Why Daemon X Machina Doesn't Scratch the Armored Core Itch

Hello again, my friend.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve had Daemon X Machina recommended to me fairly often, as a long time Armored Core fan. I’ve had it sitting in my Switch wishlist, and in my Epic Games backlog on my PC for a fair while now. I kept thinking should play it, and I kept saying: “No, it doesn’t look or feel like it will be what I want it to be.” I finally decided to buckle down, and sink some hours into Daemon X Machina, after completing a full playthrough of every Armored Core in my collection, and I was correct: It wasn’t what I wanted it to be. It just didn’t scratch the Armored Core itch for me, the way some of my colleagues had claimed that it had for them.

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