I just played the 2025 on ps3, its fun.

Total shipments and digital sales for Earth Defense Force 5 have topped 300,000 in Japan three weeks after reaching 250,000, D3 Publisher announced.

The latest Media Create sales figures reveal that at least 212,130 copies are retail sales.

Earth Defense Force 5 launched for PlayStation 4 in Japan on December 7.

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I'm a huge fan of the series. Have all the North American releases except for 2017 on the Xbox 360. 2025 has it's charms, but it's such a flawed experience when compared to any other games in the EDF line. You should try EDF 4.1 on the PS4, or 2017 and EDF 2 on the Vita if you liked 2025. Hope we get a release date for 5 soon, been tempted to jump on the Japanese version since 7 of my PSN friends have already done so.

Im interested in Iron Rain

if someday get cheap in psn maybe I buy, since niche games in brazil is very expensive (Physical).

This game looks really cool. Might pick it up.

It's well worth buying if you have any interest in the series. So much fun. The 2 Vita games are great too, but this is even better. Avoid 2025. The online component is broken. I played over 500hrs to get the 100% and the plat. It's the most grueling run in the series, but still, a highly enjoyable endeavor. I still play on the odd days I'm actually home. Even as a curiosity, it's worth it to try it out, but much of the online community, which is very hardcore, has migrated to the Japanese EDF 5 import. I now have about a dozen PSN friends from North America, the EU, and Australia who imported it or made a JP PSN account to double dip. There are still some heavy hitter on 4.1, but unfortunately, since last december, mod cheaters have infested the game on PSN. It happened much faster on PC. Hopefully they won't ruin EDF 5 too quickly.

Their best selling game ever in Japan and it won't stop there. Good to see Japanese niche games still doing well on ps4.

There were about 3-4 missions in 4.1 ( not counting DLC ) where the player could jump into Walking Fortress Balam. There are several small and medium personal mechs, and one other big one that is actually the most important mech in the game, the Proteus. This vid with the Balam is almost certainly on easy, or possibly normal mode, because he's lollygagging just watching stuff happen at the beginning, taking small damage, using low level weapons, and his armor level is pretty low. It's not the best representation of the level. On the hard, hardest or inferno difficulties, you have to engage as soon as possible. It sometimes fun to try and do it without Balam, but it's harder.




-edit. I should mention that once you unlock it, you can call for a Balam, or any other mech you want on any level with the Air Raider class character.