Though it's unfortunately dumbed down a bit. It's less clunky this time around and could actually be fun to those who don't mind its repetitiveness. If you haven't played a game in the series yet, know that the combat is clunky, not very responsive, and very repetitive. The gameplay is more of the same, but there's positives and negatives over the last installment. Maybe the developers felt a bit disappointed in their final product (I sure would have been). This could be why there have been so many updates to the game since its original release. It seems as though they just cut out the overly-wondrous bits and replaced them with nothing, leaving us with what feels like a short and partial story. The story is also far less wondrous this time around, which helps its believability (though doesn't fix it). I ended the game not knowing or caring much about the characters at all. They were too heavy in the last games, which made you think they were trying to be an anime instead of a game, but they're way too light this time around. Though what's missing are the numerous character interactions. However, the average teen should see no issues with its story as-is.
The writers seem to be working to make this series a little more believable, which is what I like to see. Though it is slightly less dumb this time around. God Eater has historically been set up like a dumb super-powered teen anime, and that hasn't changed. No, that's not a copy and paste from one of my previous God Eater reviews. The military wants to experiment on her and the monsters have an uncontrollable urge to eat her, but she's just so cute that everyone in your party wants to protect her.
This time around, we have basically a magical little girl that we're trying to protect from just about everyone/everything else. The only big change this time around is the graphics I play games primarily for their stories, so I'll get into that first. The stories in each are incredibly similar, the mechanics are nearly identical, and the gameplay has only minor tweaks. More than any other game I've played, the God Eater games seem to be "versions" of the same game rather than being full-blown sequels.
A big graphical improvement over the previous entries in the series, but besides that, it's basically the same game as God Eater 1 and 2.