God Eater Resurrection - review

May as well share the best box art the game ever had...

Genre: action RPG.

Developer/publisher: Bamco.

Platform: PS4.
Official Site: N/A.

Release date: 29-10-2015.

 

Remembering I once played GE2 on vita I decided to get GE2RB on sale

which comes with a remaster of the original game. Its got updated models

 and difficulty rank 11-13 with an extra story and challenges but that's about it.

Oh yea scythes from RB are ported over as well but tbh they don't fit well.

It also doesn't feature the JPN audio for some inane reason. Like its an anime game

I can't fathom why they didn't include the OG audio.

Anyway 10 years ago I did play god eater 2 vanilla, I remember finishing it

and being obsessed with Julius but most of it didn't stuck in my memory at all.

 

Pro's 

- Stellar cast of characters.

- Story is OK but kinda barebones.

- Great soundtrack, this game had some good tracks.

 

Con's

- Bullet editing is nice and all but how about a proper tutorial?

- Blatant padding, especially in the burst segment of the game.

- No japanese audio, for it being an anime type of game bamco should feel bad.

 

Oh honey, you're the only one I really think about.

Story... well it is off to a fairly slow start? you start out as a rookie and slowly end up

fighting against different types of aragami the dangerous monsters

that roam around the world who forced mankind into hiding

and setup a specialized force aka fenrir to deal with them.

God eater and GE burst were also segmented games so rank 1-6 are OG and 7-10 are burst.

There's also 11-13 for yet another arc... but honestly I was about done with the game at that point.

Most of the fun scenes were in the first part of the game aka 1-6.

 I don't got much positive things to say about 7-10 part of storyline as it was rather dragged

out filled with random story missions with a bunch of side characters that added very little

to the ongoing problem. Almost everything was told through mission text which wasn't interesting.

Like oh Kanon might be sad but it wasn't really important...  It did nothing to padd out the game.

To make it worse there were not even cutscenes with them and if they did, only then did the

story progress. Maybe if there were scenes with the backstagers I'd be more invested but it

seems they had a shoestring budget. When it gets to the point again I'd say it was good

but yea a lot of the burst arc was pretty boring and some things

were never really explained either. Life just goes on. 

 

Basically this whole game.

Moving on, while playing through the game pretty much felt like a mission based RPG game with

a silent protagonist who's name apparently is Yuu kannagi but you can name him/her anything.

I named him Crow Armbrust because I am not very original.

The main characters of the game would definitely be Alisa, Soma as well as Lindou but we don't

talk about him much, no instead we spend time wondering wtf happened to him

while doing missions and watching drama unfold that relates to him among others.

Kouta or Sakuya would be the orbiters, important but on the supportive side.

There's also Kanon and a few others but they're like the outer senshi

and just exist to protect mankind another day.

Sadly I found the burst part of the game to be mind numbingly boring, sure we get

a hint at someone but other than that it was just aragami slaying business as usual.

Relatable.

 

As this only has eng dub, I say it was okay but it reminds me I prefer JPN voices

as ENG onces often seem like they try too hard. VA's I liked a lot would be voicing

characters like Tsubaki followed by her brother Lindou's. Kouta was annoying, Paylor

was still somewhat fitting for a nerd type of guy who spends too much time in the lab.

Kouta.... his character was okay tho its just his VA tries too hard and just sounds obnoxious.

I picked male MC voice 12 and I am just indifferent about it, don't like or hate it.

Alisa VA was okay... but Sakuya too but I have heard way too many times elsewhere...

and not in the fun seiyuu kind of way, i'm sorry they tried there best.

I didn't like Ren's eng voice though it sounds like someone trying really hard

to sound younger that its almost nails on chalkboard. Even Shio sounded better.

I loved Soma's eng VA though! more often than not his tone of voice hits just right

with the dialogue. His voice really carried his emotion and when he's pissed he really is.

Well he certainly doesn't minch his words.

 

Moving on to the gameplay part I guess?

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if people dropped this game, whether it was due to the slow

start of the story with boring missions to go along with or the difficult to get a grasp

on gameplay system. Looking at the PSN trophies they get to rare very quick, most people

don't even seem to get to difficulty 3. They probably already played it on PSP

and were like nah not doing this shit again or just gave up.

Personally the gameplay got better once I realized its better to hit it once or twice

than do a whole whombo combo on an aragami. Still the enemies are very aggressive

and just playing a little would tire me out quickly so I only played in short bursts.

Atleast some of the dialogue was funny.

Later missions had 2 to 3 boss aragami's in the same mission...

so if they were meeting up too early I had to restart the whole mission

since things would just get too chaotic. Sometimes I'd get lucky and one

would mind their own business but there were definitely a few tough missions

like a charged borg and a quadriga just to name some cursed combinations.

Also two Yaksha's and a Ravana in part 3 made me take a break from this game.

 

Random NPC has hilarious dialogue for no reason...

Anyway I think I could only enjoy this game by playing it in short bursts

the way the story is presented its easy to remember what happened too

but scenes were never that long, due to this originally being a psp game.

Its literally decided to be whipped out for 30+ minutes and then stop

my longer sessions were about 2 hours but by that point i'd get tired.

 

Obligatory group pose.

  Overall this game seems fun but it gets repetitive quickly.

I was actually bored of it by chapter/difficulty 9 and it dragged a lot as well.

It has a stellar cast of characters and great music but that's about it.

The story is basic and feels flat, people shit on the anime but it can't

be any better if the source material wasn't much either.

The OG GE story(1-6) was IMO decent but burst just felt like an extension filled out

with blatant padding cuz if you get to the point it wouldn't even last 2-4 hours.

I'd recommend this game to those that like hunting/survival games and don't mind grinding

the same monsters over and over, whether its for material or the story itself.

 6.5/10

Yea its 6.5 because of the characters really...

Only thing God Eater Resurrection did was make me a Soma fan. Easily best boi.

More ramblings after the jump but i've pretty much said all there's to say.

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Characters:

Alisa is basically the waifu heroine, I liked her but I never felt too attached

like she's had her thing going on and MC helped her but that's about it.

She's probably the only character besides Soma that focused on their background.

Sakuya seems like she's yet another waifu but she doesn't really

have eyes for the player character, no her heart belongs to Lindow.

Soma is basically the edgelord and I didn't really like him at first

but by the end of the OG storyline he was easily my favorite.

Kouta well... despite looking like a kingdom hearts reject I liked him, he's probably

the only one with family in the group whilst others just have eachother.

He is the moodmaker/clown of the group most of the time.

Sadly I didn't like his voice and he sounds annoying, his jpn seiyuu did

a better job because I don't remember being annoyed by him in GE2.

Lindow.. ah well its not that I don't care about him but its just like

it felt like I barely knew him so it was just kinda of uh that sucks.

The second part of the story also turns it into kingdom hearts stuff  (Kouta should feel

right at home but he wasn't even important there) which didn't really help but atleast

I can ship him with Sakuya. The ending credits were beautiful... 😭😭😭 

Shio, I am indifferent about, felt more like she was a plot device and not much else.

Ren basically has me go confusion noises but apparently she/he is just a projection

from Lindow's god arc. This was never properly explained but it makes sense

since no one really acknowledges them except MC who resonated with the arc.

I didn't even get it either till I asked google and some redditors explained

all of that to some other lost soul much like myself.

 

I beat the game or rather act 2/burst with this gear.

 There's a lot of different weapon types like short, long, buster, hammers,lance and scythes

but I tended to stick with short blades because they're fast and I am not animation locked

by slower weapons like hammers or buster. Its best to try out different weapons and see

what works best for you like sure hammers are OP but short or blades suit me more

and easier to hit&dodge.  You know like I said in my review for YS oath of felghana, I don't

mind having to try for a videogame but this games enemies can get very annoying.

The missions are also many and repetitive, you will fight the same enemies many times

sometimes grouped into the same mission. Upgrading weapons also seemed

to take a while and you are prevented from getting OP too quickly.

I pretty much stopped doing free missions and only focused on the story unless

I had to really upgrade my gear to get past a current story mission but those times

were very rare, you don't really need to grind that much.

When I went back with better gear to an older mission I absolutely creamed the enemy...

so basically everything is a gear check so if you're getting one shot

get a better shield with more defence.  

 

    Random girl ends up breathing fire...

GIRL...

  

I will say this game has some pretty good NPC AI(except Kanon), while they might kick

the bucket they do so less than me. It feels more like they're babysitting me with getting me up

than me them. The NPC allies are great when you're just doing the story or side missions.

Like shooting me in the back? thank god friendly fire doesn't hurt...

There was a weird part of the game where you had to get a goddess plumage

to help make Shio's outfit so she's not wearing well uh rags.

I already had like 8 of those but for some reason I can't give it to Sakaki till

I have 1 in my inventory so there was some unecessary back and forth there.

 There were a few more of those moments but thankfully I already had

the items on hand because I always devour the enemy once its dead

which is something you must do to get materials to upgrade anyways

as you can't get them all by picking them up on the field. 

You had to do it in the burst segment as well but it wasn't hard to get either.

 

Soma roasts us for poor performance against titty aragami.

Soma finally realizes he too isn't always doing too hot. Screw that fight in particular btw.

You can also edit bullets in fact you can do right from the start but unfortunately

this is never properly explained, I was wondering what people were talking

about when I looked up advice or strategies but this bullet edit system

is pretty game changing. People have put up recipies online but its a pain to find

atleast the god eater wiki had a decent list. Sure the game explains how to swing

your sword for 5 minutes but bullet editing? nah ask your friends or something.

Anyway I am going to share you one and its in a YT video @ 3:45.

 

Glasses Soma...

Also there are no real guides for this game, the god eater wiki

put it to themselves to list enemies and their weakness and unlike

most wiki's is actually helpful especially went it comes to bullet recipies.

Any other info is scattered on the net on gamefaqs or reddit...

it seems no one could be bothered to make a proper walkthrough.

I think the only advice that works anyways is hit it till it dies while not dying yourself.

Say it louder for people in the back.

 

Final Thoughts.

Inspirational quotes after hours of grinding and barely any story really hit home.

 In terms of story I don't think God Eater Resurrection was that bad

or anything it just didn't do much to wow me. Instead it ended up

padding itself out especially during the ''burst part of the story''.

There's also not much substance to it but it originally was a handheld so nothing

can drag on for too long cuz people may be playing just to kill time.

They cooked up a pretty good setting but the storytelling also just felt kinda flat.   Its a shame

because most of the main characters such as Alisa,Soma Shio or Lindow were pretty good.

Scenes were short and to the point, it more often than not felt like you were just

a soldier. The missions were too many and not all felt like they had meaning to it.

I didn't like the repetitiveness of it all but by mission 45 I did get a hang

of most enemy patterns and was like x enemy is actually pretty easy!

I guess my pattern recognition abilities are still in working order...

still there were a bunch of missions that pissed me off and I never

understood why there were other versions of arda nova aka the OG final boss.

I guess more versions of it exists too even though there only should be one...

Now I could understand there are a lot of Kongou's,Vajra's etc but Arda Nova?

that worked for the story but its such an asspull to see it randomly.

This game has multiplayer/co-op feature and maybe I was supposed

to play with friends but solo with NPC's most missions took me 10 minutes

and some others took me a bit longer like uh that pain in the ass.

It took me roughly 39 hours to beat ranks 1 through 10.

Wish there were more areas or enemies but I guess it made sense most enemies just

evolve or have different variants and not like they can go far from the base

so in the end it just feels like the main gang is trying to survive for now.

Only best boi's blush like this...

At the end of the day what I stayed for was the characters and music. The story was there

but along with the setting it was kinda basic. If anything I'd recommend this series

for that and monster hunter-like gameplay if you don't mind repetitiveness.

The graphics were servicable, they did update the models which looked great but some

areas looked like they did the bare minimum to make them presentable on ps4. 

This game isn't really great for long play sessions, maybe to kill time for 30 minutes

to an hour, while you're doing boring missions you'll probably wonder

what was up with this or that character atleast, that's what I did which was my only

motivation to keep playing and I swear I put up with too much BS.

6.5/10

TL;DR RPG-like monster hunting game has a basic plot with great chara's

but repetitive gameplay bring it down a good few notches but it might

still be something a monster hunter anime fan could enjoy.

 

 17-3-2025 edit: Fixed typos and one screenshot.