I never played this game either, it seems a little slow for me. And any videos I see of it sorta make me want to play, but not really. More like watch videos online about it.
Ace Combat 7 did so much damage to the lore it probably wouldve been better to just not exist. It took us back to strangereal and the gameplay was wonderful, but the story... Such a shame.
I know its been a while since you made this video, but I noticed you did't mention Kuma or Josie. Did you forget about them or was their story so uninteresting that you didn't find any worthy talking points? Also, how dare you call my girl Asuka a bitch! JK but I did go "come on, man" when first hearing that. Also, also I do like Law's and Feng's endings, for no other reason than the short stint of fight choreography between the two, three if we include Paul.
It is this that would inspire me to get a copy of this game myself cause of how the emersion is strong, the music is a nice change of pace, and the developers actually care about the story, characters and lore itself, thanks man
The design language for this UI really reminds me a lot of AC3 Electrosphere. I know both AC3 and RR5 were both made by Namco, did they also have the same employees working on both games too?
In my research for ACE3 I found out yes probably. Maybe. They did a 2016(?) slideshow presentation about the fonts of NAMCO games going back to the '80s and the visual design team had stayed relatively the same. Kind of amazing.
Gitai then went on to join a terrorist organization, cook a dish so delicious it changed the heart of the boss, and then extorted a poor nun for rent money of a house he doesn't even own
I had just finally played and beat the game about a week ago and by god it's worth the play time. The music is by far my favorite of the series and the story is also amazing. The interviews for me are what make it more grounded to understand the themes of the game. I honestly hope they make a remaster of it so that more people play this gem of a game. Your analysis of it is still the best of it I have see on youtube and your AC4 video too. Thanks again for making a great video of this great game.
one thing I do respect is this is based on pre devil gene retcon lore of the early tekken games 1-3.....all the other stuff after ran with that but the story was better when it was simply a tale of revenge to the point somebody on death's door was willing to sell his soul to get even it was simply a story of one hateful act begets another and another until there is nothing left but a desire to destroy the other at all costs and lose whatever humanity you have in the process...it also didn't whitewash heihachi he was a bastard one that ppl love but a bastard nonetheless not some misunderstood overall good man.
One of my fav quotes from this is "Perhaps its canonical that your team-mates are useless." Having played hundreds of hours of this game as a teen I can confirm this. Still enjoy watching this for the fourth time now. Great video even if you don't think highly of it. I know you don't ever plan on doing a video on Ace Combat 5 but I have been playing that game off and on for about a year now and its not that bad, still trash but not absolute dumpster fire trash at least like some of the later games like a certain PS4 title.
I absolutely loved this, thank you for making a video and putting into words how I felt about this game but never really understood why as a kid. The thematic explanation near the end was EXCELLENT!
