That's precisely it. Except that I wouldn't call it a mere coat of paint but the meat of the game, i.e. the story and setting. Therein lies a key difference - I don't consider that 'the meat' of a game. I consider gameplay and design to be the meat of it, at least for my experience. The setting can...

On a note: Apparently the new battle portraits in the Hot Spring DLC is only for the two girls. Not going to lie I am a little disappointed by this. I'm not terribly fond of the existance of deliberate "fanservicey" DLC in a series that traditionally avoids going unecessary places... but ...

That's like saying Counter Strike: Global Offensive is part of the Half-Life series. There's no Yggdrasil in Persona Q, therefore it's not EO. First off, there's an extreme difference between FPS engineered to be multiplayer online shooters and ones designed to provide single player campaign experi...

Wait how does Persona Q count as an EO game It is made by the EO team, follows EO conventions (First person, manual mapping, FOEs, stratums, formations, binds, etc.), uses EO's engine with some art style differences, and is literally named Persona Q because EO's Japanese name is often shorthanded t...

Yeah, aside from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon the series has not done very well over here.

That said Atlus hasn't disappointed us to date with EO, so I'm hopeful.

Remaining a secret, huh?



And when the shock wears off, OR SHOULD I SAY

Oh, one last thing, as much as I like EO3, I have to say that I think that making an EOU3 would be kind of redundant, cause honestly I can't see anyone making EO3 better than it is I'd actually just like to see its mechanics reviewed and updated for playability, nevermind any additional content or ...

Edit: Looks like there is one save slot on the rom and 8 slots on SD card according to the last sentence on upper right corner . Different from my expectation and some fun might be taken fun in certain situation, but it's nonetheless an improvement, and I guess my complain can wait until I see the ...

Basically, I've even more fuel to my guess about why the hero can transform.

Also the new area is called "Ginnunga" and you can get a decent look at it from screenshots.

So, have people figured out the story mode character classes? I'm guessing we have a protector, survivalist, and... war mage? hexer? Not sure how much healing support princess will give. I'm pretty sure Chloe is a War Magus. In the original EO2 they were nice healers and (kind of) gimmicky supporte...

Speaking of Bertrand, apparently someone says they've spotted a crest on his armor in cutscenes that's also on Raquna's, or something? And now the theory's going around that Bertrand might be related to Raquna so we might still have a Canadian Protector again.

After completing the main game, I still don't understand the logic of killing the Forest Folk. If anything, we were being invasive. Even Kupala said so. In the original Etrian Odyssey's story, we were indeed the invaders. The forest folk had to go 'cause they were in our way of explorin...

Class advancement? Sort of like what EO4 did, you mean? I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand it let us get cooler skills without letting us blitz through the game, but on the other it was a little hand-holdy... That's basically why I enjoy it, actually. I mean technically, other EO games hav...

ETA more thoughts. No, I don't think that's the Hero transforming into a monster before the final stratum. They wouldn't spoil a twist like that in a trailer. Not what I said at all. It's definitely a battle powerup (Probably his class-specific Limit skill, actually). I just mean storyline-wise it ...

2 was interesting - I'd call it probably the best balanced in the series (there was very little you could do to really break the game, outside of Hexers, making for a very solid challenge), but also so much stuff was carried over from 1 in design that it felt sometimes like 2 lacked much of its own ...