Daemon X Machina - Go Ahead, Mech My Day

Big shooty robot game. Andy doesn't like the music.

This was the highlight of the Direct for me. New IP, looked beautiful, top action.

Balla, are you excited to shoot things!??!?

It was up there. Fire Emblem looked gorgeous, and I've been excited for Hollow Knight for a while so the "available today" announcement was fun.

I'll be going with a mêlée build if at all possible.

It looked great and outside Fire Emblem was the highlight.

Aye this looks like it could be a belter!

I like the idea of you typing up my thoughts for me. Should definitely do that more often and save me the effort

So we're agreed: we'll have the trailer music on repeat in Manchester?

Looks insane. I'm down for some shooty robot action.

I've tried to some info and get back the date of Feb, good god if true as that be like 5 or 6 top quality games that month.

It's definitely coming out on February 22nd, isn't it?

I would hope not but I wouldn't bet against it.

This was definitely the most exciting part of the direct, it's looking great fun

This looked great in the Treehouse last night and seems from what Reggie has been saying it's coming within the next 9 months (before March 2019).

The person playing the demo wasn't the best at it though, it hasn't put me off the game by any means but I don't think it was good showcase of the game at all.

Wait: it was on Treehouse? Aw blast, I'm sorry I missed it! I wanted to see how it actually played. Will have to go back and have a look.

This looks the utter chuffing business. Or, apparently, like a mess with weightless robots, depending on whether you're a joyful fellow like m'self or a cynical bastard like some Nintendo Life commenters.

When I was going through upcoming Switch games, I forgot about this.

It is a B-Tier (wouldn't buy or a keep a Switch for it) title but still be cool to play.

Oh, not too sure about this on-foot snippets. I can't help but feel that I'll be hating those sections and wishing they'd go away so I could get back in my mech.

I did chuckle at the total tonal shift from full on metal to that twinkly piano piece in the trailer.

Hopefully they're not too common... I can see there being substantial tension as you make the sprint to your mech, and I'm not sure yet whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Trailer as a whole looks the utter chuffing business though.

That's something they also teased at the end of the e3 treeshouse demo, seemed like something that you do after completing a mission but what the point would be I'm not sure.

So, the news that this now has online co-op has moved it from a solid maybe to a near definite for me. Great stuff!

I still don't see the incentive for getting out your mech though.

As long as they're not too common, I'm always on board with on-foot sections in this kind of game as they reinforce the scale of the mechs.

Well up for some co-op mech action.

The chappie looks more powerful when he gets out of his mech than I’d feared. I don’t think this’ll be too much of a problem.

That online multiplayer is interesting though. Mech-ster Hunter?