{"id":2223,"date":"2024-07-16T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2024-07-17T22:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T22:12:55","slug":"review-ace-combat-7-skies-unknown-deluxe-edition-switch-returns-for-another-pass-with-a-top-flight-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/review-ace-combat-7-skies-unknown-deluxe-edition-switch-returns-for-another-pass-with-a-top-flight-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Deluxe Edition (Switch) &#8211; Returns For Another Pass With A Top-Flight Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the Summer skies, flying high!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did you know the F-16 first took flight 50 years ago a few months back? It is currently enjoying its Block 70 revision in case you were fearing that air forces around the world are still flying half-century-old technology. Meanwhile, <strong>Ace Combat<\/strong> is turning 30 next year and, much like an airplane block revision, it evolves with every new entry. Sadly Nintendo owners might have missed this evolution entirely, with only a Game Boy Advance entry and two slightly different 3DS versions of an <strong>Ace Combat 2<\/strong> remake successfully navigating to Nintendo skies. Sadly, the 3DS game carries in the West the title of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/ace_combat_assault_horizon_legacy_plus\">Assault Horizon Legacy (+)<\/a>, which ended up confusing potential young nuggets to take the plunge since the home console <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps3\/ace_combat_assault_horizon\">Assault Horizon<\/a> remains the most devise entry in the series, with developer Project Aces attempting to inject some <strong>Call of Duty<\/strong>-ism into the formula with disastrous results.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure was on. The Xbox 360-exclusive <strong>Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation<\/strong> had raised the bar for the series (which was already extremely high after the PlayStation 2 trilogy), so Project Aces needed to ensure that the next numbered game in the series was their shiniest, slickest F-16 equivalent yet. In January 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/ace_combat_7_skies_unknown_deluxe_edition\">Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown<\/a> launched on previous-generation consoles and soon after on PC to warm reviews. Five years later, this very same Unreal Engine-powered opus now lands on Nintendo Switch, which is something none of us at Nintendo Life ever expected to write. Surely, there has to be a catch&#8230; right?<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/ace-combat-7-skies-unknown-deluxe-edition\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Summer skies, flying high! Did you know the F-16 first took flight 50 years ago a few months back? It is currently enjoying its Block 70 revision in case you were fearing that air forces around the world are still flying half-century-old technology. Meanwhile, Ace Combat is turning 30 next year and, much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}