Armored Core 6 is the sort of messy and exhausting game FromSoftware stopped making years ago
Fires of Rubicon is the first Armored Core game in over a decade. This puts it in the awkward position of attempting to appeal to series fans who’ve been starved for any sign of their favourite mech shooter returning, all while FromSoftware made everyone believe that it abandoned it in favour of its more lucrative – and critically-acclaimed – Souls games.
But because it’s been so long, the FromSoftware that made Armored Core 6 is also quite different from the one that created the originals. Fires of Rubicon has to, then, feel like a reboot, which it sometimes does. Unfortunately, walking that tight rope of satisfying longtime fans while introducing the series to a new generation of players was always going to be nigh impossible.
The FromSoftware name to me doesn’t represent Armored Core, it represents Bloodborne, Dark Souls, Sekiro, and Elden Ring. Whether I want to or not, any future project that comes out of the studio is always going to be compared to those games, even if it has the Armored Core name attached.
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