Having New Types in your party is much more preferable despite the wealth of the Old Type characters. This is because they're the only ones who can give you Burst Level 3 by assisting through Aragami Bullet Transfer, something that Old Types cannot do. Expect to bring New Types such as Alisa and Shio more often during missions. Even after Resurrection adds new Predator Styles that allow you to enter Burst Level 3 on your own, bringing New Types is still considered a better strategy.
Sakuya is possibly the most useful medic God Eater. First of all, she's an Old Type, meaning that she'll always in her gun form and ready to shoot healing bullets whenever you're in danger. Second, she's a Sniper Gun user and shoots homing laser bullets that pass through Aragamis, meaning that you can receive healing bullets without being obstructed. For comparison, Kanon, another Old Type medic, has powerful radial healing bullet, but she's also prone to misfiring during battle. Then there are new type medics such as Alisa and Ren, but sometimes they're in blade form when you're in danger, and by the time they transform their God Arc to fire healing bullets, you've been incapacitated, and Dexterous ability only helps a little in this case. Alisa also uses normal bullets, which may be obstructed by Aragamis.
Game-Breaker: The Prana control unit, which recovers your health while in burst mode. Level 1 burst doesn't heal much, but at level three you heal so much that you have to be extremely reckless just to need to use an item.
"Cowboy" will be this for some if they did not read the quest objectives (or read and ignored it, not taking it seriously). Here's how the quest goes, there are four mooks and one boss. The quest says only to kill the mooks. Guess what a lot of people tried to do... And that doesn't even take into account the times where the boss is dead-set on ruining your day while you just want to finish the mission properly.
The temple where you have to kill four kongous, all of different elemental types.
Your first attempt at the Vajra, Ouroboros, Prithvi Mata, Arda Nova, or any of the major bosses.
Thor's Banquet. Your objective? Kill four Vajras. Alone. And they usually all spot you the very moment you leave the safe zone. Good luck.
For Burst:
Awesome Music: The whole soundtrack, thanks to Go Shiina.
opening song is a remixed version of Alan's "Over the Clouds".
There can be no remix with the original "Over the Clouds".
No Way Back, the Autobots, Rock Out! vocal song that plays during the Climax Boss of Prithvi Mata. It says something that the later entries would bring back and remix the song.
For those of you interested, here's the full version of the song.
Goddamn Bats: In early missions, the goddamn Chi-You and its goddamn damage-resistant legs and its goddamn fast-startup melee attacks that also let it move across the map quickly. Nowhere near Demonic Spider status since it remains killable and doesn't hit too hard, but still highly irritating.
Zygotes become a textbook example of this in mid-game level quests, taking precious seconds to kill even with a level-appropriate upgraded weapon, hitting you with various debuffs, and/or just distracting you from focussing on the boss.
The Borg Camlann line's tailspin and Arda Nova's combination attacks can be a pretty rude awakening if you can't see them coming.
That One Level: That One Quest: "Cowboy" will be this for some if they did not read the quest objectives (or read and ignored it, not taking it seriously). Here's how the quest goes, there are four mooks and one boss. The quest says only to kill the mooks. Guess what a lot of people tried to do... And that doesn't even take into account the times where the boss is dead-set on ruining your day while you just want to finish the mission properly.
The temple where you have to kill four kongous, all of different elemental types.
Your first attempt at the Vajra, Ouroboros, Prithvi Mata, Arda Nova, or any of the major bosses.
Alternative Title(s):Gods Eater Burst, God Eater Burst
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