Trivia / Steel Battalion

• Franchise Killer: It cannot be stressed how much Steel Battalion: Heavy Armour took a sledgehammer to the face of the Steel Battalion franchise. The absolutely bizarre decision to turn the game into a Kinect video game meant that the original smooth and highly immersive controls of past games became a janky mess. This exceptionally poor reception plus the underwhelming sales made Heavy Armour the killing blow for the franchise. Likewise, Heavy Armour was also a rare dud for FromSoftware as they are known to make quality games on nearly all their releases. This is even more bizarre when you take into account that FromSoftware is actually pretty good at making mecha games such as their Armored Core franchise, so much mystery surrounds what exactly happened during the development of Heavy Armour.

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