Player laments the fall of Soulcalibur, Tekken director Harada responds with a literal essay about it: ‘I don’t think the fire of Project Soul has been extinguished’

Earth Defense Force 6 is still EDF at its core, certainly: Blow through missions, tweak your weapons, find favorites, find upgrades, get chewed up by a horde of monsters, get better, roll credits, unlock a new difficulty, and start the grind over against bigger nastier enemies with your new bigger, nastier weapons. There’s a story here, but it’s more of a B-movie story experience about laughing at the silly characters while getting ragdolled by giant ants, and any important story stuff is going to get repeated by random NPCs six or seven times because this is not a super-high-touch, pay-attention-at-all-times prestige television story or game. This is a chase-high-scores-on-the-couch, dead-tired-with-buddies-after-work game series.

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