Another interesting video that provides food for thought! Remembering all the way back in AC1 spectacle fights were a thing, where in one mission after a grueling escape from an ambush you were made to fight a giant MT which dwarfs your AC. So fights with things bigger than your AC have been eatablished even back then. Anyone that played AC3 can recall the mission whrre you not only fight a giant MT but one that can split in half which mustve been a very gotcha moment for any first time player, though admittedly nome of them come close to spirit of motherwill in terms of scope. I cant say for certain why AC6 has only 2 big fights with things that dwarf your AC, but i suspect it mightve been restraint to make sure those fights atand out in the midsts of more mundane missions. If i do have a wish list, i hope that next titles will have it so that a spectacle fight coincidence with a personal one, say a rival or a once ally takes control of a oversized boss ala spirit of mother will, with the climax of that fight ending with the character fighting you ac on ac as a true gauntlet of skill. One could only dream..

As much as I love ACLR, I'm glad there are others who also feel the same why I do about the OST

Before I watch the whole video I will say that I've listened to all the Armored core music twice except for armored core 6 because I need to finish the game but still all the Armored core music are phenomenal and peak.

Silver Glint once again proving he's cooler than Otsdarva at the bottom of the ocean (RIP).

Y'know this kind of thing just makes me more excited for the future of Armored Core. AC6 was such a solid return to grace, but I also think it was a testing platform to see what worked, what didn't work, and how they could improve. As long as they're open to feedback and have paid attention at all to the positive reactions to the Strider, future AC DLC, expansions, and sequels are sure to include more of it. AC6 already felt like they took the best elements from all five previous generations. I'm so excited to see them take the best elements from Fires of Rubicon and keep evolving the series.

Big shout out to ACV with their world boss that must be played with a team! ^_^

I think, as with all things For Answer, the experience of Arms Forts is vastly improved in hard mode. On its own, Giga Base isn't fun at all, but when your VOB suddenly falls apart (common Interior Union L) and you're forced to make the rest of the way to Giga Based on foot, through the entire fleet protecting it, it's a far better experience (even though the Arms Fort itself is still Giga Bad). It doesn't excuse the normal mode experience being lackluster, but I feel this trend of hard mode being a better experience tracks for most missions in the game (and story). Nepenthes is just unforgivable, though. The only fun in that boss is pretending you're playing Touhou and dropping straight down, trying to dodge all the missiles and lasers.

my one issue with the strider is that once you get ON the damn thing there is basically nothing attacking you other then the eye. plus it needs more HP, allow it to properly get swings in.

God what i would give for a FA remake

That strider fight also reminds me of the Sol Dios Arms Forts from AC fourth gen. Kinda like a throwback except bigger and mounted instead of magically floating balls

Hope you're doing well

To this day we are still trying to figure out what the fuck they were saying with half of the 4th gen songs

yooo. what happened to the discord?

Honestly I just miss when Armored Core missions were literal SUICIDE MISSIONS back when.

Funny enough it was the other way around for me; I like the nepenthes but not the strider. It's the change of phase with the nepenthes that sells it for me every run; it's fresh as you have to think differently in movement (more like bullet hell) and there is no other boss like it. Clearing it repeatedly isn't much of an issue considering the mission's length. The strider on the other hand was somewhat of a drag. If you fall off, it sucks real bad to get back onto it (measuring depth in games is hard for me). It takes too long from the start of the mission to get to the main fight. Most non-AC bosses in AC6 feel a bit cheap to me, the fights themselves don't add much to the sense of scale or feel unfair as you can't obtain their parts, as well as lack of variety in movesets or reaction to a player's kit. Most of them feel same-ish. Spirit of motherwill and answerer fights in ACFA were really enjoyable to me however as they sell the sense of scale. I fully agree that 1 vs 1 (or 2/3/4/5) AC fights are the best part of the game and a real test of skill, like the last fight in ACFA route 3. At last, where's abii? I miss the sassy AI!

18:43 Those red lines were likely to prevent the glitchyness of standing on moving setpieces. They're typically very annoying to program and bugtest, so this was likely a design liberty the devs were willing to make to save a lot of time. If you want a good example of buggy setpieces, just look at half of the payload maps in Team Fortress 2

Very very good. Continue with all your efforts.🐸

Nice. Now this is a detailed look into good and bad of boss fights in armored core. As you say some boss fights are just that right balance, they are not too long and they give this great spectacle for players to enjoy and feel like holy cow i just took that thing down.(For me this would be the answerer and Phantasma) But oh nepenthes it is as you say a great concept, the lore and why its like this is beautiful. But the falling, the waiting all to just end up down there and for it to end with just a few shots. Not one of my favourite moments. I honestly was waiting for an ambush the first time i went down. I was expect some balam deserters to be honest, but nothing. Still nice work as always silver glint.

This is the origin of all those missions by the way kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ip53jdV51862omg.htmlsi=y-D4aTEgwTJAQmPn

Getting to the arms forts themselves unfazed is part of the mission though and you get less overboost on the hard mode

Another Silver Glint banger

I was expecting more fights like the strider, where you get more complex platforming and more interesting ways to take the armsforts down, but it never happened again...

P.O. Box: "I am forgotten..."

I'll be honest here. I liked the mobile games' songs more than the first 2 games'.... They gave me Advance Wars vibes for some reason

I mean raven did something similar with the strider

This movie:11 FUCK YES I miss Kota Hoshino's heroic rock-'n-roll melodies such as Nexus, 4, and 4A. Let the dark music pass to Darksouls, I need more and more energetic sound in AC! but I love Rough and Decent's jazzy sound too.

Perfect Playlist! Halfway Unit especially is a hidden gem.

i regret not getting into the series before AC6, silent line's ost is so fantastic it hurts halfway unit bb, thank you for the wonderful video

Bro putting Fall early it instantly made me crying 😭

You forgot stargazer from the end credits of ac6 D:

All armored core osts are sooo fucking good man.

Now we can start jamming anywhere in the world of armored core.

Halfway unit

Halfway unit is very disappointed that Artificial sky 4 is not mentioned in the video.

Panther given a 10? Opinion accepted God i fuckin love that track, gen 4s osts in general appeal to my musical taste a lot but unlike a lot of people i prefer 4 to FA Also my god Overture with ac4s intro fucks so hard

This was a great listen while at work, though my memory lane is shorter than some others as I played the most Silent Line and was never able to play Gen 4 & 5. What great sound design I missed and I’ll have to pick them up someday. Thank you, Raven.

I'm new to the franchise as of Fires of Rubicon, but I fell in love with it, 100% completion and now you have me wanting to hunt down the older games and their soundtracks

I started with nexus, just because of the controls, enjoyed it and was surprised that some didn't, then arena in nine breaker and finally last raven, where I was met with an interesting problem, camera movement somehow become much more stiff, borderline unplayable, especially when fcs locks onto something it's really hard to get it unstuck and giving the fact that all the ac encounters in this game love to jump and change directions all the time itg became even more of a problem