15 Most PHENOMENAL Video Game Moments Of 2023

10. Scaling The Strider - Armored Core 6: Fires Of Rubicon

A beautifully intricate game that sees FromSoftware take all the money made and lessons learned from over a decade of Souls titles, reinvesting in an IP that initially turned heads in 1997.

The game's difficulty spikes with the first boss and there's certainly a ton of options when it comes to building your mech that you can get lost in, but alongside that chunky, tactile and rewarding combat, is stylistic, identifiable FromSoft boss design we all know and love.

Tackling the Strider is an early highlight, being that this walking city-sized mechanical kaiju is so huge, all you can see are its feet for most of the fight.

Realising which platforms you need to scale, how to deal damage and finally toppling this Galactus-sized behemoth all in-game, finally escaping as it explodes in the background without once breaking controllability, is one of Fires of Rubicon's absolute high points.