Some may mistake the third in this series from Atlus as one of the new crop of retro, impossible Japanese role-playing games, but they're wrong. Courtesy of Shigeo Komori, the drone of the grinding in the sea city of Armoroad provides its own distinct appeal.
The 2008 sequel improved the interface and provided a new dungeon without trying to push the series forward. In Etrian OdysseyIII: TheDrownedCity Atlus gets creative and finds ways to expand and improve the gameplay while maintaining the old-school setup, resulting in the most interesting and best paced game in the series.
Etrian OdysseyIII features exploration of both land and sea. The two gameplay elements rarely, if ever, meet, so I'd like to tackle them separately here as well. Let's start with the less complex of the two: sailing. When you stop in at the port for the first time, you're given the task to sail the… two seas in order to find other cities and open trade routes to the game's home city ...
The embodiment of adventure and discovery in the purest sense, Etrian OdysseyIII transports gamers to a sparkling oceanic paradise filled with atmospheric dungeons to chart and survey, vast watery expanses to sail across, and rumors of a sunken city to investigate. Aspiring explorers are responsible for charting their travels utilizing the intuitive touchscreen map editor, meaning that ...
Etrian OdysseyIII: TheDrownedCity is every bit as brutal as its sadistic predecessors, but a bevy of new classes and some awesome features make the punishing trek back into the death-dealing ...
Once accustomed to the steep difficulty of the encounters, I suspect that most players with a discerning eye will find that (like its predecessors) Etrian OdysseyIII: TheDrownedCity is a shining example of old-school design infused with new-school wisdom. Rating: 8.0 out of 10.
Etrian OdysseyIII: TheDrownedCity continues that tradition. This first-person dungeon crawler RPG (sounds complicated, but it isn't) is one of those games you'll either love or despise ...
Etrian OdysseyIII transports gamers to a sparkling oceanic paradise filled with atmospheric dungeons to chart and survey, vast watery expanses to sail across, and rumors of a sunken city to ...
Games like Etrian OdysseyIII: TheDrownedCity can be polarizing, especially on a system that draws casual gamers like a Very Bradley sale draws soccer moms. On one hand, you've got a hand console that's found new gaming niches among AARP members, Rachael Ray viewers, and Bejeweled fans; on the other, you've got a genre that demands an unshakable attention span and a long-term interest ...
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