Same as 1 Untold, this is a remake of EO2 from NDS, but unlike 1U, this version has more improvements and downsides. It comes with classic and story mode, and i must say the story of this title looks a lot more interesting than 1U did back in the day, but it comes with downsides
Due to the game being rebalanced around story mode, some bosses from certain dungeon will be a pushover as in the story you would be fighting them with 4 characters instead of 5 if you were playing classic. Stratum 5 is made to counter Fafnir knight, the main core of story mode and a class locked in classic until you beat the story, S5 should have been a challenge but since i was playing classic with my own compo it didnt felt different from S4 or S3, in fact a bit shorter
Thats all the downsides now lets talk about what makes this remake better than the original; FOEs give EXP, in original it was a waste of resources to even fight them. Class rebalances, not too hard like 1U did, but are welcomed specially for enemies. Actual fun gimmicks, if you know about Scylla and Juggernaug fight, yep, actually two of the most memorable fights. Foods, same as in 1U, now you have a coffee to manage, that means farm for food drops, craft food, develop the city, sell your food.... its cool and theres more than 50 food effects across all the game. Grimoires, probably the best mechanic in the game which was fixed in 2U to avoid grind fests, this is your bread and butter even from the beginning and its super satisfactory to use, later will be changed for multiclassing in 3 onwards.
Even with the downsides it is an amazing dungeon crawler and one of the best of the saga. I beat story final boss from S5 but will keep playing to beat post game bosses and secret boss, something 1U made me avoid at all cost. Good soup
Due to the game being rebalanced around story mode, some bosses from certain dungeon will be a pushover as in the story you would be fighting them with 4 characters instead of 5 if you were playing classic. Stratum 5 is made to counter Fafnir knight, the main core of story mode and a class locked in classic until you beat the story, S5 should have been a challenge but since i was playing classic with my own compo it didnt felt different from S4 or S3, in fact a bit shorter
Thats all the downsides now lets talk about what makes this remake better than the original; FOEs give EXP, in original it was a waste of resources to even fight them. Class rebalances, not too hard like 1U did, but are welcomed specially for enemies. Actual fun gimmicks, if you know about Scylla and Juggernaug fight, yep, actually two of the most memorable fights. Foods, same as in 1U, now you have a coffee to manage, that means farm for food drops, craft food, develop the city, sell your food.... its cool and theres more than 50 food effects across all the game. Grimoires, probably the best mechanic in the game which was fixed in 2U to avoid grind fests, this is your bread and butter even from the beginning and its super satisfactory to use, later will be changed for multiclassing in 3 onwards.
Even with the downsides it is an amazing dungeon crawler and one of the best of the saga. I beat story final boss from S5 but will keep playing to beat post game bosses and secret boss, something 1U made me avoid at all cost. Good soup