It’s all about momentum, shooting everything in sight while running/dodging/flying. The gameplay is where Daemon X Machina falters a bit, even though it’s still entertaining and easy to learn. I just ended up skipping cutscenes whenever I could. The voice acting, while also very good, is tarnished by the game’s silly script and uninteresting plot.
Between the power chord-heavy, but still somewhat serene tunes of the main hub, as well as the insane trash metal-inspired tunes whenever you’re out there on the battlefield, this game really knows how to make things even more exciting. What better way to make a high-octane mech game feel even more insane than to add a fist-pumping heavy metal soundtrack to the mix? That’s exactly what the Daemon X Machina developers did and it’s glorious.
The framerate is always constant, even during multiplayer, which is a plus considering how underwhelming the framerate was during the beta days. Everything, from the robots you can customize (I made an EVA-01, obviously) to the explosions, is so flashy and colorful that you feel like playing the game just so your eyes can keep on being stimulated. Its mixture of cel-shaded textures and heavily saturated colors led to the creation of a truly pleasing visual experience.
The way the game looks is so good and so damn stylish that I definitely didn’t care about this at all.
Fully customize your Arsenal mech with a variety of weapons and parts to your exact specifications.Soar across the battlefield and engage in frenetic, high-stakes mech combat against corrupted machines and gargantuan Colossal Immortals.
But be careful-in a war fought by mercenaries, today’s allies can become tomorrow’s enemies.įrom the visionary minds of Kenichiro Tsukuda and trailblazing mech designer Shoji Kawamori comes a new generation of high-speed mech action combat. Piloting a fully customizable mech known as an Arsenal, you must team up with mercenaries like yourself and complete missions to defeat the Immortals once and for all. As a mercenary for the Orbital organization, you are on the front line of a desperate war for humanity’s survival against the Immortals-corrupted AIs that have rebelled against their human creators. You are an Outer, a new breed of human being that appeared in the aftermath of the Moonfall calamity.
In the west, the Switch version is published by Nintendo, and the PC versions by XSEED Games and Marvelous Europe. Daemon X Machina is a mech action video game developed by First Studio and published by Marvelous.