Etrian Odyssey - Blog Posts
Soo uh... Yester-week I was bored in class and started scribbling. Just scribbled!
Then the teacher for my next class cancelled his classes and I came to myself in the library, with a playlist that was about to end and this in front of me:
His name is Tillius and he's a troubadour and earns his living by working in the city library.
> Yes, he is my playable character for a pen and paper rpg.
> No, he is not from dnd. He is from a homebrew game, that a friend of mine is making, based on the video game "Etrian Odyssey"
Played some Mario Paint tonight. Such a wonderful game
God's work đź‘Ź
EOV Voice Dub in EO Nexus Mod
Consider this a sort of follow-up to my Portrait mods from last month.
EOV Voice Dub in EO Nexus Mod
This mod takes the 40 selectable English voices from Etrian Odyssey V and transplants them into Etrian Odyssey Nexus. As Nexus has 60 voice slots, 20 remain as Japanese voices; the 8 'generic' voices which are mostly just grunts were all left alone.
I tried to reorganize them to most appropriately fit their previous 'name' from EOV. For example, Male Voice 16 in EOV was called 'Cheeky', and was assigned Male slot 3, 'Precocious' in Nexus. Some are more fitting than others. Some get to keep the same name (Sultry, Hearty, Militant, Timid). Probably the weakest fit was 'Strict' for the Granny voice (Elderly) from EOV.
This mod also 'removes' all voices for NPCs. Technically, what it does is instead play a silent file instead of their original lines. The music will still get quieter when they speak, but they won't actually say anything.
I ultimately had to make this a packed 'MORI' file, instead of an unpacked files, because while unpacked, it's about 8000 files across 4000 folders, which takes like two-and-a-half hours to move onto a 3DS. It's a bigger filesize this way, but it should only take ten minutes to put onto a 3DS, instead of 130. It's still compatible with other unpacked files, but it won't be with other packed files. Like before, I can't really go into the details of actually setting up a 3DS to be modded, but once you're there, it's not too complicated to get this working.
Now; Nexus and EOV have similar but not identical voice sets. In short, EOV lacks voices for successfully escaping, levelling up, anything Force related, and whatever 'GUEST and GUILD_SEL' are. Nexus lacks lines for waking up from sleep, Union-based stuff, and has less slots for taking L(arge) Damage.
For these cases I improvised with other existing EOV lines. Escaping reuses Avoid lines, Levelling uses Assigning Skill Point lines, Force Boosting uses a mix of Union lines and self-buff lines, and Force Breaks use their equivalent 'standard skill attack' versions. (ie. a Bind/Ailment-inflicting Force Break will use the same lines they'd use then using a Bind skill). Sometimes those might not actually be that great a fit, especially across 40 different voices.
Also, truth be told, I actually never found any way to actually open and play the .SSND files, nor can I actually understand Japanese. Both these factors made me more than a little blind going through this, so there's little to no way I know of to test the work other than to try it directly in game. Whether that makes this mod and the effort it took more impressive or just plain stupid is up to your discretion.
I mean we can just bring back the Arbalist and I'll be happy, lol.
For real though, I hope we have some more non-labyrinth exploration. Preferably something smaller scale and optional compared to III and IV. I like progression centered IN the labyrinth.
If atlus won’t give us EOVI then we have to make it ourselves. In the rbs put your ideas for plots, new classes, labyrinth concepts, and more!! Have fun or smth idk
Appropriate response to any given Golem fight.
Golem fight update
Fuck that guy!
Hello, may I ask what the tree frog method is?
It's a dangerous, ancient technique - capable to be tamed only by the masters of Etrian Odyssey 1 and--
It's this:
On a more serious note: Certain enemies in EO1 can call for reinforcements for an infinite amount of times. You can actually abuse this mechanic and keep one alive for the sole purpose of having more enemies to kill - thus more exp.
Treefrogs aren't the only enemies who can do this, but it's called that way because on Expert/The DS version they were the perfect balance between an easy enemy to fight and a high amount of exp per kill (700~ per frog). With the addition of Picnic mode in HD, not only is it much easier to beat them while (heavily) lowering the risk of dying, but the exp gain and exp cap are both raised to 1k per frog and 32k per fight respectively.
And if you're curious, 32k experience is a guaranteed level up until Level 67 (out of 70).
Not only that, but I'd argue there's an even faster method for leveling up involving the Immoa enemy in the 4th stratum due to them giving way more exp per kill. If people didn't farm those in the original, it's only because they were much more dangerous than treefrogs - an issue that isn't present in HD due to Picnic mode.
Soo yeah: Leveling up in EO1 is very easy to do (even without this strat), and in fact HD makes mechanics like retiring resetting your level almost a non-issue when you can get a character at max level in around 30 minutes tops (or around 3-4 hours if you decide to max a whole, nine-characters guild).
Holy crap—is that a Jack Frost eyepatch on Buccaneer 1???
Is this new for the remake??? Am I the only one who has never noticed this before???
ADDENDUM: According to some of our Megaten brothers on r/EtrianOdyssey, this is actually another demon named Raiho!
Also, glad to see this is finally a reality in EO3HD.
Gonna train up a bomb-ass team so I can help everyone out with their sea quests. Perhaps even my Front Mortar-toting Arbalist/Ninja and Dark Ether-spamming Ninja/Zodiac.
Etrian Odyssey III’s Sea Quests were cool—especially in that you could play them multi player. It is my sincere hope the when EO6 rolls around we can get a similar thing—hopefully with online capabilities!
Aw heck yeah!!
Gotta say that the ingame font didn’t look as bad as I thought it would when I started playing.
So glad someone stepped up—so real for this one.
just a heads up someone already made a font fix for the hd remasters
it seems to be a WIP for now but i tested it out in EO1 and it looks great
a musical adaptation of etrian odyssey would be absolutely terrible
You didn’t have to break my heart on a Wednesday like this….
This is screwed up, ATLUS—what the hell??
Me Going Insane Over a Game I was Teased but has Yet to Come
(People are free to ignore if ya’ll aren’t interested. But I need to get this off my chest.)
It still drives me insane that, despite Atlus dropping a major hint/teaser about Etrian Odyssey 3 Untold, no one ever talks about it.
This showed up on a poll that was linked on their twitter about which of these games fans wanted to be made/brought over a couple years back. I voted in it, for the EO3U to be made and come to the USA.
(For those who can’t read it, the title says “Etrian Odyssey 3 Untold: Wayfarers of Armoroad”)
But it has yet to come. And EO3U wasn’t the lowest one in the poll! That Cathrine game was!! (When I voted) And yet it’s shown up just fine!
It was in the middle upper area of the rankings. I was sure that meant it was gonna come out. I saw the top one (Persona) and the Bottom one show up, but where the hell is my Etrian game?!
I want it! I wanna play it! I want to see how they’ve added to the original and boosted the good things that it had at the start!
Playing the OG version is good, but I am a casual player and this thing kicks my arse regularly. Hands it to me on a silver platter. Which sucks as someone who loves playing games for their stories and seeing everything that the game has to offer. I have to fight tooth and nail for what I can, but I still have yet to finish the first stratum.
(Also, I deeply wish I had the tools that I’d grown used to using from the more recent Etrian games.)
It’s just… I really want to play the game with all the tools/refinement that their teams had put into the series with each new iteration.
(I am also very upset that Odin Sphere never came to Switch either. I wanted to try it since I don’t/didn’t have the one platform I could play it on.)
They’ve made it clear that they had stuff in the works for it, why else would they make a title and box art if they weren’t? I mean, Persona and Cathrine used the exact box-art from their poll in the final version!
Please ya’ll, spread this one around. Share this post off of tumblr. I feel like the only way this is gonna become real is if people make a fuss about it. Especially in places where you know there are people theorizing/talking about it.
There has to be some way to make this happen. And I want it to happen. (And I know other people want it too.)
Well, it’s not much, but I’ve made an Etrian Odyssey 3 Untold soundtrack to ease the fandom’s pain. Has a lot of fan-works and official remixes as well.
Playlist and track list:
So are we gonna wait for ATLUS to release EO3U, or is somebody just gonna mod that themselves??
Etrian Odyssey III’s Sea Quests were cool—especially in that you could play them multi player. It is my sincere hope the when EO6 rolls around we can get a similar thing—hopefully with online capabilities!
I adore Etrian Odyssey’s OST’s, but the boss/final boss tracks kinda... fall flat, y’know?
Thrust the Sword with Pride in the Heart and Their Own Brand of Justice tho??? They go HARD