I return from the depths of the internet to discuss this thing! God, I bought a 3DS over Winter Break and I was beating myself up for buying something that only had remakes to it's name (Something I said was stupid from the beginning. I felt stupid). Then this shows up. ATLUS JUSTIFIES MY GOING BACK ON MY CONVICTIONS!
Hrm... Easy mode makes me a little stand offish. Mostly because it means they're working on making the game balanced and fair. Which is wrong. I still remember dieing to fucking moles in the first game because I wasn't thinking straight. I want that back. I say any game that has an easy mode should have an insane mode on it as well. Not just normal, but insane. And for Etrian Odyssey, that means the insane mode should throw bosses at you from the get go.