fromsoft's music carries so much emotion, across their entire library of games their music legitimately makes me cry at times

"and mankind was free to dream, floating above the clouds. Is this your Answer? ....so be it."

The reason why I like Armored Core For Answer when I don't even play it is because of the narrative. You choose your own mission, you choose what you want to become. A monster, a killer, a gleeming hope for all. It's not about giving someone your resolve, but to find your own resolve. Your own Answer.

i just love fromsoft's ability to tell the story of the nobody. im quite sure that most fromsoft protags are just some random ass people in the bigger picture, hell i remember in armored core 3. we are just a random mercenary fighting just for the money, yet in the end we freed humanity from the rouge ai . even as nobodies, they fight the odds and topple giants, leaving a trail of legacy behind their every action. it empowers everyday people just go out and make a change. i think its a beautiful message fromsoft made.

I think a lot about this mix and a lot about Mecha as a genre.

Mecha are ultimately immense engines of war; they are built on the suffering and destruction of countless people... but they're also works of art. Their pilots tune them to perfection, give them names, and love them as an extension of themselves. It's a second body for many pilots, tuned to their exact preferences. The machine can sometimes have a mind of its own, but that's rarely the case, and when it does happen? It's usually in symbiosis with its user.

Giant robots or not, humans are stupid, boorish, headstrong, and destructive... but also capable of great acts of hope, kindness, and love. Humans pour time and effort into the things and people they love, but they also can be capable of manipulating both to terrible effect. They pour time and love into their weapons of war, but then turn around to use them for terrible deeds.

I'm not entirely sure what I'm trying to say, but it's nice to write it down somewhere, in a niche little corner of the internet I'll find years from now. Cheers.

This track always feels like a bittersweet victory, winning at a great cost. "Is this the answer you've chosen?" It feels as much like an epitaph as it does an introduction

There’s rarely a just choice or an obvious solution to some of the more complex questions in life.

However, it is your right to choose your own answer, even more so when you have the strength and conviction to make that possibility a reality.

For better or worse,the pursuit is what it means to be human.

What’s the correct answer? Oh my young raven that’s the best part! Go find your flame and you’ll find it, I promise. But please, do try to learn from our mistakes.

The old generation cannot build the new era…

Ah yes, For Answer

The dramatic and tragic tale of the nameless no-one, forced to bear the mantle of deciding the ultimatum that, for better or for worse, sets in stone the future of humankind. All because he was good at his job.

"Is this your answer? Then so be it."

That menu music has a completely different meaning, hearing it play after finishing your first run of the game. Such a stellar track.

ORCA was the short answer to a problem that was impossible to solve

You could argue that Someone is Always Moving was the originator of the ‘sad, piano boss theme’ that would become a staple of the Souls series. But this track is very, very different. Gwyn, Vendrick, Soul of Cinder, the Elden Beast; despite the depressing nature of their themes, there is a romantic element to be found in each of them.

There’s no such romanticism to be found in this track; it’s cold, encroaching and relentless. The staccato, rapid-fire piano notes hang in a void, not even resting on the hollow bed created by the dour choir and overwhelming alarm-like violin. It’s empty and unstoppable.

It’s a death march.

I always think of Someone is Always Moving within the context of its use during the League Path because of this; the meaningless finality conveyed in the track is a perfect fit for the death of hope present in that ending.

Thermidor, who has been slaving away as Omer’s lapdog for ten long years in order to carry out Rayleonard’s final wish, watches everything he has worked to achieve crumble right before his eyes. Humanity will never reach the stars, and his masters’ legacy has been crushed for good.

Strayed and Wynn D., in preventing mass genocide, have doomed themselves to be hunted by the League until the end of their days, assuming they did not already die in Arteria Cranium. Their sacrifice is romantic, but the fate they’ve wrought upon themselves is anything but.

And if the ORCA route is anything to go by, the Kojima Pollution emitted by the Cradles is destined to one day reach the orbit and bring about the complete end of humanity. In trying to save the world, all you really did is kill everyone- either because you didn’t have the full picture, or you genuinely believe this is the best route for humanity to go.

And that’s what Someone is Always Moving screams to me: you are an active participant in your own demise. You are fighting wholeheartedly for a hollow victory.

Despite how brutally oppressive that existential feeling of dread, that nothing you do will matter, in the entire series (and even in FromSoft's entire library), there is always that one persistent and indomitable that never leaves us: Hope
There is always hope, no matter how bleak things may be, hope for a better future, hope for a meaning that you may even make yourself.

"Even after his defeat in the hands of Strayed, Anatolia's Mercenary is still out there, with his own purpose to fight. For he is a survivor, someone who is always moving on the surface."

this track feels like: even the biggest W cost someone else's suffering

After playing my first Armored Core game (VI) about a week ago now...I get it.
I really do. It has genuinely been one of the best games I've ever played in my entire life and I wouldn't change anything about it.

I never played an armored core game yet but this song makes me think about my dog who passed not to long ago this song is just beautiful

There are some killer tracks in AC6 but nothing tops this

this to me gives me the feeling of what I want, to be a nomad roaming the wastes occasionally having 1 on 1 fights living off of what I can get and sell while still having the comforts of a family and home to go back to.

The raven.
A symbol of resolve.
Handed down from pilot to pilot through generations, centuries, millenia... Even in the vast reaches of out space, the raven stands cardinal to the decisions of those who once held no significance, yet wrested the freedom to fly whether the wings were borrowed or hand forged...

Literaly zero endings in For Answers are anything but bittersweet at most. ORCA ending is arguably the best and its still bloody sad as all hell. Even if Strayed decides to bring down the Cradels to destroy the assault cells and give humanity a chance to escape to space. Millions will persih before the first ships are even constructed. Then it will be much like before the assault cells. Corporations exploiting mankind to colonize and secure resources before their competitors.

This art is so beautiful...
And this remix... NEXTs truely we're gods and demons on the battlefield