Etrian Odyssey V Finally Has A Release Date, And Yes, It's Coming To 3DS

I know nothing about the series but that artwork is already selling it to me.

@PiplupJ Play a demo of some existing game in the series and see if you like it. I really like the gameplay - relaxing making of maps, hard battles, genuine dread while avoiding the OP FOEs, then coming back later for sweet revenge All with some great music and nice artstyle.

@PiplupJ me too

When is snowboard kids 3 or hd remake coming Atlus?!!

Will definitely keep an eye out for info about this game. Might get day 1 but it depends on the price here in Canada

The Etrian Odyssey series is the best game series yet. I haven't felt as much fandom in a long time, but after being intringued by Jeremy Parish' articles on the game I'm completely in and I can't wait to play this, even though the Europe version of Etrian Odyssey Untold 2 just came out a few weeks ago.

Japan in AUG. ? IV was my favorite so far. So I can't wait for this.

I've never gotten into the EO games, but Atlus has given the 3DS a very awesome support and a lot of epic titles.

For newcomers, I'd suggest playing the Untold series and IV first, as they are more welcoming than the previous 3 titles which are kinda unforgiving (don't get me wrong, IV and Untold have their very intense challenges, but Untold 1 and 2 specially are a bit more hand holding)

Amazing news. We need some patience though, especially European dudes. This will be most probably my last retail game I will buy for 3DS, before getting to NX. And I don't mind that.

Hope there are changes this time around, but I'm not holding my breath. As someone who's played I-IV, this series has gotten stale, to me.

YES YES YES: EO V is coming to the 3DS!
MAYBE MAYBE MAYBE: Not much info with that great wallpaper tease (which I've used as my wallpaper for months now).
NO NO NO: Probably will launch in the West during February 2017.

Thanks, Atlus! Best supporter of the 3DS. I do hope they manage to make III Untold the series swansong for the 3DS and not a subsequent system/platform.

That's good, but it'll take forever to reach Europe. Hopefully they'll also send some special editions this way, but I'm doubtful.

Why so late in Japan??😭

That means at the earliest we get it in February here. Reminds me of EO IV hitting in February actually.

You have GOT to be kidding...I want this now!

@Darkthany What about 4 didn't make a lot of great changes? The over world map alone was a huge departure from the norm. Not to mention all the refinements made to game play and level design. IV was the best hands down and I hope if anything they incorporate a lot of what Persona Q did to further refine the product!

This means it ain't coming to America for a while... Hopefully they use that time to find some stuff to censor! All the good JRPGs are doing it nowadays

This will likely be an early 2017 release in the west. The RPG goodness continues on 3DS.

IV was my first foray into the series, and I love the old school mapmaking. Will keep an eye on V.

Maybe I can hunker down and finish EOIV before this comes over to North America.

Nice. Means NA will probably get it before the end of the year. I'm curious about how this entry will play.

These are just superb games. I'm playing Untold 2 at the moment, and am totally engrossed, although I slightly prefer the originals in terms of balancing (even if some moves were supposedly overpowered). Etrian Odyssey V will be an essential buy for me.

Hopefully they're following a similar localization strategy that Etrian Mystery Dungeon followed.
Y'know, the one that brought the game westward sooner.

@Ralizah Same! Although I'll probably get it anyway because it's EO, I'm really hoping for it to be more EOIV than Untold. Very little story, fully customizable characters, harder enemies, and hopefully that moon isn't for show!

(EOIII had sea travel, then EOIV had air travel, so EOV will have...space travel? That makes sense, right?)

@Spoony_Tech Yeah, I also loved the overworld + smaller separate dungeons in IV. As much as I love that game though, prefer the large choice of classes in Untold 2 - my favorite in the series right now. I also like the Cafe from Untold 2 much more than the food system in IV, which i barely even used since you had to go search for new food every trip. + Some subtle touches like Take/Chop/Mine map icons changing depending whether they were depleted or not, better auto-route drawing, etc...

@World Oh god, me too! EOIV evolved the series in the right direction: it made the in-game world more fleshed out and fully realized without undermining several aspects of the series that people loved about it in the first place. It had a stronger narrative focus, but this was intelligently worked into your interactions with other characters and not foisted on you with long scenes of people standing around and talking.

The EO Untold games seem to be trying to turn the EO experience into more of a traditional JRPG.

I'd be happy if Atlus expanded even further on fleshing out the in-game world (space travel, as you said, could be an absolutely fantastic way to accomplish this, although I'd also be happy with having a larger continental overworld to explore) and included more innovative, puzzle-like dungeon design like they did in Persona Q.

What I'm afraid they're going to do is launch Etrian Odyssey V: Story Mode at us, instead.

After playing and never finishing Persona Q, I'm too terrified to give the Etrian series another go. I also stopped playing the first Etrian after several hours.

I know these games are supposed to be tough, but maybe its too much for me, and I really like dungeon crawlers. The ones on PS Vita are more appealing to me at the moment.

@Spoony_Tech Yeah, it can't be stated enough how many good changes Persona Q made to the EO system. The dungeons felt more filled with life, the puzzles were (in my opinion) more clever, and the map-making was refined without making it too simple. EO2U already incorporated some of these improvements, and I'm hoping EO5 will keep improving on it.

@antipop621 To be fair, even I as an EO 'veteran' so to speak, thought that from the third dungeon on Persona Q got very tough very fast. ...Then again I have yet to finish the third dungeon, not because of the difficulty, but because it's a ghost-themed level and I am a scaredy-cat, haha.
Etrian Odyssey games since Untold 1 have had an Easy difficulty which should help you get through it without too much trouble (if you can swallow your pride, that is ) whilst still keeping some challenge.

I've been watching for updates with this game like a hawk since the last update. Now, if only the Famitsu info came with some sample tracks for the Etrian V, everything would be golden!

Thank God for Atlus. They're the Ozu of video games.

@CapricornDavid Persona Q did get difficult in that area but it also gets a bit broken as well. There's a couple of moves you can do and it works on nearly every monster and even most bosses. It even works on the final boss which made that fight easier then I even want to imagine. Still it was a wonderful game.

@Ralizah Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of too. I know I'll buy it anyway and hope for the best, but likely won't care about a sixth entry if V turns out to be just a regular JRPG with slightly harder monsters.

I liked what story was added to EOIV, but I think any more than that would be too much and take away from what makes Etrian special.

@Yorumi While I loved EOIV (and not so much Untold), I agree with you. It was easy by EO standards, but I felt that the improvements (better world map system, mostly) more than made up for that. Here's hoping EOV will either be harder or at least have a difficulty slider that allows for the game to be "Etrian" hard.

As great as the EO series is, I'm not really excited about a new one. There's not much to see so far, and this was teased so early back that I had hoped for something more then EOIV+++. Weird situation.

@Yorumi I completely agree with you! Sliders are kind of a band-aid, and they don't really account for a lot of the more minute aspects of what made Etrian interesting in the first place.
I did the same thing that you did in EOIV (although the post-game kind of pleasantly took me by surprise at first). I just worry that now that Atlus has tasted that relatively mainstream audience money, they probably won't go back to just making the games hard and sliders are probably all we'll get.

How about Untold III while we wait for V? I know, I'm a broken record.

I'm so hyped for this game!! There are going to be races you can pick from and a variety of classes, like, wow this is just sounding too good to be true!

@Spoony_Tech I'm going to have to research those moves online later. I tend to play this game with my favourite characters instead of characters with good synergy, and I am hopeless with Persona Fusion, haha.
...And then I'm going to have to continue that third dungeon.
...In a well-lit room. With other people nearby. And loud music playing.

@Yorumi @World 9 There's some more info if you haven't seen it yet. Check out forum post 16 from @Ralizah. There's a good core of us Etrian fans on the site it seems.