Etrian Mystery Dungeon

Critic reviews

• Dual Shockers

  Allisa James · Apr 17, 2015

  9.0

  What’s truly incredible about Etrian Mystery Dungeon, however, is how well-balanced the staggering number of mechanics, battles, side quests, projects are. Never did I once feel overwhelmed with the sheer number of activities; I simply took each new development in stride and learned to incorporate it into my daily grind. ...Plenty of love and care between the two development teams has been put into this title and, despite the smaller setbacks, it truly shines in the end product.

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• ZTGD

  Drew Leachman · Apr 13, 2015

  8.0

  There’s a lot in this little 3DS game that can keep you busy for tons of hours. Just keep in mind, it is a difficult game and it doesn’t apologize for it, but if you can get past the learning curve, it becomes a very rewarding experience that dungeon crawling fans will really enjoy – even if the AI can be dumb as bricks at times.

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• Arcade Sushi

  Alex Langley · Apr 13, 2015

  6.5

  Etrian Mystery Dungeon isn't entirely without merit; it's approachable, replayable, and provides loads of content for your dollar. Unfortunately, its approachable to the point of simplicity, replayable due to shallow randomization, and the loads of content are often uninspired fetch quests and repeat trips to the same locations. The team behind Etrian Mystery Dungeon should have spent a little more time making its gameplay deeper than its labyrinths.

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• Hardcore Gamer

  Bradly Storm · Apr 07, 2015

  8.0

  Etrian Mystery Dungeon is a crossover that should not have worked. On paper, it’s ugly, cumbersome, and for all intents and purposes, a head-scratching marriage where one-half of the pairing is nowhere near as popular as the other. ...It’s an RPG steeped in strong mechanics, and despite being part of a genre known for its overwhelming — and for some, off-putting — difficulty, has figured out a way to make that precipitous level of challenge accessible and rewarding all the same.

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• Game Zone

  Mike Splechta · Apr 07, 2015

  8.0

  Combining it with Persona was a genius tactic, as it opened my eyes to the Etrian games, and subsequently made me actually buy Etrian Odyssey IV and Untold on the 3DS. However, the Mystery Dungeon games are a bit more niche, which makes this collaboration seem even more strange. Nevertheless, it's still a wonderfully sadistic game that rewards you just as much as it punishes you. Where Persona Q was already a game that was for a very specific niche of gamers, Etrian Mystery Dungeon fills an even smaller niche.

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• USGamer

  Jeremy Parish · Apr 07, 2015

  9.0

  With tons of content and a similarly expansive level of challenge, it quite impressively sidesteps the tendency of Mystery Dungeon spinoffs to feel slight and insubstantial. Admittedly, there's no shortage of either Etrian or Mystery Dungeon games these days, but this combination of the two deserves a look on its own merits.

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