Etrian Odyssey is with every ounce of its being an RPG fanatic's wet dream. The game makes no excuses for the player, demanding that you strategize every step of the way, whether it's in recruiting new characters, divvying out items and level up points, or taking a branching path in dungeons. The map making portion of the game is detrimental for survival, though it's something that is merely an aspect of gameplay, and nothing that the game truly hinges on. You'll have sections to clear away for missions, or areas that need to be explored, but mainly the bottom screen is used as your notepad, and you're expected to use it as such. The game's core mechanic is one we've seen and played for over 20 years, dating back to the earliest of PC titles that literally had players making notes on a pen and paper while playing, and it's a great title for the hardest of hardcore DS players. Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and even other Atlus titles don't have the guts to embrace this audience of gamer anymore, so if you fit in that group of elder role-playing junkies this is an absolute must on the system.
Full review by Bozon of IGN.
Atlus's latest financial report reveals a net loss of over 900 million yen. Despite this, Atlus states its overall business sales have been strong.
Unfortunately that wasn't caused by a lack of sales. So they will mostly likely not expand their multiplatform catalog.
"Bring the P5R to the Switch" comments will show up in the following hours for sure
Nothing. It's just in every articles that includes Atlus, there's always some people begging for it to be release on the Switch. Sorry it's just funny. They begged for a Persona game, now they have it. Persona 5 "Scramble"
That amounts to about 8 million dollars.
The loss is more because of all they have in production, so bringing a game to switch may cost them around a million, at which they'd probably return 4-5 million, which means less of a loss.
But, because of the way corporate finances are determined, it means they may have better profits in the future, as money would have been written off this year, instead of the year of release.
Looks like someone didn't actually read the article. The posted loss is just them posting amortization from their business transfer to Sega. Their sales helped Sega this year.
With Persona 5 Royal launching this year then coming next year in N.A. their sales will be better than this year so no worries they'll be more than fine.
Looks like someone didn't actually read my comment: "Unfortunately that wasn't caused by a lack of sales".
That doesn't exactly disprove that great games sell well either - they didn't say ONLY great games sell well.
That's neither here nor there.
The loss is essentially from loan repayments following the Sega acquisition.
their great games are kinda spaced out, they really waste time and probably money making filler games in between.
I would have been worried if their sales weren't strong. Honestly Persona 5 is one of the best games ever made and it would be a blow to gaming if they stopped making similar games
Back in 2007, Atlus decided to use the Nintendo DS to do something ambitious. It brought back the days of first-person RPGs with original party members you had to customize and dungeons you needed to map. Thanks to the handheld's design, the bottom screen allowed people to practice cartography as they played. Since then, 10 games have been released, each bringing something new to adventurers.
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