Atlus recently updated the Etrian Odyssey and Mystery Dungeon promotional website with videos showing off some of the core gameplay systems in this crossover title. They play automatically upon visiting the site, with options to toggle audio on or off. These short videos should offer a look at how these two different franchises will blend together. Continue reading to check them out!
Atlus announced a crossover between their Etrian Odyssey franchise and the Mystery Dungeon franchise in the same livestream that announced Etrian Odyssey V. Titled “Etrian Odyssey and Mystery Dungeon” and developed for the 3DS, the game is a collaboration between Atlus and Spike Chunsoft. The game already has a planned release date of March 5th and will retail for ¥6,980.
Gematsu writes that an announcement trailer for the game describes the crossover as for “those of you who’ve played 1,000 times” and for “those of you who want to play 10,000 times”, perhaps positioning the game as one meant for diehard fans. They have also produced a list of staff working on Etrian Odyssey and Mystery Dungeon, information found in the trailer and the newly launched website for the game. I’ll reproduce the table that Gematsu created here:
Atlus (Production)
Spike Chunsoft (Development)
Etrian Odyssey Series Staff
For our readers who want a little more background on the Mystery Dungeon franchise, my fellow staffer Kuronoa offers some help:
Mystery Dungeon is Chunsoft’s pride and joy, their own interpretation of the “Roguelike” formula. Since 1993 they carefully crafted this style of dungeon crawling and made a name for themselves collaborating with the most respected RPG franchises. The series was originally conceived as a spinoff for Dragon Quest, starring DQIV’s lovable merchant oaf Torneko Taloon. Over time, official variants range from Final Fantasy (Chocobo as the star), to Namco’s The Tower of Druaga, Pokemon and an original story series titled Shiren the Wanderer. The series have also inspired clones such as Izuna on DS, Azure Dreams on Playstation and even variants of series we cover like Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon and Dramatic Dungeon: Sakura Taisen. To best explain the gameplay common with this series, players are sent to randomly generated dungeons full of hidden traps and enemy crowds. The game is turn-based, in which your every move, walking or attacking, counts as a turn and will cause all surrounding units to make a move accordingly. This thus creates a sense of strategy for the player requiring them to take the time to plan out how to get out of the situation. One wrong move could mean you will lose your items and money, or depending on the individual game the worst case scenario will mean resetting your experience level. This is not too much of a setback, you can always find decent item replacements and store everything valuable for later. I’m curious what Etrian Odyssey will bring to the table, especially if the iconic F.O.E. enemies show up because that can be terrifying in this type of gameplay.
Be sure to check out the trailer below! For those looking for a few additional screenshots, this Gematsu article is worth checking out.
Atlus has announced that the latest numbered entry for Etrian Odyssey is in development. The key staff includes veterans of the franchise, ranging from director Shigeo Komori, to character designer Yuji Himukai, composer Yuzo Koshiro and monster designer Shin Nagasawa. So far only a teaser trailer has been revealed, which you can watch below:
Atlus has revealed the opening movie for their upcoming 3DS RPG, Etrian Odyssey Untold II. The high quality animation, created by studio Madhouse, is accompanied by the song “Reaching Out for the Future” by Kanaka Itou. Along with the Story Mode, fully animated cutscenes are one of the new additions for this remake of the original Etrian Oddysey II.
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It’s been a while since we’ve written about Etrian Odyssey II Untold, but the official Japanese website’s blog section for the game has received more frequent updates as of late. Some of these updates are quite extensive and talk about gameplay, while others highlight promotional activities for the game. Recent blog posts include pictures of promotional merchandise and a crossover promotion with the popular maid/culture cafe schatz-kiste, where Etrian Odyssey-themed items will be featured on their menu.
Anyway, Siliconera wrote an article recently detailing a blog post that showed off how some of the in-game menus look, and included some very short videos of the game’s Classic Mode from one of Atlus’s blog posts.
Siliconera’s article also touches on gameplay elements borrowed from Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth. Treasure chest icons featured on maps will change to reflect being opened. Another borrowed feature from Persona Q is the presence of a confirmation window to verify that the player is OK with initial commands issued during battle. This is a feature that can be turned off of the player chooses to do so.
To check out some of the videos that Siliconera highlighted, continue reading below!
November is proving to be an interesting month for Sega and Atlus fans, with plenty of games heading our way. First of all, tomorrow sees the release of Valkyria Chronicles on PC. IncGamer seem to be the first offering their impressions on the PC port, and judging from their article the port delivers exactly what Sega promised, with support for different resolutions, framerate equal to the refresh rate of your monitor and configurable mouse/keyboard support. The game is still available for pre-order on Steam with a 10% discount.