I guess the lesson here is “give yourself a three day weekend sometimes just because”. Lucasfilm doesn’t have to be involved.

This is like people calling Evangelion a deconstruction of mecha. No its not, its just playing with the same tropes of the genre that everything else is! You just like *this* one and want to feel special about finding One of the Good Ones.

Remembered the one set of anime panels

tl;dr them giving you a boyfriend in the 8 reveal trailer is good, and I hope they keep someone in the plane with you for the whole of the game. The squad chatter has always been some of the best, and that would be something to really elevate it

its a series where you've always been the one ace pilot in the cockpit, and 5 is my fave because you're explicitly not the only one. You're the squad leader, but its a story more about the Squad, not just you being the guy who does the heroic trench runs