A pair of Armored Core games are being freed from their 2000s Japanese mobile phone prison with upcoming PC ports

And a mates of Shin Megami Tensei games to boot, too

Armored Core is simply a FromSoftware bid that perfectly rips, and has done since its debut mode backmost connected the PS1. Technically america PC players lone precocious were graced with the quality to play thing from the bid with the merchandise of Armored Core 6, but soon we'll person a mates much to messiness astir with. The lone caveat is that it would beryllium adjuvant if you could talk Japanese, arsenic they're not getting an English connection release.

You see, backmost successful the aboriginal 2000s, Japan had immoderate beauteous precocious phones, immoderate of which had cameras built in, net access, GPS, and yes, adjacent games. Some of them had full ports of classical Final Fantasys, and there's adjacent a Final Fantasy 7 spinoff that's exclusive to 1 of these phones (which is, legally speaking, unplayable to this time contempt supposedly being canon). Amongst the galore different bid that got aboriginal mobile spinoffs - I'm talking Kingdom Hearts, Monster Hunter, Katamari Damacy, Persona - Armored Core besides received a fewer entries too.

And, arsenic announced by developer G-Mode, Armored Core Mobile Mission and its sequel Mobile Mission 2 are coming to Steam. The archetypal one's really owed retired soon, connected April 30th, and you tin wishlist it connected Steam, but the 2nd 1 doesn't person a merchandise day conscionable yet. Mobile ngo is simply a apical down shooter, but you tin inactive customise your mech, and the 2nd 1 really lets you locomotion astir its levels too. Honestly, truly awesome worldly for the time.

Not lone that, there's a mates of Shin Megami Tensei ports connected the mode too, if RPGs are much your thing. The archetypal of them, Tokyo Requiem, was a wholly archetypal crippled for Japanese phones, whereas 20XX was a prequel to Shin Megami Tensei 2. Neither person merchandise dates conscionable yet, but the second is disposable to wishlist connected Steam too.

Again, nary of this volition beryllium playable successful English, but I truly emotion the enactment that G-Mode is putting into these releases. Their full shtick is porting aged Japanese telephone games, not an casual feat fixed that immoderate of them were exclusive to definite networks, truthful I'm chuffed to spot them playable connected modern hardware. Good information to yet commencement those Japanese lessons I reckon!