Oh my love. Be still my beating heart. She is so perfect, and has no flaws. None, and everyone agrees that she is flawless and perfect. I actually love gimmick missions, and so do you. They add V A R I E T Y. And literally no one thinks the writing is overly preachy and if you do, I diagnose you with not existing. Think the old flight model was better? Interesting but no you don’t. What’s that? You say each plane having one baked in special weapon is a step back and compensating with a million variants isn’t enough? What a strange thing to say, good thing you didn’t say that! Think that chopper could have bailed into the river in the city? Understandable mistake but wrong. Now that you have been educated, you no longer think that!

(Honest thoughts, this is my favourite game of all time. I am not blind to the flaws but, for me, the game comes together in a way that in my eyes transcends it above all of those flaws… And also I genuinely don’t mind the gimmick missions, love the plot, and like all the minute aircraft variants.)