Talk:Lighthouse War/@comment-1584932-20160515013628/@comment-1584932-20160515113804

Well, my friends, I never expect ACE Combat to be “real”, actually, “unreal” is one of my major reasons of falling for this franchise. I keep thinking and talking about the storytelling because as someone who is too devoted to ACE Combat, I wish it's stories can be less “inconsistent”, that’s my way of demonstrating my love to this franchise. Speak of stories, there are many major plot holes in each game, even in The Unsung War, which is considered to have the best story. For example, Grey Men took president and prime minister in custodies, but they didn’t place body-doubles in offices to better cover their master plan.

As for First Continental War, when a colossal-sized asteroid is advancing to the planet and is going to fall on the planet in a couple of years, it’s unlikely some major nations still have spare resources to re-draw borderlines. So stories are not the strongpoint of ACE Combat franchise.

Electrosphere’s story always making me think about what was happening before the events in the game took places, ACE Combat 7 could have a detailed backstory of how things transpire in Usean Continent, actually, in order to link up blanks between ACE Combat 4 and ACE Combat 3. Unfortunately it seems the 7th main installation is not going to focus on the unification of Usean Continent. Well, from a brighter side, it grants us spaces of writing fanfictions. Fanfictions are essentially efforts to give better descriptions and explanations of storytelling in games.

After all, the primary value of ACE Combat is adrenaline-pumping battles of blowing up hordes of enemies, stories, on the other hand, is not so important, even we hope they can be more consistent among themselves.