![]() ![]() Why not fly through the bush with the impetus of a pinball? This time around, why not experiment with a ronin, a hexer, and a whip-wielder on the front line-I mean, if you can turn down the pain…? And why not crank the battle speed up to “hyper”? I’ve trampled these very moles fifteen-thousand times, after all. My first trip through Etria was tough going. #Etrian odyssey pro#There’s simply too many tweaks and choices at your disposal for an old pro like me not to fiddle with them. In my experience, Etrian Odyssey Untold doesn’t capture the same imaginary dimension-the once-enchanting hedge mazes becoming a flurry of slain woodland creatures. This time around, why not experiment with a ronin, a hexer, and a whip-wielder on the front line? ![]() The magic was that through some combination of tedium and reverie that these repeated tiles and tiny boxes and lines began to feel like an actual place. That game had a methodical, sometimes plodding, pace but it would hypnotize you as you traced the trellises and fauna of the Yggdrasil tree. This is unlike the first Etrian Odyssey, which was never a matter of convenience. If all of this sounds very convenient, that’s because it is. Without being asked, anime troubadours will announce when there is a secret passage nearby, so you don’t have to repeatedly take a step, face the brush, and press A. You can just lower the difficulty mid-game. You can quantum leap from waypoint to waypoint. Now, you can hold a button down to sprint through the trees. But in doing so, they lost the spirit of the place-that will-o’-the-wisp that keeps pulling you back in. Of course, as developers, Atlus wanted to exfoliate these blemishes. Some complained that it was a bit of slog that the pace moved slowly that the story was nonexistent that you shouldn’t have to track back and forth across acres upon acres of timberland. While the first game seduced me, it was not without its drawbacks. Through some combination of tedium and reverie these repeated tiles and tiny boxes and lines began to feel like an actual place. Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl is the strange case where you get exactly what you think you wanted, but it ends up spoiling everything. ![]() But there’s a very good reason to persevere, dear reader, and that is because, as I eventually found, playing without drawing the lay of the land kind of kills it. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that, this time around, the game has an automapping option. Besides, have you ever tried filling in a grid while lying on your backside? Not comfy. I tend to play my dungeon-crawls for longer durations, and the flexor muscles of my left hand will start to ache. Stick it behind your ear? Grasp it in your teeth? Returning it to the slot seems inefficient. Then, there’s the question of what to do with the stylus when you’re ambushed by a family of irate armadillos. With the original, I was always fishing it out from the cushions and losing it in the folds of the sheets. There are plenty of reasons to opt out of using the 3DS’s retractable plastic pencil. You get exactly what you think you wanted, but it ends up spoiling everything. ![]()
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