i had an alchemist for the sake of some quests and doors in eo2 and she looked like this, i named her laura
i didn’t carry her with me but i think of her
this is good and i think i may end up using it to kind of do the opposite sometimes
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i dunno how i feel about sailing as a thing in eo3, but i do think the dungeon crawling early on is balanced in a more interesting way than eo2. the temporary checkpoints are gone, meaning you once again have to make it all the way back to whatever point of your current stratum you need to get to. however, resources run out very easily (at least for me), which means you’ll want to find camps and bring tents along to rest out in the dungeon. so unlike the previous game the balance is geared more towards longer explorations, and while camping mitigates risk, as usual your entire trip would be wasted if you died. i like it.
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i dunno about the regular mode but the story mode in etrian 2 untold is bad
they added all the things i want to get away from when i boot up etrian instead of other rpg
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EO2U is my favorite one and I haven’t even tried its story mode
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Oh… I liked the story, I thought the characters were cute.
But yeah, all the other features (but mainly the restaurant) already make it a strong entry to play even without the story. Though you have to clear the story to get the Fafnir Knight class in Classic Mode, I think? I gotta look it up to remember properly though.
If you’re playing, let’s share some QR codes!!!
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i have only occasionally played it on ymer’s 3ds and don’t know if im gonna turn it back on.
i just don’t find any comfort in having these specific archetypes kinda waffling about like this and all chiming in with “???” “it cant be” “whats happening?” in turn after each other whenever anything happens. also hearing yuri lowenthal immediately drops my appreciation of everything else. it’s not his fault he had to voice the most unbearable character in p4 but his voice and intonation is permanently bound to this associative annoyance for me
the difficulty seems nice tho. untold seems extra cruel after how easy eo2 regular quickly got
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every day i feel mean about that post
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Nah don’t sweat it
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After getting a few stratum into EO2 and realizing I’ve basically played this game before from beating EOU2, I just jumped into EO3. I only got to maybe the volcano area the first time I played? Or whenever you unlock the Yggdroids? So it was a surprise to play it again.
The most shocking thing was how evil the very first quest of the game is. You’re supposed to find 3 Slimy Legs and 1 Frog Cheek for the quest lady, which are item drops from a Frog monster on the first floor. Except the frog only shows up in like 1/5 battles, and the Frog Cheek item has a 15% chance of dropping. I was sitting on the first floor doing auto-run laps for an hour trying to collect it, and it’s just the very first quest of the game???
I love Etrian 
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having a farmer helped for this kinda thing specifically. unfortunately absolutely no help at all other times
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I learned this too late lol
Now I usually do a quick run with my core team, then when they’re out of TP, I do a supply run with two farmers who are escorted by 3 members who don’t need TP to do damage. This is usually enough to get enough En to buy whatever new armor or weapons I unlock.
I’m at B7F now and it’s kinda absurd how strong the Arbalist weapons are beyond everyone else. The one I have on Aigis is +90 beyond every other weapon I have right now?? She’s doing 200+ damage while everyone else is barely doing 100. Good for Aigis 
I was really impressed at how well this second stratum story beat unfurls:
Summary
Upon entering water dungeon second stratum, you run into the zodiac girl from another guild and she’s zoned out. You eventually coax out of her that she’s had nightmares about this area and is afraid to continue. In her nightmare, she’s about to be killed but she’s saved by someone taking the hit for her, but they die in her stead. She’s afraid it’s a premonition that her partner the ninja boy is gonna die
When talking to the boy, he reveals that the girl actually came down here when she was younger with her father and his guild. She’s forgotten all the memories about it because of trauma. He’s worried about her but he hopes that looking around will reveal clues about her father’s disappearance.
In a subversion of what she knows, the player now knows that the girl’s nightmares are actually her repressed memory instead of a future vision of death.
Later on you run into Olympia, a friendly adventurer who sent you into a dead end death trap. Upon coming back to confront her about it, she’s shocked you survived and reveals that she’s always killed all the adventurers before you. She threatens you not to go any further and runs off.
When you go back to town and tell the Senate this, they’re shocked that all their progress has been stopped for decades not because of the natural difficulty of the dungeon but because of sabotage. They give you a mission to hunt Olympia down.
Player’s knowledge is subverted once again, the zodiac girl’s father wasn’t killed by the dungeon but by the machinations of Olympia.
Each new discovery uncovers a deeper layer of the past mystery, even giving depth to the scenario from the tragedy of the side characters’ B plot.
Unrelated to that story beat but it’s interesting how the game describes this guy as having Eastern features but he’s blonde and blue eyed:
Maybe there’s some deep lore there I haven’t seen yet
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Hey in that world that’s where the blondes are from
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But there’s also traditional Asian looking Ninjas and Samurais?
Oh wait shoot actually you might be right
According to Etrian lore, all the lands in the games are actually post apocalypse Japan so I guess all the people who are indigenous should be Asian looking while foreigners would be non-Asian?
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Oh shoot I never knew that about the lore lol, I was just being sassy
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Etrian rules 
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It’s a series I want to revisit after being too impatient/easily discouraged when I played the original back when it originally launched
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The Easy difficulty option is very forgiving if you just want to breeze through it and experience the story. The first two games are kinda threadbare though compared to the later games - you can’t even subclass until 3!
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playing the ancient odysseys (Wizardry 2)
this is a really lovely port, i like that each game even though it reuses the same town menu/graphics has distinct music for each “area”. pretty cool reuse of the dungeon assets too, they have distinct palettes and feel like they communicate that these are technically 3 different dungeons. though of course you can just switch that off and have the OG wireframe graphics whenever you want, if you don’t give a shit about your first person mazes looking different
very weirdly though it switches the second and third scenarios. which is NOT the correct order to play them lol, 3 has an open ended dungeon where you have to like fuck with your character alignments while 2 is just kinda More Wizardry 1
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