Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City is a recreation of the old school first person dungeon crawler (Think Wizardry) but instead of drawing maps with graph paper, you draw maps with the touch screen on the DS. You start out with nothing but a few thousand EN (the currency in the game, not quite sure what it stands for) and you head off to the Explorer's Guild of the city of Armoroad. Apparently this port city has an enormous tree that is a famous tourist attraction, but it's filled with flesh easting monsters and adventurers from all over come to explore the depths beneath the tree.
After registering some people to your guild (complete with custom names, classes and choices of portraits) you are free to begin exploring. After you enter the labyrinth you will be raped by a cat and possibly some floating red fish. EO3 has a turn based combat system that features enemies that will beat the everliving SHIT out of you. The game is pretty ruthless at some points. After you explore a bit more, you also gain access to the new sailing section of the game.
Sailing is completely new to Etrian Odyssey, not having been featured in the first two games. You get given a ship for free (a free boat for moving to a city? Pretty sweet deal) and told to discover cities to trade with. You're given some biscuits to eat on your journey. The type of food you take with you on your sailing trips decides how long you can sail for. For example, I can pay 130EN a trip to use Sauerkraut that lasts me 20 turns or spend 40EN a trip to use raisins that last me 16 turns. However, the extra 4 turns from Sauerkraut lets me discover a new city on the ocean map that opens up some new quests to do.
I'm only on the 7th floor of the Labyrinth (There's 25 floors, but the main story ends after the 20th floor. The last 5 are just post-game fun to get raped by) and currently slowly pushing forward. The art style also drastically changes every few floors. The general theme for the first 4 floors is a forest with patches of mud and some rivers. You fight mainly fish and cats, although a giant bird makes an appearance occasionally. On the 5th floor it changed in to an underwater style, with coral surrounding everything and almost every animal being a fish or underwater creature of some type.
I'll make another post when I'm further in but so far my group of a Pirate, a Hoplite (Basically the tank bitch), a Prince (Passively heals), an Arbalist (Has a monster hunter style bow) and a Zodiac (Mage that has some freaky rainbow wings)
I guess my blog about music I like has turned into a gaming blog. Ah well, it's more interesting this way I suppose.
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