[Project Wingman] Pixy vs Crimson 1 

POV: You are a veteran of a war against your own country; a Mercenary with a past mostly forgotten by time. A war that ended with the nation you were born from launching nuclear missiles on their own land out of mad desperation. You nearly did the same too, wiped the whole slate clean in your own anger at the pointlessness of this war. Only you didn't, because you were stopped by the only pilot that was just as good as you, and humbled you. Your old buddy, your past Wingman. And it probably stung the both of you once it was over. After much soul searching, You decide to join with a PMC group to undo those mistakes. You join in the liberation of... Wait, something seems familiar... As the war goes on, things started to decline. Old scars start opening up. Your new wingmen can barely keep up with you, but you will do anything to keep them alive. Soon you find yourself defending Presidia, soon a truce was in effect but everything feels uneasy for you. You already know how this is going down. And then it happens. Crimson 1, twisted by is own hatred towards you, does what you couldn't. He wiped the city back to zero. You're no longer in Casscadia anymore. You're back at Avalon Dam. The red snow of a nuclear winter begins to kick up. Memories of blue skies and a familiar call signs mock you as they dance in your head. You're no longer Hitman 1, you're a man fighting some corrupt reflection of his own past actions. You are Solowing Pixy.

4:06 _"Monarch. You use the name of a King, but what do you rule over? The dead?! The Federation fought for peace in this war, and you denied them that!"_ *_"While you're up here 'fighting for peace', tons of blood is being shed on the ground. Some peace, kid."_* _"How dare-"_ *_"You're still yapping, aren't you? That tells me you're fine."_*

Good use of Crimson 1's "How dare!?-" voice line when Dip' lashes back at him.

I occasionally come back and rewatch this just to hear Pixy tell Crimson-1 "Crash where I can't see." Just the the sickest BM.

A fallen knight of the skies given one last chance to make things right…

What I like about this video in particular is that when crimson brings up that the federation is fighting for peace pixy calls him a hypocrite for causing the opposite. Causing crimson to get even more angry for calling him out like that. But one thing I think people don't talk about is the fact that when crimson enters the third phase and is planes system start to fail All he hears from pixy is his iconic phrase "it's time" It was here crimson realized that he was going to die and that pixy had beaten him philosophically and quite literally and that if he was right cascadia would win the war proving him wrong and villanizing him in the eyes of history.

7:09 is a beautiful exchange... ""You and I are opposite sides of the same coin. When we face each other, we can finally see our true selves" somehow fits here better than it did in ACZ, but Pixy is the redeemed hero this time.

THE DIALOGUE FITS TOO WELL ITS LIKE AN ACTUAL GAME

Alternative title:pixy roasting crimson 1 for 18 minute straight

I like to imagine that Prez just has a flamenco guitar.

Pixy making sarcastic replies to Crimson-1 made me smile.

I'm glad Pixy using his aircraft, instead of Morgan...well because it was destroyed around 25 years ago

if someone manage to remix Kings from project wingman and Zero from ace combat zero, that remix better be called "Zero Kings"

Take any Two Melodramatic Anime Jet Combat Bosses from two different games, mix their audio, and you have a genuine conversation.

So I've seen both Yours and Raptors videos, and there are some interesting things to take away. Raptor's video suffers 'coming first' issues greatly. It's very unrefined, it comes off as if he's trying to get the most out of Pixy's audio rather then focus on a narrative in and of itself. Particularly with how the fact that Your Pixy comes off as far more fitting for how he is after the story of ACZ which both you and raptor use clips from. Additionally you make the effort to cut the "buddy" out of Pixy's lines which is absolutely fitting cause he has 0 reason to call Crimson 1, someone who has only ever been his opponent, "buddy." Now Raptor definitely has a few moments where his line choice felt more solid, but i only know i felt that way because i felt it, i can't remember what they were save 1, when Pixy in my opinion, rightfully flips shit over Crimson 1 surviving his final hit and the explosion there in. It did feel more fitting that Crimson 1 not finally going down when what looks like a clear explosion that should send the wreck of his fighter to the earth goes off. Other then that, almost everything you do is better picked, it fits the character, it flows better, and it has the extra touches of the editing and subtitled which really help. Though a weird thing. Ironically, it feels like the footage, has been given to the wrong videos. In Raptors video Pixy is this aloof, snarky, almost jackass level smug ace who's toying with this punk ass kid and dunking on him. Which would be fine, if his footage didn't see the pilot nearly shot out of the sky. While on the other hand, Your Pixy is far more of a reluctant hero, fighting someone he clearly sees as his comparative equal if not just a flat out dark reflection of everything he could of been, someone who is pushed to his limits in this fight, and yet, You're footage show's Pixy dunking Crimson 1 like he's a pissant.

Amazing Work Incredible Vibe What a Story Thank You

THAT WAS FUCKING BEAUTIFUL

1:12 The G's be like : Nah Im not calculating this shoot.

Pixy is the kind of protag in this game that went through the same shit the antagonist did, but came out as a vastly different man. While being able to shoot back every quote an antagonist can with something of his own.

When ace combat turns into Macross Plus

Shit. They made crimson your worst nightmare but after you overcome, it is dramatic af

the lines are perfect

Just as good as rapor elite's

this is so underrated holy

Hey if you are reading this. PLEASE MAKE MORE LIKE THIS I FUCKING LOVE IT!!!!

What's the name of this zero version the song was different at the end

It be better with it has to be this way playing. But it's good.

The real question is, how the fuck did you do those turns?

wish for someone will make a video of Nagase vs Crimson 1 really.

Kings with different music feels wrong

SCAR H PFP AMARIS PFP

Crimson 1: "How's it feel to not have borders?" Pixy (later): "And I took that personally."

Pixy: Who are you? Crimson: I'm you just off my meds

This genuinely feels like it could be actually part of the story. Pixy could have took up flying again in some point in the future, joined up with another mercenary corp, took a new codename, Monarch, to distance himself from his past, along with rarely ever speaking, and started fighting in another war. Then, he starts encountering Crimson 1, and starts seeing vestiges of his past self in the man. Probably gets some old wounds opened up in the process. By himself, he sort of contemplates it all, seeing the similarities, as well as the differences. To our ol’ buddy Pixy, Crimson 1 is like a twisted reflection of himself, and that reflection only distorts more with each meeting, until...it happens. Crimson 1 succeeds where Pixy failed. With that, all the gloves come off, and Pixy starts to speak up, not only making comparisons, but picking at Crimson 1’s ego, giving the “ace” a few life lessons. He’s the only one around to hear, so why should Pixy care? It comes down to a man who went down this road and came back, and a vision of what he would become if he went too far. Pixy takes down Crimson 1, maybe wondering if this is how Cipher felt when they fought, and as Crimson 1 goes down, his last words followed by a massive explosion, Pixy goes quiet, likely reflecting on the fact he fought a man who was similar to himself, and won...conquering his demons. The Pixy of the past is gone, and in his place, is a Monarch. Maybe sometime later, he’d get involved in another conflict, still looking for the meaning behind “borders”, and encounter Galm Team, fighting on the same side...and maybe, just maybe, he’d hail their ace pilot with a familiar phrase. *“Yo, Buddy...still alive?”*

Pixy has had a crazy life. First he fights in the Belkan war. He gets taken down by his friend. He atones for his sins in Cascadia, over the burning ruins. Then he's reunited with his friend yet again, many years later on the distant planet of Rubicon, when their planes have arms and legs. He's just happy to fight alongside with his 'buddy' again.

“You and I are opposite sides of the same coin. When we face each other, we can finally see our true selves.” Holy shit; Pixy you didn’t have to speak such raw facts like that.

This fight was Pixy redemption on the purgatory

Nice to see an alternate flavor of this duel. Raptor Elite's version with Kings and one with Zero. Also this time with Pixy's actual plane.

Meanwhile Diplomat: "Shut up! Nobody asked! Do you think I care enough to listen to both of you?! Just shut up and fight!"

This video is so underrated. I can't stop watching it. While Raptor's Pixy was shown as a last smug, mocking and somewhat lecturing figure to Crimson's (his foil) madness, this Pixy is a great reluctant hero: sober, with clipped comebacks, brought to the limelight, and to the point. -info dump alert- You fucking set the tone with that speech at the beginning - it already makes a prelude for the whiplash you feel at Cascadia's sudden transformation into hell in earth - it truly feels like Pixy is giving his own side of Cascadia's war. Not starting with OST at the beginning allows one to soak up the atmosphere, and when it starts, oh man. Zero starts with a sense of urgency and despair, the first seconds could be interpreted as Pixy's radio trying to catch any frequence to no avail, and the cordium-induced storm almost drowns the entire soundtrack, but it still shines through; like Pixy still being focused despite his sheer horror at the sight. Then it fucking matches with Crimson's taunts, almost like if they were the lyrics, then shifting into a more optimistic tone when Pixy answers right back with his own taunt. Then Crimson's words at 1:44 are almost like jabbing right into Pixy's past when he flew the Morgan and cooperated with AWWNB, the song turning mournful at the sight of the molten city. But Pixy once again makes it sound hopeful at 2:09, as if the song reacts to his renewed confidence, as if he wasn't done yet. And then the true dogfight starts at 2:29 with, what do you know, Pixy fucking *joustling* Crimson despite being outgunned, right as he fucking insults him with "What a joke", slowly Pixy is getting more bold and the song reacts to that confidence with the guitar that acts like a leimotiff for him in this video. He doesn't fly far from Crimson, he's actively chasing him, launching missiles and shooting his tail while taking those Gs like monday pancakes, and when the song reaches its climax at 3:35 just as Pixy says *"You're fired up? Come shoot me down!"* is basically the game telling you to put things nice and even, which Undercoder does. The music gets 'cheerier' the more Pixy damages Crimson, like in 4:08, almost telling both Pixy and the player to fight harder. "While you're up here "fighting for Peace", tons of blood is being shed on the ground! Some peace, kid." HERE is where Pixy turns his horror into anger, following with "You're still yapping, aren't you? That tells me you're fine." Meaning he actually wants to kill Crimson, he's no longer overcome with sadness, he's bristling with vengeance, a sense of justice, or just wanting to prove himself the better pilot. Just like Cipher. 4:41 suddenly the song isn't not just about the tragedy, it's now Pixy avenging all those lives and stopping Crimson. "It's pretty ironic, buddy. A couple of dogs like us fighting the last battle." Someone who almost succeeding in his nuclear attacks, and someone who did succeed. None of them were the icons of hope or order they were before; like when Pixy was still Galm 2 or when Crimson was still a mostly smug but professional Peacekeeper. Shit gets more real when Phase 2 starts - and the music fucking coincides with the gameplay at 5:17, it's like it fucking reads Pixy's mood - when he's supposed to feel sad, the voice comes, but when he goes to shoot the hell out of Crimson, who whenever he talks makes Pixy's angry as fuck - it gets energetic and louder, like it's fueled by his adrenaline and increasing PSMs and hits. It also goes with Crimson's more erratic attack patterns and Pixy's dodges, it's like it reads the flow of the dogfight and changes when necessary - when Crimson talks again while Pixy goes on the offensive. And he. Stills. Fucking. Joustles. Crimson. Who, actually, fucking cowers whenever Pixy flies straight towards him. For once, the music actually matches, just once and shortly, with Crimson's resignation 7:40 - "You drove me to this! This death and destruction over the Federation! Millions of lives lost... so many ghosts. Kill me, or be killed!" Just when Pixy is flying through clouds of dusts and embers, giving a wide view to Crimson's actions. And what Pixy says? "Crash where I can't see." This Pixy can't even summon enough sarcasm to rebut Crimson's claims, it shows how pissed and affected he is from all of this. Then Undercoder makes another beatiful match when Pixy goes over the clouds at 8:11, with Pixy's statements morphing the music once again to its energetic form, dogfighting right over the fucking clouds like men do. "Here we are! Fighting for Cascadia's soul." The amount of things that just match with the music is insane, and Crimson's statement is one of these things; once again shit gets even more real with the song and the 3rd phase: orbs, railguns, missiles, jet joustling... it has everything. Pixy's is so in-character here, he never wastes a chance to get close and personal against an unknown plane, no matter how what Crimson throws at him

It's so satisfying to have a crossover fight where the conversation fits in how Pixys replies make sense to the situation. Really good work here to replay watching to

4:06 Love how Pixy rips into Crimson with this dialogue

Even without his iconic laser Canon, pixy still win

all of the pixy vs crimson videos were made because crimson 1 said "borders" once

Crimson 1 and Pixy arent so different one man is malding over being beaten one man is malding over the existence of borders

well everyone will ask how did they add "Pixy" into PW, all we AC fans will have to say one thing... *B E L K A N W I T C H C R A F T*

Can we give the lightning at 3:45 some credit for being on point with the music

Pixy and Crimson 1… The Mercenary and the Soldier… One fought to upend the status quo… The other fought to preserve it… And while one failed to set the skies alight… The other succeeded…

I like to think when Pixy yelled “C’mon!” it was less to himself and more to Crimson. Like “You did all this for your country, you’ve got more in you, don’t just die now!”

This is why i like Project Ace's Games Community, While people are fighting against Each Other for Stupid reasons. Others creates Content like this. I love Ace Combat and it's Community. Creates content and Fanfiction with People's will, not War reasons. Keep it up i loved every second of it

Pixy just refutes every argument Crimson 1 comes up with, damn.

12:02 that was just pure poetry

That timing of the orange lightning in 3:45 in sync with thr music is so satisfying

i could imagine Crimson saying

PA should invite Pixy's live actor again one time, because all of as being Galm 1 want to say: "I'm alive, buddy... Would be nice to see you again"

Ah yes, 2 competitive gaslighters finally meet

Chad Pixy vs edgy psycho Crimson 1

Virgin Ultra-Nationalist Crimson Vs Chad Veteran Anarchist Pixy

This is great, primarily becasue I've had the though in my head for a while now that Crimson 1 really is just the Anti-Pixy. Both were driven to use Apocalypse-causing weapons due to their strong beliefs. Both are Ace pilots good enough to rival the players of their respective games. The only difference is that while Crimson 1 is Hyper-Nationalist, completely devoted to the Federation, Pixy is a complete Anarchist, who wants to nuke the world to get rid of countries and borders. They really are two sides of the same coin.

I've now decided that Solowing Pixy is monarch's true identity.

Even though pixy in this video was controlled by the player, in which pixy would be invincible. Its fun to think that pixy, in his basic F-15 would be able to match or even beat crimson 1 in his highly advanced super fighter.

Pixy: "Yo, buddy. Still alive?" Crimson 1: "I TURNED INTO A GIANT ORANGE WHAT DO YOU THINK."

From all the comments that are most popular. I can only sum up as Hidden Ace Combat DLC for AC0. "Pixy's redemption"

“Wide open roads, two lives cross, one continues. What we do today determines our tomorrow. As the night leans heavy onto the blades of feathers, scraping across the perpetual breasts of mortality, where are we headed, where does our pavement end?”

Crimson 1:«How does it feel to not have a country ? To not have borders to define yourself against the world ?»

Pixy: Here come the cowards Crimson 1: How dare-

Took the meaning of die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain and flipped it

Alt title: Pixy counterattacks Crimson's gaslighting

This really does feel like the finale of a Gundam series where they pilot planes instead of robots.

“You fight for your own truth, while I fight for my country, we are not the same” -Crimson 1

This, was absolutely remarkable. The entire scenario, the way the dialogue lined up, how the chaffe looked like fiery flowers across that hellish landscape, and how at the end it was just tranquil, quiet.

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God I really love these kinds of things. Pixy or Mihaly versus Crimson 1, and using their dialogue to argue with Crimson 1 amid his speech. It just works so wonderfully.

This is fantastic! I love how much more mature and sincere Pixy seems here. It feels much more like Mission 18 Pixy than the previous version, and I think that's a good thing. Fantastic work!

i wish these flying games dint had a silent protagonist... sometimes it gives more character and even cooler when your dueling as a character you know and bonded

Oh wait, he exploded in the air? In my game I shot him down and right as he said Remeber me, he crashed into the ground and exploded, I thought it was scripted

I wish we had an Ace Combat game that focuses on the origin of Pixy and we get to play as him. Before he met Cipher.

4:00 missile hit perfectly timed to the music

This is golden their dialogue fits TOO well.

The Kings soundtrack is great, but ngl, the Zero soundtrack works better with this

The dialogue flows so well considering they’re from two different games 0-0

Crimson can gaslight all he wants, I’m a master of deflecting.

I like how you cut buddy out of "I bet you do too buddy"

the good timing of the Talks is just perfect... i hope that there will be mods that adds voices like Pixy for Monarch (sometimes a quiet protagonist is just a Empty one)

Monarch: Galm 1 where the fuck are you?! *I was told this was gonna be 2v2 not a handicap match!*

the Zero OST and pixy's lines turned it from a last stand of crimson to a tantrum of him not winning XD

I don’t get how the dialogue works so well with this. It’s like they were meant to eventually fight each other.

Fucking Masterpiece! I wish I could discovered this video in the anniversary date

I can’t stop Imagining Monarch and Cypher looking at each other, looking at Fight.. (In sync) back and forth…

this battle seems entirely different when kings isn't playing

Zero vs Zero(but he likes borders)

Absolutely MAGNIFICIENT!!! Thank you for that MASTERPIECE!

Man that last section there of the fight felt oddly personal and sad. Well done.

Project wingman.... The belkan war.. they almost seem like two sides of the same coin!

border hater vs border lover both like the big funny boomalas

This was incredible! Well done!

Man those exchanges of parallel dialogues make it look like even more canon than ever! Which is scary and goosebumps-inducing!

This video is so fucking well done, especially the dialogue between Pixy and Crimson. GOOD FUCKING JOB

I'd like to think this as a "prequel" of Zero, which made Pixy reconsider his life as a mercenary before meeting cipher and in result, his betrayal which lead him to have the same ideology as crimson 1 at some extent

3:46 perf music sinc with blaze