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** Don't forget about Souske's [[Full Metal Panic!|M9 Gernsback]], it has identical equipment to the Arbalest minus the Lambda Driver and its Specials, so its only really good if you want to play without spamming Powerful shots.

*** At least many of the unlockables are really good: Klan in a skin tight suit with a VF-25's FAST pack strapped to her? Both cool and canon; a playable {{spoiler|[[Armored Core|Nineball Seraph]]}}? Just AWESOME.

** ''A.C.E. Portable'' is seen as this, since it comes right on the heels of the critically panned R, was at 90% when it was announced (presumably owing to the fact that almost 90% of it is recycled from past games) and it does away with elements of ''Another Century's Episode: R'' that were unpopular, like the Tension-based weapons set-up and the [[Rail Shooter]] segments.

* [[Breather Level]]: Subverted in ''Another Century's Episode 2'', where a back-to-back set make up the game's ''final'' two levels

* [[Good Bad Bug]]: ''Another Century's Episode: R'' features a handy little trick that'll let you max all mecha in the game as soon as you can upgrade a single unit a single level, legitimately. Characters require at least 1000 experience points each to do the same trick, but it's possible to maximize just about every single character in one playthrough.

* [[It's Easy, So It Sucks]]: A common complaint about ''Another Century's Episode 3: The Final'' is it's significantly easier in difficulty than its predecessors.

* [[Scrappy Mechanic]]: There's a reason why ''Another Century's Episode: R'' was loathed by players.

** Introducing a "Tension" gauge and an ammunition system built into it: - replacing the ammunition-based combat system of the previous three games, ''Another Century's Episode: R'''s system gives your standard weapons infinite ammo, but anything ''other'' than your basic gun, you have to build up Tension in [[Limit Break]]-fashion, then expending the gauge to perform these attacks. This form of game-play takes away the fast-paced action from the prior installments, forcing players to spend time building on Tension.

** The use of the boost system in the earlier installments was similar to the way ''[[Armored Core]]'' did it, which many players were very familiar with, but the way ''Another Century's Episode: R'' uses it reduced the combat speed of the game. This got worse when they needed to get to a location fast during combat, in which case, the boost effect made the unit move so fast, players felt like they were controlling a runaway freight train.

** Finally, the [[Rail Shooter]] segments called "Swift Chase" were lambasted for being incredibly out-of-place and unneeded for a [[Mecha Game]] series focusing on high-octane combat with players in control.

 

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