Etrian Odyssey IV: It Bites Back

Etrian Odyssey IV: It Bites Back

Posted by on Aug 5, 2014 in Commentary, featured |

Etrian Odyssey IV is a dungeon crawler RPG from ATLUS. And similar to most games from ATLUS, EOIV is hard. Hard like a rock covered in concrete. I like how it takes your hand and guides you through the character creation process then feeds you to the hounds when you get to the first dungeon. Well, not hounds exactly. They’re more like giant purple bears that chase you around only and kill you with one swipe only to get distracted by wood. Thankfully literal wood, not metaphoric. And when you die, you’re reloaded back to town. You’re alive, sure, but you just lost everything since your last save.

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