How does this game compare to other FromSoft games from the period like King's Field, Shadow Tower and Eternal Ring?
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Adrian Allen
It's terrible.
But the soundtrack is amazing.
(in the same way that the Drakengard 1 soundtrack is amazing, aka if you're a pleb you won't get it)
Thomas Sanchez
Do you have to play through the game two times? Witch each character once?
Chase Torres
I want a new Lost Kingdoms game where walker cards are actually good.
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Jordan Russell
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Let us not forget this beauty.
Eli Sanders
They were pretty much shit until Souls, not even memeing. They hit the jackpot with Souls, but it's also their one-hit-wonder.
Tyler Bennett
it had to have been a editing mess up that they forgot to fix before release. It has just has to.
Aaron Rivera
the game is literal garbage, every mechanic is quarter-assed and makes you question how the game even got published
Cameron Walker
Pleb taste, friend
Camden Green
Nah, the composer literally can't read music.
Caleb Rogers
But I played their other games. Some of the King's Field and Armored Core games + Shadow Tower Abyss were really good.
Jaxon Mitchell
It's like Eternal Ring in effort, except instead of making a 2 hour decent game they made a 6 hour bad game. Evergrace is the one old From game I'd say is outright bad and not just divisive (like an Echo Night Beyond).
Still worth playing for the soundtrack.
All From games are worth playing, if they're not making decent games they're at least making experimental ones. And they were extremely prolific. Shame they've consolidated all their efforts into just a couple of titles.
Jason Flores
It's fascinating. By itself it might seem like a bad game but as the intermediate step between King's Field and Demon's Souls it's super interesting to see all the mechanics forming. The game is still fun and has an interesting plot, the soundtrack is fantastic like no other game's soundtrack
Chase Hall
Yeah, that's why I'm kind of interested. People say King's Field was the main inspiration for the Souls series but this game seems kind of closer to it. Being an actual third-person RPG. I know there was Lost Kingdoms, but that seems to be completely its own thing.
Nicholas Robinson
>People say King's Field was the main inspiration for the Souls series
It's complicated. Demon's Souls is a King's Field third-person prototype that was canned, so there's a fair bit of Evergrace DNA in there, but was then revived by Miyazaki who was mainly inspired by Ico/Zelda, but still being worked on by people who worked on Evergrace/KoF.
It's not incorrect to say there's a fucktonne of influences in the series. Very much a product of the process.
Hunter Young
The control scheme is honestly one of the most baffling I've ever played.
The control sticks do basically nothing and having to constantly press a button to re-centre the gimped camera behind the main character is maddening.
The reason for this seems to be that they wanted to allow the player to control it with the old obsolete analogue-less ps1 controller, despite not coming out on that system and every ps2 shipping with at least one Dualshock 2.
Aaron Reed
I view this and Summoner as pretty much the same game.
Daniel Rivera
Customizing your mech in Armored Core games is lots of fun.
Caleb Lewis
Item shop music is a mess, but the rest of the soundtrack is brilliant
Isaac Lewis
My only experience with Armored Core is one of the first ps1 demo discs where all I did was customize and couldn't bring myself to actually play the game both because it seemed kinda shitty and the customizing was too fun
Camden Cook
This guy's shit is the simultaneously best and worst things I've ever heard.
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Caleb Reyes
I was surprised this was made by the same company as the Souls series, because I had this back in the PS2 era, and the game was just awful.
Jaxon Turner
Can you tell me which is the one you think is best and which one is worst? I will focus on trying to figure that out and not be able to listen to them organically. And don't say "it will be obvious", that will just add more pressure and I'll have a harder time thinking clearly.
William Foster
I like metal wolf
Thomas Watson
Homosexual opinion Armored Core games are peak
Jayden Bennett
What's so bad about it?
Dominic Nelson
Not the same user and someone who really digs this soundtrack here.
The rest of the game is pretty somber, and the music comes across as haunting and alien as you stumble about ancient otherworldly ruins. And then you step into an item shop and this chucklefuck is having a rave party and your ears are bleeding as you quickly try to finish your business and get out. Even in the context of the game the music is ill-fitting.
Nathan Baker
Walker Cards? You mean Independent cards?
Chase Lopez
>The rest of the game is pretty somber, and the music comes across as haunting and alien as you stumble about ancient otherworldly ruins
That one boss.
Jonathan Howard
Is there a big difference if I choose the girl or the guy? Is the story the same? Or do I replay it a second time as the other character to get the full thing?
Ian Cruz
You ultimately have to play them both to get the entire story. It's like in Birth By Sleep where each character offers a different side of the story.
Kevin Torres
Does anyone know Morpheus's english voice actor?