Ch 1

'Does the color of the sky mean anything to you? It does to me. A hell of a lot.'

Pronoun game. -ding!

'When i close my eyes, the color of the skies is a deep dark blue.'

Or you can just get in your recently built F-104 and take off to see the color itself. -ding!

'You know avie, i wish you could see what it's like up there. Cruising above the clouds. The dark blue of the stratosphere. Nothing beats being at the helm and seeing it from the controls of the cockpit.'

Sure you're worried she could be killed like her father was during the circum-pacific war, but there's other flying careers not involved with the military. -ding!

'Gramps was real friends with the super there, so he got to take whatever he wanted… no questions asked! That's how we got the parts to build our own plane.'

Even though it's a junkyard, that's still billions of dollars worth of military equipment that can be used. Is Osea so incompetent that they don't care if random civilians can take pieces of hardware from a junkyard and build their own plane? -ding(2)!

Also, Avril mentioned her father died during the war. What about her mother? Why isn't Avril living with her mother? Did she die as well? -ding!

'I was at the airship, doing some flight testing when i saw it. A prototype drone. It wasn't much. More like a trash can with wings.'

A prototype drone? It took eight years to make her F-104. That's from 2011-2019. The circum-pacific war lasted during the duration of 2010. Yuktobania and Belka were using drones in the duration of the war. Come on Osea, get your shit together! -ding!

'Scene of Avril taking off into the sky.'

This music is amazing. It brings back ace combat feels from the holy trilogy. Knock off 4 sins.

'I could almost touch it. I saw Osea's fighters. They were tailing a drone… it had a rose painted on it. The Erusean emblem. But that country's a whole continent away from here!'

Yuktobania was a whole continent away from Osea, yet that didn't stop them from attacking Osean soil. -ding!

'Earlier, our radar site informed us that a group of unidentified aircraft was approaching.'

Even after ace combat 5, Osean intel is still a load of shit. It's a Tu-95 bomber and a MiG-21 escort fighter. If your intel is so incompetent, how the hell did you win any war? -ding!

'Trigger, i'm your wingman. That's what it means to be in an element.'

Condescending wingman needs an apple to finish being a complete asshole. -ding!

Also, the game doesn't penalize you for accelerating ahead and leaving mage 1 behind. -ding!

'Lets slow down. It's just one sortie. Don't try to be a hero. I want you to try to make it back in one piece. You hear?'

Oi, i took down the majority of the enemy aircraft. What were you guys doing this whole time? -ding!

'...citizens of Erusea…'

Is that all? You're not going to continue your speech? Okay. -ding!

'We have confirmed that the aircraft carrier Albatross was sunk.'

Brownie said at the start of the mission that the carrier was all but ruined, and it took you guys this long to confirm it? -ding!

'We know the attacking bogeys were from Erusea.'

So what was the whole 'unidentified planes' crap really about? Did you guys not know they came from Erusea? Or did you now just know after they turned your base into a scrapyard? -ding!

'Scene of OBC and ENN news broadcasts'

Rip-off of real-world BBC and CNN is rip-off. -ding!

'...violent attack was carried out by drones. They speculate the drones were secretly transported to Osea in shipping containers and launched remotely.'

So Osea didn't check the containers coming in from Erusea? Erusea has shown some passive-aggressive hostility against Osea because of the space elevator. Osea should have been worried about Erusean intentions, and didn't take the proper precautions. -ding(3)!

'Osea launched an attack on the capital today, striking Farbanti from their aircraft carrier, the Kestrel two.'

Fanservice to ace combat 5 and zero's Kestrel. Alas, the carrier is destroyed not far into the game. So why bother with it at all? -ding!

'Scene of Avril surviving her crash.'

Avril survives this crash in a junkyard plane she made with her own hands. -ding!

Also, how fucking coincidental it is that Avril is flying her jet the same day that war breaks out. -ding!

'The fences were topped off with razor wire, the tower had a searchlight and machine guns… this was a prison.'

Say what?! Avril is a civilian, yet they send her to a military base that also acts as a prison. What isn't she in a regular prison instead of a military prison? She never joined the Osean armed forces. -ding!

'The only reason i'm here is because they knew i'd restore a supersonic plane. They wanted me to make something out of these mothballed planes they brought, that they could park on the fake runaway.'

Osea apparently ran out of skilled mechanics in the military, which is why they have to draft civilians and throw them into a gulag. Is this the Soviet Union? Is Stalin in charge? -ding!

'They found out. And set the dogs on me.'

You are trying to escape with a broken leg! Of course you'd fail in your attempt. -ding!

'Destroy the targets. But HQ has made sure that no harm should come to civilians and no damage done to public facilities.'

Osea, a superpower with far more resources and military strength then Erusea could hope to match, is trying to show to the world that they can also avoid civilian casualties despite their history of killing enemy civilians outright, ala ace combat 5's Dresdon attack, and ace combat 0's bombing of Hoffnung, instead of using overwhelming might to crush Erusea as quickly as possible and save more lives in the long-run. -ding(2)!

'Gameplay shows Erusean transport is destroyed, violently exploding in a bright blue light.'

No-one is going to comment on that weird explosion? -ding!

'Here's some feedback to those war merchants! Write your manuals in a language we can understand!'

Foreshadowing. -ding!

'Well-spotted Clown. No doubt we're dealing with UAV's. But that doesn't change a thing. Just think of them as somewhat clever decoys.'

These 'clever decoys' crippled Osea's navy in the opening blitz. You shouldn't be underestimating them. -ding!

'Golem, you're not going to let mage get all the glory, are you?'

Well maybe if they actually did something… -ding!

'Crap. the aircraft is icing up. I'm getting a warning.'

Then get out of the clouds! That's basic flying 101. -ding!

'The first barrier keeping us from reclaiming the space elevator is gone. Now is the time to regroup and begin the counteroffensive. Let us reclaim what is ours.'

In the beginning briefing, Erusea was shown to take a lot of Usean territory under their control. Even if you managed to retake the space elevator with the next offensive, Erusea still has a large and powerful military. They can easily take the elevator back from you guys. -ding(2)!