This is the first half of my review of the game. You can read the entirety of my review here:
https://gaming-age.com/2025/09/daemon-x-machina-titanic-scion-review-for-pc-ps5-xbox-series-x-switch-2/
Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion is… fun… I think? I enjoyed it a lot of the time, but just as much of the time I spent with it, I found myself just feeling blank about it. Not negative, but also not positive. Titanic Scion is a game with a lot to explore, a lot to craft, and a lot to take in. The gameplay, in its stride, is very fun, but the story leaves something to be desired. A mecha game sort of, but, actually it’s a power suit, maybe? It’s hard to place exactly how I feel about everything, but I did enjoy my time overall with DxM: Titanic Scion.
As mentioned, where Daemon X Machina, really as a series at this point, hits its stride is in the gameplay itself. The combat is tight, fast, fluid, and fun. Dashing through fights at high speeds to clash with opponents and dodge attacks feels so, so good a lot of the time. However, counter-intuitively, being that the game is open-world in most of your time spent, so many enemies you fight are mindless and makes it so most of your combat time is spent really doing the bare minimum. It’s at conflict with itself, giving fights the potential to be simultaneously insanely fun and gratifying while also having the potential to be over in 15 seconds. Then you walk (or more likely fly) 15 seconds up the road and get another 15 second combat… hearing the same combat music restart again, and then again, and then again. Get used to hearing the first 15 seconds of that song, because you are gonna hear it A LOT.
I think if Titanic Scion balanced fights better to make the general enemies either more numerous, have more health, or just feel more involved in battles, the regular combat would be much more enjoyable. As it was in my experience, the boss fights in Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion are where I had the most (if not the majority of my) fun. Partially because, as you could gather from my previous comments, they last longer than 15 seconds. Boss combats are challenging in fun ways and long enough to put you in a bind if you’re not careful. I always prefer light builds, so of course I did a lot of zipping around and dodging in my way of play. My dark souls training has led me to have the dodge button on lock at any given moment, so running light is what I do best.
