A solid AA experience, which never quite hits the heights you might hope for, but makes for a fun space shooter. At first it seems hard, but once you stop treating it like a standard space sim and drift instead of turn you shouldn't have any problems with the standard fights. The art and music come together to make every fight feel epic.

It does suffer from a couple of nasty difficulty spikes around some bosses, but has a very generous checkpoint system which means you're rarely starting boss fights from scratch.

My only disappointment with combat is how allies exist only to look like they're doing something with capital ships only shooting FX. Every fight is you versus the enemy, and that takes something away from the bigger encounters.

Story clearly wants to be more epic than it is, with the AA element really showing its hand. It ends up being a bit of a light weight, slightly confusing, and never commits to really following through on any one character.

Overall though if you treat this as a fun, arcade spaceship combat game then you're in for a good time.

A solid AA experience, which never quite hits the heights you might hope for, but makes for a fun space shooter. At first it seems hard, but once you stop treating it like a standard space sim and drift instead of turn you shouldn't have any problems with the standard fights. The art and music come together to make every fight feel epic. It does suffer from a couple of nasty difficulty spikes around some bosses, but has a very generous checkpoint system which means you're rarely starting boss fights from scratch. My only disappointment with combat is how allies exist only to look like they're doing something with capital ships only shooting FX. Every fight is you versus the enemy, and that takes something away from the bigger encounters. Story clearly wants to be more epic than it is, with the AA element really showing its hand. It ends up being a bit of a light weight, slightly confusing, and never commits to really following through on any one character. Overall though if you treat this as a fun, arcade spaceship combat game then you're in for a good time.