Stylistically the game looks like you would certainly expect, though fairly refined also – making excellent use the 3D cel-shaded technique numerous anime-styled games are recognized for. Blended with great colours and also radiant results, this game most definitely does not let down in the visuals department. It does suffer from a normal man stare however, which appears from the older women personalities – you’ll understand what I mean when you see the character Hilda.
The gameplay of God Eater 3 will be strangely familiar to any individual that has played a hack and slash action RPG prior to; you select a goal for your character (and your team mates), obtain gone down into the warzone, and also hound your target to defeat within the moment limit. Your God Arc has 2 functions – tool mode (twin blades, swords, two-handers, hammers, etc) and gun mode (sniper, shotgun, rifle) which can be used to your gameplay advantage depending on how you deal with and also the opponents you encounter. When in gun setting, your God Arc uses up DP which you can charge by hacking and also lowering the opponent. The God Arc likewise has a guard setting also which you can use to obstruct and also evade, allowing you to be tactical when battling your challengers. Additionally, you can dive through the air which allows for fast runs away to retreat or dodge.
Using your Devour power, you can attack the adversaries by taking a huge bite out of them (which can also get products as well as collectibles which can be marketed later) which charges your Ruptured Arts assaults. These can be powered up gradually and also allow solid assaults against the Aragami, which can also be chained with each other to make you an unstoppable device – combine this with the ‘Engage’ mode where you link up with your NPC God Eaters as well as you can obliterate the opponent in a snap. It is at this factor that the battle often tends to get frustrating though; through all the hefty button-mashing as well as pushing, there’s no adversary health bar to inform you just how far you need to go, as well as no way of protecting yourself if you get knocked down in the middle of a heavy combo.
Certainly, currently comes the annoyances. The targeting system leaves a lot to be preferred as it easily switches on and off the opponent. That is, if you can remember which switch it was – the amount of button bindings as well as keypresses obtains incredibly complicated (I was leaping about when trying to grab things) and also half the time you won’t do what you intend to do. The gameplay itself is a little repetitive, and also adheres to the structure of beginning at your online, communicating with every person, selecting a goal and afterwards heading out and battling beasts, over and also over once more. And when you’re in your home base, your personality walks with the rate of seeing paint dry (unless you hold down R1 – seriously, whose suggestion was that?).
There’s just something about involving all your unique assaults at once and releasing on an evil Aragami that is almost calming and also stress and anxiety easing; seeing an explosion of neon colours on the screen as you obliterate your enemy in a flurry of blades and also weapons. God Eater 3 may not be as showy as its peers, yet it is still a great entry to the series as well as is sure to calm fans of the series as well as the genre.
