[Earth Defense Force] EDF 5 out now on Steam!

shoeboxjeddy · August 2019

Okay yeah, turns out the text based ending I was wanting was only in the offline mode this whole time. What a bizarre design decision. For 2025/4.1 as well...

Norgoth · August 2019

Orogogus wrote: »

Well, finished a run as Ranger. I didn't think the ending was abrupt, but the writing was definitely bizarre, and not in a good way. All the stuff about mythical egg-shaped ships and God in the last handful of missions was just disjointed and surreal. Why are we calling this alien God? Was there a subplot about these aliens seeding humanity? I played a dozen or so missions with the sound off, so it's not impossible that I missed something like that, but otherwise I don't think you get to be God just by invading the Earth, teleporting in a bunch of bugs and getting your ship blown up. Is it his halo thing?

shoeboxjeddy wrote: »

All EDF games should add a text crawl epilogue at the very least. Zero excuses for having less of an ending fanfare than SNES games.

I did get a few screens of epilogue text. It wasn't good, and I'm glad it wasn't voiced or else it would have been downright cringey, but it was there.

It was kind of refreshing that the credits took like two minutes.

Yeah, you might have missed it because it’s basically in one random mission but

The Primers seeded humanity. They find references to a “god” who comes down from an “egg shaped ship”. They state in a later mission that EDF and its tech comes from a crashed primer ship from before the dawn of man, and that’s what attracted the primers to earth. The aliens are pissed at the state of the planet and what we’ve done to it. There are multiple references to the bugs being eco-clean up units effectively.