God Eater 2 Rage Burst Long Blade Blood Arts
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Developer(s) | Shift |
Publisher(s) | Bandai Namco Entertainment |
Managing director(due south) | Hiroshi Yoshimura |
Producer(s) | Yosuke Tomizawa |
Composer(southward) | Go Shiina |
Series | God Eater |
Platform(s) | God Eater 2 PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita God Eater 2: Rage Outburst PlayStation Vita, PlayStation four, Microsoft Windows |
Release | God Eater 2
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Genre(southward) | Action function-playing |
God Eater ii ( ゴッドイーター2 , Goddo Ītā 2 ) is a video game developed by Shift and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment on Nov fourteen, 2013 in Nihon for PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita. Information technology is a sequel to God Eater. It features a new setting, also as new protagonists, new monsters, and new weapons.[2] An expansion titled God Eater 2: Rage Flare-up was released in Nippon on the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4. It was released in Western territories in summer 2016 with Northward American and European divisions of Bandai Namco Entertainment publishing the game on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Microsoft Windows.
Gameplay [edit]
The sample screenshot of the game for the PS Vita version
In comparison to Gods Eater Flare-up, in that location are new features and additions such as the four new weapons, the Heave Hammer, Charge Spear, the Variant Scythe and the Shotgun. The Heave Hammer is a hammer fitted with a rocket booster. The Charge Spear is a large spear that can be "charged" to form a sharpened organic bract. The Variant Scythe is a large scythe that tin can extend for a long range. The Shotgun is a big cannon that sprays bullets, assuasive increased harm the closer the player is to the opponent. Virtually of the existing weapons have additional features and skills, such as the Brusque Blade's "Rising Edge" upward slash that sends the character into mid-air and tin keep to an aerial combo, and the Long Blade's "Zero Stance" skill that can cancel attack animations, thus allowing longer combos or abolish an attack to block or dodge attacks.
The Claret Arts, ane of the new additions in the game, are "attack add-on" that broaden normal attacks of all way into stronger attacks, thus either unlocking new Blood Arts or converting existing ones into much stronger variants. Raising a Blood Fine art's proficiency requires completing missions. Finishing a mission with a higher rank gives more experience points to the currently equipped Blood Art and other Blood Arts of the same variant.
Players tin can interact with diverse characters, who may invite them to optional side missions. Completing these give players materials, items, or fifty-fifty additional Blood Arts.
Unlocked through Character Episodes, Link Support Devices allow players to gain status effects in battle, such equally ten% boosted attack power from two to 5 minutes into the mission. There's a limit of 100 points that tin can be used to equip them, with each Link Device consuming anywhere from 10 to 60 points.
Plot [edit]
The game takes place 3 years after God Eater. A new pandemic caused by "Cerise Pelting" has struck the Far Eastward Branch. Members of Special Forces "Claret", an affiliate of Fenrir who reside in a mobile base, known every bit "Friar", are sent to investigate.[3]
Part 1 [edit]
The unnamed protagonist as well as Nana Kazuki are the newest God Eaters who have been institute compatible with the 'P-66 Bias-Gene' and selected to join Blood, founded past Dr. Rachel Cladius and pb by helm Julius Visconti. After his/her get-go missions, the protagonist meets Romeo Leoni, Julius'southward friend who is also a Blood fellow member; Dr. Leah Cladius, Rachel's older sister; Director Gregory de Gremslow, the base's Supreme Commander; and Yuno Ashihara, a talented singer. The Claret group is later joined by ii more P-66 God Eaters: Ciel Alençon, a master tactician from the aforementioned orphanage equally Julius, and Gilbert "Gil" McLane, who is nicknamed "Fragging Gil" since his mentor Kate Lawry was One thousand.I.A. five years agone. The Claret members lend aid to Fenrir's Far Due east Branch and work together with 'Cradle', a mobile emergency response and deployment station created after the incident at Aegis island. Each Blood member awakens their "Blood Ability" through personal trials.
Afterwards a mission, Gil reproves Romeo for his lackadaisical approach to combat. Romeo loses his temper, revealing he feels inadequate since his Claret Power has however to awaken, and runs away. An old couple shelter him during a red rain storm. After the tempest Aragami assault the hamlet. Romeo calls his Blood group, defeats them, and apologizes for his recklessness. The incident then awakens his Claret Power.
A red rain storm hits Anagura. Romeo finds out that the old couple wasn't nowadays in the quarantine zone and the radio from north gate is cleaved. He goes searching for them, with Julius backing him upwardly. However, they run into a pack of Garm Aragami and are overwhelmed. With his terminal strength, Romeo finally activates his Blood Power to scare off the Aragami. Romeo is very happy that the one-time couple was saved past Julius earlier he dies in front of him.
After Romeo'due south funeral, Julius resigns to help Dr. Rachel'southward God Arc Soldier projection, creating unmanned mechs. Julius promotes the protagonist to Captain of the Blood unit, with Ciel existence promoted to Vice-Captain. With this promotion, the Blood group is transferred to the Far Eastward Branch. The Blood detect a Marduk Aragami and kill it with God Arc Soldier assistance. Seeing the effectiveness of the God Arc Soldiers, the group sympathise why Julius refuses to render to Claret.
Responding to a distress call, Claret finds a wounded Dr. Leah, who begs them for asylum at the Far East branch. After she receives treatment, Leah tells virtually her past with Rachel. When they were kids, Leah was angered by Rachel's icy personality and pushed her down a flight of stairs, leaving her in a blackout. Their father, Jepththat Cladius, resorted to injecting her with P73 Bias Gene to save her life, but Rachel remained crippled. E'er since, Rachel has quietly exploited Leah's guilt over her injury. Decades afterward, Jepththat confronted his daughters about their unethical experiments, and they concluded upwards killing him with a prototype God Arc Soldier. Rachel is now using patients infected by the red pelting for her experiments.
Romeo's death was role of Rachel's program to use a red rain infected Julius as the new Singularity to devour all life on the planet. Fenrir dispatches the Blood Unit and Yuno to salve red rain patients and find out their programme: perform a coup d'état in Friar to gain control over it. Yuno is infected while evacuating patients, and they detect she is to get a singularity alongside Julius. The Blood unit arrives in Friar and confronts Rachel; withal, the Apocalypse is now awakened with Julius inside of it. Rachel allows herself to be captivated past information technology while Sakaki orders them to retreat.
Sakaki reveals the program to stop the Apocalypse; since Yuno is another singularity, they can summon another Devouring Apocalypse to counter Julius'. With the protagonist's Claret Ability and everyone effectually Fenrir singing Yuno'due south song, they succeed. They enter Julius's consciousness to talk to him 1 last fourth dimension. Julius then stops information technology from evolving which results in an explosion that forms a helix-shaped institute-like structure, and all the red rain patients are cured.
Pre-Rage Burst Arc [edit]
Three months afterwards, the Blood unit meets the Cradle leader: Lindow Amamiya, who asked for their assistance hunting Kyuubi, an elegant and dangerous Aragami. They find Kyuubi and manage to defeat it despite the issues encountered. Lindow later on shows his infected arm and explains to the Protagonist how he got this arm.
Side by side, Sakaki introduces Defense Unit team, where all members are 1st-generation God Eaters who Kanon used to work for. The Protagonist later gets along with them despite their differences.
Function 2 (Rage Flare-up) [edit]
Fenrir Intelligence Middle led by a director named Isaac Freedman with Livie Collete who is known equally the best God Eater in intelligence eye pay a visit to Fenrir Far East co-operative to take command of Spiral Tree which they announce to the public as "Sacred Ground for Fenrir". During the ceremony, as Freedman introduces the Spiral Tree to audience, a mysterious entity all of a sudden possesses Spiral Tree and corrupts information technology into a dirty version of Spiral Tree. Seeing this, Freedman is extremely worried about this and concerned something terrible will happen.
His fears were right: Julius'southward singularity is completely gone from Fenrir radar and the Claret unit worries something happened to him. Sakaki, Lindow, and Kota reveal that they desire to know virtually Julius's singularity whereabouts. They must use his God Arc to notice it, having known this thanks to their experiences from the events three years ago. Although the risk of finding Julius' Singularity is slim since no 1 can agree his God Arc - because it is non compatible with their body - Livie volunteers to test it, finding out that she is uniform and raising their chances of finding him. Freedman later on reveals that Livie tin can carry someone else's God Arc thanks to the unique Bias Gene inside her, as well causing her immense pain.
Development [edit]
The game was first appear on September 15, 2011 during the almanac gaming convention Tokyo Game Show.[4] At that time, during a Famitsu interview, Yusuke Tomizawa, producer of God Eater, said "God Eater two was to pinpoint what users plant fun about the game; we're taking it apart and reassembling it from scratch".[2]
A video trailer on God Eater two'south Japanese website shows that the game gives the option for PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita owners to play on a cooperative, multi-player mode with each other between platforms. A playable demo for the PlayStation Vita was released in 25 July 2013 on the Japan-region PlayStation Network.
The version i.20 update released on 21 Jan 2014 introduces a new story arc to the game.[5] The new episode features Lindow Amamiya, a returning grapheme. There is also the addition of "Raise" missions with boosted optional requirements that activate certain effects when fulfilled. The update likewise introduces new back up skills, items, costumes and weapon crafts.[6]
The i.40 patch released on 26 May 2014 introduced an online multiplayer mode supporting infrastructure play; before that, only ad hoc wireless multiplayer was supported.[7]
Downloadable content [edit]
An additional DLC episode pack titled God Eater ii: Another Episode: Render of the Defence Unit was released on 5 June 2014 and priced at one,000 yen. The expansion added a new storyline featuring characters from the original God Eater game. It besides introduced new original NPC characters, who could be used within the main game later finishing the DLC episode.[8]
God Eater 2: Rage Flare-up [edit]
God Eater 2: Rage Burst ( ゴッドイーター2 レイジバースト , Goddo Ītā 2 Reiji Bāsuto ) is an enhanced version of the original game for the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation iv.[9] A new chapter titled "Rage Outburst" is added to the story, featuring content separated into six difficulty levels within the main quests.[10] Rage Burst introduces a new game machinery known as "Claret Rage", which involves filling a yellow approximate by attacking enemies, and and so making a pledge to the God Arc once information technology activates, granting various buffs to the actor.[11] Temporary invincibility can be toggled during the pledge selection process, at the expense of draining the yellow approximate on the bottom left of the screen.[12] The game also introduces new characters, enemies and weapon types.[11] All God Eater 2 Special Episode DLC is included in Rage Burst.
The PlayStation 4 version supports 5.ane surround sound with positional audio furnishings, and NPC communication messages tin can be directed from the speaker located on the DualShock 4 controller.[13]
In December 2015, Bandai Namco's Us branch appear the western release[fourteen] [fifteen] of God Eater: Resurrection and God Eater 2: Rage Burst following a teaser website inaugural.[16]
Reception [edit]
God Eater 2 received positive reactions from critics. Famitsu gave the Vita version of the game a review score of 38/40, whilst the PSP version attained a score of 35/twoscore. God Eater ii was awarded during the Japan Game Awards 2013 by the Computer Amusement Supplier'due south Clan during the Tokyo Game Prove, as ane of xi titles within the Hereafter Partitioning winners.[24]
The PlayStation Vita version of God Eater ii topped the Media Create sales charts in Japan during its beginning week of release past replacing Battlefield 4, selling 266,326 physical retail copies, ahead of Phone call of Duty: Ghosts and Pro Development Soccer 2014 which both likewise debuted the aforementioned calendar week. In addition, the PSP version sold 112,024 copies, placing it in fourth place. The same week, PlayStation Vita console sales jumped up to 46,350 units, doubling over the previous week, while the PlayStation Vita TV, which made its Japan debut the same day as God Eater two, sold 42,172 units.[25] Prior to release, God Eater 2 was heavily marketed aslope the PlayStation Vita TV game organisation.[26]
Amid the Famitsu 2013 Superlative 100, a list of the top 100 Japanese retail software sales for the twelvemonth of 2013 from data collected past Famitsu's parent company Enterbrain, the PlayStation Vita version of God Eater 2 ranked number 20, with 354,498 physical retail sales, whilst the PlayStation Portable version ranked at number 53, with 180,781 retail sales.[27] Equally of 31 March 2014, the game shipped 700,000 copies within Nippon on both the PSP and Vita platforms according to a Namco Bandai financial report for the fiscal year ending March 2014.[28]
God Eater 2 placed quaternary place amid all digital copy games sold on the Japanese PlayStation Network overall in 2013, and the second nearly-sold digital Vita game behind Dragon's Crown.[29]
God Eater 2: Rage Burst sold 234,180 concrete copies on Vita and 37,824 on PS4 inside its debut calendar week, placing beginning and third place respectively for the weekly sales charts.[30]
Sequel [edit]
A sequel, God Eater 3 [31] was released in late 2018 in Japan and early 2019 in worldwide for PlayStation 4 and PC and in middle 2019 for Nintendo Switch. Marvelous Inc, who is best known for creating video game series like Senran Kagura, Rune Factory and Story of Season, replaced Shift.
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- ^ "GOD EATER 2 RAGE Outburst(ゴッドイーター2 レイジバースト) レビュー・評価・感想 (PS4)". Famitsu. Enterbrain. Retrieved Feb 12, 2019.
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External links [edit]
- Official Japanese website
- Official English website
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Eater_2
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