Highlights
- Fans are impressed with Armored Core 6's customization options, allowing them to experiment with different strategies and aesthetics for their mechas.
- One player showcased their creative design by basing their mecha on Nintendo's Kirby, with a decal of Kirby's face on its chest.
- Some fans joked that Armored Core 6 was a sequel to Kirby: Planet Robobot, and others expressed interest in obtaining the code to replicate the Kirby design on their mechas.
Players of FromSoftware's recently released Armored Core 6 are already showing their creativity when building their mechas, with one basing theirs on Nintendo's pink superstar, Kirby. This new entry in the franchise is the first one in over ten years, and both fan and critical reception for Armored Core 6 has been positive. Despite it being a vastly different game from the Soulslike titles that the studio had been famous for in recent years, the newest Armored Core shows that the developers were looking to reintroduce the series in a big way.
One of the big things fans and critics have praised is its customization. Despite it not being a Soulslike title in any way, Armored Core 6 carries the spirit of the Souls games by allowing its players to experiment with its various options. If one build isn't working, then the game allows players to try again and expirement with a different strategy or loadout. Besides its mechanical aspects, players have also gotten into customizing the aesthetics of their robots, with one player showing one that is based on Kirby.
This picture was shared by Japanese Twitter user oyaji93, who showed a design of one of their mechas decorated in pink and red. The screenshot showed one of their mechs had a decal of Kirby's face on its chest. This is possible due to Armored Core 6's decal system, where players can decorate their robots with a customized design that can be placed anywhere. Decals can be shared using a unique Share ID, with the PC version allowing players to upload their own images to use.
The tweet's caption roughly translated says that this would be the result of Kirby inhaling one of the Armored Cores, which got a laugh from many users. Some fans in particular were reminded of the last time Kirby went on an adventure involving a giant robot, the 3DS exclusive Kirby: Planet Robobot. In that game, Kirby controlled his own mech suit that granted him the ability to use more powerful versions of his traditional copy abilities, taking on a brand-new robotic alien threat.
Some fans joked that Armored Core 6 was actually a sequel to Kirby: Planet Robobot, due to how it wouldn't be out of place based on Kirby's past nemeses that have threatened Planet Popstar. Other players asked for the code from oyaji93, as they also wanted to create their own Armored Cores and plaster Kirby's face on them. This is just one thing that shows how fans can spruce up their robot and make it look more unique.
Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
