Regarding Ace Combat

Fourteen years ago, I wrote a review of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, and gave it fanboy out of ten points. But since then, my feelings for it have cooled – it never really lasted in my playing rota like the other Ace Combats. I found myself missing the lore of Strangereal, the “other Earth” that allows Ace Combat to disregard which nation those wonderful planes come from.

In 2019, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown arrived and showed me what it was I was missing. Six years later, and it is still a go-to in my limited playing time. A beautiful spectacle and a triumphant return to form.