I realize that I’ve probably done a horrible job of selling God Eater Resurrection. If you don’t feel like paying attention, though, you don’t have to worry about missing too much. I couldn’t tell you what it is, beyond a bunch of students fighting to save the world for their own disparate reasons, but apparently the game’s lore is deep enough that it could inspire an anime of the same name. I should here acknowledge that God Eater Resurrection does, in fact, have a story. You hack, you slash, you shoot your oversized gun, and then you return back to the hub world and pick up your next mission. Many of the levels can be beaten in under five minutes, and on the rare occasion you can’t, the goals are still simple enough that you’re not likely to be at risk of putting the game aside, coming back, and forgetting what it was you were doing. Yes, the ultimate goal is exactly the same as what you’ll find in Monster Sacrifice Wars - go to area X, kill everything in sight, gather items, repeat - but it’s clear that GRE was designed with gaming on the go in mind. I’m not saying that it’ll dazzle you with the most amazing graphics you’ve ever seen or anything, but you won’t offend your eyes, either. In contrast to some of those titles I mentioned in the last paragraph, GRE’s world never fades into muddy brown colours.
You might not expect a remade PSP game to look all that great on the Vita, but it holds up pretty well.
For one thing, it looks a lot better than many of its ilk. Just because it’s been done before, however, doesn’t mean that God Eater Resurrection doesn’t do anything worthwhile. There are minor differences here and there, but really, if you’ve even played one monster hunting game, you’ll know what’s in store here. You have a team of fighters/archetypes, and you need to rescue your village/city/world from the brink of destruction by defeating all kinds of monsters. Anyone who’s played Monster Hunter - or Toukiden, or Freedom Wars, or Soul Sacrifice, or Ragnarok Odyssey, or any of the myriad other imitators that have come out over the last several years - will know what to expect here. The broad strokes here haven’t changed all that much. Honestly, that’s still a pretty fair assessment. What’s more, it’s a remake of a PSP game that didn’t exactly blow people away the first time around, that most people remember - to the extent they remember it at all - as a Monster Hunter clone. After all, it’s basically a remake of a 2011 PSP game, Gods Eater Burst. God Eater Resurrection may have come out fairly recently, but don’t mistake it for being a new game.