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Release Dates: JP: June 26, 2014 NA: October 28, 2014 EU: October 31, 2014 PS-TV Compatible Play with us on IRC! #vita on irc.synirc.net Freedom Wars is a Hunting-Action title, first and foremost. If you don't like Monster Hunter, or God Eater, or Soul Sacrifice, or Toukiden (seriously, you've had your chance to figure it out by now), turn back.This is not the game (or genre) for you. It's also anime as gently caress, so if you can't stand that you should head out as well. What the game itself brings to the table is an incredible amount of 3D Mobility that puts all of the other games in the genre to shame, Gunplay that may or may not compare to God Eater depending on how you view it, and honest to god Player Versus Player combat. It also has an amazing soundtrack. It is the year 102014 A.D., life on the planet has long since become unsustainable. Unbelievable war, the passage of time, and the Abductors that have taken residence in the Sky Prisons have ravaged the surface to the point of being absolutely unlivable. It is impossible to exist outside, and these creatures execute Divine Punishment upon anybody foolish enough to venture out. Humanity has thus moved to subterranean shelters that were dubbed 'Panopticons'. The struggle to sustain themselves with intense resource scarcity, and additionally contend with researching a means of restoring the surface to something habitable, has created a very dystopian situation. Panopticons are constantly engaged in strife with one another over the limited resources at their disposal, and the raging war against the Abductors is not helping. The only recourse has been to force all criminals to volunteer in the war efforts. Anybody arrested for any reason is now a volunteer, regardless of your innocence or guilt. Newborn life is the most taxing on a Panopticon's resources, so the act of being born is the most heinous crime of all, and the sentence is One Million Years The Weapons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zETCsZ5MyBU
Elements Similar to most titles in the genre, if your weapon has an element it will deal extra damage with that elemental type. Each element also has an associated Status effect that can be inflicted:
Some Abductors have an associated element. In this case, the chain is (Fire > Ice > Electric > Will'O > Fire) for which element will deal extra damage to a target. Weapon Manufacturing (Most helpful thread about this info) This is probably the most bullshit part of the game by far. Upon first glance, the weaponry is essentially diablo-esque in that it's random upon manufacture/seizure. For all intents and purposes this is mostly true. Aside from upgrading, it is not worth trying to make specific weapons until Code 8/Post-Game. However, for a huge investment of time and resources, you can eventually craft out a peak-efficacy weapon exactly how you want it to be. This is going to be the 'short' version of the steps required to achieve this process. Step 1: Manufacture the base weapon of choice in a maxed out Weapons Facility until you come out with one at Rarity 8 with the lowest possible starting Power value (a variance of 0-10 from the lowest value [but depends on weapon as well, refer to the colored column in this spreadsheet for the cutoff Power value for each weapon] is acceptable in this case). Step 2: Modify it using any weapons repeatedly until the base Power and Impact stat stop raising. If you intend to raise an Element, refer to 3b. Step 3a: Upgrade your weapon, repeat Step 2 until it asks you to manufacture an Advance Model. Always pick the first option, the one for raw damage/impact, as it increases the base minimum cap for the impact stat. Step 3b: Upgrade any weapons to an Advance Model, and select the relevant element for your weapon in 3a. Ensure that it only has points in the element you intend to raise. Begin modifying this into the weapon until the desired Element stops increasing. (Total caps out at 100 of any combination of elements) Step 4: Repeat Step 2/3b again until weapon is fully upgraded and all relevant values are capped out. Step 5a: Farm missions where you can seize sinner weapons and start hoping you get the mods you want. Step 5b: Begin collecting Entitlement Points and as many Will'O-nites/Seleniums as possible. Step 6: Modify your weapon with the weapons from 5a and the resources from 5b. It costs 5k EP to remove mods you don't want, do this at the Cell Garden at 6-F140. Repeat this until you have the desired collection of modifications on your weapon. Congratulations! It has been two weeks and your beard touches the floor. You have now completed a single perfect weapon. Now do it again, For the Greater Good! The Thorn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNbQVtrHr0w The Thorn is the primary gimmick to the gameplay in Freedom Wars. If you've played Toukiden, it's very much reminiscent and an expanded upon concept of the Kusarigama gameplay. If you've played Lost Planet, imagine if your grappling hook could be used anywhere on the terrain or against any of the enemies/bosses. If you're familiar with Attack on Titan, it's pretty much literally the 3D Maneuver Gear. The Thorn is your primary means of traversal on the surface and a highly important combat utility. If you don't think this is the coolest poo poo, I don't know what to tell you. While all usable Thorns have the same kind of movement options, they are divided into three classifications for their additional features:
Another important detail is that you can pick up items/parts and REVIVE YOUR TEAM MATES FROM A DISTANCE by shooting them with your Thorn. The reticle will turn green to indicate one of these targets. Your Accessory (They're the ones in the trenchcoats) Volunteers cannot be allowed to simply leave to the surface unsupervised, so each one is assigned an Accessory. In-game, this will function as a permanent AI partner that you can customize to an amazing degree and is functionally Your Second Character. They will even accompany you online in multiplayer. While you can equip a set of two weapons, Accessories can only handle one. If your Accessory is KO'd and you don't revive it, it will be captured by an Abductor (either the one you are fighting or a Mobile Carrier will appear to take it). If you are unable to rescue it within 3 minutes, it will be lost and you will have to undergo a special rescue operation to retrieve it (while being saddled with a lovely, uncustomizeable spare). Abductors The main goal of the game is to dispatch these weird things that more or less dictate battle on the planet now. Unlike any other Hunting-Action title, often your goal here is not to specifically destroy the target, but to disable it, rescue the civilian resource it has abducted, and return them safely to the Panopticon. Failure to complete this typically results in your sentence being extended. Abductors will also often come in pairs (sometimes more), and there are a multitude of variations on any individual Abductor type. Utilize your equipment and your allies to complete the objectives and earn your freedom. Abductors have a variety of AI modes. The primary will be self-preservation, which is basically like any regular hunt. It will prioritize targets that are actively severing limbs or attempting Dragdowns. One is retrieval, where after you have broken a pod and taken a captive Citizen to try and reclaim. It will chase the Citizen at the expense of anything else. The last mode is a panic mode, where it simply attacks twice as fast and hard to try and remove all threats. There are 7 main archetypes of Abductor:
Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuR9zVQUiNE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcGDRGZ960s If there's anything you want added to the OP, post/PM me/whatever. Emalde fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Nov 5, 2014 |
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# ? May 21, 2024 17:59 |
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Thanks for posting this. So hyped. Would totally preorder if it was up on PSN right now. For... now... we wait.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 00:45 |
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As a heads up, the producer for the game's English release has said that the PVP patch (1.20) is now live on the PSN so it'll be ready for launch. I'm getting really excited for this, just F5ing the gently caress out of my tracking information. I spent a ton of time today messing around with the Japanese language demo (why did they not put that out overseas?) customizing my character and Accessory then seeing what I could do with the Thorn system. The only issue I have with the controls is the weird cover system, as the button to pop out of cover is square rather than aim button for some reason? Maybe that got fixed in the updates between Japanese pre-release and now.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 00:48 |
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I'm excited to start this up when I get home from classes tomorrow, I'm guessing I should just throw my PSN up in the IRC?
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 01:18 |
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Apparently there's even a game in here beyond the character customization. Amazing.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 01:49 |
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Debating taking the day off just to speg out on this. I'm hoping the online lasts more than like a week though.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 01:53 |
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They fixed those ranged, stunlocking dudes right?
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 01:56 |
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When you say "anime as gently caress" do you mean like Dragonball or that game where you rub your Vita to strip monster girls or what
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 02:04 |
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Really Pants posted:When you say "anime as gently caress" do you mean like Dragonball or that game where you rub your Vita to strip monster girls or what all of it. there is no "kinds of anime", there is only anime. this game is anime. RentACop posted:They fixed those ranged, stunlocking dudes right? Reportedly toned down, but still listed as an annoyance in anything you'll read about the game.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 02:04 |
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pretty excited to play this tomorrow
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 02:05 |
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RentACop posted:They fixed those ranged, stunlocking dudes right? One of the first patches they put out dealt with downgrading the difficulty of human enemies that can do that, the game's director was like "yo some of that poo poo is just you being bad but some of it is bullshit soooo" they put it in with one of their patch updates. It's really hard to find English language patch notes apparently, but if your browser has auto-translate then you can peruse them here. Looking through it myself, having Lock-On for guns was a sorely needed addition. They've done a surprising amount of user-oriented updates and given a bunch of free content out too, kinda nice.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 02:11 |
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Emalde posted:all of it. there is no "kinds of anime", there is only anime. this game is anime. I just want to know if I would get arrested for playing this in public The guns remind me a little of EDF, which is always good. Are there any giant hordes of little monsters to mow down or is it all big huge things?
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 02:29 |
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Really Pants posted:I just want to know if I would get arrested for playing this in public it's as insanely anime as hit game persona 4, which means you shouldn't play it in public.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 02:36 |
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Really Pants posted:The guns remind me a little of EDF, which is always good. Are there any giant hordes of little monsters to mow down or is it all big huge things? The smallest you get are direct engagements with other human panopticon residents, there is absolutely nothing resembling hordes in this game.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 02:38 |
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The demo has a fight where one of the Abductors is accompanied by a ton of tiny little floating robots that try to hurt you, they respawned after awhile too while I was rescuing the civilians.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 02:38 |
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Wait, I can't even kill the drat things? That's a bit disappointing.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 03:50 |
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How is SP content on FW? My play times can be weird and in spurts so I can never rely on having a steady times slot to play handheld games.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 04:11 |
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Volt Catfish posted:Wait, I can't even kill the drat things? That's a bit disappointing. You definitely can, it's just not your usual objective. oblomov posted:How is SP content on FW? My play times can be weird and in spurts so I can never rely on having a steady times slot to play handheld games. It's like any Hunting-Action title, where you can more or less do the entire thing solo and the experience simply improves with more people. This game is definitely on the hard side for Solo play, but with appropriate use of your equipment setup and Accessory, the entire game can be cleared.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 04:24 |
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Crossing my fingers I can make my accessory yell "Yes, My Lord!" like I saw in a demo video so I can live out my code geass fantasy.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 09:01 |
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I don't know if this is finally on psn yet but amazon has download codes up http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Wars-PlayStation-Vita/dp/B00JQI471A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414486019&sr=8-1&keywords=freedom+wars and i'm downloading mine right now. I'm pleasantly suprised it's only 30 bucks. freaking warriors orochi was 40 bucks.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 09:48 |
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Hope its good, got a PSV TV for this haha
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 10:35 |
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Uuuuh so just FYI, The game makes you join a patpicon from a list of various cities. apparantly this will be the town your fighting for in pvp, and i guess the server you'll be on? It's also a "paid service" to switch. sooo yeah maybe we should get some consensus on what place to roll on if we are gonna play together. I just picked the Houston Patpicon since thats the closest city I live near, but I can change if need be. Kind of outta left field for me though.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 11:23 |
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polish sausage posted:Uuuuh so just FYI, The game makes you join a patpicon from a list of various cities. apparantly this will be the town your fighting for in pvp, and i guess the server you'll be on? It's also a "paid service" to switch. sooo yeah maybe we should get some consensus on what place to roll on if we are gonna play together. I just picked the Houston Patpicon since thats the closest city I live near, but I can change if need be. Kind of outta left field for me though. I joined New York since I'm east coast and if this also determines matchmaking (does anyone know?) I figured I'd want people in my timezone. It's all guesswork at this point. The gamecode arrived at some point during the night and I started the download when I woke up. It's 1.5GB or so.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 12:39 |
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Oh right, Panopticons. I guess I'll explain that for a moment. Panopticons are the future cities in Freedom Wars, you can join one of over 50 different ones to fight for online. You can view this list here. According to developer replies from that article, players are not restricted from playing co-op or PVP with players from other Panopticons. So if you're in Toronto then you can fight a Madrid player or co-op with someone from Mumbai. The main deal behind Panopticons is like an online ranking system, all the points you earn playing online are sent to the game servers which rank you and your Panopticon versus everyone else's, and players who "support their Panopticon well" can earn weekly rewards. Supposedly the more players a Panopticon has, the harder the players have to work to earn their bonus. FYI: Tokyo, Japan in the NA/EU release is not Tokyo, Japan in the JPN release. Japanese prefectures are not ranked against worldwide cities, but SCEA has said players from NA/EU can play with JPN region players.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 12:41 |
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Man, I have too much poo poo to play right now and not enough time. Maybe i'll get in on this in a few weeks.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 14:11 |
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The store that which I have a discount in, and is actually open now does not Freedom Wars in stock, but apparently Best Buy does which opens in 2 hours. So waiting it is.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 14:19 |
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polish sausage posted:Uuuuh so just FYI, The game makes you join a patpicon from a list of various cities. apparantly this will be the town your fighting for in pvp, and i guess the server you'll be on? It's also a "paid service" to switch. sooo yeah maybe we should get some consensus on what place to roll on if we are gonna play together. I just picked the Houston Patpicon since thats the closest city I live near, but I can change if need be. Kind of outta left field for me though. Yeah this has pretty much no bearing at all on your experience in the game.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 14:40 |
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Our store has the R3 version. Any difference with the R1?
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 14:40 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeHYPTMnveI Launch trailer and article from PlayStation. Sony extended the time window to get The Reclamation Pack from the PSN, you now have until Nov. 11th to buy it off the PSN if you want the goodies for free. If you pre-ordered from somewhere like Amazon or EB Games then you get a code anyway, just got mine in the mail from Amazon. PVP patch out today, several weeks of DLC ranging from weapons to customization planned and some of it is free.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 14:43 |
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Any goon impressions yet? I was excited for this but heard middling things from people who imported the Japanese version.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 15:39 |
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DrManiac posted:Any goon impressions yet? I was excited for this but heard middling things from people who imported the Japanese version. So far the game looks really really deep. I have been through the character creation and the first few missions and have been realllly impressed with what I've seen. I love the grappling hook and I haven't even scratched the surface yet. I'm going to try to delve deeper at lunch. Also, to change Panopticons you need to pay cash money on the PS Store. Not sure how much but I am regretting not joining the Iceland Panopticon now.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 16:41 |
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I'm going to assume that, much like Monster Hunter, this isn't something you're going to want to solo? Not sure I'll be able to convince too many friends to hop on this, after God Eater didn't really capture them, and stylistically its pretty similar.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 17:44 |
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Fancy Hat! posted:I'm going to assume that, much like Monster Hunter, this isn't something you're going to want to solo? Not sure I'll be able to convince too many friends to hop on this, after God Eater didn't really capture them, and stylistically its pretty similar. Emalde posted:It's like any Hunting-Action title, where you can more or less do the entire thing solo and the experience simply improves with more people. This game is definitely on the hard side for Solo play, but with appropriate use of your equipment setup and Accessory, the entire game can be cleared. Personally I'm planning to solo it for the most part, but I said that about Destiny and I ended up spending more time with goons than soloing stuff after a while.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 17:50 |
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Emalde posted:It's like any Hunting-Action title, where you can more or less do the entire thing solo and the experience simply improves with more people. This game is definitely on the hard side for Solo play, but with appropriate use of your equipment setup and Accessory, the entire game can be cleared.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 18:14 |
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Txn posted:Nice. I like the multiplayer in these games but my internet connection is complete garbage so I get disconnected at random times. The worst was in God Eater 2 since every five seconds it asked me if I wanted to connect again. that was happening to me with toukiden until I put my vita in my router's dmz. you try anything like that? e: lol that home panopticon change dlc is $2 Awesome! fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Awesome! posted:that was happening to me with toukiden until I put my vita in my router's dmz. you try anything like that? OgretailFood fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Oct 28, 2014 |
# ? Oct 28, 2014 18:25 |
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you blinked more than 5 times in a minute- 10 years added
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 18:54 |
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Awesome! posted:e: lol that home panopticon change dlc is $2 that's dumb. I still want to do it because I'm stupid and hate money.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 18:56 |
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Downloading this right now. I don't have much time for games these days thanks to working two jobs but add me for some possible online hunting / anime action at weird EST hours: Static_Rook he1ixx posted:that's dumb. I still want to do it because I'm stupid and hate money. Isn't that "DLC" just for changing your "home" city you pick at the beginning of the game? At least wait until some real stuff shows up to waste money on like me. Hello, extra $20 left in my PSN Wallet from Paypal funding, my anime slave shall be the grandest of all!
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Hows the hub-area of the game? I haven't seen much of it. The reason I like Monster Hunter/God Eater so much is that the Hub has a really cool sense of place & style. Basically I'm just hoping it's not all menues, like, say, Soul Sacrifice.
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