Wow, I would say this expansion is a great ending to AC1 and the PS1 era of the franchise, while it has its campagin it adds a whole lot of emphasis on the arena mode which is great by itself as it becomes standard in future games.

soundtrack is incredible with some breackcore addition, the controls while still slighlty suffers from no analogs, felt satisfying.

Missions got a lot better with the story having more depth, the final boss I would say is the peak of the PS1 era even though it still is a tough fight.

Overall this is a fantastic climax to AC1 and is even a great introduction to the franchise.

8.5/10 waiter waiter more nine-balls please

absolutely the peak of ps1 armored core. not perfect, the arena is sorta tedious cause every enemy kinda fights the same way and it's not a very fun way and the final boss is. something. but otherwise i think this game rocked. ost is amazing (the start of kota hoshino's career with fromsoft i believe and it is a really really strong one), the gameplay is just as fun as the other two games, and i actually sorta enjoy the story. i didn't really care for project phantasma's, it was boring and uninteresting and all that, but i think this one worked really well. it feels like a great end to the original game's raven's nest and hustler one stuff and idk i'm just a fan