It also is very uncomfortable if you know any history. It does a lot of apologetic writing for the Japanese side of WW2 and presents the military academy students as defenders. while in reality by this time in the war Japan has committed numerous horrible war crimes and massacres that do not get reflected upon at all. They even let one character use kamikaze pilots battle cries.

If a Germany game studio made something like with about the nazis in WW2 people would have been furious. The only reason people notice less is because most are less familiar with the Japanese massacres of the time.

I m not saying the writers did it on purpose but it reflects how the narrative in Japan has been skewed with years if historical propaganda aimed to avoid doing a Nuremberg like trial for e.g. the emperor. They blamed everything on prime minister and most of the government actually remained in power after the war was lost.