u/Romapolitan

So I have a little theory that goes opposite of the one everyone seems to throw around right now. I know many people think the stranger is Hunter. And there are things that make it appear that way, like how the stranger seems to have a bunch strange dreams and a close connection to Hunter, while we still don't know who they are.

But personally I think this is a red herring. I think we are supposed to question if he is Hunter throughout the game. But ultimatily it will be about the strangers guilt about something, which is why he nearly comes to that conclusion, but it will turn out to not actually be true. If you have seen Blade Runner 2049, I think about something similar here. The dark ones have a connection to Hunter and a connection to the stranger and I think this connection will purposefully build confusion around our identity.

Just in case someone is expecting something new from the Show, since they announced being there. The section appeared and as far as I could tell there is nothing new except maybe that the Land Ship was designed by Masato Kanno and apparently they at first thought the idea would not work.

I guess that means I will have to wait until NG+ to fly the SU-57 in a duel with Ares. It's good then that Ace Combat lives on replayability. I hope that actually means you can then just go plane crazy in the camapign after the first time. Would kinda suck if you can only fly in Free Play. I am no plane expert but does anyone know what Sukhoi planes this will include? I know Su-33, but what else.

To provide an example, which will or will not be controversial, I was pretty surprised by the popularity of Lycoris Recoil. Sure it had some cool action scenes, but the main plot thread was not really engaging (so little that I barely remember what the conflict was) and certainly nothing new and was pretty low stakes which seemed like an odd contrast to the action for me. The art style was not all that unique, almost a cliche of what you would an anime to look like, but the colour palette was nice. The characters were nice, but also nothing we hadn't seen before. And the most relevant thing, the Yuri always seemed pretty standard baity to me. It very much felt like an anime that you like because it was one of your first, if you know what I mean.

So I was pretty surprised when it got so popular especially in Yuri circles, I probably would have forgot it by now if not for that. Which seemed surprising to me since I thought it would get more critique for the baiting. Yet Euphonium got harsher critiques years ago, for what could be argued was never actual bait (If you want Yuri there watch Liz and the Blue Bird)

Another one. Recently I watched Yuri on Ice and I didn't really get it. The romance was okay in my eyes and the skating was really dissapointing with several animation errors. After having watched and read the Medalist I think my expectations were a bit too high.

This felt like one of those product of it's time things if I am being honest. Which honestly is probably the reason a lot of popular anime we grew up on got popular in the first place. Those were just some of the first we watched, so of course we gave them higher praises and may not have realized how cliche they were or how much higher the ceiling can get.

Anyways, anyone else have similar experiences?

I know many people would hate it and on every replay it would be easily countered or get annoying, but what if you had a situation where after you finished a certain mission your base gets attacked by missiles or whatever and your last plane (likely the one you liked the most and fly in every mission) gets destroyed and now you have to use one of your other planes.

You would of course get the plane back (or you could make more evil by needing to buy it back) in the next mission and free missions are never affected, I just thought it would be a sorta impactful moment when you experience it for the first time.

Might be too annoying though.