Incidentally, at time of writing, I haven’t been able to play in multiplayer (both online and local wireless are supported), but Daemon X Machina only features co-op options. Opposing Arsenals with their own specialised loadouts should be the main attraction, but enemy AI is poor enough as to make most encounters a game of violent cat-and-mouse, essentially forcing you chase a slowly depleting health bar around the map. Standard enemies - tanks, drones, and the like - are little more than cannon fodder, just UI dust to be explosively swept away. Missions almost never deviate from “destroy X things” or “stop thing from being destroyed” structures. The story places you as a mercenary just doing their job, taking missions as they come - I just wish it didn’t feel so much like a job to play. Progress just an hour or two into the campaign and you’ll have experienced most of what it has to offer over its 15 hour length. Machine-LikeWhile the developer has clearly put a great deal of thought into the framework of Daemon X Machina, the same can’t be said for the meat of the game itself. To get a taste of what the action entails, check out the Daemon X Machina's first mission in the video below: But there’s a fairly huge problem at the heart of all this: none of this hard work really matters. So yes, Daemon X Machina is a successful recreation of Armored Core’s, er, core, rekindling the mechanic-like thrill of piecing together a war machine that feels truly yours. You can easily build around weapon loadouts, whether that’s an all-melee, hyper-fast samurai machine, or a rocket-spewing steel beast that might as well be a turret. Another might allow for high speed boosts at the cost of a stamina bar that depletes just as fast. One set might improve speed on the ground but have you flying with the speed of a drunk bumblebee. Despite the incredibly granular approach to equipment stats, you can immediately feel the difference between loadouts. Most importantly for a mech game, Daemon X Machina deftly manages the interplay between your customisation choices and the act of playing. It’s a horribly rare joy to be able to simultaneously fire a machine gun, a bazooka, and a grenade launcher while waiting to charge up a railgun so powerful you have to plant yourself in the ground to even let it rip - it feels as good, and as silly, as you’d hope it would. Weaponry is stupidly plentiful, allowing you to take six weapons of many and varied types into battle, using four of them at any one time.
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It’s genuinely a little uncanny how natural it felt to play after years away from similar games (although I’d recommend a Pro Controller over fiddly Joy-Con button stabbing). Once you finally decide that your mech - or Arsenal, as it’s called here - is ready for combat, you’ll find that Daemon X Machina handles just right too, its walking tanks managing to communicate both physical heft and the freedom of high-speed flight.
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