Well of course the Dark Souls studio need fires

Those really are some cool mechs. All shapes and sizes, bristling with greebles and gadgets and pistons and flaps and spinning bits and gatling guns.

I like to think those “feed the fire” and “let the last cinders burn” cards were intentional fakeouts for viewers expecting the surprise announcement to be a new Dark Souls game. Although, in the extremely unlikely event that these are hints connecting Armored Core to Dark Souls in some wild Drakengard/Nier-style history, I will lose my chuffing mind. Hey, beloved Souls blaggard Patches is an homage to an Amored Core character. They won’t be doing this. But what if…!

I’ve heard from pals that the Armored Core series has broadly been, like, okay, though I know it found fans. FromSoftware have come on leaps and bounds in making proper good action games since then, and I really would like this one to be proper good. I’m aching for more good mecha games.