Wizardry Long Live Wizardry! (And The All-New Games By Ex-Wizardry Developers)

[Jermu]

So what jap dungeon crawlers are considered mediocre to bad?
Managed to gather these suspects:
-Ray gigant
-Mind zero

I know experience inc newer games are on the easier side,but are there any other stuff that should be avoided?

I would argue don't play Etrian Odyssey 5 or Extrian Odyssey Nexus; the formula is much better in 1-4.

I would advice not to skip any EO game except mystery dungeon + EO1. Nexus+5 are good games

 

[Carpincho Pampeano]

Cirnozardry had a translation a few months ago.

 

[quixotic]

What’s a good game to start with for beginners? I’ve played some of the Etrian Odysseys before but I’m interested in trying something different.

 

[j2alg]

Have you heard of Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar?

 

[NerevarineKing]

Elminage Original isn't too difficult, so it might be a decent one to try out.

 

[Ysaye]

What’s a good game to start with for beginners? I’ve played some of the Etrian Odysseys before but I’m interested in trying something different.

Some ideas:
Wizardry: Labryinth of the Lost Souls: definitely not the best out there, but in terms of teaching original Wizardry kind of standpoints it is pretty traditional with only the original eight classes, spells etc..One difference from the original is that it adds some pretty OP special skills for some of the classes. Presentation style is pretty anime so be aware of that if that is a turn off.
Elminage Original: If you don't care about original classes, this game has a lot of depth without being too hard early on for complete novices (Elminage Gothic is a great game but maybe a little more difficult to begin with).
Operation Abyss: Experience Inc remake of Wizardry Xth, it has a lot of the basics but suffers from all the issues that with the Experience Inc games.

 

[quixotic]

Thank you both! I’ll check out Eliminage.

 

[Matador]

What’s a good game to start with for beginners? I’ve played some of the Etrian Odysseys before but I’m interested in trying something different.

Stranger on sword city

I also would say Wizardry 1. It's a short but very well designed dungeon. The one that started it all and still one of the best.

SNES version has very good graphics and improved interface.

 

[mushaden]

Anybody know the mechanics/calcs for hiding/staying hidden in the SNES Wizardry 1-3? Probably the same as 5 but I can't find that either.

 

[Reinhardt]

anyone tried switch version of demon gaze on emulator?

 

[Puukko]

anyone tried switch version of demon gaze on emulator?

I couldn't find a copy a few days ago but it seems it's available now. I'll report back shortly.

Edit: it seems to emulate just fine, at least on Yuzu/Vulkan. I noticed one brief graphical effect that may have been bugged but I made it to the first save point no problem. The game is locked at 30 and when unlocked, movement speed, menus, most cutscenes/videos and animations are sped up, but not audio or battles themselves (prompts when attacking etc). The game appears relatively slow at 30 fps, so I reckon a good compromise would be to lock it to 60 which would speed it up while not making it uncontrollable. It ran at 120-170 fps for me when unlocked which was just too fast.

 

[Reinhardt]

Thanks. Missed your post because you just edited previous.

 

[d1r]

How's the game anyway?

 

[turkishronin]

Anyone has tried Wizardry FO? It looks interesting in this playthrough

 

[samuraigaiden]

Those anime ladies are not actually in the game, right?

 

[Casual Hero]

Those anime ladies are not actually in the game, right?

You can import custom portraits, and that is what you're seeing here. So yeah, they're not in the game.

 

[Viata]

I really fucking hate those google translate audio some japanese youtubers use.

 

[turkishronin]

I want to have a nice conversation with the person who thought having one-time use maps in the games is a good idea. At least the maps in Elminage Gothic were dirtcheap...

 

[Dorarnae]

I don't remember them being expensive in wizardry empire either.

 

[turkishronin]

300 is a lot!

 

[Viata]

Based devs. Either you draw the map or stop being a jew.
Can't use any cheat to have infinite maps like in Elminage?

 

[turkishronin]

Nevermind it's actually balanced. There's a literal coin enemy you can fight as many times as you want that drops a lot of gold(literally named Creeping Coin)

 

[Casual Hero]

Creeping Coins are one of my favorite enemies from the series. I think they were unique to Wizardry, right?

 

[Pyreen]

Creeping Coins are one of my favorite enemies from the series. I think they were unique to Wizardry, right?

They are also in Dark Spire for DS.

 

[Viata]

Creeping Coins are one of my favorite enemies from the series. I think they were unique to Wizardry, right?

They are also in Dark Spire for DS.

I think he means by unique as in "Wizardry introduced them". I think Dragon Quest's Bag o' laughs enemy is based on them. They were first introduced in DQ3, but since DQ5 they have a skill to call another monster.