This mission kind of highlights how useless everyone else is, so we've got to fly from one half of the map to the other multiple times. Hopefully there aren't too many missions in this game that feel so blatantly like we're flying alone even when reinforcements arrive midway through it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t3el4lYiaY
So, all that effort just to get inside of the massive engine of destruction. There 'had' to be more efficient ways to deal with this thing, but apparently our guns are little more than light shows until the script demands they can inflict damage.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irak477grew
Okay, when the only sense of danger I feel in the final section of your game is accidentally ramming into shit, and it's a war game? You've screwed up.
As a side note, my editor's groan of pain upon hearing that I had to split this mission into two pieces had to be heard to be believed. He really, really has grown to hate the Ace Combat series, which is why I'm not going to finish up the series as quickly as I was originally planning.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcNuN9oFbcg
Come to think of it, the plot for this game is kind of the same as most of the Ace Combat games that I enjoyed. Our side is losing, we're spending most of the war getting our asses kicked, and we're building a reputation for ourselves before the war's over. The biggest difference is that the enemies in this game won't be reacting with fear by the end..probably because they're all droids that haven't had fear programmed into them.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myh2DjZ0VN0