DAEMON X MACHINA

How could you make a mech game so boring, so devoid of life, so grindy, and felt like it is something that a mech game shouldn’t be. Progression is very bad with random drops, upgrading permanent upgrade makes your character look like a tech priest from warhammer, and the story itself is so nonsensical. Always been a gameplay person but the fact that the 2 hours you play is what you will play on the 6th hours except enemies now have gazillion more health and can TELEPORT while you cant is just stupid. Literally the best strategy is to kiss the enemy mech and just shoot them with everything you get. Oh wait, most duelling mission makes you run out of ammo and pitting you against 3 mech which just ended up with you isolating one of them and them killing it while you wait. Mech fight is ♥♥♥♥ but the big boss looked interesting at least.

Lowkey the best game ever if you like mechs. I am a fan of evangelion and you can make your character shinji and the mech into unit 01

The story is like okey JRPG story. the gameplay is great if you like mech style games.

Awesome game. I love mech stuff. I’m also a massive fan of Armored Core and have played them all. Very well put together!

I feel like this is a very underrated mecha game, the version on the switch was very hard to play and I gave up on it but for PC this game plays perfectly. As other reviews have mentioned the story/characters don't really make a lot of sense but I did find myself strangely immersed even though it's overall a silly game. It's definitely a more accessible/easier version of Armored Core, but that's not a bad thing at all! The missions are pretty replayable with all the loadouts you can experiment with and extra materials you get by going back to missions you've replayed. If you haven't been paying much attention to a lot of the options offered, there is a significant difficulty spike by Mercenary Rank B/A but it's manageable as it forces you to really understand everything the game has to offer. If you prefer the fast-paced mech games, this is a great game to play.

Got this instead of Armored Core 6 way back. Don't regret it one bit. Gameplay is pretty alright and fun, there aren't often straight-upgrade parts which allows for more customization, can be really grindy when trying to get particular parts, characters are mostly stereotypes with maybe one or two extra quirks to them for flavor (although you do have reverse-role Amuro and Char with the same JP actors), there's a lot of dialogue to bring the story along that can be a bit bloated/padded and happens both outside- and mid-mission, and despite having options to fight on foot (and upgrade your on-foot self), there's only really one mission requiring it. AND YET I remember it about as fondly as older Armored Core games. It tries a lot of neat stuff that succeeds sometimes, like having choices that effect missions/story. The music is absolutely amazing, and the voice performances of the JP actors is astounding and full of veterans of the industry. Not to mention it's just got an energy to it that is lacking in other indie attempts to be a Stomp-Bot Fight-Lots game. This isn't really trying to be Armored Core specifically, despite some possible inspirations, but it's a pretty good re…