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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC5YzZ394bg

2013
3DS

When it comes to Etrian Odyssey, 4s a clear tier above the rest for me. The games main gimmick is that you can explore a proper overworld in a balloon. Exploring the overworld is a fun diversion as you explore your way to new areas. You find so many different themed dungeons along the way. Instead of the standard EO formula of breaking a big dungeon into themed blocks, 4 mixes it up and lets you play a lot of simpler dungeons. There are bigger main dungeons too for when you want to get back on the main quest and dungeon crawl the classic way.

But none of this works without the characters. Not their personalities, of course. The character builds in EO4 are crazy fun and the different classes synergize together so well. My playthrough had a Dancer, Landschneckt and Runemaster that could chain upwards of 20 attacks per turn with how their abilities matched up. There are other builds with the other classes that can also exploit the games mechanics and let you mess enemies up.

EO4 isnt as hard as other games in the series so you arent struggling to advance quite as hard, but thats a good thing because the games open design encourages you to explore. Youre constantly making progress in EO4 when compared to other EO games. This is the only EO game that I went all in on and did even the postgame material. Id play this game right now if I had a working 3DS. It sucks that this series is likely over because we no longer have dual screen platforms to sell them on.


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