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The spiritual successor to FF9 in being the next game to reference every FF game. You stack three characters into a two stack party with combined stats and level up to 150 different monsters with hidden powers. There is a summoning system where you control biblically accurate boss monster/s you can level and customize with extra attacks and resistances, and a standard summon where you can assign three different moves that are overpowered. While you can stack everything so you have two attacks a turn with full access to their moves, you can unstack and do 3-6 character specific attacks a turn.

There are many superbosses and most have their own dungeon to cross. You can buy full heals at the shop so you can survive them.
The game gets awfully grindy, which NG+ Expert somewhat speeds up and provides more lore to find.

Finally, a western game with attractive lesbians.

40 missions that are even harder than Lost Days. It features the robots and rest of the bosses, so the drop rate is better than the anemic Lost Days. The missions are more open-ended and some enemies have changed attacks.

Over 15 missions that are significantly harder than the late game and with an actual story. Bees with rapid fire stingers that cover the screen, massive beta nests, Katamari's bigger than His thing, bombers. Also has a bunch of level 100+ weapons if you can survive Inferno. Not really for people without a couple thousand armor or you will have a punishing time.

The game has five graphics settings that each does something it won't explain. I had it set to Very Low to get a playable frame rate and the resolution was changed to something very small and lots of screen tearing. Everything was blurry and really dark, but I could continue past a glitched opening.

Walked around and heard some loud noise the first minute in and for the long hallway. Got stuck in the torture chamber with no opening. Saw another playthrough that showed an opening in the torture chamber. More walking and met a Uruk-looking guy who was a victim and he followed me around. I got a key to a locked room and the guy ended up blocking my path to that door and I had to start all over again. Found a way to dispel the guy and did a minor combination puzzle.

Chapter 2 had a room I can actually see in and another minor puzzle with paintings. There have been messages about some cult possessing people and I got stuck in someone's dream related to this cult. One message said to hurry and find an item to keep away the chaser ghost. I saved at a point where I can get a key and then the chaser would be waiting for me. My movement also slowed down so I don't know if that is because of the ghost or another glitch.

The fix is in:
Uninstall Epic Game Store.
Uninstall Epic Game Services.

Launch EDF6.
It will reinstall EGS dependencies.
Verify files
Launch game.

The game tells you an extremely abridged timeline of EDF5. The Mothership was not the end of the alien threat, nor was it the only massive weapon they used in the war. There were kaiju named Erginus and Archelus, who were mostly unbeatable due to them running away after taking enough damage, supported by alien transports that kept EDF from chasing them. The real end to the war was with you leading what was left of the EDF in the area to "arrest" their "god", who was a giant naked man of silver who tossed meteors at you by using his mind. It was after this that the Primers took their Cosmonauts and most of their anchors back to their home planet, which is still a mystery. The previous EDF (2022/4.1) was in an alternate unrelated universe that concluded with all the aliens dead and their origins are a mystery, and it also was the next invasion since the previous war that started in 2017.

Humanity was hit much harder than in previous games and has resorted to piecing together whatever still worked in the hope that it will cleanse the planet of the remaining colonizers that were left to fend for themselves. These monsters were engineered with an enzyme that would clean the heavily polluted air and break down anything manmade when they died in large enough numbers. The frogs would farm the ants for food and provide protection with their alien weaponry, until the ants colonized the planet for the Primer elites to take over.

There isn't feature bloat like Payday, where you have several systems working together to make a character strong at loud or stealth missions while ruining them for the other kind. It is ok to fail stealth since you can take weapons off corpses and probably complete missions in under 5-10 minutes. Drilling goes by quickly since it doesn't break every minute.

There are several game modes like roguelite, random mission set, and character missions where you use a preset crew to do a handful of missions. Roguelite is you actually taking over the city by fighting turf wars and doing random missions scrounging up money to support it. It's different from the other modes and has its own leveling system and is meant to be replayed with better gear each time. A solo effort.

The money sink is being able to customize your character in appearance, weapons, perks, and colors. Your boss also has their own level where random items are introduced each level up. Those then appear in the other modes.

Become the clumsiest ghost who can't float or phase through half the buildings or structures. Become a ghost detective and not really be rewarded for solving clues and have to play hide and seek with Hell monsters. Priests went crazy with the holy water and managed to bless entire neighborhoods and random objects that you can't move through and exist to trip you. You can haunt electronic stuff, but people mostly won't care. Hauntings have been going on for centuries and they treat it like you are IT.

Can't argue with the graphics being more readable and the loading times for levels being much faster. The extra content is kind of there and what you get are a couple new accessories that don't transfer well between King and Prince without extra steps. The stickers are a pointless addition and using the camera is finicky and time still passes. Not yet 90% collection and did the Cousins ending. The first ending is about 4 hours. Second ending is about 10 hours.

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There is definitely loading objects issues for longer stages with the loading screen growth phases. It isn't a real problem. There are some name changes because of copyright expiring, though some weird changes that didn't need to happen. No more America Man (Big Man Abroad) or the country of Palestine.
It takes about a whole day of effort to roll the million roses. I used rubber bands and idled for a couple weeks to get it done. Totally worth it.

You get to act like a little ♥♥♥♥ and be rewarded for it.

Become more of a little ♥♥♥♥ and be rewarded for it.