

A party can consist up to five members at one time, and you will create all five in the beginning before setting off on the adventure. There is no key story character that forms a gang and saves the world, since in Etrian Odyssey IV, the guild and the characters that you hire are all selected and named by you. As the leader of a self-named, newly created guild, you must take your band of heroes and determine what lies on the other side of that tree, while helping the townsfolk of Tharsis with their errands and demands to become a local hero and cash in on the fame.įor people who are used to JRPGs offering baby steps during the beginning, then you are going to be in for a surprise with how free Etrian Odyssey IV feels. This tree looms on the horizon, visible from everywhere, but no one knows where it actually leads to, so the Outland Count of Tharsis has set up sponsorship for anyone willing to reach Yggdrasil and discover what lies beyond the tree. Players are given a short blurb about the tree Yggdrasil.
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Thanks to Nippon Ichi Software USA and their extremely promising Atlus partnership, we in the UK can now experience the fourth – and first for the 3DS platform – entry in the increasing popular old-school, Japanese RPG series that harks back to the days of first-person, dungeon crawlers from the early 90s.Įtrian Odyssey is a series that doesn’t focus on supplying a deep and engrossing story – there’s little to no plot featured in the game. The British Isles were lucky enough to get the first entry back in 2008, thanks to Nintendo helping with publishing the title on the DS, but the series has since been forgotten until now. Atlus’ Etrian Odyssey franchise hasn’t exactly had presence in the UK.
