Now, Nexus, like other Etrian Odyssey games I’ve played, is not a game I would call just straight-up “hard.” Rather, I think a more fitting term is “unforgiving.” Nexus doesn’t do anything to hold your hand – either you complete its challenges, or you go grind for a while until you’re able to. With this, I let the opening story play out ( Nexus does not have much focus on story, so this is done rather quickly) and then jumped into the first labyrinth available to me…and proceeded to get torn limb from limb. A pretty well-balanced party, if I do say so myself. In all, I had two physical attackers, someone for defense, a mage, and a healer. Again, exactly what you think of when you read the class title, Jesus was entirely focused on healing the rest of the party. The Boss would end up being one of my downfalls… A pure elemental mage that I added to my party because, of course, I needed a magic user. Just what it says on the tin, Casey wields a gun and can snipe at certain enemy body parts to make them unusable. A class whose entire focus is on protecting the other members of your party. A knight that uses a “Drive Blade” which allows for devastating attacks, but can overheat, keeping him from using powerful skills until it cools down. You enter each dungeon with a team of five characters, and Nexus offers up 19 classes you can choose from for each of them. Nexus does offer up an auto-map function, but honestly, mapping things yourself is half the fun, and I’d recommend staying away from that option. The main gimmick is having to make your own maps of each dungeon using your system’s touch screen, which is something I’ve found addicting in each entry I’ve tried. If you’re unfamiliar with the Etrian Odyssey series, it’s a set of rather pure dungeon-crawling games made to take advantage of the dual-screen setup of the DS and 3DS. If I were to give a score to what I was able to play, you’d be looking at a 7/10 or 8/10 final score. It’s far from a bad game, it just unfortunately falls a little outside of my skill set. Let me preface this by saying: I enjoyed most of my time with Nexus.
ETRIAN ODYSSEY SERIES
Perhaps it will give some newcomers to the series interested in the game some idea of what they’re in for.
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So, rather than that, I wanted to share with everyone the experience of the first ten-or-so hours of Nexus from the view of someone terrible at the game.
ETRIAN ODYSSEY FULL
It would be disingenuous to provide a full “review” of this title having only been able to get through such a small portion of it. That is, until I hit a wall at the boss of the second main dungeon of the game. When Etrian Odyssey Nexus walked its way into my inbox, I jumped in intending to give it a full review. I actually managed to scrape through the next entry I tried, Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold, and felt quite the sense of accomplishment…only to find out that the series’ fans consider it an “easy” game. I tried out the first Etrian Odyssey when it released way back in 2007, and I remember being unable to complete the first dungeon. The Etrian Odyssey series has long been one of those. There’s still some series and genres that I can never really hope to get a firm grasp on, whether due to lack of skill, lack of time, or both. I’d love to say, as a video game reviewer, that I am a master that can crush any game that comes my way, but, alas, that would be a complete lie.
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