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When Freedom Wars came out it injected a revolutionary concept of the grappling-hook to the genre. Ever since every other game, MonHun and Toukiden for example, took the concept of the Will'O and revamped the gameplay to include it in some way, MonHunWorld being the biggest example.
The team for FW was the God Eater team and at the time they didn't realize how bug GE would become, as well as how rushed things would be for FW. The Vita became all but defunked, Sony giving it up far too quickly as a whole and since FW was an exclusive it got the axe. The cheeky producer said a sequel would come with fan demand - right as he was leaving the project for good.
The team clearly still liked Freedom Wars for its uniqe aesthetic and style. Since they know we'll never get another FW we get GE3:FW instead.
>imprisoned/handcuffed protag
>treated as more of an object than a person
I can guarantee you that the tone will be closer to Freedom Wars than previous God Eaters, if only at first.
GE3 really cemented that we'll never get another Freedom Wars game which sucks since that game was amazing - if not for the rushed non-ending and the terrible damage sponges and lack of overall monster variety (recolors and rehashes are about the same for the first GE).
A retooled and better optimized FW would be amazing, but no one wants it and Sony owns it. Sony will do nothing with it, so the team goes on to make a Dark Souls rip-off (like KT did) since Bamco got the code and all for that, and then you get more God Eater. GE2 did really well and was multiplat. GE3 will likely do better now that not only does it have two games in the series but a full fledged (gorgeous) anime series as well.
A shame then because UNLESS THEY BRING BACK THE ORIGINAL PROTAG AND LET ME IMPREGNATE ALISA I DON'T WANT IT
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