Good News, Mech Fans: Armored Core Spiritual Successor Will Soon Be Free – Kotaku

You can fight some pretty massive mechs in Daemon X Machina.Screenshot: Marvelous

Is Daemon X Machina a good video game? Yes (no). Well. Daemon X Machina was recently described by a friend of mine as a 7/10 Armored Core spiritual successor, with the important note that every Armored Core game is a 7/10. This means that it is a good game by the Renata Price B-Games Are The Best Kind Of Video Game metric, which I will stand by until the day I die. It is also free on the Epic Games Store starting Thursday, the 27th, so you have no excuse not to try it.

Like the Armored Core series that obviously inspired it, Daemon X Machina is a customization focused mech game about auto-aiming weapons and movement driven combatwhich originally released on the Nintendo Switch back in 2019. You pilot an Arsenal, a modifiable mech platform that can carry everything from swords to railguns and twin bazookas. You then pilot this mech around relatively simple maps, killing enemies and scavenging their parts as you go. You then incorporate these parts into your own robot death machine.

This feedback loop is relatively simple, and the games auto-aiming can make weapons feel homogenous over timebut theres enough of Daemon X Machina to sink your teeth into before things become too rote. Its also worth noting that the game has co-op multiplayer, which allows players to tackle massive enemy units with their friends. Like any game, co-op will greatly expand what you can get out of the experiencesince your friends will help smooth out the lulls and weaker moments of a campaign.

Its also important to note that theres crossplay between the games Steam and Epic Games Store versions, which means that youre free to play with whoever you wanteven if your friends maintain a blind vendetta against the Epic Games Store.

As a firm mech lover, I for one can say that I will be diving into the PC version the moment its free to temporarily sate my mecha desires.

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