It's been a while since I've been meaning to leave a review. If you want bang for your buck, get Etrian Odyssey Nexus. However, if you want quality, you stick to this game.

Unlike the rest of the games, this one features a race selection feature and a set of class skills. The classes branch into specialties instead of you adopting another class as a sub class. What this functionally means is that the game is better designed and better-balanced thanks to the fact that the specialties are actually good for what they do, and each one has special tricks up their sleeve that you should have some sort of tool instead of relying on your main class' skills for attacks and the subclass for passive buffs.

This also marks the series' first time in having an emphasis on events on the map; like an abundance of them. Your characters will be cutely doing things before dying to a fuzzy caterpillar of caerbannog.

The map exploration is simple, and the class choices meaningful, and ergo this game deserves my full rating of 5 stars.