US Gamer: One of today's more intriguing games was Daemon X Machina—a new mech action game with designs by Shōji Kawamori (Macross). Introduced during this morning's Nintendo Direct, it looked fun and interesting, but offered few details. I finally learned more this afternoon, and as I discovered, its mech pedigree runs even deeper than I first supposed, as many of its developers worked on Armored Core.
Starting today, Daemon X Machina is free at Epic Games Store. The free game offers run until February 3 at 11 AM Eastern. Once you claim it, it’s yours to keep.
Daily Video Game writes: "Amazon has kicked off its Black Friday digital game sale for Nintendo Switch gamers, offering up to 75% off on various digital first-party and third-party titles for Switch right now, including Daemon X Machina, Monster Hunter Rise, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and a lot more!"
Marvelous Entertainment hosted a livestream to celebrate the second anniversary of Daemon X Machina, and there is hope for a sequel.
I would be down for that. They sabotaged the sales optional of the first came due to lack of advertising and attacking the few people online that tried to plug the game. Because of that I never saw a sequel in the cards.
While there have been many mecha games that came out in the past year, none have really been able to scratch the giant customizable robot itch like DxM can. Its not as good as Armored Core but it does do a decent job of filling in Armored Cores absence. I like the things this game brings but they really need to work on their content. After the story was over there were a handful of online missions that could be cleared in 3-4 days. The randomly generated dungeon was a nice idea but it should have been really expanded on more.
This has me super excited, was a surprised announcement
There really doesn't seem to be much attention on this considering the talent behind it. Tons of people have been clamoring for a new Armored Core title and considering this is headed by the producer of those games you'd think people would be eating it right up. Instead it seems most people are completely overlooking it.
The music didnt fit at all. Overall a horrible trailer for what could be a great game
very boring trailer with a very shitty gameplay, with over the top metal ost that make it cringey
My problem with this is that while the mechs do look very reminiscent of armored core(which makes sense since Kawamori was the designer of the older games), the gameplay looked way too over the top for me (which also makes sense as he was a writer for Macross). I absolutely love the early armored core games, but they were about fine tuning your customization and being methodical in your approaches. For an analogy, Armored core used to be the Gran Turismo of mech games and this seems more Forza-esque...
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