Get the Tourist's View of the Yggdrasil Labyrinth

[TwinBahamut]

Any RPGamers who are eager to try Etrian Odyssey IV will get their chance a bit earlier than expected. This chance to experience your first catastrophic descent into a dungeon full of FOEs won't even cost anything.

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[flamethrower]

How does the 3DS e-Shop work? Are full games available? Will we be able to download the full game in February?

[TwinBahamut]

How does the 3DS e-Shop work? Are full games available? Will we be able to download the full game in February?

The eShop has download-only games, retail games, trailers, screenshots, and demos all available. I don't quite know if Etrian Odyssey IV will get an eShop release, but there is a very good chance it will, especially since Nintendo is making a big push for that (all of Nintendo's own games are being made available that way).

[Zeboyd Games]

From an email that Atlus sent out today:

"It also lets you carry all that progress into the full game, whether you purchase it at retail or Nintendo eshop."

So yes, it'll be on sale digitally.

[smacd]

I've been tempted to make that jump to go to downloading retail games. I enjoy having the package, and I like the option to get it on sale, but the convenience and inevitable direction of the medium makes it seem like the right thing to just get used to. I never sell games anyway.

I'm actually surprised by how little space the 3DS games take up on the SD card as well. I think my SD card has something like 100,000 "blocks", and the games I've looked at were around 4000 "blocks". I could conceive of making almost my entire 3DS library download. Now granted, currently there are only around a dozen or so games that are retail for download, and most of them are Nintendo.

[Glowing Hyren]

Yeah, this will be downloadable and I think Fire Emblem as well. I'm glad they let you bring your save into the main game.

[Dyne]

Considering retail 3DS games save all their data onto the cards, I don't see how you'll be able to carry your progress from the demo onto the full game. I don't deny it, I just don't get it. Can someone explain this to me?

[Shaymin]

3DS games can save and access extra data on the SD card as well. Usually this is for Streetpass, but it can be used to pick up demo data.