Etrian Odyssey is really hard

[A Black Falcon]

I got it at my local gaming store, but I also saw a copy at another local gaming store (local music store chain that sells some games) and both GameStops in the mall (yes, they finally rebranded the EB as Gamestop, even though there's another one (the one that used to be Software ETC years back) almost within sight of it...).

Really, I don't quite get that "Atlus games are hard to find" thing. Summon Night 1 for GBA? Saw that at the local music chain (where I got it). Summon Night 2? All four of those stores that had Etrian Odyssey had that one. Yggdra Union? They had a copy of that for sale at one of the Gamestops, and I got it last fall at one of the local places... the other one got a copy later on. Riviera? None around now, but up until a few months back I saw multiple copies around... Mazes of Fate (for GBA) from O3, an even harder to find game? Saw that at one of the local stores. It's still available at one of them, actually. Etc.

I haven't looked for Odin Sphere, obviously. I don't know if either Gamestop had it... I was there yesterday, but didn't look at PS2 games. I'll check the local places out of interest the next time I'm there, but I imagine that at least one of them will have it... the local gaming store has a lot of Atlus stuff (at high prices of course) -- Growlancer Generations for PS2, Lunar 2 PSX, Arc the Lad Collection, the PSX Ogre Battle games, etc, and the local music store chain always seems to get in a copy or two or Atlus's new releases.

Ever since I found out they sell opened games as "new", I stopped shopping there.

Does it matter really? I buy lots of used games... I don't mind if it's used. Okay, it's kind of deceptive, and obviously false if your "new" game doesn't include the case and manual or something, but still, that's not bad enough to get me to stop going there or something.