It’s my personal GOTY for sure, but you’re right. When I heard complaints about the first damn PCA helicopter boss, I knew this game would never be appreciated by critics
It's the first game I've played where if you didn't clear NG++, you haven't played the whole game. It's analogous to how the map in Elden Ring was completely blacked out in the beginning. If you stop prematurely and think "I get it" and bail, you don't even know how much you don't know.
@@logancade342 that’s actually an awesome way to put it. It really is a lot like Elden Ring in that aspect. I also love how you don’t need to ‘start’ a New Game, it just continues and you continue unlocking things so it makes you think there’s always more to come
Walter's "Friends" are almost certainly members of Overseer that passed their mission onto him. The same way that he passes his mission onto you at the start of Chapter 5.
Honestly one of the best games of the year and one of the best games FS has ever put out. I’d rank it as high as Sekiro and Bloodborne for me. I hope this gets some awards and recognition.
I love this game. This may be my first mech game, but it scratched my Ace Combat itch. I loved it so much that I recently completed it, 100%, and got the Platinum trophy.
I literally haven't touch anything else since the game's release, and I'm still craving for more. Also, I love how you lovingly greet each enemy within pilebunker distance.
@@arisumego yeah ‘modern gaming’ as a whole has really put a bad taste in my mouth. AC6 is probably the only game I’ve played through and really enjoyed this year, despite it being arguably one of the best years for gaming in a long time. I’m also not as young or have as much time as I used to so a games REALLY gotta grip me
The intercept the karaman line was peak gundum for me in that mission, felt like I was Char Azanable, the Red Comet! Also, Armored Core was the reason I finally started to watch mecha anime and although I wasn't impressed with Macross, Gundam was amazing!
Macross is definitely a different flavour of mecha for sure, but glad to hear you’ve enjoyed Gundam! Breach the karman line was one of the coolest missions for sure, it really made you FEEL like Char lmao
Rusty is definitely dead, and was absolutely taken out by Walter. When you finally defeat Snailteus, he screams "One...last...plan!" then dies. It seems almost obvious that the plan he is referring to is the activation of Walter and the IBIS-series AC they found. It's made very clear based on a prior cutscene that Walter's IBIS AC is the one they found (it's only brief glimpses, but you can pick out the extremely unique and easily recognizable parts). It's also made clear that Walter was captured and didn't escape re-education by Arquebus. His legacy was to ask us to destroy the coral and find our freedom, but the escape plan never included himself. Snail, in his infinitely arrogant self, thinks he can deal with us in the new Balteus, but gets his shit kicked in, and finally decides to use Walter before he dies. Walter arrives on the scene and a mission-weary Rusty gets taken out without a chance to react (likely from a fully charged Coral Rifle beam, but that's up for debate). It's fine if people have their own head-canon, but I don't see any other theory that is as unambiguous as that.
While I get what you’re saying, and to be fair, it’s the most likely scenario I won’t be saying *definitely* without a body. Fromsoft easily could’ve driven the point home having Rusty’s corpse in the final mission like Walters was in the Iguazu/Allmind fight. But they left it open on purpose. None the less, I doubt we’ll ever truly know or see a continuation of the liberators route. If we ever get DLC it’ll probably all expand off Alea Iacta Est’s ending, where there’s a STRONGER possibility of Rusty living, which is great!
@Viseak he's definitely still around in some sense. Whether or not his body survived is different. Even if just like, those funky newtype souls from Victory and Zeta gundam, Rusty will live on with rubicon
I love that comparison of AC with old school 90’s JDM cars. I love old school JDM more that newer cars for the same reason that you described, they can be tuned and more performance can be extracted from them.
Fun Fact: The Mech designers for AC6 have worked on Gundam and other mecha animes before Shōji Kawamori, former FromSoftware dev who returned to work on AC6, Created the Macross series and Vision of Escaflowne, and contributed to creating the Transformers, designed the Gundams "Zephyranthes" and "Physalis" in Gundam 0083 Takayuki Yanase, also former FromSoftware dev who returned to work on AC6, previously worked on Gundam 00, Char's Counterattack, and Witch from Mercury. Ikuto Yamashita, worked on Evangelion FromSoft also developed a gundam game before
Walter's "friend" are his father and the others at the institute who died. There are data logs and I believe he all but says it when he says that what he fights for is a legacy that was left to him, that he wants you to complete.
I did the bad ending first but only cause I wanted money I didn't care what happened I just wanted as much money as possible to make my AC as sleek as possible.
I completely understand. But learning the coral was alive kinda... sparked something. It made me realize we were basically this universe's version of a "Newtype" per say.
This is not my first mecha game nor my first Armored Core game, and I _love_ that AC6 knocked it way out of the park. I love seeing videos like this, made by someone new to the series, filled with comments from people also experiencing this series for the first time as well, and feeling what I felt the first time I played an Armored Core game. This game is such a joyful experience every time I jump in, and I love every single one of you who has discovered a love for AC or the anime mecha genre or both.
@@couchfort3934 AC6 really is an amazing kick off into Armored Core, or even mecha as a whole tbh It really was phenomenal and if we happen to get some DLC even a fraction as good as Shadow of the Erdtree, I’d be over the moon
it's been a year, today. Armored Core VI definitely survived past its honeymoon phase. My favourite game in years, bloody hell. It's even my 4th currently most played game - and I didn't even mod it once.
@@Viseak if it wasn't for the poor timing with Baldur's Gate, the game definitely would have had more eyes on a gem for this year. But looking back, at least it got best action at the Game Awards.
That ending though... I think Combat mode is the only mode that provides manual control to the pilot. Transit mode is like having a self-driving car where you tell it where to go and sit back, Standard mode is essentially maintenance mode where it slaves controls to an external controller like when the Coral Surge knocked 621 out and Ayre piloted the AC to outside. I think it might also be something to do with the fact that ACs were built with human proportions because "Humans evolved these forms to fight and survive", and humanity and Coral will be fighting and evolving eachother. It is heavily suggested that Coral expands to fill the vacuum of space and essentially destroys and recreates the universe in Ayre's vision of how things should be.
Yeah agreed on the combat mode statement, I think some peeps are looking way too far into it The ending as a whole is a whole other can of worms though, there’s so many possibilities. I don’t think it destroyed the universe per say, but I do agree it’s expanded throughout it in some fashion.
Walter's helmet reminds me of a B-17s bombardier bay, large sheets of glass held together by metal beams running along them, along with that is the broken motifs of the design, the angular greys around the 'windows' look like shattered glass. A story that I've heard that kinda feels like it fits here is the Ghost B-17, it goes as such: The year is 1944 and the US daylight bombing campaign is in full swing. one day in November a B-17, clearly crippled by battle damage limps towards the airfield and makes a smooth landing on the runway. (We're talking 3 engines are dead, the rudder is missing, almost all the glass is broken, bent spars, the works.) When paramedics arrive they find the plane empty, no pilots, no gunners, no one, it is believed that the crew bailed and they turned on the autopilot, which due to the lack of power slowly lost altitude until it managed to land safely. I feel like Walter is that B-17 in mech form, no real pilot to speak of, just metal that by luck has survived far longer than it should, just long enough to fight you.
Ok I have been talking about this game with my friends and let me tell you, I have never been this happy to see a mecha game come back. And I can say that this Armored Core game is the most anime out of all of the other games and that is not a bad thing. You got a soild VA cast, most of which may have had some gundam roles or anime roles, the cool fleet attacking mission which mind you you were thinking about Gundam but I was thinking about Zone of the Enders the Second Runner because it also has a mission like that, the big boss fights against things that make me think of mobile armors, Rusty coming out with a cool gundam type of AC, the opera type of songs that may make you think of WFM and the final fight against Bitch Ass Iguazu in a bigger Armored Core. All of these things add up to a soild mecha game experience and the fact that a LOT of people loves Ayre despite her being a voice and every character having more of a personality, makes this game definitely more memorable as a result. Not to mention this game brought out every single mecha fan in the world, including the gundam fans together with the armored core and super robot fans so that is another victory. Hell even I prefer the good ending because it feels like an ending that while we did kill Walter, who by the way love that even HE grew, we did help our brain wife and the world can be rebuilt. The other ending where we kill Ayre still hurts and the true ending, in spite of the idea of Ayre, the brain wife fighting alongside us against Bitch ass Iguazu and his brain wife ALL MIND, being really cool, I don't know the true ending kind of rubs me the wrong way. Plus, the mutilplayer IS pretty weak and some things from the past games don't come back, at least according to the hardcore fanbase. But in the end, I think the game does a great job in bringing us back to a good time where we didn't need every game to be an open world, a game that is fun and a game that brings back a dead genre that even Gundam failed at doing, which is why i HOPE we get more games like this like a new Gundam Breaker game that does not suck, a new Dynatsy warriors gundam, maybe a new Zone of the Enders or even a new Super Robot Wars. And the best part is WE ARE FINALLY GETTING ARMORED CORE MODEL KITS FROM BANDAI! I am already super excited for the release of these next year but still this is a soild game and I will definitely get my hands on it until we get the inevitable DLC expansion that will be this game's version of the old expansions from the old games. Great job with the video and.......Ok seriously this game is also the only one in the series where there is way more fanart when compared to other games and I will be honest, a lot of the fanart is really great and Ayre and ALLMIND fanart......GOD THEY ARE WAY TOO HOT lol! Plus it is cool to see Dimitri being a gundam pilot again since Athrun from the Seed Redub so that is a plus but again, great job with the video!
Cheers man! It’s definitely one of those games that stick with you hey? I can’t stop playing it and thinking about it hahahaha I’ve actually got ACFA to work on my Mac so I’m considering streaming that, or just AC6 at some point, but I’ll need a capture card for AC6 😅 The games just full of references to other mecha media and I LOVE how damn fun and replayable it is without being another god damn open world it didn’t need to be. Fromsoft really knocked it out of the park and I’m keen to see, and will throw money at any and all DLC they bring to this game. AC Bandai kits are another huge win I didn’t even know about lmao AC6 is really breathing life back into the mecha genre in it’s own way and I’m all here for it.
@@Viseak Yeah even I didn't know that Bandai was going to be making Armored Core 6 model kits until a friend told me through the Gundam Animo......To say I was happy was an understatement because now I can finally get my heads on an Armored Core model kit that can pose and not explode. Now I can put an AC next to my High Grade Gundams, my one 30 mm kit and my maybe Real Grade Tallgesse that I am planning on getting. I would say try ACFA and see how you feel about that and really the possibilities for more mecha games in the future are just blown wide open thanks to AC6 lol.
@@MrDarksol yeah I heard the Koto Armored Core kits were hand grenades, similar to the early Koto Zoid kits 😅 So having some sturdy ones will be a nice refresher. I got a taste of ACFA today and it’s a very, different experience that’s for sure. Feels like it’s going to be a lot harder than AC6, the movement feels way faster yet you can’t seem to adjust your sensitivity, so you turn extremely slowly. Plus a whole new button layout to learn on top. But I’m keen to continue it.
Are you that sure about mecha things in this game? I am not talking about overall quality of this game (it is obviously amazing), but exactly about "mecha feeling". What is your definition for "solid mecha expirience" (if you dont mind to tell more about it)?
@@ivanshulika5359 You get to build your own mecha, feel the overwhelming power of using one when fighting against other machines and overall the fun rush of being a mecha pilot with all that power, makes it feel great when you finally complete a mission.
Regarding Walter, I...actually wouldn't be surprised if he was augmented with Coral way before our story started, since if I remember correctly, one dialogue in the NG+2 route mentioned how Walter was quite a skillful AC pilot even though in that route he was never captured and reeducated by Arquebus. And since mutated Coral entities like Ayre seems to had their own individuality and not like a hivemind as a whole, it's possible that, if Walter had a "friend" just like us, this individual Coral might actually stood on his and the Overseer's side even if it's against its own race, driven solely by the mutual understanding with its partner.
It’s definitely a possibility, but not one that’s really explored. Who knows, maybe we’ll get further clarification in a sequel, DLC OR, a prequel. I’d honestly love a prequel going over the fires of ibis. Fromsoft really made a super interesting mecha world here and I’m dying for more haha It’s cool to think Walter partnered with a rouge coral siding against its own race for the ‘better’ of life in the galaxy as a whole. But might never know if that’s the case or not, as fromsoft really loves to leave their stories up to interpretation.
Im pretty sure his "friend" doesnt really exist, or rather, isnt alove anymore. He and Carla are carrying out the will of the Professor who burnt the Choral. The jobs they do for "theyre friend" are them doing what they think he would want on their way to start the fires again.
Walter is definitely augmented like you mentioned, but it probably isn't a coral augmentation. Coral was used on augmentation generations 1-4, and we are up to generation 8. We know that later generations don't use coral because some pilots specifically receive later generation augmentation surgery to reduce the coral-caused side effects (I believe O'Keefe does this, but I don't remember). You don't fix coral burn-in on your brain by receiving more coral-based surgery lol. The only time Walter is able to see Ayre is in the Liberator of Rubicon ending, when he has been re-educated and put into the IBIS-series AC. Considering how it basically runs on coral and uses coral weapons, it seems like coral-based augmentation would be a prerequisite. That re-education (and by extension, coral augmentation surgery) never happens to him in NG+2, hence why it's a stretch for him to have made contact with coral himself. TLDR: Augmented before the events of the game = likely Augmented with coral, and able to make contact = unlikely
I think the way the augmentation works is similar to that to Gundam iron-blooded orphans. The Alaya-Vijnana system basically gives the person who has it perfect situational awareness while they're in their Mac. The issue with this system, though, is that there is a high mortality rate because they inject Nano machines directly into your spine this also deforms your spine kind of looks like you have a Spike coming from your back in the only ones who seem to survive our kids be something to do with stem cells I think you could apply the same kind of logic to Coral augmentation though I do think 621 does have a few health issues though like outside the mack you wouldn't need to do much to kill 621 probably one good punch in the face could do it but when he's inside that Mech he turns into the fucking Grim Reaper
The Fires of Raven ending is the best one I think. Not only do you get 3 awesome fights in a row, but from a lore standpoint, Walter and the Overseers were completely right. It doesn't matter that Coral is sentient, it's an existential threat to humanity, and while Liberation is feelgood, ultimately provides no solution beyond a vague "we'll find a way together," not to mention the coming Coral convergence/release event being orchestrated from the shadows by Allmind. The Coral must be burned. It's the only way to be sure. Become history's greatest villain, and in the process humble the warmongering corporations that were no doubt making life miserable for humanity across countless other worlds.
I like the thought, but what makes the overseers right at all? If anything, they’re the most wrong. What makes anyone think burning the coral will work this time? We already tried it once. Sure; this boom boom is bigger, but there’s every possibility the coral will just survive again, especially when you consider how it multiplies. Secondly, who’s to say one sentient, and intelligent life is more important than another? Sure, burning ALL the coral (still, unlikely to happen) may be beneficial for humanity (we don’t even know this to be 100% true, symbiosis could be great who bloody knows, it could be this world’s equivalent of newtype powers and allow humanity to connect on a deeper level) but at the end of the day, you’re planning to destroy an entire sentient and intelligent life based on little to no knowledge of it. And the only knowledge we DO have, is from first hand experience with Ayre, which really, never presented much downside. So I dunno man with all that being said, feels pretty radical to burn it all to the ground. Still a fun ending though, breach the karman line was one of the best missions in the game.
@@Viseak Even if it's not a permanent solution, it's still a better solution than simply letting the coral continue to multiply as it spreads out into the void of space. The Overseers knew that the Coral would eventually be ignited by something anyway, it's a matter of burning it back before it spreads beyond Rubicon. The longer you wait, the worse the eventual Fires will get; it's inevitable, Coral simply contains too much energy to be safely contained on that scale. This is in addition to the "carnival of horrors" that Coral research wrought even before the Fires, like the horrific early gen augmentation surgeries. And again, Allmind's plan is still in motion in the Liberation ending, and it's clear that Alea Iacta Est is only possible when Raven/Ayre wrest control of the process out of Allmind's hands. What she has planned is probably far, far worse.
The only thing i need for ac6 to be perfect is some sort of wave defense mission that goes on forever. Just spawning more and more MTs with the occasional AC spawn. Like the michigan mission but in a bigger arena.
Hey Buddy! It's been a while and I'm glad you finally made a video for this game. A little sad your video didn't come out sooner, because by this point, I"ve watched a dozen reviews of the game. haha I like the Zoids references you made when talking about the first play through. Never even thought about that until you mentioned it. But you're right, I see it now. The parallels are on point. You probably don't know this since you said you haven't played the other AC games, but the Overed Rail Canon is a reference to Armored Core V's 'Overed Weapons'. That game had a series of special over sized weapons that took a while to charge up, but would guarantee kill whatever target it hit. And by god was it a beautiful moment during the Ice Worm mission, Rusty is calling out the charge up process, gets to 95 and there is a long pause followed by; "I won't miss". The visual spectacle of the canon hitting the worm and the coral bursting out. The sound design of that shot and impact. Top notch. Walter is a very deep and complex character. I share the opinion of a different RUclipsr about him though. Walter is a man who has dedicated his life to this goal, no, this legacy as he called it. He has taken up the burden of this cause As the story trailer shows, 3 hounds were just lost in that battle to achieve that singular task. I believe Walter is distant and fairly cold to us because he bears the weight of their deaths as his fault. They died for him. Whether those mercenaries cared about Walter or not, they still died for his cause. Walter reminds us at one point that everything here on Rubicon is just a job. Nothing more. But I believe he is using that to cope with the weight of his goal. In reality he knows the path to this goal is drenched in blood and that blood is on his hands. Every time Walter references a 'friend', that is him trying to detach himself from the situation as a way to cope with it. It's never been a friend request, it's been HIS request every time. This is why during the jailbreak mission, Walter starts to say it was from a friend, but then corrects himself and says it was from himself. He's finally ready to open up and be honest and move on so to speak. And during the fight against him, that ending cut scene where he's about to fire upon you again, but then stops. That scene is more proof of him caring about you. In that moment, he was able to regain his own control and suppress the 'reeducation'. In that moment of free will, he decided that letting you go and live on with the friend you made was more important than finishing his life goal. If he saw you as a mere disposable tool, he would have pulled that trigger immediately. During my first play through of the game, when I got to the fork in the road of siding with Ayre vs siding with Carla, I was very torn. A lot of people are super obsessed with being loyal to Walter, saying that Walter gave us everything and thus we must give our everything in return. Thing is, I would argue we have ZERO obligations or attachments to him. He woke us from cryo status to do a job. Sure, he gave us a reason to be awake again, but it's not like we had a choice either. So the only reason I would side with Carla is because she just saved my life in that last mission and I owe her for that. Where as on the flip side, Ayre is just a random voice that suddenly appeared and has been talking to me ever since. We don't owe her anything either. We have no reason to feel attached or indebted to her either. Or so I thought. It wasn't until my second play through that I realized Ayre saved us from the coral flow in that final chapter 1 mission. Without her wake-up call, we would have lost ourselves to the coral sea. So realistically, she saved us first. And of course, i'm not exactly interested in setting an entire planet ablaze... The fight against Walter was emotional, but it felt rushed. That entire ending felt incomplete. And really, the 3rd ending is just a more expanded version of that ending. The fight against Ayre was painful. I found her to be the hardest boss fight in the game. And when you consider the cause she is fighting for, you can't help but feel like a total scum bag fighting her. I will say however, her battle theme; "Cries of Coral" is the best track in this game. Followed by Rusty's theme. Ah yes, Escort the STRIDER was the hardest non boss mission. I didn't realize for the longest time, that the Grinder Wheel enemies and the other machines in this mission are VERY vulnerable to explosions. The hand missiles 2 shot the first mechs and do wonders against the wheels as well. A bulky reverse joint build with 4 different missile weapons is how I did it actually. So the third ending is actually very interesting. I've watched a lot of RUclipsrs play this game and they all felt surprised by Iguazu playing such a key role to the end. They didn't understand and only saw him as a thirsty hater. I COULD give a long multi-paragraph explanation on why Iguazu is a big deal and a complex character actually, but a video titled; "The Tragedy of G5 Iguazu - AC6 Story and Lore" by the RUclipsr Absurd goes over this topic perfectly. I HIGHTLY recommend you watch it. As for the final ending scene... it would appear that 621 is no longer human. No longer has a human body. How is it that we wake up in a different AC all of a sudden? And on a different planet too. We must have been swept away by the coral flow and are now a wave length like Ayre is. It's pretty clear based on how well this game did, that we will get a sequel that continues this story arc. I have a plethora of theories on where things go, but I'll save that for another time since this comment is already super long.
Hey! I wish I could’ve gotten the video out sooner, but I was a little preoccupied haha I happened to get married the day after the release of AC6, so I couldn’t even play it let alone write a script on it for AGES 😅 (there was a cut segment of the video where I mentioned this and made a little joke out of it but it felt out of place by the end lol) There’s so many parallels to Zoids and many other mecha franchises shoved into this game, it really is like a love letter to mecha as a genre. Even Ayre in a way reminds me of Fiona haha But yeah the ice worm battle is *chefs kiss*. I’m keen to get into the other AC games eventually. I saw a copy of AC4FA in Japan but didn’t pick it up, kinda regretting it cause I feel like I’ve got a slim chance of finding any locally. To be honest, I’ve never even seen an AC game on shelves here in Australia my entire life, excluding VI that is. The way you describe Walter reminds me a lot of Prospera from Gundam WFM, which is a really interesting lens to look at him through. I agree the most likely scenario is his detachment and his friends wishes simply being an extension of his own, but it is pretty interesting to theorise if he achieved symbiosis, and just had a real rouge coral feeding into his and his past friends wishes. The choice between Ayre and Walters wishes is definitely a hard one. And the more you boil it down the less of a ‘right’ answer there is, but I tend to agree siding with Ayre *feels* like the better option. I don’t agree that LOR felt rushed though. Although, it did feel like the most convenient anime plot out of them all. BUT I honestly loved that. Made it feel like I just played through my own little Gundam story. Fighting alongside Rusty in the end and fighting your old boss on a ship descending to the planet it was beautiful. Whereas the others didn’t feel quite so cinematic, to me at least. But man they were so much fun regardless. FOR had the better mission with Breach The Karman line and a crazy ending none the less, and the true ending was just completely different again and balls to the wall action. I have actually watched that video! And it’s a great study on Iguazu as a character. There’s already SO much fantastic content out on AC6 it almost felt redundant for me to talk about it, but when it easily became one of my favourite games of all time I just had too 😅 Regarding the ending scene, I don’t think WE(621) actually wake up in a different AC in a random place. The way I see the final cutscene is a voiceover, and we’re just seeing a random place in the galaxy where wrecked AC’s are waking up and inhabited by coral. Which is why I also don’t TEND to buy into the whole transcending humanity theory. Like I saw people saying 621 could transfer their consciousness into any other AC like a hive mind kind of thing so they’re immortal but uhhhhh, I just don’t see it idk 😅 I’d be keen to hear your thoughts though!
@@Viseak It's impossible for Walter to have made contact with a Coral consciousness during the Fires of Ibis, thouhg, because he wasn't there to witness it. He was sent off to Jupiter before it happened. Supposedly that's also where he first met Michigan, but that's a bit of a tangent.
@@CyberDagger003 I’m not 100% on all the characters backstories, I didn’t do much of a deep dive into the data logs and such But even if Walter weren’t there for the fires of ibis, it doesn’t mean he couldn’t have made contact at some other point in time before the events of the game
Awesome! I was hoping you’d do a video on AC6; looking forward to watching it later today. I’ve been having an absolute blast playing it, despite how bad I am at it lol
@@Viseak Mhmm mhmm, I agree. I’m not super far into it yet since I’m playing it for the channel and I don’t want to get ahead to keep the reactions genuine, but I just cleared the first *major* hurdle (Balteus), which felt DAMN good. Sad as I am to say it, I think Zone of the Enders 2 has been dethroned. Also, just some food for thought: how fucking cool would it be to have a properly-designed Zoids game in this engine with similar mechanics? Or Gundam for that matter?
@@novemberbravo6194 nice! Beating Balteus always feels great You got a few hurdles ahead of you still but I’m sure you’ll smash it. I think this game does well enough to scratches the Gundam itch (not that I’d be opposed to a Gundam game of this quality), and ALMOST does the same for Zoids. If you chuck two VP-60LCS Laser Canons on your shoulders and zoom around it feels like you’re fuckin Raven in the Geno Saurer hahahaha
@@Viseak Funny you should mention those parts specifically; it was a combination of two of those, a pair of assault rifles, and all the heaviest armour I could find that let me beat Balteus lol
I just picked up ACVI last night after a short hiatus. The difficulty spikes around the bosses always make me put the game down for a while, but once I come back, it latches onto me again and again. I'm slow, having just beaten the Sea Spider, but God I love this game.
First of all this masterpiece is just too SHORT! we want more missions and bosses! I would like a DLC to tell stories of those lost Redguns, 621 is G13, but G8 to G12 may go for different missions on the other side of Rubicon.
I think just one more mission and exclusive boss per ending would’ve been absolutely perfect, but I’m always keen for more! A prequel for a game like this wouldn’t go astray, but I’m just keen for any and all DLC to come
@@Viseak Boss challenge mode is also nice. You know my 8 yrs old son got crazy with this game, you have no idea what the joy brought to him with pilotting mech fighting like anime.
It's not often an announcement trailer converts a series you barely knew about into one of your top 5 of all time. But 6 somehow did. It's near perfect. And I've played all the old ones already and think about them all the time
It’s honestly snuck it’s way into my top 3. It’s just that good I’m keen to get through the rest of the franchise at some point. AC is just so much bloody fun, I can’t believe I only heard of it’s existence NOW
You should try Armored Core for Answer and Verdict Day, too. Then go back to Last Raven to embrace the true meaning of Raven. Then go back to the first 3 games on PS1.
Lmao it’s accurate though 😭 Easily my favourite fromsoft game and one of my favourite games of all time in general. And likewise, always good to see ya pop up in the comments!
I arrived to the start of this game late. Ive only recently just started my first run through. This should've been GOTY in my opinion, or at least in the category. Im enjoying my playtime with this game. I am only playing the story when im recording as i want to make content from this
Any high mobility missiles build works great during the mission escort the strider, coral missiles works good as well, but I prefer fast missiles in that mission, just to destroy enemies faster...Great video and narrative got a sub from me...
@@Viseak yes as far as I remember : Nexus - Last Raven, IV - IV Answer, V - V Verdict Day. Also makes sense in the development side because it would be a ton more work and waste of resources if they just move on to another generation and start again with a clean slate / new assets.
@@Despius-oc7ezThe first gen were 3 games, second gen were 2, and Nexus and Last Raven are the third and iirc sixth games of the third gen, which also has AC3, silent line, formula front and nine breaker, even if the last two are just an auto battler and training missions respectively.
yeah every ac game ever since the very first one has had a sister title released after it as an expanded continuation of the events unfolding, so it's highly likely we'll see an ac6 expansion game, but I doubt there will be any dlc missions etc for ac6, as they've never exactly done that at all for the ac franchise, which is fine I'd rather a whole neatly wrapped expansion game follow up than a dlc with a small handful of missions or something so to speak. @@Viseak
My personal mental image of 621: They're a goddamned transhumanist's nightmare. Their arms and legs were amputated at the shoulders and hips,and replaced with basic cybernetics,as a way to combat the effects of G-forces on the body. Their spine is either augmented with a cybernetic interface,or is wholly replaced with a cybernetic prosthesis,with the purpose of speeding up their central nervous system,and to more directly interface with the AC. They have no eyes; Instead,a panoramic visor is directly wired into their optical nerves,and potentially even networked with external cameras on the AC. And the leftover meat is a nightmarish map of surgical scars,all wrapped up in bandages,and clad in something like a combination of a real world G-suit,and an Evangelion plugsuit. This would render 621 *technically* functional outside of the AC,permitting them to seemingly stagger or crawl towards the Jailbreak,and make them,arguably,the ideal h+ pilot,due to how their augmentations optimized them for the purpose of piloting a supersonic close-in land/air war machine.
So basically, Daryl Lorenz from Gundam Thunderbolt I think it’s a cool idea for sure, but don’t think that’s quite the case in Armored Core 6. Especially considering in jailbreak we’re swimming in some relatively deep water to the AC, which is damn hard to do without functioning limbs 😅
The more i think about it... The more this world feels like it's full of cyber newtypes yet to fully awaken, until they contact with a coral being. I compare it to both gundam and (ironically) Yugioh. Specifically yugioh Zexal where the protag has a ghost like partner named "astral" that he basically bonds with. Other than that, no other main yugioh things, but that just makes me think more about the psychological damage that runs rampant on Rubicon. Everyone just trying to survive by any means (dosers, corporations, and even the PCA)
I think there’s a real connection between AC6 and Gundam in the form of newtypes. Everyone considers newtypes the next step in human evolution, and in spite of that, everyone’s scared of them. The same can be said for coral. While many don’t understand or know the idea of symbiosis and are just scared of it cause it can go boom, the idea of coral symbiosis being the next step in human evolution is a real one. And clearly something people like V3 O’kefe fear, thinking it’ll make humanity less human. But he obviously fears something he doesn’t fully understand and has never experienced. Whereas us, as 621, have experienced it, which leads us down the path of coral release. There is another, thumb dolmayan, who did experience symbiosis and reject it, but at that same time he held no ill will towards Seria. Maybe coral symbiosis would allow humans to understand eachother on a deeper level like newtypes do, who knows, as the endings left so open ended, and there really is so much we don’t know. But we can only hope for a sequel at this point.
walter's friend is the guy in the trailer/intro that is messing with us, walter enters the room, and tells that person to wake us up, given what that person says, "you know im not exactly craving company", and walter replies: "im not here to talk." they probably know each other. walter says it himself in one of his monologues to 621, that he has an actual friend, a person, that created things, those things being, what we, 621, are, coral augmentation, and a few other unwanted "research topics" that walter seems to resent, but i think i remember he said its a necessity. which also makes me think there are 2 kinds of augmentation, Coral augmentation, and whatever the corporations do to their own pilots, given that there's generations for us hounds, 1 to 4. it also seems we're not a new boy being reawakened on the spot. most people call us "ancient" and tell us we belong in a museum, because our augmentation method is archaic. also, not every augmented human gets to interact with coral, only old gens, newer generations and probably the cutting edge augmentations do not make contact with coral, now that could be because they abandoned coral augmentation as a whole and have their own new methods, or they suppress it somehow, this is why i believe there's 2 kinds of augmentation, coral, and the cutting edge new augmentation tech made by corpos that do not use coral. also i think 621 has been held sleeping or in suspended animation, somehow... for quite awhile. which makes me more interested about our own possible back story, have always been proficient at Ac piloting? what has destroyed our brain enough to walter make a remark about it, i dont think we're a dissected brain inside the AC, but one thing im sure, 621's body is definitely damaged, in the permanent sense. which is also funny but plausible, in previous AC games having catastrophic body damage doesnt make you incapable of piloting, as an example in Armored Core Verdict Day, Maggy... or Magnolia Curtis, lost her whole left arm, and still is capable of piloting, they never mention she possessing prosthetics or anything, so i assume, she has some form of adapted control scheme for her situation. i dont enjoy the notion that we're a vegetable inside the AC, and honestly doesnt make much sense either, but i think 621 definitely relies on some form of life support... and definitely near or straight on the bottom list of "most charming" on the Rubicon popularity pool. i honestly wish we could've interacted with other Hounds if they survived, for example, 617 and the others, hell... may be even other new ones, just to have an average measure gauge for how messed up mentally and physically Hounds are in general, or if we're somewhat just... hurt? people that have been patched up back together and work for Walter and his Doctor friend. oh and yes, about Walter and his friend, in his monologue, Walter is the guy that wants to burn the coral to prevent people from missusing it, but overall because he fears the danger it is in general, and his friend is the guy that used coral to create gruesome experiments. probably what Arquebus did to Walter. i honestly.... wouldnt be surprised if it turned out that Walter's friend joined Arquebus and did that to him himself.. as a form of punishment for failling?.... given how twisted Armored Core gets at times, and fromsoftware's very dark stories.
I, too, had AC6 be my first experience with not just the series, but the genre as a whole. I'd never really been into the mech genre before, but I took the chance on this one because it was made by Fromsoft and a close friend talked me into it. I felt that, with how much I love their Souls games and adjacent titles, I could trust them in trying something new for me. And holy hell, I'm glad I did. I love this game so much, it's just balls-to-the-wall fun. And who'd think that you can become so attached to characters who you never even visually see outside of their ACs?
It is extremely implied that Rusty get ambushed and killed by Handler walter, after you defeat Balteus his call abruptly breaks when you hear an explosion in the background.
It’s definitely implied, but never *confirmed* So I’m gonna continue huffing my copium in peace ☺️ And hey; we got no idea what happened to him in the final route so hopefully we see him in a DLC or AC 6.5
Undoing the surgery and augmentation was definitely what Walter meant when he talked about“buying your life back” during the very beginning of the game
Legit my only really complaints are that the alt leg styles do not have nearly as many options as bipeds, And how certain weapons far exceed others by a large margin. I beat the game from ng to ng++ with linear rifles and then I tried the Zims and Songbirds and l honestly just could not believe how weak linear rifles and missiles felt in comparison.
Tip for fighting the SEA Spiped, it is weak agains explosives and you being litteraly on top of it, it can't engange you properly if you're vertical to it, even when it takes flight
3:53 I think you shouldn't have put his name over him, it only blocked his glorious look. You should have put the entire entrance sequence of both Walter and Ayre as boss fights
the AC walter pilots in the good ending is heavily implied that that's his own AC because we see parts of it floating around ALLMIND after we find it it killed him and carla.
Allmind being Domlayan's Seria doesnt make much sense to me. If only because Seria wasnt actually against the exploitation of coral by Domlayan so long as it keeps them in Contact. Domlayan has log in which he says that if he were her, he would not allow him to take coral as a drug, consuming her people in order to stay in Contact. Seria's goal was coral release, but she did not seem to have strong feelings about humans using coral to maintain contact in that form. However if Allmind really is an AI as I believe, that still doesnt answer where she came from and who built her. She seems to die once her AC form is destroyed from what we can tell, which suggests that she isnt remote controlling the AC. She is instead literally the AC. Which helps explain why she is so hell bent on collecting as much data on AC models and performances as she can. So she can perfect her own systems.
There’s a couple of things: First: Seria, or in my theory, Allmind, may have developed that resentment/hatred for the exploitation of coral in between their transition from the coral Seria, to the ‘AI’ Allmind. Which could go to explain why Seria made this AI alter ego to commit to her goal of coral release. Second: I believe a coral being was necessary for Coral release, (kinda like how a human is needed to activate the rings in Halo) which is why Ayre was seen as instrumental to the plan, and why 621 was ultimately the one chosen by Allmind to go ahead. However, not only was coral required, I think there’s a chance a coral being who *achieved symbiosis* was actually what was required. This would explain why 621 and Ayre were needed up until the very end. And in the end; I believe Allmind and Iguazu achieved a form of symbiosis that allowed *her* to be the trigger for coral release, leaving Ayre and 621 redundant. Which is why after letting us in on all her secrets and gaining our help and trust throughout the whole route, turns on us in the end. The fact her mind is probably somewhat corrupted by Iguazu’s thoughts also probably plays a part in this. But again, she wouldn’t have joined with Iguazu if she didn’t know she could achieve coral release with him. Hopefully that makes sense
Gotta say, it would've been nice to get infinite energy on more levels than the Hold the Karman Line one. It feels like reaching your full potential and it never happens again to my knowledge, which sucks.
300+ hours into this game. Been a fan since AC3. I really want them to expand the PvP. I really liked what they did with the AC5 multiplayer system. 4 people on the field and 1 operator to oversee the battle and coordinate attacks. Can't wait for them to release the expansion on this game and see what they'll do for the story and pvp scene.
Yeah the PVP definitely needs a little more to keep it fresh, but I’m more of a single player guy anyway so it doesn’t bother me too much None the less I’m keen to see whatever fromsoft does with this game going forward
@@Viseak Yeah, I really hope this continues as one of their mainline games again. My best friend is a mech enthusiast and this was his first Armored Core game and he loves it. We've spent hours PvPing each other just to test out all the weapons and parts then going into 3v3s or 1v1 lobbies and see how well our builds work. I've enjoyed watching FromSoft evolve throughout it's years as a company. Been following them for years now and I'm happy they decided to revive an old IP. It felt like a callback to those of us who really enjoyed the AC series. Now with all the experience they've accumulated through the years and the gaming technology developing so much they can finally push Armored Core to its fullest potential. I'm so hyped to see so many people enjoy this game.
After just playing through AFCA for the first time yeah I gotta say, it’s pretty great But I can’t really see a remake of any Armored Core game in our future, would love to be proven wrong though
I interpreted that 621 was dumped in the sewers and left for dead, when they escape. The sequence before getting in the junk AC was them floating down, barely alive, before he finds the machine. Rusty could also be alive after the third ending, since he doesn't definitely die in any part of the third story.
The only issue with that is that is awfully convenient for us to happen upon Walters contingency plan for us. So I doubt Arquebas just accidentally dumped us in the right place. Regarding Rusty, I really hope he is alive and well, maybe we’ll see more of him in any potential DLC
@@Viseak True, it's somewhat of a convenience that it happened by chance. Although, there is a possibility that Walter could have done the dumping shortly before getting recaptured by Arquebus, having dragged 621 to hiding before getting re-educated. Either way; excited for the 30MM Kits that were announced.
I have a fun 2nd Caesar reference for you. Sulla, the guy you kill at the watchpoint and Allmind's main agent before you in its ending, is named after a previous roman military leader who did almost the exact same thing Caesar did several years before he did it, but didn't end up taking it as far as Julius did. Just like how Sulla is replaced by you and, judging by his dialog in the allmind route variant of the mission after we kill him, seems like he wasn't planning to see Coral Release through.
i like for answer more the stun feature kind of ruined it for a game about dodging and going fast being frozen in place can be devastating even if for a few seconds
the fires of raven ending is less about burning the coral then it is about you essentially being a puppet. as the title of raven is fighting for free will. it makes the most sense for this ending to be cleared first. i think even Walter isn't sure about whether or not his plan will work, but he just needs someone to do it. in a way the whole game is kinda about being a puppet and maybe being manipulated by everyone and seeming like its free will.
It is pretty damn cool how much it humanises characters we never see And makes for all the cooler fan art and player interpretations of what these characters might look like
note:LCs and HCs are mass produced just like cataphract and i belive the AAH12 heavy combat hicopter that is why they are easy they were not meant to be used alone like an AC enforcer is PCAs equilivent of ACs wich can kick your ass HARD
RE: Walter One of the briefings later in the game starts off with Walter claiming it was coming from a friend, to then pause and say it was coming from him.
AC6 is the mech game ive wanted for years, the only thing I want is more parts, more customization, AC6s customization system feels like a good introduction compared to the old games complexity, but I would like even more variety. Im also sad we cant get the parts from ayres boss mech, and the allmind boss mech. All that said, I constantly recommend this game to friends who want to play something out of their comfort zone, and most end up loving it.
Did I just watch the whole 1 Hr vid? Feels like I played a 3 playthrough again😅, awesome vid thanks, at the Final Ending when Ayre announced "Main System. Activating Combat Mode" gave me chills, I got wet, cough... My Eyes got wet, what a Fantastic Game, UGOTY for me.
Lmao the games just that good it’s feels like nothing watching an hour long video covering it Hard agree on your thoughts on the final ending too, literal chills
RE: O'keeffe ALLMIND's candidate list only had a single gen 1, a single gen 3, and two gen 4's on the candidate list for Coral Release. In the mission to eliminate O'keeffe it is explicitly stated he is a generation 2 pilot. Meaning he could not be one of the Coral Release candidates.
@@Viseak Rusty gets cut off mid sentence and as it happens you hear an energy weapon that sounds alot like Walters right arm weapon when it's fired in it's stage two charge in game.
I STRONGLY recommend people do the Fires of Raven ending first. Get that gut wrenching BS out of the way and then cruise through NG+ on the hood ending.
I really liked the title cards for relevant bosses. I also appreciate that you glossed over much of the campaign so someone who maybe didn't plan on playing it before now wishes they hadn't spoiled everything for themselves. No idea why you consider Ibis to be the hardest boss, though. I found Ayre to be way more trouble than Ibis or Iguazumind for that matter. Ibis at least isn't a tank when you finally catch up to it.
Thanks! I thought they were a nice touch haha I found Ibis to be the 2nd hardest boss, at least in my first run. But Iguazumind was the overall hardest boss for sure it was absolutely insane. I found Ayre really easy though, beat her first try 🫢
A lot of people are struggling with different bosses, for me the hardest bosses (where i took multiple tries and hours poured into fighting it) are balteus, and Arqebues balteus beside that everything is just 1-2 tries
I think the only "not amazing" thing about AC6 is the part variety, and by that I mean visually. Lots of normal bipeds while not much else. 2 quads, 3 tanks, and 3 RJ's, and then the rest are just bipeds. I also think there needs to be more variety visually in the head and core parts, a lot of them just kind of blend together. I'd love to see more unique cores and head parts, especially more in the same sort of style as the older PS2 games. There's some similar designs to older parts already in the game, but I just want more. Also, you can beat every mission in the game with any build. Its just a matter of knowing said build well enough to do so. My own personal build for the game was a Gatling gun, pile bunker, dual 10-missile launchers, and later swapping one of the launcher for the moonlight. I don't know if you could S rank every mission with it, but it was the build that I used for my initial playthrough of all 3 endings.
I can certainly see myself replaying this game years from now. And that's the biggest praise I can offer any game. But I think AC7 could be even better.
There’s definitely room for improvement, but the fact it’s so great stand-alone is impressive I’m keen for anything fromsoft does with this IP in the future. DLC, sequel, prequel? I’ll drop my cash on all of it
since the folks at FS can be tongue in cheek as in the time the made metal wolf chaos I hope they can make something in that vein after AC6 or after project spellbound if the leaks are to be believed >..
So far this is GOTY for me but Lies of P is damn close and it’s getting a Dlc so I’m not sure 🤔 Armored core definitely has more over the top cinematic scenes in game though I just wish we had more content already
For that dreaded 'Defend the Strider' Mission, My way of S Ranking it was basically Carla's entire set. Enough missiles to match the GDP of a small country. One of those fuckers is bound to hit the bonewheel's side weakpoint
I just S ranked it today actually haha Ended up using reverse joint legs, dual bazookas, a songbird and another shoulder weapon that goes boom, completely blanking on the name
@@Viseak Your footage overall is absurdly choice my dude; that clip in particular 🤙 I put this on to listen to as I fall asleep, but I've been positively glued
after the songbirds nerf, they no longer do enough ACS damage to stagger the wheels with just one hit, so the "build check" needs a little adjustment. the javalin grenade launcher, now with after explosions seems an effective replacement. also: stay inside the crater, its the only place where you can use vertical mobility to dodge wheels and not be punished by missles
@@Viseak I didn't know it was run by AI lol musta missed it. But I don't think it had the worst intentions. They didn't want people touching the coral at all. But then again the closure system was also shooting anyone who left Rubicon so starvation was happening. It's a weird conundrum because the corps are just as bad or worse and who knows what's going to happen with all the coral controlled AC's in the future (I have a gut feeling next game you will be fighting with or against them)
As an AC Veteran, it could have been harder, no repairs, debt system, no checkpoint like the old games. Also there wasn't an actual Arena just a "Simulation" instead of fighting enemy characters in the Arena that was their own little lore and story. As a Veteran Raven I give this AC 7/10.
It’s cool to hear veteran AC players thoughts, as I’m really keen to go back and experience how the series got to this point Out of curiosity, are there any AC games you’d rate 10/10? And if so which ones?
@@Viseak AC2 was a phenomenal contribution to the series, there was 5-6 year gap from AC1 and AC2 but the PS2 launch made AC2 shine, I would give AC2 10/10 because it was a very gripping story and the difficulty was there, we got to fight 9 Breaker (Ares) in the Arena and the campaign was so lore rich. Also Leos Klein from AC1 who was the original 9 Breaker was in it and was an amazing villain working towards his revolution on Phobos. The ending boss battle was insane and the closing credits almost made you emotional.
@@Viseak Well that is quite the task, there are 15 games in total, some even on the PSP and 2 on PS1, but they were more or less expansions or DLC and only some of the 15 were full stand alone titles. I suggest watching Vaati's video of him playing all 15 games if you cannot get your hands on all the gear and games to play them, some games are even collectable valuables and hard to get, cheers.
ehh, this wasn't the only closest thing you get to a gundam space battle. Zone of the Enders 2 (by Hideo Kojima. Yes, that Kojima - in fact my avatar on here is of your mech, Jehuty, from the game) in 2003 had full flight combat like this throughout the entire game. By the end of the game your mecha can literally teleport and that''s the kind of battle you have with the antagonist. ZoE2 also had a fleet battle in the skies (and required a massive wave motion cannon to destroy them.) ZoE was much more fast and loose with more anmie physics than the much more strict/grounded combat in AC. I'm not taking anything away from AC6, but check out Zone of the Enders 2 (there were multiple HD remakes, including one that also added VR called Zone of the Enders: Mars) for full on anmie mecha combat - it focuses heavily on melee where you actually clash swords.
I’ll definitely have to try Zone Of The Enders at some point it’s been recommended to me a bunch! Was it a PS3 title? Cause I’ve managed to get a PS3 emulator working so that’d be super easy to get running. One thing I will say to Armored Core, and in particular, AC6’s credit. Is that the mech’s feel fluid as hell to pilot, BUT, they also feel really weighty, as they should. Which isn’t something I got from ACFA (recently streamed my first run of it), that game was very fast paced which is cool, but I think the Nexts lost that weighty mecha feel because of it, so I wonder if ZoE has that same problem?
@@ViseakThe original was a PS2 title, There was an HD remake on the 360/PS3, though the quality of the HD remake wasn't the best. But there is also a fairly recent one on steam called Zone of the Enders MARS that also includes VR support. ZoE I would describe as feeling extremely fluid and totally weightless, which was the what they were going for.
Escorting the Strider is not a gear check. I beat it first try with a Gatling gun, two six-pack missile launchers and a pile bunker. It was a tense, stressful fight but not hard if you're paying attention.
You beat it first try because of you went in with gats and missile launchers, not because it isn’t a build check haha The spinny death machines are weak to explosives, and when you’re running a build with all lasers, it doesn’t end as well 😅
@@Viseak I went in with *a* gatling gun. Get it right. Diversify your mission build. I beat every level with the same AC just to see if I could. I'm not saying the game was easy. But I'm just not seeing why people struggled with that mission.
@@billrich9722 Gatling/Chaingun has been the "Im beating this mission, money be damned" since pretty much the first game, so you literally picked the easy weapon since the first game and without the massive ammo penalty its now extra easy?
Man I wish I did. I used a compilation video to get all the tracks which did have time stamps that could’ve told me exactly what I used, but that video was taken down 😔 But every single bit of background music is from the AC6 soundtrack
Idk man nobody told me about Armored Core 😭 I swear I’d NEVER seen an AC title on a game store shelf here in Australia my entire life, until AC6. Still, I’m happy to finally be appreciating these games none the less
@@Viseak you know what you should go back and play ARMORD CORE 2 and go through another age! Another age is a little bit long but it's worth it in my opinion I love it it was my first game armored core is the series that got me into playing video games ! Blows my mind how many people I actually told forever and either refused to play it because it was a "robot" game or it was inconvenient for them in order to purchase from themselves or emulate it
This is legitimately the most gundam game in existence, and it isn’t even a gundam game which is fucking wild. The game is hard but I think the thing the critics are having problems with is that the game requires you to engage with it as a brutal, balls to the wall super fast game. They expect souls for some stupid reason and this game isn’t gonna give it to them.
It’s probably the closest thing to a perfect Gundam game we’re ever gonna get, and yeah, it isn’t even a Gundam game. But it’s just THAT good as a mecha title. It’s everything I wanted and more. It really is fast paced though, so much so everything I’ve played since feels awfully slow.
I feel like there should’ve been more detailed introductions to all the characters and groups to give an idea to anyone watching who hasn’t played AC6 of what their purpose in the story is, and although the boss introductions looked pretty cool it would’ve been nice if they didn’t last so long and showed the actual cutscene that’s on screen, otherwise great review
Cheers mate, I wanted to leave a little something to the imagination for those that haven’t played, and for those that have, they’ve seen and know all that good stuff already so I didn’t think it mattered too much 😅
Its first level is a masterclass on how not to make a "tutorial". "It's a FromSoftware game" isn't an excuse for poor game design. The gameplay after the first mission is actually really fun but it looks bad when the latest hotwheels game on switch teaches the player how to play the game and then implements those mechanics excactly the way they explained them. AC6 on the other hand has a boss that goes out of bounds often and the only weapon you can have to hit it does virtually no damage and 0 signs that the player should rush it in melee when the only other melee prompt is near 2 mini mechs minutes before which are both on the ground.
At first I read your comment as ‘a masterclass on how to make a tutorial’ and was gonna completely agree 😭 Turns out you think the opposite and I’m so curious why? I think AC6 is one of fromsofts best ‘tutorials’. It gives you everything you need to know, and lets you go nuts with it. It doesn’t completely dismiss the player like some souls games does, but it also doesn’t hold the players hand as if they’re incompetent. It’s a near perfect balance of guardrails and freedom that propels you into your mecha journey. I don’t understand how there are ‘0 signs’ the player should rush in and melee… it’s just like you said, the weapon you have doesn’t do much damage, so clearly, it’s pretty self explanatory for you to try hitting the boss in the face with your melee weapon, as it’s your only other option.
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AC6 is a GOTY contender. Most critics never even saw the full story as they didn't play into NG+
Or NG++
It’s my personal GOTY for sure, but you’re right.
When I heard complaints about the first damn PCA helicopter boss, I knew this game would never be appreciated by critics
It's the first game I've played where if you didn't clear NG++, you haven't played the whole game. It's analogous to how the map in Elden Ring was completely blacked out in the beginning. If you stop prematurely and think "I get it" and bail, you don't even know how much you don't know.
@@logancade342 that’s actually an awesome way to put it.
It really is a lot like Elden Ring in that aspect. I also love how you don’t need to ‘start’ a New Game, it just continues and you continue unlocking things so it makes you think there’s always more to come
@@logancade342Except AC6 NG+ is better than all the past NG+.
ESPECIALLY Elden Ring's
Walter's "Friends" are almost certainly members of Overseer that passed their mission onto him. The same way that he passes his mission onto you at the start of Chapter 5.
Yeah that’s the far more likely scenario, but it’s fun to speculate a little
I assumed it was Nagai he was referring to or smth
@@diamondrhino64 Nagai, and probably his father's other associates.
Honestly one of the best games of the year and one of the best games FS has ever put out. I’d rank it as high as Sekiro and Bloodborne for me. I hope this gets some awards and recognition.
I really hope it does too.
For me personally, it’s fromsofts best title. But that’s mainly because of how biased I am towards the mecha genre
I love this game. This may be my first mech game, but it scratched my Ace Combat itch. I loved it so much that I recently completed it, 100%, and got the Platinum trophy.
@isacsln Yup
@octolinggrimm6387 Tried Assassin's Creed, not really my thing.
I literally haven't touch anything else since the game's release, and I'm still craving for more.
Also, I love how you lovingly greet each enemy within pilebunker distance.
Same here, nothing else can compete with the fun as hell fast paced gameplay I get from AC6
Which just leaves all the other AC games for me to try 😅
Ah yes. The Rubiconian Handshake.
it's my goty, mostly because i don't play 99.9% of modern garbage
@@chaz706 my absolute favourite for sure
@@arisumego yeah ‘modern gaming’ as a whole has really put a bad taste in my mouth.
AC6 is probably the only game I’ve played through and really enjoyed this year, despite it being arguably one of the best years for gaming in a long time. I’m also not as young or have as much time as I used to so a games REALLY gotta grip me
This game isn't just a love letter to just Gundam fans, it's a love letter to the entire mecha fandom from here to VOTOMS baby.
Damn straight it is
It’s all the mecha game I could’ve ever asked for
Thought I was the only one that noticed the reference to the red shoulders with the redguns.
@@Kinzoku_Zileus Did not really notice that, but since you mentioned it....
@@mattmaddogwheaton4724 🗿 thought that was why you brought up Votoms
@@Kinzoku_Zileusplus the way the ac's skate on the ground is probably influenced by votoms not to mention the grittiness of the world.
The intercept the karaman line was peak gundum for me in that mission, felt like I was Char Azanable, the Red Comet! Also, Armored Core was the reason I finally started to watch mecha anime and although I wasn't impressed with Macross, Gundam was amazing!
Macross is definitely a different flavour of mecha for sure, but glad to hear you’ve enjoyed Gundam!
Breach the karman line was one of the coolest missions for sure, it really made you FEEL like Char lmao
Armored Core 6 got me into Gunpla and then Gundam. Now I'm a mecha fanatic!
@@Jayy997 Glad to hear it! I was a mecha fan but Gundam and AC6 made me realize how much I actually love it.
It helps when you have your ac painted in red like I did when I did the mission for the first time
Rusty is definitely dead, and was absolutely taken out by Walter. When you finally defeat Snailteus, he screams "One...last...plan!" then dies. It seems almost obvious that the plan he is referring to is the activation of Walter and the IBIS-series AC they found.
It's made very clear based on a prior cutscene that Walter's IBIS AC is the one they found (it's only brief glimpses, but you can pick out the extremely unique and easily recognizable parts). It's also made clear that Walter was captured and didn't escape re-education by Arquebus. His legacy was to ask us to destroy the coral and find our freedom, but the escape plan never included himself. Snail, in his infinitely arrogant self, thinks he can deal with us in the new Balteus, but gets his shit kicked in, and finally decides to use Walter before he dies. Walter arrives on the scene and a mission-weary Rusty gets taken out without a chance to react (likely from a fully charged Coral Rifle beam, but that's up for debate).
It's fine if people have their own head-canon, but I don't see any other theory that is as unambiguous as that.
While I get what you’re saying, and to be fair, it’s the most likely scenario
I won’t be saying *definitely* without a body.
Fromsoft easily could’ve driven the point home having Rusty’s corpse in the final mission like Walters was in the Iguazu/Allmind fight.
But they left it open on purpose.
None the less, I doubt we’ll ever truly know or see a continuation of the liberators route.
If we ever get DLC it’ll probably all expand off Alea Iacta Est’s ending, where there’s a STRONGER possibility of Rusty living, which is great!
@Viseak he's definitely still around in some sense. Whether or not his body survived is different. Even if just like, those funky newtype souls from Victory and Zeta gundam, Rusty will live on with rubicon
@@XTempestBuster yeah there’s every possibility he got taken in by the coral flow as well, becoming just like Ayre
‘A rubiconian without a body’
I love that comparison of AC with old school 90’s JDM cars. I love old school JDM more that newer cars for the same reason that you described, they can be tuned and more performance can be extracted from them.
The requests from Walters "friend", are the wishes of his deceased Research institute colleagues. Like professor Naga as an example.
Yeah I agree that’s the most likely scenario, but it’s fun to speculate none the less
Fun Fact: The Mech designers for AC6 have worked on Gundam and other mecha animes before
Shōji Kawamori, former FromSoftware dev who returned to work on AC6, Created the Macross series and Vision of Escaflowne, and contributed to creating the Transformers, designed the Gundams "Zephyranthes" and "Physalis" in Gundam 0083
Takayuki Yanase, also former FromSoftware dev who returned to work on AC6, previously worked on Gundam 00, Char's Counterattack, and Witch from Mercury.
Ikuto Yamashita, worked on Evangelion
FromSoft also developed a gundam game before
Walter's "friend" are his father and the others at the institute who died. There are data logs and I believe he all but says it when he says that what he fights for is a legacy that was left to him, that he wants you to complete.
Surprised how many people went after the Ayre quest first. Made more sense to me to distrust Ayre first-run
I did the bad ending first but only cause I wanted money I didn't care what happened I just wanted as much money as possible to make my AC as sleek as possible.
I completely understand. But learning the coral was alive kinda... sparked something. It made me realize we were basically this universe's version of a "Newtype" per say.
@@djeldjah yes, the "money" route.
Respect
It's not about sending a message, it's about the money. I respect that.
Me I went:
1st - RLF Ending
2nd - Fires of Raven Ending
3rd - Alea Eta Est??? (i forgor) Ending
I hope that we get one or two games at least set in the same universe, so we can load our Beloved ACs into a new game at least one or two times
This is not my first mecha game nor my first Armored Core game, and I _love_ that AC6 knocked it way out of the park. I love seeing videos like this, made by someone new to the series, filled with comments from people also experiencing this series for the first time as well, and feeling what I felt the first time I played an Armored Core game. This game is such a joyful experience every time I jump in, and I love every single one of you who has discovered a love for AC or the anime mecha genre or both.
@@couchfort3934 AC6 really is an amazing kick off into Armored Core, or even mecha as a whole tbh
It really was phenomenal and if we happen to get some DLC even a fraction as good as Shadow of the Erdtree, I’d be over the moon
it's been a year, today. Armored Core VI definitely survived past its honeymoon phase. My favourite game in years, bloody hell. It's even my 4th currently most played game - and I didn't even mod it once.
Couldn’t agree more, easily still one of my favourites of all time
@@Viseak if it wasn't for the poor timing with Baldur's Gate, the game definitely would have had more eyes on a gem for this year.
But looking back, at least it got best action at the Game Awards.
That ending though...
I think Combat mode is the only mode that provides manual control to the pilot. Transit mode is like having a self-driving car where you tell it where to go and sit back, Standard mode is essentially maintenance mode where it slaves controls to an external controller like when the Coral Surge knocked 621 out and Ayre piloted the AC to outside.
I think it might also be something to do with the fact that ACs were built with human proportions because "Humans evolved these forms to fight and survive", and humanity and Coral will be fighting and evolving eachother.
It is heavily suggested that Coral expands to fill the vacuum of space and essentially destroys and recreates the universe in Ayre's vision of how things should be.
Yeah agreed on the combat mode statement, I think some peeps are looking way too far into it
The ending as a whole is a whole other can of worms though, there’s so many possibilities. I don’t think it destroyed the universe per say, but I do agree it’s expanded throughout it in some fashion.
Walter's helmet reminds me of a B-17s bombardier bay, large sheets of glass held together by metal beams running along them, along with that is the broken motifs of the design, the angular greys around the 'windows' look like shattered glass. A story that I've heard that kinda feels like it fits here is the Ghost B-17, it goes as such: The year is 1944 and the US daylight bombing campaign is in full swing. one day in November a B-17, clearly crippled by battle damage limps towards the airfield and makes a smooth landing on the runway. (We're talking 3 engines are dead, the rudder is missing, almost all the glass is broken, bent spars, the works.) When paramedics arrive they find the plane empty, no pilots, no gunners, no one, it is believed that the crew bailed and they turned on the autopilot, which due to the lack of power slowly lost altitude until it managed to land safely. I feel like Walter is that B-17 in mech form, no real pilot to speak of, just metal that by luck has survived far longer than it should, just long enough to fight you.
Ok I have been talking about this game with my friends and let me tell you, I have never been this happy to see a mecha game come back. And I can say that this Armored Core game is the most anime out of all of the other games and that is not a bad thing. You got a soild VA cast, most of which may have had some gundam roles or anime roles, the cool fleet attacking mission which mind you you were thinking about Gundam but I was thinking about Zone of the Enders the Second Runner because it also has a mission like that, the big boss fights against things that make me think of mobile armors, Rusty coming out with a cool gundam type of AC, the opera type of songs that may make you think of WFM and the final fight against Bitch Ass Iguazu in a bigger Armored Core. All of these things add up to a soild mecha game experience and the fact that a LOT of people loves Ayre despite her being a voice and every character having more of a personality, makes this game definitely more memorable as a result. Not to mention this game brought out every single mecha fan in the world, including the gundam fans together with the armored core and super robot fans so that is another victory. Hell even I prefer the good ending because it feels like an ending that while we did kill Walter, who by the way love that even HE grew, we did help our brain wife and the world can be rebuilt. The other ending where we kill Ayre still hurts and the true ending, in spite of the idea of Ayre, the brain wife fighting alongside us against Bitch ass Iguazu and his brain wife ALL MIND, being really cool, I don't know the true ending kind of rubs me the wrong way. Plus, the mutilplayer IS pretty weak and some things from the past games don't come back, at least according to the hardcore fanbase. But in the end, I think the game does a great job in bringing us back to a good time where we didn't need every game to be an open world, a game that is fun and a game that brings back a dead genre that even Gundam failed at doing, which is why i HOPE we get more games like this like a new Gundam Breaker game that does not suck, a new Dynatsy warriors gundam, maybe a new Zone of the Enders or even a new Super Robot Wars. And the best part is WE ARE FINALLY GETTING ARMORED CORE MODEL KITS FROM BANDAI! I am already super excited for the release of these next year but still this is a soild game and I will definitely get my hands on it until we get the inevitable DLC expansion that will be this game's version of the old expansions from the old games. Great job with the video and.......Ok seriously this game is also the only one in the series where there is way more fanart when compared to other games and I will be honest, a lot of the fanart is really great and Ayre and ALLMIND fanart......GOD THEY ARE WAY TOO HOT lol! Plus it is cool to see Dimitri being a gundam pilot again since Athrun from the Seed Redub so that is a plus but again, great job with the video!
Cheers man!
It’s definitely one of those games that stick with you hey? I can’t stop playing it and thinking about it hahahaha
I’ve actually got ACFA to work on my Mac so I’m considering streaming that, or just AC6 at some point, but I’ll need a capture card for AC6 😅
The games just full of references to other mecha media and I LOVE how damn fun and replayable it is without being another god damn open world it didn’t need to be.
Fromsoft really knocked it out of the park and I’m keen to see, and will throw money at any and all DLC they bring to this game. AC Bandai kits are another huge win I didn’t even know about lmao
AC6 is really breathing life back into the mecha genre in it’s own way and I’m all here for it.
@@Viseak Yeah even I didn't know that Bandai was going to be making Armored Core 6 model kits until a friend told me through the Gundam Animo......To say I was happy was an understatement because now I can finally get my heads on an Armored Core model kit that can pose and not explode. Now I can put an AC next to my High Grade Gundams, my one 30 mm kit and my maybe Real Grade Tallgesse that I am planning on getting. I would say try ACFA and see how you feel about that and really the possibilities for more mecha games in the future are just blown wide open thanks to AC6 lol.
@@MrDarksol yeah I heard the Koto Armored Core kits were hand grenades, similar to the early Koto Zoid kits 😅
So having some sturdy ones will be a nice refresher.
I got a taste of ACFA today and it’s a very, different experience that’s for sure. Feels like it’s going to be a lot harder than AC6, the movement feels way faster yet you can’t seem to adjust your sensitivity, so you turn extremely slowly. Plus a whole new button layout to learn on top.
But I’m keen to continue it.
Are you that sure about mecha things in this game? I am not talking about overall quality of this game (it is obviously amazing), but exactly about "mecha feeling". What is your definition for "solid mecha expirience" (if you dont mind to tell more about it)?
@@ivanshulika5359 You get to build your own mecha, feel the overwhelming power of using one when fighting against other machines and overall the fun rush of being a mecha pilot with all that power, makes it feel great when you finally complete a mission.
I don't think Armored Core 6 will win GOTY, but I voted for it anyway because "GO GO GO, follow Michigan!"
It’s got my vote for sure
GUN 13 SOUND OFF … 🫡
Regarding Walter, I...actually wouldn't be surprised if he was augmented with Coral way before our story started, since if I remember correctly, one dialogue in the NG+2 route mentioned how Walter was quite a skillful AC pilot even though in that route he was never captured and reeducated by Arquebus.
And since mutated Coral entities like Ayre seems to had their own individuality and not like a hivemind as a whole, it's possible that, if Walter had a "friend" just like us, this individual Coral might actually stood on his and the Overseer's side even if it's against its own race, driven solely by the mutual understanding with its partner.
It’s definitely a possibility, but not one that’s really explored.
Who knows, maybe we’ll get further clarification in a sequel, DLC OR, a prequel.
I’d honestly love a prequel going over the fires of ibis. Fromsoft really made a super interesting mecha world here and I’m dying for more haha
It’s cool to think Walter partnered with a rouge coral siding against its own race for the ‘better’ of life in the galaxy as a whole. But might never know if that’s the case or not, as fromsoft really loves to leave their stories up to interpretation.
Im pretty sure his "friend" doesnt really exist, or rather, isnt alove anymore. He and Carla are carrying out the will of the Professor who burnt the Choral. The jobs they do for "theyre friend" are them doing what they think he would want on their way to start the fires again.
it also seems like he's still piloting HAL 826 despite not having been captured, so theres definitely some weight to this possibility
Walter is definitely augmented like you mentioned, but it probably isn't a coral augmentation. Coral was used on augmentation generations 1-4, and we are up to generation 8. We know that later generations don't use coral because some pilots specifically receive later generation augmentation surgery to reduce the coral-caused side effects (I believe O'Keefe does this, but I don't remember). You don't fix coral burn-in on your brain by receiving more coral-based surgery lol.
The only time Walter is able to see Ayre is in the Liberator of Rubicon ending, when he has been re-educated and put into the IBIS-series AC. Considering how it basically runs on coral and uses coral weapons, it seems like coral-based augmentation would be a prerequisite. That re-education (and by extension, coral augmentation surgery) never happens to him in NG+2, hence why it's a stretch for him to have made contact with coral himself.
TLDR:
Augmented before the events of the game = likely
Augmented with coral, and able to make contact = unlikely
He could still be a skilled AC pilot without augmentation, like V.I Freud.
I think the way the augmentation works is similar to that to Gundam iron-blooded orphans. The Alaya-Vijnana system basically gives the person who has it perfect situational awareness while they're in their Mac. The issue with this system, though, is that there is a high mortality rate because they inject Nano machines directly into your spine this also deforms your spine kind of looks like you have a Spike coming from your back in the only ones who seem to survive our kids be something to do with stem cells I think you could apply the same kind of logic to Coral augmentation though I do think 621 does have a few health issues though like outside the mack you wouldn't need to do much to kill 621 probably one good punch in the face could do it but when he's inside that Mech he turns into the fucking Grim Reaper
The Fires of Raven ending is the best one I think. Not only do you get 3 awesome fights in a row, but from a lore standpoint, Walter and the Overseers were completely right. It doesn't matter that Coral is sentient, it's an existential threat to humanity, and while Liberation is feelgood, ultimately provides no solution beyond a vague "we'll find a way together," not to mention the coming Coral convergence/release event being orchestrated from the shadows by Allmind. The Coral must be burned. It's the only way to be sure. Become history's greatest villain, and in the process humble the warmongering corporations that were no doubt making life miserable for humanity across countless other worlds.
I like the thought, but what makes the overseers right at all?
If anything, they’re the most wrong.
What makes anyone think burning the coral will work this time? We already tried it once. Sure; this boom boom is bigger, but there’s every possibility the coral will just survive again, especially when you consider how it multiplies.
Secondly, who’s to say one sentient, and intelligent life is more important than another? Sure, burning ALL the coral (still, unlikely to happen) may be beneficial for humanity (we don’t even know this to be 100% true, symbiosis could be great who bloody knows, it could be this world’s equivalent of newtype powers and allow humanity to connect on a deeper level) but at the end of the day, you’re planning to destroy an entire sentient and intelligent life based on little to no knowledge of it.
And the only knowledge we DO have, is from first hand experience with Ayre, which really, never presented much downside.
So I dunno man with all that being said, feels pretty radical to burn it all to the ground.
Still a fun ending though, breach the karman line was one of the best missions in the game.
@@Viseak Even if it's not a permanent solution, it's still a better solution than simply letting the coral continue to multiply as it spreads out into the void of space. The Overseers knew that the Coral would eventually be ignited by something anyway, it's a matter of burning it back before it spreads beyond Rubicon. The longer you wait, the worse the eventual Fires will get; it's inevitable, Coral simply contains too much energy to be safely contained on that scale. This is in addition to the "carnival of horrors" that Coral research wrought even before the Fires, like the horrific early gen augmentation surgeries. And again, Allmind's plan is still in motion in the Liberation ending, and it's clear that Alea Iacta Est is only possible when Raven/Ayre wrest control of the process out of Allmind's hands. What she has planned is probably far, far worse.
20:06 this is such a good callback to previous games, as originally, play as mercenaries called Ravens (tho each Raven has their own callsign)
The only thing i need for ac6 to be perfect is some sort of wave defense mission that goes on forever. Just spawning more and more MTs with the occasional AC spawn. Like the michigan mission but in a bigger arena.
That’d be sweet, and after playing some ACFA, some missions with an equivalent of the vanguard overed booster would be AMAZING
Hey Buddy! It's been a while and I'm glad you finally made a video for this game. A little sad your video didn't come out sooner, because by this point, I"ve watched a dozen reviews of the game. haha
I like the Zoids references you made when talking about the first play through. Never even thought about that until you mentioned it. But you're right, I see it now. The parallels are on point.
You probably don't know this since you said you haven't played the other AC games, but the Overed Rail Canon is a reference to Armored Core V's 'Overed Weapons'. That game had a series of special over sized weapons that took a while to charge up, but would guarantee kill whatever target it hit. And by god was it a beautiful moment during the Ice Worm mission, Rusty is calling out the charge up process, gets to 95 and there is a long pause followed by; "I won't miss". The visual spectacle of the canon hitting the worm and the coral bursting out. The sound design of that shot and impact. Top notch.
Walter is a very deep and complex character. I share the opinion of a different RUclipsr about him though. Walter is a man who has dedicated his life to this goal, no, this legacy as he called it. He has taken up the burden of this cause As the story trailer shows, 3 hounds were just lost in that battle to achieve that singular task. I believe Walter is distant and fairly cold to us because he bears the weight of their deaths as his fault. They died for him. Whether those mercenaries cared about Walter or not, they still died for his cause. Walter reminds us at one point that everything here on Rubicon is just a job. Nothing more. But I believe he is using that to cope with the weight of his goal. In reality he knows the path to this goal is drenched in blood and that blood is on his hands. Every time Walter references a 'friend', that is him trying to detach himself from the situation as a way to cope with it. It's never been a friend request, it's been HIS request every time. This is why during the jailbreak mission, Walter starts to say it was from a friend, but then corrects himself and says it was from himself. He's finally ready to open up and be honest and move on so to speak.
And during the fight against him, that ending cut scene where he's about to fire upon you again, but then stops. That scene is more proof of him caring about you. In that moment, he was able to regain his own control and suppress the 'reeducation'. In that moment of free will, he decided that letting you go and live on with the friend you made was more important than finishing his life goal. If he saw you as a mere disposable tool, he would have pulled that trigger immediately.
During my first play through of the game, when I got to the fork in the road of siding with Ayre vs siding with Carla, I was very torn. A lot of people are super obsessed with being loyal to Walter, saying that Walter gave us everything and thus we must give our everything in return. Thing is, I would argue we have ZERO obligations or attachments to him. He woke us from cryo status to do a job. Sure, he gave us a reason to be awake again, but it's not like we had a choice either. So the only reason I would side with Carla is because she just saved my life in that last mission and I owe her for that. Where as on the flip side, Ayre is just a random voice that suddenly appeared and has been talking to me ever since. We don't owe her anything either. We have no reason to feel attached or indebted to her either. Or so I thought. It wasn't until my second play through that I realized Ayre saved us from the coral flow in that final chapter 1 mission. Without her wake-up call, we would have lost ourselves to the coral sea. So realistically, she saved us first. And of course, i'm not exactly interested in setting an entire planet ablaze...
The fight against Walter was emotional, but it felt rushed. That entire ending felt incomplete. And really, the 3rd ending is just a more expanded version of that ending.
The fight against Ayre was painful. I found her to be the hardest boss fight in the game. And when you consider the cause she is fighting for, you can't help but feel like a total scum bag fighting her. I will say however, her battle theme; "Cries of Coral" is the best track in this game. Followed by Rusty's theme.
Ah yes, Escort the STRIDER was the hardest non boss mission. I didn't realize for the longest time, that the Grinder Wheel enemies and the other machines in this mission are VERY vulnerable to explosions. The hand missiles 2 shot the first mechs and do wonders against the wheels as well. A bulky reverse joint build with 4 different missile weapons is how I did it actually.
So the third ending is actually very interesting. I've watched a lot of RUclipsrs play this game and they all felt surprised by Iguazu playing such a key role to the end. They didn't understand and only saw him as a thirsty hater. I COULD give a long multi-paragraph explanation on why Iguazu is a big deal and a complex character actually, but a video titled; "The Tragedy of G5 Iguazu - AC6 Story and Lore" by the RUclipsr Absurd goes over this topic perfectly. I HIGHTLY recommend you watch it.
As for the final ending scene... it would appear that 621 is no longer human. No longer has a human body. How is it that we wake up in a different AC all of a sudden? And on a different planet too. We must have been swept away by the coral flow and are now a wave length like Ayre is.
It's pretty clear based on how well this game did, that we will get a sequel that continues this story arc. I have a plethora of theories on where things go, but I'll save that for another time since this comment is already super long.
Hey!
I wish I could’ve gotten the video out sooner, but I was a little preoccupied haha
I happened to get married the day after the release of AC6, so I couldn’t even play it let alone write a script on it for AGES 😅 (there was a cut segment of the video where I mentioned this and made a little joke out of it but it felt out of place by the end lol)
There’s so many parallels to Zoids and many other mecha franchises shoved into this game, it really is like a love letter to mecha as a genre. Even Ayre in a way reminds me of Fiona haha
But yeah the ice worm battle is *chefs kiss*. I’m keen to get into the other AC games eventually. I saw a copy of AC4FA in Japan but didn’t pick it up, kinda regretting it cause I feel like I’ve got a slim chance of finding any locally. To be honest, I’ve never even seen an AC game on shelves here in Australia my entire life, excluding VI that is.
The way you describe Walter reminds me a lot of Prospera from Gundam WFM, which is a really interesting lens to look at him through.
I agree the most likely scenario is his detachment and his friends wishes simply being an extension of his own, but it is pretty interesting to theorise if he achieved symbiosis, and just had a real rouge coral feeding into his and his past friends wishes.
The choice between Ayre and Walters wishes is definitely a hard one. And the more you boil it down the less of a ‘right’ answer there is, but I tend to agree siding with Ayre *feels* like the better option.
I don’t agree that LOR felt rushed though. Although, it did feel like the most convenient anime plot out of them all. BUT I honestly loved that. Made it feel like I just played through my own little Gundam story. Fighting alongside Rusty in the end and fighting your old boss on a ship descending to the planet it was beautiful.
Whereas the others didn’t feel quite so cinematic, to me at least. But man they were so much fun regardless. FOR had the better mission with Breach The Karman line and a crazy ending none the less, and the true ending was just completely different again and balls to the wall action.
I have actually watched that video! And it’s a great study on Iguazu as a character. There’s already SO much fantastic content out on AC6 it almost felt redundant for me to talk about it, but when it easily became one of my favourite games of all time I just had too 😅
Regarding the ending scene, I don’t think WE(621) actually wake up in a different AC in a random place. The way I see the final cutscene is a voiceover, and we’re just seeing a random place in the galaxy where wrecked AC’s are waking up and inhabited by coral. Which is why I also don’t TEND to buy into the whole transcending humanity theory.
Like I saw people saying 621 could transfer their consciousness into any other AC like a hive mind kind of thing so they’re immortal but uhhhhh, I just don’t see it idk 😅
I’d be keen to hear your thoughts though!
@@Viseak It's impossible for Walter to have made contact with a Coral consciousness during the Fires of Ibis, thouhg, because he wasn't there to witness it. He was sent off to Jupiter before it happened. Supposedly that's also where he first met Michigan, but that's a bit of a tangent.
@@CyberDagger003 I’m not 100% on all the characters backstories, I didn’t do much of a deep dive into the data logs and such
But even if Walter weren’t there for the fires of ibis, it doesn’t mean he couldn’t have made contact at some other point in time before the events of the game
Awesome! I was hoping you’d do a video on AC6; looking forward to watching it later today. I’ve been having an absolute blast playing it, despite how bad I am at it lol
Haha glad you’re enjoying it!
It’s easily the best mecha game I’ve ever played, and probably one of my favourite games of all time at this point
@@Viseak Mhmm mhmm, I agree. I’m not super far into it yet since I’m playing it for the channel and I don’t want to get ahead to keep the reactions genuine, but I just cleared the first *major* hurdle (Balteus), which felt DAMN good.
Sad as I am to say it, I think Zone of the Enders 2 has been dethroned.
Also, just some food for thought: how fucking cool would it be to have a properly-designed Zoids game in this engine with similar mechanics? Or Gundam for that matter?
@@novemberbravo6194 nice! Beating Balteus always feels great
You got a few hurdles ahead of you still but I’m sure you’ll smash it.
I think this game does well enough to scratches the Gundam itch (not that I’d be opposed to a Gundam game of this quality), and ALMOST does the same for Zoids.
If you chuck two VP-60LCS Laser Canons on your shoulders and zoom around it feels like you’re fuckin Raven in the Geno Saurer hahahaha
@@Viseak Funny you should mention those parts specifically; it was a combination of two of those, a pair of assault rifles, and all the heaviest armour I could find that let me beat Balteus lol
I just picked up ACVI last night after a short hiatus. The difficulty spikes around the bosses always make me put the game down for a while, but once I come back, it latches onto me again and again. I'm slow, having just beaten the Sea Spider, but God I love this game.
First of all this masterpiece is just too SHORT! we want more missions and bosses!
I would like a DLC to tell stories of those lost Redguns, 621 is G13, but G8 to G12 may go for different missions on the other side of Rubicon.
I think just one more mission and exclusive boss per ending would’ve been absolutely perfect, but I’m always keen for more!
A prequel for a game like this wouldn’t go astray, but I’m just keen for any and all DLC to come
@@Viseak Boss challenge mode is also nice.
You know my 8 yrs old son got crazy with this game, you have no idea what the joy brought to him with pilotting mech fighting like anime.
@@yushion5804 love to hear it! Your kids got great taste already
It's not often an announcement trailer converts a series you barely knew about into one of your top 5 of all time. But 6 somehow did.
It's near perfect. And I've played all the old ones already and think about them all the time
It’s honestly snuck it’s way into my top 3. It’s just that good
I’m keen to get through the rest of the franchise at some point. AC is just so much bloody fun, I can’t believe I only heard of it’s existence NOW
You should try Armored Core for Answer and Verdict Day, too. Then go back to Last Raven to embrace the true meaning of Raven. Then go back to the first 3 games on PS1.
I’ve got ACFA working on a PS3 emulator and it’s been pretty fun so far, I’m thinking of streaming it at some point too 🤔
*reads title*
Well, that's certainly an...interesting description 😆
Always happy to see you upload!
Lmao it’s accurate though 😭
Easily my favourite fromsoft game and one of my favourite games of all time in general.
And likewise, always good to see ya pop up in the comments!
I arrived to the start of this game late. Ive only recently just started my first run through. This should've been GOTY in my opinion, or at least in the category.
Im enjoying my playtime with this game. I am only playing the story when im recording as i want to make content from this
The idea that Walter is just a head and torso in the liberator ending is just *appaling,* I absolutely love it.
Any high mobility missiles build works great during the mission escort the strider, coral missiles works good as well, but I prefer fast missiles in that mission, just to destroy enemies faster...Great video and narrative got a sub from me...
Its just the first game in this generation. Fromsoft always do a two-part release with a more refined follow-up game every generation
As in for AC games? Like how they did AC4 then ACFA?
Because I’d love if the follow that pattern. More Armored Core the better
@@Viseak yes as far as I remember : Nexus - Last Raven, IV - IV Answer, V - V Verdict Day. Also makes sense in the development side because it would be a ton more work and waste of resources if they just move on to another generation and start again with a clean slate / new assets.
@@Despius-oc7ez well, my hopes are high, but we’ll just have to wait and see
@@Despius-oc7ezThe first gen were 3 games, second gen were 2, and Nexus and Last Raven are the third and iirc sixth games of the third gen, which also has AC3, silent line, formula front and nine breaker, even if the last two are just an auto battler and training missions respectively.
yeah every ac game ever since the very first one has had a sister title released after it as an expanded continuation of the events unfolding, so it's highly likely we'll see an ac6 expansion game, but I doubt there will be any dlc missions etc for ac6, as they've never exactly done that at all for the ac franchise, which is fine I'd rather a whole neatly wrapped expansion game follow up than a dlc with a small handful of missions or something so to speak. @@Viseak
My personal mental image of 621: They're a goddamned transhumanist's nightmare. Their arms and legs were amputated at the shoulders and hips,and replaced with basic cybernetics,as a way to combat the effects of G-forces on the body. Their spine is either augmented with a cybernetic interface,or is wholly replaced with a cybernetic prosthesis,with the purpose of speeding up their central nervous system,and to more directly interface with the AC. They have no eyes; Instead,a panoramic visor is directly wired into their optical nerves,and potentially even networked with external cameras on the AC. And the leftover meat is a nightmarish map of surgical scars,all wrapped up in bandages,and clad in something like a combination of a real world G-suit,and an Evangelion plugsuit.
This would render 621 *technically* functional outside of the AC,permitting them to seemingly stagger or crawl towards the Jailbreak,and make them,arguably,the ideal h+ pilot,due to how their augmentations optimized them for the purpose of piloting a supersonic close-in land/air war machine.
So basically, Daryl Lorenz from Gundam Thunderbolt
I think it’s a cool idea for sure, but don’t think that’s quite the case in Armored Core 6. Especially considering in jailbreak we’re swimming in some relatively deep water to the AC, which is damn hard to do without functioning limbs 😅
@@Viseak
I mean,that's what the prosthetic arms and legs are for. Basic,as in no fancy features. Just baseline limb performance.
The more i think about it...
The more this world feels like it's full of cyber newtypes yet to fully awaken, until they contact with a coral being. I compare it to both gundam and (ironically) Yugioh. Specifically yugioh Zexal where the protag has a ghost like partner named "astral" that he basically bonds with. Other than that, no other main yugioh things, but that just makes me think more about the psychological damage that runs rampant on Rubicon. Everyone just trying to survive by any means (dosers, corporations, and even the PCA)
I think there’s a real connection between AC6 and Gundam in the form of newtypes.
Everyone considers newtypes the next step in human evolution, and in spite of that, everyone’s scared of them.
The same can be said for coral. While many don’t understand or know the idea of symbiosis and are just scared of it cause it can go boom, the idea of coral symbiosis being the next step in human evolution is a real one.
And clearly something people like V3 O’kefe fear, thinking it’ll make humanity less human. But he obviously fears something he doesn’t fully understand and has never experienced. Whereas us, as 621, have experienced it, which leads us down the path of coral release.
There is another, thumb dolmayan, who did experience symbiosis and reject it, but at that same time he held no ill will towards Seria.
Maybe coral symbiosis would allow humans to understand eachother on a deeper level like newtypes do, who knows, as the endings left so open ended, and there really is so much we don’t know.
But we can only hope for a sequel at this point.
walter's friend is the guy in the trailer/intro that is messing with us, walter enters the room, and tells that person to wake us up, given what that person says, "you know im not exactly craving company", and walter replies: "im not here to talk." they probably know each other.
walter says it himself in one of his monologues to 621, that he has an actual friend, a person, that created things, those things being, what we, 621, are, coral augmentation, and a few other unwanted "research topics" that walter seems to resent, but i think i remember he said its a necessity.
which also makes me think there are 2 kinds of augmentation, Coral augmentation, and whatever the corporations do to their own pilots, given that there's generations for us hounds, 1 to 4. it also seems we're not a new boy being reawakened on the spot. most people call us "ancient" and tell us we belong in a museum, because our augmentation method is archaic. also, not every augmented human gets to interact with coral, only old gens, newer generations and probably the cutting edge augmentations do not make contact with coral, now that could be because they abandoned coral augmentation as a whole and have their own new methods, or they suppress it somehow, this is why i believe there's 2 kinds of augmentation, coral, and the cutting edge new augmentation tech made by corpos that do not use coral.
also i think 621 has been held sleeping or in suspended animation, somehow... for quite awhile. which makes me more interested about our own possible back story, have always been proficient at Ac piloting? what has destroyed our brain enough to walter make a remark about it, i dont think we're a dissected brain inside the AC, but one thing im sure, 621's body is definitely damaged, in the permanent sense. which is also funny but plausible, in previous AC games having catastrophic body damage doesnt make you incapable of piloting, as an example in Armored Core Verdict Day, Maggy... or Magnolia Curtis, lost her whole left arm, and still is capable of piloting, they never mention she possessing prosthetics or anything, so i assume, she has some form of adapted control scheme for her situation.
i dont enjoy the notion that we're a vegetable inside the AC, and honestly doesnt make much sense either, but i think 621 definitely relies on some form of life support... and definitely near or straight on the bottom list of "most charming" on the Rubicon popularity pool. i honestly wish we could've interacted with other Hounds if they survived, for example, 617 and the others, hell... may be even other new ones, just to have an average measure gauge for how messed up mentally and physically Hounds are in general, or if we're somewhat just... hurt? people that have been patched up back together and work for Walter and his Doctor friend.
oh and yes, about Walter and his friend, in his monologue, Walter is the guy that wants to burn the coral to prevent people from missusing it, but overall because he fears the danger it is in general, and his friend is the guy that used coral to create gruesome experiments. probably what Arquebus did to Walter. i honestly.... wouldnt be surprised if it turned out that Walter's friend joined Arquebus and did that to him himself.. as a form of punishment for failling?.... given how twisted Armored Core gets at times, and fromsoftware's very dark stories.
I, too, had AC6 be my first experience with not just the series, but the genre as a whole.
I'd never really been into the mech genre before, but I took the chance on this one because it was made by Fromsoft and a close friend talked me into it. I felt that, with how much I love their Souls games and adjacent titles, I could trust them in trying something new for me.
And holy hell, I'm glad I did. I love this game so much, it's just balls-to-the-wall fun. And who'd think that you can become so attached to characters who you never even visually see outside of their ACs?
It is extremely implied that Rusty get ambushed and killed by Handler walter, after you defeat Balteus his call abruptly breaks when you hear an explosion in the background.
It’s definitely implied, but never *confirmed*
So I’m gonna continue huffing my copium in peace ☺️
And hey; we got no idea what happened to him in the final route so hopefully we see him in a DLC or AC 6.5
Undoing the surgery and augmentation was definitely what Walter meant when he talked about“buying your life back” during the very beginning of the game
Legit my only really complaints are that the alt leg styles do not have nearly as many options as bipeds, And how certain weapons far exceed others by a large margin. I beat the game from ng to ng++ with linear rifles and then I tried the Zims and Songbirds and l honestly just could not believe how weak linear rifles and missiles felt in comparison.
Tip for fighting the SEA Spiped, it is weak agains explosives and you being litteraly on top of it, it can't engange you properly if you're vertical to it, even when it takes flight
3:53 I think you shouldn't have put his name over him, it only blocked his glorious look. You should have put the entire entrance sequence of both Walter and Ayre as boss fights
the AC walter pilots in the good ending is heavily implied that that's his own AC because we see parts of it floating around ALLMIND after we find it it killed him and carla.
Allmind being Domlayan's Seria doesnt make much sense to me. If only because Seria wasnt actually against the exploitation of coral by Domlayan so long as it keeps them in Contact. Domlayan has log in which he says that if he were her, he would not allow him to take coral as a drug, consuming her people in order to stay in Contact.
Seria's goal was coral release, but she did not seem to have strong feelings about humans using coral to maintain contact in that form.
However if Allmind really is an AI as I believe, that still doesnt answer where she came from and who built her. She seems to die once her AC form is destroyed from what we can tell, which suggests that she isnt remote controlling the AC. She is instead literally the AC. Which helps explain why she is so hell bent on collecting as much data on AC models and performances as she can. So she can perfect her own systems.
There’s a couple of things:
First:
Seria, or in my theory, Allmind, may have developed that resentment/hatred for the exploitation of coral in between their transition from the coral Seria, to the ‘AI’ Allmind. Which could go to explain why Seria made this AI alter ego to commit to her goal of coral release.
Second:
I believe a coral being was necessary for Coral release, (kinda like how a human is needed to activate the rings in Halo) which is why Ayre was seen as instrumental to the plan, and why 621 was ultimately the one chosen by Allmind to go ahead.
However, not only was coral required, I think there’s a chance a coral being who *achieved symbiosis* was actually what was required. This would explain why 621 and Ayre were needed up until the very end. And in the end; I believe Allmind and Iguazu achieved a form of symbiosis that allowed *her* to be the trigger for coral release, leaving Ayre and 621 redundant. Which is why after letting us in on all her secrets and gaining our help and trust throughout the whole route, turns on us in the end. The fact her mind is probably somewhat corrupted by Iguazu’s thoughts also probably plays a part in this.
But again, she wouldn’t have joined with Iguazu if she didn’t know she could achieve coral release with him.
Hopefully that makes sense
Gotta say, it would've been nice to get infinite energy on more levels than the Hold the Karman Line one.
It feels like reaching your full potential and it never happens again to my knowledge, which sucks.
300+ hours into this game. Been a fan since AC3. I really want them to expand the PvP. I really liked what they did with the AC5 multiplayer system. 4 people on the field and 1 operator to oversee the battle and coordinate attacks. Can't wait for them to release the expansion on this game and see what they'll do for the story and pvp scene.
Yeah the PVP definitely needs a little more to keep it fresh, but I’m more of a single player guy anyway so it doesn’t bother me too much
None the less I’m keen to see whatever fromsoft does with this game going forward
@@Viseak Yeah, I really hope this continues as one of their mainline games again. My best friend is a mech enthusiast and this was his first Armored Core game and he loves it. We've spent hours PvPing each other just to test out all the weapons and parts then going into 3v3s or 1v1 lobbies and see how well our builds work. I've enjoyed watching FromSoft evolve throughout it's years as a company. Been following them for years now and I'm happy they decided to revive an old IP. It felt like a callback to those of us who really enjoyed the AC series. Now with all the experience they've accumulated through the years and the gaming technology developing so much they can finally push Armored Core to its fullest potential. I'm so hyped to see so many people enjoy this game.
im really hoping they gonna remake For answer after this
cause thats the actual best game in the series, trust me
After just playing through AFCA for the first time yeah I gotta say, it’s pretty great
But I can’t really see a remake of any Armored Core game in our future, would love to be proven wrong though
@@Viseak yeah....
I interpreted that 621 was dumped in the sewers and left for dead, when they escape. The sequence before getting in the junk AC was them floating down, barely alive, before he finds the machine.
Rusty could also be alive after the third ending, since he doesn't definitely die in any part of the third story.
The only issue with that is that is awfully convenient for us to happen upon Walters contingency plan for us.
So I doubt Arquebas just accidentally dumped us in the right place.
Regarding Rusty, I really hope he is alive and well, maybe we’ll see more of him in any potential DLC
@@Viseak True, it's somewhat of a convenience that it happened by chance.
Although, there is a possibility that Walter could have done the dumping shortly before getting recaptured by Arquebus, having dragged 621 to hiding before getting re-educated.
Either way; excited for the 30MM Kits that were announced.
@@LuceoX30 yeah seriously 30MM AC’s are gonna be awesome!
I have a fun 2nd Caesar reference for you. Sulla, the guy you kill at the watchpoint and Allmind's main agent before you in its ending, is named after a previous roman military leader who did almost the exact same thing Caesar did several years before he did it, but didn't end up taking it as far as Julius did. Just like how Sulla is replaced by you and, judging by his dialog in the allmind route variant of the mission after we kill him, seems like he wasn't planning to see Coral Release through.
i like for answer more the stun feature kind of ruined it for a game about dodging and going fast being frozen in place can be devastating even if for a few seconds
the fires of raven ending is less about burning the coral then it is about you essentially being a puppet. as the title of raven is fighting for free will. it makes the most sense for this ending to be cleared first.
i think even Walter isn't sure about whether or not his plan will work, but he just needs someone to do it.
in a way the whole game is kinda about being a puppet and maybe being manipulated by everyone and seeming like its free will.
Yeah, pretty ironic that you’re dubbed Raven with all of its meaning attached, only to end up a puppet
The First True filter of AC6 is the Filter Copter from the tutorial mission.
Nah that’s just the video game journalist filter
The coral reminds me of Gaia from Final fantasy: The Spirits within
This is my goty for sure no bullshit. Good story, gameplay, music and art/graphics
You know how the heck this game can impress emotion even tho we only see giant mecha and emblem like all the time
It is pretty damn cool how much it humanises characters we never see
And makes for all the cooler fan art and player interpretations of what these characters might look like
@@Viseak Just like genshin, let the player creativity mold the character how we like
note:LCs and HCs are mass produced just like cataphract and i belive the AAH12 heavy combat hicopter
that is why they are easy they were not meant to be used alone like an AC
enforcer is PCAs equilivent of ACs wich can kick your ass HARD
RE: Walter
One of the briefings later in the game starts off with Walter claiming it was coming from a friend, to then pause and say it was coming from him.
AC6 is the mech game ive wanted for years, the only thing I want is more parts, more customization, AC6s customization system feels like a good introduction compared to the old games complexity, but I would like even more variety.
Im also sad we cant get the parts from ayres boss mech, and the allmind boss mech.
All that said, I constantly recommend this game to friends who want to play something out of their comfort zone, and most end up loving it.
Awesome breakdown and opinions.
Thanks 🫶🏼
Did I just watch the whole 1 Hr vid? Feels like I played a 3 playthrough again😅, awesome vid thanks, at the Final Ending when Ayre announced "Main System. Activating Combat Mode" gave me chills, I got wet, cough... My Eyes got wet, what a Fantastic Game, UGOTY for me.
Lmao the games just that good it’s feels like nothing watching an hour long video covering it
Hard agree on your thoughts on the final ending too, literal chills
RE: O'keeffe
ALLMIND's candidate list only had a single gen 1, a single gen 3, and two gen 4's on the candidate list for Coral Release.
In the mission to eliminate O'keeffe it is explicitly stated he is a generation 2 pilot.
Meaning he could not be one of the Coral Release candidates.
During the CEL240 fight i was yelling HAMON KARN!!!the whole time😂 freaking Qubelay swarming funnels around me
It really felt like you were a foot soldier fighting a newtype as well with the damn thing flying around so fast 😭
Awesome Video mate! Loved the ending 😂
Cheers man! Guess you could say my thoughts are up for interpretation 🤭
@@Viseak 🤣
In the liberator of Rubicon story Rusty is killed by Walter.
What makes you think that?
@@Viseak Rusty gets cut off mid sentence and as it happens you hear an energy weapon that sounds alot like Walters right arm weapon when it's fired in it's stage two charge in game.
@@haydenblackhawk687 I’ll have to replay that mission, I know he got cut off but I don’t remember hearing the weapon sound
Great video, I enjoyed it a lot. Not sure if the video cut off prematurely tho, or if it was the last joke. Anyways, can't wait for more of your stuff
Thanks! 🫶🏼
And yeah, you could say my thoughts on the ending are up for interpretation
Would be in heaven if they can make a mecha game AC/Elden Ring crossover
I STRONGLY recommend people do the Fires of Raven ending first. Get that gut wrenching BS out of the way and then cruise through NG+ on the hood ending.
I really liked the title cards for relevant bosses. I also appreciate that you glossed over much of the campaign so someone who maybe didn't plan on playing it before now wishes they hadn't spoiled everything for themselves.
No idea why you consider Ibis to be the hardest boss, though. I found Ayre to be way more trouble than Ibis or Iguazumind for that matter. Ibis at least isn't a tank when you finally catch up to it.
Thanks! I thought they were a nice touch haha
I found Ibis to be the 2nd hardest boss, at least in my first run. But Iguazumind was the overall hardest boss for sure it was absolutely insane.
I found Ayre really easy though, beat her first try 🫢
A lot of people are struggling with different bosses, for me the hardest bosses (where i took multiple tries and hours poured into fighting it) are balteus, and Arqebues balteus beside that everything is just 1-2 tries
Allmind iguana is definetly the hardest boss for me and I HATE HIM MORE THAN HE HATES RAVEN.
I think the only "not amazing" thing about AC6 is the part variety, and by that I mean visually. Lots of normal bipeds while not much else. 2 quads, 3 tanks, and 3 RJ's, and then the rest are just bipeds. I also think there needs to be more variety visually in the head and core parts, a lot of them just kind of blend together. I'd love to see more unique cores and head parts, especially more in the same sort of style as the older PS2 games. There's some similar designs to older parts already in the game, but I just want more.
Also, you can beat every mission in the game with any build. Its just a matter of knowing said build well enough to do so. My own personal build for the game was a Gatling gun, pile bunker, dual 10-missile launchers, and later swapping one of the launcher for the moonlight. I don't know if you could S rank every mission with it, but it was the build that I used for my initial playthrough of all 3 endings.
Tanks and Gats is my defacto fallback cheese build. Named it SpaceKraft.
Yeah man if it does the job, it does the job
The only problem is there isn't enough of it.
Couldn’t agree more, maybe we’ll get a AC6.5 or DLC some day
Coral is basically permet if permet was made of explodium as well.
best game in everyone's eyes
game critics and journalist: you sure about that?
I can certainly see myself replaying this game years from now. And that's the biggest praise I can offer any game. But I think AC7 could be even better.
There’s definitely room for improvement, but the fact it’s so great stand-alone is impressive
I’m keen for anything fromsoft does with this IP in the future. DLC, sequel, prequel? I’ll drop my cash on all of it
missle boat build worked well for me for the escort the strider mission
That’ll also do it!
since the folks at FS can be tongue in cheek as in the time the made metal wolf chaos I hope they can make something in that vein after AC6 or after project spellbound if the leaks are to be believed >..
So far this is GOTY for me but Lies of P is damn close and it’s getting a Dlc so I’m not sure 🤔 Armored core definitely has more over the top cinematic scenes in game though I just wish we had more content already
Getting dlc about Serina and father Dolmayan would be nice
Yeah I’d play the hell out of that
For that dreaded 'Defend the Strider' Mission, My way of S Ranking it was basically Carla's entire set. Enough missiles to match the GDP of a small country. One of those fuckers is bound to hit the bonewheel's side weakpoint
I just S ranked it today actually haha
Ended up using reverse joint legs, dual bazookas, a songbird and another shoulder weapon that goes boom, completely blanking on the name
11:36 Dude, I didn’t figure out there was a lock-on feature until NG++ when I reached the final boss and couldn’t beat the final phase.
Finding out how to actually use lock on was the biggest ‘ah hah!’ moment in my entire playthrough
Shame it took me so long to figure it out as well 😭
@@Viseak I take some pride knowing I beat all of the bosses without lock-on, but I hate myself. lol
The shot at 16:00 is just nuts 👌
I should’ve let it run for a second longer honestly
One of my favourite clips throughout all my playthroughs
@@Viseak Your footage overall is absurdly choice my dude; that clip in particular 🤙 I put this on to listen to as I fall asleep, but I've been positively glued
@@mikefletcher7181 cheers man, really appreciate the kind words 🫶🏼
after the songbirds nerf, they no longer do enough ACS damage to stagger the wheels with just one hit, so the "build check" needs a little adjustment. the javalin grenade launcher, now with after explosions seems an effective replacement.
also: stay inside the crater, its the only place where you can use vertical mobility to dodge wheels and not be punished by missles
Yeah I’ve found the Earshots do the job real good
Silver lining with fires of raven, all Corps stop fighting and join the PCA
But, would one singular overpowering authority really be for the best?
Especially one that’s also run by an AI
@@Viseak I didn't know it was run by AI lol musta missed it. But I don't think it had the worst intentions. They didn't want people touching the coral at all. But then again the closure system was also shooting anyone who left Rubicon so starvation was happening. It's a weird conundrum because the corps are just as bad or worse and who knows what's going to happen with all the coral controlled AC's in the future (I have a gut feeling next game you will be fighting with or against them)
As an AC Veteran, it could have been harder, no repairs, debt system, no checkpoint like the old games. Also there wasn't an actual Arena just a "Simulation" instead of fighting enemy characters in the Arena that was their own little lore and story. As a Veteran Raven I give this AC 7/10.
It’s cool to hear veteran AC players thoughts, as I’m really keen to go back and experience how the series got to this point
Out of curiosity, are there any AC games you’d rate 10/10? And if so which ones?
@@Viseak AC2 was a phenomenal contribution to the series, there was 5-6 year gap from AC1 and AC2 but the PS2 launch made AC2 shine, I would give AC2 10/10 because it was a very gripping story and the difficulty was there, we got to fight 9 Breaker (Ares) in the Arena and the campaign was so lore rich.
Also Leos Klein from AC1 who was the original 9 Breaker was in it and was an amazing villain working towards his revolution on Phobos. The ending boss battle was insane and the closing credits almost made you emotional.
@@WilliamW86er sounds great, I’m a sucker for a good story in games
I’ll have to make my way through all the AC games at some point
@@Viseak Well that is quite the task, there are 15 games in total, some even on the PSP and 2 on PS1, but they were more or less expansions or DLC and only some of the 15 were full stand alone titles. I suggest watching Vaati's video of him playing all 15 games if you cannot get your hands on all the gear and games to play them, some games are even collectable valuables and hard to get, cheers.
i finished the escort strider mission using reverse joints and a whole lotta missiles
Yeah I ended up S ranking it in a similar way, lots of explosions help
Love the hajime ni ippo t -shirt. .....good video too
Yo thanks man! I got it from the irl Kamogawa Boxing gym in Japan (JB Sports) a couple months back
ehh, this wasn't the only closest thing you get to a gundam space battle. Zone of the Enders 2 (by Hideo Kojima. Yes, that Kojima - in fact my avatar on here is of your mech, Jehuty, from the game) in 2003 had full flight combat like this throughout the entire game. By the end of the game your mecha can literally teleport and that''s the kind of battle you have with the antagonist. ZoE2 also had a fleet battle in the skies (and required a massive wave motion cannon to destroy them.) ZoE was much more fast and loose with more anmie physics than the much more strict/grounded combat in AC.
I'm not taking anything away from AC6, but check out Zone of the Enders 2 (there were multiple HD remakes, including one that also added VR called Zone of the Enders: Mars) for full on anmie mecha combat - it focuses heavily on melee where you actually clash swords.
I’ll definitely have to try Zone Of The Enders at some point it’s been recommended to me a bunch!
Was it a PS3 title? Cause I’ve managed to get a PS3 emulator working so that’d be super easy to get running.
One thing I will say to Armored Core, and in particular, AC6’s credit. Is that the mech’s feel fluid as hell to pilot, BUT, they also feel really weighty, as they should.
Which isn’t something I got from ACFA (recently streamed my first run of it), that game was very fast paced which is cool, but I think the Nexts lost that weighty mecha feel because of it, so I wonder if ZoE has that same problem?
@@ViseakThe original was a PS2 title, There was an HD remake on the 360/PS3, though the quality of the HD remake wasn't the best. But there is also a fairly recent one on steam called Zone of the Enders MARS that also includes VR support.
ZoE I would describe as feeling extremely fluid and totally weightless, which was the what they were going for.
Escorting the Strider is not a gear check. I beat it first try with a Gatling gun, two six-pack missile launchers and a pile bunker.
It was a tense, stressful fight but not hard if you're paying attention.
You beat it first try because of you went in with gats and missile launchers, not because it isn’t a build check haha
The spinny death machines are weak to explosives, and when you’re running a build with all lasers, it doesn’t end as well 😅
I only used the starting mech and starting equipment, its pretty fucking hard
@@watch.v-dQw4w9WgXcQ sounds like you really just wanted to torture yourself hey?
@@Viseak I went in with *a* gatling gun. Get it right.
Diversify your mission build. I beat every level with the same AC just to see if I could.
I'm not saying the game was easy. But I'm just not seeing why people struggled with that mission.
@@billrich9722 Gatling/Chaingun has been the "Im beating this mission, money be damned" since pretty much the first game, so you literally picked the easy weapon since the first game and without the massive ammo penalty its now extra easy?
awesome video! do you have a tracklist for the video? i recognize the songs from the game but im not sure what they're called
Man I wish I did.
I used a compilation video to get all the tracks which did have time stamps that could’ve told me exactly what I used, but that video was taken down 😔
But every single bit of background music is from the AC6 soundtrack
'Press your thumbstick and don't touch it'
What thumbstick. PC Mouse manual aim all the wayyy lesgooo
I've been living the dream since armored core 2 where the hell of all of you been
Idk man nobody told me about Armored Core 😭
I swear I’d NEVER seen an AC title on a game store shelf here in Australia my entire life, until AC6.
Still, I’m happy to finally be appreciating these games none the less
@@Viseak you know what you should go back and play ARMORD CORE 2 and go through another age! Another age is a little bit long but it's worth it in my opinion I love it it was my first game armored core is the series that got me into playing video games ! Blows my mind how many people I actually told forever and either refused to play it because it was a "robot" game or it was inconvenient for them in order to purchase from themselves or emulate it
This is legitimately the most gundam game in existence, and it isn’t even a gundam game which is fucking wild. The game is hard but I think the thing the critics are having problems with is that the game requires you to engage with it as a brutal, balls to the wall super fast game. They expect souls for some stupid reason and this game isn’t gonna give it to them.
It’s probably the closest thing to a perfect Gundam game we’re ever gonna get, and yeah, it isn’t even a Gundam game.
But it’s just THAT good as a mecha title. It’s everything I wanted and more.
It really is fast paced though, so much so everything I’ve played since feels awfully slow.
I love how we commit Human Intstrumentality Plan and hijack it from our boss. 😂😂😂
Just quad minigun ib cell. Since, you know, they added shoulder miniguns o.o.
I feel like there should’ve been more detailed introductions to all the characters and groups to give an idea to anyone watching who hasn’t played AC6 of what their purpose in the story is, and although the boss introductions looked pretty cool it would’ve been nice if they didn’t last so long and showed the actual cutscene that’s on screen, otherwise great review
Cheers mate, I wanted to leave a little something to the imagination for those that haven’t played, and for those that have, they’ve seen and know all that good stuff already so I didn’t think it mattered too much 😅
@@Viseak That’s fair
Its first level is a masterclass on how not to make a "tutorial". "It's a FromSoftware game" isn't an excuse for poor game design. The gameplay after the first mission is actually really fun but it looks bad when the latest hotwheels game on switch teaches the player how to play the game and then implements those mechanics excactly the way they explained them. AC6 on the other hand has a boss that goes out of bounds often and the only weapon you can have to hit it does virtually no damage and 0 signs that the player should rush it in melee when the only other melee prompt is near 2 mini mechs minutes before which are both on the ground.
At first I read your comment as ‘a masterclass on how to make a tutorial’ and was gonna completely agree 😭
Turns out you think the opposite and I’m so curious why? I think AC6 is one of fromsofts best ‘tutorials’. It gives you everything you need to know, and lets you go nuts with it. It doesn’t completely dismiss the player like some souls games does, but it also doesn’t hold the players hand as if they’re incompetent.
It’s a near perfect balance of guardrails and freedom that propels you into your mecha journey.
I don’t understand how there are ‘0 signs’ the player should rush in and melee… it’s just like you said, the weapon you have doesn’t do much damage, so clearly, it’s pretty self explanatory for you to try hitting the boss in the face with your melee weapon, as it’s your only other option.
58:55 same. He punked both of us.
Real.
You can even see me panic dodge in that clip lmao