Short version It's Monster Hunter but anime, easier and faster Long Version First of all sit down, grab a coffee and prepare to scroll down Second of all while I only have less than 60 hours of this game, its that fast if you use guns only, I am replaying it by using only melee for damage currently You good? Okay, firstly the GAMEPLAY If you never played any "monster hunter" genre, this game revolves around a gameplay loop of - go into a mission (alone, with npcs or with friends) - kill monster - loot said monster - get better gear - advance in story/game Equipment (Melee, Guns & Shield) yes you use all 3 in the fight, these together form the weapon you use called "God Arc" You get 6 melee weapons with different unique ability - Short Blade - Long Blade - Buster Blade - Charge Spear - Boost Hammer - Variant Scythe You get 4 gun types with unique ability - Assault Gun - Sniper - Blast Gun - Shotgun You get 3 Shield types - Buckler - Shield.. yes shield - Tower Shield You might be asking so how this game "spice things up" 2 things, Blood Arts and Blood Rage Blood Arts are basically special moves that you can only equip one in a mission, they can offer more attack, defense, evade options. You can level them up so they can do more of those said options, this is how one of the ways the game keeps you grinding Blood Rage is your Ultimate with the shounen battle music, you select options while being invulnerable, depending how many and hard the options are, it can increase your damage by 200% or more, you need to complete said options for it to activate if you successfully do so, for several seconds you are immune to everything, so slash or nuke all you want within the limited time limit. Monsters/Aragami Design: Monsters in this game are well designed arguably greatly designed, while yes there are a lot of recolors or reskins, some of them works different in the form of attacking or defense. Their overall design based on my own observation, is based off various gods irl but combining it with the anatomy of irl animals, human made objects and accompanying it with fire, ice, lightning or magic elements, some of the monsters are more designed to the fantasy or mechanical aspect. An example of both of these, in the fantasy aspect, there is a monster called Venus, its purely just a monster with jelly parts, but within said jelly parts burst out other monster part that she uses against you making her fight very unique. WAIT... "you said her?" YES READER, it doesnt have a monster face, it has A HOT GIRL AS A FACE, so its literally a monster girl. If you are weirded by that... there's a monster called Demiurge... its basically a small sauropod like monster, with a human mask lies a goat head within that roars with a creepy goat sound... what I'm saying is, its Satan In the mechanical aspect, we have Quadriga, probably one of the monsters who has more recognizable mechanical aspects on their designs, a flesh that fused multiple military parts together and roars like an elephant, focusing more on missles and heavy dash attacks, its basically a tank but instead of shooting missles on the turret, it opens an armor on its chest to shoot a giant homing missle at you. Overall, if you like the fantasy mixed with human elements type of monsters, you will like at least one monster in this game, my favorite is Amaterasu, its a monster that forces you to only use melee as its immune to gun attacks and... if you know you know, heh. Music I can't really give an opnion about music since I am somewhat of a monkey brain myself but just like God Eater 1 & 3, music in this game are bangin, so good. Especially ofc the music that plays when you activate Blood Rage That is all, monkey brain out. Lastly, Story and Characters First of all you can skip to the Cons section if you do not care about the story as in this game you can skip cutscenes, unlike a certain popular monster hunter game *ahem* I won't be spoiling the story and characters as I am pretty sure you want to experience the story and meet the characters first hand, heck even character names thus I will be giving you other points and such Do you need to play god eater 1 aka. God Eater Ressurection, NO, the story is written to just give you clues on what happened in God Eater 1, so the story of God Eater 2 can stand alone on its own The story "arcs" goes like this First Arc (Chapter 1-6) Second Arc (Chapter 7-8) Spiral Tree Arc (Chapter 9-14) Overall, the story of this game compared to God Eater 1 and 3, in my opinion, is the weakest in this series. It focused more on the "shounen" aspect of story telling and characters OH HI THERE, here for the Cons of God Eater 2? here we go - Lack of mobility, in part of chasing/searching for the monster, while you can see where the monster is in the map, going to the monster can be a bit annoying as you want to immediately fight them, luckily some maps are designed to be small so you can get into battle right away - MAPS, while some maps are big and small, their biggest cons is mainly the lack of details in some of them although, this is an apocalyptic world, so it can be forgiven in that aspect, the map you might hate the most is the greenhouse/library and dam map, as they are too big and especially the dam map is too narrow for some monster fights and is kind of just a straight line. - characters, subjective topic but as usual we will like or hate some characters, that is unavoidable, especially characters relating to the endgame - Story, as I said in the story section, its the weakest story among all 3 God Eater games, the Spiral Tree arc is too dragged out, there are some parts where it you are just literally climbing a tower progressing slowly in each floor only to get bombarded with more villain "hehe you too weak" and more "closure" stories of the main cast - Missions designs, I'mma struck fear to those who played through and probably dropped this game, "chapter 11, Suspension Bridge" DUN DUN DUUUUNNNN, while all missions upto this point have been too easy to its alright, this mission tests your ability to carry a character and play solo because of it, while it certaintly got easier in a bit after, the fights became too absurdly hard to the point that this might be not the hardest but definitely the most challenging game in the series - Weapon Balancing, while yes you will be likely to use your melee attack, there is a reason why they call using the guns in this game "cheezing", in this game Assault gun and Blast gun deal more dps than any melee weapon wishes to do, so if you wanna play the game legit with no cheezing, use melee only, you can use the gun to heal your allies instead - Blood Arts (now this problem was fixed in God Eater 3), so you can only equip one blood art for an entire mission, this limits your combos and moves that you do as you mainly focus to doing that specific blood art move so you can deal more damage and alike. - Lastly ofc Blood Rage, the Ult, why? well as I mentioned in the monsters and mission designs above, both are designed to balanced out this "ult" mechanic, as you get 2 states of immunity, and one of them you just get to deal insane damage, so if you are like me who like to save the ult for NO REASON, you will have a hard time playing through the Spiral Tree Arc/endgame, so please for the love of Venus, use the ult don't save it, USE IT I don't do game reviews but as someone who knows nothing about a lot of games especially this genre, I love this series, this game however is the weakest among the series. Overall here are my scores Gameplay 8/10 Story 6/10 Characters 7/10 Monster Design 9/10 Music 9/10 Amaterasu & Venus 100/10
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