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I mean obviously mileage may vary but if you get a chance and can play that sorta game, I totally recommend playing Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies. It's... genuinely really great.

Fuck it, if you can't, but wanna see the story, pretty sure there's an LP online you could watch.

It manages to rip away any sense of "FUCK YEAH WE'RE THE GOOD GUYS" and... you think about all the planes you just shot down over a city. all the people that you may not have fired at, but... might have ended up indirectly causing harm to...

It made the aftermath of every battle bittersweet, it took away any sense of "victory" and "righteousness" and... fuck I can't think of a better military game that sends such an amazing and poignant anti-war message that's just... so good.

It throws everything into such stark relief that even when you do this one mission called "Emancipation" and you get this (admittedly rather cool) bit where the allied pilots and the radio station on ground in the city you just helped liberate and save from destruction start singing this national anthem together and it feels really great and triumphant and then

...you get the other side of the story, from the ground, from the innocents on the ground, trying to fight too, trying to survive.

like the PLAYABLE part is just like "FUCK YEAH LET'S SHOOT DOWN BADGUYS AW YEAAAHHH!!"

and it's a pretty great ps2 flight sim game, it controls well, it plays well, the radio chatter is good stuff, it even manages to look good too on a ps2!

But hten after every mission, you get this sombre, sobering music and this calm voice of someone having grown up through all this chaos much later after the fact writing letters, and... recounting THEIR story. not yours...

Ace Combat 4 is a game that is about military action and war and airplanes and such but damn if it doesn't have a fuckawesome soundtrack and hell the story cutscenes being both from the point of view of a CIVILIAN having watched all the events of the game from the ground just trying to survive in their country taken over by an imperialist power who gets to know one of the main people you fight against rather personally is a hell of a way to do a story and it just...

it's good???

i can't believe gamefreak is just calling the UK out like this

i mean

we kinda deserve it but WOW

okay so you mighta heard like

the four fossils in Swoosh are deliberately crimes against nature and life itself (seriously oh god why does the game let you create such abominations and make them suffer for our amusement Arceus WHY) because they're a direct callout of the UK fucking up paleontology

but uh... I ONLY JUST found out that the "scientist"'s name in the game who makes them is a pun

Cara Liss

CARELESS.

@mavica psdh googel doesn't deserve to be spelled right after they started being poopyheads.

tired: google search engine
wired: goo girl snug engine

@mavica this genuinely hurt to read, but not in a "oh god this is awful" way but in a "oh my fuck someone finally put into words this thing I feel oh fuck it's real oh jesus h christfuck" way.