The God Eater franchise falls into the Hunting genre alongside things like Monster Hunter, Soul Sacrifice and a few others. In this case, mankind’s been pushed to the brink of destruction by monstrous entities known as Aragami, and only the God Eaters have a chance of fighting back thanks to their God Arc Weapons – weapons taking the form of massive hammers, pointy spears, oversized swords, and so on.
The team gets chucked into a small arena, destroys the enemies within, and then it’s back to the shop with any bits they can salvage to power up their equipment before heading right back out again. Having recently played through God Eater: Resurrection (an enhanced remake of the original God Eater Burst) it’s tough to shake just how familiar GE2:RB is. Sure, it features a new storyline taking place several years after the end of the original, but since the two titles have many of the same enhancements it winds up feeling very, very samey. It’s especially bad in the beginning - GE2:RB‘s arena environments and most of the enemies are lifted wholesale from Resurrection. Not only that, but enemies require nothing more than some routine dodging, locating their weak spots, and smashing away at them until they run away to recover a bit or die. It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that 80% of my playtime was spent performing a single move over and over (the hammer’s R1 and Square attack) and my online buddy playing the campaign with me used his circular scythe spin maybe 95% of the time. Given that each boss requires about ten to fifteen minutes of spamming the same attacks, the problem with repetition soon becomes obvious. The formula does eventually shake itself up somewhat after about thirty hours when the Rage Burst content starts to kick in for real. It’s not much of a shakeup, but it’s enough to differentiate itself from what came before.Īfter watching the credits roll for the first time (and presumably eating a million of Nana’s delicious Oden sandwiches) new mechanics and enemies start to seep in through the cracks. The most interesting of these is the Rage Burst mechanic, where powering up a God Arc during combat will allow players to make pledges to said weapon. Pledges such as ‘ I’m going to do ten thousand points of damage to that enemy‘ or ‘ I’m going to swagger over there and smack the bugger a hundred times‘ which must then be completed before a short timer expires.
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