DAEMON X MACHINA

I don't know where to start with this review. When I originally started it, it struggled to run and no amount of settings changes really helped. I decided to try it again the next day and it ran well? Still don't know how or what changed, but it did, so I decided to play it. I saw comparisons to the Armored Core series, and I guess? I mean it has mechs and customization, but the story is legitimately boring until you get to the last leg of the game. You don't really feel connection to any of the characters throughout the game, and there's not really interactions you can have outside of cut scenes where your character is just mute. By the end of the game where you're having to help the different factions and their individual teammates who defect to the enemy side, there really isn't a feeling that you feel bad fighting them. It sucks because the story gets pretty interesting in the last 6(?) missions, but by that point you're kind of just playing because you like the game play and not the story itself. I found myself skipping a lot of the cut scenes because the characters aren't too particularly interesting and the overall story is almost hidden from you until the very end. You can see by the percentage of people who finished the game that a lot of people just get tired of it all and choose not to finish it, less than 30% of people who start the game finish it, and I get it honestly. Plus it's less than 6 hours unless you go through every optional mission (you unlock a mission after completing the story mission), so that should paint you a good picture, especially when it's not particularly hard. Pros: +Game play can be fun, but the missions are short. Most being under 5 minutes or so +Art style is pretty cool +Customization is there Cons: -The story is almost non-existent until you get to Class A missions (you have to go through Class E-B missions just being drip fed any kind of actual content pertaining to the story) -The game play isn't too complicated or demanding unless you count one particular pilot that they use as the big enemy, but what makes him hard is that he just zips around the map. That's fine if you could reach that level yourself, but you won't come close. This happens more than once, which just feels bad and I found myself audibly saying "Damn, this isn't even fun", because its not challenging but more annoying than anything -Customization feels like it doesn't do a lot, especially when you find out which weapons are the best and can be used universally against everyone. -The game feels like it ends right as its actually picking up steam -The quality in voice acting varies to an almost comical degree at times -You can't pet the dog that's sitting in the bay Ideally have a good melee weapon for the last mission because I spent about 4 minutes having to melee a borderline god because ammo is prevalent in every single mission except for the last fight. I got this through humble bundle so I don't feel ripped off, but I cant imagine paying more than like $10 for this on the best of days.

Игра хороша но только для заядлых фанатов меха. Сейчас поясню. Из плюсов игры есть: 1. Боёвка игры - Высокие скорости, разнообразные стволы, и конечно моё любимое, более менее развитая система ближнего боя. Для разных врагов нужна разная тактика боя. А боссы хоть и максимально клишированны для жанра но разнообразны. 2. Разнообразная кастомизация мехи и оружия. При желании можно создать меху под любой стиль игры. Любите быть снайпером ебашещим с километра? Пожалуйста. Хотите идти в ближний бой как берсерк? Вам меч или топор или булаву? Может ваш стиль штурмовать врагов с тяжёлым пулемётом и ракетницей на перевес? Как Мукпожелаете милок. 3. Музыка в игре конечно не шедевры от Савано Хироюки но драйва в игре добавляют немало. Если вы любитель метала несколько треков вам точно отлетят в плейлист. Но и без минусов не обошлось: 1. Конечно из-за малого бюджета в игре довольно малое количество контента в общем и пройти игру полностью можно будет за 5-6 часов и это с учётом каих-нибудь тупняков в прохождении и просраных траев на боссах. 2. Почти-что полностью мёртвый онлайн режим. Встретить в онлайн режиме хотя-бы 1 игрока уже редкость, и проблема в том что некотрые предметы можно получить только в онлайн режиме. 3. Отсутствие эндгейм контента. Кроме мёртвого онлайна ничего не остаётся, даже излюбленный японскими разрабами NG+ не добавлен. 4. Сюжет просто хрень. И этим о нём всё сказано. P.S.: Не покупайте дополнения. Этот наёб века который обиграл меня. Кроме косметики там ничего нет. Удачи в покорении игры ;)

Solid mecha game. First thing that stood out for me is definitely the visuals. The mechs look cool. Everything in motion even at break neck speed is readable and stylish. The levels have the bleak but beautiful vibe on point. And then the music just amps the vibe every time during combat encounters. Next thing that I really liked is combat. For context, the last mech game I played was Mechwarrior Online. That was a slow paced game. Here easy flight and zooming around the battlefield is the norm. But despite that pace fights were easy to grasp and a lot of encounters were satisfyingly challenging. Both melee and gun gameplay felt tight. This essentially played out more like a 3rd person shooter with a soft lock on system. But the lock on system wasn't really annoying or a hindrance to good aim. One thing I had mixed feelings on was the progression system. I don't think it was well paced or wasn't clear enough at the start. Meaning if you just played the story missions, you will barely get any decent starter weapons or mech parts. So you basically build up your mech arsenal from beating other mechs and they then drop a random assortment of their parts as loot. A good thing to note here is that missions are short and easy enough to go through. Think early Monster Hunter like missions of just dropping into a map for short objective or fight. But I had a rough start going through story missions at first thinking that's where decent starter gear was. In actuality, the online missions are where you're supposed to get the best gear early on and even for late game gear. There are repeatable side missions that are just solo called Free missions. But I found that they don't spawn enough mechs to fight and the gear there from the start isn't that good. So I had to do the online missions to get any decent gear in the early and mid game. Good thing though that you don't really need actual players. The online missions can be easily soloed or with AI companions. And the progression is where I found the most fun. I just got excited fighting new bosses and new named mech pilots just so to see what the drop. Last thing to add this point, I really liked the online missions especially the Exploration mode, which is a procedurally generated dungeon of mechs and trap rooms. Speaking of online missions, the community has basically moved on and you'll most likely not find any players as of the posting of this review. There were the ocassional one or two surprise lobbies during my playthrough. But for the most part if you really want to play online for the pvp or co-op modes, ask a friend to play with or check the fan made community discord for match ups. Lastly the thing that I thought wasn't very good was the story. The plots and themes this game tried to put across were decent enough on paper. But the way it was delivered was really boring. Basically you just listen in on conversations from the big named characters. It's shame because what they're actually saying can be interesting. But the format of just a scrolling conversation log wasn't fun. They could've at least shown the cool looking 3D renders of the various characters and their mechs while they talk. Overall, I thought this was a solid experience and got me excited for the sequel in development. Also given this launched for the Nintendo Switch first, this does play great on a Steam Deck.

I think this game suffers from "bad launch" ratings, it's a pretty solid co-op game.

Окей, це як в тому мемі. Мам купи армовані ядра 6, в нас вже є армовані ядра 6, армовані ядра 6 вдома. І там повина бути пікча цієї гри. Хз , якщо вас зацікавили мехи то краще просто купити ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON і кайф і гроші точно не проебете. Ні грі, бо є аналог набагато краще.

All I can say for this game is that I tried. I wanted to enjoy it, I love mechs and they can be such a cool concept. But I'm just bored. The dialogue is up there with the best in terms of cringe quality. Character names routinely don't match what they're called. The gameplay is fine, but the entire time you have the NPC allies yapping in your ear and if you're able to move around the map you'll finish the mission before they finish talking and have it get interrupted. The conversation system feels bad as you pick an option of white text on a black background like they used the default popup type in the game engine. The largest story points about the immortals don't come from a cutscene or dialogue but instead from a skippable qna section with the narrator where you select what parts of the lore you want exposited to you and it replies. It just feels bad honestly because the potential is there but the writing, mission difficulty, and the lore being exposited at me made me give up.

COMPLETELY UNPLAYABLE without a controller NO MOUSE INTERFACE AT ALL you can not see the cursor or use it to nav the menus ONLY KEYBOARD OR CONTROLLER COMPLETELY inaccessible if you do not have a controller also you CANT EDIT THE CONTROL OPTIONS AT ALL all in all i could not even get out of the charter creation because of the ♥♥♥♥ controls will add more once i have good controller