#Etrian odyssey 2 untold

[littleeyesofpallas]

Oh fun. we finally get to the pay off on those little piles of rubble that block us but that we can still see over and don't break up the continuity of the room. Flying FOEs with patrol patterns for us to dance around are introduced here.

I'll be honest, it's been so long since I last played EO2 that I don't really remember a lot of the finer details. I would have assumed from what we've seen so far that the flying enemies here should have been, like, beefed up recolors of those pterosaur enemies we saw on the previous level? They are still kicking around of course, along with a new enemy, the "Flying Lizard" which is very clearly some kind of dragonoid. But in fact what we get as new FOEs are these Vampire Bats.

It's a fun theme that we get all aerial enemies, but as ever the question arises "why would nature conspire against man like this?!" Later EO games would lean more into the dynamics of enemies that interact with one another beyond indiscrimiante team ups, but would make more sense for there to be pecking order here. Like it would be kind of cool if some form of little guy might show up in larger flocks as random encounters, but if one was ever left alone, or weakened enough, it could activate some kind of "summon" where a bigger predator monster joins the battle and finishes it off. It'd be a cool if baiting those predators into battle was the only way to encounter them.

Anyway it's weird that the FOE is maybe the smallest looking of the enemies here? Not that they can't be more menacing by having a unique gimmick like healing, but I dunno they just don't feel like they should be the most dangerous thing on this floor? Maybe if they appeared in like a swarm rather than alone, sort of like how the Venom Flies appear as multiple actual bugs per single unit of enemy. A swarm of blood sucking bats chasing you thru the halls, bleeding you out I could understand as a genuine menace.

Speaking of weird non threatening enemies... we also get the Hypnosis Owl added to the line up, and I gott say, I really forgot how just... weird they are? Like... why do they look like that? Why did you abstract the concept of an owl that far from what an owl is? Those colors? That anatomy? What did owls do to deserve this...

Anyway we make it through the maze of flying things to get up to F5. We have a few new encounters added to the randos: Rafflesia and King Snails, flanked by the snails we're already familiar with. I'm always a sucker for a man eating plant, but it's always funny to me how Japanese game devs just have such a fixation on the rafflesia specifically. And yet half the time the monsters or items bearing the name don't even actually resemble the real world corpse flower all that much?? I have no idea why... Like, ecologically they're not native to Japan, and not generally placed in places where tehy are in-world. Anyhow, this one technically has something like a real rafflesia at the core of its design at least, but I've definitely seen ones that are just random flower monsters.

The snail having eyes that aren't at the end of its stalks weirds me out for some reason. i keep looking to the stalks to look it in the "face" only to have to look down and find its weird beady little red eyes peering out of those blackholes. tis unnatural...

Interestingly we do kinda get to run a marathon of FOE fights from all the ones we've seen up until now on previous floors, so that's kinda fun. But then finally we come up on the den of the King of Beasts himself...

[lepospondyl]

[jdrider02]

Art for Twitter of Arianna from Etrian Odyssey having some tea! 🫖

8-9-2024

[friend-of-a-cat]

"Kill them with kindness"

WRONG

DEATH WALL!!!!!!!!!!!

[kujirara]

Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Nuzlocke

This is my first time trying a EO Challange Run. I kinda just wanna see how long it will last, and document my journey.

Ruleset:

Game will be played on Expert Difficulty, Classic Mode.

Only 1 character of each class will be created at the start of the game.

All character’s levels must be kept below the cap for each stratum.

The level cap for each stratum 3x the last floor of the stratum. (15 for 1st stratum, 30 for 2nd, etc).

Once a character dies in combat, they must be released from the guild; if the whole party is defeated/a game over is reached, all 5 characters must be released. Ressucitate, Revive and other revival skills are not allowed.

All characters get a second “life” after a game over during a boss battle, only once per boss per character.

Floor jump not allowed. Ariadne Thread is allowed.

May only reassign SP after defeating a Stratum Boss.

Grimoires are allowed.

Medica, Amrita and other healing itens are allowed.

BUYING Nectar is not allowed. Using it is.

The Plan

For exploration, a Survivalist is a must have. With a ruleset like this, surprise attacks could and will be fatal. Risk Perception and Stalker are needed as fast as possible. Keeping a Protector with Flee could also be useful for random encounters, especially early on, tho both of those can be taken out with Grimoires later.

For the first stratum boss, the plan is simple: Dark Hunter for Leg Bind, Troubador for Flame Fantasia, Alchemist for Ice damage, and Sovereign for Elemental Link and buffs. The last slot would be Survivalist, probably.

Of course all of this is insanely RNG-dependant, and the rules might be bent to better suit my own playstyle, but those are the rules I'm going to plan around. Wish me luck lol

[beardedhandstoadshark]

Thinking about how Flavio is a survivalist while Fafnir is...Fafnir

They're both attackers but one is support + evasion based while the other is going all out in like a nuke

And how Flavio's angsting about being in Fafnir's shadow and his jealousness towards Fafnir's strengh + decisiveness in leu of his lies to avoid confrontation

But that the one single thing Fafnir, the absolute force boost powerhouse, who can slash and bash and buff and debuff both physical and all elemental, can't do

Are ranged stab attacks, evasion, and bind/ailments

Aka all the things that Flavio does

[definitelyimportantpost]

Okay, okay. What. I know you use some out there ingredients in EO2U but this is just absurd. We're really eating the walls and floors now. Did Juggernaut mess y'all up that bad

[your-fave-is-being-blended]

can you please ignore my previous request and blend flavio from etrian odyssey 2 untold instead? thatd be funnier

Flavio from Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight is being blended!!

You cannot save him.

[lacedisc]

[faline-cat444]

Guess this joke managed to last/it's not just a "Mega Evolution" when she becomes Majesty now

[segundaii]

she eated it 💀💀💀

[littleeyesofpallas]

Oh jk! they actually let me dip into the next stratum a little early. I love how EO2's dungeon strata have a seasonal theme. But I won't be nosing around in here just yet, because checking in with the Grand Duchy aside, I've just been itching to get back to the Ginnungagap...

[lepospondyl]

arianna: i can buff my party members or combo their elemental attacks!

flavio: i can deal burst damage, dodgetank, or inflict ailments!

bertrand: i can reduce and nullify incoming damage!

chloe: i can heal the party or further weaken and damage enemies with ailments!

fafnir:

[noctishy]

Rough intro drawings for my EO2/EO2U guild, Ackernei Guild 🌱

[friend-of-a-cat]

I found a wild Flav in my old digital art folder, so this is an offering to the Flavio Etrian Odyssey fans (I love you).

This is so old. I don't even remember when I drew this. Probably, like, four or five years ago? God damn. Anyway, I'm thinking of redrawing it at some point because it's cute and I like it.

[ninesnowfang]

EO2U Ur-Child getting obliterated

First things first, this can go even stronger but i went with a weaker team setup anyways just because i wanted to, optimally i would have had Survivalist, gunner, hexer, troubadour, sovereign but oh well. Secondly this shit was tight, got super lucky that the arm bind lasted that long because i had to squeeze in frailty curse just to get that little bit of extra damage, that would not have been neccesary with gunner instead of Ronin, would also have been a secured kill on turn 5 instead of a kill on turn 6, sovereign would've used a level 20 freeze circle or just link order 2 to go for more damage.