History VideoGame / GodEater

''God Eater'' is a series of {{Action RPG}}s by Creator/BandaiNamco. Set in a world devastated by Aragami, bizarre organisms that can devour almost anything, humanity has been pushed to the brink of extinction. Mankind's last hope rests upon the shoulders of the God Eaters, elite soldiers who have been infused with Aragami cells, turning themselves into part-monsters and allowing them to fight back by using the God Arc, a customizable MorphWeapon which can change between a melee and gun form.

Contributing to the longevity of the franchise, the story is not a typical "fight the monsters, save the world" story involving a CreatureHunterOrganization (though certainly, you end up doing a fair amount of that, too). The franchise explores the bleakness of a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic Earth]], how humanity struggles to survive despite the world's current state, and the fact that some of the surviving humans are willing to eradicate all life on the planet in order to defeat the monsters. Its popularity has also led to various adaptations and {{Spin Off}}s in anime, manga, and light novels.

** ''God Eater Burst'' (''Gods Eater Burst'' in the North America and Europe release) (2010/2011): The first UpdatedRerelease title, released for the Play[==]Station Portable. In addition of expanding most of the original game's mechanics, the game also includes an additional storyline continuing the still-ongoing search for Lindow Amamiya, as well as the appearance of the mysterious Ren.
** ''God Eater Resurrection (2015/2016)'': An HD remastered UpdatedRerelease of ''God Eater Burst'', released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 (and is, in essence, the original ''GE'' rebuilt in the ''Rage Burst'' engine). The original mechanics from the second game were tweaked to include the new feature called "Predator Style", as well as to include some of the features from ''Rage Burst'' and a new story arc that connects between the events of ''God Eater Burst'' and ''God Eater 2''. The international release contains an updated and revised localization, as well as a brand-new English dub in accordance.
* ''VideoGame/GodEater2 (2013)'': A sequel to the first game released for both the Play[==]Station Portable and Play[==]Station Vita. The sequel centers on the Blood Unit, an elite group of God Eaters, as well as a new protagonist, on board a moving mobile base sent to investigate the rapidly-spreading outbreak known as the Black Plague. This is the first game to feature three new weapon types: Boost Hammer, Charge Spear and Shotgun.
** ''God Eater 2 Rage Burst (2015/2016)'': The second UpdatedRerelease title, released for the Play[==]Station Vita and Play[==]Station 4. Like ''God Eater Burst'', the game tweaked most of the mechanics from ''God Eater 2'', and also includes a new storyline featuring a new God Eater named Livie Colette. This is the first game to introduce the Variant Scythe.
* ''VideoGame/GodEater3 (2018/2019)'': A DarkerAndEdgier third main entry in the franchise for [=PlayStation=] 4 and PC. It introduces the Adaptive God Eaters, a new type which can survive in the Ashlands, a spreading desert that turns everything it touches to ash. A new type of Aragami, the Ashborn, can enter Burst mode just like the God Eaters, and new weapons are available: the Biting Edge, Heavy Moon, and Raygun.

* ''God Eater Prologue'': A 12-minute ONA promoting the first game. It centers on Soma Schicksal's first mission as a God Eater. Watch it all [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgCTLxBn1mw here]].
* ''[[Anime/GodEater God Eater (Anime)]]'': A 13-episode anime by Ufotable released on 2015. Taking a slightly different approach in adapting the first half of the original game, it introduces Lenka Utsugi, an anime-only stand-in protagonist for the game's player.

* ''God Eater -the 2nd break-'': A manga focuses on events concerning Alisa, Soma, and Kota before and during the story of ''God Eater 2''. The manga also features a story crossover connection with ''God Eater: Those Who Break Taboo'' by including Marguerite Claverie in the first stories, as well as the cameo appearance of Hiro Kamui and the Blood Unit from ''2''.

* ''God Eater ~side by side~'': A manga takes place in year 2068 and centers Tatsumi O'Mori as a main protagonist and the former 2nd Unit leader, Marco Donath.

''WARNING: The following tropes in the franchise contain a heapful amount of spoilers, most of which are left unmarked! Read at your own risk!''

** The state of the world in ''God Eater 3'' has become ''even worse'' with the appearances of the Ash Aragami and the sudden expansion of the Ashlands.

** When you devour an Aragami, you [[MegaManning gain their attacks as bullets]] and have the option to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard use it against them]]. [[HealingShiv You have the option of shooting it at your teammates instead]], granting them an even more powerful super mode and version of the attack with up to three levels.

** The Short Blade is one of the Sword and Shield, both being, well, short swords that are JackOfAllStats
** The Long Blade towards the Long Sword, both being katana-style weapons with a riposte, and sacrificing speed for more power and range.
** The Buster Blade, like the Great Sword, is an even bigger sword that has [[MightyGlacier huge power, but not particularly good speed]], and has a charge attack that does more damage.
** The Boost Hammer is a full striking weapon that hits surprisingly fast, but has less defense options, like the hammer in ''MH''.
** The Charge Spear is similar to the lance, being mainly thrusting attacks that do more damage countering.
** The Variant Scythe's closest equivalent is the Switch Axe, but inverts the stances, the default having shorter range, but decent speed, while the transformed mode has superior range.
** The Biting Edge are dual short swords that combine for a faster weapon speed at the cost of stamina drainage. Unlike the Dual Blades, however, the Biting Edge turns into a DoubleWeapon.
** The Heavy Moon, like the Charge Blade, has a second axe form with a power discharge finisher.

* ArmorIsUseless: The clothes you can create have no effect on gameplay outside of aesthetics, which can be kinda jarring when you consider that samurai armor gives you no more protection than a swimsuit. Handwaved in that anything not manufactured with Bias Factor (the same substance that makes people into God Eaters) is basically edible tissue paper to an Aragami - that samurai armor is exactly as durable as a swimsuit to the all-devouring giant monsters.

* {{BFG}}: Sniper gun parts are around the character's height, some assault guns have cannons large enough to fit a head, and most blast guns are even wider.
* {{BFS}}: "Short" blades are larger than old-fashioned claymores, the basic Long blade is easily the size of an ironing board, and buster blades are half-again as wide and some much thicker.
* BifurcatedWeapon: The Biting Edge consists of two small swords which can be combined into a dual-ended glaive.
* {{Bishonen}}: The majority of the male cast is made up of pretty boys, especially Karel Schneider. Federico Caruso and Eric der Vogelweid are also this in their ''Resurrection'' incarnation. Even Yuu Kannagi fits this. ''God Eater 2'' has even more of them than the first game. Even Hiro Kamui fits this. And you are unable to make a non-handsome male avatar in ''God Eater 2'', ''Rage Burst'' and ''Resurrection''. Unless your male avatar is [[Anime/GodEater Lenka Utsugi]] in ''Resurrection''.
* BizarreAlienBiology: The Aragami are actually clusters of single-celled organisms that can consume just about anything, as well as have the ability to take on the traits of the things they eat. The only reason there's still a breathable atmosphere in the world is because some Aragami learned to photosynthesize.
* BladeOnAStick: The Biting Edge is ''[[DualWielding two]]'' blades on sticks, which can be combined into a two-ended glaive.

** You have Freeze, Spark, and Divine-elemental chainsaws to put in place of a normal {{BFS}}, with Lindow's model being a dual-element blade. In the first two games, they recover more OP per hit than normal and have the 'Noisy' skill, making Aragami more likely to hear you coming.
** The Heavy Moon weapon type can turn into a sawblade when performing the Raging Moon move.

** How far are you willing to saving the last of the human race, even if the rest of humanity is trying to kill each other?
** What is the meaning of being human?
** What defines our humanity?

** Buster Blades have Charge Crush, a single, devastating blow with all the user's might. It charges faster when in [[SuperMode Burst Mode]].
** Charge Spears have Charge Glide, a rapid thrusting attack. Unlike other charged attacks, the user can still move around while charging it, and jump to execute the move in midair.
** Boost Hammers have Boost Ignition, which activates the rocket thrusters in the hammer's back. This can lead into a few different attacks: Boost Rush, a repeating barrage of blows; Boost Drive, a quick swing that vaults the user forward; and Boost Impact, which brings the hammer down in a mighty slam. The longer it's charged, the faster these attacks become.
** Heavy Moons have Raging Moon, which revs up the blade of the weapon in axe form, essentially turning it into a chainsaw. Mashing the attack button while the blade's in contact with an aragami extends the attack's duration significantly.

* CombatResuscitation: Defeated God Eaters must be revived via Link-Aid. This involves another character sharing a portion of their own health to heal their fallen comrade. There is a timer counting down during this time, and if it reaches zero, or the whole team gets incapacitated at the same time, the character is sent back to the spawn point and revived with full health, at the cost of an Endurance point. Running out of Endurance results in a failed mission.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Justified. The first time the lava-filled Infernal Subway area is visited, Sakuya explains that Oracle Cells enable God Eaters' bodies to adapt to extreme temperatures and a normal human ''would'' have gone up in flames by now.

* CutscenePowerToTheMax: It may take you several minutes to take down some of the bigger Aragami, but cutscenes will sometimes show characters taking down several of them easily.
* CreatureHunterOrganization: Fenrir and Blood (the latter being the current page image) are this, since they specialize in fighting Aragami.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The game has four people at the most -- although they have big-ass swords -- kicking the tuckus of monsters at least the size of a large hill. On a daily basis.

** Complete the one and only story mission in rank 15, and you unlock the option to set mission difficulty. Found the rank 15 missions hard? [[UpToEleven That was just level 1 out of 99.]] Raising the difficulty [[OhCrap not only raises the enemies' stats, but makes certain tricks (Stagger Locking and Down Locking) harder, or even outright impossible]] due to the increased threshold the player must pass in order to knock them down in the first place.
* DifficultySpike: Whenever you make a transition from a storyline to another, there will be one. In ''Burst'', and ''Resurrection'' Difficulty 7 has a few breather levels, but kicks into full gear later, whilst Difficulty 11 follows suit.

* DoubleWeapon: In glaive form, the Biting Edge is a glaive with blades on both ends.
* DownerBeginning: According to the [[WordOfGod developers]]; In God Eater 3, the Far-East Fenrir Branch was decimated sometime after the events of ''Rage Burst'' by a new Aragami threat and the surviving God Eaters have become drifters attempting to survive in the wild.
* DownerEnding: Regardless of your accomplishments, [[spoiler:nothing you do will ultimately matter. One way or another, the Devouring Apocalypse ''will'' happen and Humanity ''will'' die out, and there is literally ''nothing'' that can stop this. At best, all anyone can hope to do is delay the inevitable, making all of your accomplishments ultimately pointless in the long run. There is literally no hope for mankind. One way or another, the Aragami ''will'' win unless a miracle happens.]]
* DropTheHammer: In the first game, hammers were classified as Buster Blades. The sequel added the Boost Hammer class, which fits them better.

* EmoteCommand: The D-pad and shoulder buttons allow the player to do several actions within the Fenrir Base, ranging from clapping to a TwistedKneeCollapse to a bow.
* EmpathicWeapon: The God Arcs are a special case in that they are essentially weapon shaped Aragami with the same Oracle Cells as their wielders. This has a very unfortunate side-effect: If anyone but their wielder so much as TOUCHES them, they get devoured. [[spoiler: And then comes Ren, Lindow's God Arc come alive for the sole purpose of making sure the protagonist gets to bring Lindow back home.]]

** Hannibal is often stated to be [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter Nargacuga]] 2.0. They have similar body shape, tail whip attacks, and are [[{{Lightning Bruiser}} very fast.]]

* FunWithAcronyms: A real-world example when it comes to ''God Eater Resonant Ops''. Logically, you'd abbreviate that as GERO, right? Well, Namco insists on calling it "GEREO" (or sometimes [="GEReO"=]), because げろ, ''gero'', is an actual noun in Japanese. The typically accepted translation of this noun? Vomit. (This has ''not'' stopped the JP fandom from making jokes, mind, especially those less fond of the mobile entries.)

** In ''2'', ''Rage Burst'', and ''Resurrection'' it is shown on most of the female characters, including more flat chested characters like [[GenkiGirl Nana]].

* GargleBlaster: First Love Juice. Tastes sweet and bitter, like a first love.

* HungryMenace: Flipped on its head. It's the God Eaters who come off this way, making comments that suggest they feel their symbiotic weapon's satisfaction in Devouring aragami, and its hunger for more. Downplayed, in that they have complete control of the ability.

** ''God Eater Resurrection'' features the same player character from original once again (Yuu), but this time he's solo against Dyaus Pita.
** ''God Eater 3'' has the player, wielding a Biting Edge and accompanied by Claire, fighting against an Anubis.

* LethalJokeWeapon: A set of equipment made out of desserts, which was only available in the Japanese version for the first game but is in all versions of ''2''. The long sword is a giant chocolate bar (GE Chocolate), the gun is a giant piece of shortcake (GE Shortcake), and the shield is a lollipop (GE Candy). Despite their rather ridiculous look they have excellent skills that can max out your HP, OP, and ST gauges as well as burst skills that are good for the gunner playstyle.
* LivingWeapon: The God Arc. It is created using Aragami cores and is bound to its user's armlet (which is fused to said user). They may not look that alive under ordinary circumstances, but given the right command, they can turn into a giant pair of ''jaws'' that chomps on any other Aragami on sight. They also have the unfortunate side-effect of devouring anyone that touches them other than their wielder. It's revealed in the anime that an ''Oracle Cell Erosion'' will occur if a God Eater's compatibility rate is rising too high for their God Arc to keep up, causing an uncurable cancer-like disease to spread over the body until it kills them, should they continue on using it. This doesn't explain how Lenka got cured in the last shot of him in the final episode.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The shield parts are made to resist devouring by Aragami, and passively add some of that resistance to you; when the shield is actually deployed, the concentration of Bias Factor helps block most Aragami attacks. Bucklers deploy the fastest and have skills to leverage it, but let a quarter of the damage through and have [[FragileSpeedster low stats]], while towers are the slowest with few skills, [[MightyGlacier but have great stats and block all of the damage at the cost of your stamina]]; [[JackOfAllStats normal shields]] are between the two in terms of stats, speed, and skills. Many skills apply to the shield, from making it faster to deploy (crucial), to expanding the guarded area or reducing the damage you take while guarding even further; like most skills, though, they do have their negative counterparts. However, only Blade-Arc Old-types and New-types can use them. Old-type gunners have to make do with dodging, [[TheAllSeeingAI not that they don't have an advantage]].

*** The Biting Edge can switch between DualWielding small blades, and a DoubleWeapon glaive.
*** The Heavy Moon is a DeadlyDisc which can turn into an axe. And said axe has a further transformation into a sawblade.

** Alisa will always be shown holding her God Arc in gun form during cutscenes, in a subtle moment of GameplayAndStoryIntegration -- she will use her gun against enemies (even when you wish she wouldn't) until she runs out of OP and switches to blade attacks. The main character and other New Types will be shown in blade form, possibly because it's a bad idea to walk around with finger on the trigger of a gun capable of destroying buildings and tank-like monsters, but more likely due to the fact that blade form allows for devouring and shield deployment, actions that are shown in several key story scenes. Blade form is also the "default" status, in that you begin every mission in blade form and have to switch to gun mode.

** 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. [[note]]For example creating the L�weberg 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%.[[/note]] Later in the game, you can craft equipment that increases your chance of obtaining rare Aragami materials.

* RankInflation: The highest rank on a mission can be ''SSS+'', which is only given if performed solo and within an unknown time limit.
* RealTimeWeaponChange: You can swap between a blade and gun. Dexterous ups your change speed, while Clumsy slows it down. Yes, those seconds are crucial. Moreover, the process isn't silent and some Aragami have very good hearing. There's even a skill for that: Noisy. You can, however, counter it with the 'Mute' skill, and some Controllers have the skill 'Super Mute' while in Burst mode.
* RecurringRiff: "God Eater", the first game's title theme, has a riff which is reused in many songs, including "No Way Back", "The March of Evil", and "God and Man". The latter of these also has a Recurring Riff of its own in God Eater 2, being used on the title screen and in "Revolving Lantern".

** God Eaters wear armlets that inject them with Oracle Cells that put them in the "safe zone" for their weapon's Bias Factor (the thing determining what an Aragami will and will not eat). They're permanently attached and without them, they'd get eaten by their own weapons. The Adaptive God Eaters of ''3'' require two of the things.
** This problem is turned into a plot point when [[spoiler:Lindow loses his armlet in a fight with an Aragami, cutting off his Bias Factor supply. During his subsequent disappearance, he slowly turns into a Corrosive Hannibal.]]

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: All over the place. While the setting and the viewpoint of some of the characters with the most influence [[spoiler: like Johannes and Rachel]] lean toward the latter with the belief that the aragami threat will only continue to worsen until TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt inevitably happens, a good majority of the characters believe in the former, believing that as long as they keep living they will eventually find a way to defeat the aragami threat for good.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Apparently Oracle Cells keep women from wanting or being able to cover up, even when it's snowing. The artbook makes it painfully obvious that bras (and likely other undergarments) didn't survive the apocalypse. This can be justified due to how Aragami can eat anything easily unless it's imbued with Oracle Cells: if the enemies can tear through armor like it's nothing, why bother with the heavier stuff when you could be wearing lighter clothes that offer just as much protection? Clothes are also laced with Bias Factor, which is the only reason (system limitations aside) you don't suffer ClothingDamage whenever an Aragami gets a bite of you. Given how incredibly important Bias Factor is to almost everything, people may be more willing to go commando (and indulge "less is more" fashions, at least for women) to make the best of their resource budgets.
* SuperMode: Burst Mode, which is achieved by either devouring an Aragami, or receiving a Link Bullet from a teammate. Later games add even more varieties of Super Modes, such as Blood Rage and Engage.

* WasOnceAMan: Overdosing on the Bias factor causes human cells to mutate into Oracle cells, touching a God Arc that doesn't belong to you can infect you with cells that your Arc can't stop, and losing your bracelet means that you can't stop the Oracle cells within you from [[BodyHorror eating you then transforming]] into an Aragami themselves. It's speculated that the Susano'o first 'evolved' from one of the previous cases. [[spoiler: Lindow almost suffered this fate, but the intervention of Shio, then the protagonist and Ren, helped him [[CameBackStrong return - with new powers to boot]]]].

* ''[[VideoGame/GodEater1God Eater]] (2010)'': The first game in the series, released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable. It follows the [[PlayerCharacter protagonist]] and the Retaliation Unit [[note]]more popularly known as simply "the First Unit"[[/note]] of the Fenrir Far East Branch as they not only fight against the Aragami, but also uncover a sinister plot to repopulate the Earth through a dreaded event called "The Devouring Apocalypse".

* ''VideoGame/GodEater1 (2010)'': The first game in the series, released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable. It follows the [[PlayerCharacter protagonist]] and the Retaliation Unit [[note]]more popularly known as simply "the First Unit"[[/note]] of the Fenrir Far East Branch as they not only fight against the Aragami, but also uncover a sinister plot to repopulate the Earth through a dreaded event called "The Devouring Apocalypse".

* ''God Eater Online'': The MMO Smartphone Game announced from Tokyo Game Show 2016, released in February 2017. The game takes place in the year 2075, and follows a new protagonist, a member of Cradle stationed to the Himalayan Branch. The game concluded service on the 29th of September, 2018.

** The sequel introduces the red rain, which causes all who get drenched in it to contract the fatal Black Spider Disease [[spoiler:which is eventually revealed to be a natural mechanism meant to create a new Singularity that activated because the original one (Shio) left Earth, lending even more support to the theory that the Aragami are part of a natural cycle of destruction and rebirth of the Earth. It certainly seems pretty hopeless when Mother Nature itself is your enemy.]]

* ChainsawGood: You have Freeze, Spark, and Divine-elemental chainsaws to put in place of a normal {{BFS}}, with Lindow's model being a dual-element blade. All of them recover more OP per hit than normal and have the 'Noisy' skill, making Aragami more likely to hear you coming.

* MorphWeapon: The New-Type God Arcs can switch between melee and ranged modes, have a built-in shield, and can turn into a set of big monstery jaws in order to "Devour" an Aragami's Oracle Cells.

* RecurringRiff: "God Eater", the first game's title theme, has a riff which is reused in many songs, including "No Way Back", "The March of Evil", and "God and Man", the latter of which also having a Recurring Riff of its own in God Eater 2, being used on the title screen and in "Revolving Lantern".

* [[ImAHumanitarian I'm an Aragami-tarian]]: The God Arc can be charged to turn into a pair of jaws that chomps on the Aragami. If the Aragami is still alive, it puts you into [[SuperMode Burst Mode]] and gives you some special bullets which can be shot back into the enemy or used on allies to put them into Burst Mode (albeit only up to three shots at most can be fired on a character). Devouring a dead Aragami means looting its body for raw materials.
** If you know what you're doing, you can also end a Blade Combo in a Devour to have a shorter [[SuperMode Burst Mode]], or, if you already are in Burst mode, extend it by 15 seconds. In GEB, this does not the extend the length of your Link-Burst Mode, but in GE2, this is fixed.
** Aragami will gleefully eat each other, barring Bias-factor compatibility. In fact, God Arcs are essentially Aragami people can wield and control. '[[HeroKiller Type 1]]' Deusphages are Aragami that gained a taste for God Arcs and their wielders, and possibly ''[[WasOnceAMan were them]]''. 'Type 2' Deusphages are repeatedly stated to be cannibalistic, although here it refers to eating other Aragami of their same class designation (which normally they refrain from doing).
** This became a new gameplay mechanic in ''Resurrection'' called the ''Predator Style'', in which the player can customize and assign a Devour move for at least four Devour Options (Step, Mid-Attack, Midair and Charge), [[MundaneMadeAwesome allowing players to literally use a Devour in any fashion]]. Making a combination of Predator Styles nets additional status boost for you and your tea for as long as the Burst gauge is filled up.

Contributing to the longevity of the franchise, the story is not a typical "fight the monsters, save the world" story involving a CreatureHunterOrganization. The franchise explores the bleakness of a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic Earth]], how humanity struggles to survive despite the world's current state, and the fact that some of the surviving humans are willing to eradicate all life on the planet in order to defeat the monsters. Its popularity has also led to various adaptations and {{Spin Off}}s in anime, manga, and light novels.

** ''God Eater Online'' also have fancy clothes released each month of the game's update.
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: The Old-Type God Arcs are either a {{BFS}} or a {{BFG}}. The New-Type ones ''can [[MorphWeapon switch between the two]]'', and use a [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shield]] while in blade form. (Old-Type God Eaters who use blades are also equipped with a shield, whereas gunners have no choice but to dodge.) ''God Eater Resurrection'', ''God Eater 2'', and ''God Eater 2 Rage Burst'' add giant hammers, spears, scythes, and shotguns.

* RestrainingBolt: God Eaters wear armlets that inject them with Oracle Cells that put them in the "safe zone" for their weapon's Bias Factor (the thing determining what an Aragami will and will not eat). They're permanently attached and without them, they'd get eaten by their own weapons.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Apparently Oracle Cells keep women from wanting or being able to cover up, even when it's snowing. The artbook makes it painfully obvious that bras (and likely other undergarments) didn't survive the apocalypse. This can be justified due to how Aragami can eat anything easily unless it's imbued with Oracle Cells: if the enemies can tear through armor like it's nothing, why bother with the heavier stuff when you could be wearing lighter clothes that offer just as much protection? Clothes are also laced with Bias Factor, which is the only reason (system limitations aside) you don't suffer ClothingDamage whenever an Aragami gets a bite of you. Given how incredibly important Bias Factor is to almost everything, people may be more willing to go commando (and indulge "[[TheissTitillationTheory less is more]]" fashions, at least for women) to make the best of their resource budgets.

** ''God Eater Resurrection (2015/2016)'': An HD remastered UpdatedRerelease of ''God Eater Burst'', released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. The original mechanics from the second game were tweaked to include the new feature called "Predator Style", as well as to include some of the features from ''Rage Burst'' and a new story arc that connects between the events of ''God Eater Burst'' and ''God Eater 2''. The international release contains an updated and revised localization, as well as a brand-new English dub in accordance.

* YouCantFightFate: [[spoiler:The Devouring Apocalypse ''cannot'' be stopped in any way, as its occurence is a hardcoded law of reality instead of a mere catastrophe. All humanity can hope to do is delay the inevitable for as long as they can.]]

* ''God Eater Online'': The MMO Smartphone Game announced from Tokyo Game Show 2016, released in February 2017. The game takes place in the year 2075, and follows a new protagonist, a member of cradle stationed to the Himalayan Branch. The game will be ending its service the 29th of September of 2018.

* ''God Eater Resonant Ops'': A turn-based mobile game for the iOS and Android devices released in April 2018. Taking place in 2078, the protagonist is a rookie God Eater, who along with their allies, will take part in a large-scale operation at Fenrir Headquarters. The plot of ''GERO'' is meant to help bridge the gap between ''Rage Burst'' and ''[=GE3=]'', but isn't required to understand the story of ''3''.

** ''God Eater Burst'' (''Gods Eater Burst'' in the North America and Europe release) (2011): The first UpdatedRerelease title, released for the Play[==]Station Portable. In addition of expanding most of the original game's mechanics, the game also includes an additional storyline continuing the still-ongoing search for Lindow Amamiya, as well as the appearance of the mysterious Ren.
** ''God Eater Resurrection (2015)'': An HD remastered UpdatedRerelease of ''God Eater Burst'', released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. The original mechanics from the second game were tweaked to include the new feature called "Predator Style", as well as to include some of the features from ''Rage Burst'' and a new story arc that connects between the events of ''God Eater Burst'' and ''God Eater 2''. The international release contains an updated and revised localization, as well as a brand-new English dub in accordance.
* ''VideoGame/GodEater2 (2013)'': A sequel to the first game released for both the Play[==]Station Portable and Play[==]Station Vita. The sequel centers on the Blood Unit, an elite group of God Eaters, as well as a new protagonist, on board a moving mobile base sent to investigate the rapidly-spreading outbreak known as the Black Plague. This is the first game to featured three new weapon types: Boost Hammer, Charge Spear and Shotgun.
** ''God Eater 2 Rage Burst (2015)'': The second UpdatedRerelease title, released for the Play[==]Station Vita and Play[==]Station 4. Like ''God Eater Burst'', the game tweaked most of the mechanics from ''God Eater 2'', and also includes a new storyline featuring a new God Eater named Livie Colette. This is the first game to introduced the Variant Scythe.
* ''VideoGame/GodEater3 (2018)'': A DarkerAndEdgier third main entry in the franchise for [=PlayStation=] 4 and PC. It introduces the Adaptive God Eaters, a new type which can survive in the Ashlands, a spreading desert that turns everything it touches to ash. A new type of Aragami, the Ashborn, can enter Burst mode just like the humans, and new weapons are available: the Biting Edge, Heavy Moon, and Raygun.

* ''God Eater Resonant Ops'': A turn-based mobile game for the iOS and Android devices released in April 2018. Taking place in 2078, the protagonist is a rookie God Eater, who along with their allies, will take part in a large-scale operation at Fenrir Headquarters.

* ''VideoGame/GodEater3'': A DarkerAndEdgier third main entry in the franchise for [=PlayStation=] 4 and PC. It introduces the Adaptive God Eaters, a new type which can survive in the Ashlands, a spreading desert that turns everything it touches to ash. A new type of Aragami, the Ashborn, can enter Burst mode just like the humans, and new weapons are available: the Biting Edge, Heavy Moon, and Raygun.

* YouCantFightFate: [[spoiler:The Devouring Apocalypse ''cannot'' be stopped in any way, as it is a hardcoded law of reality instead of a mere catastrophe. All humanity can hope to do is delay the inevitable for as long as they can.]]

* ''VideoGame/GodEater3'': A DarkerAndEdgier third main entry in the franchise. It was confirmed in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl-AagsSKJs teaser]] released on September 17, 2016. A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbtI1PscW0k second teaser]] was released on March 30, 2017. An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxKhaFDloSU official trailer]] was released on October 9, 2017. An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTT5uyiy0bk&t announcement trailer]] was released on March 29, 2018.

In the early 2050's, unknown life forms called Oracle Cells began their uncontrollable consumption of all life on Earth. Their violent nature and god-like adaptability earned them the name "Aragami". Facing an enemy completely immune to conventional weapons, modern society collapses as humanity is driven to the point of extinction.\\
One last hope remains. Following the Fenrir Organization’s development of God Arcs, Oracle Cell-based living weapons, their wielders are organized into an elite force of God Eaters. Your mission is to defeat the Aragami and gather material from them for research, but you come to realize that you are being drawn into a giant conspiracy that will determine the fate of humanity...

Released in 2010 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable, Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment's ''God Eater'' has established its foothold in the Hunting RPG genre alongside the ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' franchise, though it differs from said franchise by its faster pace in combat, easy-to-grasp gameplay mechanics, as well as [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters having a wide list of characters]] and an actual plot.

The first game has spawned remakes and sequels. Contributing to the longevity of the franchise, the story is not a typical "fight the monsters, save the world" story involving a CreatureHunterOrganization. The games explore the bleakness of a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic Earth]], how humanity struggles to survive despite the world's current state, and the fact that some of the surviving humans are willing to eradicate all life on the planet in order to defeat the monsters.

* ''God Eater (2010)'': The first game in the series, released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable. It follows the [[PlayerCharacter protagonist]] and the Retaliation Unit [[note]]more popularly known as simply "the First Unit"[[/note]] of the Fenrir Far East Branch as they not only fight against the Aragami, but also uncover a sinister plot to repopulate the Earth through a dreaded event called "The Devouring Apocalypse".

* ''God Eater 2 (2013)'': A sequel to the first game released for both the Play[==]Station Portable and Play[==]Station Vita. The sequel centers on the Blood Unit, an elite group of God Eaters, as well as a new protagonist, on board a moving mobile base sent to investigate the rapidly-spreading outbreak known as the Black Plague. This is the first game to featured three new weapon types: Boost Hammer, Charge Spear and Shotgun.

* ''God Eater 3'': A DarkerAndEdgier third main entry in the franchise. It was confirmed in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl-AagsSKJs teaser]] released on September 17, 2016. A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbtI1PscW0k second teaser]] was released on March 30, 2017. An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxKhaFDloSU official trailer]] was released on October 9, 2017. An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTT5uyiy0bk&t announcement trailer]] was released on March 29, 2018.

* AfterTheEnd: [[ApocalypseHow Planetary near-total extinction]]. The game starts out after the Aragami have [[ExtremeOmnivore eaten]] most of the planet. They make up the entire biosphere at this point, and the tiny remnant of humanity is almost all that's left of native Earth life. Landmasses are now little more than desert.
** And Fenrir's scientists believe that an even worse apocalypse is on the way -- what they call the Devouring Apocalypse, where the Aragami density reaches a critical mass and a single massive Aragami comes out on top of the food chain, consuming and consuming all the others until the face of the Earth is literally wiped clean of anything and everything but this one super-lifeform. Life will then be 're-distributed'.
* AlwaysInClassOne: All of the main characters are part of the 1st Unit. {{Justified|Trope}} in that the 1st Unit has the highest survival rate for rookies, so obviously Fenrir would want the recently-minted New-Types to get some experience.
* TheAllSeeingAI: A minor example that works in your favor. Many Aragami have area attacks, and sometimes it's hard to tell apart the preparations for those attacks from a less wide one -- if that is even ''possible''; AI characters not currently performing their own attacks, however, will run towards a safe area (if it's possible for them, [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe they block if it isn't]]) a second or two before the enemy even begins the motions of the attack. Keeping an eye on the mini-map and listening carefully can provide a human player with a small forewarning.
** It's even justifiable to an extent; the Aragami's Database Entries usually include hints on what attacks they might be capable of using, so your NPC friends may have actually done their research on the monsters before setting off.
* AllYourPowersCombined: When you devour an Aragami, you [[MegaManning gain their attacks as bullets]] and have the option to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard use it against them]]. [[HealingShiv You have the option of shooting it at your teammates instead]], granting them an even more powerful super mode and version of the attack with up to three levels.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: In the final cutscene of ''Rage Burst'', [[spoiler:the members of Blood, including the revived Julius and Romeo, decide to become God Eaters again after being BroughtDownToNormal, leading to the next scene of them all at a mission and jumping off a cliff towards the action]].
* AnimalMotifs: Wolves in general due to the Fenrir Corporation, for [[MeaningfulName obvious]] [[Myth/NorseMythology reasons]]. The Vajra and the Kongou take from lions and monkeys respectively, with the former adding a bit of UncannyValley with human faces.
** ''2'' introduces the Ukanovasara, which is based off an alligator, the Garm and Marduk which is based off of Wolves, almost as if a mockery of Fenrir, and in ''Rage Burst'' [[spoiler:Dr. Rachel, and by extension her Aragami form the World Closer,]] is associated with [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth black butterflies]].
* AnyoneCanDie: Hammered into you early on with Eric der Vogelweid, who gets devoured just as he's introducing himself to you. He doesn't look at all like cannon fodder at the time, so it really comes out of nowhere. It's used to play up Soma's reputation for other God Eaters dying in his proximity.
** This is followed by [[spoiler:Lindow... Or is it?]]
** And in God Eater 2, [[spoiler:Romeo and [[MeaningfulName Julius]]. Though technically, Julius isn't really dead, but he is stuck in a helix plant-like structure in order to stop his Singularity from evolving.]]
** And in ''Rage Burst'', [[spoiler:like Lindow, this is averted, with not only Julius being saved from being the CosmicKeystone to the Devouring Apocalypse, but also Romeo being BackFromTheDead]].
** [[spoiler:Maria Yagami]] in ''God Eater Online''.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Some of the Aragami.
** 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.
* AutobotsRockOut: ''No Way Back'', the battle theme for Dyaus Pita, qualifies.
** So does ''Wings of Tomorrow'', Marduk's battle theme in the sequel.
** Also ''Blood Rage'',the only BGM for the UpdatedRerelease's new gamplay feature in ''Rage Burst''.
* TheBait: Kota's "[[spoiler:[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Lovely 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 "Version 2" which is Version 1, but with beer.
* BattleInTheRain: The second half of the first episodes.
** Especially PlayedForDrama in ''2'' where the rain in question is the disease carrying Red Rain [[spoiler: which both Romeo and Julius get caught under]].
* {{Bishonen}}: Majority of the male cast is made up of pretty boys, especially Karel Schneider. Federico Caruso and Eric der Vogelweid are also this in their ''Resurrection'' incarnation. Even Yuu Kannagi fits this.
** ''God Eater 2'' has more pretty boys than the first game. Even Hiro Kamui fits this.
** Unlike ''God Eater/God Eater Burst'', You are unable to make a non-handsome male avatar in ''God Eater 2'', ''Rage Burst'' and ''Resurrection''. Unless in ''Resurrection'' if your male avatar is [[Anime/GodEater Lenka Utsugi]].

* BigDamnHeroes: The First Unit (the one the player character is in) is considered to be this trope by the Second and Third Units. Each member gets a BigDamnHeroes moment before the group heads out to stop Arda Nova in the ''God Eater'' storyline.
** Pulled by the protagonist during the ''Burst'' storyline when [[spoiler:s/he saves Tatsumi from the Corrosive Hannibal.]]
** In chapter six, [[spoiler:Alisa saves Sakuya upon arriving at Aegis, then proceeds to take this trope UpToEleven after the director finishes his MotiveRant.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: In ''Rage Burst'', [[spoiler:Blood becomes this following the their counteracting the Devouring Apocalypse, which causes the Oracle Cells in the area to cease functioning and the "life recycling" of the Apocalypse to remake them as normal humans... [[AndTheAdventureContinues Naturally since Aragami are still a threat, Blood voluntarily become God Eaters again]]]].

* CanonName: Yuu Kannagi ([[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Shinji Kagura]] in [[CulturalTranslation overseas]] version of ''Resurrection'') and Aki Tamashiro (the latter's name revealed in the pachi-slot game) for ''God Eater''.
** Lenka Utsugi for the anime.
* CharacterCustomization: The player can select the character's name, alias, gender, hair style/color, facial structure, skin tone, clothing and in-combat voice set. The hair style/color and clothing can be customized after creation.
** ''God Eater 2'' gives you more freedom with the hair- and skincolors, but doesn't let you choose an outfit at start. Of course, the new uniform is improbably cool.

* CompressedAdaptation: The manga adaptation of ''God Eater 2'' suffers to this trope. Several irrelevant story missions and Character Episodes for male characters (except Gilbert and Haruomi) are omitted in favor to HaremGenre and fanservice.

* CostumeTropes
** AndYourRewardIsClothes: While outfits aren't given out as actual quest rewards, new ones can be bought/crafted using materials found on missions.
** CustomUniform: Lindow's "Commando" uniform serves as this one to match his Corporal rank.
*** Several Cradle members also this.
** GenderedOutfit: Several clothes, mostly school uniforms and military uniforms for female avatar.
** GoofySuit: Animal suits, as well as Pretty Kelot and Cute Kelolun.
*** Kigurumi itself from ''God Eater 2'' also count.
** ImpossiblyCoolClothes: For being in a mostly-destroyed future, looking awesome hasn't gone out of style. Hilariously lampshaded by the merchant, whose sale pitch notes that the world isn't much fun these days, so you might as well try to lighten up with fashion.
*** ''God Eater 2'' DummiedOut all military uniforms (except the blue/green standard formal uniform) from the first game to make room for more stylish clothes.
*** ''God Eater 2 Rage Burst'' add lots and lots of ImpracticallyFancyOutfit.
*** ''God Eater Online'' also have fancy clothes released each month of the game's update.

* CutscenePowerToTheMax: Early on in the game, the group tackles a group of endgame-level Aragami. Several of them already have a reputation of being able to take on such powerful Aragami from the start, though.
** [[spoiler:Much later on in the game, during the new ''Burst'' story line, your HeroicMime speaks to , Lindow{{DualWield}}s his/her God Arc ''and'' Lindow's, then proceeds to ''rip the final boss's mouth open.'' It's as awesome ''looking'' as it sounds.]] Immediately subverted when [[spoiler:Ren informs the protagonist that said dual-wield attack actually dealt relatively little damage to the Aragami. Ultimately a double subversion, as the last story mission makes it clear that Ren wanted the protagonist to head off to a battle at the center of the mind.]]
** In the promotional OVA, the characters rip through Aragami like, well, Aragami rip through humans. Handwaved by many who say that Aragami have evolved since the years in the OVA.
** This is also applied in the anime.
** And again in the sequel, when Blood breaks into [[spoiler:the Friar the second time]]. A bunch of Ogretails and Zygotes in the way? No problem, just kill them all with one hit each!
** Right after defeating the final boss of the ''Rage Burst'' arc in the sequel, [[spoiler:it opens up its chest and attempts to devour Julius by placing him inside. The protagonist breaks free of the toxic spikes impaling him/her, shattering them in the process, jams a hand in the boss's chest just as it closes, and ''rips it open with his/her bare hands''. The resulting damage ''finally'' finishes off the dying boss for good.]]

* DarkestHour: In ''Rage Burst''. The only things standing in the way of the approaching Aragami army and the Far East branch are about 18 or so God Eaters stationed there, two of whom were just put out of commission. The seemingly endless horde is being led by several powerful Aragami no one has ever seen before. You and your allies are also exhausted from having just completed multiple missions in a row, and your armlets are running dangerously low on bias factor. [[spoiler:[[BigDamnHeroes At that moment, Romeo's supposedly dormant God Arc (in the storage back at the Far East branch) unleashes a bright flash of light that forces all the enemies to retreat.]]]]
** A little more subtle is the final cutscene of the ''Rage Burst'' arc. [[spoiler:The final boss has destroyed the Singularity, kickstarting the Endless Destruction. While you and your team do manage to put a stop to it just in time, all everyone else outside the Tree could tell was that humanity had lost - they were all doomed. Right before the huge burst of golden light caused by your team blows the Tree open and purifies the surrounding area, you could tell from Sakaki and Feldman's faces that they were in utter despair.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: 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.

** ''Rage Burst'' has an absolutely nasty one. The ''very first'' mission of Difficulty 11 is ''Suspension Bridge'' which is a 2 character survival mission of 4 parts. Bad enough that Livie is still subpar during these mission, but [[FromBadToWorse worse still is that you have no backup, no link support]], and a [[LightningBruiser Chrome Gawain]] waits at the final phase. It's basically the game's version of a BeefGate as difficulties 11-15 all feature a crapton of survival mission similar to ''Suspension Bridge''.

* DownerEnding: By way of FridgeHorror. [[spoiler:Regardless of your accomplishments, nothing you do will ultimately matter. One way or another, the Devouring Apocalypse ''will'' happen and Humanity ''will'' die out, and there is literally ''nothing'' that can stop this. At best, all anyone can hope to do is delay the inevitable, making all of your accomplishments ultimately pointless in the long run. There is literally no hope for mankind. One way or another, the Aragami ''will'' win unless a miracle happens.]]
* DubNameChange: The title of the game itself, from "God" to "Gods." This change was most likely done to avoid offending [[MoralGuardians any concerned parties]].
** Averted in the overseas release of ''Resurrection'' and ''Rage Burst''.

** In the Far East branch's DarkestHour, [[spoiler:the deceased Romeo's God Arc responds to Blood's activation of their special abilities by doing the same - it forces the ''entire'' Aragami horde to retreat, a good thing considering that it also had the unfortunate side effect of causing all the God Arcs in the area to temporarily stop working since they're essentially domesticated Aragami.]]

* {{Expy}}: Hannibal is often stated to be [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter Nargacuga]] 2.0. They have similar body shape, tail whip attacks, and are [[{{Lightning Bruiser}} very fast.]]

** The Chrome Gawain from ''Rage Burst'' might as well be Gore Magala's cousin.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: The goal of Fenrir and the God Eaters in general is to create a safe haven secure against the Aragami. In case you haven't played the first game through yet, well, there's a sequel and a third one coming, so make of that what you will. Alisa's narration in ''-the 2nd break-'' even underscores the hopelessness of making a meaningful change in the face of such a permanently twisted world.

** Far East Branch 1st Unit (''God Eater'')
*** TheLeader: Lindow[[note]]demoted to TheLancer in post-Burst Arc later on[[/note]]
*** TheLancer: Soma
*** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Sakuya
*** TheChick: Alisa
*** NewMeat: Protagonist[[note]]promoted to TheLeader later on after Lindow's MIA status[[/note]] and Kota
** Defense Squad (''God Eater'')
*** TheLeader: Tatsumi[[note]]previously Marco from ''~side by side~'' manga[[/note]]
*** TheLancer[=/=]TheBigGuy: Brendan
*** TheSmartGuy: Shun[[note]]he may not smart, but he is actually strategic in his own combat skills[[/note]] and Karel
*** TheChick: Gina
*** SixthRanger: Kanon[[note]]prior to the events of ''~side by side~'' manga[[/note]]
*** NewMeat: Annette and Federico
** Blood Unit (''God Eater 2'')
*** TheLeader: Julius[[note]]demoted to TheLancer in post-Rage Burst Arc later on[[/note]]
*** TheSmartGuy: Gilbert and Romeo
*** TheChick: Ciel[[note]]promoted to TheLancer in Rage Burst Arc later on[[/note]]
*** NewMeat: Protagonist[[note]]promoted to TheLancer, then TheLeader later on[[/note]] and Nana
*** [[SixthRanger Seventh Ranger]]: [[spoiler:Livie]]

** Himalayan Branch 1st Unit (''God Eater Online'')
*** TheLeader: Godot[[note]]demoted himself to TheLancer later on[[/note]]
*** TheLancer: Chloe
*** TheSmartGuy: Liu and Leila
*** TheChick: Maria
*** NewMeat: Protagonist[[note]]promoted to TheLeader later on[[/note]]
** Alpha Team (''God Eater: Return of the Messiah'')
*** TheLeader[=/=]TheSmartGuy: Edger
*** TheLancer: Silva
*** TheBigGuy: Jake
*** TheChick: Mizuki
*** [[SixthRanger Fifth Ranger]]: Rosette

* {{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 GagBoobs.
** However in ''2'', ''Rage Burst'', and ''Resurrection'' it is shown on most of the female characters, including more flat chested characters like [[GenkiGirl Nana]].
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: In Kanon's database profile, as well as a few conversations with her, it's mentioned that she's notorious for friendly fire, to the point where ''her squad members flee when she attempts to shoot a recovery bullet''. Much to the consternation of those who wish to use a medic when Sakuya isn't around, this is ''not'' just character fluff. Her AI is programmed to shoot even when you're in her line of fire. And then to admonish you for ''being'' in her line of fire. On the plus side, this actually saves you from death.
** Everyone with a gun is capable of doing this -- and ''will'' do this, including Sakuya. Kanon is the most noticeable because she exclusively uses radial bullets (which are basically flamethrowers), and they have annoyingly large hitboxes. So, naturally, there's a challenge mission featuring you, Kanon, two tank-size Aragami, and nothing but very narrow passages. The Aragami are less hazardous to your health.

** In the sequel, you get to send Emil flying a couple yards with a MegatonPunch at one point in his character episode. In gameplay, he turns out to have the ''Exaggerated'' ability, which makes ''every single attack'' send him flying. Quite a fitting ability for the resident LargeHam.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Soma is considered all but cursed because supposedly any squad he's in has an unusually high casualty rate, not because of anything he does but simply because they keep falling into bad situations. Eric's death drums this in during Soma's introductory mission. You're not actually at any risk using Soma in your squad, though.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Implied [[spoiler: by Rachel Claudius who has a few lines that refer to a Restless God that she hints that not only was influencing her actions but also influences the actions of all aragami]].
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: The Old-Types. Lindow and Sakuya are well known examples. Haruomi and Kate also count before they become New-Types.
** ShortRangeGuyLongRangeGuy: Soma and Kota (originally Soma and Eric in 'Days of Ruins'' light novel).
* HealingShiv: You can create healing bullets and shoot them at your friends or NPC allies.

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Happens to the protagonist when s/he discovers that the Hannibal is actually Lindow transformed into an Aragami.]]
** In ''2'' [[spoiler: Julius suffers one following Romeo's HeroicSacrifice, which allows him to be easily manipulated by [[BigBad Dr. Rachel]]]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Divine becomes the InfinityPlusOneElement in the game because similar to ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' and its Dragon Element, several monsters are weak to their own usage of Divine. For players who don't have decent divine weapons, devouring monsters and using their own attacks against them quickly becomes a strategy.

* {{Hunk}}: In contrast to CastFullOfPrettyBoys, there's a few hunks in ''God Eater'' series such as [[TheAce Lindow]] and [[NiceGuy Brendan]], as well as [[RetiredBadass retired badasses]] like [[CoolOldGuy Gen]] and [[RatedMForManly Damian]].

* InconsistentDub: The publishers aren't even trying to hide the fact that the DubNameChange to ''Gods Eater Burst'' was a last minute thing. While the in-game text uses "Gods Eater," the spoken dialogue uses "God Eater."
** Averted in the overseas release of ''God Eater Resurrection'' and ''God Eater 2 Rage Burst''.
* InfoDump: Paylor Sakaki's lectures on the nature of the Aragami, which also provide some extremely subtle {{Foreshadowing}} when he mentions [[spoiler:the possibility of Aragami that have "learned" to imitate humanity. Not only does this clearly foreshadow Shio, but in a more blink-and-you'll-miss-it way it ends up reinforcing Alisa's brainwashing that leads her to attempt to kill Lindow under the belief he was the Aragami that killed her parents]].
* InterfaceSpoiler: [[AnyoneCanDie Eric's death]] isn't quite so surprising -- every mission starts with a squad list, which is automatically filled out for story missions. Soma's on the list for that mission but Eric isn't, so while the cutscene starts by passing him off as a companion, you should realize that something is about to remove him from the equation.
** In the UpdatedRerelease of the sequel, pictures of all the Aragami that appear in that mission are displayed at the top right when selecting missions. Which means that you'll know what Aragami will show up even if the debrief doesn't mention them, making kind of odd when the MissionControl remarks that an unexpected Aragami has shown up halfway through the mission. Some missions do try to avoid this by replacing the Aragami's image with an ''Unknown'' icon when you're doing it for the first time, but checking the mission reward list will still give its identity away if it drops anything at all.
* ItemCrafting: Besides the standard Build and Upgrade, you can also make your own Bullets in this manner. And if you want to survive the game, the bullet editor is your best friend.
** 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.
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: See those raven feathers? The ones that are indicated as VendorTrash and sell for 4000fc? The ones the merchant constantly urges you to sell? Better keep three of those.
** Hell, almost your entire inventory counts as you unlock the ability to convert more common materials into valuable ones. Those Ogre Helms you thought you were done with? Well, eight of those gets you an Ogre Sharp Helm, a useful material that you'll need for all kinds of mid-game upgrades. You may end up farming for Ogre Helms just for conversion.
* KnightOfCerebus: As soon as [[spoiler:[[HeroKiller Dyaus Pita]]]] is introduced, things take a turn for the darker. [[spoiler:Not even the [[PlayableEpilogue Burst storyline]] is safe when Hannibal hijacks the plot and cripples the player.]]
** And then there's [[DudeLooksLikeALady Re]][[TheOmniscient n]]...
* LethalJokeWeapon: Within the game (JP versions only) exists a set of equipment made out of desserts. The long sword is a giant chocolate bar (GE Chocolate), the gun is a giant piece of shortcake (GE Shortcake), and the shield is a giant piece of candy (GE Candy). Despite their rather ridiculous look they have excellent skills that can max out your HP, OP, and ST gauges as well as burst skills that are good for the gunner playstyle.

* MegaManning: Hitting an Aragami with a Devour attack usually grants you three bullets capable of shooting something similar to its signature attack.
** In a slightly more morbid usage, there are weapon parts that are made to resemble the Aragami the parts are made of.
** In ''Rage Burst'', [[spoiler: Livie has this ability, allowing her to use another God Eater's God Arc, and even the Blood Power when she uses Julius's and Romeo's Arcs. However this causes her great pain, shown as [[BodyHorror tendrils of Oracle Cells spiking out of her skin]]]].
* MiniMecha: The God Arc Soldiers in ''2'' can be this, by allowing a God Eater to essentially pilot them. However their main purpose is to act as remote controlled robots.

* MonochromeToColor: The opening video of ''2'' has the first part DeliberatelyMonochrome with SplashOfColour for the characters' eyes and clothes, it [[SpoilerOpening shows short clips]] hinting [[ShowDontTell about their backstories]]. It then switches to full color in an AvengersAssemble shot, and has them fighting as a team against some [[OurMonstersAreDifferent aragami]]. the transition implies "these people had their own problems, now they are [[ThePowerOfFriendship bought together as one and must support each other]]".
* MusclesAreMeaningless: It doesn't matter how skinny or scrawny the characters are, they will always be able to hold their incredibly huge weapons as if they're weightless.
** [[JustifiedTrope Explained in-story]]; God Eaters are enhanced through their Oracle Cells to have super strength and regeneration abilities.
* NoahsStoryArc: This is [[spoiler:[[MeaningfulName Johannes]] [[TheVonTropeFamily von]] [[GratuitousGerman Schicksal]]]]'s plan in ''Burst''. [softreturn] Basically, The [[spoiler:Aegis ]]Project was just a front for a secret Ark Project [[spoiler:which involved a certain MacGuffinSuperPerson being some sort of key that will give Johaness [[AGodAmI the power of God]]]], where a select few population were to be shipped to the moon while the rest of the world are to be nuked to oblivion along with the aragami. it should be noted though that the one who planned all this [[NoPlaceForMeThere had no intention of being with the ones to repopulate the earth]] though, knowing well how extreme [[spoiler:his]] actions are.
* NoCutsceneInventoryInertia: 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.

* NoNameGiven: Played with in the games, as you choose your Protagonist's name and mission codename. Subverted in other media, see CanonName above.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Lindow's profile unlocked at the very beginning of the game states that he's the only God Eater to take down an Ouroboros alone. This kind of power, along with the CutscenePowerToTheMax example above, isn't really borne out in gameplay... maybe he's too distracted trying to protect your lame rookie ass?
** Definitely not helped by how the Protagonist [[spoiler: can basically up-end him with their own feats, like killing two Susano'os solo, but by that point Lindow's left everything in their hands so it all balances out. That and he does need the rehab, post-game]].
* OfficialCouple:
** Lindow and Sakuya.
** In the the manga and light novels, Alisa and Yuu (the canon name for the Burst protagonist).
* OldSaveBonus: You can transfer your Japanese ''God Eater Burst'' save file to ''God Eater 2''. However, Only Guns, Blades and Shields (Including DLC) can be transfered and will be limited to 12 equipment of your choice. Collaboration equipment such as Laevateinn gear, [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur]], Soul Edge and [[VideoGame/TaikoDrumMaster Don Kat Shield]] cannot be transferred.
** In order to transfer, you must clear at least 1 of the following 12 transfer tiers. You only need to clear one of the items on the tier to clear the tier. The number of cleared tiers translates to the number of equipment you may carry over.
** In addition to the above, bonus items are given for clearing a number of tiers.
** You can also transfer practically everything to ''[[UpdatedRerelease God Eater 2 Rage Burst]]'' from ''God Eater 2'', with the exception of the upgrade cores since that system got scrapped in favour of the old crafting/upgrading system. All cores get converted to fc instead.

* PlayableEpilogue: The game, which is an UpdatedRerelease, has a PlayableEpilogue after defeating Arda Nova. it's ''about as long as the main game itself'', since it continues the subplot about Lindow going AWOL. After finishing that one, you can play through ''everything'' again(though the same goes for the first half, but it's not technically the end of Burst, but the original GE) plus new bonus chapters that allow you to unlock new postgame {{Infinity Plus One Sword}}s (there are several because of the game's equipment tiers) and other equipment and rerecruit [[spoiler:dead or AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence]] characters.
** ''Resurrection'' has an additional one that takes place after the ''Burst'' storyline, which deals with [[spoiler: a Nova fragment devouring multiple Aragami and mutating into a MixAndMatchCreature]] and gives more closure between the characters that leads into ''2''. ''2'' also has one in the form of the Rage Burst storyline which deals with [[spoiler:Blood trying to investigate the mysterious Spiral Tree following Julius's HeroicSacrifice and the consequences of Dr. Rachel's actions]].

* RandomlyDrops: 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. [[note]]For example creating the L�weberg 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%.[[/note]]
** Later in the game, you can craft equipment that increases your chance of obtaining rare Aragami materials.
** Each combat field has a set of locations where materials and VendorTrash can be scavenged. Each location has its own random selection of possible items it produces, which changes at different mission difficulties. This means sometimes you have to farm specific fields at specific difficulty levels to get what you want, not just Aragami.
*** Alleviated to an extent in God Eater 2. You can convert some of the items you get on the field into cores to upgrade your equipment, making it less of a hassle. You still need to hunt the more powerful Aragami to get acceptable materials for the final tier's cores, though; 100 points is a steep price to pay with items that only give 1 point a piece.
** Back in full force in its UpdatedRerelease; the crafting system was reverted to the one in the first game. Thankfully though, mission rewards are now randomly chosen from a long list of items if you meet their conditions instead of having a 100% chance of getting 3 to 4 fairly common materials. The list is different for each mission, even if all Aragami in them and the ranks of the missions are identical. Some [=NPCs=] even have special skills that boost the chances of getting stuff on the list.

* RealTimeWeaponChange: In that you can swap between a blade and gun. Played with in the game itself, as Dexterous ups your change speed, while Clumsy slows it down. Yes, those seconds are crucial.
** Moreover, the process isn't silent and some Aragami have very good hearing. There's even a skill for that: Noisy. You can, however, counter it with the 'Mute' skill, and some Controllers have the skill 'Super Mute' while in Burst mode.

* RegionalBonus: ''God Eater 2 Rage Burst'' has western exclusive DLC costumes such as ''[[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization]]'' and ''VideoGame/TalesOfZestiria''. However, these are eventually released as update patch in Japan along with VideoGame/TheIdolmaster [[NoExportForYou costumes]].

* ShipperOnDeck: In the manga and light novels, all the members of the 1st unit ships Yuu and Alisa, including Soma in his own way.
* ShipTease: The manga and light novels were pretty obvious that there are some "Yuu X Alisa" moments anywhere.
** In some ''God Eater 2'' manga, we have a harem variant between Hiro and pretty much every female character.

* SpoilerOpening: As this game is a port of ''Burst'', they would naturally use the ''Burst'' opening. For many of the western gamers who start off with the initial English release, this leads to problems, especially once they play enough of the game to experience key events and get a grasp of what's going on.
** Same goes for the ''Rage Burst'' opening. It features [[spoiler:a noticeable lack of Romeo and Julius (the former gets KIA and the latter is stuck in the Tree by the end of the main arc), Kate talking to Gilbert from behind and Nana getting up from a meal with her mother and walking out the door (both scenes take place in Rachel's LotusEaterMachine). A quick [[FreezeFrameBonus blink-and-you'll-miss-it]] moment also depicts a young Livie and Romeo, spoiling the reveal that Livie's his childhood friend and an orphan at the Magnolia Compass.]] Apart from that first thing, none of them are immediately obvious though.
** Partially averted in ''Resurrection'', the opening is simply recycled from ''Burst'' and ''Pachi-Slot'' version. It lacks anime version [[spoiler:Dyaus Pita]].

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Apparently Oracle Cells keep women from wanting or being able to cover up, even when it's snowing. As well, the artbook makes it painfully obvious that bras (and likely other undergarments) didn't survive the apocalypse.
** May be justified, barely. If the enemy will eat your way through all of your protection with a single bite with the only defense being the passive shielding of your Oracle Cells, why bother with armor and not light clothing? Still doesn't justify Sakuya's outfit.
** Clothes are also laced with Bias Factor, which is the only reason (system limitations aside) you don't suffer ClothingDamage whenever an Aragami gets a bite of you. Given how incredibly important Bias Factor is to almost everything, people may be more willing to go commando (and indulge "[[TheissTitillationTheory less is more]]" fashions, at least for women) to make the best of their resource budgets.
* TeamPet: The Far East Branch adopts a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara capybara]] in ''2'' which they eventually name Cappy.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: In ''Rage Burst'', the song ''Blood Rage'' plays whenever you enter said [[SuperMode Blood Rage.]]
* TriggerPhrase: [[spoiler:A Russian count of "one, two, three," dubiously transliterated as "Ajin duva touri" in the English language release for ''Burst'', is the phrase used for Alisa. This is corrected to the more widely accepted romanization of "''Odin, dva, tri''" in ''Resurrection'''s redone dub and script.]]

* {{Utopia}}: The goal of the Fenrir Corporation is the Aegis Project, an impenetrable safe haven against the Aragami.
* UnflinchingWalk: Part of Lindow's introduction in Episode One of the anime. He simply walks in a straight line while having a smoke, [[OffhandBackhand smashing any Aragami that come a little too close to him]].
* UpdatedRerelease: ''God Eater Resurrection''. In addition to the visual and performance upgrades inherent with remaking a PSP game for modern systems, it also retrofits the sequel's additional weapon types into the game and cleans up the localization.

* WeaponsAndWieldingTropes
** {{BFG}}[=/=]{{BFS}} : Your weapon of choice, which is capable of [[MorphWeapon transforming between both]].
*** "Short" blades are larger than old-fashioned claymores, the basic Long blade is easily the size of an ironing board, and buster blades are half-again as wide and some much thicker.
*** Sniper gun parts are around the character's height, some assault guns have cannons large enough to fit a head, and most blast guns are even wider.
*** [[BladeOnAStick Charge Spears]] are more like JoustingLance due to it's size and how the God Eaters wield it.
** ChainsawGood: You have Freeze, Spark, and Divine-elemental chainsaws to put in place of a normal {{BFS}}, with Lindow's model being a dual-element blade. All of them recover more OP per hit than normal and have the 'Noisy' skill, making Aragami more likely to hear you coming.
** DropTheHammer: God Arcs can be built into a BFH instead of a {{BFS}}.
** HolyHandGrenade: One of the bullet types available to you to use at the start. Specifically, the kamui::mortar bullet, which explodes with Divine damage upon impact.
** ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: The Old-Type God Arcs are either a {{BFS}} or a {{BFG}}. The New-Type ones ''can [[MorphWeapon switch between the two]]'', and use a [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shield]] while in blade form. (Old-Type God Eaters who use blades are also equipped with a shield, whereas gunners have no choice but to dodge.)
*** ''God Eater 2'' and ''God Eater 2 Rage Burst'' ups the ante by adding a BFH (Big Freakin' Hammer,a BFL (Big Freakin' Lance) and a BES (Big Expandin' Scythe).
** LivingWeapon: The God Arc. It is created using Aragami cores and is bound to its user's armlet (which is fused to said user). They may not look that alive under ordinary circumstances, but given the right command, they can turn into a giant pair of ''jaws'' that chomps on any other Aragami on sight. They also have the unfortunate side-effect of devouring anyone that touches them other than their wielder.
*** Painfully revealed in the anime that an ''Oracle Cell Erosion'' will occur if a God Eater's compatibility rate is rising too high for their God Arc to keep up, causing an uncurable cancer-like disease to spread over the body until it kills them, should they continue on using it. This doesn't explain how Lenka got cured in the last shot of him in the final episode.
** LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The shield parts are made to resist devouring by Aragami, and passively add some of that resistance to you; when the shield is actually deployed, the concentration of Bias Factor helps block most Aragami attacks. Bucklers deploy the fastest and have skills to leverage it, but let a quarter of the damage through and have [[FragileSpeedster low stats]], while towers are the slowest with few skills, [[MightyGlacier but have great stats and block all of the damage at the cost of your stamina]]; [[JackOfAllStats normal shields]] are between the two in terms of stats, speed, and skills. Many skills apply to the shield, from making it faster to deploy (crucial), to expanding the guarded area or reducing the damage you take while guarding even further; like most skills, though, they do have their negative counterparts.
*** Only applies to Blade-Arc Old-types and New-types. Old-type gunners have to make do with dodging, [[TheAllSeeingAI not that they don't have an advantage]].
** MorphWeapon: The New-Type God Arcs can switch between melee and ranged modes, have a built-in shield, and can turn into a set of big monstery jaws in order to "Devour" an Aragami's Oracle Cells.
** [[RainbowPimpGear Rainbow Pimp God Arc]]: The player's God Arc suffers from this, in favor of high stats and better skill set.

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->''"Gods will fall. Humanity will rise."''

''God Eater Burst'' is a PSP action-adventure game developed by Shift and published by NamcoBandai. Originally released in Japan as ''God Eater'' in February 2010, it received an UpdatedRerelease in October 2010 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.

The gameplay is similar to {{Capcom}}'s ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series in that it revolves around teams of up to four slaying gigantic monsters and using the loot found to create new weapons, but it carries the distinction of having an actual plot, being much faster, and having several gameplay differences.

The story is set in a [[AfterTheEnd a post-apocalyptic world]] where monsters known as Aragami have swarmed the planet and [[CrapsackWorld pushed humanity to the brink of extinction]]. As conventional weapons are useless against the HealingFactor of the Aragami, the Fenrir Corporation creates a series of [[TheSymbiote symbiotic weapons]] called "God Arcs" that can destroy these monsters and harvest precious materials from their corpses. As one of the New-Type "God Eaters", you must work alongside your comrades to defend the last remnants of humankind from complete extinction while gathering resources for the Fenrir Corporation's "Aegis Project", which promises a safe haven from the threat of the Aragami.

A sequel, ''God Eater 2'', was released in Japan on November 14th, 2013, with an UpdatedRerelease titled ''God Eater 2 Rage Burst'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQQcHMOA0U announced]] for PlayStation4 and PlayStationVita. On December 21st, 2015, both it and the UpdatedRerelease of the first game, titled ''God Eater Resurrection'', were [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0NNVFFSEcA announced for an overseas release]] on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita, and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

There are several manga adaptations as well, mostly set after the game. One, ''The Spiral Fate'', is out of canon with the others as the protagonist character has a different name and appearance. ''The Summer Wars'' takes place shortly after the game and is followed by ''The 2nd Break'', 3 years after the game. Another, ''The Return of Messiah'', is concerned with a different group of God Eaters. Finally, a short (12 minute) OVA created to promote the first game is available [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qxxVPfDAHU here]], complete with English subtitles.

An anime by Ufotable has been released. It can be found [[Anime/GodEater here]].

Character sheet under construction [[{{Characters/GodEaterBurst}} here]].

Soma, Alisa, and Lindow also show up in ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' and their storyline in the game takes place [[spoiler: [[LateArrivalSpoiler after the ending of this game. Which means, Lindow's Red Right Hand is now well-known by other characters, Alisa already had her Character Development, and Soma's a lot closer to his peers.]]]] The sequel to the game features Ciel Alencon and Nana Kouzuki.

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!! ''God Eater Burst'' provides examples of:

* AfterTheEnd: [[ApocalypseHow Planetary near-total extinction.]] The game starts out after the Aragami have [[ExtremeOmnivore eaten]] most of the planet. They make up the entire biosphere at this point, and the tiny remnant of humanity is almost all that's left of native Earth life. Landmasses are now little more than desert.
** And Fenrir's scientists believe that an even worse apocalypse is on the way -- what they call the Devouring Apocalypse, where the Aragami density reaches a critical mass and a single massive Aragami comes out on top of the food chain, consuming and consuming all the others until the face of the Earth is literally wiped clean of anything and everything but this one super-lifeform. Life will then be 're-distributed'.
* [[AlwaysInClassOne Always In The First Unit]]: All the main characters are from the first unit. {{Justified|Trope}} in that the first unit has the highest survival rate for rookies, so obviously Fenrir would want the recently-minted New-Types to get some experience.
** Your main character in ''God Eater 2'' is designated as "Blood 1" as opposed to "Leader" or "Rookie".
* TheAllSeeingAI: A minor example that works in your favor. Many Aragami have area attacks, and sometimes it's hard to tell apart the preparations for those attacks from a less wide one -- if that is even ''possible''; AI characters not currently performing their own attacks, however, will run towards a safe area (if it's possible for them, [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe they block if it isn't]]) a second or two before the enemy even begins the motions of the attack. Keeping an eye on the mini-map and listening carefully can provide a human player with a small forewarning.
** It's even justifiable to an extent: the Aragami's Database Entries usually include hints on what attacks they are capable of using, so your NPC friends may have actually done their research on the monsters before setting off.
* AllYourPowersCombined: When you devour an Aragami, you [[MegaManning gain their attacks as bullets]] and have the option to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard use it against them]]. [[HealingShiv You have the option of shooting it at your teammates instead]], granting them an even more powerful super mode and version of the attack with up to three levels.
* AndYourRewardIsClothes: While outfits aren't given out as actual quest rewards, new ones can be bought/crafted using materials found on missions.
* AnimalMotifs: Wolves in general due to the Fenrir Corporation, for [[MeaningfulName obvious]] [[Myth/NorseMythology reasons]]. The Vajra and the Kongou take from lions and monkeys respectively, with the former adding a bit of UncannyValley with human faces.
* AnyoneCanDie: Hammered into you early on with Eric der Vogelweid, who gets devoured just as he's introducing himself to you. He doesn't look at all like cannon fodder at the time, so it really comes out of nowhere. It's used to play up Soma's reputation for other God Eaters dying in his proximity.
** This is followed by [[spoiler:Lindow... Or is it?]]
*** So in the end, [[spoiler:the only good guy who dies is the one who is killed in order to show that anyone can die.]]
** And in God Eater 2, [[spoiler:Romeo and [[MeaningfulName Julius]]. Though technically, Julius isn't really dead, but he is stuck in a helix plant-like structure in order to stop his Singularity from evolving.]]
* ArmorIsUseless: The clothes you can create have no effect on gameplay outside of aesthetics, which can be kinda jarring when you consider that samurai armor gives you no more protection than a swimsuit. Handwaved in that anything not manufactured with Bias Factor (the same substance that makes people into God Eaters) is basically edible tissue paper to an Aragami - that samurai armor is exactly as durable as a swimsuit to the all-devouring giant monsters.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Some of the Aragami.
** 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.
* AutobotsRockOut: ''No Way Back'', the battle theme for Dyaus Pita, qualifies.
** So does ''Wings of Tomorrow'', Marduk's battle theme in the sequel.
** Also ''Blood Rage'',the only BGM for the {{UpdatedRerelease}}'s new gamplay feature in Rage Burst.
* TheBait: Kota's "[[spoiler:[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Lovely 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 "Version 2" which is Version 1, but with beer.
* BattleInTheRain: The second half of Episode One.
* {{BFG}}[=/=]{{BFS}} : Your weapon of choice, which is capable of [[MorphWeapon transforming between both]].
** "Short" blades are larger than old-fashioned claymores, the basic Long blade is easily the size of an ironing board, and Buster blades are half-again as wide and some much thicker.
** Sniper gun parts are around the character's height, some assault guns have cannons large enough to fit a head, and most blast guns are even wider.
* {{Bishonen}}: ''God Eater 2'' has a few. And Julius.
* BizarreAlienBiology: The Aragami are actually clusters of single-celled organisms that can consume just about anything, as well as have the ability to take on the traits of the things they eat. The only reason there's still a breathable atmosphere in the world is because some Aragami learned to photosynthesize.
* BigDamnHeroes: The First Unit (the one the player character is in) is considered to be this trope by the Second and Third Units. Each member gets a BigDamnHeroes moment before the group heads out to stop Apocalypse 2.0 in the ''God Eater'' storyline.
** Pulled by the protagonist during the ''Burst'' storyline when [[spoiler:s/he saves Tatsumi from the Corrosive Hannibal.]]
** In chapter six, [[spoiler:Alisa saves Sakuya upon arriving at Aegis, then proceeds to take this trope UpToEleven after the director finishes his MotiveRant.]]
* CameraLockOn
* CameraCentering
* ChainsawGood: You have Freeze, Spark, and Divine-elemental chainsaws to put in place of a normal {{BFS}}, with Lindow's model being a dual-element blade. All of them recover more OP per hit than normal and have the 'Noisy' skill, making Aragami more likely to hear you coming.
* CharacterCustomization: The player can select the character's name, alias, gender, hair style/color, facial structure, skin tone, clothing and in-combat voice set. The hair style/color and clothing can be customized after creation.
** God Eater 2 gives you more freedom with the hair- and skincolors, but doesn't let you choose an outfit at start. Of course, the new uniform is improbably cool.
* ChargedAttack: Buster Blades can be charged to inflict massive damage. It charges faster when in [[SuperMode Burst Mode]]. Charges even faster when you combine Burst Mode with equipment that boosts your charging speed.
** On the matter of Burst Mode, all Old-Type Blade and New-Type God Arcs have a Devour move, which shows grows a monster head on your God Arc to bite the enemy, gaining Burst Mode (If they're alive) or materials (If they're dead). Subverted, however, if you use the Combo Devour.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Bullet Outlines for the icons come in the following colors (and applies to some Blades, Guns and Shields): Red for [[PlayingWithFire Blaze]], Blue for [[AnIcePerson Freeze]], Yellow for [[ShockAndAwe Shock]], Purple for [[HolyHandGrenade Divine]] and (only applies to Bullets), Green for [[HealingShiv Recovery bullets]]. Status-based shots (as well as mixed elements) are Colorless.
* ColorCodedItemTiers: Items are tiered by "Rank" and icon colors/icon background. Ranks 1 and 2 use the default font color and background, 3 and 4 uses Purple icons, 5 and 6 uses Red, 7 and 8 uses Teal, 9 uses White and 10 uses white with a special background.
* CrapsackWorld: 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.
* CutscenePowerToTheMax: Early on in the game, the group tackles a group of endgame-level Aragami. Several of them already have a reputation of being able to take on such powerful Aragami from the start, though.
** [[spoiler:Much later on in the game, during the new ''Burst'' story line, your SilentProtagonist speaks to , Lindow{{DualWield}}s his/her God Arc ''and'' Lindow's, then proceeds to ''rip the final boss's mouth open.'' It's as awesome ''looking'' as it sounds.]] Immediately subverted when [[spoiler:Ren informs the protagonist that said dual-wield attack actually dealt relatively little damage to the Aragami. Ultimately a double subversion, as the last story mission makes it clear that Ren wanted the protagonist to head off to a battle at the center of the mind.]]
** In the promotional OVA, the characters rip through Aragami like, well, Aragami rip through humans. Handwaved by many who say that Aragami have evolved since the years in the OVA.
** And again in the sequel, when BLOOD breaks into [[spoiler:the Friar the second time]]. A bunch of ogretails and zygotes in the way? No problem, just kill them all with one hit each!
** Right after defeating the final boss of the ''Rage Burst'' arc in the sequel, [[spoiler:it opens up its chest and attempts to devour Julius by placing him inside. The protagonist breaks free of the toxic spikes impaling him/her, shattering them in the process, jams a hand in the boss's chest just as it closes, and ''rips it open with his/her bare hands''. The resulting damage ''finally'' finishes off the dying boss for good.]]
* CreatureHunterOrganization: Fenrir and BLOOD (The latter being the current page image) are this, since they specialize in fighting Aragami.
* DarkestHour: In ''Rage Burst''. The only things standing in the way of the approaching Aragami army and the Far East branch are about 18 or so God Eaters stationed there, two of whom were just put out of commission. The seemingly endless horde is being led by several powerful Aragami no one has ever seen before. You and your allies are also exhausted from having just completed multiple missions in a row, and your bracelets are running dangerously low on bias factor. [[spoiler:[[BigDamnHeroes At that moment, Romeo's supposedly dormant God Arc (in the storage back at the Far East branch) unleashes a bright flash of light that forces all the enemies to retreat.]]]]
** A little more subtle is the final cutscene of the ''Rage Burst'' arc. [[spoiler:The final boss has destroyed the Singularity, kickstarting the Endless Destruction. While you and your team do manage to put a stop to it just in time, all everyone else outside the Tree could tell was that humanity had lost - they were all doomed. Right before the huge burst of golden light caused by your team blows the Tree open and purifies the surrounding area, you could tell from Sakaki and Feldman's faces that they were in utter despair.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: 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.
* DifficultyLevels: Like all hunting games, missions in later ranks are harder and so technically fall into this trope. Some Aragami even get new moves in the later ranks. The ranks go up to 10 in the first game and ''God Eater 2'', but ''God Eater 2 Rage Burst'' caps out at [[UpToEleven 15]].
** Complete the one and only story mission in rank 15, and you unlock the option to set mission difficulty. Found the rank 15 missions hard? [[UpToEleven That was just level 1 out of 99.]] Raising the difficulty [[OhCrap not only raises the enemies' stats, but makes certain tricks (Stagger Locking and Down Locking) harder, or even outright impossible]] due to the increased threshold the player must pass in order to knock them down in the first place.
* DropTheHammer: God Arcs can be built into a BFH instead of a {{BFS}}.
* DubNameChange: The title of the game itself, from "God" to "Gods." This change was most likely done to avoid offending [[MoralGuardians any concerned parties]].
* EldritchAbomination: Most of the Aragami. Especially one of the DLC monsters, Venus, who's an amalgamation of many other Aragami into one lovely piece of melting flesh. Could also count [[spoiler:Lindow's transformation into a Corrosive Hannibal]].
** [[spoiler: Director Schicksal makes himself into an abomination to begin the Devouring Apocalypse.]]
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Blaze (Fire), Freeze (Ice), Shock (Lightning), and [[InfinityPlusOneElement Divine (Holy)]] that act as modifiers to non-elemental physical attack properties. Divine quickly overshadows the others later on in the game.
* EmoteCommand: The D-pad and shoulder buttons allow the player to do several actions within the Fenrir Base, ranging from clapping to a TwistedKneeCollapse to a bow.
* EmpathicWeapon: The God Arcs are a special case in that they are essentially weapon shaped Aragami with the same Oracle Cells as their wielders. This has a very unfortunate side-effect: If anyone but their wielder so much as TOUCHES them, they get devoured. [[spoiler: And then comes Ren, Lindow's God Arc come alive for the sole purpose of making sure the protagonist gets to bring Lindow back home.]]
** In the Far East branch's DarkestHour, [[spoiler:the deceased Romeo's God Arc responds to BLOOD's activation of their special abilities by doing the same - it forces the ''entire'' Aragami horde to retreat, a good thing considering that it also had the unfortunate side effect of causing all the God Arcs in the area to temporarily stop working since they're essentially domesticated Aragami.]]
* TheEmpire: 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 God 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.
* EquipmentUpgrade: All [[VirtualPaperDoll non-clothing]] equipment is subject to ElementalCrafting. In order to make the upgrade for a given piece of equipment available you must have the materials needed to craft it.
* {{Expy}}: Hannibal is often stated to be [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter Nargacuga]] 2.0. They have similar body shape, tail whip attacks, and are [[{{Lightning Bruiser}} very fast.]]
** The Kongou is similar to both the Congalala and Blagonga from the same franchise, even sharing their shockwave bodyslam move.
* ExtremeOmnivore: The Aragami have eaten much of what used to exist on Earth. Including rather large chunks of the ''buildings''.
* FaceDesignShield: There are some shields that are this, like the Borg Camlann's one (which you get in tower shield form); the (tower) shield made from Ouroboros pieces is the face of the Ouroboros itself, as is the Susano'o-based shield. It's more likely that your shield will end up being an Aragami's 'hat', crown, or back, however.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: The goal of Fenrir and the God Eaters in general is to create a safe haven secure against the Aragami. In case you haven't played the first game through yet, well, there's a second one coming, so make of that what you will. Alisa's narration in ''The 2nd Break'' even underscores the hopelessness of making a meaningful change in the face of such a permanently twisted world.
--> ''"Nothing has changed, has it...? Even though three years have passed, our living circumstances haven't changed. We are still somehow surviving in this city, surrounded by armor to defend against the Aragami. We 'God Eaters' still risk our lives in battle, and everyone still lives each day in fear. Nothing has changed at all."''
** The sequel introduces the red rain, which causes all who get drenched in it to contract the fatal Black Spider Disease [[spoiler:which is eventually revealed to be a natural mechanism meant to create a new Singularity that activated because the original one (Shio) left Earth, lending even more support to the theory that the Aragami are part of a natural cycle of destruction and rebirth of the Earth. It certainly seems pretty hopeless when Mother Nature itself is your enemy.]]
* FantasticGhetto: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Outer Ghetto]].
* FireIceLightning: Three of the four type of bullets available to you, the other type being [[HolyHandGrenade Divine]].
* [[invoked]]FollowTheLeader: This game copied the VideoGame/MonsterHunter hunting formula and four people party size. The speed the of hunts, [=NPCs=], weapons of choice, and monsters themselves are ''very'', different, not to mention that ''God Eater'' has an ''actual'' plot (earning the series the nickname "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Monster Hunter With Plot]]). Now more of an averted trope, since the series has its own defining elements relative to other hack-and-slash titles.
* GagBoobs: 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 GagBoobs.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: In Kanon's database profile, as well as a few conversations with her, it's mentioned that she's notorious for friendly fire, to the point where ''her squad members flee when she attempts to shoot a recovery bullet''. Much to the consternation of those who wish to use a medic when Sakuya isn't around, this is ''not'' just character fluff. Her AI is programmed to shoot even when you're in her line of fire. And then to admonish you for ''being'' in her line of fire.
** Everyone with a gun is capable of doing this -- and ''will'' do this, including Sakuya. Kanon is the most noticeable because she exclusively uses radial bullets (which are basically flamethrowers), and they have annoyingly large hitboxes. So, naturally, there's a challenge mission featuring you, Kanon, two tank-size Aragami, and nothing but very narrow passages. The Aragami are less hazardous to your health.
** A more subtle example can be found in Kota: shortly after arriving, Alisa disparagingly notes that he wastes too much of his health when he performs a Link Aid. In gameplay, most characters will usually only give about half of their health to revive you, but Kota can often be seen using up a lot more, showing that what Alisa said was true. In game terms, this means Kota has the "Self-Sacrifice" trait, which you can also get from some gear.
** Alisa also notes that Kota deals strong attacks but doesn't pace himself, meaning he runs through his entire OP gauge in a matter of seconds. This is noted in his final profile sheet, which mentions that he fights well with New-Type God Eaters, since New-Types can place him in Burst mode. On the bright side, at least he can aim.
** Karel's attitude of being self-serving and Shun's reluctance to help others also fit in this trope in their own subtle ways. Like the Kota example above, most characters usually give you half their health to revive you. These two only give a fourth of their health, meaning they have the "Defensive" trait. In God Eater 2 1.40, which comes with Another Episode (the only way to get these two back in your roster), the obvious risks that come with this can be outweighed if you're willing to put up with them for hundreds of missions -- levelling them up makes their Link-Aid ''heal more'' for very little, which will make them excellent Link-Aid batteries in a pinch.
** The flavor text in ''every'' profile provides clues as to how the character's [=AI=] is programmed, and conversations with various characters offer other hints as to their various skills (such as Shun remarking that he finds more rare items when Kanon is present.
** In the sequel, you get to send Emil flying a couple yards with a MegatonPunch at one point in his character episode. In gameplay, he turns out to have the ''Exaggerated'' ability, which makes ''every single attack'' send him flying. Quite a fitting ability for the resident LargeHam.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Soma is considered all but cursed because supposedly any squad he's in has an unusually high casualty rate, not because of anything he does but simply because they keep falling into bad situations. Eric der Vogelweid's death drums this in during Soma's introductory mission. You're not actually at any risk using Soma in your squad, though.
** Cutscenes imply that it is actually possible for a God Eater to kill other people with both their melee and ranged attacks. Thankfully, friendly fire only staggers you and your party members without doing any damage, while melee attacks do absolutely nothing to anything other than Aragami during missions.
* GargleBlaster: First Love Juice. Tastes sweet and bitter, like a first love.
* HealingShiv: You can create healing bullets and shoot them at your friends or NPC allies.
** In an unusual twist, you also have a [[UpToEleven Super Mode Shiv]]. Shoot the Aragami bullets [[MegaManning that you bit off of your enemies]] at your teammates instead, and they get the powerful [[ThePowerOfFriendship Link-Burst]], gaining up to three (stackable) levels of massive stats boosts and an even more powerful version of the attack you fired at them. They can do the same to you, and if you've equipped the control unit that regenerates hit points while in Burst mode, you can combine healing and Super Mode... through the power of being shot.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Happens to the protagonist when s/he discovers that the Hannibal is actually Lindow transformed into an Aragami.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Divine becomes the InfinityPlusOneElement in the game because similar to MonsterHunter and its Dragon Element, several monsters are weak to their own usage of Divine. For players who don't have decent divine gear, devouring monsters and using their own attacks against them quickly becomes a strategy.
** It's not just Divine bullets. As early as the first chapter, you encounter a Kongou, whose bullets inflict Bind on itself. The Charged Chi-You and its subsequent variants are vulnerable to Hold (essentially, Stun but longer lasting) from their own bullets, as are the Vajra and Sariel. Depending on how much time you've spent crafting billets, the enemies' ammo may be better.
* HolyHandGrenade: One of the bullet types available to you to use at the start. Specifically, the kamuy::mortar bullet, which explodes with Divine damage upon impact.
* HongKongDub: A lot more noticeable during the ''Burst'' storyline, where the camera starts focusing a lot more on the characters' faces during cutscenes.
* [[ImAHumanitarian I'm an Aragami-tarian]]: The God Arc can be charged to turn into a pair of jaws that chomps on the Aragami. If the Aragami is still alive, it puts you into [[SuperMode Burst Mode]] and gives you some special bullets which can be shot back into the enemy or used on allies to put them into Burst Mode (albeit only up to three shots at most can be fired on a character). Devouring a dead Aragami means looting its body for raw materials.
** If you know what you're doing, you can also end a Blade Combo in a Devour to have a shorter [[{{Super Mode}} Burst Mode]], or, if you already are in Burst mode, extend it by 15 seconds. In GEB, this does not the extend the length of your Link-Burst Mode, but in GE2, this is fixed.
** Aragami will gleefully eat each other, barring Bias-factor compatibility. In fact, God Arcs are essentially Aragami people can wield and control. '[[HeroKiller Type 1]]' Deusphages are Aragami that gained a taste for God Arcs and their wielders, and possibly ''[[WasOnceAMan were them]]''. 'Type 2' Deusphages are repeatedly stated to be cannibalistic, although here it refers to eating other Aragami of their same class designation (which normally they refrain from doing).
* ImpendingClashShot: All of the covers have your PlayerCharacter wielding the default [[MixAndMatchWeapon God Arc]] against an Aragami. The original pits him against a [[PantheraAwesome Vajra]] and the ''[[UpdatedRerelease Burst]]'' cover features him against a [[SerpentOfImmortality Hannibal]], the flagship aragami of the ''Burst'' storyline. Both shots are in [[RuinsOfTheModernAge City of Mercy]].
** The cover for God Eater 2 has the PlayerCharacter of that game, alongside Gilbert and Nana, already in the midst of a battle with the Marduk. This shot takes place in the Dead City After Dawn.
** ''God Eater 2 Rage Burst'' has the player character about to smash new Aragami Chrome Gawain in the face with [[SuperMode Blood Rage]] activated, with the Helix Tree in the background.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: For being in a mostly-destroyed future, looking awesome hasn't gone out of style. Hilariously lampshaded by the merchant, whose sale pitch notes that the world isn't much fun these days, so you might as well try to lighten up with fashion.
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: The Old-Type God Arcs are either a {{BFS}} or a {{BFG}}. The New-Type ones ''can [[MorphWeapon switch between the two]]'', and use a [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shield]] while in blade form. (Old-Type God Eaters who use blades are also equipped with a shield, whereas gunners have no choice but to dodge.)
* InconsistentDub: The publishers aren't even trying to hide the fact that the DubNameChange to ''Gods Eater Burst'' was a last minute decision. While the in-game text uses "Gods Eater," the spoken dialogue uses "God Eater."
* InfoDump: Paylor Sakaki's lectures on the nature of the Aragami, which also provide some extremely subtle {{Foreshadowing}} when he mentions [[spoiler:the possibility of Aragami that have "learned" to imitate humanity. Not only does this clearly foreshadow Shio, but in a more blink-and-you'll-miss-it way it ends up reinforcing Alisa's brainwashing that leads her to attempt to kill Lindow under the belief he was the Aragami that killed her parents]].
* InterfaceSpoiler: [[AnyoneCanDie Eric's death]] isn't quite so surprising -- every mission starts with a squad list, which is automatically filled out for story missions. Soma's on the list for that mission but Eric isn't, so while the cutscene starts by passing him off as a companion, you should realize that something is about to remove him from the equation.
** In the UpdatedRerelease of the sequel, pictures of all the Aragami that appear in that mission are displayed at the top right when selecting missions. Which means that you'll know what Aragami will show up even if the debrief doesn't mention them, making kind of odd when the MissionControl remarks that an unexpected Aragami has shown up halfway through the mission. Some missions do try to avoid this by replacing the Aragami's image with an ''Unknown'' icon when you're doing it for the first time, but checking the mission reward list will still give its identity away if it drops anything at all.
* ItemCrafting: Besides the standard Build and Upgrade, you can also make your own Bullets in this manner. And if you want to survive the game, the bullet editor is your best friend.
** 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.
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: See those Raven Feathers? The ones that are indicated as VendorTrash and sell for 4000fc? The ones the merchant constantly urges you to sell? Better keep three of those.
** Hell, almost your entire inventory counts as you unlock the ability to convert more common materials into valuable ones. Those Ogre Helms you thought you were done with? Well, eight of those gets you an Ogre Sharp Helm, a useful material that you'll need for all kinds of mid-game upgrades. You may end up farming for Ogre Helms just to convert them.
* KnightOfCerebus: As soon as [[spoiler:[[HeroKiller Dyaus Pita]]]] is introduced, things take a turn for the darker. [[spoiler:Not even the [[PlayableEpilogue Burst storyline]] is safe when Hannibal hijacks the plot and cripples the player.]]
** And then there's [[DudeLooksLikeALady Re]][[TheOmniscient n]]...
* LethalJokeWeapon: Within the game (JP versions only) exists a set of equipment made out of desserts. The long sword is a giant chocolate bar (GE Chocolate), the gun is a giant piece of shortcake (GE Shortcake), and the shield is a giant piece of candy (GE Candy). Despite their rather ridiculous look they have excellent skills that can max out your HP, OP, and ST gauges as well as burst skills that are good for the gunner playstyle.
* LivingWeapon: The God Arc. It is created using Aragami cores and is bound to its user's bracelet (which is fused to said user). They may not look that alive under ordinary circumstances, but given the right command, they can turn into a giant pair of ''jaws'' that chomps on any other Aragami on sight. They also have the unfortunate side-effect of devouring anyone that touches them other than their wielder.
* LongDistanceRelationship: Yuu and Alisa in any of the novel and mangas set after the first game, due to both of them being assigned to different teams with Yuu being mostly assigned abroad. Most obvious in The 2nd Break
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The shield parts are made to resist devouring by Aragami, and passively add some of that resistance to you; when the shield is actually deployed, the concentration of Bias Factor helps block most Aragami attacks. Bucklers deploy the fastest and have skills to leverage it, but let a quarter of the damage through and have [[FragileSpeedster low stats]], while towers are the slowest with few skills, [[MightyGlacier but have great stats and block all of the damage at the cost of your stamina]]; [[JackOfAllStats normal shields]] are between the two in terms of stats, speed, and skills. Many skills apply to the shield, from making it faster to deploy (crucial), to expanding the guarded area or reducing the damage you take while guarding even further, but as with most skills, they do have their negative counterparts.
** Only applies to Blade-Arc Old-types and New-types. Old-Type gunners have to make do with dodging, [[TheAllSeeingAI not that they don't have an advantage]].
* MegaManning: Hitting an Aragami with a Devour attack usually grants you three bullets capable of shooting something similar to its signature attack.
** In a slightly more morbid usage, there are weapon parts that are made to resemble the Aragami the parts are made of. You can fight an Aragami with a weapon that looks the target.
* MissionControl: In God Eater 2, the Operators serve as this -- confirming downed/defeated Aragami, informing you of how long you have before reinforcements show up, and most helpfully, confirming whether or not your attacks have inflicted status effects like Venom and Bind.
* MoneySpider: [[http://godeater.wikia.com/wiki/Golden_Gboro-Gboro Golden Gboro-Gboro]]. However, instead of money or VendorTrash, it drops salvageable materials of varying rarity.
* MorphWeapon: The New-Type God Arcs can switch between melee and ranged modes, have a built-in shield, and can turn into a set of big monstery jaws in order to "Devour" an Aragami's Oracle Cells.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: It doesn't matter how skinny or scrawny the characters are, they will always be able to hold their incredibly huge weapons as if they're weightless.
** [[JustifiedTrope Explained in-story]]; God Eaters are enhanced through their Oracle Cells to have super strength and regeneration abilities.
* NoCutsceneInventoryInertia: 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.
** Alisa will always be shown holding her God Arc in gun form during cutscenes, in a subtle moment of GameplayAndStoryIntegration -- she will use her gun against enemies (even when you wish she wouldn't) until she runs out of OP and switches to blade attacks. The main character and other New Types will be shown in blade form, possibly because it's a bad idea to walk around with finger on the trigger of a gun capable of destroying buildings and tank-like monsters, but more likely due to the fact that blade form allows for devouring and shield deployment, actions that are shown in several key story scenes. Blade form is also the "default" status, in that you begin every mission in blade form and have to switch to gun mode.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Lindow's profile unlocked at the very beginning of the game states that he's the only God Eater to take down an Ouroboros alone. This kind of power, along with the CutscenePowerToTheMax example above, isn't really borne out in gameplay... maybe he's too distracted trying to protect your lame rookie ass?
** Definitely not helped by how the Protagonist [[spoiler: can basically up-end him with their own feats, like killing two Susano'os solo, but by that point Lindow's left everything in their hands so it all balances out. That and he does need the rehab, post-game]].
* OfficialCouple:
** Lindow and Sakuya.
** In the the novel and mangas, Alisa and Yuu Kannagi (the canon name for the Burst protagonist).
* OldSaveBonus: You can transfer your Japanese ''God Eater Burst'' save file to ''God Eater 2''. However, Only Guns, Blades and Shields (Including DLC) can be transfered and will be limited to 12 equipment of your choice. Collaboration equipment such as Laevateinn gear, [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur]], Soul Edge and [[VideoGame/TaikoDrumMaster Don Kat Shield]] cannot be transferred.
** In order to transfer, you must clear at least 1 of the following 12 transfer tiers. You only need to clear one of the items on the tier to clear the tier. The number of cleared tiers translates to the number of equipment you may carry over.
** In addition to the above, bonus items are given for clearing a number of tiers.
** You can also transfer practically everything to ''[[UpdatedRerelease God Eater 2 Rage Burst]]'' from ''God Eater 2'', with the exception of the upgrade cores since that system got scrapped in favour of the old crafting/upgrading system. All cores get converted to fc instead.
* PickyEater: The basis of every bit of Anti-Aragami tech is using the Bias-Factor to make the [[ExtremeOmnivore Oracle Cells]] into this.
* PlayableEpilogue: ''God Eater Burst'''s ''Burst'' storyline. Since it's an UpdatedRerelease of the original ''God Eater'', it has a PlayableEpilogue after defeating Arda Nova. Said epilogue is ''about as long as the main game itself'', since it continues the subplot about Lindow going AWOL. After finishing that one, you can play through ''everything'' again (though the same goes for the first half, but it's not technically the end of Burst, but the original GE) plus new bonus chapters that allow you to unlock new postgame {{Infinity Plus One Sword}}s (there are several because of the game's equipment tiers) and other equipment and rerecruit [[spoiler:dead or AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence]] characters.
* PlayerDataSharing: Avatar cards allow other players' player characters to be hired as NPC teammates.
* PowersAsPrograms: The operating principle behind bullet customization.
* RandomlyDrops: 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. [[note]]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%.[[/note]]
** Later in the game, you can craft equipment that increases your chance of obtaining rare Aragami materials.
** Each combat field has a set of locations where materials and VendorTrash can be scavenged. Each location has its own random selection of possible items it produces, which changes at different mission difficulties. This means sometimes you have to farm specific fields at specific difficulty levels to get what you want, not just Aragami.
*** Alleviated to an extent in God Eater 2. You can convert some of the items you get on the field into cores to upgrade your equipment, making it less of a hassle. You still need to hunt the more powerful Aragami to get acceptable materials for the final tier's cores, though; 100 points is a steep price to pay with items that only give 1 point a piece.
** Back in full force in its UpdatedRerelease of the second game, since the crafting system was reverted to the one in the first game. Thankfully, though, mission rewards are now randomly chosen from a long list of items if you meet their conditions instead of having a 100% chance of getting 3 to 4 fairly common materials. The list is different for each mission, even if all Aragami in them and the ranks of the missions are identical. Some [=NPCs=] even have special skills that boost the chances of getting stuff on the list.
* RankInflation: The highest rank on a mission can be ''SSS+'', which is only given if performed solo and within an unknown time limit.
* RealTimeWeaponChange: In that you can swap between a blade and gun. Played with in the game itself, as Dexterous ups your change speed, while Clumsy slows it down. Yes, those seconds are crucial.
** Moreover, the process isn't silent and some Aragami have very good hearing. There's even a skill for that: Noisy. You can, however, counter it with the 'Mute' skill, and some Controllers have the skill 'Super Mute' while in Burst mode.
* RestrainingBolt: God Eaters wear bracelets that inject them with Oracle Cells that put them in the "safe zone" for their weapon's Bias Factor (the thing determining what an Aragami will and will not eat). They're permanently attached and without them, they'd get eaten by their own weapons.
** This problem is turned into a plot point when [[spoiler:Lindow loses his armlet in a fight with an Aragami, cutting off his Bias Factor supply. During his subsequent disappearance, he slowly turns into a Corrosive Hannibal.]]
* ScavengerWorld: Most of the items you scrounge for are old medical supplies, bits of cloth, magnets, and rare minerals. They get converted to useful materials at mission's end.
* ShipperOnDeck: In the mangas and novels, all the member of the 1st unit ships Yuu and Alisa, including Soma in his own way.
* SpoilerOpening: As this game is a port of ''Burst'', they would naturally use the ''Burst'' opening. For many of the western gamers who start off with the initial English release, this leads to problems, especially once they play enough of the game to experience key events and get a grasp of what's going on.
** Same goes for the ''Rage Burst'' opening. It features [[spoiler:a noticeable lack of Romeo and Julius (the former gets KIA and the latter is stuck in the Tree by the end of the main arc), Kate talking to Gilbert from behind and Nana getting up from a meal with her mother and walking out the door (both scenes take place in Rachel's LotusEaterMachine). A quick [[FreezeFrameBonus blink-and-you'll-miss-it]] moment also depicts a young Livie and Romeo, spoiling the reveal that Livie's his childhood friend and an orphan at the Magnolia Compass.]] Apart from that first thing, none of them are immediately obvious though.
* SquadControls: Rudimentary in GEB: you can tell your NPC allies to search, spread out, gather, or converge (the last of which works on all [=NPCs=] on the map, not just the ones near you). The second game expands on this, letting you do the above as well as select how your allies will act. Seeing them continue to attack a running boss is so satisfying after dealing with them gathering to you whenever a boss decides to scram in ''GEB''.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Apparently Oracle Cells keep women from wanting or being able to cover up, even when it's snowing. As well, the artbook makes it painfully obvious that bras (and likely other undergarments) didn't survive the apocalypse.
** May be justified, barely. If the enemy will eat your way through all of your protection with a single bite with the only defense being the passive shielding of your Oracle Cells, why bother with armor and not light clothing? Still doesn't justify Sakuya's outfit.
** Clothes are also laced with Bias Factor, which is the only reason (system limitations aside) you don't suffer ClothingDamage whenever an Aragami gets a bite of you. Given how incredibly important Bias Factor is to almost everything, people may be more willing to go commando (and indulge "[[TheissTitillationTheory less is more]]" fashions, at least for women) to make the best of their resource budgets.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: In ''Rage Burst'', the song ''Blood Rage'' plays whenever you enter said [[SuperMode Blood Rage.]]
* TriggerPhrase: [[spoiler:A Russian count of "one, two, three," dubiously transliterated as "Ajin duva touri" in the English language release, is the phrase used for Alisa.]]
* TrueCompanions: The God Eater teams are pretty much this. They stick together through thick and thin and are pretty much like an extended family. Most prominent would be the 1st Unit in Burst and Blood in God Eater 2.
* UndergroundMonkey: 50 different Aragami - 15 basic models (plus 4 from ''God Eater 2'').
* {{Utopia}}: The goal of the Fenrir Corporation is the Aegis Project, an impenetrable safe haven against the Aragami.
* UnflinchingWalk: Part of Lindow's introduction in Episode One. He simply walks in a straight line while having a smoke, [[OffhandBackhand smashing any Aragami that come a little too close to him]].
* WasOnceAMan: Overdosing on the Bias factor causes human cells to mutate into Oracle cells, touching a God Arc that doesn't belong to you can infect you with cells that your Arc can't stop, and losing your bracelet means that you can't stop the Oracle cells within you from [[BodyHorror eating you then transforming]] into an Aragami themselves. It's speculated that the Susano'o first 'evolved' from one of the previous cases. [[spoiler: Lindow almost suffered this fate, but the intervention of Shio, then the protagonist and Ren, helped him [[CameBackStrong return - with new powers to boot]]]].
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** And Fenrir's scientists believe that an even worse apocalypse is on the way - what they call the Devouring Apocalypse, where the Aragami density reaches a critical mass and a single massive Aragami comes out on top of the food chain, consuming and consuming all the others until the face of the Earth is literally wiped clean of anything and everything but this one super-lifeform. Life will then be 're-distributed'.

* TheAllSeeingAI: A minor example that works in your favor. Many Aragami have area attacks, and sometimes it's hard to tell apart the preparations for those attacks from a less wide one - if that is even ''possible''; AI characters not currently performing their own attacks, however, will run towards a safe area (if it's possible for them, [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe they block if it isn't]]) a second or two before the enemy even begins the motions of the attack. Keeping an eye on the mini-map and listening carefully can provide a human player with a small forewarning.
** It's even justifiable to an extent; the Aragami's Database Entries usually include hints on what attacks they might be capable of using, so your NPC friends may have actually done their research on the monsters before setting off.

** "Short" blades are larger than old-fashioned claymores, the basic Long blade is easily the size of an ironing board, and buster blades are half-again as wide and some much thicker.

* FollowTheLeader: This game copied the VideoGame/MonsterHunter hunting formula and four people party size. The speed the of hunts, [=NPCs=], weapons of choice, and monsters themselves are VERY different, not to mention having an ''actual'' plot.

** Karel's attitude of being self-serving and Shun's reluctance to help others also fit in this trope in their own subtle ways; like the Kota example above, most characters usually give you half their health to revive you. These two only give a fourth of their health, meaning they have the "Defensive" trait. In God Eater 2 1.40, which comes with Another Episode (the only way to get these two back in your roster), the obvious risks that come with this can be outweighed if you're willing to put up with them for hundreds of missions -- levelling them up makes their Link-Aid ''heal more'' for very little, which will make them excellent Link-Aid batteries in a pinch.

** Cutscenes imply that it is actually possible for a god eater to kill other people with both their melee and ranged attacks. Thankfully, friendly fire only staggers you and your party members without doing any damage, while melee attacks do absolutely nothing to anything other than Aragami during missions.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Divine becomes the InfinityPlusOneElement in the game because similar to MonsterHunter and its Dragon Element, several monsters are weak to their own usage of Divine. For players who don't have decent divine weapons, devouring monsters and using their own attacks against them quickly becomes a strategy.
* HolyHandGrenade: One of the bullet types available to you to use at the start. Specifically, the kamuy::mortar bullet, which explodes with Divine damage upon impact.

* InconsistentDub: The publishers aren't even trying to hide the fact that the DubNameChange to ''Gods Eater Burst'' was a last minute thing. While the in-game text uses "Gods Eater," the spoken dialogue uses "God Eater."

* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: See those raven feathers? The ones that are indicated as VendorTrash and sell for 4000fc? The ones the merchant constantly urges you to sell? Better keep three of those.
** Hell, almost your entire inventory counts as you unlock the ability to convert more common materials into valuable ones. Those Ogre Helms you thought you were done with? Well, eight of those gets you an Ogre Sharp Helm, a useful material that you'll need for all kinds of mid-game upgrades. You may end up farming for Ogre Helms just for conversion.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The shield parts are made to resist devouring by Aragami, and passively add some of that resistance to you; when the shield is actually deployed, the concentration of Bias Factor helps block most Aragami attacks. Bucklers deploy the fastest and have skills to leverage it, but let a quarter of the damage through and have [[FragileSpeedster low stats]], while towers are the slowest with few skills, [[MightyGlacier but have great stats and block all of the damage at the cost of your stamina]]; [[JackOfAllStats normal shields]] are between the two in terms of stats, speed, and skills. Many skills apply to the shield, from making it faster to deploy (crucial), to expanding the guarded area or reducing the damage you take while guarding even further; like most skills, though, they do have their negative counterparts.
** Only applies to Blade-Arc Old-types and New-types. Old-type gunners have to make do with dodging, [[TheAllSeeingAI not that they don't have an advantage]].

** In a slightly more morbid usage, there are weapon parts that are made to resemble the Aragami the parts are made of.

* PlayableEpilogue: The game, which is an UpdatedRerelease, has a PlayableEpilogue after defeating Arda Nova. it's ''about as long as the main game itself'', since it continues the subplot about Lindow going AWOL. After finishing that one, you can play through ''everything'' again(though the same goes for the first half, but it's not technically the end of Burst, but the original GE) plus new bonus chapters that allow you to unlock new postgame {{Infinity Plus One Sword}}s (there are several because of the game's equipment tiers) and other equipment and rerecruit [[spoiler:dead or AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence]] characters.

** Back in full force in its UpdatedRerelease; the crafting system was reverted to the one in the first game. Thankfully though, mission rewards are now randomly chosen from a long list of items if you meet their conditions instead of having a 100% chance of getting 3 to 4 fairly common materials. The list is different for each mission, even if all Aragami in them and the ranks of the missions are identical. Some [=NPCs=] even have special skills that boost the chances of getting stuff on the list.

* SquadControls: Rudimentary in GEB; you can tell your NPC allies to search, spread out, gather, or converge (the last of which works on all [=NPCs=] on the map, not just the ones near you). The second game expands on this, letting you do the above as well as select how your allies will act. Seeing them continue to attack a running boss is so satisfying after dealing with them gathering to you when it decides to scram for so long.

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