Released both in Japan and in the United States by Atlus Co., Etrian Odyssey is a first-person ESRB Rating T video game with anime-style art and exciting gameplay for the Nintendo DS.
In a vast and fertile land lies a small town known as Etria, a peaceful village that became famous for a startling discovery. A crack in the vast forest opened at Etria's edge, leading downward like a gaping maw. Etrian Odyssey acts like countless classic RPG games in the past, focusing mainly on the lost art of player cartography.
The cartography system works as follows: as you progress through the dungeon, you will have to literally plot out the map on the bottom screen line by line. The game doesn't automatically track where you've been, so keeping a good map is the key to success.
You play the role of a guild leader, and that's what you'll be expected to do step for step. You'll journey through uncharted (literally) areas, drawing your map with the touch screen all the while. As for the actual exploration aspect, the game plays out like countless RPG's before it, as you navigate the dungeon mazes step by step.
The Japanese team created in Etrian Odyssey amazing 3D graphics - Explore warm, inviting, forest environments rendered in an original 3D engine. Also, the game sounds good in a synthesized Super Nintendo kind of way, while the different looping tracks and sound effects provide a decent variety.
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Choose from nine different character classes - Create a woodland survivalist, shield-bearing protector, whip-wielding dark hunter, or a half-dozen other types
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Use the DS Touch Screen to make your own maps - Plot your progress through the labyrinth, drawing walls and placing icons to note special events and items
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Populate an entire adventurer's guild with up to 20 characters
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Exciting battles fough through turn-based strategic combat
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Collect more than 20 unique battle skills and split them across 5 different adventuring charactrers
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