so! this months big big releases are fire emblem and etrian odyssey. i dont know anything about fire emblem outside of you can make a cute character to lead your party
meanwhile, in eo4 you can make a whole Grip of cute characters do all your fighting!
big changes from eo3 include:
- No More Farmers! Any class can gather things, and they all have a 1 skill point ability that lets them increase their rare drop rate for gathering or something along those lines.
- Airship! The boat from 3 was nixxed, and replaced by a big-ass blimp. As far as I can tell it functions about the same way but the distance you can travel isn't limited. There are Huge FOEs on the world map though so be careful!!!
- Last but not least, Brand New Classes!!! yay
Classes list shamelessly stolen from other forum
Landsknecht: Physical attacker. Likes to strike first and can increase the power of your party's followup attacks
Fortress: Durable tank. Protects other party members and reduces damage taken by your party
Medic: Healer. A mandatory role in this series, though you can regulate it to a subclass later if'n you please
Sniper: Ranged attacker. Lots of multi-target options, also good at Binding, which prevents enemies from using certain skills
Dancer: Combination group attacker / buffer / healer. Flexible role
Nightseeker: Specializes in status ailments and setting up tons of damage. The girl portraits are freaky
Samurai: Physical attacker. Can self-buff to increase damage. They're like animal dudes (locked)
Runemaster: Magic attacker. Elemental damage with lots of single and multi-target options
Mystic: They set up 'Zones', which continually provide multi-target debuffing / healing / binding (locked)
Imperial: Physical attacker. Based around an overheat/cooldown gimmick where they do huge damage then spend the next few turns recovering (locked)
The demo's gonna be up on the 7th so go on and give it a try! All your progress carries over to the full game and if you preorder you get a cute art book and ost cd. Gamer Hell Yeah
http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/img12/video-games/hqp/EO4Glamshot._V397460303_.jpge: and here's the skill tree with detailed explanations of what does what.
http://www.crazyuncleivans.com/eo4skillsim/tabbed.html