aspro said:

gamingeek said:

This is pretty big caveat.

There's another crucial difference, too. EDF cost £20 and you could buy it in a shop, while Zangeki costs £45 plus shipping and customs charges, and you have to buy it from the internet.

It's impossible to recommend actually spending money on it unless you're very rich and have a very strong affection for terrible videogames. If that's you, you'll definitely enjoy yourself.

So EDF is only well loved because it was cheap to buy? I doubt the UK reviewer could have even read or understood the story in Zangeki let alone the tutorials, given the whole game is in Japanese.

 This review is meaningless.  EDF is not a bad game on any level, saying that people like bad games if they are cheap is utter bullshit.  How many people went and changed their reviews once Too Human went down to $20?  "At $60 this game sucked, but now it's cheap, man, it kind of rules".

Price provides no mitigation whatsoever, try playing Hail to the Chimp sometime, it can be had for $5 almost everywhere.

 i don't know.  i tend to be satisfied more easily when i get a game on the cheap.  i have often said that certain games were good for what I'd paid but i would have been a lot less pleased if i'd paid full price

Well, at least the next Earth Defense Force is coming our way:

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/09/05/earth-defense-force-returns-in-insect-armageddon.aspx