Ah, I see. Even back in the days AC fans still struggled with the terminal sickness of "not know where the fuck the enemy is because they flew into my blind spot"

The Virgin: I am Malenia. Blade of Miquela vs The Chad: Target Verified! COMMENCING HOSTILITIES!

Damn you really have to fight this man in your peripheral vision

*immediately red-zone thrusters to show dominance*

i love the sudden outburst of armored core content after the announcement

Seems like a fun fight. Think the coolest part is that he doesn't boost like other ACs, but he straight up superman flies!

love the fact that Nine Ball's line is glitchy, showing this thing is old as fuck, and has seen better days... yet it still woops your ass.

Imagine if you're traveling in the lands between and Malenia floats down and introduces herself by saying "Heard you were lookin for me."

Yes, Nineball is the Malenia for Armored Core fans but the MoA version was harder imo

Well now we have actual Malenia in ACVI lmao

"Commencing Hostilities" still gives me chills til this day

Bros FCS is just the fucking screen itself

AC6 players: "Bruh Ibis and Balteus is hard nerf him pls" Veteran AC Players: "Malenia? She should be ashamed of this monstrosity"

"9" is just outright terrifying as a boss theme, Like I got into AC around age 18 and "9" replaced "Premonition" from Final Fantasy 8 as the most scariest boss music.

The boss so nasty they brought him back for Another Century's Episode R

Having only played the PSP versions of SL and LR, it always amazes me how good people are at maneuvering their ACs

Armored core was a ninja gaiden of fromsoftware in terms of difficulty

I think you mean, Malenia is the NineBall Seraph for souls fans

Malenia is isekai'd Ultimate Zinaida tbh lmao, considering Miyazaki worked on Last Raven as planning staff

you mean, Malenia is the nineball of Elden Ring?

Trust me, in armored core Masters of arena, Nineball seraph, EX300, and ACE(Teifwald) is the hardest enemy to defeat

Look at that handsome devil

I would rather give that to ac4a ending 3 with a 1v5 boss fight

It's been so long when that music kicked on I had the biggest grin on my face. I can't wait for 6.

AC6: Hold my scarlet rot

I was sweating that’s intense

Yesn't. In terms of most iconic enemy, yes, all related to Hustler one/nine ball is. But on actual difficulty for old gen, most of traumas are for Matthias on AC2 arena and Final Zinaida on LR. Also, try them without human+ :)

you beat him, but now youre bankrupt

Relatable. Had to build the slowest, ugliest tank AC. Back against the wall. Use wide FCS. Let loose the Shoulder cannons (long-range) and machine guns (close-range). Get lucky and out-damaged Nineball Seraph when it flies above.

*Cell Ibis has entered the chat*

Nineball seraph is probably the hardest battle in AC series even including MoA

There was a counter for how many times you tried this mission. I had over 200 attempts, I've never beat nine ball, but I know I was always one moonblade swing away, or one kurasawa blast from victory. Never happened.

I have ammo anxiety. I need my moon blade.

I started playing this series at age 5... I'm not joking, I saw my dad playing Armored Core 3 and I have been playing these games ever since and only after buying Armored Core 1 on my PS3, I have only beaten 1,3,SL,and ACFF!

I slapped Stinger and Phantasma around like a wet spaghetti noodle. But nine ball is no wet spaghetti noodle. Im still haveing trouble eith him

It's rather telling that there are points in this video where the camera has failed to keep up with either mech.

Damn you beat him awesomely and went up against him XD I just used reverse bipeds and machine gun arms and dashed around and waited for him to come down and start slashing with its laser blade.

Love that Nineball just consistently cuts the bullshit at this point. No lofty dialogue, no elaboration, just takes one look at you and thinks your life hasn't been hard enough.

I found out back in the day that if you fly back to the wall with your back against the wall. Wait, just wait for him to come to you. When he gets close enough, he'll start his close range attacks. And when he gets close enough, jump up & fly on his back. At this point, he'll will try to attack you with no success. Then blast him with your strongest weapons. I personally used the large double cannons on him. Easy day all day.

I'm starting my AC journey with Nine Breaker, but I need a memory card to save my data

i remember having a build with an MG, a radar (i usually don't use radar lol), a multi missile launcher w/ extension missiles, along with the decoy internal thing i only really managed to beat him once but got damn i am not doing that again that shit's hard lmao

Ah, I see you took my approach to taking on Fragile in AC4A; all missiles to counter the advantages of being super fast and dodgy

dat human plus

My favourite Master of Arena BGM

Where was Let Me Solo It when we needed them in 2001?!

No, Super Zinaida is clearly her.

I was 12 when i beat this dude. Playing AC6 now, man this game is wayyyyy tougher than AC6 in every respect. AC6 still a good effing game though.

second tho this lvl of bs is the super pulverizer from the secret ending of LR, that thing is legit busted. and i fully believe they intended it to be some form of 9ball reflection, the pulverizers. with the addition of the energy shield gimmick and the absolute spam of weapons it has. and the perma flight

What still send chill to me is that nineball is capable of deleting someone in 1 combo and taking some hits is bad enough to get your heath halves

*COMMENCING HOSTILITIES*

My personal malenia is zinaids, but nine is close too

Actually its Zenaida

Blade of Miquela? TRY COMMENCER OF HOSTILITIES!

Hah! True! Or Zinaida/Schneider from Last raven :P

Eight thousand damage in two hits. i hate this boss.

*zinaida has entered the chat(

If you want to fight this version straight up, sure. Or, you can cheese him by equipping two Large Rockets on your back, boost backwards at the start of the fight and start boost-hopping up and down against the wall while looking down. His AI will cause him to boost into the wall below you trying to get behind you. Just sink rockets into his head whenever he's below you.

Melania is Nine Ball for Souls Fans.

Actually the other way around lol

Yes

I don’t want to deal with anything related to malenia

so AC2A is just an updated Master Of Arena? I'm trying to piece the story together and it seems the PS1 games are entirely retreaded by the PS2 games for storytelling or is this just a copy of 9ball Seraph, along with the "engaging hostilities" line?

All the kids complaining about ac6 being hard when they have never played an armored core before dont know our pain

Why not put *The entirity of Last Raven*

How did you get a big fcs lock box?

MoA version is much more harder.

What's the PSP Zidania for Elden Ring players then? Cuz Nineball Seraph is a *chump* compared to her lmao

What is human plus? I played AC2 and AC2AA religiously and have no idea what that is….

so, this is just my view as a fledgling raven that's... i'll mimic monster hunter terms here, 6th generation raven, so, from what i see, these bosses were considered hard because of their mobility and how slow the camera movement were in that time, right? not to mention the no ammo supply before boss, so, if people really want to make things harder, why don't they try to play armored core 6 with similar settings like these one? i've checked the settings in armored core 6, this camera speed actually feels like mouse sensitivity 0 in the input device settings system, so, you can recreate this feeling with that settings and not using supply cache before bosses, although this doesn't gave anything other than making things harder for the player itself, which is a different feeling from when it's the core settings like this game

Nineball was easy, he wasnt if you werent ready for him. I love the ai though, would love for his return in future games

Naaa Nineball have a cooler theme

I wouldn't compare Nineball to Malenia IMO. The difference between the two is while Nineball (mainly speaking MoA Nineball Seraph) puts the absolute fear of god into you for how he can either do one of three things, play with you then kill you, demolish you in the first 5 seconds of him engaging you. Or the hard-fought victory of you won. He's hard as nails leaning into BS mainly due to how much AC pushed the PS1 in every aspect but he was actually, fair in his challenge, usually. Malenia, is an unfair, unfun trainwreck of a boss that LITERALLY breaks several core mechanics you're taught about the game and how bosses work. Such as her ignoring stagger rules for spells/heavy attacks and such. ANIMATION CANCELLING out of blocking or attacks and so on and so forth, oh and having to parry her THREE TIMES to get the riposte. Not to mention her healing mechanics, insane damage output and an almost certain insta-kill with Waterfowl dance just turns a cool looking boss and concept in theory, into bullshit. Whereas Nineball is hard, sometime's seems BS but is more fair to the player on so many more levels. I'd rather fight Nineball, Zinaida and the 1vs4 (5 if playing the hard mission) of ACFA's Occupation of Arteria Carpals Mission in the Old King ending route. Hell I'd rather fight hard mode white glint with their full revive. Than fight Malenia. Quick Edit: This is coming from someone who's played Demon Souls OG, Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne and Sekiro before Elden Ring and I tend to do all bosses on all my runs. So yeah no, I'd rather take Orphan of Kos or The Memory Owl Trial than fucking Malenia as a boss to compare to Nineball Seraph.

Who is the Malenia of AC;For Answer?

What is a malenia

tfw not part of the program:

Seeing you struggle this hard against one of the easiest final bosses in any AC game while using Human Plus makes me so excited to crush people like you in PVP when AC6 comes out

I never found it that hard? I would test AC designs against it and if I could win with more than 1/2 AP then I was happy that it would hold up to PVP.

Downvoting just for the title

He’s not extremely difficult with human plus to be fair. I guarantee Malenia is harder