Trivia / Etrian Odyssey

• Bad Export for You: The English releases for Beyond the Myth and Nexus both suffer from broken QR code generation rendering it difficult, if not impossible, to scan other players' guild cards.^note They can be fixed, but it involves manually editing the codes, as each line is supposed to be two pixels wide but certain lines are reduced to one pixel. The North American and European versions of the game are also arbitrarily and completely incompatible with each other's codes as well. Combined these problems make it exceptionally difficult to get a good collection of guild cards, and in the case of Nexus makes unlocking Vampires much harder than originally intended.
• Content Leak: The existence of the North American and European localizations of Beyond the Myth was prematurely revealed as a result of a few pages being published onto Atlus USA's website by accident. The same leak also revealed localizations of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux and Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology.
• He Also Did: The music of the lost mobile game was composed by a member of SuperSweep. If that name sounds familiar to you, it is probably because you played Mega Man Network Transmission.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: With the 3DS eShop set to close in March 2023, all of the DLC for any games released on the 3DS will no longer be obtainable unless through illegal methods like hacking.
• Missing Episode: The obscure Etrian Odyssey Mobile game released for i-αppli mobile phones. The only proof of its existence is some of its soundtrack uploaded in YouTube and Nicovideo, and a walkthrough with screenshots. Its official website is also defunct.
• No Dub for You: Nexus was released overseas with the original Japanese language voice acting, breaking a trend as the two Untold games and V before it were dubbed.
• No Export for You: Etrian Mystery Dungeon 2 was skipped over for non-Japanese markets. Same for the two mobile games.
• Pre-Order Bonus: If you pre-order the Origins Collection for the switch, you'll receive character portraits from other ATLUS titles, two for each game. 1 has Joker from Persona 5 and Ringo from Soul Hackers 2, 2 has the Demi-fiend from Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne and Teddie from Persona 4, and 3 has the Nahobino from Shin Megami Tensei V and Aigis from Persona 3.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Unused themes for the first game were later released in an album "Sekaiju no MeiQ PROTO-TYPE". A few of these themes would eventually be reused in the 3DS releases.
  • Artbooks for The Drowned City show that there was a job class that never made it past the concept art stage, a Doll-themed Summoner.
  • The Frost King and Thunder Queen in The Fafnir Knight are scrapped Ginnungagap bosses — they now appear as DLC bosses instead. They were seemingly meant to form a Fire, Ice, Lightning trio with a boss internally known as "Fire Emperor", who did appear in the base game repurposed into Demi-Fafnir.
  • Princess Gradriel was intended to be a Guest-Star Party Member for The Fafnir Knight using the Imperial class, which would have also made an appearance.
  • The Untold artbooks have some unused sketches of Ricky in the jacket and hat of the Mascot Gunner from Heroes of Lagaard, and Chloe was originally planned to be another one of the Midgard library explorers.
  • The Legends of the Titan artbooks show that there was concept artwork for Ricky that might have placed her in Tharsis. They also carry a concept sketch for the Blade Dancer Masurao, with one katana in each hand, a third strapped to her wrist in the same fashion as in the final portraits, and a fourth gripped between her teeth. Furthermore, there was a sixth race in the concept art that was never used.

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