![]() ![]() Their hair, their eyes, faces, skin color, etc, can be fully edited, letting players craft a character to their preference. It’s a feature that fans absolutely love and have requested from the Armored Core series in the past.Ĭharacters are fully customizable from the ground up. One of the biggest aspects about games like Armored Core, Monster Hunter, or any game with the slightest amount of character and or armor editing, is character creation. The same can be said for the character models – yep, we’re going to talk about those.Ĭharacter creation has been highly requested in games like these and Daemon X Machina makes it possible I still can’t help but stand at the church from time to time and look at how beautifully detailed the building actually is. Each as intricately designed as the other and each offering a different approach to every combat situation. The others were a variety of industrial sectors and city-scapes. In one, we got to see a beautifully detailed ocean of sand that served as a home to one of the demo’s bosses, a giant spider-like tank with massive laser cannons for a head that allowed its back-up drones to deploy from within it. In the Prototype Missions, we only got to see four of these locations, all of them being quite different from the other. They are gorgeous and they truly pop compared to what I had been expecting.Įach Order (sorties/missions) comes with a change of scenery. The real masterpiece here? The atmospheric designs. It’s a beautiful dance of blues, reds, oranges, and yellows at almost any given time. Then you have the atmospheres that feel both familiar and otherworldly due to the looming threat players will face off against when bullets, blades, and explosions begin to light up the sky. Mechs themselves feel as if they were pulled directly from the Armored Core universe and improved upon, blurring the lines of everything we know and love about the series that its a spiritual successor of. ![]() Everything looks as if it were directly pulled from the Macross universe with Armored Core style designs that work out rather well for the Arsenal’s (the mechs you will pilot) in Daemon X Machina.Įxplosions are big, they are beautiful, and the details to everything is almost perfect. A beautiful one that works rather well if I were to be completely honest. Now, on the Nintendo Switch, Daemon X Machina steps away from that photo-realistic look and trades it in for an anime-style appearance. The style translated rather well into the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 titles and offered one of the best-looking mech franchises to date. Armored Core has always been known for its art style, a pseudo-realistic approach to what their series has to offer. The reason I bring up the art style first is for a very good reason. So let’s talk.Īrtistically, nothing’s changed, but graphically – a lot has changed Luckily for us, Nintendo and the team behind the game has released an official demo for the upcoming title and now, we’ve had a chance to see just how close to Armored Core a single game can be. With the two together, something unexpected has been in the works by the name of Daemon X Machina, a Nintendo Switch exclusive that is expected to launch later this year. For years, the series fell into silence, but in that silence, magic has been happening as former Armored Core developer Kenichiro Tsukuda has been hard at work with Macross designer Shōji Kawamori. To say the least, the final two were not well received by long-time Armored Core fans due to their departure from everything that made Armored Core great. ![]() In the following generation, we were given four different titles, each of them a far cry from the series we’d come to know and love as they followed through with their focus of online gaming. Since the era of the PlayStation 2, I’ve been waiting for what I could call a true Armored Core successor, one that follows through with what we felt Armored Core was capable of. Daemon X Machina Prototype Missions is a limited-time demo that’s available on the Nintendo eShop and gives fans of games like Armored Core a chance to really dive deep into one of the most ambitious titles for the Nintendo Switch yet. ![]()
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