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  • Alternative Character Interpretation: Regarding Ein's actions at the end of Lulu and Ricardo's Character Episode. Is him telling off the Port Baran Captain when he attempts to blackmail him his way of saying he honestly doesn't care about his past and is instead working towards owning up to it, or is it because his identity as Soma being revealed doesn't matter since he only has a few months left in him anyway?
  • Fanon Discontinuity: Largely because of the Too Bleak, Stopped Caring reaction mentioned below, few fans have expressed this towards the story overall. The combination of Happy Ending Override, long Time Skip without any certainty of the fate of previous games' characters, and only one returning character in total, is more than reason for some players to discontinue the story from previous games'.
  • Fan-Preferred Couple: Going from the amount of fanart of it on Pixiv, Protagonist x Hugo is this. It helps that both of them grew up alongside each other and, as the two oldest members, they act like the parents of the Hounds.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Revisiting the older God Eater games can be difficult knowing that whatever progress humanity achieves will get turned on its head once the Ashblight arrives and turns the world into an bigger hellhole than it already was. This can be especially true for fans who have played the mobile game Resonant Ops, as the events of that game happened only two years before the Ashblight first appeared. Even worse, the characters from that game were all stationed at Fenrir HQ. With Soma being the only returning character thus far, one can only hope that they all managed to survive as well.
  • It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: What was the first mainline entry in the series to be designed for current-gen consoles met with? A lukewarm response in regards to the fact that while the mission areas are more expansive and defined, the game was still structured like the previous handheld-first title in terms of bite-sized missions and grind, and suffering from a large lack of diverse content. While some fans still found it to be a solid entry in the series and arguably better than prior titles depending on one's preferences, expectations wanted it to ascend beyond that and it didn't meet them for many.
  • Moral Event Horizon:
    • The Pennywort Port guard that watches over the seven imprisoned AGEs at the beginning of the game crosses this when he finds the young Sho's constant coughing to be obnoxious despite it being an obvious sign of too much Ash exposure. So he slips poison into the boy's food to try to get him to shut up, and brags about how he learned his place. Even worse, he seems to get Karma Houdini for it.
    • Most Ports in general crossed this line before the story even begins, but Baran Port is basically characterized as having done this repeatedly without any hesitation or repentance. When your allies openly discuss a rumor that they fed AGEs to one another like feral dogs on a leash, and the in-game Database outright criticizes them for multiple legal violations on a repeat basis, it's hard to really know where to begin with them, and their Establishing Character Moment of making a swift and sudden Un-person of Lulu is peanuts in comparison.
  • That One Attack: Among Ash Aragami, Dromi's Devour attack is generally thought to be one of the most annoying in regards to its devour attack. Whereas Ra will simply hurl its fireballs at you, Nuadha trying to squash you or Anubis rushing to take a bite out of you, Dromi will pursue anyone near it relentlessly. And its devour attack lasts 10 seconds, far longer than any other (except for the Balmung's, which is much easier to dodge).
  • That One Boss: The Havakiri line are generally considered to be the most annoying Aragami to fight in-game due to being Lightning Bruisers whose relentless attack patterns give few opportunities to hit them without putting yourself at risk of being hit back. They were so much of a headache that they got nerfed in the 1.20 patch.
  • That One Level: The Usurper, a Rank 7 optional mission. Following a trend of the other four routes that unlock in Rank 7, it involves a fight against an Ashborn Aragami and a standard Aragami. In this case however, they happen to be Anubis and Fallen Havakiri, one of those aforementioned Lightning Bruisers. Additionally, it's set in an open area, meaning there's no way to separate the two, and there are no feeding grounds for them to retreat to. You're going to be dealing with both simultaneously, which poses the dilemma of which one to take out first—do you get the Anubis out of the way first so you don't have to deal with devour attacks, or do you take out the Fallen Havakiri first so it can't ambush you while trying to break the bonds on the Anubis? One way or another, you're going to run low on endurance unless you're really, really good at dodging and guarding from all sides. It's telling that the next mission, which is an expedition that involves fighting all five Ashborn Aragami, is actually less of a nightmare.
  • Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The Ashblight and all it entails basically turns the hellhole of Earth into an even bigger one, where the last two games could basically not have happened as far as the story is concerned. Between the loss of Fenris and the rise of the pragmatic-to-wantonly-cruel Ports that use and abuse what were once respected members the world's only organized defense force, it's growing far harder to stomach just how dark the setting is, as the world fails to reach the point where humanity can come back time and time again.

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