Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City
| Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City | |
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North American boxart
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| Developer(s) | Atlus |
| Publisher(s) | Atlus |
| Director(s) | Shigeo Komori |
| Designer(s) | Yuji Himukai |
| Artist(s) | Yuji Himukai |
| Composer(s) | Yuzo Koshiro |
| Series | Etrian Odyssey |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS |
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing, Dungeon crawler |
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Single-player Multi-player via wireless |
| Aggregate score | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 77/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | A- |
| Destructoid | 8/10 |
| Famitsu | 35/40 |
| GamePro |   |
| GameSpot | 7/10 |
| GamesTM | 9/10 |
| GameZone | 7.5/10 |
| IGN | 6/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 8.5/10 |
| Nintendo World Report | 8/10 |
| The A.V. Club | B |
Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City, originally released as Sekaiju no Meikyū III: Seikai no Raihōsha (世界樹の迷宮III 星海の来訪者?), is a 3D dungeon crawler role-playing video game by Atlus for the Nintendo DS. The title was released in Japan on April 1, 2010 and in North America on September 21, 2010. It's a sequel to Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard and is followed by Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan. Players assume the role of a guild leader, adventuring into the labyrinth to fulfill quests.
The game is set in a sea city known as Armoroad, which is surrounded by the beautiful ocean. Armoroad prospered in the ancient time with high-level civilization. However, because of the great earthquake that happened a hundred years ago, the central part of the city sank down into the bottom of the sea, along with its superior technology.
After the "Great Disaster", a labyrinth appeared in the hole of the city created by the earthquake. People from all over the world gathered around Armoroad to find clues that will lead them to the vanished city. Adventurers embarked down into the enormous hole, which devoured most part of the city and the lost technology. Some sought for the truth behind the "Great Disaster", while the others sought the treasures buried deepest under the sea.
This game follows in the footsteps of its predecessors with one screen showing a 3D view of the Wizardry-style dungeon, while the other one shows an overhead display of the map that players must maintain.
Like its predecessors, the game only partially maps the terrain for you. Players make use of a mapping system which lets them freely place icons on a gridded map. These navigation icons can represent sea currents, landmarks, and footnotes of the terrain that players encountered.
In Etrian Odyssey III, there are no pre-made playable characters. Players have to build their own guild by creating characters from a number of different character types (classes). Each class has its own skills and statistics, as well as limits on what equipment the character can wear. Although no more than five characters can be in the player's active party at the same time, up to 30 characters can be added to a guild, and players can switch out characters in town.
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