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concluded: "Sure, we're all dying to know what 'La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo' means -- myself included. But it says something about our hobby that even in a week when the biggest-budget, highest-tech game imaginable hits stores, there's a seemingly anachronistic, equally engrossing labor of love available from a
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Featuring no pre-made characters, the title instead requires players to create their own from twelve different character types, each with at least one special skill or aptitude. While only five characters can be in the party at once, up to thirty can be created and kept in waiting back at the "guild
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Within the Grand Duchy of High Lagaard, a crisis has suddenly caused renewed interest in a floating castle which resides high in the clouds overhead. According to the available research, it can be reached by traversing a forested maze, the Yggdrasil Labyrinth, composed of many levels. In an effort
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requires players to slowly make their way up the trunk of a massive magical tree in order to reach a floating castle at the top while completing smaller quests along the way. The tree is represented by a series of vertically stacked levels which are explored one at a time with frequent return trips
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to obtain the mythical "Grail of Kings" said to be kept in the floating palace, the Duke of High Lagaard is now recruiting adventurers in order to explore the labyrinth and discover exactly how to reach the castle. The player takes the role of the leader of one such guild of adventurers.
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hall". Characters can be switched in and out when in town, so if a given specialty is needed for a specific obstacle, the party can be tailored appropriately. The player further customizes characters by allocating skill points to specific skills during level advancement.
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is a tough as nails series, and only the hardest of hardcore RPG fans will get enjoyment out of it". Nonetheless, most reviewers felt that there was a worthwhile experience beneath the difficult and sometimes painful adventure; the
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In classic fashion, players navigate through the forest locales a single "step" at a time, moving and turning in fixed increments. Time passes only when an action is taken, causing movement, encounters, and combat to all be entirely
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originally shipped with a number of gameplay bugs in Japan, but many of these were addressed for the North American release, where the developers were pleased to have additional time to improve the game.
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before adapting it for the DS. Koshiro was left to his own devices in coming up with the score, using only descriptions of the game environments and scenes in doing so.
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review explained: "It's rare to find a game that can sometimes feel like work yet still be enjoyable".
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on June 1, 2023. The remaster is available for purchase separately or alongside remasters of the first
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must maintain their own maps. This is done by using the stylus to manually fashion maps on the DS
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It was the 89th best-selling game in Japan in 2008, selling 145,421 copies.
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The remastered version is based on the Nintendo DS original instead of its
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event on February 8, 2023, Atlus announced that the game will be
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EGM staff (July 2008). "Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard".
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minuscule, hardworking crew with just as much heart as
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received "favorable" reviews according to video game
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Index

Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard

Developer(s)
Atlus
Publisher(s)
JP
NA
Atlus USA
Sega
Director(s)
Programmer(s)
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
Yuzo Koshiro
Etrian Odyssey
Engine
Unity
Platform(s)
Nintendo DS
Nintendo Switch
Windows
JP
NA
Genre(s)
Role-playing
dungeon crawler
Single-player
dungeon crawler
role-playing video game
Atlus

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