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The scale is the best part of the game, even if most of the maps do not feature that large of a playable area. You’re a big old mecha, so buildings, helicopters, and normal tanks all look tiny to you. Once you’re happy with your loadout (more on that later) you’ll quickly load into a small map full of Xbox One-era textures. You’ll choose a Sortie from the menu and listen to mediocre cutscene dialogue. At no point did I feel attached to any part of this story, and the tough guy American army accents in certain missions were painful. The Souls titles have incredibly deep lore that you can discover both in-world and through the descriptions of drops. There is no real-world building as everything is either a text menu or you’re in-game and shooting things. The writing is poor, the voice acting is a mix of passable and terrible, and the overall plot makes zero sense. The story itself starts out as a mishmash of “I have no idea who I am, what I’m doing, or where I’m going” and evolves into “I don’t care about any of this, I think I might just start skipping it all”. Load times are incredibly fast, taking only a few seconds to go in and out of a mission. After this ends you’ll normally go into yet another, shorter, cutscene and finally head out to your mission. Every mission begins with a long voice-over cutscene featuring minimal on-screen movement. A never-ending fight over the substance Coral finds your mercenary pilot caught up in the middle of a lot of baffling and dull political squabbling. The latest in the series fixes those control issues and takes us to the stars as we head to the planet Rubicon 3. I have dabbled in previous Armored Core games, always finding their control schemes to be too off-putting. So let’s break down the highs and lows of this occasionally fun and often maddeningly frustrating title.

The gameplay can be a lot of fun, occasionally. I’m fine that this game has little to no of the Dark Souls DNA in it. For a title like this to come out from one of my favorite companies is shocking. It’s fast, frenetic, poorly balanced, and dull. FROM SOFTWARE is heading back to its mecha roots with Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon.

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