With great dungeon designs, enjoyable turn-based combat, and a new story that adds context to the turn-based action, [i]The Fafnir Knight[/i] makes for an excellent addition to the 3DS library and an excellent homage to [i]Heroes of Lagaard[/i]. Recommended.

Lengthily-titled dungeon-crawler Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight is a remake of the 2008 Nintendo DS title Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard. The main difference, aside from the jump to the 3DS hardware, is the addition of a story mode - just as Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl added a narrative element to the original Etrian Odyssey.

Etrian Odyssey 2's core turn-based dungeon-crawling RPG gameplay is unchanged in the remake. The 3DS' top screen displays a first-person view of your dungeon surroundings, while the bottom screen is used to manually map each level’s layout, using simple MS Paint-like touch-screen controls. Much of the metagame also remains, in which players find and use resources to improve their equipment or complete quests.

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It may seem all too familiar on paper: a heroic knight, a beautiful princess that needs protecting, a party of adventurers. Luckily, Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight is anything but ordinary. Discover what lies in wait for you after climbing up the towering Yggdrasil tree. Outside of High Lagaard, venture through the dark Ginnungagap ruins to unveil the origins of the Fafnir Knight. An exciting new adventure awaits you, but what will you discover when you get there?

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