

For us these missions became stale quickly and not even the tightly stuffed toybox of weapons could help to alleviate the tedium we felt trying to push through. Missions typically revolve around the same core objectives, where you'll have to destroy waves of AI, undertake investigations, or protect a certain ally.

Missions within Daemon X Machina are divided into two categories, offer missions and free missions, with the former progressing the story and the latter providing an opportunity to earn yourself some extra cash and loot on the side. With our protagonist being the silent type - and with many interactions taking place through static text boxes - we often found our attention waning and our finger was never too far from the skip button. We then step into the shoes of our fully-customisable protagonist, who is a rookie mercenary tasked with eliminating the corrupted AI that waged war against mankind following the traumatic event that we witnessed earlier. Things start out looking bleak, as from a satellite we are shown the moon crumbling to pieces, with Earth being struck by the falling debris (there's quite an interesting anime-style prequel video we would advise that you watch for more context on this, although be warned as it is only in Japanese).
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We sampled the third-person shooter at this year's Gamescom and our initial thoughts were pretty positive, but now we've had chance to delve deep into the full release. It was explosive, featured giant mechs, and was all wrapped up in a delightfully tasty cel-shaded art style. Daemon X Machina was the shock announcement out of Nintendo's 2018 E3 showcase that had us excited.
