I had no idea it was going to be so hard to find the time and energy to post about it after actually playing Armored Core 6. I was pretty much going through the first chapter in the campaign right up until I went to sleep.

Anyway, here’s how it started.

And here’s how it’s going.

It’s funny how the doom chopper from the start of the game gave me way more trouble than the ‘super fast siege tank’, or the Juggernaut as they call it. Even once my backup bailed on me, staying on that thing’s flank wasn’t hard. The doom chopper always had the option to fly out past the mission area boundary and keep me stuck directly in front of it.

So far I’m really liking the game. The controls are definitely a point of praise. I picked them up in about twenty seconds and aside from the expected slipperiness that comes with piloting a mech with a lot of momentum behind its movements, the handling is excellent. The only thing I needed to change was the y-axis camera settings. Most people tilt the stick up to look up and down to look down, but I learned how to play nearly all 1st and 3rd person games with that reversed.

This isn’t a review or anything like that; I haven’t gotten nearly far enough to even consider judging the game as a whole. I already made that mistake with Code Fairy and there won’t be any repeats. Instead, until I feel like I’ve got the full scope of the game, its strengths and weaknesses as a game figured out, I’ll just be posting occasionally about my progress through the game and my AC customizations. It’s the same thing I wanted to do with M.A.S.S. Builder. I probably still will for that game, too.