Missions are plentiful and varied, up to the point where they're not. Bigger problems emerge elsewhere with some baffling design decisions, like how cutscenes rudely interrupt some fights, or how some other fights won't play out until a certain piece of dialogue has been spouted. Put some thundering metal music behind it all and there are moments when I just wanted to stand and salute what's been achieved here. In the skies they're handy too, if not quite so graceful, and battles are told through bright blooms of cel-shaded explosions that look like they've been lifted from a Macross cel. The movement feels wonderful, a sense of weight and momentum told in the swaying hips of your mech as they glide around a salted earth with the grace of an Olympian ice skater. Special credit, though, must go to developer Marvelous for how it's brought these mechs to life. Macross creator Shōji Kawamori has lent a hand, and you can feel that in the sturdiness of the mech designs available (it's also worth noting that Yūsuke Kozaki, responsible for the assured character artwork of Fire Emblem Awakening amongst others, is onboard, though the anonymous designs of the mech pilots found here are far from his greatest work).
The things that matter most for mech lovers are all present and correct, not least of which are the mechs themselves. In action, this thing can soar, as you mix and match aerial and ground assaults, boosting your way around targets that are in your soft-lock sights and clearing out wave after wave of cannon fodder before clashing laser swords with rival robots in skirmishes that trace across the skies. If you've any love for piloting 50-foot robots then there's so much to smile about in Daemon X Machina (and if you haven't, then I'm really not sure what to say). Then go forth and be badass in your big bastard mech.
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Customise a robot as you daub it in decals and choose from myriad parts, juggling stats and the resources required to run certain pieces of armour and mods until you've got a build that's just to your liking. That formula, should you need reminding - and it's fair enough if you do, given its absence across the past decade - is simple. Indeed, it comes so close to that formula that it feels like a direct follow-up to 2008's Armored Core: For Answer, injected with some lysergic colour to help give it an identity of its own.
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That's down, in part, to its heritage, and its leanings this is at heart a spiritual successor to FromSoft's beloved Armored Core series that's been missing in action for so long, with series producer Kenichiro Tsukuda onboard.
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