RaidersSphere4th

Anime Warthunder.

Doujin Ace Combat! It's a fun game, with great flight stick support. Very reminiscent of Ace Combat 4, but with a charming hand drawn art style, and a fun far-future setting! If you want a slice of arcade air combat, Raider Sphere 4th will be well worth your time!

Decent game with some flaws, some inconsistencies in the difficulty but still fun at the end of the day. If you're tired of playing the Ace Combat 3 for the 100th time, give it a try.

Worth playing if you're into Ace Combat-likes and don't mind low budget/doujin graphics and story.

Terrible game with poor quality. Can't rebind the arrow keys away from pitch and roll, not even if you want to invert the pitch keys. The characters and setting aren't interesting. Standard missile tracking is horrible, you're better off using the guns given how maneuverable the enemy planes are. Time limit for the tower defense mission is absurdly short. Game is inferior to Ace Combat 3, 4, 5 and Zero.

To address the elephant in the room, yes, this is straight up a copy of Ace Combat, but a surprisingly good one. The gameplay and graphics are very reminiscent of Ace Combat 3 (which is my personal favorite), although for a game originally released in 2013, the environment graphics are very primitive in comparison to the jet models. Not sure what's up with that. I'm also not sure how to feel about the story... On one hand, I like the originality. On the other, the characters introductions and ultimate climax are a bit too outlandish for my preference — not saying Ace Combat has a "realistic" story by any means, but there's a very solid structure to it years in the making. That's just not very clear here. Perhaps playing RaidersSphere 1 through 3 might change my mind about that. All in all, 4 it's still a fun game, and one worth a few replays on higher difficulties. EDIT: Turns out Raiders Sphere 1 through 3 have nothing to do story-wise with this game. This is entirely in its own league.