It's coming August 25th.
Is it possible for an upcoming release to feel both obvious and deeply strange? Armored Core used to be FromSoftware's most successful series by a lot, and yet hasn't had an entry in a decade after the Souls games took the world by storm. And I'm genuinely not sure how it will end up being received. So many modern FS fans have never touched an AC title or anything like one.
FWIW, Armored Core: Verdict Day was released in 2013, a year before Dark Souls 2. It was the fifteenth entry in the series. No one really cared. Since then, FS has released only two non-Souls-type games: a Japan-exclusive Monster Hunter spin-off title for the 3DS (2015), and a 2018 PSVR game that got very mixed reception (Déraciné). Armored Core 6 will be FS's first high-profile release since they hit it big that fundamentally isn't a Souls game.
Maybe AC6 will be a runaway success that will spawn as many sequels and imitators as the Souls titles. Or maybe the huge following that FS has cultivated on the strength of a very particular type of experience will largely pan it because it's just not what they're looking for out of FS. Those would be the extreme cases. Safe money says it'll end up somewhere in the middle. But I'm fascinated to see how it all shakes out.
EDIT: Not for nothin', currently the two top-rated comments on the YouTube trailer are:
This looks so fun I’ve never played armour core before
As a huge Armored Core VI fan since 5 minutes ago this means the world to me
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