They're kept them in a cage, made to sleep on cots, and their bracelets are shackled together like handcuffs when not in use. The protagonist you construct, along with their friends, Hugo, Zeke, and Kieth, are all AGEs in the indentured servitude of Pennywort, a port which treats its contracted employees more as slaves and less as humans. This new variant of God Eater has allowed small, localized colonies of trade and living space called ports to be formed in areas where the ash had been cleared, allowing humanity to survive such hostile conditions. To counter the ashblight, a new type of God Eater had been concocted named A.G.E.s, or Adaptive God Eaters, which can specifically survive in the clouds of ash for limited periods of time. Think "oracle cells", only airborne and able to create large deathzones in which normal humans cannot survive for more than 10 minutes. This term refers to areas where microscopic organisms float through the air and devour anything they come into contact with, including Aragami. After the many events of God Eater 1 and 2, (not to mention all the spinoff media) a new calamity emerged in the year 2080 known as the Ashlands. Things have changed a lot in the years since the Aragami outbreak. The franchise puts the player in the shoes of said soldiers, and pits them against Aragami of ever growing difficulty, while using the supporting cast to play out a narrative around the protagonist. Equipped with these weapons and the bias factor, Fenrir began to amass soldiers of humans to fight back against the waves of ever-growing Aragami to protect what little remained of humanity called "God Eaters." Because the bias factor is a derivative of the oracle cells, without periodic injection, the oracle cells in a God Eater's body would eventually overrun and devour them from the inside, adding fairly large personal stakes to their continued service on top of the humanistic ones. Reverse engineering this same devouring process also allowed Fenrir to develop weapons which are able to both break the bonds holding the cells of an Aragami, as well as grow literal jaws to devour the Aragami itself. Adjusting the bias factor, Fenrir constructed a variant which could be compatible with human physiology, making them more resistant to the act of devouring by Aragami. Years pass, and what little was left of the Fenrir corporation's scientific staff discovered what was to be called "bias factor." This substance resists the process by which oracle cells deconstruct matter, and is the reason that the colonies of oracle cells don't end up devouring each other on contact. Soon, the cells form "colonies" of themselves which function as a single sentient organism, the Aragami, which ravage the world and turn it into a barren wasteland of death. The cells go on a chain reaction consuming spree, eating chunks out of cars, buildings, plants, and people alike, all the while adapting and evolving at a rapid rate. Best efforts at containment aside, eventually things unfolded into a worst-case-scenario, as 7 years later, the samples in Fenrir's labs reach a critical point in their development and formed an oracle amalgam which erupted from the facility. What's more, the organisms ended up adapting rapidly, taking on either properties of what was deconstructed, or properties which aided in the deconstruction of said materials in a sort of accelerated Darwinism. These organisms displayed extraordinary properties, being able to seemingly communicate with one another innately, as well as having the ability to deconstruct seemingly almost any form of matter they come into contact with. discovered a previously unknown, single-celled species dubbed "oracle cells". In the year 2043, a Finnish pharmaceutical conglomerate known as Fenrir inc. Considering there's so much lore behind this game, I can only give a light summary: The lore of the God Eater games is actually quite sprawling, spanning across an anime, a short manga, and a mobile game in addition to the 3 main entries.
In a general sense, the God Eater games are very much similar to the Monster Hunter franchise, however God Eater has always done quite a bit to differentiate itself from the pack in a few subtle but key ways, mostly in the combat mechanics and the general speed of the game.
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The game is a fast-paced, acrobatic, anime-themed, action RPG wherein the player forms a jolly party to hunt a series of large beasties in a decimated, post-apocalyptic, modern setting plucking bits and pieces from said monsters in order to craft better gear, which in turn allows the hunting of even stronger monsters. God Eater 3 is the third narrative installment in the God Eater franchise, though not the third game if counting remakes, remasters, or extended editions.