The actual fact that the Earth Defense Force video games exist is bizarre sufficient to start with (they began life as a part of a Japanese super-budget vary, and grew right into a cult hit phenomenon), however the truth that it has a multitude of spinoffs now (together with a PS2-era technique recreation) is simply baffling. The newest of which – EDF 4.1: Wingdiver The Shooter – is now headed to PC at full pace, and can be available for purchase this Thursday.
While it could have been financially viable to simply produce a generic vertical scrolling shooter and name it a day, you’ll be able to inform that EDF’s creators take nice pleasure within the overt weirdness of their video games. As such, Wingdiver The Shooter comprises all of the basic EDF components, together with huge numbers of enemies blocking your subject of view, weapon crates containing random new gear to select in your subsequent mission, and a painfully gradual well being improve system requiring obsessive farming earlier than you’ll even be capable of soak one or two extra hits.
As with common EDF video games, there’s near-constant hammily-acted battle chatter deliberately achieved within the fashion of zero-budget monster B-movies of outdated. Hopefully there’s a full English dub monitor included on this model, as a result of with out the familar EDF marching song to buoy my coronary heart, I’m unsure I’ll be capable of maintain out by means of one other big bug onslaught.
Personally, I’m holding out for a PC announcement of the newest recreation within the collection, EDF 5, which options some bizarre new enemies like big alien frog-soldiers with locational harm and regenerating limbs. They additionally simply introduced a crossover occasion between EDF 5 in Japan and the current Starship Troopers 3D-animated movie. Apparently you’ve bought to get your ass to Mars to shoot a totally different form of alien bug.
Oh, and when you’ve by no means performed an EDF recreation earlier than, I do implore that you simply make your first the PC version of EDF 4.1 subsequent time it’s on sale. It’s a shooter developed by a workforce that, each time they’ve been given a brand new era of console {hardware}, they’ve instantly tried to find what number of big alien bugs and explosions you could cram onto the display screen with a view to drop efficiency to dangerously low ranges. Sometimes, you simply wish to smack a bug with a shotgun so highly effective that it places your goal into low earth orbit.
EDF 4.1: Wingdiver The Shooter is out on April 26th via Steam, and whereas no value has been introduced but, I’d be shocked if it’s over $20.
