Mispap did a great job creating so many of these cinematics. Which scenes were some of your favourites? I'll add them to the list below: 35:13- Attack the Dam Complex Fight Scene 1:52:20- Balteus Fight Scene Ice worm fight-3:21:26 Intercept the Redguns-3:49:03 3:53:43- Fighting Rusty 4:08:09- Walter’s Legacy
Honestly, I don't know what to say about this video. It's been a constant project for so many months that it's going to feel strange now it's complete. I understand it's a big ask to expect anyone to watch 5.5hours of Armored Core 6 content, but I personally love coming back to long-format videos over time, so I hope the TH-cam algorithm serves this up to you a few times so that you can keep coming back. However, if you don't have time, I'd recommend at least watching the endings in Chapter 5! Those are some of the most cinematic, impactful moments, and the new songs from Disc 3 of the official soundtrack go hard. Thank you all for your patience as this project came to fruition. We certainly won't be doing another 5.5hr lore video any time soon :P
I like to believe it's a communal joke on rubicon that whenever they encounter rummy, they only beat him down and let him live after, because he's so pathetic he's funny. Everyone including Balam, Arquebus, all the dosers, and even the PCA are in on it. Raven, being a newcomer, wasn't in on the joke and ruined it by killing him.
This was by far the largest project I've ever had the chance to work on, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Working with Vaati and Mispap1 has been a fantastic experience, and I think this video turned out even better than we were all hoping for! I want to give a MASSIVE thanks to the team for bringing me on for this, and, of course, a huge thanks to all of you that have been patient regarding both Vaati's and my own upload schedules in the lead-up to this. I hope we're all on the same page in that it was 100% worth it in the end 🙏
@@EnsignGeneric That's the one that absolutely sent me. I already really didn't like Allmind, but this vid actually has made me hate her even more. Especially since I hadn't noticed Walter and Carla's ACs like that in the final mission.
@@VaatiVidyaunironically though, I haven't played any of these games (and don't really have an interest to, not my genre) but you make the lore and stories and details so incredibly engaging and easy to watch it's a ridiculously powerful skill you've honed, hats off to you
Thanks for watching everyone! Working on this video really gave me a deep appreciation for AC6 and its characters, so I hope our retelling of this epic story can reveal things you missed and help you appreciate this amazing game even more. Would love to hear which mission was your favorite so lmk down below😁
The Balteus fight, for its pure brutality and unforgiving nature (Day 1 Balteus that is) The Ice Worm for the Plot Twist, knowing what Coral *truly is* And any of the Three Final Missions for setting your fate..and your overall morale for the Coral
Either the Strider or Ice Worm. The scale of both is incredible, and fighting the Ice Worm with a team is quite the spectical. I just wish the Strider had a bit more going on gameplay wise. It's a little too simple. So probably go with Ice Worm as favorite because it's more mechanically complex. I just like really big monsters and mechs. Wish they would add some Kaiju to fight lol.
I'm stuck between the rusty fight and walter.. I think the final FINAL mission has stayed with me a long time.. honestly, my favorite mission by far is the one where Freude shows up and makes his reveal.. I still use him as a test for pvp builds to see if they're good lol
My favorite still has to be the allmind final fight purely for the dialogue. Iguazu telling us to save a spot for him in hell when he kills us, the disturbing realization that allmind has assimilated every pilot you've met into a disgusting amalgamation of ai generated versions of their consciousness, all summed in the simple statement of "there's a lot of us inside of me, dregs with a grudge".
You're probably not gonna answer this, and you might have mentioned it somewhere I haven't seen, but are you planning on playing ac6 on your channel? There's no reasonable way to expect you to play the older ac games, but I would really like to see you play this one. It would also be cool to see you play all 3 endings
From did such a good job making a voice-bound character SO hate-able. His AC design is even something a jerk like him would 100% use. Still, fuck Snail.
So I only just noticed that all of Ayre’s dialogue has a high pitched squeal tone on the back end. It’s easier to hear at the end of her sentences since it trails past her lines. But it is only present when she specifically speaks. Which gives us a glimpse of what iguazu was hearing. Since it’s very likely that this is actually what she sounds like but 621’s brain is able to interpret the sound as speech. It also explains his foul mood when dealing with us. That sound being at full blast would be maddening. We would basically be a walking migraine emitter.
I thought it was an issue with my phone speakers... and then it turned out it was just the dialogue. I wonder if the waveform of such high pitched whining matches that of the waveforms seen to represent Ayre.
Nobody in the YT essay sphere will ever phrase "weaponized salt" with such eloquence as Vaati. Man vindicated every single emotion I've felt playing AC6. 10/10
I've never heard G6 Red cry out for G5 Iguazu before. It really shows how despair-filled Red is that he's calling out to such an unreliable Redgun. He just has nothing left. It's an extra layer of sadness on top of an already sad fight.
It's like playing the entire game, with a competent person at the helm, who actually understands the story. Wild to watch the whole thing all in one go. 12/10
You don't need a video to understand this story. The game explicitly tells you everything. They actually hold your hand through the story to make sure you don't miss literally anything.
@@agentoy6065 Yeah I dropped it after finishing chapter 2. I could see it was a masterpiece, but I just didn't have the time and patience to master another combat system this twitchy. But I will definitely be revisiting it at some point, perhaps after a revengence playthrough to get those thumbs warmed up.
I love the implication that Iguazu hates Raven so damn much it powers multiple c-weapons. It’s also a cool touch for Armored core for having these machines being driven by such human things such as emotions and survival instincts, it explains the mechs doing things that seem impossible such as surviving death blows. Mechs fueled by the indomitable human spirit goes unimaginably hard
yeah like in For Answer where you can defeat White Glint in Hard Mode. Before it comes back to life in full health all the while boosting around like normal.
That really is what core theory was supposed to mean I guess. The indomitable human spirit, the spirit with enough power to inherit the stars is what truly makes an AC powerful. That human spirit isn’t something an A.I can recreate so easily. The only thing that holds us back as a species is our frail bodies, but even then after losing several limbs we still fight on with amplified fury and aggression that has never before been witnessed by the universe. Combine the unwavering power of a human spirit with the equally formidable body of an Armored core, and you truly see what mankind’s prime potential looks like. You see exactly why from the start, the stars were our birthright.
@@xeta2466 This reminds me. In connection with the reply above yours, Iguazu's Spiral Energy must've spiked like hell there.(edit: Spiral Energy in Gurren Lagann is mostly colored green.) Yes, this is furthering the Gurren Lagann connection.
For being bodyless voices, the connections we formed to Ayre and Rusty are crazy. I felt genuinely like a terrible person for fighting them in the destroy ending.
@@saif-gv6gl bruh forgot phone sex lines exist... dudes will simp for disembodied voices, this predates fromsoft entirely. Dudes are horny bastards, this is just a fact.
The Rusty fights are 100% gut wrenching, I can’t take that there’s no ending where he lives. I’m expecting From will probably do something like they did with previous Armored Cores, and make a game with story for each ending, if it’s feasible for them anyway
4:27:37 A really cool detail about the fight with Ayre imo is that if you study the way she moves, she pilots the AC like a novice. Constantly overextending herself and then breaking off to build way more distance than she needs. Like she hasn't piloted an AC much before. The main reason she's still giving you trouble is just because the thing she's piloting is way sturdier than an AC and has a lot of very powerful weapons.
And when you have fought her in the simulations, you are sort of training her, in my opinion. And when we fight instead with her in the all mind ending, she is much better at fighting and piloting the AC. SImply because she knows how to fight now, from us.
Glad I could help out with a very small part of this project! It'll be nice to have something to listen to over the week, and that intro animation was amazing!
I remember watching all of your alternate/hidden/cut ac6 dialogues when the game first came out, pleasant surprise to see you helped with this monstrosity
Legit on my NG++ Iguazu yelled at me about how I’ve killed him several times and I’m like “I DID??” I played through again and payed closer attention lmao almost felt bad for the dude
"Show yourself, Freelancer!" "Who are you?" "I am a Redgun, a great pilot, better than all of you" "well if that's true, you would think I'd have heard of you" "I attacked you literally last week... we've done battle like, 20 times?" "well you must have been really bad at this"
4:19:49 I think the line from V1 Freud where he says “you fight like a hound on a hunt, at this altitude I’d expected a scavenger bird” could be a subtle acknowledgment that in the Fires of Raven ending, C4-621 is more of Walter’s Hound than a Raven. It’s just a nice detail in the dialogue
@@KaisaCantCommunicatebut in AC the story is very upfront. Especially this game. Yes there lore texts that is hidden, but if you notice the majority of this video is in-game cutscenes or characters dialogue. Stuff that anyone can see if you play the game. I’ve gotten all of these videos in game too. Normally FromSoft games the lore is very cryptic and leaves a lot to interpretation. But here everything is basically what you see is what’s happening
@@brandonjones5879 maybe you're right. there are in-game dialogs & cutscenes. maybe the action overwhelmed me @ my first playthrought & i couldn't connect item-discribtion, in-game-dialogs & group-relation😃 i mean i.e. i didn't realized walter is the scientist's son & carla a kind of co-worker or that that one image-data is showing michigan, nile, iguazu and so on
@@lucakoselj7123for someone who considers themselves not very good at anything, it blew my mind how people put the game down at the helicopter and my dumbass beat the game multiple times.
And it's a freaking huge ship. The size of a real large city or bigger. Millions of people could live in it. Even looking at Rubicon I always feel like billions of humans live in those megastructures
Conceptually, even if you have cryostasis, something like a ship city would still be a reasonable option for the simple reason that things can go wrong and an awake city ship is in a better place to deal with that even if getting people out of stasis early is an option
the saddest part about iguazu is that his allies at the red guns genuinely cared about him but he doesnt care about them at all he cares about is killing you, volta g6 red michigan all genuinely cared about him
This man really just dropped a 5+ hour lore video so casually. I've literally just started playing AC6 for the first time and it's so much fun. Perfect timing 🔥
@@pownotthere You're right! I only watched the story overview section of the vid and decided to save the rest for later. I actually just finished my first playthrough yesterday after spending all of Sunday just playing Armored Core VI, went for the Liberator of Raven ending and I'm in NG+ now! Appreciate the comments :)
This is probably well known but I haven’t seen anyone mention it, Honest Brute says “slow, slow, quick, quick, slow” which if you’re familiar with classical dance is clearly the basic count for a tango. Don’t know why brute likes the tango but it’s a detail I love
Some say "Time to Tango" (or just to dance) before going toe to toe with someone, for example, in battle. They probably link the intimacy and closeness associated with the dance to close-quarter-combat
To be fair, I always hated G1's guts because he was a stereotypical american commander. Little did I know he was still by far the better of the 2, the dude even acknowledges your might, Snail is just a scumbag all the way through.
Wait since we still are technically G13... does that mean we get the half of the bounty the killer of G1 would have? Also, that mission was tough... and made worse because my controller had drifting right thumbstick... I completed it for S-Rank eventually, but damn if it didn't take a while...
Thank you so much for your tireless work promoting and celebrating this series. I would not be an Armored Core fan today if not for you and your videos!
I think it's honestly one of FromSoft's best stories. The characters are so memorable. Michigan, Snail, Walter. I love how good of a rival Iguazu is. My man was fueled by hatred.
"You were a mistake, Iguazu" what a burn... Finally I have a video to show to all my friends who didn't pay much attention to the story and now say that AC6 was fun, but has no story to talk about. All I need now is a way to trick them into watching a 6 hour video.... Watching this really brought back all the emotions from my first (three) playthrough.
I don't understand how people can say this game has no story. This is the most straightforward story Fromsoft ever made How you're gonna convince your friends to watch a 6 hour video? Crazy
I swear, whoever choreographed and recorded your fights in-game are geniuses 29:05 The comedic timing against the test pilot 1:02:15 The double combo finisher with Rusty 5:00:25 The “omae wa mou shindeir” on Iguazu and landing him next to Snail + the walk up Just a few examples but these are * *chef’s kiss* *
I mean tbf while I do agree wholeheartedly, I don’t think the first one was timed that way in game, but I could be wrong. P sure they just played the voice line in post then synced the combat choreography to it.
I was enjoying the video, 10 min have passed, hear Vaati say that he would go misson by misson, proceed to check how much of the video is left, I sh*t my pants
It's more fun to not fight him because then he's upset that you previously ignored him when he attacks you with Balteus. Then you shoot him down like he doesn't even matter because realistically, at this point in the story he doesn't.
The prevailing theory I've seen about the STV sketch featuring Coldcall and Nosaac is that the third man - the one with the long, white hair - is Sulla. He fits the description of someone who would be much older, as well as the mentions that he's someone who "lives for the hunt" - in this case, hunting a man who won't pay off his debts. As for what Nosaac is holding, I think that's just the straps of a backpack or anther bag, or possibly (though less likely) a small animal. The "legs" are far too small to be a person.
Alternatively, it could be that it's the AI image generation bugging out and generating legs from nothing. It could be STV rushed that particular image seeing as they were in more immediate danger
What a treat, thank you to everyone that worked on this. For those interested in AC6 lore I also can't recommend enough the video titled "AC6 is an allegory for Alchemy", you'll be surprised just how neatly piece after piece slots in and how much it helps explain what the whole point of the third ending is.
I am actually in love with the lore of this game. Something about the interconnected web of characters, their conflicting goals, their humanity getting lost in the violence of war, your place in the middle of it all...Walter is just still a heart broken young boy that was denied a real family, and he has to bear this burden of responsibility to burning the coral. Iguazu is psychologically damaged from his time in the Redguns, but Michigan is emotionally incapable of allowing anyone to feel good, despite caring for them all deeply. Maeterlinck's goddamn cries for help that go unreplied by the brutal Snail. There is so much humanity in this game about robots shooting the shit out of each other, it is incredible. And that's before you even start to look at the themes, the classical references, the philosophical ideas about humanity and consciousness, and so on. It's so rich. I would actually love it if they made a companion anime series to this game, a bit like they did with cyberpunk, but I think this has the potential to be way better and more thought provoking, as good as cyberpunk was. Anyway, such an amazing piece of work you've done here - an hour in and loving all the detail, the cross referencing, the footage, everything. Even the analysis of the pencil sketches. Amazing stuff. It’s motivating me to go finish ng++!
The subtle details such as specific weapon descriptions, AC loadouts, and data logs scattered around the world as well as the solid environmental storytelling give life and worldbuilding to a world without a human (or alien) face.
@@VictorIV0310 yeah totally, even the AC names and decals, it's crazy. Rather than the sprawling narratives of Elden Ring/Bloodborne, which are obviously also amazing but point in many different directions with loose ends, AC6 lore makes me think of a sort of self-contained puzzle box, all these pieces fitting together, across ng cycles, dialogue lines that only make sense in conjunction with about 5 other item descriptions, etc. And yes, even though there is not a single face seen in AC6, it is all about the character interactions, their motivations, their goals, like some sort of elborate novel/opera with 30 characters in it. And that's only possible with extremely economical story telling. We are told exactly what we need to be told, and that's all.
Man I'm glad someone else said it, because I've been thinking this would be perfect for a companion anime since it released. The vocal direction in the game is so stellar that if they got the same VAs back I bet they'd be able to run with any script and a different director and still turn in top tier performances. Every character is so distinct that coloring in around their margins would flow so naturally.
@@taylorfielder8940I’ve been looking for a mecha anime that has the same serious vibe and concerns cutthroat corporations battling it out using mercenaries in the far future but I’ve found nothing close. I really want an anime with a similar setting or a direct adaptation/spinoff would be incredible.
For me, one of the best moments is when G6 Red 5:02:40- starts to have a ptsd breakdown and instead of going on a psychotic rage like most media portrays ptsd, it instead shows the effect realistically, through a mix of paranoia and stern resolve to survive the situation. It also shows how hierarchy is so important in times of chaos and how it can control/weaponize the effect of paranoia, but this is a tangent i'm going on. G6 Red was stranded on hostile ground, refusing to surrender. If G2 Nile or G1 Michigan were alive and negotiated surrender he wouldn't be fighting his last stand, but as the commanders of the hierarchy were not alive to negotiate, its not in the lower military ranks mind to be able to surrender, to negotiate safe passage or other logistics of war. Instead much like the real life ww2 japanese soldier that stayed in the island for years after the war is over, the stranded warrior knows only to fight, to assess threats, to dance in the tune of the threater of war others have made for them.
I think the reason why rusty calls himself 8th gen augment is because since he grew up eating meal worms containing coral, and that he's also talented as a ac pilot, he could probably get away with what his skill is. Thus imitating the augmenting process in a much slower way
Coral augmentation isn't done through just coral ingestion, otherwise the dosers would be kicking our shit in. Its cybernetics that use coral to help transmit data between the ac and pilot better. Also yeah 8th gen doesn't use coral, they already fully switched to non-coral augmentation by the time 7th gen augmentation came around, while 5th to 6th gen were the transition generations where they experimented with alternatives to coral.
@@pot3to444 no, they switched alternatives by the time 5th gen augmentation happened, but we don't see anyone of the 5th and 6th gen because all those people are probably dead.
16:47 I’ve always had a head cannon that 621 was mute as a side effect of their augmentation, like how some AC pilots went insane in the earlier games due to excessive augmentation.
Liberator of rubicon in a nutshell: Walter/Carla: “621 burn the coral to stop another disaster” 621: “There’s a lady in my head that calls me stud muffin”
The AC6 DLC in a nutshell: Player: *invades Rubicon III* *receives message* Ayre: "This is the operator of the Rubicon Planetary Closure System. You are trespassing on Rubicon III. Pull back immediately... or we will respond with lethal force" Player: "Holy sh*t it's that stud muffin and his vtuber gf"
Fires of raven in a nutshell: "sorry arye you are allways nice to me, but i must follow genocidal orders from that old man tha always mistreats me and calls me doggie, you and your kin must be burned along with this planet and others beside it"
"I hope you watched this in segments." Uh... I adored this video. Someone else commented that it's like playing the game except there's someone competent at the helm who actually understands the story, and I cannot agree more with that sentiment. Congratulations to you and your team; this is a phenomenal piece of work. I cannot fathom how much went into this video. Just. Wow.
@@krumplin8992 I watched it again after I woke up. It just dropped at a stupidly late hour, _way_ too late for a 5.5-hour lore video, and Vaati's voice is _really_ soothing.
I never finished AC6, life got in the way for the most part. But having this play while working was exactly what I needed to understand the story. Subbed.
Six days seeing this video on and off. Wow. This game sure knows how to make you feel for people, without even showing you a single face. All you have are voices, and the ACs they drive.
Something about the ending of this game got really emotionally invested. Despite the story being told through voice lines and journal logs, the characters and their voice acting were incredible. Ac6 is an amazing game
For some reason i really imagine the game as being very small projects for the voice actors, especially considering that the story dialogues are a bit short compared to most games, but i still felt like all the voice actors nailed their roles wc i imagine must be very hard since the story is so obtuse, but small roles like chatty, honest brute, those minor balam mts pilots, rakumonsen, etc, they all just seem to be working on the same level as the main cast. All around impressive work!
@@ClaimClam Cry more purist, some of us will never understand Japanese enough to play the game without a translation. The Voicework is great in English too and the actors deserve praise
1:07:20 I like the theory of Rusty being a non augmented human. It kinda reminds me of Solaire, who was always ahead of the chosen undead, even though the equipment he had was just normal armor, sword and shield. Which could also be a similarity to Rusty, who prefers basic kinetic weapons instead of advanced laser weapons.
@ssjAnnaPaquin that's what I was thinking too, that he is just so darn good that he has to say he is augmented just so people don't see how talented he truly is.
I was beginning to think that, due to AC6 being not as popular as the other FS games, he just kinda gave up on it and went to work on projects that would get more views. Glad to know I was wrong!
I mean you never know the TH-cam algorithm, a lot of times the highest quality content of stuff that aren't much well known get a lot of attention. Well we'll see how the video performs.
Just finished watching, and all I have to say is a huge thank you for you and everyone involved in this video for making it possible. The camera shots and the action scenes rerecorded could make some action movies jealous, the gathering of all the info, the sense of detail, everything was on point, and absolutely amazing. It made me want to jump back into the game once again, so thank you. I hope From Software plans to make more Amored Core games in the future.
54:08 Considering how everything that happens in NG++ is a result of ALLMIND's plans, it always seemed obvious that she was the one who sent the c-weapons in.
This is single handedly the greatest lore video ever made. Its production value was incredible. I felt more like I was watching a professional documentary than some massive exposition dump. Fantastic work. You have EARNED my like/sub.
@@Argaris1 I mean the eng dub was very very flat on the jap version they actually have feelings xD idk on one hand I like that they talk almost like they are an email more than a call like this is just another day of work but on the other hand maybe give it some soul the jap version had that
@@Argaris1 I mean, IM a deaf weab, for sure. Hard of hearing? Check. Likes anime? Check. But even IM not tryin to have a sub vs. dub argument over a fukin lore video...
This is incredible - as an AC veteran I've been waiting for a game with a focus on plot. I'm glad you shone a spotlight on all the thought thats been put into the story for this game.
Holy shit. I hope this will help more people appreciate the amazing story in this game. I've heard way too many complaints that the game has no story which has consistently baffled me considering just how invested I was in the plot and characters.
thought about "no story" @ my first playthrought. these mission by mission breaks didn't help. i just knew that fromsoft is allways deep & luckyly there are items (data logs) & vaatividya
@christopherlyndsay8611 yeah it is easily their most accessible stories. It has very defined, talkative characters that explain a lot to you and also make the story way more intriguing bc they all have cool motivations. If you get the NG++ ending I think it's one of FromSoft's most satisfying stories overall.
When I first heard Walter say "find your freedom", I genuinely got shivers and goosebumps. This was the moment that made me realize just how incredible AC6 is.
The ultimate armored core experience: using this vid at the moment as bg noise for building machines in ac4a and programming UNACs in VD. Vibing. Playing armored core. Chuckling at jokes and noticing stuff i hadnt in my full playthrough.
@ClaimClam what’re you going to say to someone that’s blind and listening to this? I’m really curious. As someone who listens to Subs more often than Dubs, the Dub of this game is nice; I’d even say quite good. And as someone who listens to the Subs, shut your mouth hole and stop this pedantic gatekeeping in the comments.
Holy- I have watched through ALL of it in one sitting. From the intro animations to Iguazu's salt powering the ALLMIND AC. And the music used, from AC6's Disc 03 soundtrack to the ones from Armored Core for Answer which I immediately recognized. The amount of effort and cinematic shots put in this video truly goes beyond those scorched skies.
Peak song choice. Appreciate you sticking around to delve into this story. In some ways it's the most up front blunt story telling we've gotten from modern From, and still there's intricate connections. Painful details. Tragic secrets. Cheers dud.
You really are something! I've always enjoyed your lore videos and this one is another home run. Thank you and everyone else working with you for this incredible story telling 🙏
I didn't realize the video was 5 and a half hours long until i was 2 and a half hours in. I personally loved this game more than Elden Ring. It moved me much more emotionally in a way a game hasnt since i was a child. Thank you for all of the content you produce. I've never done a super thanks before but to not recognize the importance of this piece to not just the AC community or Fromsoft community but the gaming and entertainment industry as a whole would be criminal. Thank you and I cannot wait to see what else is in store for you.
Fantastic work Vaati. This was the best lore vid for AC I've ever seen. I'm glad you guys were able to show off the subtext that usually goes unnoticed in AC in such a presentational manner. Thanks for all the hard work. It was the most enjoyable 5.5 hours of AC content I've watched and I'd do it again.
This was amazing. You can really tell the love that was put into this, from the "re-cams" of other characters doing stuff in the world at the same time as the player, the cinematography, the way it was written and voiced, the way parts were edited for emphasis, the explanation and comparisons to real world counterparts and references. Thank you, to all that worked on it. I was a joy to experience.
2:21:55 I think its not just a sea as we know it. Just like the Rubiconians calling the Coral extraction points "Wells", I theorize that the RRI classified the Sea Spider for the Sea of Coral. Maybe it was meant to enter the coral and interface with it? Maybe it was meant to go into the actual sea to search for Coral? I do recall it being mentioned that water tends to associate with Coral Veins. Maybe the Seas are no exception under correct circumstances.
I litteraly just got the new game ++ ending today after grinding the game on a random whim and then I get to watch 5.5 hours of the games lore. The stars aligned and I couldn’t be happier. Thanks vaati :D
Glad you took the time to make this video. This game is the first non-indie game I've taken the time to 100% in like a decade, its honestly incredible. I knew FromSoft for AC (specifically AC3) before I ever bothered to try the Souls games and I'm glad to see its made a comeback after so long.
Aww, you missed one of the best interactions at 4:22:20 ! If you assault boost directly at him, as soon as the cut scene ends, Rusty does the same thing. And if you don't break off, or attack, he just headbutts you, and its just so perfect for the whole scenario.
I bought Armored Core 6, (my first Ac game) as a treat for myself after passing this semesters classes with A's three days ago, and now I'm already on new game ++, thank you for creating this masterpiece, I cannot stress enough how much I needed this lore explanation.
This was a really amazing video to watch. I enjoyed AC6 immensely more than I'd expected, and the story was one of the high points. I'm terrible at piecing together the little lore details on the fly, so I really enjoyed this video for spotting all these threads and tying them together. The visuals you've used were amazing, and I am in awe of the skill shown, in not just showing the most awesome moments of the most exciting fights, but really elevating them with the timing and camera work. Thank you and everyone involved for putting this together!
I have to say, as someone who loves watching your lore videos while eating, i always wanted longer format videos for these beautiful worlds too. This was a wonderful watch mate, know that you're appreciated.
What an incredible achievement this video is. Just exquisitely done in its presentation and attention to detail--the effort and care on display here is staggering. Thank you so much for your dedication to making this project truly worthy of its source material.
Mispap did a great job creating so many of these cinematics. Which scenes were some of your favourites? I'll add them to the list below:
35:13- Attack the Dam Complex Fight Scene
1:52:20- Balteus Fight Scene
Ice worm fight-3:21:26
Intercept the Redguns-3:49:03
3:53:43- Fighting Rusty
4:08:09- Walter’s Legacy
Rusty is the goat!
Waited for this for a long time. Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks for this awesome work. Next: Elden ring new DLC 😂
The cutaway to the far shot when iguazu shuts out allmind is just * chefs kiss * so good
When are you gonna make a video about the new Elden Ring dlc story trailer that just dropped
The cumulative man-hours that must’ve gone into creating this is wild to think about. Amazing job to everyone involved.
I love seeing my favorite TH-camrs supporting each other.
thought same about workinput after i saw intro-chapter
Hey Pine - just wanted to say I love your videos and your latest one of playing with Vaati was my favorite so far.
Keep it up!
I thought i was going to see multiple parts, not ONE WHOLE VIDEO! Super impressive
this video is insane damn
Honestly, I don't know what to say about this video. It's been a constant project for so many months that it's going to feel strange now it's complete.
I understand it's a big ask to expect anyone to watch 5.5hours of Armored Core 6 content, but I personally love coming back to long-format videos over time, so I hope the TH-cam algorithm serves this up to you a few times so that you can keep coming back. However, if you don't have time, I'd recommend at least watching the endings in Chapter 5! Those are some of the most cinematic, impactful moments, and the new songs from Disc 3 of the official soundtrack go hard.
Thank you all for your patience as this project came to fruition. We certainly won't be doing another 5.5hr lore video any time soon :P
I'm going to watch this before going to bed over the next year, bless you
I love long videos Vaati! Take as much time as you need brother, you are the absolute best when it comes to Soulsborne lore! Quality>Quantity FTW. ❤❤
5 hours. It’ll be 6 in the morning by the time I’m done. Fun night :)
Brother i'm gonna watch it at least twice dw you're good actually thank you you're more then good
This is your art. Wouldn’t want to see the vision nerfed in any way. Thank you
"I hope you watched this in segments."
Yeah, that's...totally what I did.
Yeah, I totally watched it in sections! One right after the other, all in one go.
I paused twice to go get snacks.
11pm-6am. I regret nothing. What a fucking video.
@@mtburr1089legit fell asleep...and here I am after waking up, going back and finishing lol
Saturday, xcom long war and a good night
I like to believe it's a communal joke on rubicon that whenever they encounter rummy, they only beat him down and let him live after, because he's so pathetic he's funny. Everyone including Balam, Arquebus, all the dosers, and even the PCA are in on it.
Raven, being a newcomer, wasn't in on the joke and ruined it by killing him.
I'm willing to bet that even allmind and the c-weapons were in on it too
"Incoming AC."
"It's just Rummy, you know the deal."
I honestly think that Raven actually spared Rummy, but because the 'Newbie' beat him he had a heart attack from the shame...
@@jakeforgey5378 I mean Rummy was never confirmed dead, he could just... be recovering from the wounds or something.
This was by far the largest project I've ever had the chance to work on, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Working with Vaati and Mispap1 has been a fantastic experience, and I think this video turned out even better than we were all hoping for!
I want to give a MASSIVE thanks to the team for bringing me on for this, and, of course, a huge thanks to all of you that have been patient regarding both Vaati's and my own upload schedules in the lead-up to this. I hope we're all on the same page in that it was 100% worth it in the end 🙏
Good to see that you worked on this as well. Makes one very happy.
who tf are you
@@TheBlastedCannon who tf are you?
@@jonathanDstrandBlastedCannon
Killed it!
29:05
"I can't fail this mission!"
"He fails the mission"
Cold. Like a proper Raven
I had to pause the video at this point cuz I was laughing too hard.
"Your safety is now guaranteed."
"Your safety is not guaranteed."
@@EnsignGeneric That's the one that absolutely sent me.
I already really didn't like Allmind, but this vid actually has made me hate her even more. Especially since I hadn't noticed Walter and Carla's ACs like that in the final mission.
Judging by how often that mission is farmed for credits he fails a lot.
Bro I had to replay that several times. That was just so damn funny.
You’re invaluable to the Fromsoft franchise. Every game community wishes they had Vaati as an ambassador 🐐
Too kind 🙏 Looking forward to your SOTE content
@@VaatiVidyaunironically though, I haven't played any of these games (and don't really have an interest to, not my genre) but you make the lore and stories and details so incredibly engaging and easy to watch it's a ridiculously powerful skill you've honed, hats off to you
Fr that’s what I’m saying. I here his name first when I think souls game and yt
I love you, thank you for enlightening many. @@VaatiVidya
Holy shit it’s the guy who doesn’t have a big nose!!
Iguazu: “YOU RUINED MY LIFE WHEN YOU JOINED THE REDGUNS!!!”
621: “For you that was the most important moment of your life. For me…it was Tuesday.”
ok, kid
I'm 24.
My guy got pissed because of a Street Fighter meme reference, lul
Kid? He's referencing a movie from 1994.
@@The_Big_Jaywhat movie ?
Thanks for watching everyone! Working on this video really gave me a deep appreciation for AC6 and its characters, so I hope our retelling of this epic story can reveal things you missed and help you appreciate this amazing game even more. Would love to hear which mission was your favorite so lmk down below😁
The Balteus fight, for its pure brutality and unforgiving nature (Day 1 Balteus that is)
The Ice Worm for the Plot Twist, knowing what Coral *truly is*
And any of the Three Final Missions for setting your fate..and your overall morale for the Coral
Either the Strider or Ice Worm. The scale of both is incredible, and fighting the Ice Worm with a team is quite the spectical. I just wish the Strider had a bit more going on gameplay wise. It's a little too simple. So probably go with Ice Worm as favorite because it's more mechanically complex. I just like really big monsters and mechs. Wish they would add some Kaiju to fight lol.
I'm stuck between the rusty fight and walter.. I think the final FINAL mission has stayed with me a long time.. honestly, my favorite mission by far is the one where Freude shows up and makes his reveal.. I still use him as a test for pvp builds to see if they're good lol
My favorite still has to be the allmind final fight purely for the dialogue. Iguazu telling us to save a spot for him in hell when he kills us, the disturbing realization that allmind has assimilated every pilot you've met into a disgusting amalgamation of ai generated versions of their consciousness, all summed in the simple statement of "there's a lot of us inside of me, dregs with a grudge".
Walter's story before mission 47 and reaching the coral convergence, the lore dump was amazing in game
Masterpiece!
It truly is)
Fr
Real
You're probably not gonna answer this, and you might have mentioned it somewhere I haven't seen, but are you planning on playing ac6 on your channel? There's no reasonable way to expect you to play the older ac games, but I would really like to see you play this one. It would also be cool to see you play all 3 endings
JACKYBOY!
"Snail's base of operation, within the sewers where he belongs..."
That got a good chuckle out of me.
From did such a good job making a voice-bound character SO hate-able. His AC design is even something a jerk like him would 100% use.
Still, fuck Snail.
4:52:03 if anyone's curious
@@BrianlikescarsBut you can't blame his new AC "Arqubues Balteus" is sexy. Hate that we can't pilot it
@@vergiltheartofpower6616 Balteus is not an AC by definition though
So I only just noticed that all of Ayre’s dialogue has a high pitched squeal tone on the back end. It’s easier to hear at the end of her sentences since it trails past her lines. But it is only present when she specifically speaks. Which gives us a glimpse of what iguazu was hearing. Since it’s very likely that this is actually what she sounds like but 621’s brain is able to interpret the sound as speech. It also explains his foul mood when dealing with us. That sound being at full blast would be maddening. We would basically be a walking migraine emitter.
🤯
VERY INTERESTING 🤔 I'm gonna have to listen for it now.
6th playthrough here I come!
I thought it was an issue with my phone speakers... and then it turned out it was just the dialogue. I wonder if the waveform of such high pitched whining matches that of the waveforms seen to represent Ayre.
Oh, so our gf is a very loud, overclocked blender.
@iwuanadie1058 sounds about right lmaooo at least they got the LORE on FEMALES correct lmao
"The answer is 2000 Albany's sir!" Timing that with the cannon firing was just beautiful lmfao
There's so much packed into this video its insane.
WAKE UP BABE THE VAATI MOVIE JUST DROPPED 😱
*MaatiMoovi
You just awakened my memories of watching you
This is like 2 fetare leingth films
Oro been a while since an AC vid from you.
Wake up babe and come up with some original thoughts
Nobody in the YT essay sphere will ever phrase "weaponized salt" with such eloquence as Vaati. Man vindicated every single emotion I've felt playing AC6. 10/10
Tyvm
Why are you black
Bro gave 10$ and got a tyvm
I've never heard G6 Red cry out for G5 Iguazu before. It really shows how despair-filled Red is that he's calling out to such an unreliable Redgun. He just has nothing left. It's an extra layer of sadness on top of an already sad fight.
"This is just speculation" is an incantation Vaati casts to summon lore into canon.
I consider it canon, because I said so and it's fucking dope
@@cabnbeeschurgrsomething tells me this incantation has a lot of faith in it.
@@BiggerBossN313It also needs Int because of the theory-crafting
It's like playing the entire game, with a competent person at the helm, who actually understands the story. Wild to watch the whole thing all in one go. 12/10
I need to sit down and finish it
You don't need a video to understand this story. The game explicitly tells you everything. They actually hold your hand through the story to make sure you don't miss literally anything.
this is basically true haha. still cool asf to re-live it like this tho @elyrienvalkyr8167
@@elyrienvalkyr8167 and people said this game has no story 😂
Sony fed them movie games so much they forgot how to read 😂
@@agentoy6065 Yeah I dropped it after finishing chapter 2. I could see it was a masterpiece, but I just didn't have the time and patience to master another combat system this twitchy. But I will definitely be revisiting it at some point, perhaps after a revengence playthrough to get those thumbs warmed up.
I love the implication that Iguazu hates Raven so damn much it powers multiple c-weapons. It’s also a cool touch for Armored core for having these machines being driven by such human things such as emotions and survival instincts, it explains the mechs doing things that seem impossible such as surviving death blows. Mechs fueled by the indomitable human spirit goes unimaginably hard
yeah
like in For Answer where you can defeat White Glint in Hard Mode.
Before it comes back to life in full health all the while boosting around like normal.
Iguazu is fueled by Gurren Lagann logic: their mechs are powered by the will of the pilot
The energy it gives off is even green, dude is so green with envy you can SEE it.
That really is what core theory was supposed to mean I guess. The indomitable human spirit, the spirit with enough power to inherit the stars is what truly makes an AC powerful. That human spirit isn’t something an A.I can recreate so easily. The only thing that holds us back as a species is our frail bodies, but even then after losing several limbs we still fight on with amplified fury and aggression that has never before been witnessed by the universe. Combine the unwavering power of a human spirit with the equally formidable body of an Armored core, and you truly see what mankind’s prime potential looks like. You see exactly why from the start, the stars were our birthright.
@@xeta2466
This reminds me.
In connection with the reply above yours, Iguazu's Spiral Energy must've spiked like hell there.(edit: Spiral Energy in Gurren Lagann is mostly colored green.)
Yes, this is furthering the Gurren Lagann connection.
For being bodyless voices, the connections we formed to Ayre and Rusty are crazy. I felt genuinely like a terrible person for fighting them in the destroy ending.
This just proves how powerful rhetoric is.
I'm more surprised at the fact that Fromsoft can make people simp for a voice
@@saif-gv6gl bruh forgot phone sex lines exist... dudes will simp for disembodied voices, this predates fromsoft entirely. Dudes are horny bastards, this is just a fact.
The Rusty fights are 100% gut wrenching, I can’t take that there’s no ending where he lives. I’m expecting From will probably do something like they did with previous Armored Cores, and make a game with story for each ending, if it’s feasible for them anyway
4:27:37 A really cool detail about the fight with Ayre imo is that if you study the way she moves, she pilots the AC like a novice. Constantly overextending herself and then breaking off to build way more distance than she needs. Like she hasn't piloted an AC much before.
The main reason she's still giving you trouble is just because the thing she's piloting is way sturdier than an AC and has a lot of very powerful weapons.
And when you have fought her in the simulations, you are sort of training her, in my opinion. And when we fight instead with her in the all mind ending, she is much better at fighting and piloting the AC. SImply because she knows how to fight now, from us.
That would explain why so many of my awful energy weapon/laser slicer builds worked so well on her.
Glad I could help out with a very small part of this project!
It'll be nice to have something to listen to over the week, and that intro animation was amazing!
Thx. Never realized the sketches were in game characters
I remember watching all of your alternate/hidden/cut ac6 dialogues when the game first came out, pleasant surprise to see you helped with this monstrosity
You should boycott the video until he switches out the bad English dub for the original Japanese
Grey Caliber in the loretube big leagues now!
The relationship between Iguazu and 621 is the embodiment of "I don't even know who you are"
😂
Legit on my NG++ Iguazu yelled at me about how I’ve killed him several times and I’m like “I DID??”
I played through again and payed closer attention lmao almost felt bad for the dude
Literally 🤣 My first playthrough i absolutely had no idea who he was or why he was so mad 🤣
"Show yourself, Freelancer!"
"Who are you?"
"I am a Redgun, a great pilot, better than all of you"
"well if that's true, you would think I'd have heard of you"
"I attacked you literally last week... we've done battle like, 20 times?"
"well you must have been really bad at this"
More like "I forgot the part where that's my problem."
4:19:49 I think the line from V1 Freud where he says “you fight like a hound on a hunt, at this altitude I’d expected a scavenger bird” could be a subtle acknowledgment that in the Fires of Raven ending, C4-621 is more of Walter’s Hound than a Raven. It’s just a nice detail in the dialogue
IGN: Armored Core has almost no Story.
Vaati: Hold my Beer 🍺
Yeah form software games the story need to be dug up but ign is to lazy to understand the story they are the worst video game reviewer's
and in ac i feels like loee is more hidden then in other fromsoft games
@@KaisaCantCommunicatebut in AC the story is very upfront. Especially this game. Yes there lore texts that is hidden, but if you notice the majority of this video is in-game cutscenes or characters dialogue. Stuff that anyone can see if you play the game. I’ve gotten all of these videos in game too.
Normally FromSoft games the lore is very cryptic and leaves a lot to interpretation. But here everything is basically what you see is what’s happening
@@brandonjones5879
maybe you're right.
there are in-game dialogs & cutscenes.
maybe the action overwhelmed me @ my first playthrought & i couldn't connect item-discribtion, in-game-dialogs & group-relation😃 i mean i.e. i didn't realized walter is the scientist's son & carla a kind of co-worker or that that one image-data is showing michigan, nile, iguazu and so on
Did ign really say this 💀
Crazy how many reviewers said “this game has no story” meanwhile Vaati makes a 5 HOURS OF LORE.
Yeah it shows the laziness and in many cases the incompetence of those "reviewers", specially the IGN!
given some of them cant even get past tutorial what can you expect.
@@KPX01Shocking, considering the first fight isn't even that hard
@@lucakoselj7123for someone who considers themselves not very good at anything, it blew my mind how people put the game down at the helicopter and my dumbass beat the game multiple times.
Can't spell Ignorant without IGN.
I personally love that the colony ship is just straight up a flying city. No cryogenic stasis bullshit here, we're traveling in _style_
Reminds me of Macross.
And it's a freaking huge ship. The size of a real large city or bigger. Millions of people could live in it. Even looking at Rubicon I always feel like billions of humans live in those megastructures
I think it's supposed to be a reference to the older series 4 games, where they had the giant walking or flying city bases that you had to assault
Conceptually, even if you have cryostasis, something like a ship city would still be a reasonable option for the simple reason that things can go wrong and an awake city ship is in a better place to deal with that even if getting people out of stasis early is an option
the saddest part about iguazu is that his allies at the red guns genuinely cared about him but he doesnt care about them at all he cares about is killing you, volta g6 red michigan all genuinely cared about him
The way the comms short as Rusty overclocks the cannon is 🤌🤌🤌
That fight is a master class in audio design.
And the way the music cuts out when it fires
"I won't miss"
Very dramatic and bombastic Very cool
That "I won't miss." Gives me chills everytime. Rusty is one of the best characters in the game.
Reminds me of the redline weapons from V-day. The AC com would short out and warn the player to stop using this thing before you break the ac
@@kimbertactpro9 I never played it, but that sounds dope
This man really just dropped a 5+ hour lore video so casually. I've literally just started playing AC6 for the first time and it's so much fun. Perfect timing 🔥
best game I've played in years with an incredible story. enjoy!
Please don't watch it for now!
AC story is best experienced in the game!
@@pownotthere
You're right! I only watched the story overview section of the vid and decided to save the rest for later.
I actually just finished my first playthrough yesterday after spending all of Sunday just playing Armored Core VI, went for the Liberator of Raven ending and I'm in NG+ now! Appreciate the comments :)
This is probably well known but I haven’t seen anyone mention it, Honest Brute says “slow, slow, quick, quick, slow” which if you’re familiar with classical dance is clearly the basic count for a tango. Don’t know why brute likes the tango but it’s a detail I love
Some say "Time to Tango" (or just to dance) before going toe to toe with someone, for example, in battle. They probably link the intimacy and closeness associated with the dance to close-quarter-combat
I've heard this before, and also heard the Tango described as one of the most adversarial dances, nearly a competition with your partner
@@leebard9335 yes you’re very correct, incredibly intense
3:48:57 Killing G1 was so painful. I remember the whole time I was on the mission, I was saying to myself, "this feels so wrong..."
To be fair, I always hated G1's guts because he was a stereotypical american commander. Little did I know he was still by far the better of the 2, the dude even acknowledges your might, Snail is just a scumbag all the way through.
Buried in cold and darkness, just like the people whose lifelines he ordered to cut. Rest in Pilebunker, ya jerk
Wait since we still are technically G13... does that mean we get the half of the bounty the killer of G1 would have?
Also, that mission was tough... and made worse because my controller had drifting right thumbstick... I completed it for S-Rank eventually, but damn if it didn't take a while...
Thank you so much for your tireless work promoting and celebrating this series. I would not be an Armored Core fan today if not for you and your videos!
Thank you so much. My favourite piece of feedback to receive is that I've deepened your enjoyment of these games
@@VaatiVidyashut ur mouth boy
BROTHER, IT'S MIDNIGHT HERE, I NEED TO SLEEP.
Verify your clock, then.
Felt that. Got back from a concert to see this... like oi bruv, I wanna watch but I need sleep more!
It's 8am
@@mariopllumbi3748 I'm fairly confident that BigShep and I live in the U.S.
How else would there be such a drastic time difference?
Laughs in Aussie 4pm
This game and its story are criminally underrated for how good they are.
I think it's honestly one of FromSoft's best stories. The characters are so memorable. Michigan, Snail, Walter.
I love how good of a rival Iguazu is. My man was fueled by hatred.
I just cant fi ish it, i think i sorundered to the from sofy dread
@@agentoy6065are you ok?
45:40 Actually, small correction there: His emblem is a group of ants holding up the decapitated HEAD of a stag beetle.
That's rad as hell
“I hope you’re watching this in multiple sittings.”
Sorry to disappoint
When you have 6 hours straight of free time. :b
It took me 2 days, but here we are, it's done. And I want more!
2:30:30
"You fight like a bird in flight"
*is a literal tank*
to be fair, the tank indeed can fly.
@@botarcIt's falling with style
Literal Tanks are the Meta Now.
well... emu
Heavy bird
"You were a mistake, Iguazu" what a burn...
Finally I have a video to show to all my friends who didn't pay much attention to the story and now say that AC6 was fun, but has no story to talk about.
All I need now is a way to trick them into watching a 6 hour video....
Watching this really brought back all the emotions from my first (three) playthrough.
I don't understand how people can say this game has no story. This is the most straightforward story Fromsoft ever made
How you're gonna convince your friends to watch a 6 hour video? Crazy
Include a word or two into your everyday speech every now and then and they'll subconsciously learn in no time
A colleague at work shared this video in our slack channel, I really enjoyed it. Thank you for spending your time and energy to make it.
I swear, whoever choreographed and recorded your fights in-game are geniuses
29:05 The comedic timing against the test pilot
1:02:15 The double combo finisher with Rusty
5:00:25 The “omae wa mou shindeir” on Iguazu and landing him next to Snail + the walk up
Just a few examples but these are * *chef’s kiss* *
I mean tbf while I do agree wholeheartedly, I don’t think the first one was timed that way in game, but I could be wrong. P sure they just played the voice line in post then synced the combat choreography to it.
3:07:28 - **Coyote screaming**
The back to back shot with ayre at 5:18:12 was clean too
Vaati uploading +5 hour video feels like a holiday event
It is the danger man
I was enjoying the video, 10 min have passed, hear Vaati say that he would go misson by misson, proceed to check how much of the video is left, I sh*t my pants
well its a holyday here in germany :D
With the liberator of rubicon ending, fighting snail IS optional, but he’s a douche so I’ll fight him every time
But it's infinitely funnier to just ignore him. Let him know that he simply isn't worth our time.
It's more fun to not fight him because then he's upset that you previously ignored him when he attacks you with Balteus. Then you shoot him down like he doesn't even matter because realistically, at this point in the story he doesn't.
"I hope you did this in multiple sittings" nah, gonna watch this whole quarter of a days AC lore in one sitting because augmented different
5 and a half hours is alright, but i've watched patricians 20 hour skyrim review in on sitting before so...
The prevailing theory I've seen about the STV sketch featuring Coldcall and Nosaac is that the third man - the one with the long, white hair - is Sulla. He fits the description of someone who would be much older, as well as the mentions that he's someone who "lives for the hunt" - in this case, hunting a man who won't pay off his debts. As for what Nosaac is holding, I think that's just the straps of a backpack or anther bag, or possibly (though less likely) a small animal. The "legs" are far too small to be a person.
Alternatively, it could be that it's the AI image generation bugging out and generating legs from nothing. It could be STV rushed that particular image seeing as they were in more immediate danger
I love how Cinder's AC, while coming in to rescue you has those missile wings to look like an angel.
humanoid robots and religious symbolism, name a more iconic duo
It’s not much, but I don’t feel like a FIVE HOUR video can just go unpaid like it so often does. Thanks, Tourist.
Thank you! Very kind
What a treat, thank you to everyone that worked on this.
For those interested in AC6 lore I also can't recommend enough the video titled "AC6 is an allegory for Alchemy", you'll be surprised just how neatly piece after piece slots in and how much it helps explain what the whole point of the third ending is.
I am actually in love with the lore of this game. Something about the interconnected web of characters, their conflicting goals, their humanity getting lost in the violence of war, your place in the middle of it all...Walter is just still a heart broken young boy that was denied a real family, and he has to bear this burden of responsibility to burning the coral. Iguazu is psychologically damaged from his time in the Redguns, but Michigan is emotionally incapable of allowing anyone to feel good, despite caring for them all deeply. Maeterlinck's goddamn cries for help that go unreplied by the brutal Snail. There is so much humanity in this game about robots shooting the shit out of each other, it is incredible. And that's before you even start to look at the themes, the classical references, the philosophical ideas about humanity and consciousness, and so on. It's so rich. I would actually love it if they made a companion anime series to this game, a bit like they did with cyberpunk, but I think this has the potential to be way better and more thought provoking, as good as cyberpunk was.
Anyway, such an amazing piece of work you've done here - an hour in and loving all the detail, the cross referencing, the footage, everything. Even the analysis of the pencil sketches. Amazing stuff. It’s motivating me to go finish ng++!
The subtle details such as specific weapon descriptions, AC loadouts, and data logs scattered around the world as well as the solid environmental storytelling give life and worldbuilding to a world without a human (or alien) face.
@@VictorIV0310 yeah totally, even the AC names and decals, it's crazy. Rather than the sprawling narratives of Elden Ring/Bloodborne, which are obviously also amazing but point in many different directions with loose ends, AC6 lore makes me think of a sort of self-contained puzzle box, all these pieces fitting together, across ng cycles, dialogue lines that only make sense in conjunction with about 5 other item descriptions, etc.
And yes, even though there is not a single face seen in AC6, it is all about the character interactions, their motivations, their goals, like some sort of elborate novel/opera with 30 characters in it. And that's only possible with extremely economical story telling. We are told exactly what we need to be told, and that's all.
Man I'm glad someone else said it, because I've been thinking this would be perfect for a companion anime since it released. The vocal direction in the game is so stellar that if they got the same VAs back I bet they'd be able to run with any script and a different director and still turn in top tier performances. Every character is so distinct that coloring in around their margins would flow so naturally.
@@taylorfielder8940I’ve been looking for a mecha anime that has the same serious vibe and concerns cutthroat corporations battling it out using mercenaries in the far future but I’ve found nothing close. I really want an anime with a similar setting or a direct adaptation/spinoff would be incredible.
For me, one of the best moments is when G6 Red 5:02:40- starts to have a ptsd breakdown and instead of going on a psychotic rage like most media portrays ptsd, it instead shows the effect realistically, through a mix of paranoia and stern resolve to survive the situation. It also shows how hierarchy is so important in times of chaos and how it can control/weaponize the effect of paranoia, but this is a tangent i'm going on. G6 Red was stranded on hostile ground, refusing to surrender. If G2 Nile or G1 Michigan were alive and negotiated surrender he wouldn't be fighting his last stand, but as the commanders of the hierarchy were not alive to negotiate, its not in the lower military ranks mind to be able to surrender, to negotiate safe passage or other logistics of war. Instead much like the real life ww2 japanese soldier that stayed in the island for years after the war is over, the stranded warrior knows only to fight, to assess threats, to dance in the tune of the threater of war others have made for them.
"Snail's base of operations in the sewers, where he belongs..."
Taking any chance to throw shade at Snail 💀
I think the reason why rusty calls himself 8th gen augment is because since he grew up eating meal worms containing coral, and that he's also talented as a ac pilot, he could probably get away with what his skill is. Thus imitating the augmenting process in a much slower way
And here I was, about to post this same message.
That's the problem, 6+ don't use Coral
Coral augmentation isn't done through just coral ingestion, otherwise the dosers would be kicking our shit in. Its cybernetics that use coral to help transmit data between the ac and pilot better. Also yeah 8th gen doesn't use coral, they already fully switched to non-coral augmentation by the time 7th gen augmentation came around, while 5th to 6th gen were the transition generations where they experimented with alternatives to coral.
@@pot3to444 well, to be fair, the dosers use pretty shit tech compared to 621.
@@pot3to444 no, they switched alternatives by the time 5th gen augmentation happened, but we don't see anyone of the 5th and 6th gen because all those people are probably dead.
I feel like Vaati agrees with me that "Steel Haze (Rusted Pride)" is the best track in the game.
The remix on disk 3 is even better.
16:47 I’ve always had a head cannon that 621 was mute as a side effect of their augmentation, like how some AC pilots went insane in the earlier games due to excessive augmentation.
Liberator of rubicon in a nutshell:
Walter/Carla: “621 burn the coral to stop another disaster”
621: “There’s a lady in my head that calls me stud muffin”
The AC6 DLC in a nutshell:
Player: *invades Rubicon III*
*receives message*
Ayre: "This is the operator of the Rubicon Planetary Closure System. You are trespassing on Rubicon III. Pull back immediately... or we will respond with lethal force"
Player: "Holy sh*t it's that stud muffin and his vtuber gf"
Fires of raven in a nutshell:
"sorry arye you are allways nice to me, but i must follow genocidal orders from that old man tha always mistreats me and calls me doggie, you and your kin must be burned along with this planet and others beside it"
Alea iacta est: i genuinely have no idea what allmind is saying but it sounds kinda cool so...
@@MarvinT0606the what
@@khajiithaswares4147 621 becoming the White Glint of the AC6 DLC
"I hope you watched this in segments." Uh...
I adored this video. Someone else commented that it's like playing the game except there's someone competent at the helm who actually understands the story, and I cannot agree more with that sentiment. Congratulations to you and your team; this is a phenomenal piece of work. I cannot fathom how much went into this video. Just. Wow.
Looks like tonight's audiobook will be an _Armored Core_ video narrated by Vaati. I'll sleep well tonight, and dream of giant mechas!
Fezzik is that you?
Misap after spending 100s of hours on the cinematography: "oh.... okay"
@@krumplin8992 I watched it again after I woke up. It just dropped at a stupidly late hour, _way_ too late for a 5.5-hour lore video, and Vaati's voice is _really_ soothing.
Plural of mecha is mecha by the way.
Incorrect.
I never finished AC6, life got in the way for the most part. But having this play while working was exactly what I needed to understand the story. Subbed.
If ever you find some spare time, it's genuinely worth completing at least once. The satisfaction and genuine accomplishment is sublime.
Thats insane. I had a dream about this video being out already and me just forgetting to watch it. Woke up, searched it up, out 4 hours ago.
Mad.
Trippy
it's the coral connection
it's in the.. Ayre
You'd think Vaati's production quality couldn't get any better yet here we are
It just keeps going up and up
how long do we have to wait for youtube to process this 5hrs video into hdr ? 😂
Using the English dub for a JAPANESE game is not quality
How is it quality to use the low quality English dub version not the superior and original JAPANESE audio
@@ClaimClam ok weeb
@mispap1 I bow to you and your amazing cinematography. You're on Hollywood level. Your filming of the ice worm fight alone was RIVETING.
Six days seeing this video on and off. Wow.
This game sure knows how to make you feel for people, without even showing you a single face. All you have are voices, and the ACs they drive.
Walter, Carla, and Michigan will be missed.
Something about the ending of this game got really emotionally invested. Despite the story being told through voice lines and journal logs, the characters and their voice acting were incredible. Ac6 is an amazing game
The English voice acting is a joke, the real story is the Original Japanese
I agree also the ost was filled with emotion too I loved most of them
For some reason i really imagine the game as being very small projects for the voice actors, especially considering that the story dialogues are a bit short compared to most games, but i still felt like all the voice actors nailed their roles wc i imagine must be very hard since the story is so obtuse, but small roles like chatty, honest brute, those minor balam mts pilots, rakumonsen, etc, they all just seem to be working on the same level as the main cast. All around impressive work!
@@ClaimClam ?
@@ClaimClam Cry more purist, some of us will never understand Japanese enough to play the game without a translation. The Voicework is great in English too and the actors deserve praise
Iguazu: You took everything from me!!!
621: Who?
And funnily he becomes one of the more interesting characters
Iguazu: *Get out of my head!!!*
621: Wtf???
and then G5 Iguazu changes to Crimson 1
@@lesslighter from project wingman?
@@imgkaizer who else
The fight with Rusty, it always hit me so hard. And now, you added the flashback of the previous missions... :(
Did not thinking I would be tearing up watching this but damn it got me, RIP Rusty best buddy.
I stopped playing AC6 for months and almost as soon as I pick it back up you drop a full story video of it. Absolutely amazing.
1:07:20 I like the theory of Rusty being a non augmented human. It kinda reminds me of Solaire, who was always ahead of the chosen undead, even though the equipment he had was just normal armor, sword and shield. Which could also be a similarity to Rusty, who prefers basic kinetic weapons instead of advanced laser weapons.
Rusty is inside the allmind list of augmented humans
A better comparison would be Jetstream Sam
@ssjAnnaPaquin that's what I was thinking too, that he is just so darn good that he has to say he is augmented just so people don't see how talented he truly is.
I was beginning to think that, due to AC6 being not as popular as the other FS games, he just kinda gave up on it and went to work on projects that would get more views.
Glad to know I was wrong!
I mean you never know the TH-cam algorithm, a lot of times the highest quality content of stuff that aren't much well known get a lot of attention. Well we'll see how the video performs.
but somehow ac pvp is loosing popularity these days
thats most media as a whole. fantasy is more popular than scifi
@@KaisaCantCommunicateI'd blame the balance and netcode, game is amazing pve but ranked pvp is hell
@@azure4622The game is balanaced around PvE
Just finished watching, and all I have to say is a huge thank you for you and everyone involved in this video for making it possible. The camera shots and the action scenes rerecorded could make some action movies jealous, the gathering of all the info, the sense of detail, everything was on point, and absolutely amazing. It made me want to jump back into the game once again, so thank you. I hope From Software plans to make more Amored Core games in the future.
54:08 Considering how everything that happens in NG++ is a result of ALLMIND's plans, it always seemed obvious that she was the one who sent the c-weapons in.
To quote my reaction to the final boss "HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO PUT YOU IN THE GROUND IGUAZU!?"
"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man"
60 times should be enough
We really gotta curbstomp Iguana a few times.
Life is temporary Salt is eternal
So salty it overpowered an advanced machine intelligence.@@hardkor17081
This is single handedly the greatest lore video ever made. Its production value was incredible. I felt more like I was watching a professional documentary than some massive exposition dump. Fantastic work. You have EARNED my like/sub.
Could’ve been good if he actually used the original Japanese version , not the shoddy English knockoff dub
@@ClaimClam how to spot a deaf weeb:
@@Argaris1 I mean the eng dub was very very flat on the jap version they actually have feelings xD idk on one hand I like that they talk almost like they are an email more than a call like this is just another day of work but on the other hand maybe give it some soul the jap version had that
@@ClaimClam we really having the sub vs. dub debate here? Grow up.
@@Argaris1 I mean, IM a deaf weab, for sure. Hard of hearing? Check. Likes anime? Check. But even IM not tryin to have a sub vs. dub argument over a fukin lore video...
Petition to rename Michigan from the Hero of Jupiter to the Hero of AC6, for the wonderous achievement of punching iguana's face in.
This is incredible - as an AC veteran I've been waiting for a game with a focus on plot. I'm glad you shone a spotlight on all the thought thats been put into the story for this game.
This is amazing, in all my years as an armored core fan i never thought this game would go so far. Thank you Vaati!
Can't even imagine how much work went into creating this. We are all in your debt. Bravo!
Holy shit. I hope this will help more people appreciate the amazing story in this game. I've heard way too many complaints that the game has no story which has consistently baffled me considering just how invested I was in the plot and characters.
thought about "no story" @ my first playthrought. these mission by mission breaks didn't help.
i just knew that fromsoft is allways deep & luckyly there are items (data logs) & vaatividya
I have no idea why people would say this game has no story. I thought it was extremely straightforward, especially compared to the souls games.
Only people who lack the attention to listen to dialogue think that AC6 has no story. You don’t need a single log to get a clear picture of the story.
@christopherlyndsay8611 yeah it is easily their most accessible stories. It has very defined, talkative characters that explain a lot to you and also make the story way more intriguing bc they all have cool motivations. If you get the NG++ ending I think it's one of FromSoft's most satisfying stories overall.
When I first heard Walter say "find your freedom", I genuinely got shivers and goosebumps. This was the moment that made me realize just how incredible AC6 is.
The ultimate armored core experience: using this vid at the moment as bg noise for building machines in ac4a and programming UNACs in VD. Vibing. Playing armored core. Chuckling at jokes and noticing stuff i hadnt in my full playthrough.
I TOLD EVEY SINGLE AC6 STORY HATER THAT THE VATI VIDEO WOULD GO CRAZY
Except is not the real story… the real story is the original JAPANESE( with subtitles for casuals)
@@ClaimClamthis ain’t sekiro, English makes complete sense for this game tbh.
@ClaimClam what’re you going to say to someone that’s blind and listening to this? I’m really curious.
As someone who listens to Subs more often than Dubs, the Dub of this game is nice; I’d even say quite good.
And as someone who listens to the Subs, shut your mouth hole and stop this pedantic gatekeeping in the comments.
Holy- I have watched through ALL of it in one sitting.
From the intro animations to Iguazu's salt powering the ALLMIND AC. And the music used, from AC6's Disc 03 soundtrack to the ones from Armored Core for Answer which I immediately recognized.
The amount of effort and cinematic shots put in this video truly goes beyond those scorched skies.
Then maybe you can help me, I'm searching for the song that plays at the very end with the coral collapse and release but I couldn't find it so far
Something you haven't noticed about walters machine is some parts are named WLT and NGI. Its short form for WALTER and NAGAI.
5 hours of LORE
It’s too much lore 😩
Armored Lore
DEEP LORE! FIVE HOURS DEEP!!!!
@@Alexisonscope this is truly armored lore five hours of rubicon
Gonna have to get the Coral out for this one
Peak song choice. Appreciate you sticking around to delve into this story. In some ways it's the most up front blunt story telling we've gotten from modern From, and still there's intricate connections. Painful details. Tragic secrets. Cheers dud.
You really are something! I've always enjoyed your lore videos and this one is another home run. Thank you and everyone else working with you for this incredible story telling 🙏
He is the best tho
I didn't realize the video was 5 and a half hours long until i was 2 and a half hours in. I personally loved this game more than Elden Ring. It moved me much more emotionally in a way a game hasnt since i was a child. Thank you for all of the content you produce. I've never done a super thanks before but to not recognize the importance of this piece to not just the AC community or Fromsoft community but the gaming and entertainment industry as a whole would be criminal. Thank you and I cannot wait to see what else is in store for you.
Fantastic work Vaati. This was the best lore vid for AC I've ever seen. I'm glad you guys were able to show off the subtext that usually goes unnoticed in AC in such a presentational manner. Thanks for all the hard work. It was the most enjoyable 5.5 hours of AC content I've watched and I'd do it again.
I swear, if I ever get kids I'll read them your scripts as bedtime stories
I've used Vaati's lore videos to help me doze off. Dude's voice is so soothing, I swear he could make the phone book relaxing.
Vaati needs to get into audio-book narration. I use his lore videos to help me drift off to sleep, his voice is just naturally soothing.
There's free ones at the park
This was amazing.
You can really tell the love that was put into this, from the "re-cams" of other characters doing stuff in the world at the same time as the player, the cinematography, the way it was written and voiced, the way parts were edited for emphasis, the explanation and comparisons to real world counterparts and references.
Thank you, to all that worked on it. I was a joy to experience.
2:21:55 I think its not just a sea as we know it. Just like the Rubiconians calling the Coral extraction points "Wells", I theorize that the RRI classified the Sea Spider for the Sea of Coral. Maybe it was meant to enter the coral and interface with it? Maybe it was meant to go into the actual sea to search for Coral? I do recall it being mentioned that water tends to associate with Coral Veins. Maybe the Seas are no exception under correct circumstances.
I think it was a pun. Sea Spider = C-Spider.
>> don't see any lore videos on armored core
>> Wait a bit
>> Vaati drops FIVE AND A HALF HOUR VIDEO
theres armored core lore.....
I litteraly just got the new game ++ ending today after grinding the game on a random whim and then I get to watch 5.5 hours of the games lore. The stars aligned and I couldn’t be happier. Thanks vaati :D
Glad you took the time to make this video. This game is the first non-indie game I've taken the time to 100% in like a decade, its honestly incredible. I knew FromSoft for AC (specifically AC3) before I ever bothered to try the Souls games and I'm glad to see its made a comeback after so long.
Aww, you missed one of the best interactions at 4:22:20 ! If you assault boost directly at him, as soon as the cut scene ends, Rusty does the same thing. And if you don't break off, or attack, he just headbutts you, and its just so perfect for the whole scenario.
I bought Armored Core 6, (my first Ac game) as a treat for myself after passing this semesters classes with A's three days ago, and now I'm already on new game ++,
thank you for creating this masterpiece, I cannot stress enough how much I needed this lore explanation.
This was a really amazing video to watch. I enjoyed AC6 immensely more than I'd expected, and the story was one of the high points. I'm terrible at piecing together the little lore details on the fly, so I really enjoyed this video for spotting all these threads and tying them together. The visuals you've used were amazing, and I am in awe of the skill shown, in not just showing the most awesome moments of the most exciting fights, but really elevating them with the timing and camera work. Thank you and everyone involved for putting this together!
I have to say, as someone who loves watching your lore videos while eating, i always wanted longer format videos for these beautiful worlds too. This was a wonderful watch mate, know that you're appreciated.
What an incredible achievement this video is. Just exquisitely done in its presentation and attention to detail--the effort and care on display here is staggering. Thank you so much for your dedication to making this project truly worthy of its source material.
Finally! I hope this really dives into just how compelling and surprisingly nuanced a character Handler Walter is!