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Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan

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Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan

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English logo and North American box artwork.

Developer(s)Atlus
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)Daisuke Kaneda
Artist(s)Yuji Himukai
Composer(s)Yuzo Koshiro
Release
  • JP July 5, 2012
  • NA February 26, 2013
  • EU August 30, 2013
  • AU September 12, 2013
Rating(s)
  • CERO: A
  • ESRB: T
  • PEGI: 12
Platform(s)Nintendo 3DS
Preceded byEtrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City
Followed byEtrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl

Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan (Japanese: 世界樹の迷宮IV 伝承の巨神 Labyrinth of the World Tree IV: Great God of Legend) is a dungeon-crawler RPG for the Nintendo 3DS, released in Japan in July 2012, and internationally in 2013. It is the first of five games and three spinoffs in the series released for the Nintendo 3DS.

Story

This section contains some spoilers for this game. Read at your own risk.

The player starts as an adventurer in Tharsis, the city closest to the legendary tree, Yggdrasil. On the request of the Count, you obtain a Skyship and explore several labyrinths on the way to reaching Yggdrasil. Along the way, however, you encounter three other factions, a forest-dwelling race named Vessels and their Medium, an animal person race named Sentinels, and the humans that stayed by Yggdrasil, dubbed the Empire.

As you progress through strata, you learn more about the history of these factions and Yggdrasil – that Vessels and Sentinels were created by humans in the distant past, along with the holy tree, with the intent of bringing fertility back to dead lands, and that this infertility is encroaching again, leading to the Empire seeking out a means of reactivating the tree and sending Logre to Tharsis – and have to stop the Empire and its leader, Baldur. The tree, however, is reactivated, and assumes the form of the namesake titan, for you to stop.

After the game concludes, a new stratum is opened up, allowing players to explore a closed-off quarantine that sheds further light on the history of Yggdrasil, the people who created it, and the environment they found themselves in.

Gameplay

In common with previous games in the series, in Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan, you can create a team with up to five characters to use as you progress through the game. The main gameplay consists of fighting monsters and mapping out each area as you progress with optional quests and items that you can find.

Changes

Similar to some of the changes in Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City, this game expands upon exploring outside of the main labyrinth and has an overworld that can be explored in a skyship and has multiple unique navigational challenges which add puzzle-solving elements to overworld exploration.

For the first time in this series, all monsters are now animated 3D models with designs comparable to the released artwork with FOEs and bosses presented as 3D models in the overworld in this game. Additionally there is no single labyrinth in this game as it is split up into multiple parts in the overworld with caves acting as additional areas of exploration within a given area. The music in this game is also fully orchestrated and no longer uses FM synthesis.

Locations

This section contains some spoilers for this game. Read at your own risk.

Windy Plains

Tharsis

  • Saehrimnir Inn - Rest and save here
  • Berund Atelier - Buy and sell goods here
  • Dancing Peacock - Manage quests here
  • Explorers Guild - Organize your guild here
  • Cargo Wharf - Manage communications settings
  • Mark Grand Court - Receive missions here
  • City Gates - Exit Tharsis to enter a maze, cave or land. Skyship equipment can be changed here

Maze

Lush Woodlands

Caves

Old Forest Mine • Small Orchard • Valley Spring • Dense Bushland

Scarlet Pillars

Maze

Misty Ravine

Caves

Miasma Forest • Moth's Garden • Noisy Marsh

Sacred Mountains

Maze

Golden Lair

Caves

Cramped Nest • Toxic Cave • Underground Lake

Cloudy Stronghold

Mazes

Echoing Library • Forgotten Capital

Hall of Darkness (Post-game)

Caves

South Sanctuary • Windy Archive • Golden Deer Keep


Classes and characters

Main articles: Category:Classes in Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan and Category:Characters in Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan

Etrian Odyssey IV features a total of 10 playable classes. Most classes are similar to those of the first two games in function, with two, the Landsknecht and Medic, being borrowed directly (albeit with different portraits and slightly altered skillsets). Three classes, the Arcanist, Bushi, and Imperial, are unavailable at first and must be unlocked by progressing through the story.

Development

Reception

Trivia

  • This is the first game in the series that was released on the Nintendo 3DS
  • This is the first game in the series to use an orchestrated soundtrack rather than using FM synthesis for music and sounds
  • This is the first game in the series that does not have a single Yggdrasil labyrinth as it is split into several mazes and associated caves
  • This is the first game to render all enemies in 3D including the FOEs which use their 3D battle models wherever they appear
  • The game draw distance is improved

In other languages

Gallery

  • The English logo.
    The English logo.
  • The Japanese logo.
    The Japanese logo.
  • The North American box artwork.
    The North American box artwork.
  • The European box artwork.
    The European box artwork.
  • The Japanese box artwork.
    The Japanese box artwork.

References

External links


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