“Gods Eater Burst” is a game involving human-size swords that turn into Venus’ flytraps to consume monsters. But no amount of hugeness or flytrappiness is enough to cut through the thicket of tutorials and lore choking out the game’s central experience. Every March, April and May, we get a few games Stateside that seemed to be selected for import out of a hat. “Gods Eater Burst,” which seems to have also had the three words that comprise its title picked out of a hat, has all the markings of a Spring Sleeper: majestic anime visuals, ballads sung in Japanese, and game mechanics of incredible depth. Its opening cinematic takes its cues from the video for Michael/Janet Jackson’s “Scream,” and the character creator let me make my fighter look satisfactorily like Prince.
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