Etrian Odyssey Untold 2 Delivers an Artful Launch Edition

Nah. Atlus is my favorite developer next to Nintendo, but I'm getting tired of their launch practices. $10-20 more for all of their games at launch with some cheap crap thrown in to fish for pre-orders.

Atlus would get my money Day 1 at $40, without the extras. As it is now, I'll wait for this to go on sale for $30, just out of principle.

What @CaviarMeths said.

@CaviarMeths
I'm guessing this game is going for fifty then?

That stuff looks really nice but I don't know if I'd get it. It really depends on whether I'll have the money or not. Regardless, I am looking forward to this game.

I'm in Europe, so we'll be lucky to get the game at all....never mind any of the extras that go with it.

Thanks again, Mr Region Lock.

Eh, buying at launch is throwing money away/supporting the game makers on any game (rather massively these days, on everything but Nintendo systems) anyway; Atlus just calls it out more than most. First-run editions are at least loads more fair and less aggravating than artificially-limited preorder-months-in-advance collector's editions. Everyone gets a piece of the pie, or you can wait if you prefer and get leftovers.

@CaviarMeths You can't steal my rant lol.

Has this one also been confirmed at 50$ I know Brake Code has but can't remember if this has.

I'm also quite surprised so many people are boycotting this price increase. I still don't have Persona Q or plan to until it comes down to 30$ as well. What a shame as I want to day one Nintendo's biggest supporter 3rd party wise. I really think this is costing them more money then making them and they should rethink this price point. Make it 40$ on the eshop and I'll day one this.

I also when to their forums a few months back to see if we here are the only ones complaining and was surprised to see they had been shut down. I need to find an email address and formally complain about this.

@Spoony_Tech I just went to their site to email them. Got a paragraph in before it cut me off with a character limit. No dice.

@CaviarMeths Lol, I just did the same. It's like they have totally cut us off from any communication. I guess it could be worse and we get no games but we have to make a stand somewhere.

Maybe I'll call that phone number I seen listed. I'm sure they've seen some complaints about this but maybe it's out of their control and Sega is calling all the shots on pricing.

I went to Twitter to complain. All I'll probably get is a bunch of fan boys calling me out but whatever. They need to know they're losing support from this.

This will be the second EO game I won't preorder, first being the mystery dungeon game. What a disappointment. It's going to take something like what Persona Q did with their special edition to get me to preorder the game.

I agree with everyone but I think Im part of the problem =(. Ive bought every other Atlus game at launch for the extras. They look so nice together!

I never really play Etrian Odyssey game, tried the EO4 demo but I left unimpressed, it's also kinda weird that we create our own chars rather than meeting them. This looks really nice though! I might get it, but probably not day one. Or maybe snap the first EO Untold beforehand?

On a positive note, Yuji Himukai's art is as adorable as ever. I would gladly buy a full art book of his work.

Meanwhile, in Europe: Confirmation, anyone? No? (Ditto every Atlus game ever...)

@Jordie At best we'll get a digital only release for all three 3DS games they're releasing soon... a year and half later.

Best to just accept that early on I'd say.

@TwilightAngel

Yup I totally agree too. This whole practice feels like another way to nickel and dime dedicated fans just like EA, Capcom, Ubisoft, etc.

I still like Atlus (for sure) but there was time I loved them. Lately they've just been on this slippery slope of forced higer-priced special editions, weird (and useless) DLC, and milking games to death to the point where I start to dislike characters I onced appreciated (Persona 4 MC: a cool avatar with open-ended nature. Now? Man-whore, sister complex, fighting-game scrub, d-bag. GG Alus)

I just checked my IV and Millennium Girl booklets and they have half as many pages.

I'm going to pre-order this one. I'm more than happy to pay full-price for a high-quality remake, especially with the drastic upgrade in graphics and the story mode.

I don't really mind when Atlus wants to hoist the prices of their games at the beginning; that helps them capture some extra money from those of us (like myself) who want the game badly enough to get it day one. Most of the time, their games just sit on the shelves for months anyways, sometimes even after the stores drop their prices, so it makes a lot of sense to me that they would want to raise the initial price.

I am torn on this one. I really want the game, and want to support Atlus. However, I don't care about sound tracks and art books. If they had another SKU that was $10 cheaper and had no extras, I would buy that day one.

"The book will also include developer insight into the creation process for the game's various characters."

Like it or not, this one key detail pushed me to go ahead and eagerly await this and its summer release.
Well, that and the hope that the soundtrack CD will contain more than just seven themes.

Oh, is this premiumly priced? Etrian Mystery Dungeon is only $40 pre-order/first print run, and it comes with the standard Atlus first-run goodies.

That's a decent amount of goodies. Here, take my money.

What @ToxieDogg said.

Count me in with the "no purchase at $50" camp, as any other time Atlus does this, which seems to be with each new release these days.

Atlus... I love you and want to work for you one day... So for the love of God stop hurting my wallet so much. Actually... Never mind, I kinda like it... A lot.

I like how the picture on the CD case is always the heroine with stars in her eyes, opening her mouth to eat a sweet

Does anybody know if this game has a good story with interesting characters? The battle system doesn't look very interesting, I'm not against turn based but the battles look kind of underwhelming (in their appearance).

To bad I don't like Etrian Odyssey. I've heard it's fun, but I tried the demo, and didn't like how the game felt.

If I liked it, I'd be all over this special edition! Artbooks FTW!

To answer your question though; The best Limited edition I ever bought was the Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask 3D skull kid bundle, and the N3DS. I love nice electronics, (and the gold system is almost too attractive), and I am an avid figure collector and Zelda fan.

So I was ultra satisfied.

@JellySplat The demo doesn't do it justice..

@B3ND3R

Ah, I'll have to try out used or something. I REALLY want to like it, but I don't like the demo very much. Thanks for the advice!

@JellySplat yeah, they're the kinds of games that once you get a groove it's a lot more fun. 4 is my favorite but you can't go wrong with Millenium Girl if you need a story to go with it.

@DarkKirby these games have combat where if you really don't pay enough attention your entire party will be wiped completely.

@B3ND3R

I definitely like a good story to go along with my games. Especially an RPG. I'll have to check it out.

Whoa, this is so pretty. I'd love to get this in Europe. At only 10$ extra you guys are mad to complain.

Day one, obviously. ;3