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Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight
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Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight (Japanese: 新・世界樹の迷宮2 ファフニールの騎士 New Labyrinth of the World Tree 2: The Fafnir Knight) is a dungeon-crawler RPG for the Nintendo 3DS, released in Japan in November 2014, in North America in August 2015, and in Europe in February 2016. It is a remake of Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard, the second game in the series, the overall sixth title in the Etrian Odyssey series, and the third entry for the Nintendo 3DS.
Story
(The synopsis primarily covers the plot of Story Mode. The plot of Classic Mode remains similar to the DS release.)
The plot focuses on The Protagonist, a swordsman chosen by the Midgard Library to travel to High Lagaard to lend his skills to escort the princess Arianna to perform an ancient ritual. Accompanying him is Flavio, a survivalist under the Midgard Library's employ, to aid in traversing the labyrinth. After a formal meeting with Arianna herself in the initiation trial, they journey to the Ginnungagap Ruins, where they team up with Bertrand and Chloe before the protagonist awakens to his powers as the titular Fafnir Knight. Now, to understand the depths of this newfound power, the party alternates between progressing up the Labyrinth and down the Ginnungagap Ruins to fulfill their primary objective of conducting Arianna's ritual.
Gameplay
There are two gameplay modes: Classic and Story. Classic mode works in the same manner as previous Etrian Odyssey entries, having custom characters and maps. Story mode has an expansive story with cutscenes and preset characters with voice acting, but players still have to draw out their own dungeon maps. The game also has three difficulty settings: Picnic which gives an easy gameplay experience, Normal for a moderately difficult but manageable gameplay experience, and Expert for the toughest gameplay experience possible.
Gameplay Changes
- Choose between Story Mode, which has a fixed party that includes the unique Fafnir class, or Classic Mode, where you can create your own party.
- You can also recruit Sovereign characters into your Guild in Classic Mode. The Highlander class from Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl is available as DLC.
- The Story-focused Ginnungagap Ruins is available in Classic Mode.
- DLC quests introduce ways to get large amounts of money or experience, and new strong optional bosses to challenge.
- Help Regina improve her restaurant business by unlocking recipes and creating dishes from ingredients found in the labyrinth. Good business brings in great monetary rewards and invites other adventurers to trade their Grimoire Stones.
- Complete mapping of a floor is rewarded with the Floor Jump ability that instantly transports you to a properly-marked staircase in explored sections of the labyrinth.
Persistent Changes
- Enemy analysis screen now displays their vulnerabilities to ailments and binds.
- You now have eight colors to choose between for floor tiles.
- Correctly-placed chest icons now indicate if that chest has been opened.
Force Boost and Force Break
- Main article: Force Boost and Force Break
The Force Skills from Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard have been revised. Each class now possesses two unique skills: Force Boost and Force Break.
With a full Force Gauge, the party member can initiate their Force Boost, which is a three-turn state that does not take up a buff slot. Once the Force Boost expires, the gauge empties and the combatant needs to fill it back up to trigger it again. Force Break is a powerful move available only during Force Boost, but in exchange for using it, the character's Force Gauge is disabled, preventing them from using either Force Boost or Break until the party leaves the dungeon.
Grimoire Stones
- Main article: Grimoire Stones
Grimoire Stones have been revamped in this game to reduce most of the randomness associated with the system.
Grimoire Stones now only contain one skill (and one optional passive bonus), and each character can only equip one Grimoire Stone at a time, though this capacity increases by one every 10 levels, capping off at six Grimoire Stones for a level 50 character. If a character equips a Grimoire Stone with a skill matching a class skill they have already learned, the Grimoire Stone's skill level is added to the class skill's level, leading to skills potentially reaching level 20, significantly stronger than what is conventionally obtainable.
Grimoire Stones no longer take up space in the inventory, and on generation, you immediately see who generated it and what skill it contains, and the level of that skill is revealed at the end of battle. Grimoire Stones are only generated during Grimoire Chances, with variations that dictate what skills the Grimoire Stones are more likely to have. Grimoire Fevers can trigger as well, generating multiple consecutive Grimoire Chances.
Excess Grimoire Stones can also be traded, either with NPC adventurers who visit the restaurant or with other players via Guild Cards. You can also trade a collection of Grimoire Stones with the Recycle function to get a random stone of equivalent quality, in case desirable trades are not available.
Locations
High Lagaard
- Flaus Inn - Rest and save here
- Sitoth Trading - Buy and sell goods here
- Renovating Shop - Prepare food and manage Grimoires here. Also manage communications settings here. This can be renamed by the player
- Stickleback Bar - Manage quests here
- Explorers Guild - Organize your guild here
- Duke's Palace - Receive missions here
- Forest Entrance - Proceed to the forest's entrance
The Labyrinth
- Forbidden Wood (Post-game)
Ginnungagap
Classes
The base game of Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight features a total of 14 playable classes, the second-highest number after Etrian Odyssey Nexus. One class, the Fafnir, is wholly unique to the game, and another, the Sovereign, is borrowed from Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City, while the others return from Etrian Odyssey. A fifteenth class, the Highlander from Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl, appears as downloadable content.
- Landsknecht
- Front line warriors proficient with swords and axes, able to dish out damage and take punishment. Landsknechts gain a new ultimate skill at the end of their sword and axe mastery trees, and gain a few new tricks involving dealing critical hits.
- Survivalist
- These swift archers make use of a feature unique to the game: AGI-based damage skills. Survivalists can now act fast and dish out strong damage, on top of gaining a deadly skill with perfect accuracy should they successfully dodge an attack.
- Protector
- Well-armored defenders who have the highest HP and VIT among the cast, along with a slew of skills designed to protect their allies. Their shield skills also partially calculate off their VIT stat when they need to go on the offensive.
- Dark Hunter
- Dark Hunters are experts in disabling enemies, between whip skills that can bind down their targets, or sword skills that inflict ailments. They gain new passives that improve their ailment accuracy.
- Medic
- The healing specialist retains the strongest healing suite among the cast. They now have a potent skill that turns excess healing into a temporary HP buffer, and have a new offensive skill that makes the most of a party in very good shape.
- Alchemist
- Alchemists retain their diverse means of inflicting elemental damage, but have now developed a Palm branch in their skill tree that allows them to inflict cost-effective elemental damage while in the front row.
- Troubadour
- The bards retain their large suite of buffs that augment the party, with special emphasis to their elemental Preludes and Fantasia which can enable massive burst turns.
- Ronin
- These strong but fragile swordsmen have yet another revision to their stance skill set. Now, they assume their stances through special attack skills, Stances no longer take up a buff slot, and full mastery of a stance allows them to begin the battle in it automatically. Their Peerless Stance which combines all three also gains a new combo skill that unleashes their best skills in succession, in exchange for ending that Stance.
- Hexer
- Hexers retain their specialization in inflicting debuffs and ailments. They can also improve their infliction chances by binding themselves, and they can situationally revive multiple fallen allies with side effects.
- Gunner
- Gunners go from being slow and inaccurate to being fast damage dealers, as most of their attack skills now calculate off their very high AGI stat. Compared to Survivalists, Gunners are more focused on dealing damage, and while they can still bind with careful snipes they are not as good as the specialists.
- War Magus
- War Magi received a major overhaul in this remake. Their new War Heal skills are not as strong as a Medic's skills, but stand out by activating at the start of turn, before enemies act, and end of turn, to patch up damage after the action. Their sword skills, now compatible with sword or staff, are termed War Edge skills and have bonus effects that trigger on enemies with any ailment, not just specific ones. While they still would need a party member for assistance, they have gained some independence through their own ailment-inflicting skill or their Force Boost.
- Beast
- Beasts also received an overhaul to make them better tanks. Their Loyalty Mastery no longer influences the chances of them intercepting an attack, but instead provides a chance for them to halve incoming damage. Any tanking is solely player-controlled, and they can instantly heal themselves after taking a hit to extend their survivability.
- Sovereign
- Hailing from Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City, Sovereigns retain their role of deploying buffs and purging debuffs, with slightly stronger line-based buffs to differentiate from Troubadours. New to their skill set is Link Order, which lets them follow-up on their allies' elemental skill by triggering an attack with the matching element, and elemental Circles, which give a one-time surge in elemental damage output.
- Highlander
- Hailing from Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl, Highlanders are only available through DLC, and have their skill tree largely unedited from their game of origin.
- Fafnir
- The class unique to this game and available only on the Story Mode's protagonist. The Fafnir Knight is designed around inflicting massive amounts of elemental damage through his unique Force Boost that transforms his appearance and alters his skills. He has a branch in his skill tree focused on managing his Force Gauge, and learns several skills unique only to his transformations through defeating certain plot-important bosses.
Characters
In addition to characters from the original Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard, Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight introduces several new characters, mostly in the Story Mode party:
Story Mode party
- An orphan born and raised at the Midgard Library. Through one of his missions, he discovers he has the power to transform into something... altogether inhuman.
- As the princess of Duchy of Caledonia, her duty is to perform the centennial ritual. Well-mannered and gentle, but having grown up rather sheltered, she can be somewhat naive... or just oblivious.
- The Hero's childhood friend, and a member of the Midgard Library's Investigation Team. Sociable and always ready with a smile, he keeps his comrades' spirits up. He often ends up playing the straight man to his somewhat more peculiar colleagues.
- A knight met while traveling through Ginnungagap Ruins for the ritual. Apathetic, ambivalent and eager to stay away from anything requiring actual effort, he makes for a bizarre exploring companion. He's hardly the sort of man you'd expect to be a Protector.
- A War Magus traveling together with Bertrand. She doesn't say or express much, and she refuses to get involved in anything that doesn't interest her. A true eccentric. She doesn't appear to have any filter between her thoughts and her words, but she means well.
Development
Reception
Selling 59,531 copies in the first week of release in Japan, Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight has received positive critical reception from reviewers.
Trivia
- This game is a remake of Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard
- This game is the second of two Nintendo 3DS remakes with the other being Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl
- This is the second game in the series to have a story mode
- This game introduces the Fafnir class
- This game has a different Grimoire System compared with Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl
In other languages
Gallery
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The European box artwork. -
The Japanese box artwork.
References
External links
- New Labyrinth of the World Tree 2: The Fafnir Knight official Japanese website
- Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight official North American website
- Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight on Wikipedia
- Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight Strategy Guide on StrategyWiki
- Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight on the Nintendo Wiki
