Talk:Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War/@comment-25264971-20170905040423/@comment-25264971-20170910010710

I don't know about "gimmicky". You are still flying a plane in every mission so it's not a Sly 3 situation of being a collection of minigames.

AC0 is definitely the densest AC game and focuses on what the series does best, and in that sense it can be considered the best in the series. Unfortunately it's also the least substantial AC game, being somehow even shorter than AC4 and has the least variety.

AC5 feels like the most complete package, it's like AC0 is made with AC fans in mind whereas AC5 is a game anyone can enjoy. Yeah it has some missions that could have been more interesting (I still think AC4 is more guilty of this issue) but it feels like there was more effort placed in making each mission unique while providing enough of them to last a while. AC0 and AC5 exist on the same level for me even if I enjoyed 5 a little more.

Then there's AC6 which feels bloated with samey missions that felt WAAAAAY longer than they should be like a less interesting but more inflated version of AC4.

I wonder where AC7 will strike...