GOD EATER 2 Rage Burst

In case you’re not too sure of what you’re buying: you buy God Eater 2 Rage Burst and get God Eater Resurrection for free.
Quick history lesson:
The first god eater game, God Eater (GE), released all the way back in 2010 or so. It was released later that year as Gods Eater Burst (GEB), and GEB included more content such as more story missions, items, etc. Then, they made God Eater 2 (GE2), and that was also released later as God Eater 2 Rage Burst (GE2RB) with more things tacked on. Lastly, they redid GEB by using GE2RB’s engine and made God Eater Resurrection (GER). GER not only has more story, but more story! It also introduces Predator Style, a gameplay mechanic that made GER a god damn amazing game. In fact, it almost made me not want to play GE2RB.
To summarize, GER is a remastered version of GE, and GE2RB is a remastered version of GE2. If you care about the story, you’ll play GER first and GE2RB second. If you absolutely do not give a single shit about the story, play whichever order you want. Hell, go to God Eater 3 if you want! Though, I do recommend playing these two games.
So… what is it about these games that makes it worth playing? Well, let me first explain what kind of game God Eater is. This is a game akin to the Monster Hunter franchise, in which you select a mission, start said mission, kill specified monsters, leave mission, and repeat. These games, despite having the same overall premise, are different in pretty much every other aspect. God Eater takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, where monsters known as Aragami appeared and started devouring everyone. Humanity was largely killed and the remaining ones either retreated in heavily fortified cities or stayed out in the middle of who knows where, hoping that they wouldn't get eaten. In order to combat the Aragami threat, an organization known as Fenrir researched and developed a method to turn ordinary people into God Eaters. These God Eaters would be injected with the same cells that make up the Aragami and, if compatible, are capable of wielding God Arcs, the only weapons capable of harming and defeating the Aragami.
In whichever game you play, you play as a God Eater in either the 2nd or 3rd generation. Originally, God Eaters could only use either a melee weapon or a ranged weapon. Starting in the 2nd generation and onwards, God Eaters are capable of wielding both gun and blade. Of course, if you played the game as a 1st generation, that would be incredibly boring and would make you feel jealous when an NPC can use both gun and blade.
I’ve already described the gameplay, and that it is akin to Monster Hunter. However, what about everything else? For weapons, you can use either a short blade, long blade, buster blade, boost hammer, charge spear, or variant scythe as your melee. For your ranged weapon, it can either be a blast gun, assault gun, sniper rifle, or shotgun. On top of this, you also have a shield, which could either be a buckler, shield, or tower shield. Each different type of item comes with its own advantages and mechanics. This allows you to achieve various types of builds and playstyles, and therefore easily add multiple hours to your game because, if you’re like me, you’ll be spending so damn long just tweaking the same build you’ve been using for the past 20 hours.
With your build, off you go killing Aragami! Alongside you are various NPCs that act as your teammates. Do note that these teammates are god awful and will not kill an Aragami without your help (unless it’s a very weak one). However, I’ve grown to love these NPCs because they aren’t just nameless soldiers you bring along. They’re fully written characters with their own personalities and whatnot. On top of this, sometimes after a mission, you can actually initiate a post-mission scene with a certain teammate where you interact with them in some regard. I absolutely love this. When you play Monster Hunter, none of the characters have actual names. I remember poking fun at “Excitable A-Lister” in Monster Hunter World. In God Eater, the characters have more than just that and it honestly makes me want to play God Eater rather than Monster Hunter. Again, I absolutely love this.
There’s of course much more to talk about. By that, I mean the story. All I’m going to say is that the story isn’t bad. That’s about it. However, I will end off with one IMPORTANT detail. This detail is God Eater’s only negative point, and it lies with shitty publishing decisions when they moved the game from Japan to here. This negative is… the god damn horrifying English voice acting.
Don’t get me wrong; I can stand English voice acting in an anime game so long as it’s good. If you ever play NieR:Automata, that game had really good English voice acting to the point where I never bothered checking out the Japanese dub. HOWEVER, GOD EATER DOES NOT HAVE A GOOD ENGLISH DUB. I say this because there exist certain characters that just have the worst damn voices I have ever heard. These voice actors attempted to play a character that they absolutely could NOT nail. This was mostly prevalent in GER; in GE2RB, there was only perhaps one character whose English voice I didn’t like all that much. You do get used to the voices, and it’s not like all of them will mentally damage you (except for the god awful voices previously mentioned).
There is a Japanese dub mod that was/is(?) in the making, but not only is it not completely finished, but I could not find out whether it was still even being worked on. Therefore, don’t get your hopes up.
Get the game if it interests you. If you don’t like it, just refund it. Make sure to play the game enough in the 2 hours Steam allows you to have in a game and still let it be refunded.
Also, I recommend playing with a controller. The game comes with already-added PS4 controller support (as it was originally a PS4 game that was ported to PC), so you don’t need to get some program so that the game can register your PS4 controller inputs. It’s already there. Of course, you can also use an Xbox controller or a controller from some company like Logitech.
Another quick note: this game goes on sale fairly cheap, so wait then. I bought it for USD$9.99, and it was very worth it.

In my ongoing and likely futile effort to write a Steam review for every game in my library (#458 out of 612)... it's time for God Eater 2: Rage Burst.
Going into this I should probably state that I'm not terribly fond of the Monster Hunter-style of game, and God Eater 2 is a very much a Monster Hunter-like. (Is this even a recognized subgenre yet?) As such it's built around the same basic formula: go out and fight large bosses with grossly inflated HP-values that take far too long to kill, hope they drop some good loot, and then use what you can to craft whatever equipment upgrades you can manage. It's a solid, well-refined Skinner Box formula that works very well in multiplayer games—where, I'm sure, God Eater 2 shines—but I tend to play my games offline, where the progression curve for most Monster Hunter-likes is an unendurable slog.
God Eater mostly differs from Monster Hunter in that rather than wilderness, you'll be doing most of your monster-slaying in a generic post-apocalyptic setting. God Eater 2 is (shockingly) a port of a Playstation Portable game, but the PC port does an excellent job rendering everything in HD (parts of the game are genuinely gorgeous and the anime-style character models are among the best I've seen) but you'll still be dealing with small, empty environments constructed out of extremely low-poly assets.
Anyway, there are several key differences between God Eater 2 and Monster Hunter you should be aware of:
1. Combat is much more fluid, with less of a delay between input and action.
2. Each weapon can transform into different modes – typically melee form, ranged form, shield form and monster form.
3. There's much more of a narrative focus (NPCs have actual names, for starters) and if you're playing offline you'll be supported by generally-helpful NPCs instead of being forced to solo everything.
4. The whole game is presented in a very fanservicey anime aesthetic that gives you a lot of freedom with regard to character customization—which you can modify at-will after starting your game.
So with all of that in mind, I think God Eater 2 is definitely one of the better Monster Hunter-likes, and in certain respects is a better game than Monster Hunter itself. If you're looking for a good story-focused game, I'm not sure it will deliver (what I saw of the story was pretty dull) but for a customization-heavy Monster Hunter-style game, God Eater 2 seems more than capable enough—especially so if you think you'll be dabbling much with the multiplayer side of things.

the only thing that this game need is Japanese dub, SERIOUSLY !!

It's Monster Hunter, but anime. Also it's faster than MH, you are usually accompanied by 3 NPCs and often you must fight several medium or large aragami at once. Most missions are quite easy regardless and you are unlikely to feel challenged unless you go out of your way to not upgrade your equipment or try one of the most difficult challenge missions.
On that note the games can be quite grindy if you really want a certain piece of equipment, I just listen to something in the background while I play in those cases.
It's not hard to go from God Eater Resurrection to God Eater 2 Rage Burst and vice versa thanks to the retroactive improvements brought to the former for the definitive release, but I'd still recommend playing them in order because the tutorial in the second game is kinda anemic, I believe the developers expect players to play Resurrection first.
I've seen some people praise the story but I found it kinda cheesy and cliché ridden, it's hard for me to not see Alisa as a a discount Asuka and Ciel as a poor man's Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Not to mention Romeo, Gilbert and Julius are Kota, Soma and Lindow 2.0 respectively, a lot of themes and character traits are repeated in God Eater 2 and I think the first one did it better. However I do like that we actually have a reason to go around exterminating cool monsters instead of just doing it for sport.
Overall I found both games to be a positive experience and I'm glad I played them. They are kind of pricey for their age if you only want God Eater Resurrection or God Eater 2 Rage Burst so I think they should have different store pages, but they are great value together nonetheless.
By the way I hate Hibari in the first game, Jesus Christ she never stops screaming. That's the last thing I need when a mission goes south to help me calm down and assess the situation.

パッチ日本の声優が必要です！
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I Bought the game for Alisa Under titty

+ Many gameplay improvements over the first game.
+ Guns are still OP.
- First game's story was better.
- No Japanese audio when there are idols in the game