Etrian Odyssey III HD

Good game. Play on Expert if you're not a weenie. That's the original difficulty from before the world went soft.

It has the best in-game map making functionality I've experienced in a game (I've also never played an EO game before this one). I want to like Eye of the Beholder, but my options are "grab some graph paper like it's the 90's and take 6 hours to clear the first floor" or "download a mod that does all the mapping for you, which takes away some of the excitement of exploration". This game strikes the perfect middle ground of making your own map, but doing so in the game, where I can just move my mouse a lil bit instead of grabbing a whole ass notebook with literally every step I take. I wish more dungeon crawlers were like this. The mouse and keyboard controls are incredible frankly; so incredible, that I don't recommend using a controller. Playing this with a controller feels like playing Minecraft with a controller. The in-game battle sprites actively look bad, due to the low-poly backgrounds clashing with sticker-like HD sprites. I wish there was an option to use the OG sprites be...

Awesome game, the most polished of the three. I first thought the sailing minigame detracts from the experience because with its addition the total floor became 25 (from other games' 30), but it serves as a nice distraction from dungeoncrawling. Doubled Charged Berserker Vow Front Mortar is so satisfying!