Armored Core VI is everything a mech game should be. It has meaningful robot customization, challenging combat, a clean UI, and (most importantly) a great story with deeply interesting characters. This review is very short but it's not for lack of topics to talk about. I wanted to keep this spoiler-free and the story in Fires of Rubicon left a lasting impact on me that I highly recommend others experience first hand. I'm eager to jump back in and play again for other endings in the future as well.
The mission-based structure is such a breath of fresh air as games in general (including FromSoft’s last release, Elden Ring) feel like they’re only getting bigger and longer. They don’t need to be that way to give the player a substantial experience and Armored Core VI is proof. As a big fan of the studio’s other work, I think that this is their most challenging game combat-wise but its placement of checkpoints within missions made retrying fights again and again much less of a pain than it has been in the past.
Additional bonus: I’ve never played an Armored Core game before this and I never once felt like anything was missing when I was playing VI.
The mission-based structure is such a breath of fresh air as games in general (including FromSoft’s last release, Elden Ring) feel like they’re only getting bigger and longer. They don’t need to be that way to give the player a substantial experience and Armored Core VI is proof. As a big fan of the studio’s other work, I think that this is their most challenging game combat-wise but its placement of checkpoints within missions made retrying fights again and again much less of a pain than it has been in the past.
Additional bonus: I’ve never played an Armored Core game before this and I never once felt like anything was missing when I was playing VI.