Man, those last interview segments really work at humanizing your opponents, showing you the toll war's had on them. When those credits hit there were no words, only feels.
That's why I love Ace Combat so much. They aren't just silly flight sims and standard war games. They are deep, meaningful stories set in a rich and fascinating world. They explore themes of war and peace. Of loyalty and betrayal. Of honor and bravery. They are filled with heroes who, the more you look at, are villains and villains who the more you look at are heroes. They show war as a truly grey experience. Honestly, part of me thinks that Project Aces should really expand Strangereal by not just exploring the aerial warfare aspect, show stuff like the Belkan War, the Usea Conflict, the Osea-Yuktobania War from the perspective of the ground troops.
@@Killzoneguy117 I agree with everything there while a project aces ground game wouldn't likely be as refined as an aerial combat game itd be fun imagine looking up to see the demon lord or razgriz squadron flying above you itd be so cool also I like the strangereal setting because none of the countries are real so there's no "usa numba won" though I guess Osea is usually shown as the good guys it's a fun setting I'd also love to see you play as a Belkan or Erusean for a change, something that fights against Osea
Late to the party, but the interviews make me cringe at most. Since when have former rebels (probably dubbed terrorists at some point) gotten the opportunity to return back to a civil life? Working as dancers, tutors of in insurance?
12 years later I can still feel the goosebumps I had on that day when I played this mission for the first time, the summer that I graduated from high school. I still play ZERO and the ending in my car today. I love ace combat.
That was you I saw. You had the gray car with the red-colored right passenger door. I know you had your share of street racing without right-side doors!
this make me have a tear in my eye. this along with 4 and 5 were my favorite ace combats. The ghosts of Razgriz,The grimm reaper and the demon lord were the bests
No matter how many times I hear the message from Pixy to Cipher. I get shivers down my spine. 4 Sentences that tell you so much about his belief and relation with Cipher.
the theme, the place, the game, the story....Ace Combat 5 and Zero were the best....I still get the rush fighting Pixy like it was just an jousting fight....It was a great game
Imagine how terrifying the AC world would be if AWWNB ended up just trying to pay off Cypher to their side since we know atleast in Merc style he's pretty much a monster who answers only to money
It for some reason reminds me of mgs 3 snake eater I think the fact that this rewinds to the Belkan war reminds me of going from 2002 to around the cold war era, some the music and fighting someone you were once allys with for the final conclusion really reminds me of mgs 3.
Actually. Mobius 1, Gryphus 1 and Talisman didnt disappear. They still serving in thier own Air Force. Blaze and Cipher is the one who disappeared. Blaze probably married to Nagase and become a normal citizens. While Cipher, he disappeared without a trace. Sad his story ends there
@@jasonalexander4841 nah cipher is still a mercenary ace dont you notice the when someone said "galm 1 shoot down the enemy ace and your reward will be multiplied by 10" it was on the last mission of ace combat 6. The dialogue doesnt get displayed by the subtitle but you can clearly hear it
@@ignatiusradityo6774 wait really? I never heard of that. Is that a easter egg in ac6? Which mission is that. For all I know Cipher disappear months after the last battle.
"I should have died that day" Yeah, he aint wrong. Even if he could have survived the initial take down and bail out, the radiation from that nuke going off would have killed him off. Unless..... he was rushed to the hospital in time by the people who rescued him and got the proper treatment for acute radiation sickness.
When you hit a plane in AC, you didn't aim to pilot! You aim to engines so that cause the "destroyed": You destroy the engines not kill the pilot. Why do you think those pilots can eject?
@@DAN007thefoxx1 the nuke was unarmed still so when it went off it was just an explosion if it was a nuclear blast both cipher and the awacs would have went down due to the EMP
Oscar Frederick Maita a plane can still explode. How do you think Yellow 13 and Yellow 4 died? Their planes exploded when Mobius 1 shot them down, and they didn’t even have the chance to eject
Honestly so weird how these people after being in a terrorist organization just go back to being regular ass people, not even tried for war crimes or anything?
Everyone wanted peace so bad that they (Osea, et al) covered up the stories of the aces to protect them from prosecution. Until the interviewer uncovered the info (bc Osea declassified them in 2005) and interviewed every ace he could find from that war, trying to find Cipher.
If you go on Assult records some do serve in Prisons and the ones we see here were Tried as Not Guilty due to having small parts in the Coup but Wizard And Sorcerer Squadrons and the Coup Founders are all Arrested or still terrorists
Wait. why was pixy not banished to some random island somewhere? i mean he did single handedly nuke the border of belka and killed thousands of people, buuuuut okay. also i think that project aces should do more live action cutscenes.
Nope. The experimental aircraft manages to reduce almost to nothing the damage thanks to ECM. Infact you manage to destroy its weapons only, till you find its weak point.
Don't know if this will be answered but, just asking... V2 explosion should be massive right? Yes it exploded high up in the air, but someone or some people could've known about a big ass nuke being blown. Is it an oversight that V2 in AC5 was never fully developed yet here we have one V2 active?(They could've at least said "there's should be only one.." or something) Is the concealing of AWWNB incident so closure that it didn't have any leaks? The AC Zero documentary even released before the Circum-pacific war (correct me if I'm wrong)
Quoting Pops in AC5 "V2 is a MIRV" - Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle One Missile goes up, several come back down, each with their own warhead. "Wipe out half the metropolitan areas in osea/yuktobania" isn't by making one big crater covering all of them, just turning each one into its own crater. With them all going off in one place, easier to write off as just a typical nuke. As for covering up AWWNB being covered up... They bombed a city with Hresvelgr, I'm sure they had to concede the existence of a belkan coup. Probably didn't have to divulge much more than that. Also "[V2 was] Secretly completed since the last war" War ended in June, AWWNB is using it in December. His statement works whether knows of AWWNB's version or not. Also in regards to why they only have one V2 in AC5, it's easier to conceal the existence of your ultimate weapon if you don't mass produce it. Don't really need many anyways since their plan called for Osea and Yuktobania taking a much heavier toll on each other.
the missile self-destructed because its programmed to abort if the control signal is lost before critical altitude, thus it didn't achieve critical mass, but the shaped charges in the bombs will make quite a decent explosion even if fission isn't achieved since they have to accelerate heavy fissile materials into each other fast enough to break the "strong force" that keeps neutrons inside the atom and they have to be held at an extremely precise angle, any slight variation in the aim and fission wont occur. as for it not being fully developed this missile could've been a prototype thus since it wasn't put into finalized production it wasn't "fully developed" by the end of the war, plus even if it wasn't a prototype it was completed by AWWNB after the war was over.
eu gostava mt do pixy dae ele traiu o cipher e fez isso que aconteceu nas missões 12 e 18 ae depois do ending eu voltei a gostar dele pelo que ele falou
Jacob Ramirez when you go to assault records, and find him, it will say that he is Belkan, but in the beggining of the game he fought on the side of the Ustio because he was mercenary, and needed money, but when he saw the REAL destruction of war, the patriotism woke up in him, and then happened this...
Ace combat fan may i ask what happen to Chiper after the war?, was he still doing his job as a mercenary or he become vanish but somehow found a new life maybe as a Ustio pilot instructor for Ustio Airforce or maybe he retired?, please reply thank you
Arsya Prawira Bahari well, when the interviewer said that "demon lord" had disappeared, in my opinion he's just living out the remainder of his life in the woods, living a peaceful life with perhaps a dog and or with a wife and had kids, far away from any city or town.
oh i get it, smart moves and a good theory. He actually "disappeared" because he knows in my opinion that after the war he will be pursuit by journalist, reporters, and anyone who like to meet and interview him due to his famous celebrity like status as The Demon Lord Of The Round Table. I bet he doesn't like to be famous. And also it is a very good choice to live outside far away from city or town in the woods so he is like disappear, but actually he just stay away from the civilization. sorry for the bad english
Arsya Prawira Bahari i found ur english kindof funny,but atleast u understand,and yes i was trying to say that he didnt want the spotlight to be on him
CouchDerp Potatoe i found the story is a bit like ace combat 5, where the main characters just disappeard, but they just retired and move on to a civilian live, and stay away from the public and able to hinder their celebrity status.
Nothing says epic like jousting with fighter jets like modern knights to decide the fate of the world.
Man, those last interview segments really work at humanizing your opponents, showing you the toll war's had on them.
When those credits hit there were no words, only feels.
That's why I love Ace Combat so much. They aren't just silly flight sims and standard war games. They are deep, meaningful stories set in a rich and fascinating world. They explore themes of war and peace. Of loyalty and betrayal. Of honor and bravery. They are filled with heroes who, the more you look at, are villains and villains who the more you look at are heroes. They show war as a truly grey experience.
Honestly, part of me thinks that Project Aces should really expand Strangereal by not just exploring the aerial warfare aspect, show stuff like the Belkan War, the Usea Conflict, the Osea-Yuktobania War from the perspective of the ground troops.
@@Killzoneguy117 I agree with everything there
while a project aces ground game wouldn't likely be as refined as an aerial combat game itd be fun
imagine looking up to see the demon lord or razgriz squadron flying above you itd be so cool
also I like the strangereal setting because none of the countries are real
so there's no "usa numba won" though I guess Osea is usually shown as the good guys
it's a fun setting
I'd also love to see you play as a Belkan or Erusean for a change, something that fights against Osea
Late to the party, but the interviews make me cringe at most.
Since when have former rebels (probably dubbed terrorists at some point) gotten the opportunity to return back to a civil life? Working as dancers, tutors of in insurance?
damn i miss this game so much. even shed a tear because of the story
Feels. :/
aqilwafiq98 me too,i'm in love with this game,also i still playing it,I LOVE THE HISTORY AND CIPHER THE DEMON LORD OF THE ROUND TABLE!!!!
Same
Old games have good childhood and good stories
Same
It didnt occur to me till much later that despite all the references to knights throughout the game, the final battle is a joust.
*DEMON LORD OF THE ROUND TABLE... I PRAY FOR YOUR SUCCESS*
12 years later I can still feel the goosebumps I had on that day when I played this mission for the first time, the summer that I graduated from high school. I still play ZERO and the ending in my car today. I love ace combat.
That was you I saw. You had the gray car with the red-colored right passenger door. I know you had your share of street racing without right-side doors!
“The world wont change unless we trust people,trust is vital in a peaceful world,but that would never happen.”
Really meaningful
Sadly it can be applied to us now days... these interviews are deep
@@elgallant56 i know…
I like the near-collision pass in slo-mo. So dramatic.
Wait a minute.... 6TH divison... 66TH air force unit
666... "demon" of the round table. Coincidence?
you ONLY realize that now?
Shintobato Doom I realised it when I first saw that in an age of 9
XD don't phrase it like that, geez...
Shintobato Doom okay XD
IxAmXGhoul X i don't think so
3:13 Perfect timing with music!
I think its scripted to do that but yes
@@germanwarrabbit Nope.
@@HeHe-bn5jg every person who I've seen play this mission has had the same timing
either everyone times it perfectly or its scripted to do that
@@germanwarrabbit Nope, it's not. I've done 6 runs on Zero w/ different aircraft.
Using TLS proves that easily.
4:06 chills as the V2 is ominously ascending and the latin chords kick in at the same time
this make me have a tear in my eye. this along with 4 and 5 were my favorite ace combats. The ghosts of Razgriz,The grimm reaper and the demon lord were the bests
Santiago Moncada Mobius 1 is #1 ;)
Zero made me tears
No matter how many times I hear the message from Pixy to Cipher. I get shivers down my spine. 4 Sentences that tell you so much about his belief and relation with Cipher.
the demon lord of round table
it,s the best steam in ace combat
the theme, the place, the game, the story....Ace Combat 5 and Zero were the best....I still get the rush fighting Pixy like it was just an jousting fight....It was a great game
Sapin air force/9th & land division/11th tactical fighter squadron
911
Spain did 9/11?
911 what's your emergency?
cout de tat squadron.....so it WAS an inside job afterall!
Imagine how terrifying the AC world would be if AWWNB ended up just trying to pay off Cypher to their side since we know atleast in Merc style he's pretty much a monster who answers only to money
It for some reason reminds me of mgs 3 snake eater
I think the fact that this rewinds to the Belkan war reminds me of going from 2002 to around the cold war era, some the music and fighting someone you were once allys with for the final conclusion really reminds me of mgs 3.
Phoenix
Mobius 1
Blaze
Cipher
Gryphus 1
Talisman
Why all of them dissapeared?
Nemo is a AI so he can't dissapear xD
Falco 1 still services in AAF
mobius 1 did not disappear hes still with isaf
Mobius 1 is the grim reaper from ac infinity and dont forget antares from ac joint assault or should i say pixy's past
Actually. Mobius 1, Gryphus 1 and Talisman didnt disappear. They still serving in thier own Air Force. Blaze and Cipher is the one who disappeared. Blaze probably married to Nagase and become a normal citizens. While Cipher, he disappeared without a trace. Sad his story ends there
@@jasonalexander4841 nah cipher is still a mercenary ace dont you notice the when someone said "galm 1 shoot down the enemy ace and your reward will be multiplied by 10" it was on the last mission of ace combat 6. The dialogue doesnt get displayed by the subtitle but you can clearly hear it
@@ignatiusradityo6774 wait really? I never heard of that. Is that a easter egg in ac6? Which mission is that. For all I know Cipher disappear months after the last battle.
Anyone who plays this mission with anything other than the F-15C is a madman
ThugTorchic51 A-10
F-22 raptor
X-02 Wyvern
F-5E Tiger II
F-14D Super Tomcat.
But...I am a madman: MiG-21bis
So Pixy was still alive when he was shot down by Cipher!? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!?!?!?!?
of course pixy still alive yu can see him scene 1 or last scene
"I should have died that day" Yeah, he aint wrong. Even if he could have survived the initial take down and bail out, the radiation from that nuke going off would have killed him off. Unless..... he was rushed to the hospital in time by the people who rescued him and got the proper treatment for acute radiation sickness.
When you hit a plane in AC, you didn't aim to pilot! You aim to engines so that cause the "destroyed": You destroy the engines not kill the pilot. Why do you think those pilots can eject?
@@DAN007thefoxx1 the nuke was unarmed still so when it went off it was just an explosion if it was a nuclear blast both cipher and the awacs would have went down due to the EMP
Oscar Frederick Maita a plane can still explode. How do you think Yellow 13 and Yellow 4 died? Their planes exploded when Mobius 1 shot them down, and they didn’t even have the chance to eject
*wakes up from the fear of my future* that's it, Im joining the airforce!
I remember when i "Accidentally" Shoot Pixy with both all of my 4AAM and my Missiles to him Head-on. I was surprised...
Nmmm, that ending credit music ^w^ love it
Karelwolfpup same
Karelwolfpup Damn straight
People who change the world are always a mistery...
Pixy is the best character
he eventually realizes his ideals were wrong but still holds the better ones
"Yo buddy, you still alive?" By pixy
If this was a warthunder arcade match Pixy and cipher would have to respawn in a lower tier plane
Honestly so weird how these people after being in a terrorist organization just go back to being regular ass people, not even tried for war crimes or anything?
Everyone wanted peace so bad that they (Osea, et al) covered up the stories of the aces to protect them from prosecution.
Until the interviewer uncovered the info (bc Osea declassified them in 2005) and interviewed every ace he could find from that war, trying to find Cipher.
If you go on Assult records some do serve in Prisons and the ones we see here were Tried as Not Guilty due to having small parts in the Coup but Wizard And Sorcerer Squadrons and the Coup Founders are all Arrested or still terrorists
Es el mejor historia de ace de combat. No me cansaba de jugarlo y me hacia llorar siempre el final :/ me llego al corazon este juego
I both love and hate how it just ends
it is both satisfying and mildly bothering
The Best Planes on this mission. LOL
Wait. why was pixy not banished to some random island somewhere? i mean he did single handedly nuke the border of belka and killed thousands of people, buuuuut okay. also i think that project aces should do more live action cutscenes.
What do you mean?
Best Ace Combat ever
the best ace combat game i ever played!
I would say this to him when he said "See you again." "No!" "You won't!"
"Yo buddy you still alive? "
always has been, Buddy.
Amazing game for sure
So where does it say or show that Morgan's laser weapon got destroyed by pulling heavy G's?
Im pretty sure the firet missiles we hit on him destroy it
Yes
Where did you get those illustrations for video thumbnails?
No one:
Galm 1: Larr, I'm going to bring the party on your candy ass like it's 1995.
So Pixy is the first pilot to learn how to fly in a way that minimises the damage even when he's hit?
Nope. The experimental aircraft manages to reduce almost to nothing the damage thanks to ECM. Infact you manage to destroy its weapons only, till you find its weak point.
DAMN! I LOVE THIS MUSIC!
Don't know if this will be answered but, just asking... V2 explosion should be massive right? Yes it exploded high up in the air, but someone or some people could've known about a big ass nuke being blown.
Is it an oversight that V2 in AC5 was never fully developed yet here we have one V2 active?(They could've at least said "there's should be only one.." or something)
Is the concealing of AWWNB incident so closure that it didn't have any leaks?
The AC Zero documentary even released before the Circum-pacific war (correct me if I'm wrong)
Reza Utama. this V2 was started on the 80's the other one was built after this one destruction
V2 yang satunya di develop Grunder Industries di AC5 mas. Yang jadi rebutan Grey Men buat reunited Belka.
Quoting Pops in AC5 "V2 is a MIRV" - Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle
One Missile goes up, several come back down, each with their own warhead. "Wipe out half the metropolitan areas in osea/yuktobania" isn't by making one big crater covering all of them, just turning each one into its own crater. With them all going off in one place, easier to write off as just a typical nuke.
As for covering up AWWNB being covered up... They bombed a city with Hresvelgr, I'm sure they had to concede the existence of a belkan coup. Probably didn't have to divulge much more than that.
Also "[V2 was] Secretly completed since the last war" War ended in June, AWWNB is using it in December. His statement works whether knows of AWWNB's version or not.
Also in regards to why they only have one V2 in AC5, it's easier to conceal the existence of your ultimate weapon if you don't mass produce it. Don't really need many anyways since their plan called for Osea and Yuktobania taking a much heavier toll on each other.
the missile self-destructed because its programmed to abort if the control signal is lost before critical altitude, thus it didn't achieve critical mass, but the shaped charges in the bombs will make quite a decent explosion even if fission isn't achieved since they have to accelerate heavy fissile materials into each other fast enough to break the "strong force" that keeps neutrons inside the atom and they have to be held at an extremely precise angle, any slight variation in the aim and fission wont occur.
as for it not being fully developed this missile could've been a prototype thus since it wasn't put into finalized production it wasn't "fully developed" by the end of the war, plus even if it wasn't a prototype it was completed by AWWNB after the war was over.
"A World With No Boundaries"? Did I wake up in a different reality or was it called "A World Without Borders" in some versions of the game?
Sol boundaries borders what difference does it make does it matter?
I play this game when I was 7 years now I’m 22
#PixyDidNothingWrong
eu gostava mt do pixy dae ele traiu o cipher e fez isso que aconteceu nas missões 12 e 18 ae depois do ending eu voltei a gostar dele pelo que ele falou
Nicolas HU3 BR o Pixy é meu personagem preferido de qqer jogo
Eu entendo pq ele fez oq fez
@@erusean8492 eu gosto do mobius 1
Im curious who is that guy who interviewed those aces and became the narrator cuz he sounded like pixy
"Brett Thompson"
Not really pixy is the first guy that explain 3 kind of aces
Have you defeated pixy by 48 sec? I did. .....by his same plane lol
I did that flying Pixy's old F15!
2:13 this line tho !
Pixy , Zero , such fuking legendary
A question : why pixy can shoot that laser but i only can see pixy is just bought MPBM AND A MISSILES WEIRD YA?
Nickthe Gamer-14 i guess the model that are used is the same one that we use
Is that a piece of PJ's plane with the flowers by it?
Eat my square explosion!!!
For England, James?
No. For me.
I like the thumbnail you put. Where did ya find it?
10:26 why they have a tank in the backyard
Why should Larry see Cipher again? He betrayed him!
Jacob Ramirez maybe he wants a rematch xD
Marko Vig He knew full well the penalty for treason in Ustio.
Jacob Ramirez when you go to assault records, and find him, it will say that he is Belkan, but in the beggining of the game he fought on the side of the Ustio because he was mercenary, and needed money, but when he saw the REAL destruction of war, the patriotism woke up in him, and then happened this...
Marko Vig He kind of reminds me of Alec Trevelyan from Goldeneye: 007.
Marko Vig He was a Belkan spy?!
Hmm i thought the Ulysses happens at 1994... Or was it 1995
It was always June of 1999
@@Michael-sl5qx ow really
@TacticalMoonstone Which Erusea was on the other side, the "wrong side".
And what is the song name being played when Larry was talking at the very end?
Galm 2
Suicide Goose thank you
what kind of person do you think "he" was?
What, that pixy?
Yo, buddy. Still alive?
Trump you need to watch this last interview
He doesnt need to. He's trying to bring people home.Someone else should.
I need an emulator so I can play this game
BAE Systems PLC
Ace combat fan may i ask what happen to Chiper after the war?, was he still doing his job as a mercenary or he become vanish but somehow found a new life maybe as a Ustio pilot instructor for Ustio Airforce or maybe he retired?, please reply thank you
Arsya Prawira Bahari well, when the interviewer said that "demon lord" had disappeared, in my opinion he's just living out the remainder of his life in the woods, living a peaceful life with perhaps a dog and or with a wife and had kids, far away from any city or town.
oh i get it, smart moves and a good theory. He actually "disappeared" because he knows in my opinion that after the war he will be pursuit by journalist, reporters, and anyone who like to meet and interview him due to his famous celebrity like status as The Demon Lord Of The Round Table. I bet he doesn't like to be famous. And also it is a very good choice to live outside far away from city or town in the woods so he is like disappear, but actually he just stay away from the civilization.
sorry for the bad english
Arsya Prawira Bahari i found ur english kindof funny,but atleast u understand,and yes i was trying to say that he didnt want the spotlight to be on him
CouchDerp Potatoe i found the story is a bit like ace combat 5, where the main characters just disappeard, but they just retired and move on to a civilian live, and stay away from the public and able to hinder their celebrity status.
Arsya Prawira Bahari well it sort reminded me of ace combat 10, the PSP ace combat, he too disappeared from society
Yo Buddy. Still alive?
14:14
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