It changes shape into a terrifying shadow mouth thing that opens wide and chomps on them. Oh and you use your god arc to take bites out of them constantly. You run around fighting monsters that are usually much larger than you are, and you dodge about their knees, striking at their nether regions when their back is turned usually. The battle system is actually pretty fun. If you do like this sort of thing, or view it as a sort of numb, zenlike experience, you’ll likely be fine.Īs for me, there are many things that I do like about this game, and these things are mostly enough to make up for the extreme repetitiveness. If you aren’t aware of this going into it and don’t like this sort of thing, you will be an unhappy person if you buy this game. Leave base, kill the things, return to base, watch cutscene if applicable, tweak equipment, mix, repeat, ad nauseam.
What’s happening in soooo many end of the world scenarios in anime set in the modern day?Ĭomedy anime, harem anime, mecha anime, action anime.if there’s any hint of the supernatural, there are most likely monsters.Īlmost wherever you go in anime, monsters are there.Īnd the God Eater series is a monster hunting game. What’s happening in almost every single fantasy anime you’ve ever seen? You know what I finally realized when I started playing this game?Īs ubiquitous as zombies are in Western culture and media, monsters like this are just as ubiquitous in anime. Suffice it to say, monsters came out of nowhere and started eating humans, eventually driving humans to the brink of extinction, and here we are. I don’t really feel like going into the gobbledygook that makes up the Aragami origin story or why they do what they do. They don’t even call them gods in the narrative, though there’s some handwaving towards the expression. Impractical outfits, impractically large weapons, obligatory ubiquitous monsters ravaging the human population, actual anime opening sequence when you start up the game, pseudo anime semi-profound/semi-insane philosophizing, way too young frontline soldiers who are way too effective for their age, heartless adults who send children out to do their fighting for them, ‘old’ characters who are in their twenties and younger than I am, post apocalyptic cityscapes, annoyingly long exposition dialogue, the reality of a hellish life in which teenagers are sent out from where they live in a tiny bunker to die fighting horrifying monsters because humanity is on the brink of extinction, and.awkward cutesy moments in between the missions? The only thing that would make it more Japanese would be if they had the voice actors actually speak Japanese instead of English, but alas, in my version they didn’t do that. I can confidently say that this is the most anime game I’ve ever played.and I’ve played games that are actually based off of specific anime.