Recent reviews by Fardrake

Ah yes, project wingman. First announced as a replacement for ace combat 7 who never comes to PC, now as a wingman. Thought the game going to be jank with poor VA and subpar mission but damn. The music, the graphic and the gameplay just so smooth and gels together nicely. The lack of time limit made the game easy even on hard, but the aces balanced it out especially the crimsons.

Bringing me a lot of Ace combat 4 feeling when you first met yellow thirteen and ends with Ace combat Zero Tier music and emotional impact. The story while not amazing, i put it right on the holy trinity, even better than Ace combat 7. All the characters are likeable, the story doesn't have gaping plothole or underdeveloped ideas and FOR ONCE actually kicking OSE-I mean federation ass felt great.

though i must admit, it really needs somekind of cutscenes between mission. Ala Ace4 or AceZero, to liven up the story more. The worldbuilding was fantastic, on par with Strangereal and they didn't forget to put Ace combat hallmark in this game.

The music just, BUENO. Not on the level of holy trinity, but worthy of places in the pantheon of ace combat music.

Project Wingman are truly, deserved to be a wingman for project aces. Someday, if they made a sequel maybe they can fly along as fellow aces. Props to the dev, been following this game since they first throwing demo on kickstarter and suprised how GREAT it ended up being.

A wishlist: Maybe if you decide to make a sequel. Give us a coop conquest mode, that would be hella sick.

When i thought Ace Combat died with Assault Horizon. I was wrong. It came back in full storm like those pesky belkans and their globe conquering scheming with unpractical superweapons and angering every aces to kick their asses back to waldreich.

Decades pass and here we are with ace combat 7, everything was crafted with love and care we haven't seen since the holy trinity, The gameplay was improved massively from the tedium Ace combat 4 score attack, to ace combat 5 escort mission and radar dodging shenanigans to heart pounding ace kicking of Ace Combat Zero.

Planes felt responsive and weighty, the dogfight felt more engaging thanks to the addition of High-G manouver (wish they included a tutorial for that or at least manual to do it though.) The weather and cloud system adds more to the already delicious perfectly cooked steak of the gameplay. Yes, you will thrown into the furball and dodging ungodly amount of missiles while those missiles alert and your allies screaming their throats out everytime you get spiked. But, those high G manouver, if you mastered it can turns the tide very quickly to your favour. Though, the game is considerably more difficult than its predecessor, even so that Ace Combat Zero (Looking at your Wizard squadron).

Some mission drags out too long, especially the score attack mission. And boy, those drones sure makes things interesting when you are low on missiles and SPW. Compared to the trinity, the mission are more varied and have more twist than the usual. (Yingshi valley and escorting that dirtbag of a commander are a pain in the ass.)

Graphic just gorgeous, and very very optimized as well. i'm running a 1060 and i7 4790, 1080p all maxed 60 FPS locked all the way through. Nothing can't beat those gorgeous thick clouds and weather effect, shame the texture on some planes are a bit blurry, especially the emblems on certain cutscenes.

Music and the story. Boy its hard. Like, The holy Trinity set the bar so high, it made the amazing soundtrack and great story of ace combat 7 just 'Good' and good in ace combat is great. I don't want to talk about ace combat 6 here, but that game story can go dance with the angels. Erusea did nothing wrong, Yellow 13 too. Osean are just pawns to the grey men and the belkans, 8492nd squadron exist.

Multiplayer, serviceable, fun but would greatly improved if they added coop strike like in ace combat infinity and modes from Assault horizon. As ♥♥♥♥ as that game are, the MP are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fun.

Its a great entry to newcomers to ace combat and returning veteran alike. Shame about the flightstick shenanigans, lets hope Bamco can fix this soon. I'm playing using Logitech Extreme 3D pro with Xbox360Ce.

6/7 V1 Nuclear Warhead.

Even to this day. People still talk about this game and its lore.
It's a testament how good the game and the story is.

(Looking at you Fallout 4)