"Role-playing games as we know them started with dungeons. Well, technically they started from tabletop baseball and Civil War games, but they REALLY started with dungeons. Games like Rogue and Wizardry made the dungeon the most important part of the game, and that's a focus that Atlus' upcoming Etrian Odyssey aims to reestablish.

The story is simple enough. There's a small, peaceful village named Etria, surrounded by a vast forest and general calmness. One day a crack opened up in the fore..."