Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth

 3DS
User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 41 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 41
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 41
  3. Negative: 4 out of 41
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  1. midipon
    Dec 4, 2017
    5
    Incredibly lackluster and middling Etrian game. They tried to change too much while also going back to its roots, which doesn't make much sense from the get-go. The writing is off-tone for the series as well. It seems to have been written by a below-college age fanfiction writer with phrases like "you see this monkey with what can only be described as a ****
    The music is also very    Incredibly lackluster and middling Etrian game. They tried to change too much while also going back to its roots, which doesn't make much sense from the get-go. The writing is off-tone for the series as well. It seems to have been written by a below-college age fanfiction writer with phrases like "you see this monkey with what can only be described as a ****
    The music is also very derivative and boring, Koshiro has run out of ideas for this series. The character art is messy and are mostly uninspired, boring-looking headswaps. Battles have too many gimmicks and flat-out the game is unbalanced. All around shoddy design choices.    … Expand
  2. night4
    Oct 17, 2017
    6
    First off, I've played all the other EO games.

    V is pretty good, it simply feels like it's missing a few things. I'm missing Link skills, I'm missing the Prince(ss)/Sovereign (yes, there's the Shaman, but it's just not the same), and I'm missing a third difficulty level. My biggest gripe, though, is the summon line. Only 3 slots? And now most Dragoons want to use at least a slot    First off, I've played all the other EO games.

    V is pretty good, it simply feels like it's missing a few things. I'm missing Link skills, I'm missing the Prince(ss)/Sovereign (yes, there's the Shaman, but it's just not the same), and I'm missing a third difficulty level.

    My biggest gripe, though, is the summon line. Only 3 slots? And now most Dragoons want to use at least a slot for Bunkers? I don't like this restriction at all. What if I wanted to use 2 Rovers, a Dragoon, and 2 Necromancers?

    Another minor issue is being forced to spend precious skill points to fish or handle animals, etc. Why not give us extra points *just* for those skills instead of taking away from our combat skills?

    This game just feels like a half step backwards for EO :(    … Expand

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 34 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Jan 7, 2018
    65
    I'm glad this game made it over, but it's not as special as I'd hoped. [Issue #31 – January/February 2018, p. 29E]
  2. GameCritics
    Dec 13, 2017
    65
    While I still enjoy Etrian Odyssey in general and would recommend the series as a top-shelf dungeon crawler, I find it difficult to recommend Beyond The Myth to anyone who hasn’t already gone through the other games first. Between the watching-paint-dry speed of character growth and the lack of innovation in its overall design, this one feels like it’s going through the motions with no inspiration behind it. I fully admit that the Etrian team has continuously set higher and higher bars for themselves over the years and they’re still in a class of their own, but this feels like they’re just coasting. With so many fantastic games already under their belts, there’s little reason to play this one.
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  3. Eurogamer Italy
    Nov 27, 2017
    90
    Quotation forthcoming.
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