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The Soulsborne games were “the only real obstacle” preventing Armored Core 6Ĭat Bussell is a Staff Writer at TechRadar Gaming. Using everything it’s learned across seven soulsborne games and the power of modern hardware, FromSoftware is poised to create what could be the richest Armored Core game yet I’m excited to see what stories FromSoftware will tell in the environments of Armored Core 6. It is in the moments of sanctuary, however, that this sort of environmental storytelling has the most profound effect.Īs satisfying as I once found the Armored cores of yesteryear, returning to them today, I can’t ignore the abundance of monotonous gray corridors and generic environments. To walk amongst ruins in The Lands Between is to contemplate what these places might have once been like, and what happened to make them the way they are. The melancholy environments ooze with narrative richness. Though Elden Ring has a range of iconic bosses, the moments between battles are just as impactful. To walk amongst ruins in The Lands Between is to contemplate what these places might have been likeįromSoftware has been developing its light-touch approach to storytelling since it first released Demon’s Souls back in 2009, refining its narrative tools with each new game. This contrast between moments of sanctuary and moments of risk is not only a common denominator for both the soulsborne and Armored Core games, but suggests how the success of Elden Ring and the Dark Souls games is likely to inform Armored Core 6. After a frantic mission spent fighting for one of the game’s sinister megacorporations, I always feel a sense of safety and security scrolling through Armored Core’s immersive menus. You use this menu to manage your mech between missions, take on new contracts, challenge other pilots in the arena, and even read emails. 
Armored Cores 4 and Armored Core 5 also present you with a calming inter-mission menu that takes the guise of an in-setting computer terminal. In Armored Core 3, for instance, the Global Cortex menu acts as its own kind of sanctuary. It’s also where you respawn should you die.ĭespite their differences, both Armored Core and soulsborne games have remarkably similar gameplay loopsĪrmored Core doesn’t need bonfires, as the games don’t take place in an open world, but there’s a similar break in the action between missions. Only at bonfires can you recuperate and spend skill points to develop your character. In Dark Souls, you venture from bonfire to bonfire, using each point of light as an anchor on your journey. Yet, despite these differences, both the Armored Core and soulsborne games have remarkably similar gameplay loops.
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