In fact, that’s why I dropped off Nexus last year. I’m not the hardest of the hardcore dungeon-heads (as I’ve just now decided Etrian Odyssey fans call themselves), but I do more-or-less know what I’m doing. I say this as someone who’s put about 200 collective hours into Etrian Odyssey since last month. With 19 classes (plus the Vampire pseudo-class) this is far and away the biggest roster of custom-created adventurers the series has ever featured. You travel from dungeon to dungeon, exploring tiles in a first-person view, before being pulled into turn-based battles featuring your party of five. It acts as a sort of greatest hits collection: pulling together and remixing classes, bosses, and locales from every previous game. Etrian Odyssey Nexus released last year as a final hoorah for the JRPG series on 3DS.
