What's the best Dungeon Crawler and why is it Etrian Odyssey?

install the cia's you goofball. your 3ds is hacked...right?

EO is essential ironic weeb core
shit gameplay everyone ptetends to like because lolis

The problem is that many games in the Wizardry series are extremely difficult to get into now, particularly the early ones. It's very difficult to find a human who would want to even play past the first part of IV, because the game is extremely cruel and beats your ballsack in more than a Spacejin work because the devs wanted it to be bonecrushingly brutal. This doesn't mean they're bad games, but no one wants to play a game that constantly shits all over your face unless they're absolutely dedicated and are fine with the extremely minimal interface and janky systems. Dumbed-down wizardry is considered hard by many. Real wizardry, at least the earlier ones, is considered almost if not outright impossible for many players. That's why there's so many clones of it that take it to a manageable level, it's a great idea but it takes hard, pushes it past 11, and makes playing it feel like shoving an iron rod up your urethra. It's fucking agony.

But I make a party of elderly people and pretend they're retired adventurers getting back for one last job. Also if I didn't like the gameplay there'd be no reason to play because you get a few static images and barely any plot.

not yet since im still using my cash to upgrade my bike and get a tent and shit for my hobo mode lifestyle this coming october