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''Gods Eater Burst'' is a PSP action-adventure game developed by Shift and published by [[Namco Bandai]]. Originally released in Japan as ''God Eater'' in February 2010, it received an [[Updated Rerelease]] in October and localized for North America and Europe by D3 Publisher under the name ''Gods Eater Burst'' on March 2011, sporting new missions and items, as well as various gameplay tweaks and balances.

 

 

Set in [[After the End|a post-apocalyptic world]] where monsters known as Aragami have destroyed nearly everything and [[Crapsack World|pushed humanity to the brink of extinction]], the player becomes a Gods Eater for the Fenrir Corporation, one who hunts Aragami using the God Arc, the only weapon proven to be effective against them. Along with your fellow Gods Eaters, you fight to survive and perhaps in time, learn of the true nature of the threat the planet faces.

* [[Armor Is Useless]]: The clothes you can create have no effect on gameplay outside of aesthetics, which can be kinda jarring when you consider that samurai armor give you no more protection than a swimsuit. Possibly handwaved in that the injection of Bias Factor necessary to become a Gods Eater grants the user increased physical abilities.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Licca Kusunoki has no speaking parts and plays very little part in the main Gods Eater story. In the Burst story, though, she not only gets screen time and a voice actress, but she also plays a part in the story when some Vajratails get into the base.

** A notable example would be the Ouroboros; the Database describes it to be as big as a mountain, and when you see it, you'll find that they weren't exaggerating.

* [[The Bait]]: Kota's "Lovely {{spoiler|Lindow}} Luring Line-Up" plan uses a team of female-only God Eaters as bait to Lure out {{spoiler|Lindow}}. After it ended in failure he reveals "Lovely {{spoiler|Lindow}} Luring Line-Up Version 2" which is basically Version 1 plus beer.

** On the matter of Burst Mode, all God Arcs have a Devour move, though those that plan to get gutsy can also use it to trigger [[Super Mode|Burst Mode]] as well

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Karel Schneider's preferred modus operandi is to sneak up on Aragami and poison them.

* [[Cowardly Boss]]: Every Boss. If the map allows it they will run.

** Even if the spot they run to is only two yards away, taking them out of [[Turns Red|rage]] without you having to run so much would be a pain in the butt.

* [[Crapsack World]]: Humanity has been pushed to near-extinction by the Aragami, and the one organization capable of fighting them may not be telling the entire truth of the matter. However, people are still ''mostly'' good on an individual basis.

** {{spoiler|Much later on in the game, during the new Burst story line, your [[Silent Protagonist]] speaks to Lindow, [[Dual Wield|DualWields]] his/her God Arc ''and'' Lindow's, then proceeds to ''rip the final boss's mouth open.'' It's as awesome as it sounds.}}

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: The game has four people at the most- although they have big-ass swords- kicking the tuchus of monsters at least the size of a large hill. On a daily basis.

* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Blaze (Fire), Freeze (Ice), Shock (Lightning), and [[Infinite Plus One Element|Divine (Holy)]] that act as modifiers to non-elemental physical attack properties.

* [[The Empire]]: The Fenrir Corporation has shades of this. They are the dominant power in the world since they are the only ones who can fight the Aragami, but they can force anyone they want to undergo the eligibility test to become a Gods Eater. Additionally, Fenrir bases (the safest places in the world at the moment) can only sustain so many people, so those not rich/affluent/directly useful enough are forced to live in the Outer Ghetto.

** The Kongoa is similar to both the Congalala and Blagonga from the same franchise, even sharing their shockwave bodyslam move.

* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: The Aragami have eaten much of what used to exist on Earth. Including rather large chunks of the ''buildings''.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: The Chi-you is lovingly called "Birdman" by many God Eaters.

* [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]]: Three of the four type of bullets available to you, the other type being [[Holy Hand Grenade|Divine]].

* [[Freak-Out]]: One unstable party member completely loses it and has to be hospitalized and medicated heavily at one point.

* [[Friendly Fire Index|Friendly Fire]]: [[The Medic|Kanon Daiba]]. ''Constantly''. It's so bad her teammates jump out of her gun's trajectory -- even when she tries to use [[Healing Shiv|Recovery bullets]] on them.

* [[Gag Boobs]]: One of the Fallen Ouroboros has a pair that are probably larger then the main characters themselves and they generally just... bounce around when the main body moves.

* [[Gainaxing]]: Disturbingly enough, it's not found in the humans, but in several of the Aragami. Both the Zygote and Sariel species of Aragami tend to "bounce" when they are knocked out of the air. It's not very noticable, but it's there. For a more noticable example, see [[Gag Boobs]].

* [[Healing Shiv]]: You can create healing bullets to shoot your friends or NPC allies with.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Happens to the protagonist when s/he discovers that the Hannibal is actually Lindow transformed into an Aragami.}}

** [[Naruto|Sakura]] just had a [[Freak-Out]] and is hospitalized due to her mental health, while [[Naruto|Sasuke]] is, [[Typecasting|yet again,]] an [[Ineffectual Loner]]. [[Defrosting Ice Queen|He gets better this time, though.]]

** In his more serious moments, you'd expect Kota to start [[Code Geass|magically ordering people to commit suicide.]]

* [[Item Crafting]]: Besides the standard Build and Upgrade, you can also make your own Bullets in this manner.

** You can also use several items to make one item, or vice versa. This allows you to gather different resources than the ones specified in a weapon's recipe list, then convert your resources to the resources required.

* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]: The Chi-you's energy-based projectile attacks, especially the charged-up final blast of the combo.

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Shun Ogawa likes to leave his teammates behind and charge enemies on his own. Doubles with [[Suicidal Overconfidence]] as his profile states that he lacks the skills necessary to handle such antics.

* [[No Cutscene Inventory Inertia]]: Partially averted. Your character will ''usually'' have their exact equipment showing in cutscenes, but replaying some earlier cutscenes with late-game clothing equipped will cause those items to be replaced by the default uniform items. In a less noticeable instance, your character will always hold their God Arc in blade form, regardless of details like having been in gun form two seconds ago.

* [[No Export for You]]: Not for the game itself, but for later versions of its DLC. There is demand for it amongst its players, but D3 Publisher ''bluntly stated'' on their Facebook page that they would not bring them over to the English version due to localization issues (i.e. the third-party promotional items).

* [[Picky Eater]]: The basis of every bit of Anti-Aragami tech is using the Bias-Factor to make the [[Extreme Omnivore|Oracle Cells]] into this.

* [[Purely Aesthetic Gender]]: Due in no small part to your status as [[Silent Protagonist]].

* [[Randomly Drops]]: Every Aragami has somewhere between five and ten different materials that you can get if you devour their cores after you kill them and every material has a fixed drop rate. Gets infuriating later on as creating and upgrading the high end equipment requires multiples of the material with the lowest drop rate. <ref>For example creating the Löweberg requires among other things 4 Emperor Fangs. You get Emperor Fangs from Dyaus Pita, the biggest and baddest member of the Vajra Line of Aragami. The drop rate of an Emperor Fang? 8%.</ref>

* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: The Ouroboros and Arda Nova type Aragami will use these often. And so can you when you devour them.

* [[Wrench Wench]]: Licca Kusunoki, in charge of maintaining the Far East Branch's God Arcs.

 

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