Zevenberge
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Ah, that explains a lot. I didn't get that memo. Suddenly it all makes sense, lol.
(The trailer posted made it look as if it was real time.)
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Etrian Odyssey x Mystery Dungeon cross-over announced during livestream
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Ah, that explains a lot. I didn't get that memo. Suddenly it all makes sense, lol.
(The trailer posted made it look as if it was real time.)
transience
Member
I'm sure this is fine but what I really want is EO5 and it feels further and further away with each spinoff and remake announcement. This'll be the fourth EO game (more or less) since 4.
edit: ha.
edit: ha.
PixyJunket
Member
Persona Q is EO5, more or less.
And this isn't being developed by Atlus, it's Chunsoft's game.
I'm sure an actual EO5 is still in the cards, probably after Persona Q and EO2R.
I need EOU3 on 3DS before EO5. It would be a shame to leave the best EO without a remake.
No, Persona Q is first and foremost a Persona game (Atlus said so themselves).
This new game is made by Atlus, not SC (unless RyougaSaotome heard wrong).
And EO5 was always in the cards... they've said repeatedly that the Untold remakes were there to help people wait before EO5.
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List of staff (can anyone translate?).
Bassmastergeneral
Member
This looks awesome, really love both franchises so I'll be getting this for sure!
Zuhzuhzombie!!
Member
Originally picked up a DS for EO. Will get a New 3DS probably for this and PQ.
Hope this isn't considered port begging, but I am curious about the lack of these types of games on the Wii U.
Hope this isn't considered port begging, but I am curious about the lack of these types of games on the Wii U.
PixyJunket
Member
Right. But a Persona game that looks and plays (and sounds?) exactly like an Etrian Odyssey game.
In my book, that makes it an Etrian Odyssey game with Persona wrapping paper.
Just like this is a Mystery Dungeon game with Etrian Odyssey wrapping paper.
But I only care about gameplay and disregard story, etc., so my view comes from that.
I would be a little shocked if that is true.
They've given Mystery Dungeon to other developers before (for Chocobo and Yangus), but it's been a while since they have made one themselves (not counting Pokémon because that is "Win Button Mystery Dungeon").
This is the best announcement of all time. The two best dungeon crawlers ever made in Japan finally meet!
I'm not sure if this game is totally developed by Atlus btw, looking at the trailer, it Spike Chunsoft is pretty heavily involved. The producer is the EO series director Shigeo Komori, while there are two directors. Yukari Yokoro is the Atlus director, she's an art designer on the EO series, while Seiichiro Nagahata is the Spike Chunsoft director, he directs and co-directs all the Mysterious Dungeon games iirc, including the Pokemon ones.
The character designs are also a split, with the regular EO character designer doing the base character designs, and the Shiren character designer doing the finalized designs. The music staff and monster/art design are all EO regulars.
I'm not sure if this game is totally developed by Atlus btw, looking at the trailer, it Spike Chunsoft is pretty heavily involved. The producer is the EO series director Shigeo Komori, while there are two directors. Yukari Yokoro is the Atlus director, she's an art designer on the EO series, while Seiichiro Nagahata is the Spike Chunsoft director, he directs and co-directs all the Mysterious Dungeon games iirc, including the Pokemon ones.
The character designs are also a split, with the regular EO character designer doing the base character designs, and the Shiren character designer doing the finalized designs. The music staff and monster/art design are all EO regulars.
kuroneko0509
Member
I don't think it matters what Atlus says, so much as what the reality of the game is. PQ plays exactly like an EO, it appeals to EO fans, it is developed by the team who makes EO and directed by the EO4 director. For all development purposes, it is a game which took up the resources which would otherwise have been used for EO5.
The EO Untold series is made in parallel, so it probably looks something like this in the pipeline now:
EO4 -> PQ -> EO5? PQ2?
EOU -> EOU2 -> EOU3
Meanwhile this is a EO flavored MD game, so it's not going to impact the pipeline much. It's a similar collaboration to P4A and P4D where Atlus provides a lot of the heavy lifting for art assets and music, while the other developer makes the actual game they're familiar with.
ElectricThunder
Member
How nifty---not to mention this will cement the confusion that pops up all the time online asserting that EO is totally a Roguelike!
Definitely have to give this a shot someday.
Definitely have to give this a shot someday.
True.
Not so interested in the crossover (I still have to go back to EO4 and they just announced the fifth episode too), but the music was really good
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I can't
SliceSabre
Banned
Mystery Dungeon games are roguelikes.
I guess what I meant was what defines them in the genre of roguelikes but I stopped being lazy and looked it up.
Korialstrasz
Member
Never mind I'm dumb.
Seems like 【世界樹と不思議のダンジョン】 (Etrian Odyssey and Mystery Dungeon) is the official name.
It's literally "World Tree and Mystery Dungeon," so my guess would be that it'll get localized as Etrian Mystery (Dungeon) or Etrian Odyssey: Spin-Off Subtitle.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Cool, cool! I was never a huge fan of the mystery dungeon games, but did get moods for them. Will definitely give this one a try if we see it here in NA.
Not yet, but considering that every game so far has been localized, there shouldn't be much to worry about it outside of its status as a collaboration.
FlyingSaucer
Banned
True! Hope up!
Not in Europe
Yeah but we could import these back then!
What's more, Atlus and Spike-Chunsoft got some solid ties too. Atlus USA published Conception II in the West, they're distributing both Danganronpag games, they're working on Attack on Titan localisation...
So yeah, the fact that it's a collaboration won't change anything imo. It's not like Mystery Dungeon was a manga/anime IP or anything.
My guess is, Atlus USA will have a special PR where they confirm localisation for EOU2, EOxMD and EOV... just like they did with Persona Q, Persona Dancing and Persona 5.
Just so SE can cockblock the localization? No thank you very much.
Part of what is wrote above is a joke.
Sammy Samusu
Member
Would buy.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
Looks awesome
DIfferent teams. Not to mention that it appears EO x MD is being worked on by the folks at Spike Chunsoft. I'm guessing the ones who handled SMT4 are working on SMT x FE.
We have no concrete info at the moment, but pretty sure SMTxFE is mostly developped by Intelligent System.
The Pokemon ones have simple party mechanics.
If the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games are any indication, they'll probably try for a mix of both series' gameplay elements.
It's going to be mostly MD with an EO skin, but that "skin" will include stuff that EO is known for like character creation for the party, a menu driven town, the various classes in EO, a HP/TP system, EO themed dungeons and monsters, and stuff like resource gathering at points of the dungeon. But the majority of the gameplay - dungeon exploration, combat, presentation, will be MD style.