Etrian Odyssey HD

Item: Etrian Odyssey HD
Rating: 74
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-07-29

Summary

Balanced, flexible difficulty options
Satisfying map drawing mechanic
Engaging dungeon crawler RPG
Outdated, unpolished gameplay
Frustrating late-game dungeon design
Excessive, tedious grinding

Emotions

Satisfaction28%Frustration16%Disappointment12%Appreciation7%Enjoyment6%

Reviews (sample size): 277
Helpful reviews: 78%
Unhelpful reviews: 21%
Protest reviews: 1%

74%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
26%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 696
Negative points: 698
Gameplay points: 450
Perf. points: 33
Rec. points: 227
Misc points: 173

Point	Description	Importance
Balanced & Flexible Difficulty Description The game offers a well-balanced difficulty experience with multiple options, including a new 'Picnic' mode for casual players and an 'Expert' mode for veterans. This allows players to tailor the challenge to their preference, making the game accessible to newcomers while still providing a demanding experience for those seeking it. Importance 65%	The game offers a well-balanced difficulty experience with multiple options, including a new 'Picnic' mode for casual players and an 'Expert' mode for veterans. This allows players to tailor the challenge to their preference, making the game accessible to newcomers while still providing a demanding experience for those seeking it.	65%
Satisfying Map Drawing Mechanic Description The unique manual map-drawing mechanic is a significant highlight, offering a deep sense of exploration and accomplishment. The remaster successfully adapts this feature for PC, making it comfortable and intuitive with mouse and keyboard, and even offering auto-mapping options for convenience. Importance 60%	The unique manual map-drawing mechanic is a significant highlight, offering a deep sense of exploration and accomplishment. The remaster successfully adapts this feature for PC, making it comfortable and intuitive with mouse and keyboard, and even offering auto-mapping options for convenience.	60%
Engaging & Immersive Gameplay Description Players consistently found the game to be highly immersive and enjoyable, praising its engaging gameplay loop, atmospheric visuals, and overall fun factor. The core experience remains compelling even years after its original release, providing a rewarding adventure. Importance 53%	Players consistently found the game to be highly immersive and enjoyable, praising its engaging gameplay loop, atmospheric visuals, and overall fun factor. The core experience remains compelling even years after its original release, providing a rewarding adventure.	53%
High-Quality Remaster Description The remaster is lauded for its high quality, successfully updating graphics, fixing bugs from the original DS version, and adding significant quality-of-life features like fast-forward and quick saves. It maintains the original game's essence while providing a polished modern experience. Importance 45%	The remaster is lauded for its high quality, successfully updating graphics, fixing bugs from the original DS version, and adding significant quality-of-life features like fast-forward and quick saves. It maintains the original game's essence while providing a polished modern experience.	45%
Excellent Dungeon Crawler RPG Description The game is highly praised as an excellent dungeon crawler RPG, fulfilling the fantasy of exploring intricate labyrinths and developing characters. Its well-designed dungeons, engaging combat system, and character progression mechanics make it a standout in the genre. Importance 37%	The game is highly praised as an excellent dungeon crawler RPG, fulfilling the fantasy of exploring intricate labyrinths and developing characters. Its well-designed dungeons, engaging combat system, and character progression mechanics make it a standout in the genre.	37%
Rewarding Character Progression Description The character development and progression systems are well-paced and rewarding, allowing for deep customization and strategic team building. The cycle of exploration, acquiring materials, and upgrading gear feels natural and addictive, enhancing the overall gameplay experience. Importance 23%	The character development and progression systems are well-paced and rewarding, allowing for deep customization and strategic team building. The cycle of exploration, acquiring materials, and upgrading gear feels natural and addictive, enhancing the overall gameplay experience.	23%
Excellent PC Controls Description The PC port offers excellent and flexible control options, supporting both keyboard/mouse and controllers seamlessly. Players found the controls intuitive, especially for map drawing with the mouse, making the game very comfortable to play on modern systems. Importance 17%	The PC port offers excellent and flexible control options, supporting both keyboard/mouse and controllers seamlessly. Players found the controls intuitive, especially for map drawing with the mouse, making the game very comfortable to play on modern systems.	17%
Great Series Entry Point Description The game serves as an excellent entry point to the series, allowing new players to experience its unique blend of difficulty, exploration, and team building. Fans of the series are also satisfied with its availability on modern platforms. Importance 17%	The game serves as an excellent entry point to the series, allowing new players to experience its unique blend of difficulty, exploration, and team building. Fans of the series are also satisfied with its availability on modern platforms.	17%
Diverse Class System Description The game features a diverse and well-designed class system, where each class feels unique and offers distinct roles and abilities. This allows for varied team compositions and strategic combat approaches, adding depth to the gameplay. Importance 12%	The game features a diverse and well-designed class system, where each class feels unique and offers distinct roles and abilities. This allows for varied team compositions and strategic combat approaches, adding depth to the gameplay.	12%
Convenient Quick Save Feature Description The addition of a quick-save feature, allowing players to save anywhere in dungeons, is a highly appreciated quality-of-life improvement. This significantly eases the difficulty and provides convenience, especially during challenging encounters. Importance 11%	The addition of a quick-save feature, allowing players to save anywhere in dungeons, is a highly appreciated quality-of-life improvement. This significantly eases the difficulty and provides convenience, especially during challenging encounters.	11%
Good Music & Soundtrack Description The game's music is generally well-received, with many players finding it good to amazing and harmonizing well with the game's atmosphere. While some desired more variety, the soundtrack contributes positively to the overall experience. Importance 10%	The game's music is generally well-received, with many players finding it good to amazing and harmonizing well with the game's atmosphere. While some desired more variety, the soundtrack contributes positively to the overall experience.	10%
Varied Dungeon Design Description The dungeon design is praised for its variety and progression, with each floor introducing new enemies and challenges. This keeps the exploration fresh and rewarding, highlighting player progress as they revisit earlier areas. Importance 9%	The dungeon design is praised for its variety and progression, with each floor introducing new enemies and challenges. This keeps the exploration fresh and rewarding, highlighting player progress as they revisit earlier areas.	9%

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