The future is full of bugs, and so is the past.
Earth Defense Force 6 spoilers follow.
You shoot them with guns, but they also have guns–you follow?
This loop continues until you hit EDF 9.
The missions you tend to actually replay– the futuristic ones–also come with small tweaks.
Sometimes that’s new enemies, and sometimes it’s something in the background.
How did this begin anyway?
This is where EDF 6 does something truly incredible: It temporarily stops giving you new levels.
Well, that’s what it looks like, anyway.
EDF 6 has six mystery missions marked with ?
in your missions list for you to stumble upon as you’re trying to figure out what’s happening.
Each of these represents a key victory that you haven’t managed in any timeline.
You aren’t hurled back through time, either.
Things are different this time, but you find two new weaknesses on this ship and destroy it.
The war is won, yay!
An entirely new portal opens above you, and an enormous flying metal dragon emerges.
The game states it’s over 1km in length, and it feels it.
As you continue to fight, you learn that the EDF has discovered these aliens come from Mars.
you might’t read that and tell me it’s anything less than incredible, and it gets better.
This, dear readers, is a paradox, and that’s not great for any timeline.
The paradox will, as a result, simply choose a victor.
The timeline erases the Primers entirely.
Why isn’t all of that removed from reality entirely?
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