This song is: Armored Core 20th Anniversary Special Disk 02: 12 - Mechanized Memories - in the end - I truly hope that Fromsoft will keep the mechanical rock style in Armored core 6. It's extremely unique and really not something we hear in video games right now,. The armored core series has such a distinctive sound and while most audiences will know fromsoft as the dark souls folks, it's really exciting to go back to form with the game that really helped them become the fromsoft we know now.
To be honest, FreQuency’s work on Fourth and Fifth gen is so damn iconic at this point. If we don’t get a return, I’m gonna be sad. Buuut, the reveal trailer DID sound sort of like FreQuency’s thing.
This song is in AC for answer and it happen in 2 critical moment. The first is against white glint and the second the most important one in one of the ending after you murdrer 1billion people and all the most powerfull AC pilot wants to take you down. Ancient enemies became allies just to take you down ... it's a 1v5... and you still won and go after to commit more crime uncontested... yeah Scary
My theory on why this is all over the place is because the machine you fight with this song is made of scrap from other machines, so it's like all the machines are singing, but since all the parts of the machine are different they all make a different sound to make this song
It's a kludged together barely flight capable scrapheap version of machines that could casually break the sound barrier in the ac4/fa and it still has twice your health, a nearly unbreakable shield, and it can fly forever. A lot of ACVD is about the devastating weapons of the advanced past and that's why it's theme is a mess of previous themes and motifs
Fun fact, the reason why Armored Core's music is so unique is due to the fact that their composer, Kota Hoshino, is _self-taught._ This is the final boss theme of Armored Core: Verdict Day, where you're facing down a man who's lived so long on a battlefield that he can't imagine a place for himself in a peaceful world. At the end he's fully willing to let the world burn so long as he can keep fighting. To quote the man himself: "There is no place for me other than the battlefield. To live as I please, and die a senseless death. That is who I am. Not a mere man of flesh. War is part of my existence."
J was such a crazy boss fight. Getting to that mission and basically seeing the evil twin of White Glint charging at you was something else. Seriously, seeing the N-WGIX/v and hearing Mechanized Memories brought back so many memories from playing the hell out of ACFA. Of course, the true treat came during one of the updates several months later when something much larger returned... (and I still hope that they bring THAT back again in Armored Core 6)
J's a very Twisted character. from all the killing he done, to how he toyed with Magnolia and twisted even her perspective of life, turning her against us and forcing us to kill her too. i think by the point we meet him he's just looking for a way to die, on the place he call home, by the one he deems "worthy" the so called "chosen one" he was looking for through the game. and as he said, everyone that died up ti that point was him simply culling the numbers. i just detest what he done to Maggy tho. its too cruel. may be he told her that if she managed to beat him, and kill us too, J would let her be free, because he'd be dead. and she went absolutely insane over that thought. because J is the man that destroyed her life. he even ripped her arm off during their last battle, making her unable to perform what she thought was her reason at life. may be this whole music is what J's feeling when we put him down and FatMan asks him "there. you're happy now?" and in his dying moments J realizes all he done. and its terrifying.
J is like an echo of a man who died 100 years ago running in a computer. He's not allowed to die, like the Dixie Construct in Neuromancer and its something he utterly hates. He's so warped that a lot of what he says comes out as nearly delirious because so many concessions have been made on this digital echo that he's incomprehensible, even to himself. The "fantasy" is that he's a "real" person, and he gets just enough waking consciousness to recognize what he is and just like the Dixie Construct, they hit the reset switch and he's robbed of his realization of self-awareness of his condition and he's left with a sense of confusion, malease and his mind becomes slightly more corrupted and warped by the process of keeping him controllable. The final time you see him is when he literally removes his off switch, and wants you to kill him so he can finally die, but his programming won't let him self-terminate so he fights back. "Rain" (AC4), "Fall" (AC4), "Remember" (ACFA) and "Mechanized Memories" (ACVD) are all his songs, and they go from when he was a man of flesh to the current moment. There's a fairly strong chance that Joshua Obrien/ AI J is actually Nineball's origin story in earlier games later in the chronology.
Best thing about this armored core community, so small but we have big hearts. Had a game in verdict day when i was still in middle school, built a terrible ac, a veteran showed me the ropes and added me into their group. Very welcoming. Just hope they bring back the NEXTs from 4 into Armored Core 6
@@el_guapo1318 Fact you fight a Nexus from ACFA as basically what a normal is are scary enough sense it was fast and has primal armor. armored core really does put scary situation in fight like pulverize from last raven.
This song is a remix of a remix. Its a remix of mechanized memories, which is a remix of Remember. Mechanized Memories is like a fucked up hectic techno remix of Remember, since its the boss theme of a broken fucked up guy piloting a distorted fucked up rebuilt mecha from the previous game. Remember is much more ethereal and features a prominent choir which shows up briefly in this remix.
I thought I recognized this song, its a remix of another song! Years ago while in university I used to binge on Armored Core music, and Remember was the one I remember the most.
and of course the cyber-immoral artificial intelligence designated as Nine ball 1# of the arena and nightmare to pilots everywhere...is here...welp time to die ?
In Armored Core 4 a character named Joshua O'Brien - a fellow Raven - nickname 'White Glint' is shown to be an upstanding mercenary and treats your character with a high degree of respect. However by the end of the game the corporation which is in charge of his unit has him pilot a monstrous super mech against you and attempts to have you killed as your character presents a serious threat to their carefully manipulated power balance. After you defeat him and the game ends your character apparently takes up his moniker and forms a new colony in an attempt to uphold his desires to protect the people and do generally good things. In Armored Core For Answer, you are playing a new character entirely, but 'White Glint' shows up again, and no matter what choices you make, he dies. However it isn't quite so simple. It is apparent that the corporations which survived the previous conflict worked together to ensure that no matter the outcome 'White Glint' would die. This also included a betrayal by the very faction he was protecting. In Armored Core V, the *shadow* of 'White Glint' appears once more as the final boss and it is revealed his entire psyche was copied and implanted into another monstrous mech, and he is forced to do the bidding of a super AI which has been doing what the corporations from 4 and For Answer were attempting to do all along, maintain a ceaseless conflict from which no peace could form. The original version of this song plays in that fight. To me this song represents his internal fear and disgust. The righteousness, the good are both stripped away, and all that is left is a monster who can only comprehend battle.
Apparently, the Pilot of White Glint didn't die. The guys apart of ORCA apparently recovered him, though they were never able to retrieve his mech because of the damage.
@@starhammer5247 I mean, Joshua is pretty dead. Anatolia's Mercenary who took over and defended Line Ark was probably recovered because they wouldn't want to kill off a former player-character that easily...
@@proudlarry8225 Yeah. An in-universe interview in external official media essentially confirms he survived and is back in action. He just doesn't have White Glint anymore.
@@starhammer5247yeah White glints part alone in game was expensive In game 500k for guns 600k for Missiles 700k x 4 for each AC Part 290k for FCS 775k for Generator 180k for MB 90k for BB 180k for SB 490k for OB 01k for stabelizer So white glint is expensive AF
I feel the line that makes the entire song make more sense is "Look into the void, it's scary". It sorta implies that there's nothing left of this character other than a ceaseless, all consuming void of despair.
An important note to consider is that you the nameless pilot in AC 5 (game this song is from) is essentially this un-killable nightmare that defeats foes piloting crafts that SHOULD outmatch yours in everyway and give you no chance of victory and yet you still defeat them with RAW SKILL alone. Your allies fear you, one even comments on how everything you touch turns to ash. Your enemies fear you as if you are the mecha pilot equivalent of the doom slayer. Hell there even these hyper intelligent combat AI that can't compute how a human pilot is able to achieve the level of combat ability you have. The song also has a LOAD of call backs to early game music, appropriate to call this mechanized memories for sure as it gives me callbacks to another nameless pilot who single handedly takes on mechs the sizes of literal cities called arms forts. One of the melodies is a straight up mimic of the melody from the arms fort boss fight sprit of motherwill but sped up a little. I really hope they tease more of the old game soundtracks in the same way in AC 6.
Then that same nameless Pilot then gets called the “Dark Raven” essentially a Legend. So much so that the Reaper Squad exists just to prevent another “Dark Raven” The Armored Core 5 Protagonist has to be one of the most Skilled AC Protagonists second to Lone Mercenary. Whose basically his Second Coming
This apply to almost every AC protagonist, you as the player are an anomally to the world. An unstopable force that nobody understands. I remember in AC3 the game explicity tell you this before starting a boss fight.
@@FoxB117 Yup, like in Armored Core 1 where the Controler AI in the last bit of story Wanted to kill you cuz you're too good as a pilot that you actually destroyed the balance of power that the AI Controler made to make sure that Humanity survived after the great destruction, i even ask myself after clearing the story if am i actually doing the right thing or not lol
Story of Mechanized Memories is sang when fighting N-WGIX or J for short. J is a clone that has the memories of previous pilots who are at the best or peak at their height. Like in the picture of the music, you see a white mech is named "White Glint" is piloted by one best the pilots, and human plus augmentation since they can survive more than 9 G force that an average human can only withstand, since every ACs can move at Mach Speeds so suddenly and the "N-WGIX" is sometimes called the Black Glint in the community because they have keen resemblance. Well, after the defeat of W.G someone stole the blueprint of it, tried to replicate it and that's the result.
It's not human plus augmentation, human plus only exist in AC1 and AC2. The right answer is AMS system (AC4 universe human plus equivalent) that allows the pilot to control the mech directly with their thoughts and alllows them to survive over 9Gs, the difference between them is Human plus require surgery in order to take effect, meanwhile AMS is already installed into every Next's Core
Something to note about Mechanized Memories and the game it's in(Verdict Day) is around the 20th game. Point being...it might also be referring to veteran players who have been playing Armoured Core for a LONG time. Effectively were unstoppable monster's who have destroyed everything in our path wether it's a super AI or 5 against 1.
Oh I'm so glad you reacted to this song! Other comments have mentioned this, but it is actually a remix of an earlier Armored Core song, "Remember" from AC: For Answer. That song is commonly associated with White Glint, an opponent who was trying to ask you the reasons for why you fight (a core theme of From Answer's story, what is your "Answer"?). The White Glint itself was named after a machine used by the pilot's deceased friend, Joshua O'Brien, whom they themselves had to kill in the finale of Armored Core 4. This song, Mechanized Memories, is associated with the final boss "J", and his machine that is actually a salvaged and repurposed White Glint. You pretty much hit the nail on the head, as the character is coming to terms with his role as a soldier and part of the war machine, as well as possibly being either bred or engineered to be the next Joshua O'Brien/White Glint. The song is as much a culmination of J's character, as it is a corruption of Joshua and White Glint, a symbol of fighting for what you believe in, reduced to just another destructive element reducing the world to ruin.
My favorite tracks in Armored Core are "Someone is Always Moving on the Surface" and "In a Day", and it is a small sample of just how diverse the OSTs for this series can be.
I feel like you’re analysis of it being an internal monologue on the pilots end is spot on. Since it’s from ACVD it fits the theme so well with how that game ends and what it rolls into.
Don't know if Kota Hoshino is composing for the next game or not, but I love how the compositions are both dripping with emotional weigh/meaning and simultaneously completely nonsensical. I listen to alot of the work from Armored Core 4/4 Answer, 5, & Verdict Day like musical poetry. The feeling of these songs is really fascinating. Obligatory re-iteration that "Mechanized Memories" (Verdict Day) is a remix of "Remember" (4 Answer), which itself is a remix/sequel to an Armored Core 4 song "Panther". Which if analyzed can create a 3 song story arc for the Anatolia Mercenary that goes from Mercenary to Hero, and then from a hero to a mythological legend.
If you're doing Armored Core themes as well, you should listen to "Someone Is Always Moving On The Surface." It's really bittersweet, a piercing use of the piano. I don't quite know how to best describe it. The notes sound warm and you get the feeling the intent is to invoke a sense of hope; but the song in it's entirety seems hollow, like the hope is intended to mask a feeling of pain. The pace of the piano is quick and the chorus swells, but it rings empty or broken. A good metaphor would be wearing a smiling mask to hide the fact that you're crying. The song's delicate and powerful and lonely, poured together into one.
This track is peak Armored Core! it encaptures the soul of becoming one with the battlefield! Also in the Armored Core series you can go throught a cirgury to allow yourself to be fused with your mech and its called Human+ is really interesting stuff!
I’m not a Armored Core fan, but I’m a big MECHA FAN! And the new game revealed last night has really hyped me up!!! And I hope the OST is also this good!!!
While the specifics may differ I think you have the right take on this. The reason I say that is because the player (from Armored core for Answer) will ultimately eradicates a significant portion of humanity and thus I think your take on the moment of realization is a strong one. Also the “oh I’m scary” is also likely to be the realization of how the main character has become “scary” as the killer of mankind. The final portion of the song has another track from for Answer mixed, and it’s chanting “amen amen, gospel, amen” which may be an internal prayer.
What I find REALLY interesting about the Armored Core For Answer endings is that there's basically 3 main endings: 1. Execute the Closed Plan with ORCA to liberate space travel once more but doom Earth to a grisly death due to the League arranging amnesty for their leaders prior to the Closed Plan and now getting to abandon Earth with the elite and take all its resources with it, leaving no refuge for the lower classes due to you destroying the only sustainable arcology Line Ark and leaving only the highly toxic/radioactive kojima plants. Also only the elites get to escape so all the other slightly less wealthy people now die from illness since they never adapted to life in the surface pollution and the Cradles have been forced to land due to you rerouting all their power and destroying the control system. 2. Stop the Closed Plan with the League and maintain the status quo, allowing the wealthy to live in bliss upon the Cradles a little while longer before the kojima plants that keep them afloat start to pollute the upper atmosphere as well, ultimately dooming all of humanity within generations when the surface dwellers can no longer survive and maintain the plants and nobody moves into space. But at least you saved Wynne's family. 3. Destroy the League. Destroy Orca. Destroy the Civilians upon the Cradles. Become the greatest monster in history, eliminating anybody who could possibly stop you. And yet, Line Ark still stands, the anti-satellite battery still stands. Technically the pollution of Earth has been halted dead in its tracks (upon the blood of the Civilians it was sustaining which you murdered), a sustainable refuge remains for some (though Line Ark does not have the capacity for everybody and will likely degrade due to overpopulation and corruption introduced from these changes), and the resources to liberate Earth to space travel remain intact for future use (though arranging for their reactivation will likely lead to future conflict as humanity briefly cooperates to make them functional and then immediately struggles over who gets to utilize them). Arguably the best future for both the Earth and Humanity given the choices, but at far greater immediate Human cost. There was no "good Answer". It makes me cry but makes me think about our own future and how to create alternate Answers.
This song is remix of Armored Core for answer "Remember" and song is used for final boss "J" the leader of Reaper squad in this case "n-wgix/v" as the boss NEXT from AC4a it only brings death to those around it.
And Next or reason why V and Verdict day are literally wasteland fill with bomb out buildings and deadly weather from radiation they give off. But that's pretty much the rundown I could go much more deeper but that would spend literally four games
Judging by all their previous reveal trailers the music they had in the TGA will be their new direction. Dark synths and heavy electronic. The theme we heard in the trailer might even be the main menu theme. I fucking loved the new trailer. The music was so alien and gave me such an strong sense of dread, really fits the post-apocaliptic, war torn future world these games are set in. Im really looking forward to AC6, though personally I hope they slow it down from 5. Haven't played any of them but when I decided to look at gameplay the pace of old AC games seemed way more up my alley than the crazyness of 5.
The theme of Fires of Rubicon (I'm just assuming) is indeed impressive and the main reason I've re-watched the trailer more than a few times. Not having payed attention to AC since the PS2 era, I've never seen the grit of brute dirty mechs clashing in what feels like the end of the world be represented so colorfully through music. The whole thing is elevated into the robotic uncanny, and I feel it actually touches into broad themes of the cyberpunk genre where humanity is dissolving into the destructive cold fire of bellicose machinery. Considering the screenshots from the leak, AC6 might indeed be the most atmospheric and aesthetically gripping AC. I'm very much excited for it.
It sounds a lot like the song for the reveal trailer for AC V, which was a sign for the whole soundtrack indeed, though I do hope there is some of the type of lyrics song that were abundant in Verdict Day.
Also check out Cosmos! It has a reprise from the music DLC for verdict day, and replaced this song in the ending! The piano kicking in on that song while the final boss flies in and monologues was peak AC space opera mech drama. Remember - On Your Memories reprise from the anniversary disk is another awesome rendition of this tune. As for this song in particular as someone who started with gen 4 AC hearing this song reprised as a frankensteined version of the 4th gen tech swooped in was like a Soul of Cinder moment for AC fans. So much emotion.
What you are hearing is the remix of mechanized memories which play during the final battle of armored core verdict day. -Spoiler alert- Which.... You are right. These songs is refer to the pilot who.... His entire life is nothing but fighting. But once he's alone and fight against you, he brought back something old. Something.... that the player recognize it. Something that used to be symbol of peace and heroic (White Glint). Now becoming a monster who destroy and disaggregated everything that it walk through (the second phase of the fight) To him... Talking doesn't mean anything in battlefield. It's only about survival.
6:10 So, there is a part of the Armored Core lore, that certain pilots, either by choice, or through extenuating circumstances, are directly wired into their Core, this is usually referred to as HumanPLUS, though AC6 calls it "Augmented human", and in AC6 it's heavily implied that every pilot is HumanPLUS. AC4/For Answer uses a similar method for NEXT pilots, called Lynx, known as the AMS, or Allegorical Manipulation system, in which only people with latent psychic abilities can be pilots due to the mental strain the AMS places, which in high level pilots, can be nothing more than a minor headache, or in lesser pilots, things like nose bleeds, nausea, burst blood vessels, aneurysms... So, yeah, you could argue that J, who is either.. the barely alive corpse of Joshua O'Brien from Armored Core 4, plugged back into the cobbled together remains of his best friends mech from For Answer, or an AI made from a scan of his deceased brain, just.. wants to get out of the monster they turned White Glint into, an act that will kill him, regardless of his circumstance.
(I haven’t played armored core before but) I think the music really fits a gritty mech aesthetic, using rock for the grit and a lot of the more synthey 8 bitty almost stuff for the mech / technology stuff. Really fits it. I gotta try the games sometime.
Armored Core is the one of hooks that first got me into Fromsoft games. One is Tenchu, and the other one is Armored Core. It was so different, so difficult, to the point of me wanting to give up. But the game mocked me, taunting me with all the cool stuffs that I can get and become, if I only moved a little bit faster, turned a little bit better, and shot a little bit quicker. So I put a little bit effort into it, and I was reeled in. _Master of the Arena, Silent Line, Nexus, Ninebreaker, Last Raven, 4, 4 Answer, Verdict Day._ I can't never return. I am happy in my giant quadrupedal/ bipedal metal coffin of death, in the blasted nuclear wasteland where mega-corporations clashed with one another, with their giga-fortresses and legions of murder machines. Welcome, *Ravens* of old and new. The Rubicon had been set ablaze. Time to make some money.
@@MarcoMeatball Yup, in its all blocky, frustratingly unresponsive camera glory. But I still love the series tho. That feeling when you scored a perfect assasination and stealth mission. *[Chef's kiss]*
My take on the lyrics was that it's someone deluding themselves into a power fantasy to escape fear. "I'm the scary one" for example sounds like a "I don't need to be afraid of them, I'm the scary one, so there's nothing to fear"
All of Armored Core's music so far has been composed by Frequency, Fromsoft's in-house band. I'd be surprised if they didn't use them again. For other pieces, there is A LOT of it but there's some I feel are stand-outs. "Spirit of Motherwill", with "The Mother Will Comes Again" as a sort of follow-up or sequel to it "9" "Fall - Into the Grace" "Sunrise" "Someone is Always Moving On the Surface" "Artificial Sky (shape memory effect)" "Thinker -reprise-" "Lament Over the Howling Age" (Honestly, I can just recommend their entire Sunrise album and the Reprises album, those are just so good.)
I've played a couple of the Armored Core games, but never got very far because of the difficulty. That said, I'm extremely stoked for Armored Core 6. Seeing the announcement really made my day.
AC fan since gen 1. Here's a couple of songs/tracks that might be good to listen to. AC Master of Arena - 9 AC 3 - Artificial Sky 1 AC 3 Silent Line - Silent Line AC 4 - Mr. Adam AC 4 - Thinker AC for Answer - Someone's always moving on the surface AC for Answer - Spirit of Motherwill AC for Answer - Remember AC for Answer - the Answer Armored Core 1 through 2 has this heavily techno oriented sound and since Armored Core 3 onwards has gotten more orchestral, save for Armored Core V and Verdict Day. Only odd OST for Armored Core is Formula Front since that game is basically Armored Core combined with Formula 1 Motorsports.
you were in a mech, shooting down hostiles because they had lesser technology, or lesser skill than you and then you see that flash that white glint then your screen is missiles and bullets and you sure as hell know this pilot means serious business
My take on the "im scary part" is that it's the player. Think of a normal, innocent person playing an armored core game, becoming this mech pilot of mass destruction and slowly figuring out what an equally normal civilian in the game sees them as, and soon they realise that all the scary mech fights they've been in has turned them into an equally scary, if not even more frightening pilot of a weapon that could literally, and probably has, killed thousands.
It's incredibly interesting you see the death and changing of the pilot into something scary in these lyrics. In the game AC: for Answer, the main character dies in two of the endings and in the third he/she literally becomes death it self. Killing 100 million people in a single mission and becomes unstoppable by the end of the game. "Some called it the Dark Raven". So your read on the lyrics is spot on. You either die in the game or you become something that has zero humanity left in them. And these lyrics are really sad if they are the internal monologue of the pilot. Love this theme so much!!! I can't wait for AC6. I hope you will cover that music too
I don't play the game and don't know how to describe this better but the song really remind me the anime aerial battle vibe where the pilot getting chased by countless missilesthrough the sky, he keep dodging and shooting down one after another while not slowing down leave behind a trail of explosions, he is filled with fear of death but when he look forward the view of blue sky, the ground stretch infinitely along the horizon, from the corner the sun light shine through his cockpit, look at such view his heart throbing with excitement as if he truly being alive right in that moment.
2:25 Ask the 100 milion people that you kill in the mission where the original version of this song (which is Remember) plays. And yes, it is called Mechanized Memories in reference that the original song was meant to make you remember the monstrocity you're commiting by killing those people.
WOO lets go! I'm still riding the hype from yesterday. Glad you're exploring armored core music, I have a hard time finding anything else quite like it, can't stop coming back to it
the way i interpret this song is from the perspective of the robot itself actually being sentient and trying to communicate with you but it doesnt know how so it throws out words that get close to the meaning its trying to convey
A human turned into an A.I, his name Joshua O' Brian one of the best pilots piloting an AC 'NEXT'. Like your previous comment said "it make no sense" after being turned into A.I for hundred years I'm sure he suffered some mental instability, became so erratic, and his wish for a peaceful death was a fantasy turned into an A.I by the corporates bidding
This was such an enjoyable video, I've loved Armored Core since I was a little kid and I listen to it's soundtracks a lot when I play other mech games like MechWarrior, and Gundam. Watching someone analyze the music and hear out unique and interesting it is was fun, I'd love to see you listen to more Armored Core songs.
I wonder what you'd think of the Evergrace soundtrack now - Kota Hoshino is one of the most interesting videogame composers I'm personally familiar with for sure. Unorthodox through and through and Evergrace is his most interesting project to date far as I'm concerned.
So glad you’re doing another classic ac song, I was curious if you’d be excited for the announcement of ac6 and it’s good to hear that you are. Hope you’ll do some music from that when it launches.
The main lyrics being repeated, So I'm Scary, All is Fantasy, while not confirmed, could be about the protagonist of Armored Core For Answer, someone who goes crazy while felling Cradles in Space containing most of humanity, realizing what he is and saying it is all fantasy, becoming the villain of the game, so yes you are very correctly, this is the pilot singing in his head. The rest of the lyrics could be about Armored Core Verdict Day, where Mechanized Memories play in the final boss, which is a callback to the main mech of Armored Core For Answer.
Armored core my beloved (its actually the source for my icon) while its filled with just a ton of epic tracks and stuff they are all really damn good, and there really hasnt been any other mech game like it, number 6 cant come soon enough, especially with how much From Soft has improved over the years
@@Glonag I recommend you check out the older games if your only experience of FromSoftware are the souls games before going into it. Armored Core has a learning curve to get through in order to enjoy it fully, that is if AC6 is gonna be similar to the previous games.
@@Glonag Then now is definitely a good time to start. Mech genre has lots of gems, Armored Core being one among them. I recommend Heavy Gear 2, Mechwarrior, MechAssault, Steel Battalion (if you can somehow get the setup to play that), Zone of the Enders. There's many others but these are the ones that come immediately to my mind.
the character theme talk it's spot on, it's a realization both for the player and the enemy and it's one of the main themes of the ac franchise(humans can ba scary and monsters but so do machines and in the end everyone and everything has the potential to save the world or to destroy it, it's just a matter of choice)
Well, 6 will be your opportunity to get to learn more directly about AC! I always found the music of the series to have a very strong identity, one that I have faith they'll move forward into the new game.
This music is the music of the final Boss , J , a myth and a legend just as much as out mute-psychopath pilot is , he as lived through countless wars and even said himself « There is no place for me other than the battlefield. To live as I please, and die a senseless death. That is who I am. Not a mere man of flesh. War is part of my existence » And my personal theory to why is it the reoccurring theme in this music is of pain , fear and fantasy is that J is the ‘’rookie lynx’’ the pilot of AC4 for answer. where you have there ending and one of them is the devastation path where you destroy the flying cities of mankind housing half of humanity and kill five elites pilots in high grade NEXTs ( the name of the mechs ) single handedly , You are monster of a man , you destroyed the world and the fantasy that humanity was and left it a warring hell scape and in that world he is the incarnation of apocalypse and death Parts his mech literally comes from the white glint , a symbol of hope for peoples that fought for their own freedom against ‘’elitist parasites’’ and to get that said path you have to fight alongside the white glint to defend line ark ( a group that fought against the established power « the league » )but in the end WG is destroyed and you are the only one remaining of that battle and you obtain the mech for yourself that you can use for yourself I haven’t played AC5V but I have looked it up a lot to write this , you can also assume J is for « Joshua O’brian » the first pilot of the white glint who himself had to be killed by the mute pilot , the mercenary of Anatolia, and by doing so he endorsed that name and became a legend It is like a cycle , the knight in shining armor defeating the mighty dragon ( and his 50 fucking missiles ) and being renowned for his prowess as THAT MAN that slayed the evil to become the hero long enough to become the evil that will be slain
I'm a FromSoft fan, and I gotta find a way to play the older games before 6 releases. You keep finding great soundtracks that pull me into games, Marco. My wallet is screaming at me! 🙃🤣
@@theguythatdoesstuff1004 Emulating Armored Core does not make it happy. Idk why but it fucks up the textures a lot and causes crashes on random levels. But ironically it has an amazing frame rate lol.
I know this video is a year old and you probably won't see this, but it'd be really cool if you were to react to Day After Day from Armored Core Verdict Day
Armored core songs are so amazing💯🔥 but so hard to describe 😂, and "Mechanized Memories" its like variou toughts e feeling at the same time but i think this 4:00 makes sense, thanks for the video👍
One theme I always enjoyed about Armored Core is that of always improving yourself, with every munition you use and any damage you sustain it will be deducted from your pay to repair and restock your mech at the end of the day. You take any job not only to survive and maintain yourself in that post apocalypse but to also upgrade and improve your mech with your hard-earned cash, the missions will get harder and deadlier as your reputation grows. You learn to adapt and improve every mission either by not wasting ammo needlessly, bringing the right armaments for a specific mission, or by better taking advantage of cover or your mobility to avoid damage all in order to get higher payouts. All that cash is used to further customize and improve your mech according to your needs, knowledge, and playstyle preference and by the end you will have a reflection of all your improvements in a tailor-made Armored Core that you can call your own
This series mostly have AI or people who turn their consciousness to the digital one, thus mechanized memories : ) The boss in this theme song is scared that the war will end. He wants to continue his fight and warfare forever.
Glad you enjoyed the music of the series. It has some really good tracks. You should check out the older ones too, like Apex in the Circle, 9, Silent Line etc.
Another great video, Marco! 👍 That Armored Core VI reveal was absolutely amazing, I have no doubt that Armored Core 6's music will be absolutely fantastic and honestly I see both the comparison as to how good the music is between Armored Core and Ace Combat although there are two totally different tones!
Many of these songs are remixes of songs of other games. It would be interesting to listen to the original "Remember" from Armored Core For Answer, as well the original "Cosmos" from the same game since you heard the remix version already.
That song made me listen to all the AC OST and look in to the games, previously i only played Omega Boost and Zone of the Enders. The last one has interesting songs as well!
I'm actually excited that FS is making an AC game after 10 years, I think. I'm more of a mecha fan wholeheartedly, but I do appreciate the soulsborne that FS has made for a good while. It's just great to see they're touching back on one IP
Imo, I am very much in love with this song. The confusion, chaos and realization theme of the song, the abstract lyrics compared to the in your face “Oh I’m scary”… This song is that of someone who’s been a war for so long that all he knows is war. Song’s niche, but very good.
Thank you Marco, as an Armored Core fan, I can't even express how happy I am when you review this banger, my 1st favorite track from Armored Core. And Armored Core 6 is coming Ravens, we have waited 10 years for this.
Everyone nailed the point. This song is a throwback to AC4 and AC4A since verdict day is waaay into the future past 4A. But somehow not even a tenth as good
Mechanical Memories is a title of 2 song iirc, both a earlier garage theme and then this personalized thematic. This song is like a 4th wall break, and like you have mentioned, realization. But it's a lot more like the state of realization rather compared to coming to one. Later AC titles played on an Especial pilot on the field (often you, the enduring wayfarer) . A eureka moment lived in the present, "Oh I'm scary" As a player this is a zen moment. When we both become into confidence and awareness un our build. The same confidence that allows us to see we are going beyond survival, and able to see the 'battle picture's for ourselves. This also matches the indirect storytelling AC is loved for. We become scary because we become the stuff of legends in the moment. I'd say the different lyrics are like the different directions and what you can come to this point, just like your machine coming from different directions, but you come the 'scary', because you can now see things differently and it's like a fantasy. Turn that now you can shape your memory. (Ironically the very first garage song is Shape Alloy Memories, Malleable yet memorable... AC tends to be quaint in this way) Nice of you to take a look at this series, music in AC has shifted roles, but always aimed at this quality of fondness. Warmth being with the player in this cold setting.
Theres a significant story boss in Armored Core 4: Answer that has this themesong called "Remember" which is the original song Mechanized Memories was remixed from, and once you see the final boss that plays this song in Armored Core 5: Verdict Day, it hits so much harder
loving the vids, especially as a fellow person with musical education, refreshing to see someone appreciate OSTs not just as cool background music, but independent pieces. don't know if that's the way to do it, but would love to see your opinion on soundtrack of Deep Rock Galactic. great mix of ambient and action synth, and the game itself is a brilliant coop.
The song feels similar to armored core 6 theme. So excited. Never played AC game but watching AC6 reveal trailer felt amazing and hopefully it's great and i also hope it doesn't have souls mechanics
6:05 - 6:09 really nails the point of the song. This song plays at the end of Armored core Verdict day, after the player has fought their way to the end of a long war, only to find that theres just another war waiting for them, they don’t want to be a soldier anymore but that’s been the future set out for them.
You need to check out Precious Park from Armored Core For Answer in my opinion one of the best ost in the series. Also check out Nineball Theme, Autobahn, Remember and Day After Day
Yes this plays for the boss in Verdict Day that is essentially a NEXT from the previous game 4/4a that has been cobbled back together. The pilot, J, is a clone of other skilled pilots, bred for war. So pretty scary to fight as the player and probably scary for J to realize your only purpose is war and your only home is the battlefield.
This is actually the anniversary version of Mechanized Memories which i believe came from the rare armored core anniversary boxes. The differences between the original and this one is that it makes several callbacks to the older games, like the section near the end that sounds like "Please remember. Just remember" which is a sample from the song "Remember" from AC4/For Answer. The 8bit arrangements still remain unclear to me as there was no 8bit arrangements until this anniversary version of Mechanized Memories released.
A remixed version of the Armored Core Verdict Day final boss song. J pilots a heavily altered AC likely drawn from the White Glint from AC4/FA, and the song is mainly a remix of AC4's Remember. What's more beautiful to me is that it also mixes in Cosmos - that main riff is entirely Cosmos'! Easily my favorite song from all of Armored Core, and it's such an homage to ACFA. Love it to bits.
I would love to see you reacting to Regicide from Destiny. That song for me is literally what I think everytime when the word "villain" comes to my mind.
Something other people dont seem to be pointing out, this song is a remix of a song from Armored Core 4 and AC4 : For Answer called 'Remember' and has little bits in it from other songs in the series. The boss fight that it plays in is a boss who is made up different pieces of iconic Armored Cores from throughout the series. Its a bit of a tribute to the series.
This is a remix theme to an AC Pilot/Bossfight Armored 4 that appears in 4 Answer. The boss pilots a AC that is made up of parts form his own and his implied lover. (whoes theme this is a remix of.) He's incredibly mentally unwell due to her death.
To be honest, when I initially played ACV/VD, I didn't get to hear music when I played it initially which drastically changed my take on the game, as I thought it was intentionally music-less. In hindsight, it was either a read error or something else that caused it, so it wasn't until more recently that I got to hear the music from these games. I didn't dislike ACV/VD, though. Playing them without any music gave a strangely solemn experience, and the mission in particular was quite scary too, especially given the design of the enemy in particular. Hearing the music meant to go with it, it's good to know that the music didn't depart from the music sound design of V/VD's predecessors'.
I've seen their press conference from Vaati, and I have high hopes. Was an enjoyer of the PS2 era of AC, when I went to my friend's house who has a PS2 and love getting my mech destroyed in AC. It was also my first FromSoft game before I knew about the name and Dark Soul series.
Oh this song originalversion also play in AC4A. when you decide to go insane with the world and decide to destroy a essentially sky apartment complex and kill 100 million people.While old king humming playfully.
If the trailer is any indication the music for sure is going to be interesting, I have never played an Armored Core game but I am really curious what Fromsoft will go with this title after learning so much with their recent games
![[Armored Core Ⅵ] Mechanized Memories - in the end - 機械化された記憶 lyrics 和訳](/img/n.gif)
This song is: Armored Core 20th Anniversary Special Disk 02: 12 - Mechanized Memories - in the end - I truly hope that Fromsoft will keep the mechanical rock style in Armored core 6. It's extremely unique and really not something we hear in video games right now,. The armored core series has such a distinctive sound and while most audiences will know fromsoft as the dark souls folks, it's really exciting to go back to form with the game that really helped them become the fromsoft we know now.
To be honest, FreQuency’s work on Fourth and Fifth gen is so damn iconic at this point. If we don’t get a return, I’m gonna be sad.
Buuut, the reveal trailer DID sound sort of like FreQuency’s thing.
This song is in AC for answer and it happen in 2 critical moment. The first is against white glint and the second the most important one in one of the ending after you murdrer 1billion people and all the most powerfull AC pilot wants to take you down. Ancient enemies became allies just to take you down ... it's a 1v5... and you still won and go after to commit more crime uncontested... yeah Scary
@@Danael849 you're thinking of remember, iirc mechanized memories plays during the final boss of acvd.
where the answerer (acfa)
If you enjoy this music, look into the band Mutyumu. The album Ilya is of a similar genre, and has clear influences.
My theory on why this is all over the place is because the machine you fight with this song is made of scrap from other machines, so it's like all the machines are singing, but since all the parts of the machine are different they all make a different sound to make this song
That fits really well considering when it's used
Imagine all body we have. Reacted as they have some mind. Even our mechs, who different but can work together as a team
It's a kludged together barely flight capable scrapheap version of machines that could casually break the sound barrier in the ac4/fa and it still has twice your health, a nearly unbreakable shield, and it can fly forever. A lot of ACVD is about the devastating weapons of the advanced past and that's why it's theme is a mess of previous themes and motifs
機械翻訳して欲しい。
この曲で戦う敵のパイロットは「j」と呼ばれる機械音声が特徴の男だ。
そして何作か前のラストバトルの敵パイロットの名前は「Joshua」なんだ。
そして両方のパイロットの声優はなぜか同一人物なんだ。不思議なことにね。
Dear God its GRAFTED
Fun fact, the reason why Armored Core's music is so unique is due to the fact that their composer, Kota Hoshino, is _self-taught._
This is the final boss theme of Armored Core: Verdict Day, where you're facing down a man who's lived so long on a battlefield that he can't imagine a place for himself in a peaceful world. At the end he's fully willing to let the world burn so long as he can keep fighting.
To quote the man himself: "There is no place for me other than the battlefield. To live as I please, and die a senseless death. That is who I am. Not a mere man of flesh. War is part of my existence."
J was such a crazy boss fight. Getting to that mission and basically seeing the evil twin of White Glint charging at you was something else. Seriously, seeing the N-WGIX/v and hearing Mechanized Memories brought back so many memories from playing the hell out of ACFA. Of course, the true treat came during one of the updates several months later when something much larger returned... (and I still hope that they bring THAT back again in Armored Core 6)
J's a very Twisted character. from all the killing he done, to how he toyed with Magnolia and twisted even her perspective of life, turning her against us and forcing us to kill her too.
i think by the point we meet him he's just looking for a way to die, on the place he call home, by the one he deems "worthy" the so called "chosen one" he was looking for through the game. and as he said, everyone that died up ti that point was him simply culling the numbers. i just detest what he done to Maggy tho. its too cruel. may be he told her that if she managed to beat him, and kill us too, J would let her be free, because he'd be dead. and she went absolutely insane over that thought. because J is the man that destroyed her life. he even ripped her arm off during their last battle, making her unable to perform what she thought was her reason at life.
may be this whole music is what J's feeling when we put him down and FatMan asks him "there. you're happy now?" and in his dying moments J realizes all he done. and its terrifying.
J is like an echo of a man who died 100 years ago running in a computer. He's not allowed to die, like the Dixie Construct in Neuromancer and its something he utterly hates. He's so warped that a lot of what he says comes out as nearly delirious because so many concessions have been made on this digital echo that he's incomprehensible, even to himself. The "fantasy" is that he's a "real" person, and he gets just enough waking consciousness to recognize what he is and just like the Dixie Construct, they hit the reset switch and he's robbed of his realization of self-awareness of his condition and he's left with a sense of confusion, malease and his mind becomes slightly more corrupted and warped by the process of keeping him controllable.
The final time you see him is when he literally removes his off switch, and wants you to kill him so he can finally die, but his programming won't let him self-terminate so he fights back. "Rain" (AC4), "Fall" (AC4), "Remember" (ACFA) and "Mechanized Memories" (ACVD) are all his songs, and they go from when he was a man of flesh to the current moment.
There's a fairly strong chance that Joshua Obrien/ AI J is actually Nineball's origin story in earlier games later in the chronology.
Best thing about this armored core community, so small but we have big hearts. Had a game in verdict day when i was still in middle school, built a terrible ac, a veteran showed me the ropes and added me into their group. Very welcoming. Just hope they bring back the NEXTs from 4 into Armored Core 6
@@el_guapo1318 Fact you fight a Nexus from ACFA as basically what a normal is are scary enough sense it was fast and has primal armor. armored core really does put scary situation in fight like pulverize from last raven.
This song is a remix of a remix. Its a remix of mechanized memories, which is a remix of Remember. Mechanized Memories is like a fucked up hectic techno remix of Remember, since its the boss theme of a broken fucked up guy piloting a distorted fucked up rebuilt mecha from the previous game.
Remember is much more ethereal and features a prominent choir which shows up briefly in this remix.
I thought I recognized this song, its a remix of another song! Years ago while in university I used to binge on Armored Core music, and Remember was the one I remember the most.
@@kertaspaper94 says the title though XD
and of course the cyber-immoral artificial intelligence designated as Nine ball 1# of the arena and nightmare to pilots everywhere...is here...welp time to die ?
Would it count as the 3rd game white glints in
@@kertaspaper94 Ironic
In Armored Core 4 a character named Joshua O'Brien - a fellow Raven - nickname 'White Glint' is shown to be an upstanding mercenary and treats your character with a high degree of respect. However by the end of the game the corporation which is in charge of his unit has him pilot a monstrous super mech against you and attempts to have you killed as your character presents a serious threat to their carefully manipulated power balance. After you defeat him and the game ends your character apparently takes up his moniker and forms a new colony in an attempt to uphold his desires to protect the people and do generally good things.
In Armored Core For Answer, you are playing a new character entirely, but 'White Glint' shows up again, and no matter what choices you make, he dies. However it isn't quite so simple. It is apparent that the corporations which survived the previous conflict worked together to ensure that no matter the outcome 'White Glint' would die. This also included a betrayal by the very faction he was protecting.
In Armored Core V, the *shadow* of 'White Glint' appears once more as the final boss and it is revealed his entire psyche was copied and implanted into another monstrous mech, and he is forced to do the bidding of a super AI which has been doing what the corporations from 4 and For Answer were attempting to do all along, maintain a ceaseless conflict from which no peace could form.
The original version of this song plays in that fight. To me this song represents his internal fear and disgust. The righteousness, the good are both stripped away, and all that is left is a monster who can only comprehend battle.
Apparently, the Pilot of White Glint didn't die. The guys apart of ORCA apparently recovered him, though they were never able to retrieve his mech because of the damage.
@@starhammer5247 I mean, Joshua is pretty dead. Anatolia's Mercenary who took over and defended Line Ark was probably recovered because they wouldn't want to kill off a former player-character that easily...
@@proudlarry8225 Yeah. An in-universe interview in external official media essentially confirms he survived and is back in action. He just doesn't have White Glint anymore.
@@starhammer5247yeah
White glints part alone in game was expensive
In game
500k for guns
600k for Missiles
700k x 4 for each AC Part
290k for FCS
775k for Generator
180k for MB
90k for BB
180k for SB
490k for OB
01k for stabelizer
So white glint is expensive AF
And with the damage line ark received it might had been that they had no funds to recreate white glint
I feel the line that makes the entire song make more sense is "Look into the void, it's scary".
It sorta implies that there's nothing left of this character other than a ceaseless, all consuming void of despair.
Project Phantasma was infused with these vibes by their "Human plus" victims.
Judging by the remasterd missions in AC Nexus Revolution at least.
An important note to consider is that you the nameless pilot in AC 5 (game this song is from) is essentially this un-killable nightmare that defeats foes piloting crafts that SHOULD outmatch yours in everyway and give you no chance of victory and yet you still defeat them with RAW SKILL alone. Your allies fear you, one even comments on how everything you touch turns to ash. Your enemies fear you as if you are the mecha pilot equivalent of the doom slayer. Hell there even these hyper intelligent combat AI that can't compute how a human pilot is able to achieve the level of combat ability you have. The song also has a LOAD of call backs to early game music, appropriate to call this mechanized memories for sure as it gives me callbacks to another nameless pilot who single handedly takes on mechs the sizes of literal cities called arms forts. One of the melodies is a straight up mimic of the melody from the arms fort boss fight sprit of motherwill but sped up a little. I really hope they tease more of the old game soundtracks in the same way in AC 6.
Then that same nameless Pilot then gets called the “Dark Raven” essentially a Legend. So much so that the Reaper Squad exists just to prevent another “Dark Raven”
The Armored Core 5 Protagonist has to be one of the most Skilled AC Protagonists second to Lone Mercenary. Whose basically his Second Coming
This is from VD, not V.
@@spacewargamer4181 I always get those two mixed up XD
This apply to almost every AC protagonist, you as the player are an anomally to the world. An unstopable force that nobody understands. I remember in AC3 the game explicity tell you this before starting a boss fight.
@@FoxB117 Yup, like in Armored Core 1 where the Controler AI in the last bit of story Wanted to kill you cuz you're too good as a pilot that you actually destroyed the balance of power that the AI Controler made to make sure that Humanity survived after the great destruction, i even ask myself after clearing the story if am i actually doing the right thing or not lol
Always love how in the middle of a confusing part of a theme Marco just hits the nail square on the head about said them😭
LOL
Story of Mechanized Memories is sang when fighting N-WGIX or J for short. J is a clone that has the memories of previous pilots who are at the best or peak at their height. Like in the picture of the music, you see a white mech is named "White Glint" is piloted by one best the pilots, and human plus augmentation since they can survive more than 9 G force that an average human can only withstand, since every ACs can move at Mach Speeds so suddenly and the "N-WGIX" is sometimes called the Black Glint in the community because they have keen resemblance. Well, after the defeat of W.G someone stole the blueprint of it, tried to replicate it and that's the result.
It's not human plus augmentation, human plus only exist in AC1 and AC2. The right answer is AMS system (AC4 universe human plus equivalent) that allows the pilot to control the mech directly with their thoughts and alllows them to survive over 9Gs, the difference between them is Human plus require surgery in order to take effect, meanwhile AMS is already installed into every Next's Core
N-WGIX or Next - White Glint 9.
It's a mix of White Glint and Nineball. Which is even more terrifying of a concept, as if J includes Hustler 1 too.
@@edgargad2941 Isn't the 9 only for White Glint Rank in the Arena ?
Something to note about Mechanized Memories and the game it's in(Verdict Day) is around the 20th game. Point being...it might also be referring to veteran players who have been playing Armoured Core for a LONG time. Effectively were unstoppable monster's who have destroyed everything in our path wether it's a super AI or 5 against 1.
Uncertainty in a fallen world is always been the armored core games
Oh I'm so glad you reacted to this song! Other comments have mentioned this, but it is actually a remix of an earlier Armored Core song, "Remember" from AC: For Answer. That song is commonly associated with White Glint, an opponent who was trying to ask you the reasons for why you fight (a core theme of From Answer's story, what is your "Answer"?). The White Glint itself was named after a machine used by the pilot's deceased friend, Joshua O'Brien, whom they themselves had to kill in the finale of Armored Core 4.
This song, Mechanized Memories, is associated with the final boss "J", and his machine that is actually a salvaged and repurposed White Glint. You pretty much hit the nail on the head, as the character is coming to terms with his role as a soldier and part of the war machine, as well as possibly being either bred or engineered to be the next Joshua O'Brien/White Glint. The song is as much a culmination of J's character, as it is a corruption of Joshua and White Glint, a symbol of fighting for what you believe in, reduced to just another destructive element reducing the world to ruin.
Great summary.
Man Joshua O'Brien was awesome D:
IT also play in destroy cradle 03 so it Quite actually "I am Scary"
My favorite tracks in Armored Core are "Someone is Always Moving on the Surface" and "In a Day", and it is a small sample of just how diverse the OSTs for this series can be.
Same actually
I heard someone is always moving on a surface a while back and then instantly got into the games. Really powerful piece
I feel like you’re analysis of it being an internal monologue on the pilots end is spot on. Since it’s from ACVD it fits the theme so well with how that game ends and what it rolls into.
Don't know if Kota Hoshino is composing for the next game or not, but I love how the compositions are both dripping with emotional weigh/meaning and simultaneously completely nonsensical. I listen to alot of the work from Armored Core 4/4 Answer, 5, & Verdict Day like musical poetry. The feeling of these songs is really fascinating.
Obligatory re-iteration that "Mechanized Memories" (Verdict Day) is a remix of "Remember" (4 Answer), which itself is a remix/sequel to an Armored Core 4 song "Panther". Which if analyzed can create a 3 song story arc for the Anatolia Mercenary that goes from Mercenary to Hero, and then from a hero to a mythological legend.
I've never knew that Remember was a remix of Panther
I didn’t know that remember was a remix of panther. Now I need to listen for the similarities.
@@0uttaS1TE Same!
If you're doing Armored Core themes as well, you should listen to "Someone Is Always Moving On The Surface."
It's really bittersweet, a piercing use of the piano. I don't quite know how to best describe it. The notes sound warm and you get the feeling the intent is to invoke a sense of hope; but the song in it's entirety seems hollow, like the hope is intended to mask a feeling of pain. The pace of the piano is quick and the chorus swells, but it rings empty or broken.
A good metaphor would be wearing a smiling mask to hide the fact that you're crying. The song's delicate and powerful and lonely, poured together into one.
Next week actually
This track is peak Armored Core! it encaptures the soul of becoming one with the battlefield!
Also in the Armored Core series you can go throught a cirgury to allow yourself to be fused with your mech and its called Human+ is really interesting stuff!
I'm not an Armored Core Fan but oh boy
I'm stoked for this game. I hope the game and the soundtrack delivers.
Welcome to the Flock, Raven.
Welcome to the community fellow Raven, hope AC6 will bring more and more new faces into this beautiful underated franchise.
@@bombomos A group of Ravens is known as an Unkindness.
I know you didn't ask, but I think it's cool af lol.
Trust me dude, as a armored core fan, the soundtrack ALWAYS DELIVERS
You should go and play the older titles for sure.
I’m not a Armored Core fan, but I’m a big MECHA FAN! And the new game revealed last night has really hyped me up!!!
And I hope the OST is also this good!!!
Same mech assault got me into the genre. I hope its very dark and menacing!
While the specifics may differ I think you have the right take on this. The reason I say that is because the player (from Armored core for Answer) will ultimately eradicates a significant portion of humanity and thus I think your take on the moment of realization is a strong one. Also the “oh I’m scary” is also likely to be the realization of how the main character has become “scary” as the killer of mankind. The final portion of the song has another track from for Answer mixed, and it’s chanting “amen amen, gospel, amen” which may be an internal prayer.
What I find REALLY interesting about the Armored Core For Answer endings is that there's basically 3 main endings:
1. Execute the Closed Plan with ORCA to liberate space travel once more but doom Earth to a grisly death due to the League arranging amnesty for their leaders prior to the Closed Plan and now getting to abandon Earth with the elite and take all its resources with it, leaving no refuge for the lower classes due to you destroying the only sustainable arcology Line Ark and leaving only the highly toxic/radioactive kojima plants. Also only the elites get to escape so all the other slightly less wealthy people now die from illness since they never adapted to life in the surface pollution and the Cradles have been forced to land due to you rerouting all their power and destroying the control system.
2. Stop the Closed Plan with the League and maintain the status quo, allowing the wealthy to live in bliss upon the Cradles a little while longer before the kojima plants that keep them afloat start to pollute the upper atmosphere as well, ultimately dooming all of humanity within generations when the surface dwellers can no longer survive and maintain the plants and nobody moves into space. But at least you saved Wynne's family.
3. Destroy the League. Destroy Orca. Destroy the Civilians upon the Cradles. Become the greatest monster in history, eliminating anybody who could possibly stop you. And yet, Line Ark still stands, the anti-satellite battery still stands. Technically the pollution of Earth has been halted dead in its tracks (upon the blood of the Civilians it was sustaining which you murdered), a sustainable refuge remains for some (though Line Ark does not have the capacity for everybody and will likely degrade due to overpopulation and corruption introduced from these changes), and the resources to liberate Earth to space travel remain intact for future use (though arranging for their reactivation will likely lead to future conflict as humanity briefly cooperates to make them functional and then immediately struggles over who gets to utilize them). Arguably the best future for both the Earth and Humanity given the choices, but at far greater immediate Human cost. There was no "good Answer". It makes me cry but makes me think about our own future and how to create alternate Answers.
This is from ACVD though rather than ACFA
@@alephkasai9384 Isn't it using the leitmotif from the AC4A track "Remember" though?
This song is remix of Armored Core for answer "Remember" and song is used for final boss "J" the leader of Reaper squad in this case "n-wgix/v" as the boss NEXT from AC4a it only brings death to those around it.
And Next or reason why V and Verdict day are literally wasteland fill with bomb out buildings and deadly weather from radiation they give off. But that's pretty much the rundown I could go much more deeper but that would spend literally four games
Maybe these feeling of being scary has something to do with killing 10 million people in a mission
Judging by all their previous reveal trailers the music they had in the TGA will be their new direction. Dark synths and heavy electronic. The theme we heard in the trailer might even be the main menu theme. I fucking loved the new trailer. The music was so alien and gave me such an strong sense of dread, really fits the post-apocaliptic, war torn future world these games are set in. Im really looking forward to AC6, though personally I hope they slow it down from 5. Haven't played any of them but when I decided to look at gameplay the pace of old AC games seemed way more up my alley than the crazyness of 5.
The theme of Fires of Rubicon (I'm just assuming) is indeed impressive and the main reason I've re-watched the trailer more than a few times. Not having payed attention to AC since the PS2 era, I've never seen the grit of brute dirty mechs clashing in what feels like the end of the world be represented so colorfully through music. The whole thing is elevated into the robotic uncanny, and I feel it actually touches into broad themes of the cyberpunk genre where humanity is dissolving into the destructive cold fire of bellicose machinery.
Considering the screenshots from the leak, AC6 might indeed be the most atmospheric and aesthetically gripping AC. I'm very much excited for it.
It sounds a lot like the song for the reveal trailer for AC V, which was a sign for the whole soundtrack indeed, though I do hope there is some of the type of lyrics song that were abundant in Verdict Day.
Every armored core soundtrack is unique but they all go hard as fuck
Also check out Cosmos! It has a reprise from the music DLC for verdict day, and replaced this song in the ending! The piano kicking in on that song while the final boss flies in and monologues was peak AC space opera mech drama.
Remember - On Your Memories reprise from the anniversary disk is another awesome rendition of this tune.
As for this song in particular as someone who started with gen 4 AC hearing this song reprised as a frankensteined version of the 4th gen tech swooped in was like a Soul of Cinder moment for AC fans. So much emotion.
He actually DID
@@HighPrincessErinys just saw it lmao! Man I'm so hyped
What you are hearing is the remix of mechanized memories which play during the final battle of armored core verdict day.
-Spoiler alert-
Which.... You are right. These songs is refer to the pilot who.... His entire life is nothing but fighting. But once he's alone and fight against you, he brought back something old. Something.... that the player recognize it.
Something that used to be symbol of peace and heroic (White Glint). Now becoming a monster who destroy and disaggregated everything that it walk through (the second phase of the fight)
To him... Talking doesn't mean anything in battlefield. It's only about survival.
6:10
So, there is a part of the Armored Core lore, that certain pilots, either by choice, or through extenuating circumstances, are directly wired into their Core, this is usually referred to as HumanPLUS, though AC6 calls it "Augmented human", and in AC6 it's heavily implied that every pilot is HumanPLUS.
AC4/For Answer uses a similar method for NEXT pilots, called Lynx, known as the AMS, or Allegorical Manipulation system, in which only people with latent psychic abilities can be pilots due to the mental strain the AMS places, which in high level pilots, can be nothing more than a minor headache, or in lesser pilots, things like nose bleeds, nausea, burst blood vessels, aneurysms...
So, yeah, you could argue that J, who is either.. the barely alive corpse of Joshua O'Brien from Armored Core 4, plugged back into the cobbled together remains of his best friends mech from For Answer, or an AI made from a scan of his deceased brain, just.. wants to get out of the monster they turned White Glint into, an act that will kill him, regardless of his circumstance.
(I haven’t played armored core before but) I think the music really fits a gritty mech aesthetic, using rock for the grit and a lot of the more synthey 8 bitty almost stuff for the mech / technology stuff. Really fits it.
I gotta try the games sometime.
Armored Core is the one of hooks that first got me into Fromsoft games.
One is Tenchu, and the other one is Armored Core.
It was so different, so difficult, to the point of me wanting to give up.
But the game mocked me, taunting me with all the cool stuffs that I can get and become, if I only moved a little bit faster, turned a little bit better, and shot a little bit quicker.
So I put a little bit effort into it, and I was reeled in.
_Master of the Arena, Silent Line, Nexus, Ninebreaker, Last Raven, 4, 4 Answer, Verdict Day._
I can't never return.
I am happy in my giant quadrupedal/ bipedal metal coffin of death, in the blasted nuclear wasteland where mega-corporations clashed with one another, with their giga-fortresses and legions of murder machines.
Welcome, *Ravens* of old and new.
The Rubicon had been set ablaze.
Time to make some money.
Omg tenchu.
@@MarcoMeatball Yup, in its all blocky, frustratingly unresponsive camera glory.
But I still love the series tho.
That feeling when you scored a perfect assasination and stealth mission.
*[Chef's kiss]*
My take on the lyrics was that it's someone deluding themselves into a power fantasy to escape fear.
"I'm the scary one" for example sounds like a "I don't need to be afraid of them, I'm the scary one, so there's nothing to fear"
Armored core has one of the best OST of all videogames for me and i'm really enjoyed that there are people listening the music of these games
Mechanized memories is a remix of a older song called remember from armored core for answer.
All of Armored Core's music so far has been composed by Frequency, Fromsoft's in-house band. I'd be surprised if they didn't use them again.
For other pieces, there is A LOT of it but there's some I feel are stand-outs.
"Spirit of Motherwill", with "The Mother Will Comes Again" as a sort of follow-up or sequel to it
"9"
"Fall - Into the Grace"
"Sunrise"
"Someone is Always Moving On the Surface"
"Artificial Sky (shape memory effect)"
"Thinker -reprise-"
"Lament Over the Howling Age"
(Honestly, I can just recommend their entire Sunrise album and the Reprises album, those are just so good.)
That song is very fitted to mr J the last member and commander of Ripper Squad
I've played a couple of the Armored Core games, but never got very far because of the difficulty. That said, I'm extremely stoked for Armored Core 6. Seeing the announcement really made my day.
pray this man didn’t get filtered by the helicopter 🙏
AC fan since gen 1. Here's a couple of songs/tracks that might be good to listen to.
AC Master of Arena - 9
AC 3 - Artificial Sky 1
AC 3 Silent Line - Silent Line
AC 4 - Mr. Adam
AC 4 - Thinker
AC for Answer - Someone's always moving on the surface
AC for Answer - Spirit of Motherwill
AC for Answer - Remember
AC for Answer - the Answer
Armored Core 1 through 2 has this heavily techno oriented sound and since Armored Core 3 onwards has gotten more orchestral, save for Armored Core V and Verdict Day. Only odd OST for Armored Core is Formula Front since that game is basically Armored Core combined with Formula 1 Motorsports.
you were in a mech, shooting down hostiles because they had lesser technology, or lesser skill than you
and then you see that flash
that white glint
then your screen is missiles and bullets
and you sure as hell know this pilot means serious business
My take on the "im scary part" is that it's the player. Think of a normal, innocent person playing an armored core game, becoming this mech pilot of mass destruction and slowly figuring out what an equally normal civilian in the game sees them as, and soon they realise that all the scary mech fights they've been in has turned them into an equally scary, if not even more frightening pilot of a weapon that could literally, and probably has, killed thousands.
It's incredibly interesting you see the death and changing of the pilot into something scary in these lyrics. In the game AC: for Answer, the main character dies in two of the endings and in the third he/she literally becomes death it self. Killing 100 million people in a single mission and becomes unstoppable by the end of the game. "Some called it the Dark Raven". So your read on the lyrics is spot on. You either die in the game or you become something that has zero humanity left in them. And these lyrics are really sad if they are the internal monologue of the pilot.
Love this theme so much!!! I can't wait for AC6. I hope you will cover that music too
I don't play the game and don't know how to describe this better but the song really remind me the anime aerial battle vibe where the pilot getting chased by countless missilesthrough the sky, he keep dodging and shooting down one after another while not slowing down leave behind a trail of explosions, he is filled with fear of death but when he look forward the view of blue sky, the ground stretch infinitely along the horizon, from the corner the sun light shine through his cockpit, look at such view his heart throbing with excitement as if he truly being alive right in that moment.
2:25 Ask the 100 milion people that you kill in the mission where the original version of this song (which is Remember) plays. And yes, it is called Mechanized Memories in reference that the original song was meant to make you remember the monstrocity you're commiting by killing those people.
WOO lets go! I'm still riding the hype from yesterday. Glad you're exploring armored core music, I have a hard time finding anything else quite like it, can't stop coming back to it
the way i interpret this song is from the perspective of the robot itself actually being sentient and trying to communicate with you but it doesnt know how so it throws out words that get close to the meaning its trying to convey
A human turned into an A.I, his name Joshua O' Brian one of the best pilots piloting an AC 'NEXT'. Like your previous comment said "it make no sense" after being turned into A.I for hundred years I'm sure he suffered some mental instability, became so erratic, and his wish for a peaceful death was a fantasy turned into an A.I by the corporates bidding
This was such an enjoyable video, I've loved Armored Core since I was a little kid and I listen to it's soundtracks a lot when I play other mech games like MechWarrior, and Gundam.
Watching someone analyze the music and hear out unique and interesting it is was fun, I'd love to see you listen to more Armored Core songs.
The vocals are a callback to AC4's soundtrack "Remember"
I wonder what you'd think of the Evergrace soundtrack now - Kota Hoshino is one of the most interesting videogame composers I'm personally familiar with for sure. Unorthodox through and through and Evergrace is his most interesting project to date far as I'm concerned.
So glad you’re doing another classic ac song, I was curious if you’d be excited for the announcement of ac6 and it’s good to hear that you are. Hope you’ll do some music from that when it launches.
The main lyrics being repeated, So I'm Scary, All is Fantasy, while not confirmed, could be about the protagonist of Armored Core For Answer, someone who goes crazy while felling Cradles in Space containing most of humanity, realizing what he is and saying it is all fantasy, becoming the villain of the game, so yes you are very correctly, this is the pilot singing in his head.
The rest of the lyrics could be about Armored Core Verdict Day, where Mechanized Memories play in the final boss, which is a callback to the main mech of Armored Core For Answer.
I am wating for this moment for 9 years! Finally a new AC game after so long. Artificial Sky IV intensifies!
Armored core my beloved (its actually the source for my icon) while its filled with just a ton of epic tracks and stuff they are all really damn good, and there really hasnt been any other mech game like it, number 6 cant come soon enough, especially with how much From Soft has improved over the years
I'm not a fan of mecha but Fromsoftware has such a credibility that I will 100% play this
What about mecha don’t you like?
@@Betito1171 It's not that I don't like it, I just haven't really tried it.
@@Glonag I recommend you check out the older games if your only experience of FromSoftware are the souls games before going into it. Armored Core has a learning curve to get through in order to enjoy it fully, that is if AC6 is gonna be similar to the previous games.
Try emulated AC4A that one is good for starter and last reven is like dark soul on crack
@@Glonag Then now is definitely a good time to start. Mech genre has lots of gems, Armored Core being one among them. I recommend Heavy Gear 2, Mechwarrior, MechAssault, Steel Battalion (if you can somehow get the setup to play that), Zone of the Enders. There's many others but these are the ones that come immediately to my mind.
the character theme talk it's spot on, it's a realization both for the player and the enemy and it's one of the main themes of the ac franchise(humans can ba scary and monsters but so do machines and in the end everyone and everything has the potential to save the world or to destroy it, it's just a matter of choice)
Well, 6 will be your opportunity to get to learn more directly about AC! I always found the music of the series to have a very strong identity, one that I have faith they'll move forward into the new game.
This music is the music of the final Boss , J , a myth and a legend just as much as out mute-psychopath pilot is , he as lived through countless wars and even said himself
« There is no place for me other than the battlefield. To live as I please, and die a senseless death. That is who I am. Not a mere man of flesh. War is part of my existence »
And my personal theory to why is it the reoccurring theme in this music is of pain , fear and fantasy is that J is the ‘’rookie lynx’’ the pilot of AC4 for answer. where you have there ending and one of them is the devastation path where you destroy the flying cities of mankind housing half of humanity and kill five elites pilots in high grade NEXTs ( the name of the mechs ) single handedly ,
You are monster of a man , you destroyed the world and the fantasy that humanity was and left it a warring hell scape and in that world he is the incarnation of apocalypse and death
Parts his mech literally comes from the white glint , a symbol of hope for peoples that fought for their own freedom against ‘’elitist parasites’’ and to get that said path you have to fight alongside the white glint to defend line ark ( a group that fought against the established power « the league » )but in the end WG is destroyed and you are the only one remaining of that battle and you obtain the mech for yourself that you can use for yourself
I haven’t played AC5V but I have looked it up a lot to write this , you can also assume J is for « Joshua O’brian » the first pilot of the white glint who himself had to be killed by the mute pilot , the mercenary of Anatolia, and by doing so he endorsed that name and became a legend
It is like a cycle , the knight in shining armor defeating the mighty dragon ( and his 50 fucking missiles ) and being renowned for his prowess as THAT MAN that slayed the evil to become the hero long enough to become the evil that will be slain
I'm a FromSoft fan, and I gotta find a way to play the older games before 6 releases. You keep finding great soundtracks that pull me into games, Marco. My wallet is screaming at me! 🙃🤣
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Can't you just emulate them?
@@theguythatdoesstuff1004Maybe. But i tried emulating the persona 2 duology with no success
@@theguythatdoesstuff1004 Emulating Armored Core does not make it happy. Idk why but it fucks up the textures a lot and causes crashes on random levels. But ironically it has an amazing frame rate lol.
If you don't want to/can't emulate, start by getting a PS3.
I know this video is a year old and you probably won't see this, but it'd be really cool if you were to react to Day After Day from Armored Core Verdict Day
Armored core songs are so amazing💯🔥 but so hard to describe 😂, and "Mechanized Memories" its like variou toughts e feeling at the same time but i think this 4:00 makes sense, thanks for the video👍
Now you MUST listen to Remember! (I know that you choose OSTs in Patreon, but I have no money so I'm just saying)
One theme I always enjoyed about Armored Core is that of always improving yourself, with every munition you use and any damage you sustain it will be deducted from your pay to repair and restock your mech at the end of the day. You take any job not only to survive and maintain yourself in that post apocalypse but to also upgrade and improve your mech with your hard-earned cash, the missions will get harder and deadlier as your reputation grows. You learn to adapt and improve every mission either by not wasting ammo needlessly, bringing the right armaments for a specific mission, or by better taking advantage of cover or your mobility to avoid damage all in order to get higher payouts. All that cash is used to further customize and improve your mech according to your needs, knowledge, and playstyle preference and by the end you will have a reflection of all your improvements in a tailor-made Armored Core that you can call your own
I've been waiting so long for you to cover one of AC's songs, they're all incredible and you picked one of the best ones. Thank you!
This series mostly have AI or people who turn their consciousness to the digital one, thus mechanized memories : )
The boss in this theme song is scared that the war will end. He wants to continue his fight and warfare forever.
The real mystery of the song: are they saying "ramen" or "raw men" at the end repeatedly
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Armored Core music has always been “vibe” music to me, less about lyrics and more about energy and mood of when it plays during the game.
Glad you enjoyed the music of the series. It has some really good tracks. You should check out the older ones too, like Apex in the Circle, 9, Silent Line etc.
Huh your actually really good at deciphering meaning from lyrics
spent 10 years doing it
:)
Another great video, Marco! 👍 That Armored Core VI reveal was absolutely amazing, I have no doubt that Armored Core 6's music will be absolutely fantastic and honestly I see both the comparison as to how good the music is between Armored Core and Ace Combat although there are two totally different tones!
Many of these songs are remixes of songs of other games. It would be interesting to listen to the original "Remember" from Armored Core For Answer, as well the original "Cosmos" from the same game since you heard the remix version already.
The part you hummed at @ 5:20 is very reminiscent of Blue Magnolia theme and what you described seemed very fitting for her imo
That song made me listen to all the AC OST and look in to the games, previously i only played Omega Boost and Zone of the Enders. The last one has interesting songs as well!
I'm actually excited that FS is making an AC game after 10 years, I think. I'm more of a mecha fan wholeheartedly, but I do appreciate the soulsborne that FS has made for a good while. It's just great to see they're touching back on one IP
Imo, I am very much in love with this song. The confusion, chaos and realization theme of the song, the abstract lyrics compared to the in your face “Oh I’m scary”… This song is that of someone who’s been a war for so long that all he knows is war. Song’s niche, but very good.
Thank you Marco, as an Armored Core fan, I can't even express how happy I am when you review this banger, my 1st favorite track from Armored Core.
And Armored Core 6 is coming Ravens, we have waited 10 years for this.
Everyone nailed the point. This song is a throwback to AC4 and AC4A since verdict day is waaay into the future past 4A. But somehow not even a tenth as good
Mechanical Memories is a title of 2 song iirc, both a earlier garage theme and then this personalized thematic.
This song is like a 4th wall break, and like you have mentioned, realization.
But it's a lot more like the state of realization rather compared to coming to one. Later AC titles played on an Especial pilot on the field (often you, the enduring wayfarer) . A eureka moment lived in the present, "Oh I'm scary"
As a player this is a zen moment. When we both become into confidence and awareness un our build. The same confidence that allows us to see we are going beyond survival, and able to see the 'battle picture's for ourselves.
This also matches the indirect storytelling AC is loved for. We become scary because we become the stuff of legends in the moment.
I'd say the different lyrics are like the different directions and what you can come to this point, just like your machine coming from different directions, but you come the 'scary', because you can now see things differently and it's like a fantasy.
Turn that now you can shape your memory.
(Ironically the very first garage song is Shape Alloy Memories,
Malleable yet memorable...
AC tends to be quaint in this way)
Nice of you to take a look at this series, music in AC has shifted roles, but always aimed at this quality of fondness. Warmth being with the player in this cold setting.
I'm obsessed with this kind of music since I found mechanized memories and other son gs of AC. Please people recommend me more music like this.
please do the ULTRAKILL ost next! its a criminally underrated game for how good its gameplay and music is
underrated? Man Ultrakill literally on Top 10 lmao what?
@@nmbtw1003 their aren't that many videos on it for a top 10
Theres a significant story boss in Armored Core 4: Answer that has this themesong called "Remember" which is the original song Mechanized Memories was remixed from, and once you see the final boss that plays this song in Armored Core 5: Verdict Day, it hits so much harder
loving the vids, especially as a fellow person with musical education, refreshing to see someone appreciate OSTs not just as cool background music, but independent pieces. don't know if that's the way to do it, but would love to see your opinion on soundtrack of Deep Rock Galactic. great mix of ambient and action synth, and the game itself is a brilliant coop.
Absolutely! :)
The song feels similar to armored core 6 theme. So excited. Never played AC game but watching AC6 reveal trailer felt amazing and hopefully it's great and i also hope it doesn't have souls mechanics
Lyrics containing the feelings of a mercenary and a machine.
6:05 - 6:09 really nails the point of the song. This song plays at the end of Armored core Verdict day, after the player has fought their way to the end of a long war, only to find that theres just another war waiting for them, they don’t want to be a soldier anymore but that’s been the future set out for them.
You need to check out Precious Park from Armored Core For Answer in my opinion one of the best ost in the series. Also check out Nineball Theme, Autobahn, Remember and Day After Day
I have been begging for Armored Core for years and to finally get it back feels almost unreal. I am so hyped.
Is this Black Glint theme song? That psycho AI which wanted place he belong in war? I only know this is theme remix from Answer
yes
Yes this plays for the boss in Verdict Day that is essentially a NEXT from the previous game 4/4a that has been cobbled back together. The pilot, J, is a clone of other skilled pilots, bred for war. So pretty scary to fight as the player and probably scary for J to realize your only purpose is war and your only home is the battlefield.
@@theneoncatangelist iirc, J is more specifically implied to be a clone of Joshua O'Brien, the pilot of White Glint in AC4
@@CasualCoreK Makes sense.
@@theneoncatangelist so to put it, J was terrified of peace era that could be brought by us? The void the theme say is peace, void of war and chaos
A recurring theme in Armored Core is that you the player are the monster. You destroy, you are unstoppable, you bring change and not always for good.
Never played armored core, but I will try the new game when it comes out, it looked cool
This is actually the anniversary version of Mechanized Memories which i believe came from the rare armored core anniversary boxes. The differences between the original and this one is that it makes several callbacks to the older games, like the section near the end that sounds like "Please remember. Just remember" which is a sample from the song "Remember" from AC4/For Answer. The 8bit arrangements still remain unclear to me as there was no 8bit arrangements until this anniversary version of Mechanized Memories released.
From Software roboots and cool music? Sign me up 😤
A remixed version of the Armored Core Verdict Day final boss song. J pilots a heavily altered AC likely drawn from the White Glint from AC4/FA, and the song is mainly a remix of AC4's Remember. What's more beautiful to me is that it also mixes in Cosmos - that main riff is entirely Cosmos'! Easily my favorite song from all of Armored Core, and it's such an homage to ACFA. Love it to bits.
Can't wait for the new one, loved the analysis.
I would love to see you reacting to Regicide from Destiny. That song for me is literally what I think everytime when the word "villain" comes to my mind.
Something other people dont seem to be pointing out, this song is a remix of a song from Armored Core 4 and AC4 : For Answer called 'Remember' and has little bits in it from other songs in the series. The boss fight that it plays in is a boss who is made up different pieces of iconic Armored Cores from throughout the series. Its a bit of a tribute to the series.
This is a remix theme to an AC Pilot/Bossfight Armored 4 that appears in 4 Answer.
The boss pilots a AC that is made up of parts form his own and his implied lover. (whoes theme this is a remix of.) He's incredibly mentally unwell due to her death.
To be honest, when I initially played ACV/VD, I didn't get to hear music when I played it initially which drastically changed my take on the game, as I thought it was intentionally music-less. In hindsight, it was either a read error or something else that caused it, so it wasn't until more recently that I got to hear the music from these games. I didn't dislike ACV/VD, though. Playing them without any music gave a strangely solemn experience, and the mission in particular was quite scary too, especially given the design of the enemy in particular. Hearing the music meant to go with it, it's good to know that the music didn't depart from the music sound design of V/VD's predecessors'.
I've seen their press conference from Vaati, and I have high hopes.
Was an enjoyer of the PS2 era of AC, when I went to my friend's house who has a PS2 and love getting my mech destroyed in AC. It was also my first FromSoft game before I knew about the name and Dark Soul series.
Oh this song originalversion also play in AC4A. when you decide to go insane with the world and decide to destroy a essentially sky apartment complex and kill 100 million people.While old king humming playfully.
If the trailer is any indication the music for sure is going to be interesting, I have never played an Armored Core game but I am really curious what Fromsoft will go with this title after learning so much with their recent games
for the scary...scary part it originates from Armored core For Answer ost : Remember
"Energy at 30 percent!"
You should hear Stain - Armored Core V. It's sounds sick.
I have not played any mechas that i liked but i am hyped for this