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Ever since I heard that Fromsoftware had novelizations of games such as Evergrace and Eternal Ring that most people were unaware of, I really wanted to at least write down how many book adaptations were out there. It'd be nice to have a good complete list to refer back to. This will also include short stories and manga. But probably nothing from Demon's Souls and onwards, that's just too much X3

• Capture Book of King's Field
• Contains written prologues for all three games of the Verdite Trilogy. Nothing mindblowing but still it's KF so it deserves a spot.
• Armored Core: Tower City Blade by Goto Hiroyuki and Issei Hyouju
• Manga prequel to Fort Tower Song.
• Armored Core: Fort Tower Song
• Originally meant to be an multimedia project but was canned. Only the novel remains.
• Armored Core VD the AFTER - Side stories
• Short scripts originally from the ACVD-Link website.
• Armored Core 3 Silent Line Soundtrack Book (this one's not a novelization but i wanted an exception because 1. it's talking about the music specfically which is cool and 2. IT'S ALL OFFICIALLY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLIGH???)
• Armored Core ~The Fake Illusions~ by Sami Shinosaki
• Armored Core ~Master of Arena~ by Sami Shinosaki
• Armored Core Retribution by Junichi Kamino
• First pubilshed in Dengeki Hobby Magazine.
• Armored Core for Embrasure by Junichi Kamino
• First pubilshed in Dengeki Hobby Magazine and Dengeki Hobby Web.
• Partial magazine scans compiled here. Sourced from Dengeki Hobby Magazine, May 2008. Shared by an anonymous kind person, thank you!
• Armored Core: Brave New World by Junichi Kamino (can't actually find the kanji reading so take this 神野淳一)
• First pubilshed in Dengeki Hobby Magazine and Dengeki Hobby Web.
• Armored Core 4 Another Story
• Four pieces of literature that take place before AC4. One of them, "熱砂の嵐" is mirrored here.
• Spriggan is a whole manga, which Fromsoftware made a licensed game out of. That counts right lol
• Eternal Ring novelization by Masaru Takeuchi
• Evergrace novelization by Kaeko Shimomura
• Evergrace - Those who bear the Crest by Mie Takase
• Evergrace 2 by Ken Sugawara
• Only published in Dengeki Gao August-September 2001.
• The Adventures of Cookie and Cream Guidebook (that's kinda like a picture book according to the back!)
• The Adventures of Cookie and Cream 4-komas
• Published online on the official site and through Adventure Player (supposedly...)
• Lost Kingdoms 2 Webcomics by Takashi Kojo
• Lost Kingdoms 2 Vjump 4-komas
• Lost Kingdoms 2 Official Perfect Guide script
• A short script found in the RUNE 2 Official Perfect Guide.
• Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven two-part oneshot by by Seishi Kishimoto (THIS EXISTS???)
• Kuon short story by Atsushi Taniguchi
• Enchanted Arms Manga "[eM] eNCHANT arM The Another Side ~Koinu no Waltz~" by Riya Hozumi and Seki Ryoko
• First published in Dengeki Maoh's first issue.
• https://archive.org/details/shadow-tower

I don't know where to put this in but this guy on Reddit's been doing translations of Armored Core story and lore and additional novel stuffs which is really cool and you should check it out too.

Sources from:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20130108043902/http://www.fromsoftware.jp/goods/list.php?Mode=title&id=40
• http://www.armoredcorefan.com/acpedia/index.php?ARMORED%20CORE%20Retribution
• http://armis.s57.xrea.com/ac4/misc/media.htm
• https://old.reddit.com/r/armoredcore/comments/uoz9ud/how_many_literature_adaptations_of_armored_core/
• http://www.armoredcorefan.com/acpedia/index.php?%A5%A2%A1%BC%A5%DE%A1%BC%A5%C9%A1%A6%A5%B3%A5%A24%20%A5%A2%A5%CA%A5%B6%A1%BC%A5%B9%A5%C8%A1%BC%A5%EA%A1%BC

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