Fact Check: Is Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon going to be a Souls-like game?
On December 9, 2022, FromSoftware, the creators of Elden Ring, provided the first official look into their brand new game, Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon. After almost nine years of absence, this is a return for the Armored Core franchise, making older players quite emotional.
However, one of the questions new players have regarding Armored Core VI is whether it will be a Souls-like game similar to Dark Souls, Sekiro, and Elden Ring. As it happens, Armored Core VI will not be a Souls-like game, and there are quite a few reasons behind that.
One of the reasons why newer players are having this discussion is because FromSoftware is always associated with demanding games. Fans feel that the company will always make games that punish the players, and considering it has found so much success, the developers will add that same element into all their titles.
It is first necessary to discuss what the word Souls-like means. The idea originates from games like Demons' Souls and Dark Souls. In games like these, the combat is challenging as it involves a lot of pattern recognition, organized movement, understanding timing windows, and taking on bosses. Every boss in a Souls-like game is unique; fighting each of them requires a lot of failed tries before finding success.
FromSoftware is known to be a company that creates only Souls-like games. This is true as for a significant part of the past decade, that is the only thing this company has done. Titles like Dark Souls, Sekiro, Bloodborne, Elden Ring, and Demons' Souls are all Souls-like games. FromSoftware has turned the concept into a genre. Other games that contain difficult bosses fall under the same category.
Armored Core, however, does not fall under this category. At its root, it
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