It proved to be a relative success, bringing back old hardcore fans and introducing a new generation of fans, awakening within them an affection they probably didn’t know they had.
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Someone at Atlus, however, must have missed these types of games, and thus birthed Etrian Odyssey for the Nintendo DS, a tribute to 80s first person dungeon crawlers, featuring an intensely detailed character upgrade system, a mapping function handled via the touch screen, and cutesy character designs to appeal to the modern Japanese gamer. It continued to maintain a bit more popularity in Japan with Atlus’ Shin Megami Tensei series, but even those began to change, first with the spinoff title Persona 2, and finalized with Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne for the PS2. Although the first person dungeon crawler was an immensely popular genre in the 80s, with titles like Wizardry, The Bard’s Tale, and Might & Magic, it soon fell out of popularity, with many moving into full 3D, and latecomers like Stonekeep failing to impress much of anyone, as the RPG moved to isometric games like Baldur’s Gate and Diablo.