Reviews from

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I really enjoy playing Etrian Odyssey games, I used to read a tonne of Jeremy Parish's articles and blogs on 1UP about the game and got into EOIV when it first came out on 3DS.

I have most of them on 3DS that I'd like to get to sooner rather than later, at some point they were releasing sooner than I could play them or finish them. I'm feeling a bit of the winter cold recently so I'm logging in some play sessions hopefully daily to progress through these dungeons and leisurely map it out in the process.

Unfortunately, this game did not appeal to me. As a big fan of western (and some western-inspired) dungeon crawlers, I found that it failed to create a compelling atmosphere. The generic and uninspired design of the enemies, the uninspired anime design of most characters, and the bland events that occur in the dungeon failed to keep me hooked for more than a few hours.

i tried to like this game so hard but i find first person dungeon crawlers to be kinda boring because i wanna look at the cute characters especially the art is so pretty iwant them to show up all the time not just their names

i launched the game a while after reaching B3F and painstakingly mapping everything i found up to that point and when i got to the title screen the game told me it deleted all my map data for shit and giggles so i never played it again. i'll just stick to the original game and its HD version