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Thomas Winwood
@ketsuban.github.io

This is one of those things a bunch of people have passively picked up but which doesn't really stand up to scrutiny all that well so if you don't mind I'm gonna do a quick thread breaking that down. tl;dr: assume Code Vein is unrelated to God Eater until given incontrovertible proof otherwise. 1/

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Thomas Winwood
@ketsuban.github.io

It doesn't help that there's things people have picked up as "truth" which aren't actually in the game, such as Louis and Karen's surname. The game doesn't give them one (I even checked unused text strings which give a bunch of other characters surnames) but Bandai-Namco Europe said it's Amamiya. 2/

Thomas Winwood
@ketsuban.github.io

The things that _are_ in the game that even point to God Eater are the existence of Bugarally and the similarity of the horrors we see to certain Aragami. I don't think this is very solid evidence, because the game shies away from clear opportunities to _identify them as such_. 3/

Thomas Winwood
@ketsuban.github.io

My guess is these small similarities were an escape hatch for the risk they took in creating a new IP; if the game failed, they'd call it a spinoff and add a small reference to revenants in the next GE game… but we now live in a world where Code Vein by itself outsold the _entire GE series_. 4/

Thomas Winwood
@ketsuban.github.io

As such, Code Vein is Shift's responsibility now, and God Eater 3 got passed to another developer entirely. I don't think we're likely to see Code Vein 2 putting itself into the context of another series, and we should default to interpreting what we see in terms of Code Vein alone. 5/end