Info about EDENS ZERO:

Official game description:
Deluxe Edition
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《Deluxe Edition》
Bundle Includes
･Main Game
･Gaming Equipment Set (Male) / Cyber Equipment Set (Female)
･Lacrima Set
･Starter Item pack
\*Bonuses will be purchasable.
\*DLC 1–3 can be purchased separately. Also, items included in DLC2 and 3 will be available in the game.
※1 Bonuses can be purchased separately.
※2 DLC 1–3 can be purchased separately.
※3 Items included in the Lacrima Set and Starter Items Pack are also obtainable through normal gameplay.
About the Game
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A new game adaptation of Hiro Mashima's fantasy opus!
Take off to the stars, and adventure!
Hiro Mashima's space fantasy manga and anime EDENS ZERO is becoming an Action RPG!
Step into the shoes of Shiki and co. and play through the original story, expanded with tons of game-exclusive content and quests, and all set within a vast open world!
Take on awesome action-packed battles!
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Overpower enemies with combos and Finishing Attacks!
Perform Special Skills!
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Building up the gauge and then activating a Special Skill inflicts heavy damage to all nearby enemies!
Explore planets and make friends!
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Dive deeper into the intense and suspenseful story from the comic!
Adventure across a near-limitless world!
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The entire planet of Blue Garden is explorable.
Once you reach a certain point in the game, you will be able to travel all over Blue Garden, the planet of Adventurers.
Tons of customization options!
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Over 700 types of equippable items can be obtained by progressing through the game, so there's no shortage of ways to alter your characters' appearance and tweak their stats.
Customize your favorite characters!
You can freely combine any equipment and accessories you want with a feature that allows you to alter characters' appearances without changing their stats.
**A treat for fans! Cards to collect and notes to find!**
As you travel across Blue Garden, you'll see collectible cards and notes scattered all over the place. Can you find them all?
New material penned by Hiro Mashima for the game expands the lore of EDENS ZERO even further. What secrets will be revealed?

Release date: Jul 15, 2025

Categories: Action RPG, Open-World Exploration, Character Customization, Character Progression, Collectibles, Story-driven Gameplay, Anime-inspired Gameplay, Combat

Feature scans:
- MTX: score 10; verdict: Mixed Feedback on Pricing; summary: The game receives criticism for its high base price and the perceived lack of value in its deluxe edition and additional content such as DLC and costumes. However, it is praised for not employing gacha monetization tactics, which is seen as a positive aspect of its monetization strategy.
- Steam Deck: score 75; verdict: Needs Improvement; summary: The analysis of user feedback reveals significant performance issues and user frustration with the game on Steam Deck. Performance issues include frame rate drops and stuttering, which severely impact the gaming experience. Users have expressed high levels of frustration, particularly with certain levels or design choices. Additionally, there are graphical issues that need addressing, such as the need for better anti-aliasing solutions. These issues collectively contribute to a less than optimal gaming experience on the Steam Deck.

- Hardware Profile: No data
Feature extractions:
- Community Price:
  - Community fair range: $10.00 - $20.00
  - Reasoning: The evidence consistently points to users finding the game overpriced and suggesting a fair price range between $10 and $20. Multiple reviews mention that the game should be purchased on sale and not at its current higher price point. The general sentiment is that the game is not worth more than $20, with several users specifically mentioning $10 as a reasonable price.
- Playtime Metrics:
  - Game completion: 30.0h
  - Story completion: 12.0h
  - Session length: N/A
  - Endgame: 10.0h
  - Reasoning: The evidence provides several direct references to playtime metrics. The first quote mentions finishing the main story in 10 hours, indicating the story completion time. The second quote supports this with a similar claim of around 12 hours for the main story. The third quote provides a broader range, suggesting that the main story can be completed in about 15 hours, with additional content adding more time. The fourth quote indicates that a significant amount of time (10 hours) can be spent just on the tutorial phase, suggesting a longer overall game completion time.
- Time-to-fun:
  - Summary: The game has a slow and repetitive start but becomes more enjoyable after players learn the combat mechanics and unlock more systems, typically around 10 hours in.
  - Stance: Clicks after
  - Anchor: Unlocking more systems and learning combat mechanics
  - Time to anchor: 10h 0m
  - Friction: repetitive combat; close camera; no blocking mechanics; slow progression curve
  - Unlock drivers: learning combat moves; swapping between characters; unlocking more systems; exploring the open world
  - Conditions: patience for slower progression; willingness to learn combat mechanics; exploration mindset
- Player Archetypes:
  - Source Material Fan (buy)
    - Motivation: Nostalgia and faithfulness to the source material.
    - Playstyle: Engages with the game to relive and experience the story and characters they love.
    - Experience: mixed
    - Purchase stance: buy
    - Labels: 原作粉丝; Fans of Hiro Mashima; Edens Zero fans
    - Reference games: Japanese RPGs; Senran Kagura; Valkyrie Drive
  - Grind-Loving Progressionist (sale)
    - Motivation: Character and equipment progression.
    - Playstyle: Focuses on grinding and improving their characters and equipment.
    - Experience: familiar
    - Purchase stance: sale
    - Labels: Achievement hunters
    - Reference games: Musou games; Gravity Rush; Chrono Trigger
  - Combat Enthusiast (sale)
    - Motivation: Enjoyment of combat mechanics.
    - Playstyle: Focuses on combat and utilizing different characters' unique abilities.
    - Experience: familiar
    - Purchase stance: sale
    - Labels: Fans of musou style combat
    - Reference games: Senran Kagura; Valkyrie Drive; Musou games


Below are summaries of things people say about the game per category.
Each point is assigned a weight that represents how often it is mentioned across all reviews.
What players like:
- Enjoyable gameplay (weight 0.68): The game is described as fun and enjoyable, with functional gameplay mechanics. The combat system is engaging and improves as players progress and unlock more moves.
- Strong visuals and art style (weight 0.56): The game features good graphics and artistic direction, with nice views in areas like Blue Garden. The character models and designs are well-made, contributing to an overall great presentation.
- Exploration mode (weight 0.37): The game includes an original exploration mode with free exploration, guild missions, and quests. The exploration mode is fun and set in a large map like Blue Garden.
- Interesting story and characters (weight 0.33): The game has a good story with interesting characters, providing an enjoyable narrative experience for players.
- Faithful to source material (weight 0.27): The game stays true to the story of the original anime and manga, faithfully reproducing the original story and adapting it well for fans.
- Recommended for fans (weight 0.27): The game is recommended for fans of the anime, manga, and Hiro Mashima's work, as it faithfully recreates the Edens Zero universe and characters.
- Unique character abilities (weight 0.24): Each character has its own fighting style, attributes, combat mechanisms, skills, and unique skill talent trees, making the combat system diverse and enjoyable.
- Variety of costumes (weight 0.23): The game features hundreds of costume types and a variety of character outfits, providing a wide range of customization options for players.
- Ship exploration and activities (weight 0.19): The game features detailed ship exploration and a variety of activities and quests, providing plenty of content for players to enjoy.
- Character progression (weight 0.15): The game features character progression and development, allowing players to level up and enhance their combat strength.
- Memorable boss fights (weight 0.11): The game includes memorable and powerful boss fights, adding to the excitement and challenge of the gameplay.

Common complaints:
- Combat mechanics need improvement (weight 0.73): Players find the combat system repetitive, stiff, and lacking depth. It is often described as boring and not enjoyable due to its simplicity and clunkiness.
- Enemies have excessive health (weight 0.53): Many players complain that enemies, including weaker ones, have too much health, making battles tedious and frustrating. This issue is often referred to as enemies being 'damage sponges.'
- Story is lacking and incomplete (weight 0.29): The story is criticized for being unengaging, incomplete, and too short. Some players feel that important story parts are skipped, leading to a disjointed narrative.
- Camera and technical issues (weight 0.25): The camera is criticized for being too close and working poorly. Additionally, there are technical issues such as pop-in, frame drops, and unstable frame rates.
- Game is overpriced (weight 0.22): Many players feel that the game is too expensive and not worth the high price, especially considering the regions where it is sold.
- Translation and subtitle errors (weight 0.21): There are notable errors in the game's subtitles and translations, including some missions being in different languages unexpectedly.
- Leveling up is grindy (weight 0.1): Players find the leveling up process to be too slow and painful, requiring excessive grinding.
- Poor PC port and AI (weight 0.1): The PC port of the game is considered poor, and the enemy AI is criticized for being weak and unbalanced.
- Open world feels barren (weight 0.1): The open world is criticized for feeling empty and lacking interesting content or activities.
- Gameplay and attack issues (weight 0.1): There are gameplay issues where attacks sometimes miss or do not fully hit enemies, leading to frustration.
- Lack of immersion and challenge (weight 0.1): Players report a lack of immersion in the game world and a lack of challenge in the gameplay.
- Few music tracks and missions (weight 0.09): The game is criticized for having too few music tracks and main missions, making the experience feel lacking.

Gameplay feedback:
- Deep combat mechanics (weight 0.97): Combat includes various mechanics such as blocking, dodging, parrying, and character switching, along with special skills and ultimate attacks.
- Open world exploration (weight 0.46): The game features an open world with numerous quests, activities, and side missions, allowing for extensive exploration.
- Anime-style action RPG (weight 0.32): The game is described as an action RPG with 3D anime-style graphics and story-driven elements.
- Enemy mechanics (weight 0.17): The game includes specific mechanics related to enemy health and toughness, affecting combat strategies.
- Multiple game modes (weight 0.15): Players can enjoy an original story mode as well as a free exploration mode, offering varied gameplay experiences.

Performance notes:
- Performance and optimization issues (weight 0.54): The game suffers from significant performance issues, including FPS drops and poor optimization. These problems are widespread and affect the overall gaming experience.
- Steam Deck compatibility issues (weight 0.11): The game runs poorly on Steam Deck and is not yet optimized for this platform, leading to a subpar experience for Steam Deck users.
- Game crashes and stuttering (weight 0.11): The game experiences crashes during certain videos and general stuttering, which disrupts gameplay.
- Lack of support for newer graphics cards (weight 0.06): There is a lack of support for newer graphics cards, which can limit the game's performance on modern systems.
- High performance on specific hardware (weight 0.06): The game runs flawlessly in native 4K at 120 FPS on an RTX 4070 TI, indicating good performance on high-end hardware.
- Minor bugs (weight 0.06): There are minor bugs reported by players, though they do not significantly impact the overall gameplay experience.
- Sound mixing issues (weight 0.06): Players have reported issues with sound mixing, which affects the audio experience of the game.

Recommendations:
- Recommended for Edens Zero fans (weight 0.45): This game is highly recommended for fans of the Edens Zero series, as it allows players to experience the world of Edens Zero and is considered a good adaptation of the anime.
- Wait for a sale (weight 0.16): Many reviewers suggest waiting for a sale or discount, with a recommended price range of $10 to $30, to make the game more worth purchasing.
- Not a traditional action game/RPG (weight 0.11): Players should not expect a typical action game or RPG experience. Instead, the game is more akin to a visual novel with additional elements.
- Musou style combat with anime story (weight 0.07): The game features musou style combat combined with an upbeat anime story and fun exploration, making it appealing to fans of this genre.
- Try the first chapter (weight 0.06): Some reviewers recommend playing through the first chapter to get a feel for the game before deciding whether to continue.
- General recommendation (weight 0.06): The game is recommended by some reviewers without specific conditions or comparisons.

Other player notes:
No miscpoints

Emotions:
- Enjoyment (weight 0.25): Players are enjoying the game's engaging story, beautiful world, and fun exploration. The rich character customization options, varied characters, and enjoyable combat mechanics also contribute significantly to the positive experience.
- Frustration (weight 0.24): Players are frustrated with several aspects of the game, including an ugly and empty open world, enemies with excessive health points, and grindy leveling. Technical issues, performance problems, and imbalanced combat mechanics are also major sources of frustration.
- Disappointment (weight 0.17): Disappointment stems from poor combat mechanics, lack of patches, and performance issues. Players also feel let down by the game's high price, lack of cinematics, and limited exploration options.
- Joy (weight 0.12): The game brings joy through its fun story, engaging characters, and great sense of adventure. Players also enjoy the fan service, character interactions, and variety of playable characters.
- Happy (weight 0.06): Players are happy with the extensive customization options, rich content, and enjoyable story and characters. The variety of costumes and overall positive vibes contribute to their happiness.
- Anger (weight 0.05): Anger is primarily caused by unenjoyable combat mechanics, excessive enemy health, and frame rate issues. The frustrating game mechanics and design further exacerbate this emotion.
- Excited (weight 0.05): Players are excited about the game's combat mechanics, leveling up, and various customization options. The engaging atmosphere and story also add to their excitement.
- Excitement (weight 0.04): Excitement is generated by the enjoyable combat, variety of character costumes, and character customization features. The variety of armors and weapons also adds to the excitement.
- Hope (weight 0.04): Players hope for future improvements and additional content, seeing potential in the game's engine and overall design.
- Satisfaction (weight 0.02): Satisfaction comes from the game's character modeling, story modes, and customization system. Players are also satisfied with the physical effects and overall quality of the game.
- Frustrated (weight 0.02): Frustration is caused by translation errors, performance issues, and combat mechanics. The pricing and contrast between investment and care also contribute to this frustration.
- Appreciation (weight 0.01): Players appreciate the game's faithful reproduction of the original story and the exploration mode, which enhances their overall experience.
- Interest (weight 0.01): Interest is sparked by the game's characters, skills, ship mechanics, and plot, which captivate the players' attention.
- Surprise (weight 0.01): Players are pleasantly surprised by the game turning out to be better than expected, exceeding their initial impressions.}