Ace Combat 04

Single Session, Very Easy Difficulty

General Comments:

Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies is the first entry of the series onto the PS2. It's also my favorite in the series. I've never been one for (semi-)realistic flying sims, but this game was just too much fun. I played this for a while and finally decided to speed run it.

The biggest hurdle in doing this was the fact that Twin Galaxies (the so-called "official" video game record site - what a joke) had a listing of various times in regards to this. So I had to find a way to distinguish myself from them while working on this. So I decided to do a run from a clean save (dubbed New Game, instead of New Game + which means I use clear data to get higher difficulties, more money, etc). I also decided to do this on Very Easy, mainly for entertainment factor. This is due to that a number of missions in the game are a set time limit, and blowing up more stuff is cooler (it takes more missiles to shoot things down when you take the difficulty up). Last, I decided to do it single session - all 18 missions w/o a breather.

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