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Everything Wrong With Ace Combat Zero In 30 Minutes Or Less

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Well, it's been a long time coming! Six months of void, as some might say. This was a nightmare to edit for various reasons, but I'm proud of the final result and I hope you guys enjoy. :)

As with Ace Combat 5 and Ace Combat 04, there were a lot of sins that I either cut while recording, cut while editing, or just missed entirely. Please remember, this is a video meant for entertainment and comedy, not an actual game review!

Thank you all for your support, and see you in 2018!

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20 Comments

@Blaze1337 8 years ago (edited) Pinned

21:41 Why thank you

@cipherbravo 7 years ago

Actually, releasing the secret records to public for decade actually happened in real life.
For example, United States' World War II archives (1945) were still highly confidential records that were not officially declassified for public until over a decade later in 1958.

@johjoh9270 8 years ago

"Why would a bomber need to withdraw if it's IFF was inoperable?"

To avoid friendly fire, you know, if IFF is broken, then the bomber will be seen as a bogey for everyone in both sides that has a FCR, it would actually make sense -1 sin :P

@FullMetalLemon 8 years ago

You forgot sinning for Eagle Eye calling XB-O a unindentified aircraft while the top right it says XB-O

@AceCombatFan 8 years ago

10/10 game - lots of snowy mountains

Happy that I managed to still watch this in 2017. Great work Sly!

@lgmmrm 7 years ago

"Electrical Charge has Surpassed Maximum value."

Means that Excalibur's capacitors have filled up and the readings are above the "100%" mark on the command room's gauges.

"target confirmed"

means that they have the target, they know what they're shooting at.

"Laser Emission Distance has been calculated"

Means they've calculated how strong the laser needs to be to damage their target.

@RoguexGuardian 8 years ago

22:15 Bonus fact: In AC5, it was "Dilectus" when in ACZ, it's "Directus"

@jossepassant4085 6 years ago (edited)

25:47
"Let the victor be justice."
>Epic line, but it makes no sense.
In terms of literary meaning, the one who carries out justice is expected to be morally right. Kupchenko wants the victor to be the more virtuous person, as opposed to an archetypal villain who is morally inferior yet more powerful than the hero (considering you're the protagonist wearing the title of Demon Lord, purposely playing up this juxtaposition can refute his epic line). I think the worst possible person to both refute and defeat him is a Demon Lord who is morally bankrupt yet either too lucky or too skilled to die.

On the flip side, perhaps he WANTS to be defeated, as long as his opponent was someone more influential in the grand design of the universe than himself (thus interpreting Kupchenko as a man with zero regrets).

@wardog0086 8 years ago

It shoulda been 0 sins, cos I reckon the soundtrack, Zero and the credits theme especially are worth -140 sins.

@ryanpayne9119 7 years ago

The attention to detail is one of the reasons I like Ace Combat. For those that don't know, "Magnum" is a NATO radio call used to announce the launch of an antiradiation missile. Seeing as how the particular missile was visually modeled on the AGM-88 HARM, an antiradiation missile, having AWACS announce Magnum was only partly wrong. But with Cipher being a silent protagonist...

@UltimaDoombotMK1 6 years ago

25:56
Well one of the arsenal Birds was Justice and both had an APS so technically now Justice does block missiles.

@PXTother 8 years ago

Goddammit, I saw that V2 meme coming.

@PedroHenrique-yy2dy 8 years ago

0:33 a war that engulfed the world but mostly takes place on belka (?)

@trainknut 6 years ago

7:59
First they refer to them as the 101st airborne, now they're recklessly dropping them into hot landing zones in the early morning risking the lives of every trooper.
This is too close to reality to be a coincidence, there is no way they didn't entirely base this mission on Operation Market Garden.

Keep in mind, the Belkan War is Strangereal's equivalent to WW2, so the fact they would make such an obvious error in judgement actually kinda makes sense, because in this world there never was an Operation Market Garden or Crete to teach them the hard lessons about parachute operations we learned in real life.

Also, "left behind" in this context means left in the plane, in other words, if you hesitate, they kick you out of the airborne... not exactly something they'd have to say in a combat jump because all of these guys should be fully trained and prepared for what's coming. But in WW2 during parachute training, if you ever failed to make a jump, you were immediately disqualified from the airborne, some guys got second chances, but usually they were transferred out the moment they showed weakness...

@RepublicofE 8 years ago

I really hated how AC Zero ground attack missions end as soon as you get enough points, instead of like in four and five when you had to survive by running out the clock and have fun causing as much damage as possible in the mean time.

@fikrifadillah3247 8 years ago

26:26 Damn,that's a quite detail for A sin

@Lulu-9381 7 years ago

"I should've died that day. But I didn't."
"Because I was better than my fears. Better than my nightmares. But to find out, I had to face them all. I had to get through the worst to prove I was the best. That...is my reality."

@josefuentes5496 4 years ago

As a a former paratrooper, if you had second thoughts about a combat jump on the bird, you will most likely be shoved out by the Jumpmaster. You would also probably get Article 15'd for it as you can get one if you refuse a practice jump.

@stivaoblonskystan 5 years ago

14:13 It seems this random guy is the one who made up the "demon lord" nickname and everybody else just rolled with it.

He could actually be one of the most important characters in the story.

@Arrow_118 8 years ago (edited)

The Ace Combat PS2 Trilogy games had one thing in common: All events that took place on December 31st had ICBMs and space stations or sattilites that were either launched (Comona AC4), Launched and detonated (V2 AC Zero) or detonated in the sky (SOLG AC5). Quite the fireworks!!! Happy New Year!!!!!!!!