#I like EO I like MD games. But EMD is awful. It's legit Not Fun

[snowlilly]

oh, are there any emulator-able etrian odyssey games that are good? would you recommend any?

Oh boy here we go

As far as I know, all of the EO games can be emulated. The first three titles got released for Nintendo DS, and all later titles for 3DS. All of them are their own conclusive games, with only minor references to other titles if any, so they can be played in any order.

EO1 and 2 also have 3DS remakes called Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl and Etrian Odyssey Untold II: The Fafnir Knight, which I would recommend over the original releases because the remakes add a lot of new features on top of balancing reworks. These two games also have a special Story mode with a fixed party, so if you have trouble picking classes as a beginner, you can start out there. You can still enjoy them the "original" way with Classic mode, though.

In terms of general difficulty, Etrian Odyssey IV is probably the easiest, which is also the game I started out with. It also has a traversable map and small side dungeons, which I really enjoyed. (I think EO3 has a similar feature, but I didn't play that one)

Etrian Odyssey V and Nexus have the most customization options and a lot of gameplay variety, but that can make them quite overwhelming for beginners. Nexus in particular brings back a lot of stuff from the previous games, so I would only go there once you played at least one or two of the others.

There's also two crossover games with the Persona series called Persona Q and Persona Q2, the first featuring characters from Persona 3 and 4, with the second adding the characters from Persona 5 to the mix. Both are separate stories and not related to the main story of the Persona games, so you don't have to worry about missing out if you didn't play through all of them (or any of them like me). They combine both types of gameplay, so if you're familiar with the Persona combat system, those might be the easiest to approach. Even if you're not particularly a Persona fan, they're both good fun.

Don't play Etrian Mystery Dungeon.