EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS

Not played much but it's fun, the gameplay is simple-enough to get used to, the upgrade system makes sense, the levels though small by EDF standards are way more varied and well put together and it's remarkably charming. It's also somehow more complex and engaging than iron-rain (the worst EDF title) without breaking it's casual gameplay nature.

EDF never takes itself seriously, and this is just the next step of comedy.

I feel like this game simplifies the formula of EDF too much to be fun which is a shame. It does some interesting things by allowing you to switch characters and get some pretty wild variants of different classes that function differently. As you get duplicates of various characters, you level them up and gain more weapon variety which allows you greater flexibility in creating your ideal team. In this game you also see a lot more different locales than the main series which is kind of nice and the enemy variety is pretty decent. Unfortunately because you don't have really enough fun stuff to play with compared to the main line series I found this a little too uninteresting to play long term. I also found the jokes due to the simplification to be a too hamfisted in this series but I do get its geared more towards younger children. Overall, I personally can't recommend this as the second game does a lot of the same things but remains the spirit of the series and still remains fun with its dumbing down of the series.

How can you call me your world brother when you oven the cold food ovout the hot food eat the food??

Oh right, I never left a review on this. Well, my low playtime combined with how long I've owned it should tell a lot about how thoroughly underwhelmed it left me. Some compare it positively to Iron Rain, and frankly I could not disagree more, and this is while acknowledging IR is an incredibly flawed game that could have used a lot of extra work. Sure, this game doesn't rely on consumables with use animations that get cancelled by scratch damage or the heavier enemies walking too close to you, but that's about the only good thing I can say about it. Thing is, I'd rather play a flawed game with some fun aspects than a game that lacks such glaring flaws, but is also completely lacking in anything actually enjoyable, and this is so blatantly the later. Let's see, what does this game do well? It sure isn't humor, borderline-offensive national stereotypes constantly repeating their one singular joke aren't exactly funny. Is it being a celebration of the EDF series? Most of the cast and weapons are the aforementioned national stereotypes and their signature, non-EDF weapons, and most of the more interesting EDF weapons that are featured at all are locked behind specific EDF members'…

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