{"id":14,"date":"2015-04-27T22:19:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T02:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/?p=14"},"modified":"2015-06-11T00:21:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T04:21:47","slug":"game-ramblings-3-thoughts-on-etrian-mystery-dungeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Game Ramblings #3 &#8211; Thoughts on Etrian Mystery Dungeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlus.com\/etrianmd\/\">More Info From Atlas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Info<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Dungeon Crawler RPG<\/li>\n<li><strong>Platform<\/strong>: Nintendo 3DS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Progress<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roughly first 4 dungeons<\/li>\n<li>Majority of side quests within that period<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Similar Titles<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pok%C3%A9mon_Mystery_Dungeon\">Pok\u00e9mon Mystery Dungeon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Guided_Fate_Paradox\">The Guided Fate Paradox<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Etrian Mystery Dungeon<\/em> is a spin off of the often challenging Etrian Odyssey RPG series. \u00a0Rather than being a first-person turn-based dungeon crawler, it&#8217;s now a top-down action-based crawler, typical of other\u00a0<em>Mystery Dungeon<\/em> titles. \u00a0End of the day this has been an entertaining title to play, and I&#8217;d easily recommend it to both fans of the Etrian series, and fans of dungeon crawlers in general.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I Like<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This may sound weird, but it&#8217;s an extreme positive to me that this still feels like an Etrian title. \u00a0The game is appropriately challenging, without feeling unfair. \u00a0There&#8217;s an abundance of player classes, each feeling unique to play, giving your team a lot of flexibility to different play styles. \u00a0Even the core gameplay loop of going back and forth between dungeon crawling and a core town experience feels very familiar to the series. \u00a0End of the day this is very distinctly still an Etrian title, rather than simply having the name slapped on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also a fan of the different penalty schemes in play here. \u00a0Dying or escaping while simply grinding out effectively\u00a0carries no penalty, which is nice for when just grinding out exp or doing side quests. \u00a0However, if the party wipes while fighting a boss, you have to send in a secondary rescue party to get them out of the dungeon and back to safety. \u00a0It adds a nice inherent difficulty spike to what should be the ultimate goal of a floor of the dungeon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I Don&#8217;t Like<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like the Etrian mainline series, there&#8217;s a set of enemies within each dungeon section whose main purpose is to basically be an impenetrable wall of doom that you can only run away from while at appropriate level for the rest of the dungeons. \u00a0I get why they left this in per the rest of the series, but it&#8217;s always felt sort of unnecessary in the greater scheme of things.<\/p>\n<p>Also, while this may be a minor nitpick, I really miss the Etrian Odyssey feature of recording the dungeon maps as you play. \u00a0While this is to some extent in place for this title, progress is wiped out after leaving a floor due to the inherent random nature of the title. \u00a0\u00a0Though understandable, it&#8217;s an unfortunate lost feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Info From Atlas Info Genre: Dungeon Crawler RPG Platform: Nintendo 3DS Progress Roughly first 4 dungeons Majority of side quests within that period Similar Titles Pok\u00e9mon Mystery Dungeon The Guided Fate Paradox Etrian Mystery Dungeon is a spin off of the often challenging Etrian Odyssey RPG series. \u00a0Rather than being a first-person turn-based dungeon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/?p=14\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game Ramblings #3 &#8211; Thoughts on Etrian Mystery Dungeon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[15,16],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3ds","category-crpg","tag-3ds","tag-rpg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}