Gods – taste just like chicken

At first glance, it is easy to dismiss Namco Bandai’s God Eater as nothing more than a clone of Capcom’s cult hit: Monster Hunter. After all, both games involve exploring and killing humongous creatures. However, if you are willing to look deeper beneath God Eater’s surface, there are some intriguing ideas that could elevate it above its current cash-in status.

The world has been destroyed countless times in games, film and any other form of popular media. God Eater abandons the now cliché cyborgs and human killing machines of yore in favor of gigantic invading creatures called the ‘Aragami.’ Roughly translated in English as the ‘Raging Gods,’ the Aragami have eliminated almost all of human life, save for a select handful of people who managed to survive.

The four playable characters known as “God Eaters” who have survived owe thanks to the Fenrir Corporation, a pharmaceutical company that harnesses “Origin Physics” energy. This energy allows the company to create bioorganic weapons called Jinki. The Jinki are extremely powerful weapons that are fused with humans, allowing your character to have much more speed, strength, and most importantly, techniques and abilities used to kill the Aragami.

Both the story and the structure of God Eater are generally quite straightforward. In the game, you have to go to the Fenrir Corporation to get a mission to hunt down and kill an Aragami creature. If you succeed in these missions, you will be rewarded with prizes, gifts and new attack techniques to slay other Aragami. However, these rewards are all judged based on how quickly and efficiently you slay the Aragami.

It is true that we have all seen a decimated world before, but there seem to be enough twists and turns in the game’s narrative to prevent predictability.

Bring more than a fork and knife

The gameplay of God Eater is where comparisons of Monster Hunter will instantly come in. Like Monster Hunter, your playable character will be using ridiculously oversized weapons, and your primary goal is to search for these horrific creatures and kill them.

Your Jinki weapon is not just your standard sword, though. The Jinki in this game will have the unique ability to mimic shapes of various different objects in order to be used in combat. In the game, you will have two default combat modes called Blade Mode and Gun mode. Each mode has a specific function. Each weapon will also have its own set of attacks. The special attacks will be executed by pressing the triangle and square buttons, allowing you to perform a large amount of damage on an Aragami monster.