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What? Etrian Odyssey Nexus is a dungeon-crawler turn-based JRPG developed by Atlus and published by Sega. Released in Japan on August 2nd, 2018, and in North America and Europe on February 5th, 2019, EON is the final Etrian Odyssey game on the 3DS, which makes sense, because the 3DS is rapidly approaching end of life. In the spirit of being the final game on the console which really propelled the series from being very niche to not as niche, EON is a celebration of the series so far, with a whopping 19 classes, all but one of which return from previous games, and a selection of Labyrinth locales from previous games alongside a few new ones (though all but a very small amount of the layouts are new). Why? Because I love this series, and because EON is a celebration of it. I prepared myself for this LP for a while by means of the Japanese version, so even though we're a mere day out from the NA release date at time of writing, I'm ready to go. Don't worry about my EOU LP, by the way, it'll be finished up as I'm doing this one, though given lower priority since it's pretty close to the end. Who? Besides myself, joining me will be a few friends of mine: Reco, who also co-commentates EOU with me, Angel, my co-writer and EOU co-commentator as of very late, and Afilitaria and Mutie, new members of our team. Oh yeah, all of the narrative characters were contributed by members of the EO LP Discord, which is a cool place for cool people and you should totally join it so you can listen to me babble about these drat games. And also babble yourself about these drat games, if that's your thing. Where? Glad you asked. Oh, by the way, no spoilers. At all. Got it? Table of Contents Update 1: The Aeon Guild Update 2: Revere the First Adventurers Update 3: Hedge Trimming (Blossombeast) Update 4: Palmtree Panic Zone 1 Update 5: More of the Same that was the Same Last Time Update 6: Pulling it Off With the Pump Sisters Update 7: The Cat Says "Borp" Update 8: Descending Bear 2nd Labyrinth Bosses Overview Update 9: Smash Attack Update 10: Wait, What Fairies? Update 11: Uuuuuuuuuuuuuugh Update 12: Jade Jungle, This is Not Update 13: Squirrely Dragon Wyvern Overview Update 14: Why are Wyvern's Wings so Veiny, Anyway? Update 15: If I Ever See This Stupid Rock Again, It'll Be Too Soon Class Overviews Common Passives Hero Protector Survivalist Medic Ronin Highlander Gunner Sovereign Ninja Zodiac Farmer Shogun Arcanist Imperial Pugilist Harbinger Other Etrian Odyssey Things rhematic.net, where my EO5 and EOU LPs are hosted. That EO2U LP I did forever ago. An ongoing LP of EO1, by Crosspeice, with co-commentary from Dr. Fetus and I. An LP of EO2, by Dr. Fetus. An LP of EO3, by Dr. Fetus. The EO Megathread. Rea fucked around with this message at 05:53 on May 28, 2019 |
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Hero 1: Ashley (by Angel) quote:Born to a lineage of heroes with incredible powers, Ashley Protagonist has had a glowing golden eye her whole life. It's not exactly clear why Ash inherited the powers, but not her brother. It's possible that it's because she was the firstborn, or because of her kindness. Or maybe it's just fate. But that's silly. Hero 2: Cason (by Rea) quote:If you asked Cason what his profession is, he'd instantly respond 'Dark Hero.' If you asked him 'what's the difference between a Hero and a Dark Hero,' he'd stare at you intensely until you retract the question. If you asked him why he's a Dark Hero instead of a normal Hero, he'd clam up and walk away. Survivalist: Sharpe (by BlackPersona) quote:"I'm Sharpe! I'm from Et- uh, I mean, I'm from the mainland! I wanted to join your Guild because I heard that you were a Hero! And I think that's awesome, and I wanted to learn about bein' brave and fearless and cool like you guys! Me, I'm not that cool, but I wanna be! I'm good with a bow, my m-mom taught me when I was young! I can show you later, if you want! Uhh, more about me, more about me... I'm quick on my feet, because I've been helping my mom hunt since I was eight! Yeah... Since I was eight... Protector: Holly (by Paradox Roxy) quote:The daughter of a noble family, born and raised to be wed to a princertain of high esteem, master of all types of weapons, and destined to be Ronin: Kyoko (by Angel) quote:A globetrotter, Kyoko has explored nearly every corner of the world. Whilst most Labyrinths are simply too harrowing for a lone artist, she nevertheless has accrued quite an impressive tally in fulfilling her wanderlust. She has plunged into the depths of Ginnungagap, joined the Highlanders in hunting and exploring in the wilderness, sailed nigh-on every corner of the seas of Armoroad, traversed the four lands of Tharsis, and more. As an artist by trade, she always seeks inspiration. A life-or-death struggle awakens indescribable feelings, and beautiful, strange, or disturbing vistas bring forth contextless descriptions. You merely need to put them together, and make a piece out of them. Medic: Heath (by Spiderpig/Toyo), accompanied by Friedrich (by Rea and Angel) quote:A wolf is quite loyal to those who are wise, and Heath is no exception. Unlike most wolves, Heath usually carries around a decent lot of stuff with him, most of which being medical tools with some alterations for... Well, being a wolf. How he learned to use the types of tools in the first place isn't exactly certain, but what is certain is that he's one hell of a good service wolf. He's somewhat protective, but that's just how he is when he sees people he likes being hurt. And trust me, he likes a lot of people. quote:Friedrich is a fat cat. He's Heath's traveling companion (boyfriend? maybe? it's a bit hard to tell with animals). Sometimes he appears to hand bandaids to Heath? Mostly he just sort of sits on Heath's back and...converses? with Heath. "Conversation" between those two being more akin to back-and-forth barks and nyurms. Gunner: Sophian (by Snacks) quote:Sophian hails from a town not too close to High Lagaard, far to the west, known as "Nice." War Magus: Lavi (by TollingBells) quote:Full Name: Queen Lavi Othniel, 'The Lioness' Highlander: Adan and Abby (by Wakujuz) quote:For a whole week Adan had been having strange dreams; a fierce woman in warrior's garb, the signature spear of their people held with practiced ease. These dreams left him feeling heated and tired, worn out as if he's run all day and soaked in sweat. On the seventh day the dream abated and he awoke refreshed, but the back of his hand sported a swirling brand of quicksilver. His life was never the same. Sovereign: Edelvale (by Afilitaria) quote:Once upon a time, there existed a pair of kingdoms, no short distance from Etria. Shogun: Chihaya (by Endorph) quote:Chihaya's clan - the Tadakata clan - have been protectors of the world since ancient times, with the eldest child being taught every sword technique they've accumulated over the years, before being passed onto the next generation. That eldest child will then travel the world, righting great wrongs and checking in on areas of magical interest, before settling down and having a child to pass onto the next generation. Thus, the family's traveled far from their home, and Chihaya has no idea what country she's descended from. Zodiac: Trinity (by Plutia) quote:Born to an arrogant alchemist that wasn't all that good at their job. It didn't take long for him to find out (much to his displeasure) that his daughter was a heck of a lot better at his whole 'alchemy' thing than they were. One heck of a bad relationship later, Trinity escaped. She tries to distance herself from this past as much as possible, to the point of abandoning her alchemic talents in favor of astrology. Ninja: Amatsu (by Jade Rider) quote:Amatsu was born into a prestigious ninja family, trained rigorously for years, and never really questioned their life of rigid structure and rules. One day, however, on a break from their teachings, Amatsu was sidetracked by a group of traveling performers putting on a show. It didn't take long for them to be enthralled by it all, and after receiving whatever official ninja designations they had in their hometown, Amatsu drafted a carefully thought out letter to their parents... Farmer: Lilian (by Somebody Else) quote:Rumored to be a descendant of the legendary chef Apicius, Lilian displayed unparalleled talent in the arts of a chef from a very early age. Graduating from her homeland's premier culinary academy at the age of fifteen (a feat purportedly achieved by only two before her), she could have apprenticed under any master chef she chose. But, while touring the restaurants of the world to make her choice, her complaint was the same no matter where she went and what she tasted: as tastefully prepared and seasoned as the dishes might have been, the ingredients just weren't fresh enough. Even when the chefs protested that they had been gathered just that day, Lilian wouldn't have it; the food just didn't "taste right" to her. Landsknecht: Astra (by Andrew) quote:Born into a family of mages who helped run the Vental Kingdom magic university Astra was read childrens stories about the legendary adventures of heroes which sparked an interest bordering on obsession within her. Nightseeker: Aina (by Tyty) quote:An adventurer who describes herself as a fallen angel. She's completely obsessed with relics of the ancient world, particularly those from Etria, and believes that anime openings and j-pop were actually ancient warsongs holding great power. She aims to collect as many as possible, and adorns her living quarters with strange statuettes of busty women in bikinis. Arcanist: Nadym, with Magna-Calcula (by Awe) quote:Once an ordinary if irritable scholar of mathematics, Nadym was thrust into turmoil when a sinister organization launched an ultimately successful plot to discredit and eventually destroy his university. Trusted with his mentor's magical arm-mounted computer Magna-Calcula, he must learn the arts of combat geometry that his mentor was developing in secret in order to win a new life. Imperial: Runa (by Tyty) quote:An imperial engineer sent to Armoroad to research the Yggdrasil there, but she gave up on that almost immediately. She opted to research yggdroids and their culture instead. She's incredibly fascinated by robotics and machinations. After receiving news that her duties searching for a way to awaken the yggdrasil in her homeland were no longer needed, she decided to travel the world searching for more machines to study. Pugilist: Syrel (by Ciel) quote:A young girl who had thought about being a Necromancer before realizing that none of them have any fashion sense, she now dresses like a vamp and practices fighting with her body, attempting to hone an art where people can wear decent clothes and still fight effectively, while searching for the mythical secret to truly becoming a vampire, in part because what she knows of vampires is that they're physically blessed, and that means she can be even better as punching! Harbinger: Yukiko and Maru (by Afilitaria) quote:Once upon a time, there was tale of a dragon's blood that made such a powerful medicine, that it was guaranteed to be a cure for any and all diseases and wounds. However, this dragon was also infamous for its unsatiable hunger, its never-ending desire for destruction... Rea fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Mar 9, 2019 |
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werbear posted:During the fish event my gunner just shot the fish. I was wondering what would happen if you had no ranged physical class and the LP already answered that for me. There's a lot of different variations of that event. Namely, there's a Survivalist one (fires an arrow), a Highlander one (throws their spear), a Gunner one like you said, a Zodiac one (electrocutes the water, which damages the person in the water), and an Imperial one (fires their Drive Blade at the fish).
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2019 22:33 |
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ZeButler posted:Are you using a Beast portrait from EO2U for Heath? That's great. Yes! EON lets you use every portrait in the series by means of DLC. ...Though Heath's portrait could've been inserted without the DLC, due to how I modify my games for LPs. Also, here's Friedrich's full art: He was drawn by Afilitaria, who also came up with and drew Edelvale. He's, fairly obviously, straight-up borrowed from Final Fantasy 14's Fat Cat.
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2019 04:36 |
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tithin posted:There's an etrian discord server? The EO LP Server basically functions as one. It's linked in the OP. There's one for the r/EO subreddit, but it's, uh, not great. (I used to be in it but I left after the members continually refused to understand why "trap" is a slur against trans women despite me explaining it several times, among a lot of other things.)
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2019 09:29 |
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tithin posted:Assume I'm really stupid, and couldn't see it either in the first episode of the LP, the first post in the thread, or the first post in the megathread... It's in the first post of this thread, under the "Who?" section. And yeah, that server was a shitpit, a crossover of the worst parts of reddit Gamers and 4chan Gamers. But they're not what this thread is about!
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2019 10:15 |
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Omobono posted:I'm liking this cast. How old are the Protagonists? Cason is 18, Ashley is 34.
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2019 21:53 |
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Oh dear. Something happened to the LP save while I was recording update 3. I wonder what this means...
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2019 00:53 |
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Update 2.
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2019 23:27 |
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Update 3.
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2019 22:54 |
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The Hero overview.
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2019 06:40 |
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Oublietteer posted:Is Cason going to be a sword Hero and Ashley the shield Hero? Yup yup. We originally had two Heroes for different reasons, but after we actually saw the Hero skills we decided to make the two split by sword/shield.
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# ¿ Feb 19, 2019 03:35 |
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The Farmer overview.
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# ¿ Feb 24, 2019 06:33 |
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The Survivalist overview.
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# ¿ Feb 27, 2019 05:48 |
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Update 4.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2019 02:34 |
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SimplyUnknown1 posted:Just out of curiousity, did Adan travel a lot before Abby joined him? Because that would surprise me a bit. His bio made him sound like he stayed in his hometown. Gotta go a lot of places if you're gonna be a multi-talented baker.
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freshlybaked posted:I don't understand head binds that come from sound attacks like Harsh Buzz. Is it disorientating you so badly that you can't think straight? You think you wouldn't even be able to move at all if that was the case. I've been replaying EO5 recently, and a bunch of the music there causes nostalgia in me. At least yours is from later than not even 3 years ago.
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InwardChaos posted:I'm in the process of playing this game myself, so it will be interesting to see different strategies against bosses/FOEs than what I use. (I'm using a single balanced exploration party, with other classes for conditionals/gathering/etc.) I'm so used to EO4, which had nothing like that icon. I also just don't map them because what use are they when they're gonna get destroyed shortly after you see them? That's my excuse, anyway.
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 07:59 |
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The Imperial overview.
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2019 06:45 |
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Update 5.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2019 00:24 |
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Sordas Volantyr posted:Gonna be honest, didn't realize Nadym was a lady at first. He's not.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2019 23:24 |
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Oublietteer posted:Just, what’s Abby’s deal? Is she a ghost or what? She's a warrior who died long before Adan was born. Her soul got put into Adan's body, alongside his own, by Mystic Nonsense.
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# ¿ Mar 9, 2019 01:47 |
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Crosspeice posted:All of the characters (and their creators!) are on the table of contents for the LP, found here. I'll definitely be referring back to it on occasion, mad props to Ragnar to be willing to juggle this many characters. Oh. Right. I should...import that to the reserved post. Whoops. e: I did that now. Rea fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Mar 9, 2019 |
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The Gunner overview.
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2019 00:54 |
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Thuryl posted:The answer is yes: Multi-Shot can either trigger on the first attack (in which case it does full damage) or on the bonus attack from the force boost effect (in which case it does reduced damage, same as the bonus attack itself). I wasn't aware of that, actually! IIRC, in 2U, Multi-Shot (then Double Action) did not activate at all while Double Action (then Action Boost) was active, so I was unsure.
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2019 04:04 |
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The Zodiac overview.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2019 08:41 |
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I messed up the speed mods: Ice Star is 100%, Volt Star is 120%. I'll fix it tomorrow.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2019 09:52 |
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Update 6.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2019 03:47 |
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The Medic overview.
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The Ronin overview.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2019 01:21 |
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The Pugilist overview.
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2019 04:18 |
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Argent Cinereus posted:I'm mostly wondering if Double Punch works with One-Two since that calls the actual bind skills. Might make it less of a SP sink with that damage drop. It doesn't.
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2019 05:25 |
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The common passives overview. Yeah, I know, it's boring. It's necessary, though.
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2019 03:53 |
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Are HP and TP Up supposed to be on there twice? Yes. The player skills HP Up and TP Up are distinct from the equipment skills HP Up and TP Up.
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2019 04:03 |
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The Arcanist overview.
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werbear posted:I feel like I'm missing something - why do the weapon passives go to level 7, 8 or 9 when you can only forge weapons to +5? Any given weapon has a different level that its skill starts at. The maximum is that starting point plus 4 (because you need to use one forge on activating the skill). The arrows aren't consistent from skill to skill, unlike EO5.
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2019 10:02 |
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Update 7.
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2019 14:39 |
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The Sovereign overview.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2019 07:44 |
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Update 8. Voting for the boss is currently ongoing in the LP server!
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# ¿ Mar 23, 2019 23:39 |
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The Highlander overview.
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