Here’s a trailer for the announcement shown during last night’s Nintendo Direct, which featured a lot of news relevant to us PC players: If you’re familiar with Legend of Grimrock or older PC examples of the genre, then you know what to expect. You’ll explore a dungeon, battle enemies, gather and manage your party’s equipment, then head back to town to sell what you don’t need. Where Etrian differs from its modern genremates is that mapping the dungeon you’re exploring doesn’t happen automatically - but it doesn’t rely on you owning a stack of graph paper, either. Instead, you draw the map using in-game tools as you explore. These remasters feature full mouse support, remastered graphics and soundtrack, quality-of-life improvements to save slots and difficulty selections and more. Unfortunately the prices might seem a little steep for a set of former Nintendo DS games. Currently the collection will cost you £72.33/$80.37 on Steam, but that’s with a 33% discount. The individual games, meanwhile, cost £35.99/$39.99. They’re long games and reportedly excellent games, so perhaps that’s a fair price, but it’s not on-a-whim ‘sure I’ll give it a shot’ money, is it.
