#strangereal

Mission 1 you’re shooting down Vimy and Gotha bombers in a Fokker Eindecker or Nieuport 11.

Mid game you’re fighting aces, u-boats, dreadnoughts, landships, and zeppelins in a Albatros or Sopwith Triplane.

Boss battle against an exaggerated Big Bertha rail cannon or something.

Alicron (ft. Me experimenting with different layer settings)

Here’s some lore about him I decided mostly today:

- Mobius 1 (mobius prime?) and him knew each other from a battle encounter. During this time, Alicron went by Tanager (I know that’s a bird shut up), and was a warship instead of a submarine. They later met up during a military exercise and got to know each other properly.

Is there a Strangereal equivalent of Canada in the AC universe?

2019 Game of the Year Countdown #2: Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Playstation 4 (2019)

We had to wait 12 years between Ace Combat 6 and this entry, so “highly anticipated” would be an understatement. I just wanted to fly my MiG-29, but it was very surprising that they included the F-104 as well (which I’m certain all of three people were asking for, but hey, I won’t disapprove)

After a terrible foray into whatever the heck Assault Horizon was supposed to be (I mean, in a series built upon flying at breakneck speed, why would we want to fly a bomber that crawls and can’t maneuver??), AC7 delivered what I consider the best gameplay in the entire franchise, which stretches back about 25 years. All the jets handle extremely well, and the levels are designed very well. We have the classic “fly through this canyon because it reminds us of the Death Star,” but also some of the most challenging pilot AI that the series has seen. Missiles in some of the more recent games have really taken to the “fire-and-forget” mentality, so the fact that some of the hardest enemy pilots almost required you to use the gun meant that dogfights took skill and precision.

The addition of high-G maneuvers was also really cool, although I never really flew any of the jets that were capable of it because they’re kind of like pushing the Easy button and I prefer a bit of a challenge. I usually stuck with the MiG-21, MiG-29, and Su-27, or the Su-34 if I really needed to do some damage. Call me a Communist, but the Soviet jets are just so sleek!

The soundtrack was good, albeit maybe a half step down from what 04, 5, and Zero gave us, but still good. Especially the song that plays during the huge, dramatic finale: Daredevil.