Love this game's moxie and it breaks my heart to only come out thinking it's just a poor Armored Core-like. Wing of Darkness is a fair bit more interested in telling a story than having particularly stirring gameplay, with missions broken up through visual novel sequences that touch on the human impact of war and relationships and all that. Cuts too many corners as it beelines to the end of its 2-hour total playtime and fails to flesh out both its characters or systems as a result. Bleh.
It is at the very least host to my favourite soundtrack of the year lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1ZL2l3pRc0