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Anybody who might confuse this with the main Etrian Odyssey series won’t be disappointed by Mystery Dungeon, but they’ll likely be confused, much in the same way I imagine fans of Pokemon were thrown off by their own Mystery Dungeon titles. These are completely side-story titles, but that’s not to say they should be skipped by any means. If you like roguelikes, this one will be right up your alley. And if you’re new or mostly new to the genre, Etrian Mystery Dungeon is easy enough to figure out and will stick its hooks into you.
Back in 2007, Atlus decided to use the Nintendo DS to do something ambitious. It brought back the days of first-person RPGs with original party members you had to customize and dungeons you needed to map. Thanks to the handheld's design, the bottom screen allowed people to practice cartography as they played. Since then, 10 games have been released, each bringing something new to adventurers.
With Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon out on the Nintendo 3DS last year and Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate gracing Vitas two weeks ago, you may have developed a taste for tough-as-nails dungeon-crawlers. Roguelikes are on the rise. But then, when it comes to these Spike Chunsoft joints, they always have been.
Charlotte Buckingham writes:
"Etrian Odyssey is the latest series to receive the Mystery Dungeon treatment via Spike Chunsoft. How well did the two mesh together?"
