My personal comfort game. Etrian Odyssey is just one of those that despite the attention required to do anything, is best enjoyed being played with half your attention while you’re in a Discord call blaring MGMT and Mild High Club through Spotify. Each class in Etrian Odyssey V is interesting with a level of uniqueness that isn’t found in most tabletop role playing games (I can confirm this because my go to character in DND campaigns is based off a character I used in a playthrough of this game). Add the amazing dungeon crawling, difficult but rewarding combat, in depth character customization, and the exceptional gimmick of using your consoles touch screen to mark the dungeons map out as if it was an actual map, and you have a recipe for my go to game when I just want to spend 200 hours over the course of 3 years relaxing to JRPG perfection.

Rating: S
Genre(s): Dungeon crawler, JRPG, puzzle