I finally finished this janky game. I had abandoned it previous month, but then returned it for later. Why? Because when I start up the ps1 I found out that I didn't take out the disc. Then I said hey let's try it again maybe I'd like it then? Spoiler: unfortunately no.

Camera is awful, when you are moving fast it can't keep up with you, when you go into a corner it starts to broke and move itself without your input, Also looking up or down is non-existent, camera doesn't even try to match with it's damn aim reticle. Also for some reason map designers have a corridor fetish. I think they were keep pressuring each other to make it smaller again and again... IN A DASH FOCUSED MECHA GAME!??
Not just that, one piece of troll decided to include platforming... HUH!?


Why not 1 star then? Because after getting a lot of money, just equipping lots of explosives and spam them without any money care feels actually fun. Also there is a bit of variety in missions as well and also a lot of different weapons this game have, probably more than the most of the ps1 games. But those gameplay mechanics with awful camera... Just takes it down for me unfortunately

Also that last mission is the biggest piece of garbage missions ever. I am not against hard opponents but platforming? Did you even test your game for that!??? At least it was fun to spam all of my collected explosives to the faces of that nineball. Funny thing is he jumped on top op of my head and I spammed the heck out of attack button instinctively and when I was out of energy and when the explosion effects disappeared he was dead already. Now that was damn satisfying I won't lie.

Reviewed on Jul 10, 2023


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2 months ago

https://github.com/VanLaser/analog-controls-for-armored-core-ps2 link says PS2 but they've done patches like this for PS1, PS2, PSP, it's pretty incredible

2 months ago

@PZT yeah I saw that and it's a good improvement, but I don't think it will fix camera issues near corners. But thanks for the link