Is it only me who feels that playing anything other then ranger doesn't feel canon to the story ?
I mean the first few missions only show ranger.
and while I'm talking a bit about the lore, do you think that the Primer's function like a monarch heiacrhy, like thing about compare the looks of the frogs and the aliens :
>Aliens
Golden looking armor and weaponry, a race of proud aregant warriors
>Frogs
No armor, weak weaponry compared to the aliens, a bunch of electronics are jammed into them indicating that they are an enslaved race of different aliens.
Now here's the question why did the primers enslaved the colonist (frogs) ?
Well If you think about it maybe they are the one who can control the monster hense the name "colonist" maybe these monsters are animals that exist in the native colonist planet and the Primers.
And you may be asking, how did you know that the Primers are bunch of proud warriors, well when you first fight the "Nameless" he looks down at you, crossing his arm, doing minimal amount of movement, he thinks that you are nothing but a "pest" who just got lucky, but slowly you show him and the final phase if you look at his animation he's actually tired he can't keep up with, his angry that you destroyed he's pride, and the Primers mentallity is like that, they don't show their face only half way through the game, they only used they pawns because they didn't want to "dirty" their and they only showed up because the EDF was still resisting human kind was still fightting, heck it's hinted multiple time that if we lose that we will become just like the "Colonist" a fate that humans didn't like, that humans didn't want and throught history humanity always fights for it freedom.
And this is what got me, after playing EDF2, EDF3, EDF4 and EDF5 I get it, this isn't just a "dumb game where you shoot big bug lol it's like the best bad game out there" that redditors always keep spewing out, EDF is more then that, EDF is story of desparition, greef and death, it's a sad tale of humanity darkest hours, where you hope you can be alive in the next 10 min, but it's also a story about determination, the absolute will of humanity it's ability to survive and to be free, it let's experience the meaning behind being a human, and it also let's you explore how legends are made, in every EDF game you always plays as the elite Storm1, Storm1 is always the legendary hero that saves mankind in every game and every generation, Storm1 is a symbol to humanity's greatest strength "Willpower" he doesn't super strength or anything like that he's just a normal soldier just like any EDF soldier but he's precented on saving humanity a noble hero who comes to aids at the moment of despair.
Some may say that I'm reading to much into it they may be right but I don't think so, a good example is EDF endings, nobody can lie that EDF is action game with lots of action packed missions but it always ends on this slow feeling ending, sometimes it can even be sad like EDF5 ending or how the credit song for EDF3 is this slow piano I love it.
I know that may sound like giberish it's just my thoughts on this series, for me this is best series of all time and I hate to see a bunch of e-celeb keep repeating the same shit about "it's dumb shooter game" no it's labor of love and pastion, a game made by people who actually cared a game where even the devs are odds are againts them just like the game, they created an amazing game like this with such a small budget while AAA devs can't even make something like this with their billions, I love everything about this game my words can't describe how much I love this game, in world where everything is a made without this is such a breath of fresh air.