DHGF:
I’ve made this point before, but while I love a good dungeon crawling RPG, I’ve never quite been able to embrace the Etrian Odyssey series. The Dark Spire, the first person Shin Megami Tensei games and the Wizardry series have always been more my speed, and while the Etrian Odyssey games had some of that challenge, the aesthetics never really worked for the sort of game it is. The franchise has always straddled this line between modern and old-school dungeon crawling in a way that appeals to new players to the genre but holds little appeal for someone with no genre appreciation or a long-standing history with them. The games aren’t bad by any means, but they just never resonated with me (and others on staff) to the extent that Atlus’ other offerings in the genre did, let alone other genre entries in general. Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl seems like it’s further attempting to expand the market for the franchise, however, by reimagining the first game with modern visuals, while also adding in a story mode for those who don’t want to deal with the grinding dungeon crawling aspects of the originals.
Back in 2007, Atlus decided to use the Nintendo DS to do something ambitious. It brought back the days of first-person RPGs with original party members you had to customize and dungeons you needed to map. Thanks to the handheld's design, the bottom screen allowed people to practice cartography as they played. Since then, 10 games have been released, each bringing something new to adventurers.
An opinion piece about Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl Story. No holding back. This is pure personal opinion and hence objectively and utterly irrefutable proof that the game is worthy of a good old rant by our Senior Rant-Expert, Koola.
A number of big-name Atlus titles are down to $15 each from now until January 19th. To name a few: Shin Megami Tensei IV, Etrian Odyssey Untold, and Conception II.
SMT is under $15 at GameStop. Learn to sale, developers. Nobody wants to pay that much for digital when you can get a hard copy cheaper or at the same price. Give us an incentive to buy, bonuses or something if all you're gonna do is match the price.
Used games are a factor they must consider. Either break down the price during a sale or lose a sale, your choice.
