In that, you don’t have to spend hours setting up your plane for take-off, nor have to worry about being shot down with a single missile hit (though you can’t really survive more than two or three, at least initially). This means that while you have certain elements of simulation present, this is very much an arcade flight combat game. That means your mileage may vary on this, but I didn’t particularly enjoy the English dub in this game.Īs for the game itself, like I said above, Ace Combat 7 sits between arcade and simulation sensibilities.

On this point, I found the Japanese audio coupled with English subtitles a more compelling way to appreciate the story, though much of this is down to the fact that I have been playing the Ace Combat games in Japanese for over a decade. With Ace Combat 7, Katabuchi has returned and does a solid job of telling a war-torn story and despite the somewhat overly Macross Plus inspired opening, it has its own tale to tell. The Strangereal setup has been around a while in the Ace Combat games and many of the best installments have been penned by the talented writer and director Sunao Katabuchi.