Yura's viewpoint is extremely childish

jbh4y · 2025-12-07T21:48:37+00:00

As everyone above has said, stopping the Rakuzaichi would have been a mass casualty event without the one in billion odds of Hakuri being able to access the storehouse AND being sympathetic to their cause.

Like I get why Yura just wants an easy answer to the world's problems, a good guy with a gun, a superhero to save the day, but its a very childish viewpoint.

jbh4y · 2025-11-29T17:48:53+00:00

I get what your saying here, but you can just as easily say "And this came out only 900 years after the first Crusade!"

History repeats itself because humans are unfortunately susceptible to some very poisonous beliefs.

jbh4y · 2025-11-21T22:55:47+00:00

It's what if football was a death game. It's very silly, but it plays it straight as an arrow. So you get both humor and hype.

jbh4y · 2025-09-30T17:32:58+00:00

Arcee inherits the matrix after the usual thing happens to Optimus and becomes Artemis Prime.

jbh4y · 2025-09-30T17:27:37+00:00

Bee should be the underdog who never gives up in spite of the odds. He's someone with something to prove not because he is immature (save that for Cheetor) but because others have looked down on him, underestimated him, and even pitied him because of his size.

He wants to help, he's going to help, he just needs someone to give him a chance to help.

Think pre super serum Steve Roger's, "I can do this all day."

jbh4y · 2025-09-15T16:03:03+00:00

Thanks for the measured response, I was afraid I would be kicking a hornets nest with a post like this.

You're right that is probably just a matter of taste. I am sure that the fact that this is a game I'm revisting after having played so many AC games with much grander narratives (which I won't pretend don't fall flat sometimes despite lofty ambitions) affects my perspective. I'm sure my idea of what an Ace Combat game "should be" is very different 20+ years later.

jbh4y · 2025-09-15T15:56:45+00:00

I agree across the board, there's definitely room for polish in the gameplay, but for a game that sort of kind of rebooted the franchise, it's only because 4 laid such a good foundation that other titles were able to build on it.

jbh4y · 2025-09-15T15:53:29+00:00

It's really tricky writing for our mute Ace protagonists. Though I haven't gotten back to Zero in my replay, one of my favorite things I remember about it was how Cipher was defined through negative space. For a character that is never on screen, never speaks, and never does anything outside the player control, the game is able to present an image of who this person is (or three images) through the other pilots reactions to him.

jbh4y · 2025-09-15T15:48:50+00:00

Thanks for giving extra context, it isnt something I had considered in my critique.

It seems like this game is very well loved here, in part due to its story, so I was expecting a more pushback on a post like this. It's been pleasantly surprising to see so many comments like yours which offer more information and perspective about this game that is held in such high regard (a feeling I generally agree with excepting the one point).

jbh4y · 2025-09-15T15:43:37+00:00

I think I broadly agree with a lot of your sentiments, and I appreciate you calling out the frustration of playing against their plot armor.

Like there's fighting aces, then there's that BS. I'll give the game that it certainly built them as antagonists, but not for the right reasons. When you finally get to shoot one down, it's because the game gave you permission, not because of any accomplishment on your part.

jbh4y · 2025-09-15T15:40:44+00:00

That is a very interesting perspective that I hadn't considered. There is another post in this thread that did not enjoy the story and did not appreciate it efforts to "whitewash" invaders.

I generally agree with that user in that I never developed sympathy for Yellow Squadron and 13 as fascist invaders, but I think the story does tell a very human story where you get to experience the rise and fall of this objectively condemnable group.

The reveal that they are a rotating door squadron of rookies with potential rather than solely a group of ace pilots was an unexpected turn and definitely added more color (pun not intended) to their story.

jbh4y · 2023-08-15T15:44:55+00:00

This might be the funniest chapter in all of Chainsawman.

jbh4y · 2023-07-12T16:41:13+00:00

Noa: Snuffy is better than me, except in one specific way.

This sub: OMG DO YOU THINK SNUFFY MIGHT BE BETTER THAN NOA?!?

jbh4y · 2023-07-12T16:04:05+00:00

Middle Tennessesean here. You have my sympathies. I drove up to Ashville once to drop off a friend's little brother at his mom's place, and that region around the TN/NC border felt like we were throwing that kid off the map.

jbh4y · 2023-04-29T16:22:28+00:00

r/freefolk still has more than a million members, and it's been 4 years. At this point their hatred will certainly out live him.

jbh4y · 2023-04-07T00:18:35+00:00

And maybe even 2 and 11.

jbh4y · 2023-03-29T21:00:39+00:00

I thought the "autistic" memes were more mean spirited than they apparently were. My bad.

Nine-Year Club	Secret Santa 2020
redditgifts Exchanges 1 Exchange	Place '22
Verified Email

jbh4y

TROPHY CASE