Recent reviews by Matt

Most of the people I've explained EDF to walk away laughing at me, not kidding. "It's a game where you kill giant insects, robots and airships"

You may think it sounds extremely repetitive when I explain it like that but this game actually manages to keep it extremely fun and entertaining throughout the entire 89 missions in singeplayer. I joke alot about this game, it's hard not to but I'm completely honest when I say that this is probably one of the most entertaining games I've ever played. I'm a hundred hours in and I still play it from time to time.

I would say EDF 4.1 is perhaps one of the purest examples of videogame entertainment. There's no original story or fancy graphics like most of the AAA titles. In fact, it's the complete opposite. The story is like your typical B-Action Movie, the graphics are like playing an outdated PS2 game and the voice acting is absolutely terrible. And these are exactly the reasons why I love it and what gives the game it's charm. It's a japanese game so playing EDF is like listening to a terrible english dub from your typical anime, it's absolutely hilarious. And let's not forget about the EDF songs, that you can happily sing together with all of your troops on the battlefield.

There's also a surprising amount of replayability. The 4 classes you can pick from all play diffirently and have a ridiclous amount of weapons you can unlock, you could play all the missions over and over again with these classes and it would never be the same. You can mow down waves of insects with ridiculous weapons and feel like a demi-god or get your ass handed to to on the Inferno difficulty (seriously, Dark Souls is a stroll through the park compared to Inferno.)

What I like is that not every mission is just: shoot down enemies, wait for next wave, repeat. No. In fact, most missions actually require some careful choices about which weapons you pick and an actual strategy.

Oh, and if you can convince a friend to buy it (despite it's high price, which is the only downside) like I did, play co-op! Playing the co-op missions with a friend was some of the most fun I've ever had, probably on the same level of enjoyment as Borderlands 2.

I cannot recommend this game more, seriously. I know the price is quite a shocker but it's so worth it, or just get it during a sale!