Recordkeeping: Etrian Odyssey Untold COMPLETE.

[xyzzysqrl]

I immersed myself in this one pretty hard. I love dungeon-crawling and map-making and such, after all... which is what this game is about. It's probably the best Cartography Simulator on the market today. I played 9/10ths of the game in the default difficulty mode until I finally just wanted it over because I was fatigued, then dropped it to easy and pounded through.

There's... a lot more going ON in this game than is seen on the surface. I don't feel like dropping the spoiler bombs, but by the end I was sort of like... "Wow, how did this have sequels EVER?" Apparently they... ignore the implications? I don't know.

Now I really want to play Might & Magic or Wizardry again but the interface on those games is like aaaaugh.

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Also, hello. I am fine. I am not sad or depressed. Mostly I'm ANGRY.

Keep having nightmares that are like... eight solid hours of arguments with my father, including all the wonderful logic-terminators ("I'm not ARGUING with you, these are just the facts, it's not my fault if you're too dumb to believe them.") and emotional trampling ("Oh, now you're UPSET, you wah-wah baby. Who gets UPSET over TALKING?") that he deployed at a hat's drop.

When he died I wanted to hear LESS from him, not MORE. But no, it seems like the voice in the back of my head that makes fun of all my choices and shits on everything I do is his now. Glorious. This has made it pretty hard to get a solid sleep, I feel exhausted a lot.

Aside from that, I am fine.

Comments

[silveradept]

I'm not sure I understand about it being a cartography game.

Also, I'm sorry that you're having all the nightmares of memories come out. That sucks, and I wish they would go away and be replaced by happier dreams.

[xyzzysqrl]

Oh, I can explain that. It's a DS/3DS game series. The top screen shows a 3D view of the dungeon from first person perspective, the bottom screen is dedicated to a graph-paper-style mapping tool where you draw in the walls, doors, and other features of the maze so you don't get lost later.

Making accurate maps is terribly important, since later quests will sometimes send you back to a previous floor to find That One Thing in a dead-end hallway.

[silveradept]

Oh, I see. It's a game that forces you into the skills of old adventure games, with manual mapping and everything. Sounds neat.