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My opinion about EARTH DEFENCE FORCE 5 about 40 missions in, has to be that it is the absolute PEAK of the 'gameplay first' design philosophy. This game has a distinct animated style that reminds me of older Gundam or Legend of Galactic Heroes, and it absolutely does the job due to the trade it takes for quality of gameplay.

This game chucks hundreds, sometimes thousands of bugs at you (mind you, about 10x your size usually) and it is absolute chaos. Play this game with at least one other person because the carnage players can rage on the environment becomes ten fold more exciting if theres multiple players. Fighting off literal hordes of various building sized enemies already sounds chaotic and intense enough, but where EDF truly shines is the customisation options offered to the player.

Four classes are accessible, each have their own very distinct playstyle and accompanying equipment, giving a sense of team synergy but also identity to each class.

Want to fly through the air with powerful lateral evasion skills and vertical mobility, whilst using extremely close range burst weapons that can absolutely shred powerful foes at point blank, and grenades/cannons that can wreak massive damage on single targets as well as tight groups? Want to use goofy throwables that will absolutely storm your screen with particle effects of your own as well as the gibs of your enemies? Pick up the Wing Diver.

Want to be an absolute juggernaut, boosting around with artillery cannons, miniguns, giant hammers, shields, flamethrowers? On top of this, want to absolutely go head to head with some of the biggest creatures and tear them apart - also whilst being able to switch between a larger arsenal of weapons than the rest of the classes? With some of the hardest to master mechanics for peak offensiveness, survivability and versatility, try Fencer.

Want to play a more standard type of soldier who boasts a huge arsenal of short to long range weaponry? Firing from afar with devastating tracking rockets, powerful snipers, call in armoured vehicles and scouting vehicles? Try the ranger for a more simple vanilla horde fighting experience.

Want to create structures, explosions and call in a wide variety of vehicles? Perhaps stick enemies or teammates with explosives, deploy shields and sentry guns, damage/shield boosts, healing stations to enhance your teams capabilities and overall firepower? Try Air Raider.

The focal of this review isnt about the enemies, AI, visuals, maps or missions, but instead the weapons and choice available to the player. This game has such an addicting gameplay loop because you are excited to unlock the next weapon insane weapon. The games missions are plentiful and options a variety of enemies and scenarios to face to test your arsenal that you slowly build up as the game goes on, including:

- It's just the player characters versus a horde as your desperately fight to defend the last defensive position before reinforcements arrive,

- A stealth type mission where you have to systematically take out a ton of larger creatures to avoid getting swarmed by the same ones,

- An all out war in which you have a huge amount of AI firepower on your side in the form of mechs, tanks and allied soldiers,

And much much more, this game is an absolute playground for the many weapons, vehicles and playstyles available to you the player. The games general horde shooter loop isn't brain rot either, there is alot of value in behind bringing certain loadouts for different missions, often you may have to discuss with your team, agreeing to bring particular classes and weapons to counter difficult scenarios. I constantly didn't mind restarting to jump between weapons and gadgets or classes to see what best fared with the environment and hostiles.

Overall, with a charmingly terrible dub and an absolutely gigantic, vast assortment of weapons for every class - with an equally as large enemy force waiting to be slaughtered - Earth Defence Force 5 is an absolute blast with friends that encourages you to constantly try out new weapons and gadgets. Japan, you've done it again

fog off

havent even played it that much, just making a good review to combat the amount of negative reviews that people will forget to switch to positive after the sony situation.

Cheers helldonkeys

If FF7 remake was at one end of the remake spectrum, I say this game represents the minimum amount of changes a remake should strive to achieve. This game is mostly the same but there's alot of tweaks and new features which are minor which make gameplay more appealing. The style is updated and not a direct 1:1 of the original game, making use of new visuals and graphics with new available technology.

Whether an old or new persona fan, 3 stands apart from 4&5 in story in particular, so i highly suggest you try this whenever.

stink

nice game

Durlags tower is pretty cool dungeon, nice mix of puzzles, rpg elements and fights. Nice little story too.
bring a rogue, or you'll wring yourself.

you do not need more bullets

After finishing the game, I have to say that this is at least the contender for best video game I have ever played. Larian studio has delivered a magnum opus. It's true that the game's final act does kinda crumble in certain aspects under the INSANE weight of Act 1 and Act 2, but it's still a very good act.
Even after this fact, I still can confidently say that this game is in my top 3, if not then definitely at the top spot.

For any newcomers to CRPGs, here's my advice - do what you want to do (though try to avoid something uninteresting like murder everything), try dumb stuff, new combinations, explore the game to its fullest. It's fantastic how much this game incorporates the player's ingenuity and decisions, with many branching paths to accommodate different player actions.

Check out Larian's other titles as well, especially Divinity Original Sin 2. Larian Studios shows what one can do without the pursuit of corporate greed being the keystone objective of the existence of a studio's game.

overwatch 1 > overwatch 2

Look at the recent dev post, playing the victim, well done.

My review (and I'm sure many others) focus upon Overwatch 2, aka the new content that has been added on top of OW1. Be not mistaken, the foundation is fantastic. The game is very much an icon to the hero shooter genre - but what matters this is OW2. The changes which accompanied the '2' simply didn't meet expectations and thus deserves the 'review bombing' mentioned in the recent dev post (which makes it sound unjustified btw lol).

Rip bozo

I've only just played 4 hours of this game but I felt compelled to create a review based on my experience. Coming from Slay The Spire (spending around 120 hours in that game), I couldn't find a roguelike and deckbuilder which was similar enough, but also different and varied enough to StS to scratch the same itch. Chrono Ark, despite being an amazing title, didn't cover the same feeling of enjoyment that StS did.

That's when I saw Monster Train on the steam store. Whilst initially I believed it to be some cheap mobile game port going by the font, art and screenshots, I looked closely and saw many elements resembling that of Slay the Spire, and was immediately interested in picking up the game. This was no mistake. The game, fundamentally, follows the slay the spire / roguelike deckbuilder gameplay, with spells, items, relics and story events etc to find on your journey. However, as aforementioned, the game switches it up and adds some very interesting caveats which instantly hooked me further.

There will be more to come on this review once I hit the higher levels and unlock the rest of the covenants (I've been victorious in one run so far, and the variation I currently have, as well as all the variation and rewards ahead of me suggest that I could easily spend another 60 hours or so in this game. In any case, I intend to write a much more detailed review at that time but wished to create a review early to say the following:

If you are looking for a game like slay the spire, but believe you have more or less exhausted StS vanilla content, then try this game. It's fantastic.