I replayed this recently, and I have to say; it holds up beautifully, and there's a reason this game is so beloved by Ace Combat fans, and it's not just the memetic badass status that Mobius 1 has achieved. It's a really solid flight game wrapped in a beautiful, poignant and gorgeously delivered story about war and what it looks like, about the way soldiers are more than just heroes or villains, about how little sense grief makes and how little sense human relationships make, and yet how much those relationships mean and how much that grief matters. It's gorgeous. There's yet to be a game like it that does half as well what Ace Combat 04 does so effortlessly.