you need the motivation.
The transition from 4th to 5th stratum is my favorite part of this game. The stratum itself is quite good too.
So far, I'm really liking the sea map as a nice little ancillary part of the game. It's been a nice distraction between stratums to allow make self to take a little break and not get burnt out on the dungeon crawling.
And I agree with this! That was a super interesting moment in the first game, and I'm pretty glad I played the first game back when it was released.
And this is why we tell people to play classic mode of EOU instead of (or at least before) story mode.
Story mode spoils this in every posible way early in the game.
Think about all the areas you have visited so far, but in reverse order
Still the best twist of the entire series.
Unless you already played EO1 before of course. Then it's best to get done with Story Mode as soon as possible.
No idea. It's not a spoiler for you anymore but, early in the game in Story mode:
- The name of the game is Milenium Girl
- Your party member Ricky comes out of a capsule with a suit that looks like an astronaut in a mechanical and super advanced looking dungeon (exclusive to story mode), the doors, walls are futuristic. Her class is unique: "Gunner" (class exclusive to EO2 and to her in this game), fights using her hand gun. This tells you it is set in the future of an old and advanced civilization and she is the milenium girl.
- Your party member Raquna mentions Ontario a lot, with references to Maple Leafs and other Canadian things.This tells you that Etria is on Earth.
- There are other plot points that you still have to learn about, but this are discussed on the side dugeon as you get through the main stratums, way before the 5th
- Your party member Ricky comes out of a capsule with a suit that looks like an astronaut in a mechanical and super advanced looking dungeon (exclusive to story mode), the doors, walls are futuristic. Her class is unique: "Gunner" (class exclusive to EO2 and to her in this game), fights using her hand gun. This tells you it is set in the future of an old and advanced civilization and she is the milenium girl.
- Your party member Raquna mentions Ontario a lot, with references to Maple Leafs and other Canadian things.This tells you that Etria is on Earth.
- There are other plot points that you still have to learn about, but this are discussed on the side dugeon as you get through the main stratums, way before the 5th
You still dont know where the 5th stratum is gonna be, but you have an idea of the setting of this game. The whole plot twist is gone.
My comment about the areas you have visited. Or rather, the themes of al the stratums you have visited so far is unrelated btw. But still think about it, I bet you will find it interesting as you get deeper in the 5th stratum
I wouldn't say the gunner class spoils anything, those aren't exactly a recent invention and the shop is able to build new ones from monster parts easily enough.
Yeah, I mean you are there already so you know, but if you are on the 2nd stratum in story mode, you already know the setting of the game, you may not know that you are gonna visit that place, but you know similar places existed in the past, heck you even know or at least can infer many thing that will be said later in the game.
Also, in story mode, Ricky spells it out for you, in case you dont know Shinjuku is located in Tokyo. This is not a complaint btw. I think is nice they do that for people that dont truly know its based on a real place
Eh, by itself is not an spoiler of course, but I think it reinforces the idea of the character and setting
But hey, less talk about how much I hate the story on story mode of the first untold game, and more talk about how awesome 5th stratum of Untold is.
Also, I loved this song from exclusive for Untold story mode: Decisive Battle - The End of the World. I even made a custom loop to add it to Project M as BG music for Final Destination.
I really wish later EO games revisited the concept again. It's not going to be as impactful, but it'll be cool to fly over
in EOIV for example.
BTW fun fact: the 5th stratum's design is based on
Tokyo
BTW fun fact: the 5th stratum's design is based on
the Tokyo Metropolitan Goverment Building, which was also featured heavily in Digimon Tamers, and my favorite building in Tokyo.
Well, there is that futuristic looking city off in the distance in the EOV artwork.
I don't really mind though. Honestly, I don't think the fifth dungeon in EOI being
a real place
post apocalyptic
Being set in
a real place
a generic future city
Tokyo
Also making spoiler tags suck on mobile.
I guess that's one way of looking at it.
I don't know, all it feels like to me is that when they decided they needed a twist for the fifth dungeon they said
Planet of the Apes was pretty cool.
Enough about what I don't care for, it feels like I'll I've been saying lately was bad things about EOI/EOU, but I do like one thing about it, the post-game dungeon.
All the post-game dungeons are great. Ever since I first stepped into EOIII's(which of course is my favorite) it's become the thing I look forward to the most in the series, and they haven't let me down yet.
I never played the post game dungeon, I went Classic > Story > Classic, but stoped mid way in my second run on classic to get back to the dungeon because of reasons. =/
Not a thing, other than more news would be coming around springtime (an announcement of an announcement). Even the system it's on is still a mystery.
Oh..
The artwork itself is a mistery, it looks like it doenst even take place on earth. I guess if it is indeed no on earth, it must be related to the Amroad incident.
A buddy just linked this to me, which lets you rank your favorite Etrian character designs. It takes a while, though, and I mainly did it because I was bored during the blizzard that just happened in the US. But I was also curious to know what everyone else's favorite portraits were.
Not really the words themselves. They just went on about some impending threat. The main two things are the moons and the golden thing flashing during parts of the trailer, which looks similar to the Voyager Golden Record that went into space in the late '70s. There's that spaceship-looking place on the right side, but if I remember right, it's just based on ancient Norse architecture.
Come to think of it, though, I wonder why IV didn't do anything with space, considering Tharsis is a big plateau on Mars.
The only big mystery about Zweizer is the order of the number 1 and 2 spots.
Not really the words themselves. They just went on about some impending threat. The main two things are the moons and the golden thing flashing during parts of the trailer, which looks similar to the Voyager Golden Record that went into space in the late '70s. There's that spaceship-looking place on the right side, but if I remember right, it's just based on ancient Norse architecture.
Come to think of it, though, I wonder why IV didn't do anything with space, considering Tharsis is a big plateau on Mars.
Dandy Crocodile
Member
Oh boy. I don't even know what would be my tops off the top of my head...A buddy just linked this to me, which lets you rank your favorite Etrian character designs. It takes a while, though, and I mainly did it because I was bored during the blizzard that just happened in the US. But I was also curious to know what everyone else's favorite portraits were.The only big mystery about Zweizer is the order of the number 1 and 2 spots.
E_Darkness
Member
I'm tossing and turning on even getting Etrian 2 Untold at launch. Though it won't get cheaper than it will in Europe because Atlus sales don't exist here and Atlus games don't get cheaper here. I've looked at Etrian 1 Untold and realised I've only got to the 3rd strat. 7 months late and so much coming out next month. But I need highlander and gunner waifus ;-;
Doooo iiiiiit.
EO2U is so much better than EOU. It basically fixes all the problems EOU had.
Also EO2 is the best game.
E_Darkness
Member
You're all terrible people, making me want something I want. Guess I'll try and find the cheapest place to get it.
I'll play it for a few days and suddenly SFV becomes a life style