Etrain Odyssey Information
November 6th, 2006 by Kit Allen
- At the start you can pick several classes: Swordsman, Paladin, Ranger, Medic, Alchemist, Dark Hunter and Bard.
- Cast Maker and Bushido were classes that were there but could not be selected yet.
- You name your character after selecting the class, and you can make a maximum of 5 characters.
- Because the characters you create are your characters, there is no particular main character in the story.
- Instead the story progresses in a third-person perspective much like a novel, which is a departure from how Atlus stories usually take place.
- After assembling your party you can get story quest events from the Rada Administration.
- Skills appear to be pretty important because if you have no skills set up and you explore into the Tree Sea, you can easily die.
- When you’re in the Tree Sea, the bottom screen serves as a grid mapping util which you use to mark the various places where there are events, items, etc.
- There’s a very nice sense of exploration and dungeon crawling.
- Enemies are random, and have their own drops, like in all dungeon crawlers.
- The mapping using the touch screen is pretty intuitive and easy, and well implemented.
- Hopefully these impressions make fans feel better because the game hasn’t had much promotional information or details lately.
- The game will be out in Jan 2007.
Thanks to NeoGAF for the translation.
