Highlights
- Armored Core 6 encourages players to customize their mechs, leading to a wide variety of battle machines that range from imposing to wacky.
- Fans have taken advantage of the customization options to create mechs inspired by popular media, such as Hello Kitty, as well as Kirby, Cloud Strife, and Homer Simpson.
- The game’s creative scene is looking promising, with players expected to continue creating wacky and interesting builds, like a John Deere tractor mech.
Hello Kitty probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, but that didn’t stop one fan from building a mech inspired by Sanrio’s iconic mascot. The first new entry in FromSoftware’s classic mecha action series in 10 years boasts no shortage of customization options, and fans have taken full advantage of those options to assemble a wide variety of battle machines that run the gamut from imposing to wacky.
Armored Core 6, like its predecessors before it, places vital importance on customizing a mech to one’s liking, encouraging players to mix and match different bodies, limbs, internal systems and weapons in order to create anything from a super-agile flyer to a lumbering tank and everything in between. That by itself has led to some interesting builds by players, but the ability to paint their mechs and add custom decals has really opened the door for them to not just flex their creativity but reference their favorite media as well.
Such is the case with Reddit user seph00017 and their Hello Kitty-inspired mech. This custom Armored Core 6 build can be seen in a screenshot docked ahead of its next mission, its pink and white body emblazoned with Hello Kitty’s face all over, including, in a nice touch, on the mech’s face. It’s a delightful contrast to the more grim and muted tone of Armored Core 6’s world, and it’s safe to say that seph00017’s machine would be quite an odd sight to see tearing through enemy mechs on the battlefield.
An argument could be made that seph00017’s Hello Kitty build is far from the craziest way players have referenced pop culture via the game’s mech-building features. In the week since launch, fans have seen popular characters like Kirby, Cloud Strife, and Homer Simpson recreated as mechs in Armored Core 6. This is on top of the many builds modeled after classic mecha franchises like Gundam, Voltron, and Power Rangers.
Any game that gives players a means to express their creativity will inevitably see someone get weird with it to hilarious effect. FromSoftware’s games are no strangers to this phenomenon, as anyone who has encountered a weird custom character in Elden Ring or Dark Souls can attest, and it continues with Armored Core 6.
Given the amount of interesting builds that have been made in the game’s first week, things are looking promising for Armored Core 6’s creative scene going forward. Odds are fans will be able to look forward to many more wacky creations in the vein of one player’s killer John Deere tractor mech for the foreseeable future.
Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.