Etrian Odyssey Nexus review — a bittersweet dungeon finale

I approached Etrian Odyssey Nexus with a mixture of anticipation and sadness. Scuttlebutt assumes this is the final entry in this old-fashioned turn-based role-playing game series from Atlus, but that’s not the primary reason for my melancholy.

Back in 2006, when I first started as the copy desk chief for Ziff Davis Media’s Game Group (at the time, our publications were Electronic Gaming Monthly, Computing Gaming World, Official PlayStation Magazine, and 1UP.com), one of my copy editors was Andrew Fitch. Some of you may know him from his work on 1UP.com, its podcast, the 1UP Show, and the later incarnation of EGM. He introduced me to Etrian Odyssey after we discussed our shared love or Japanese RPGs, especially Dragon Quest and others that stem from Western RPGs from Wizardry.