Armored Core 6 made me feel things

Gonna try and curb future comments with this now, since I've gotten so many comments about it: I am aware that snail has different dialogue when you try to kill him in Xylem I just wasn't able to replicate it when I went back to record the isolated voice lines.

I just wanted funny robot game, but fromsoft decided to hit me with emotional whiplash instead.

When rusty said "you're out of luck. There's only one person that can keep up with me." And you started squealing.... I felt that 😂

Aside from Ayre, Rusty is basically the only character who 100% respects the player’s right to make choices for themselves. Even if you make choices he can’t agree with, you’re still his buddy.

Something no one has mentioned, when Rusty was working for the corps, his Emblem was a muzzled dog. When he’s fighting with us here, his Emblem is a howling dog.

“Look at you, 621… You found a friend…”

the sheer fucking rival energy with rusty though. GODDAMN. I love this game.

“Rusty’s signal just… disappeared!”

The tiredness in his voice when he says hes feeling beat hits so hard when you relize that hes taking on an entire fleet by himself somthing that you had to split between you and carla in the other ending.

I refuse to believe Rusty died. Head cannon is him ejecting and surviving his AC getting downed but didn't have comms to tell me he's alright.

its cool that if you try to kill him on the xylem mission he has different dialogue for this mission, for me he said "you tried to kill me, kill arquebus" instead of ignore

Incredible edit! The "He's getting desperate...and so am I" moment is just *mwah*.

went into ac6 thinking fun mech shooty game, but did NOT expect the feels. god damn it why.

The final battles were amazing, of course, but this fight with V.II Snail/ARQUEBUS BALTEUS was the most cathartic to me. The swelling music, the slow walk down the tunnel to fight the boss room (trust me, edge walk toward Snail next time, the song was made for it lol), Snail slinging venom at you the entire fight, all leading up to the most satisfying death scream in the game. Felt damn good.

I CAN FLY I FLY HIGH WATCH THE SUNRISE INTO DAWN

Everything you felt is what we all felt. This is what gaming should be, just pure joy and fun.

Unreal. The music sends this level into the stratosphere, it's so good.

the one last plan is the last boss which he captured when Raven was sent to re-education

I love the idea that the player character is just fangasming in their mech while rusty is being all buddy buddy with you.

For some reason, even though destroying the coral convergence seemed like the right thing to do. Liberating Rubicon was my favorite ending because in the end it actually felt like you stood for something and fought for what you believed in, that being Rubicon. You do wind up having to betray what you’d believe to be a friendship to Walter and Carla, but in reality the whole time they were just using you to fulfill their agenda. Rusty never turned his back on you, even if you did something he didn’t agree with completely, you were still his buddy.