God Eater 2: Rage Burst [Review of the game]

Good day, Stopgame! Not often we observe such games of the “Japanese industry”, but here is a special case, and why, you will learn further in the review. Therefore, meet, “ACCHN-RPG review from Shift And Bandai Namco – God Eater 2 Rage Burst”

God eater 2 I went out November 14, 2013 On the platform PSP, Later, in 2015, the announcement of the transfer of the game to the platforms took place PS vita, PSCh And, surprisingly, on PC. Remsters for stronger consoles came out August 30, 2016 And they had a name God Eater 2 – Rage Burst. The reprint included all DLC, technical improvements, and translation into great and powerful Russian (not every transfer can boast of the like, and even more so the transfer of the Japanese game).

But the main feature was that the game positioned itself as a replacement for all those who could not play in Monster Hunter. So let’s find out if it turned out Shift And Bandai Namco Make your own Monster Hunter, With his blackjack and “Tyanka”. And how well it happened for them.

Well? “Let’s go!”

The actions of the game unfold in 2074 (3 years after the events of God Eater). The world walks and quietly destroy its creatures called Aragami.
Only weapons are operating on the arahags with special cells – oraculus, which are present inside the Arags themselves.
But not everyone can use such weapons, only people with a special “selective factor” are able to cope with it. Such people are called “God Eaters” – “Eaters of the gods”.

We take on the role of the recruit of a special purpose detachment “Blood”. Detachment “Blood” It differs from other “Eaters” in that each of its operatives has a feature – “Blood strength”, which gives them incredible forces, abilities and skills.

This is all the plot tie. You do not have to play the first part of the game to understand some things, sooner or later you will be told in detail. Personally, I did not play the first part, but I did not leave any questions about any mention of the events of the occurrence in it.

The ENT Game is also well spelled out, if you are interested, then you can read biographies of different characters, the features of weapons, theaters of actions, about various arahags, selective factors and much more.
So, if you have time and desire, then be sure to read the archives, they are very useful and answer some questions that you could stay if you missed something in the plot. (Although he is not very difficult for understanding: D)

Aragami-they are called “gods”, but these are enemies of mankind, who appeared unexpectedly without warning in the 2050s. Consist of oracle cells, are able to devour everything and quickly mutate with a wide variety of species. The usual gun against them is powerless.
Arags are an accumulation of dozens or hundreds of thousands of reasonable voracious cells.
They cannot be completely destroyed, since when the arahags are destroyed, the remaining oracle cells turn into a new araham over time.

Selectivity – the property of oracle and colonies with arams, allowing them to devour only a set of organisms, despite their omnivorous.
The selective factor obtained due to the study of this property made it possible to use oracle cells and the creation of the same technology.

Aragami infection – when too much selective factor accumulates in the human body, cells mutate into oracle cells, and a person turns into arags, losing human appearance and experiencing only hunger. Therefore, injections of a selective factor are strictly dosed.

But besides history, most importantly in any plot? That’s right, characters. And there are practically no complaints.

It is pleasant to observe the characters, each of them has its own character, its own features, dignity and unpleasant features. Some of course of them are template – a guy thinking only about girls;Loli, who is trying to prove something to everyone, and t.D.

But this cannot be called a serious minus, some of them are also pleased to observe, think about their words, believe them. Anyone will find a character to his liking or with a similar look at life.

Well, of course, the main characters are our detachment “Blood”.

So who are “Blood”?

“Blood” -A special detachment created by Dr. Rachel Claudius and associated with Freja, mobile mobile base Gorod. The detachment is intended for the development of gods with more powerful than the 1st generation, hidden potential by introducing a new type of selective factor, large-scale campaigns and rescue operations.

“Freya” – Contractions for the research institute of Fenrir to restore the ideal. It is also called the “mobile branch” for the ability to move independently.

The power of blood is a force that can awaken from the fighters of a “blood” that enhances the resonance. Blood forces are used to strengthen and transmit human will. They have different manifestations, one of which is “blood gifts”, but can be expressed in other abilities with a wide sphere of exposure. According to Dr. Rachel, the power of blood is the willpower of the owner.

So, and who are we like? And we are those who want to be. Like in Monster Hunter, We have the opportunity to create our own character, any gender, with our name, call sign, appearance and style. The benefit of the editor gives such opportunities. (Given that the characters are obtained in anime style and the game was originally on PSP).

A little information about us:
Member of the Freily since 2074, is a member of the special purpose detachment “Blood”. A medical study was shown by the possession of an exceptionally high compatibility with the selective factor used in the detachment.

And the girl is nyasha, isn’t it? : 3

The game process is very similar to Monster Hunter. We are thrown into one of the locations and our task is to destroy the necessary arahags.
Gameplain game is enough peppy and interesting. At first they will give you not difficult opponents and in large numbers. But the further in the plot, the harder and most interesting the arags will be.

The player has 3 types of blows that depend on his equipped weapons: cutting, crushing and piercing.

As for small arms, for it there are also different types of bullets (fire, frozen, poisonous, tearing and many, many others).
You can edit and improve each bullet. But, unfortunately, the editor does not have an intuitive-convertible interface and does not cause any desire to understand it.

(Personally, I made myself a “bullet” by pumpki and ran the whole game with them)

And yet, although the gameplay is dynamic and each enemy needs its own approach, the game has a very serious minus:
All you will do is beaten-knety on the enemy.
No diverse missions, no special inside -down scenes, nor QTE, nothing. If in Monster Hunter You sometimes had to help someone, collect the right resource, etc.D. Then here, the only task is always to kill Aragami.

So! The goal is clear, but we are running alone again?

No, still gameplay God Eater It can boast before Monster Hunter constant cooperative. What does constant mean? And the fact that even if you play without the Internet or in solitary mode, then 1-3 blanks of controlled AI always run with you (Artificial intelligence).

But who is better? AI or friends in coope?

And in fact they are equal. The only advantages of friends are that there is someone to chat with and they can be a very high level of development, which will facilitate your game, at that time, to AI-Partnies are equal to the level of development of your character.

But do not write off AI-Partniki from accounts. They perfectly do their work and that surprisingly do not dull. I have not met any bugs with AI for the whole game (well, good).

But for greater productivity, I advise you to use the “teams” that you can give to your partners. Although half of them are useless, but they do not feel bad enough to set the goals necessary for AI.

Is there any need to play with partners, and not run in proud loneliness?

Firstly, most plot missions will still have to pass with AI-Partnies whether you want it or not.

Secondly, partners (any) facilitate the passage of missions and perform support functions well, such as:

Hooray, we are not alone. But what and how to beat monsters?

Feature God Eater is that there is no binding to the class. That is, you are free to make your own combinations of a variety of weapons, perks for the character (“blood forces”), strengthening, and special. cartridges.

Love in close combat to apply strong blows, and in long battle you prefer accuracy and damage? Sniper rifle and heavy blade created for you.

If you want to apply https://boylesportscasino.co.uk fast and swift blows and prefer to apply a huge damage in close combat without harming yourself? Shotgun and changeable braid \ short blade is the perfect option for you.

Speaking of weapons, there is a huge amount of it … No, however, it is just dofiga. And almost everyone has any feature. Plus, any weapon can be improved if there are the necessary materials.

Near battle

A small strike range is compensated by the velocity of attacks and many of their combinations. Inflicts both chopping and piercing blows.

Has an excellent balance of range, speed and power. The physical property of a long blade is a chopping blow

The speed of the attack is low, but good power and a range of impact. Inflicts both chopping and crushing blows.

A small strike range is compensated by power and the ability to make special shocks. (By holding the desired buttons). Specialization – crushing blows

Has a large range and excellent mobility. Allows you to keep Aragami at a distance from the Devourer. Inflicts piercing damage.

The physical property of the braid – chopping blows. Has an indestructible blade and inside. Divine weapon control system. Thanks to her, the mouth can be turned into numerous blades.

Small arms

Specialized weapons for quick and numerous attacks, but with not a lot of damage. Has the fastest firing speed.

Weapons specialized for attacks at long distances. The lowest speed of shooting.

Weapons used for attacks on a certain radius of action. It has high damage.

Perfect weapon for attacks at close range. Shoots with several bullets at the same time. Has high damage, provided that all bullets fall into the target.

Allows the Eaters to defend themselves from attacks. There are three types of shields. The heavier the shield, the better it protects, but he needs more time to prepare and deploy.

As mentioned above, operatives “Blood” have special abilities – Gifts of blood, which everyone manifests itself in different ways. To someone, the gifts of blood help to detect enemies, someone of the benefactor increases the damage damage to them, etc.D.
But in addition to the gifts of blood, there is a more noticeable and interesting improvement in the skills of your “Eater” – the power of blood.

Blood strength (local perks), strictly speaking, these are special blows that the player inflicts after performing a certain combination of attacks.
Each weapon has their own set of unique blows, some of them inflict very high damage, some strike at the area, some release impulses from weapons, which are damaged by arams, etc.D.

In a word, these are strong and unique blows that allow you to get a great advantage in battle with Arags.

Blood rage is a special condition that the player can enter under the necessary conditions. During it, you apply much more damage, the speed of your movements increases significantly, and your protection and health indicators also increase.

But this condition has a number of restrictions:

1) To activate Blood Rage, you need to accumulate a certain scale of rage.

2) After filling out the scale, you need to accept the so -called “vows/oaths”.

“Vit/Oaths” is a condition under which you will be given to activate Blood Rage. For example: to apply arahags 4000. damage;Make one “devouring”;Cure 2 allies of special.cartridge;Hit with arags 30 times and t.D.

For the performance of “vows/oaths” the player is given 30 seconds. Partners can also help in their implementation.

3) time limit. The amount of time given to use Blood Rage depends on the number of “vows/oaths” performed.

4) this ability can be used 4 times per mission.

The ability to use the state of Blood Rage appears only after the middle of the game.

But not only weapons are diverse. Moreover, you can’t kill monsters naked, although this is Japan.

As we all know, the Japanese love a variety of costumes very much, and even more so if they are with all sorts of cuts and so on.
And this trend, of course, could not ignore and God Eater. In the game “Over-Dofig” costumes and accessories for your character. Any person will find an outfit/style to his liking, but in order not to spend a lot of space about this small, but pleasant detail, under “Spoiler” I will leave you a few videos with a costume demonstration.

Women’s clothing – tops:

Men’s clothing – tops:

So, there is a dressing room … there are weapons … there are little ones … what is not enough for? Ah, yes!

Let me remind you, Aragami are local monsters, against which we actually fight on the attraction of the whole game.

And here it is worth the developers to pay tribute. The number of diverse arahags goes off scale, from simple “small” representatives to large and dangerous “psions”.

Each Aragami is special, for everyone needs his own approach.
Of course, you can just try to run up and blow-dubes and double them again, but in 70% of cases this will only lead to the fact that you will flanch large lily and run away to be treated. If such tactics work in the first pairs, then you will have to study Arag, their habits, weaknesses and attacks.

Now, let’s see what decorations we run in and what quality are their quality.

Regarding the graphics, the situation is controversial.
Initially, the game was released on PlayStation Portable and used almost the maximum console resources. Of course this was greatly reflected in the remaster-version of the game.

Unfortunately, the developers did not really try to improve the picture. They added dynamic shadows, smoothing, improved the resolution of textures and effects, increased the framework (from 25-30 FPS to 60 FPS), corrected the facial animation, character animation, and everything is like that. But this turned out to be very few.

Bottom line: the picture looks … well, to put it mildly: “We saw and better”.

Here is a video that demonstrates technical improvements in the graphics.

The same uncertainty and with locations.
On the one hand, they are quite beautiful, organically furnished, diverse and perfectly demonstrate all the consequences of affairs.

On the other hand, unlike Monster Hunter, in which there was a pseudo-open world with different climatic conditions, where I had to search and track out my goal (my experience personally when I played on PSP), V God Eater These are just large, not interactive and closed areas. Here you are for comparison:

“Jungle” from Monster Hunter Freedom 2 and “Scarred Barricade” from God eater 2

I explain, locations from God eater 2 very small and boring compared to Monster Hunter, which is very disappointing, because the game has a very bad concept.

Yes, the locations are very beautiful in places, but no more. They are small, closed and not interactive. It’s just an arena, nothing more.

Now let’s move on to music!

There are no complaints here. The composer in both parts was Masaru Shina \ Masaru Shiina (Known from such proctates as Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, The Idolmaster, Tekken: Dark Resurrection, Tekken 6, Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology, Tales of Zestiria and many, many others) and he did his work “excellent” … No, “beautiful”
The music is beautiful, diverse and interesting, always approaches the situation and sets the desired mood.

Opening of the game was a song “F.A.T.E.” executed Akihiri Namba & Takeshi Ueda.

I admit, I really liked this game, I do not regret the time spent on it, although it is, as they say in the common people “jerk off“ jerk off *** it ”. And to be honest, I would really like to put her “amazing”, but:

Pros: A good plot and characters (anime fans will be satisfied), a worked out ENT, an interesting concept, a complete customization of a character and weapons, a good and well-working cooperative, excellent music and a variety of Arags.

Cons: Small locations, bad and monotonous missions, strokes, bad graphics (even for playing with PSP, take a look at Final Fantasy Type-0 HD), a small amount of various locations and poor interactivity, boring additional quests.

And I will not advise anyone to buy this game if you do not like Monster Hunter, Didn’t look Anime series on the first part of God Eater or do not like such stylistics.

But if you wanted to buy this game after a review or you like similar games (stylistically or gameplayic similar), then wait for discounts and be sure to take.
(On Steam, cards will repel the price.)
If you are repelled by a language in which all this will be played, then do not worry, the entire textual part of the game (subtitles, descriptions, etc.D.) translated into Russian. No serious mistakes were noticed.

In the end, we have good portable The game that was tried to transfer to large consoles and to a new “portable”. Most likely this was done to increase the fan base before leaving the third part of the game, which was announced on TGS 2016. And, probably, GE will now finally go to large platforms.

What and in what version I played?
Platform: PC
The version of the game: License, pre -order – Steam, Russian translation of the text.
The number of hours:
Come on, not about that ..

There are very few “interesting” arts by God Eater 2 (｡｡ ︿ • ̀｡)

The best comments

Why did you drop this post several times? But now it’s not about that.
Of course, you jumped on the quality of the review of the reviewer himself in relation to the visual, but the text … I understand that GE is not a serious and big game with a bunch of details, but everything is told about it so crumpled and superficially that for a person the new info will simply not be in it.
Well, if by the game, then yes – in fact you are right, although it is not clear how the “roasted characters” correlates with “pleasantly observing”. Honestly, now we are going through her with a friend, but the characters are so boring that there is a straight cabinet. Just because of these cliches, if that. The same problem was with Tales of Zestiria, where everything seems to be fine, but when things get to the characters … The template is beaten.
In general, it’s a shame that only this series reached the PC, well, Toukiden Kiwami (which will have to be tested, because it is already judging by gameplay rollers much better and more comprehensively GE 2. It’s a shame, damn it, I was pre -chaired by GE 2), and Soul Sacrifice does not even want to look here. The latter is tested in Vita, a suitable thing.
I have nothing against GE 2, but he still has a lot of problems, although the most main of them is the repetitiveness. Repetitiveness in everything. And it sadden.
P.S – and where is IC on Project Diva? I already managed to buy PS vita for myself during this time, flash it, play in Diva X and TD. What kind of business? But plus set.

FIG knows what kind of anime is there, but it is unlikely that very big problems will arise with understanding the plot 🙂

And what the game looks like, I like it so far, of these minuses, only monotony strains. But let’s see what it is. It’s a pity I can’t just choose time, I haven’t even played the Resurrection: (apparently, it just wants a lot of time))

After watching the series, I wanted to play, but after the realization that the mouse in this game is not completely quoted, my relations with the game were completed forever.

Who said that? The only place where the mouse is not quoted on the basis of Fenrir, while in the battle it is calmly used.

The overview is not holistic, torn some kind of, more text, so that one of the other follows and leaks into the third. Well, it could be better to work on the pictures, some, as I understand it, did it myself, others would also fit into the general style, size.

Cards for seven rubles the price of a game of a thousand rubles?! No, if the Japanese are split and put up a discount of 75%, then 28 rubles will still not cover 250.

After watching the series, I wanted to play, but after the realization that the mouse in this game is not completely quoted, my relations with the game were completed forever.
And I liked the series, although I was stupid. His atmosphere, dynamics, absorbing heroes and plot, which fits both real events and flashbacks, allowed to have a good time.

Oh … here it is … sorry, missed this moment and in general, the font – these are the last ones I thought about, did not know that there was so much charity to him, I would be more careful next time: 3

For such a short blade, we can sit down for years, NE10, with such a snap, you can make excellent hatchots in the new part of Sniper Elite

At one time, Monster Hunter captured, and went through the first part of the GE on the PSP emula, and now further 2 missions in versions on the computer, I can’t get myself very much, she is the same, Toukiden Tukiden CHECTER TSEPLY. The MH3 Topchik for PS3 launched on the PSP emula.

His cards cost from 20-45 rubles.
Moreover, I said to take at a discount, and this is -66%, tobish is about 300 rubles. And if the metal one falls on ..

Oh, and someone will explain to me a joke about Comic Sans, which is not so with this font? ABOUT.O

Otherwise I am a fool and do not catch up … 🙁

P.S. Sorry Daur

Thank you.
They hacked it in September last year, and to the opportunity to throw the games, as on PSP, reached only last month. Before that, only through Wi-Fi everything was. But the games started so, so only the way to move the file to the prefix has changed.

I’m just going through the first part myself now, and this case is that the mouse is more convenient for the joystick, because it allows you to aim at the weak places. God Eater is fine with the port, unlike Toukiden: Kiwami.

The request to argue and normally express your dissatisfaction, preferably without mistakes, so as not to beat any desire to read your comment;)

Take an example with NewDaz320 And Sysanin, Especially from the second. He described in detail his discontent because I changed something (those who read first, most likely noticed). Dare: 3

I meant all the remaster version 🙂

But you have already read my opinion on: “Is it worth taking it or not?”
So, at your fear and risk. Good luck and do not disappoint: 3

If you want an anime continuation, then you are in the first God Eater. Anime does not affect so much from all GE.
Alice, by the way, I like it more in the second … The suit has become more “clean”: 3