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Etrian Odyssey II HD
Etrian Odyssey II HD rebirths the timeless adventure of the mysterious floating castle. Build your own party from twelve different classes of heroes and climb through the Yggdrasil tree to reach the clouds and uncover the truth of High Lagaard. New features included remastered graphics, a remastered soundtrack, quality of life improvements, diffi...
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For over a decade, Atlus' Etrian Odyssey franchise has been delighting amateur cartographers so let's see how the latest game holds up.
The Etrian Odyssey series comes to its 3DS conclusion with the release of Nexus. Blending countless series callbacks with the best dungeon-crawling RPG experience around makes for a pretty fun game.
The gut reaction from any executive or producer with a successful product is to try and create a follow up to equal the success. Be it a movie, a book, a game or a song, someone in a suit is going to lean in and insist that we can capture lightning in a bottle twice. Sometimes it works fantastically: Pokémon Gold and Silver is a massive improvement over everything that was made in Red and Blue, and whatever comes after that is subjective at best. Sometimes, though, it can lead to some truly ...
I’m thrilled that Etrian Odyssey exists beyond the DS and 3DS, but what we got doesn’t hit the highs of the series. Atlus admirably tried to make it work on Switch, but the controls for drawing your map aren’t as natural as they were on DS and 3DS. Etrian Odyssey II is still a great video game, with a really good progression through each stratum and a lot of depth and synergies between the classes and abilities. My hope is that if Etrian Odyssey survives beyond this dungeon crawl, the next release will be more future-focused than porting over the past.
Etrian Odyssey II HD is the kind of sequel that religiously follows the path laid out for it by its predecessor. Anyone familiar with the first game will have n