Labyrinth Of Galleria: The Moon Society Dungeon Crawls Onto Switch In 2023

Instabuy! labyrinth of Refrain was a bomb!

Finally! I have been waiting on this one!

I'm in. Without Etrian Odyssey on the system, I have to get my dungeon crawling kicks, somehow!

Well, looks like another game getting added to the wishlist. I enjoyed Refrain.

Haven't played a DRPG before, any recommendations to play before this game arrives?
I already play RPG and JRPG, so I guess I just have to adjust to the dungeon mechanics.

Yay! I loved Labyrinth of Refrain! The art of the puppets you control is gorgeous and the monsters are either cute as well or more likely completely hideous! The game as a whole has a great, Disgaea-ish witch aesthetic and mixes some comedic scenes with some gruesome, bitter ones. And I'm sure this one will keep up the quality! I just hope I can make time for it when it realises. I still need to do Refrain's first ending.
I believe Refrain has a demo if anyone wants to try it out! It's how I was convinced to buy the full game. People might compare it to Etrian Odyssey, but I very much prefer this series. Persona Q on the 3DS does EO better than EO itself too, in my opinion.

I'm not NOT interested.

@JeanPaul If you have a 3DS, any of the Etrian Odyssey games. I'd recommend starting with either of the 'Untold' games.

I'm onboard for this. The first game was good.

@SwitchVogel I do actually hehe, I look for them, thanks! By any chance do you have a suggestion for the Switch too?

@JeanPaul Options are a lot more limited there; the only two I'm aware of are the predecessor to this, Labyrinth of Refrain, and a semi-recent game from Square called Dungeon Encounters.

@SwitchVogel great, I'll check them out too, thanks for the recommendations.

Good, I need a break from Disgaea anyways.

That first screenshot is really making me want to pick up Etrian Odyssey again!

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I tried to like Labyrinth of Refrain (was REALLY missing an Etrian Odyssey entry, and still am) but I just don't appreciate the "skill" system. Labyrinth of Refrain had me spamming basic attacks 99% of the time and that just wasn't really fun. I tend to make very intricate combo-based skill-heavy teams in EO so it just didn't appeal a lot to me really.

@JeanPaul On the Switch, Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi (not related to this series) and Mary Skelter are both good. Mary Skelter 2 has some highly questionable fanservice that I could do without, but it's brief enough and the gameplay is great.

(Also note: MS2 comes with MS1 already on the card, so it's pretty great value if you're into DRPGs at all.)

@SwitchVogel There's actually a few DRPGs on the Switch, including Saviors on Sapphire Wings, Stranger of Sword City, Demon Gaze, Undernauts and the Mary Skelter series. Most of these are from Aksys/Experience or Idea Factory/Compile Heart. I think DRPGs are pretty niche everywhere except Japan at this point (and honestly might be niche in Japan too!), but there are some out there.

I still have to play Labyrinth of Refrain! It's been sitting on the backlog for a rainy day (month?)

I don't know anything about this game, but when I saw the title of the article, my mind immediately went to Castlevania: Gallery of Labyrinth (aka portrait of ruin) and I was a little bit disappointed a second later when I realised that it wasn't that.

But on the other hand, this does look cool. I think I'd want to play the previous one first though.

@EarthboundBenjy I highly recommend it! Labyrinth of Refrain is a very twisted and odd experience! I'd recommend for sure giving it a go if you're looking for a game with a more bizarre and dark sense of humour. Plus the gameplay is pretty great!

@JeanPaul Play the first game Labyrinth of Refrain. Also Mary Skelter series.

Could tell by the thumbnail it was a NIS game.

I've always wanted to try a new DRPG since I haven't played one for probably 15 years, but I'll probably pick one of the different ones up that goes on sale before this ever sees a price I'm okay with.

I know it says spiritual successor, so is it correct to assume this game is in an entirely separate universe from Refrain?

Looks a lot closer to Etrian Odyssey than Labyrinth of Refrain did, I'm probably going to get this.

@Chocobo_Shepherd We probably won't know till release. Till then I'm going to say a firm maybe until the game tells me otherwise. As I have played games in the past that are spiritual sequels, but have still strongly referenced the previous games (hello Xenosaga and Xenogears).

hoping they keep one of my favorite aspects from the first game [aggressively terrible gay witches (positive)]. excited!!!!!!

I'm getting this, Labyrinth of Refrain was/is a underrated gem. Hoping this is just as good.

@Wexter thanks for the info ^_^