
#Brothers in arms earned in blood view distance free
(The above edit is no longer necessary, just beat the final free mission.) I probably will do it before long anyway.) (Full disclosure, there is one free mission left but since it's a free mission I don't think it counts. I went all in with the sword at about half of his health and eventually did him in. Heal by landing in those little building like alcoves on the edges of the map but try not to have to heal if he is below half his health. The canisters at the bottom of the level are way too cumbersome and slow to use to actually bother with so don't. Using the sword was far and away the most effective while the guns were not very, also dashing was very necessary (once again, did not use it throughout the rest of the game).

I used a missile launcher, a Reaper assault rifle and the Habakiri sword. I didn't get to it last year for no reason in particular but didn't finish it until today because of the final level.

Then again, I'm pretty late to this party in spite of having pre-ordered it. If you like any of the other games I mentioned (possibly more if you wanted something between Armored Core and Gun Griffon) then this would be a great one to add to the library. It's all the good about Japanese made game soundtracks from the previous game wrapped into one and I listen to the tracks a good bit. The sound track was great, I love the Hangar, Arms of Immortal, Overkill, Panzer Crown, Open Fire, Ice Cream (as well as the Ice Cream shop itself), and Battle Dance. That's how it should be, lots of the better mecha anime have nonsense plots and this game is no exception to that and the reveal at the end of the game was really neat to me. I actually like how vague and bizarre it is. That said, it's one of the main things I like about it. I wish the last level was not so frustrating because then it would have been a more cohesive experience for me to recall. Some of these suck really bad but others are great, the Reaper machine gun is a nice standard assault rifle to equip.Ī really common complaint for this game is that the story is stupid or bad. The mechs are fast and highly mobile and pack can be equipped with a wide variety of bullet, laser, sword, beam, rocket, missile, and special weapons. This is just my way of saying that this game is the most refined and fun mecha action game I ever played. The Dreamcast 3D Gundam game is very interesting but odd to play. I love Gun Griffon and wish I could get Gun Griffon 2 to work and loved Mech Assault and would really like to play the second game some day. That was all from From Software, a developer I actually don't like very much and who are overrated but this game shared some staff I understand with Armored Core. Armored Core can be too slow and clunky with less great level design, Chrome Hounds is great but a little slow (and not back compat), and I have trouble getting into Another Century's Episode. This game is probably one of the best mecha games I have ever had the pleasure to play, mostly. The Panzer Crown ambush on your convoy was just barely not as frustrating as the final gauntlet, for instance.Įnough of the bad, onto the good. For the most part the missions are at least a little fair but many of them can be maddening, but almost in a good way. In addition, I beat literally every mission possible except the last boss and the stupid escort mission until earlier today. After finally beating the big bad I feel a lot better about the game as a whole and while the last level is still a craterous low point the rest of the game is well worth playing. I love this game and yet that final level is so stupidly frustrating and emphasizes all of the game's shortcomings so thoroughly that it is impossible not to just hate on the game. It was so bad it was just about literally a year ago when I put this game down after playing it nearly nonstop for a week or more. This game has an infamously stupidly hard boss that is not really so hard as it is frustrating how quickly things go south on you. Normally it's unexplainable, maybe you just tired of the game or felt the need to put it down for the time being and forgot to pick it up or whatever, another way it manifests is you get sick of the game's guts at the end. The point is you get to the end of a game, usually a final dungeon in an RPG and for whatever reason you cannot go on. It can also be called Last World/Final Boss/Final Level Paralysis. So, my brother and I have this phenomenon we call Final Dungeon syndrome. That was mostly because I played the Scarlet Nexus demo and the visuals and audio reminded me of Daemon. I noticed I had not beaten a game in a while (been busy with other things and been reading books more the past couple months) so I booted up Daemon X Machina.
