Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion

震撼美味！！！

一坨大便，他史的我都没有骂的欲望，就装甲好看

AT A BIG SUPER DISCOUNT ONLY. Decent game, obviously rushed at the end, terrible narrative PACING, narrative stakes and moments placed in such awkward moments, it ruins the emotions on both ends. Gameplay does still carry the spirit of DXM1, the mix max, the builds, while having less things than the first game, it still can pull its weight in gameplay. A lot of returning parts and if you played DXM1, you get familiar real quick. Enemies too will feel familiar, like if you play Monster Hunter Worlds and you went to play Monster Hunter Stories. Streamlined a lot of things, the movement is improved, better camera work, the animations are amazing, so many details put that people would probably miss (like a reverse jump and side jump animation), had fun building loadouts, weapon styles, min maxing. HOWEVER, that's where the praise stops. Everything else, is passable at best. It's like acing your finals but you barely passed all your assignments. Narrative is odd and tons of bad pacing; certain characters play TOO much into their archetype and everytime you see them you know what's going to happen, (there is a character that will scream 80% of the time, and it's always the same thing: WHAT THE HEL MAN); villains and story moments and fights are repetitive. Example of Narrative Debacle: Big war coming up, cool monologue, LETS GO: starts some anti climactic subway surfer, temple run mini game, emotion from high drops to nothing; continues to fight, finish segment, the good guys can tell their allies to run instead of die, but "because we're on a mission, let's just do nothing and go ahead"; i dont remember when but somewhere in between everything i said previously, they added a scene where a companion breaksdown, when you're in the mood to fight, you wont like it when a game suddenly wants to give you some plot twist. Terrible timing, terrible pacing. Example 2: Sudden lore drop from all the enemies you fight, there is a fight where you don't engage with the boss directly and fight their minion instead, but after winning against the minion, the cutscene plays where the boss is hurt and they are dying. Doesn't make a lick of sense. Every boss after this is a lore drop and each one had so much more context needed, so i gather that they ran out of development time and just chucked it into the oven. Which leads me to the next example. Example 3: We're in high tech exosuits, (somehow a little kid can pilot a full sized adult suit btw) and we take hits from bullets and lasers and in one of the cutscenes, YOUR BOY PULLS OUT A GLOCK TO FINISH OFF THE BOSS. Where in the world does a glock exist in this universe? idk. There is no animation, your character holds it, the scene cuts to the back of your character, hiding the gun, muzzle flash, boss is ended. P.S. My friends and I had a blast laughing and all of this, it's terrible, fun still to play but all of this feels like a fever dream or a joke. I'm the only big mecha fan of our group, and if this, not even by a long shot, stands anywhere close to Armoured Core 6. Honestly, if the gameplay and the feel of the Arsenal exosuits weren't super good, it would have been a thumbs down, it barely passes my marking score as a yes. Like another game i felt that drop the ball: Outriders, i will recommend it to everyone, but at a heavy discount and with a fistful of salt. You have been warned.

The game is fun so far, but the numerous crashes to desktop is really making it hard to recommend at all I swear it's like this game is held together with candy floss and scotch tape under the pretty coating...

2 minute TLDR: If you played the first Daemon Ex Machina (abbreviated to DXM) and were left wishing for a bigger and better game, you NEED to try Titanic Scion. The major differences here are Titanic Scion is much more similar to something like Anthem than Armored Core, though it still has enough in common with its ancestor to not feel completely alien. The entire campaign is coop and open world. Conversations with NPCs don't feel like a fever dream of cutting room floor bits mashed together. The world is quite detailed and feels like real effort was put into the concept of Femto and the political struggles between the Outers and the people on the planet surface are far better realised. Combat is way more fleshed out and genuinely feels fun to engage with instead of just kind of "being there" in the first game. While I haven't beaten it yet, I can safely say the enjoyment factor is night and day compared to the first DXM game. Maybe not as brutally tough or grimdark as Armored Core 6, but still definitely worth a look for diehard AC fans or Anthem players who can't get enough of their favourite flying exosuit fix.

abysmal dogdoodoo performance, game crashes like crazy, i tried it with the demo before buying and it kept crushing just like before it released, i came back to check if they fixed anything but they didn't, it "runs" just as badly and by runs i mean within 10 minutes i crashed straight to desktop 3 times just for my sin of loading the open world

way worse than the first one