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“ Executing this move perfectly time after time made me feel powerful.

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“ Different ability combinations help characters feel more authentic.

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“ I just wish these unlockables would have been introduced earlier.

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“ Survey missions make sense contextually, but they go on for far too long.

If you’ve never experienced Attack on Titan, this isn’t the worst way to do it — that would be Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains — but of course it’s not as good as manga either. The roughly 15-hour campaign hits all the essential plot events as Eren and his crew join the military and seek revenge against the titans for destroying their families, homes, and lives, but you’ll miss a lot of the more nuanced details and political scenes. That’s not too bad for the campaign, though: the focus isn’t on Attack on Titan’s politics, but on decimating titans. I found a lot of the cutscenes to be a nice refresher for some events I forgot.The introduction to subjugating titans is a little intimidating, but the controls are rather intuitive once you get used to the combo of swinging, targeting, then slashing the back of a titan’s neck. Once I did, I practically flew through the map as I hunted down targets using the omni-directional maneuver gear (which lets you move a lot like Spider-Man) to swing between buildings and trees with peak efficiency.It’s gross, but there’s a weird satisfaction in coming out of a fight drenched in titan blood. While taking on one or two titans isn’t too difficult, the diversity in size and type of titan kept me on my toes. An abnormal crawling titan that leapt in the air was a lot harder to subjugate than a relatively small, five-meter titan that went down in one hit. As I progressed to later missions and faced more specialized enemies, like the female titan that more actively blocks attacks and counter-attacks, I found myself needing to be more tactical with my resources and play to my character’s strengths.The first chunk of the campaign has nice mission and map variety; I got to traverse plains on horseback, escort terrified settlers to safe zones, and stop the female titan from completely obliterating the Stohess District. Each mission also features side quests with various characters that, when helped, can either give you more supplies or join you in combat. It’s not necessary, but hearing them scream when they’re defeated wasn’t really an option for me, either, because Omega Force captures the horror of Attack on Titan well. When random scouts sometimes get grabbed and eaten by titans, the sound is bloodcurdling. Their deaths don’t affect success in the mission, but I always made sure to get revenge.It feels like Omega Force tried to pepper the character requests and their respective scenes to break up the monotony of the padded-out survey missions, but they’re not frequent enough to jolt me out of the tedium. Pair that with the slow reveal of information from the story battles and the epilogue just moves too slowly. It’s still fun to take out titans with your character of choice, but this section definitely needed some of those survey missions cut.On the plus side, you can get through some of those survey missions with friends in multiplayer, and the progress and items you earn in multiplayer carry over to your campaign. It’s fun to work with other people to take down objectives and race each other to get the most titan subjugations, plus playing with others helped me to clear some of those survey missions faster.