This review contains spoilers
Armored Core PP is very much a DLC of the first game in a separate disc form. I enjoyed this more than the original game for a few reasons. Firstly, the story. This has a completely contained and easy to follow story throughout. Another Raven named Sumika is trying to bring down the Doomsday Organization, who is working on Project Phantasma. We work with her to bring them down and also develop a rivalry with Stinger, an AC who works with the DO. We fight stinger many times and slowly chip away at the org until Stinger merges with PP. We have a fight with this and destroy it. Sumika thanks us for the help and says she may work with us again in the future. This was much easier to follow and actually had both named characters and ones we can see in game. I was much more motivated due to this and wanted to win. It was relatively short, but I expected this going into it. As for gameplay, whoo boy. I became much more adept with the gameplay of the 1st gen and cleared through the story without problems. There were no major updates for the gameplay itself, though the game added many new parts. This was easy for me as I migrated my AC from AC1 to use, up until the final fight. This fight was HARD, and I could not figure out what to do. It had two attacks, a giant light AOE and rockets. The AOE was easy enough to dodge, but the missiles I could not consistently dodge, no matter how hard I tried. Combine this with his huge AP and it was a nightmare. I attempted this for about 45 minutes, on my final attempt I died. BUT, my Karasawa beam (my beloved) hit and killed him. I was ecstatic and so glad. The story was good, but they introduced the arena in this add-on. 49 fights to go through at any point and losing costs us nothing. This was so much fun to go through, though the flying ACs were annoying to fight due to the controls. I was able to wipe the arena fairly easy, but some gave me trouble (Jester and Gepard were nightmares until I chose the 3rd map, thank you guide). The #1 arena match was actually relatively easy as well. Overall, a massive upgrade in both story and features, though the controls hold it back.
doesn't do much more than provide a short but sweet selection of levels and introduce the arena mode.
More AC1 which isn't a bad thing but I do think it is a bit weaker than the first game. Arena mode is a great addition that gives you more options for progression. There is a more personal story but not like it's all that engaging or impactful. I prefer the mystery and moral ambiguity presented in the first game. It is also very linear with less mission variety.
It's really short but the missions are much better designed than AC1's and there's actually kind of a story this time, with 2 actual characters, which is cool
Also Dark Rider is a fucking bitch
Also Dark Rider is a fucking bitch
This is more of an expansion for AC1 and it's pretty solid by having an actual story going on with a bit of rivarly, it also introduces the arena mode in which you work your way to the top by 1v1 up to 50 opponents with scaling difficulty, this mode gives some neat rewards in the virtue of mech parts and credits.
overall this is was a solid 4 hour experience that had probably one of the hardest final boss I've seen which is surprising because the rest of the game isn't as brutal as I thought it would be.
8/10 become one with Phantasma.
overall this is was a solid 4 hour experience that had probably one of the hardest final boss I've seen which is surprising because the rest of the game isn't as brutal as I thought it would be.
8/10 become one with Phantasma.
this game is rlly easy if you just finger your enemies