Imagine making a game that's basically Top Gun meets anime, and despite however you feel about anime dialogue and its quirks, it still manages to be a well structured story that compliments the gameplay. Then the next numbered entry you make in the series you for some reason forget how to do all that. That's this game.

This game really is a marvel at how people can somehow get worse at telling a story as time goes on. For real like the moment the first cut-scene happens this thing is laughably bad.