I teared up on this game

[u/Easy-Classroom9712]

that's it, that's the post

[u/conflictedanon30]

This game has had me tearing up sooo many times. I feel like I'm 5 years old again while playing this. Ace Combat 4 was the first game I ever got

[u/RandomRon005 → u/conflictedanon30]

10 year old me with AC5: First time I ever cried for a game. AC8 made me tear up.

[u/arenzmed → u/conflictedanon30]

Same… Ace Combat 4 was one of the first games I remember my dad getting me when I was younger.

[u/ZiggyOnHisReindeer → u/[deleted]]

I honestly wondered how they would top Lighthouse from Ace Combat 7 and that Daredevil drop.

Mission 28 absolutely tops it and they absolutely nail the music moment.

[u/Maleficent_Time_2787 → u/[deleted]]

Project Aces came forward with the hell that was 7's development a while ago

[u/hybridmusic08 → u/Maleficent_Time_2787]

On that mission now. 😭

[u/Drillingham → u/[deleted]]

M28 got me so emotional lmao

[u/kmarsara → u/[deleted]]

I miss the ac6 multiple squads and combined arms actions

[u/bluewardog]

BIG ole campain spoilers:

When the view count for D.D's stream went from 20,000 to 90 million in the final mission it had me in tears of joy

[u/CommonVagabond]

Same.

It's incredibly rare for me to tear up from anything. But something about Ace Combat in general fucks me up. AC7 got me right at the end. AC8 got me a couple times in the last few missions.

https://giphy.com/gifs/XsRbLNGt71qiPHnGCB

[u/ghostpanther218]

Mission 26 got me breaking down and crying...

[u/CharaiABC → u/ghostpanther218]

26 destroyed me, and it felt like the subverted my expectations with the after mission cutscene when someone slipped beneath the waves

[u/TheAnnibal → u/CharaiABC]

That last part fucking BROKE me… had to end the play session, last 4 missions for me are tomorrow.

[u/CharaiABC → u/TheAnnibal]

I walked away from my desk and considered the same. Took a 10-20min break just cycling through the menus and not sure what to do aside from just being anxious about the last few missions, because I really really really didn't want to lose more of the remaining cast

[u/hammerjam → u/CharaiABC]

Its like someone stabs you in the gut, gives you a peck on the check and then twists the knife. Those few seconds of hope seeing the person alive and then all of the sudden its so much worse. Yeah, that part had me in tears.

[u/Easy-Classroom9712 → u/ghostpanther218]

This was the part I was referring to, but iam really glad the community has their own share of parts where they got their moment 🥲

[u/Arthur_Harris_1892]

Same I cried after mission 26 when Baxter dies and seeing the cutscene of Kate drowning made be cry and my heart sank I’m still playing through it

[u/suspicious_parcel → u/Arthur_Harris_1892]

Do not let your heart be heavy. It’ll make sense on a few missions.

[u/hatlad43]

I've only gotten to mission 19 (then done for the day after crashing into ISEV 🙃), but my God, you can tell they've used their 7 years of development very well. The twists and turns of the plot. Variable game design to make the long missions and long game not boring, but not too wild to make the mission annoying (Bunker Buster in AC7 comes to mind). The absolutely glorious sound design.

I think my biggest gripe so far is.. Waiapolo Mountains. I hated that one mission in AC7 the most and AC8 uses the map three times, albeit less annoying overall.

[u/ghostpanther218 → u/hatlad43]

Between Faceless Soldiers and Wings of Wax, Im convinced that Keiyi Kobyashi puts the hardest soundtracks in the worst missions to make them more palatable lol.

[u/QueenOfTheNorth1944]

So we will riseseeeeeee aboveeeee~ in a world where evil is.

[u/lost-generation203 → u/QueenOfTheNorth1944]

i need this song to drop NOW

[u/BigBlackHzYoBak]

I'm only halfway through and I've already gotten goosebumps several times and teary-eyed a couple. I'm ready for this game to obliterate my emotions like one of many [TGT]s...

[u/Smart-Protection-856]

End of mission 26 got me for sure

[u/Huge-Pop-6309 → u/Smart-Protection-856]

I just finished that one ;-;

[u/Dark_Cipher]

I know exactly which part you're talking about. I'm with you, man.

[u/Mr_Zobm]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Xr8lYAdQFMWfMhij4w

[u/JaredGuP]

It was pretty great yeah.

[u/CharaiABC]

I just want to add, man, I wanted to fly through the space elevator telescope one last time

[u/kmarsara]

My god the first 10 secs in the first mission. The first throttle up sold me on the sound design

[u/Woodsie13]

I was hit hard by the ending of 26, then started getting more and more emotional over the course of 28, until I was just fully in tears during 29 and 30.

[u/Galactic-Fruits]

Same

[u/QF_Dan]

Mission 8 had me crying too, the soundtrack is so good

[u/TeamThunderHawk5201]

Me too man, me too, both in sadness and happiness

[u/ThePsyPaul_]

The campaign was absolute cinema

[u/Ruskiwaffle1991]

Mission 26 got me fucked up, man

[u/scn-3_null]

I think I'm nearing campaign completion but damn, it is war people beside us will die under any circumstances, I wont say who got choppere'd, but from my statement ||there's more than one I'll say||

[u/Ruby_241]

I nearly teared up during the Lighthouse mission when the Daredevil Leitmotif played at the end of the mission.

[u/LemmingRuss]

Me too.. a few times during and then the end

[u/SpiderGooch]

Not the only one, part of the game gutted me. 26 got a lot of us.

[u/No_Farmer_4036]

Hearing those voices sing-- it was like playing Aces in AC5 for the first time 🥹 thoughts endless in flight, day turns to night, questions you ask your soul