User blog:Seieireppa/The end of an era?

By this point, I'm sure we've all seen this before.

(Interestingly enough, look whose screenshot made it onto the internet :) )

For the longest time, I was convinced that God Eater would never make it over here after Burst's release. It started once I saw how little exposure the series got in the West, and it only grew with the more I was exposed to it. Sure, there were some dedicated fans here and there, but, compared to even Toukiden or Ragnarok Odyssey, the size of the God Eater fanbase outside of Japan was miniscule at best.

And with every new release of a God Eater game—first Rage Burst this past February and then Resurrection in October—and the time leading up to them, the same questions, the same talk, always showed themselves. "When will Bamco announce a localization?" "Give us a localization!  We deserve it!" "There's plenty of fans who want it!  There IS a guaranteed install base if only they'd just acknowledge that!" Every single time, I brushed that off, knowing, or so I thought, that there was no way Bamco would give GE a chance in the West after what happened to Burst.

But here we are. Against all expectations, against the very definitions of common sense (and probably having more than a little to do with the anime and with the imminent release of Project X Zone 2), we'll finally be getting a God Eater game, likely Rage Burst, in the West.

To be honest, it's a bit frightening, on top of being somewhat awe-inspiring. What I held to be a universal truth is quickly proving itself more and more to have been completely overturned. While I'm eagerly awaiting the final reveal on Monday morning, I'm nonetheless filled with a sense of apprehension. As a longtime God Eater player, I've been invested in this series for a good long while... and there's something within me that's both frightened and excited about what will happen to the community, to the player base, when God Eater is finally given a chance outside of Japan (and the Asian market).

No matter what comes, though, I'm sure it'll be something to look forward to, in one way or another.

This has been your admin, Matt. I look forward to an exciting and interesting future together.