It's my first Ace Combat game so the general concept is new and thus extremely exciting to me. And any faults are lost on me.

I don't have a lot to say other than that as a cacophony of various sense overloading images it is a blast and unlike anything I've played. Shameless but incredibly well composed and framed. As someone whose spent the better part of the past two years looking for meaning in overly loud action games, and primarily shooters, Ace Combat is a nice refreshing slap to the face and a reminder to keep searching because there's banging shit still out, I just gotta look in different places (dogfighting games apparently).

This exact realisation mirrors my current real world one, too, as I realise the last year for me has been a plateu and I think I've finally found a new obsession, which is exciting and a reminder that life is full of surprises and that saying, "it's darkest before the dawn" holds truth because there is always new light to be found.

This game will hold a weirdly special place in my heart. At least until I become disillusioned and jaded again.