Armored Core 6’s talented fan artists keep reimagining its faceless characters as hot dating sim options, distracting me from mecha ultraviolence

This was inevitable. FromSoftware’s fanbase is flooded with talented people—something about the studio’s habit of making textured, detailed worlds and iconic characters has set fire to artist’s imaginations time and time again. Even the lore videos have professionally-rendered animatics now.

So you’d think that a game with a relatively focused aesthetic—killer robots and post-apocalyptic cityscapes—would draw those artists away from rendering NPCs and towards depicting its environments and shiny mechs. Turns out, giving your handler a husky voice and hiding his face completely has made people go feral with a tablet pen.