GameDynamo says, "Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City, a turn-based dungeon-crawler for the Nintendo DS, follows in the footsteps of both previous Etrian Odyssey games, as well as other dungeon-crawlers like The Bard's Tale and Wizardry. Most of the "action" happens in a 3D space with 2D sprites on the top screen, while players create their own maps in the built-in "graph paper" on the touch screen. "
Back in 2007, Atlus decided to use the Nintendo DS to do something ambitious. It brought back the days of first-person RPGs with original party members you had to customize and dungeons you needed to map. Thanks to the handheld's design, the bottom screen allowed people to practice cartography as they played. Since then, 10 games have been released, each bringing something new to adventurers.
Atlus will re-release the first three titles in the Etrian Odyssey role-playing dungeon crawler series on the Nintendo DS, according to an ad posted on the NeoGAF forums.
Forum user Dwayne received the email ad from Canadian retailer Video Games Plus. Buyers will be able to pre-order Etrian Odyssey, Etrian Odyssey 2: Heroes of Lagaard and Etrian Odyssey 3: The Drowned City for $29.99 each or create a custom Etrian Oydssey DS Trilogy pre-order bundle. Those who pre-order the bundle will receive all three games at a $15 discount.
Stoked for this! I don't have the second or third games, so I plan to get those!
The original Etrian Odyssey came out of absolutely nowhere back in 2007 and instantly polarized gamers. You either got it and loved it, or you were baffled at how such a backward creation could possibly have made it to market in this modern era and hated it with the fury of a thousand angry suns.
