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Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon Review

I was not expecting to get emotionally attached to any of the characters in this, but I did, I suppose that's the From software Way. 

So... let us review the sixth game in Fromsoftwares Armored Core series... Hope you all enjoy. 

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Premise:

Armored Core Six takes place in a sci-fi setting, and is basically a mech anime game on steroids, imagine a fusion of Code Geass, Star Wars, and Neon Genesis Evolution, which is a lot yes, but it is so fun! It takes place on the planet Rubicon, a planet that was once desimated by an event called: The Fires of Ibis, destroying most of the planet, but it has recovered and now there are three/four factions thriving for control. Balam, Arquebes, Rubicon Liberation Front, and Planetary Closure Administration. The first three are the main factions, throughout the game they are all at war, each of them trying to either take the planet for its resources, or force back the others from trying to take it over.

Our character is Augmented Human C4-621. I will be referring them to as either Raven or 621 from this point on. If your wondering what an Augmented Human is, I will be explaining in the lore section. But all you need to know is that 621, is working for a man named: Walter, who is our Handler. Our first mission is to acquire a mercenary license in order to be Legal on Rubicon to do mercenary work. After that we take jobs from everyone until the stakes start rising and we are given decision missions that you can only do once per NG. And that's what I want to discuss here.

Armored Core Six has three endings, the first two are the standard endings that are determined by the Decision Missions of Chapter Five, that either have you fight your best friends Ayre or Handler Walter depending on your choice, with the third ending only being accessible on NG+2, which begins all the way at the beginning of the game and then ends with you fighting the game AI, ALLMIND, who I think is capable of creating human subconsciousness from the data in the Arena, which is both terrifying and cool, since it's like the Mimic from FNAF and any other shapeshifter... Or I could just be wrong, anyway onto the Gameplay.  

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Gameplay:

Armored Core Six is a completely different game from the Soulsborne, it is so much more faster, and you have so much health, but only 3 repair kits that at max will restore 60,000 health, when you will likely have 90,000 to 120,000 by the late gate.

Armored Core always the player to design there own mech, or AC, as the game calls them. You have access to four weapon slots, two hand weapons, and two shoulder weapons. Both of the hand weapons are common firearms, like pistols, rifles, flamethrowers, bazooka's, missile launchers, y'know the usual while the two shoulder weapons are either laser shields, laser missiles, photon missiles, or launchers. So yeah, you are literal weapon of death, so have fun, and go crazy. 

After weapons you are given four slots to customize your mech. Head, Core, Arms, and Legs, with each part either adding weight, health, energy, or energy load as some examples. The game allows for three different leg options. Two legs which is standard movement, six legs which allows you to hover in the air, and then tank legs which... yeah you become a tank basically. All of the parts are made by a variety of corporations, Balam, Arquebes as two examples, while the Rubicon Research Institue, BAWS, ALLMIND, and RaD as some other examples.