neo2046
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if anyone has interest and knows Japanese well
here is a very detailed system description/play impression
http://www15.atwiki.jp/sekaiju_maze/pages/39.html
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Sekaiju no Meikyuu DS (Etrian Odyssey) Famitsu scans
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if anyone has interest and knows Japanese well
here is a very detailed system description/play impression
http://www15.atwiki.jp/sekaiju_maze/pages/39.html
Wow, you draw your own maps on the bottom screen? This is something I've wanted in a DS game since the machine was announced.
Back in the days of no automap in games I always used to draw maps on paper, and it would be awesome to get to do it in a way where it's actually a part of the gameplay. Zelda Phantom Hourglass seem to go halfway there by letting you make notes on the map, but drawing maps is so much better.
Back in the days of no automap in games I always used to draw maps on paper, and it would be awesome to get to do it in a way where it's actually a part of the gameplay. Zelda Phantom Hourglass seem to go halfway there by letting you make notes on the map, but drawing maps is so much better.
From the wiki neo has posted, I noticed that many of details were from the demo impressions I translated in another thread eons ago. Anyway here are some details I don't remember seeing before:
- The options include Automap on/off, but you cannot change the control scheme.
- There's only one save file, haters of BoF5DQ am cry.
- The town stuff is exactly like Wizardry, with the different places in the town serving your different pre and post dungeon needs.
- Each class has it's own weapon masteries and boosts.
- Combat is turn-based and menu based.
- After each encounter new items and monsters will be saved and recorded into the lists.
- The classes look really varied. I'm not going to translate all the details but they definitely have varied differences and strengths/weaknesses and it's not just the same thing with different weapons copied and pasted.
- The options include Automap on/off, but you cannot change the control scheme.
- There's only one save file, haters of BoF5DQ am cry.
- The town stuff is exactly like Wizardry, with the different places in the town serving your different pre and post dungeon needs.
- Each class has it's own weapon masteries and boosts.
- Combat is turn-based and menu based.
- After each encounter new items and monsters will be saved and recorded into the lists.
- The classes look really varied. I'm not going to translate all the details but they definitely have varied differences and strengths/weaknesses and it's not just the same thing with different weapons copied and pasted.
GeneralIroh
Member
Wow I love the character designs.
So is this game going to play like DQ?
So is this game going to play like DQ?
duckroll said:Based on the classes, abilities and so on, I can safely say that this is Wizardry x SMT in everything but in name.
*Swoons*
I am so excited about this game. I was pretty upset when SMT3 ended up third-person (though it obviously turned out very well); I'm glad they're going back to this again. And the DS Wizardry game is great, but it was a little lacking. This should be totally awesome.
The mapping system might seem 'pointless' but drawing your own maps was just part of the fun in older FP RPGs. I actually still did it in SMT1 even though they added a mapping system because it wasn't very convenient to access the map in that game. Having a map-drawing system built in will just save on the graphing paper!
Cannot wait!
the map system in SMT1 was a nightmare, having to access the menu just to see the map was
SMT2 thankfully introduced a hot key for that but still most dungeons in that game were mazes so even then you still can get lost hehe. I never drew my own maps for games but still seems like a cool idea.
SMT2 thankfully introduced a hot key for that but still most dungeons in that game were mazes so even then you still can get lost hehe. I never drew my own maps for games but still seems like a cool idea.
Mr. Pointy
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This will own everything on DS. Even F-Zero DX whenever that decides to be birthed from Sega AV, EAD and Sony Liverpool.
