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FromSoftware is not aiming for “Soulsborne-style gameplay” in Armored Core VI



You might have missed it in the Game Awards news, but FromSoftware announced a new game last week. Armored Core VI: Rubicon’s Fire marks a return to the machines they used to make before Demon’s Souls set them on a different, more chivalrous path, and IGN just posted a big interview figuring out what the Soulsbourne lineage could have in one Game about flying machines with guns and rockets.

Armored Core director (and Sekiro chief designer) Masaru Yamamura welcomes sekiro comparison, while FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki is keen to emphasize that they’re treating it more like an Armored Core game than a Soulsborne game.

The interview begins with Miyazaki’s rejection IGN’s proposal that Core could be closer to the Soulsborne games than the previous series, noting that they “did not make a conscious effort to try to steer it towards more Soulsborne-style gameplay”. Instead, they’re aiming to go back to the “core concept of the Armored Core”, he insists, which for him means having a “high degree of control” over both picking which bits to attach to your mech and then actually use them on the ground, or indeed the air.

Meanwhile, Yamamura has agreed that both series “share the same fighting nature as aggression, change of pace, and action-oriented combat”. Combat starts to sound a bit like Sekiro as he’s specifically talking about a pose-breaking system designed to keep players on the offensive, especially with what he says about the “emphasis on close range” option. war” as well as gunfights. “We have some good melee options” for those who “want to get in there and do close combat,” he said.

That said, later in the interview, Yamamura also reiterates how customizing your mech defines combat, as opposed to the “very stoic, one-sided approach to fighting with only one weapon” that you see in Sekiro.

It’s worth reading full interviewwhere the developers also talk about the game’s mission-based structure, focus on single-player, aim for accessibility, and why FromSoftware loves the apocalypse so much.

Armored Core VI: Fires Of Rubicon will be out sometime in 2023.

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