I am doubtful of the military mecha genre’s capabilities to tell anything other than cynical stories of social defeat despite military victories, and Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon is a proponent of that doubt.
Read MoreSUPERLUNARY triumphs in the moments between pain and reconciliation, characters reaching out to one another as the only thing keeping them from falling inwards. It is not a sad game, not exactly, but its stability comes at a premium. Every pocket of intimacy exists inside a ship built for war, and even with the torpedos removed that fact is hard to ignore.
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