She could have disobeyed her orders.She could have saved dozens of innocent lives.Now the only thing she can't do is walk away...

Introduction to Ace Combat 3, fan-translation

Rebuild of State of the Project '17 Dragon's Den

  
 THIS IS THE END 

of this headline.

Pictured: Namco Hometek's localization process

Dai Satō & the prototype for the Electrosphere: Cowboy Bebop's Brain Scratch vs. Ace Combat 3

Unlike GITS, which AC3 has often been compared to, you're guaranteed to never see AC3 and Cowboy Bebop mentioned in the same sentence, which couldn't be more ironic. Find out why after the jump.

The Sphere Where Thoughts Gather Vol.2

New Contemplations

The follow-up to my first post dedicated to random bullshit about this awesome game is ready after three years in the making (not really). Anyway this post is about the details.

Introducing Krishty's model viewer

Some months ago I was checking the blog's analytics and I found that it had received some traffic from a German forum. Curious enough to check, I discovered the work of a developer who had a particular interest in AC3 and its models.
Wanna see something really cool?

Drawing parallels between AC3 and GITS: analysis of animation, setting and themes

The Ghost in the Shell movie and Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere are my favorite anime film and video-game respectively. In time I started noticing similarities between them, enough to make me want to dive in and elaborate on the threads that these two works have in common.

EAPN Top News 7 #29

• Published: Military of USEA post here, expanded Let's Play of M03, also updating old posts such as this one;
• I'd like to thank Blogger for deleting this year's State of the Project with their buggy dashboard, this is me when I found out;
• other than that mishap there's a lot of stuff in the pipeline for the project and some all-new posts coming up too, the first of which goes up tomorrow.

Ace Combat 3 Electrosphere 18th Anniversary

AC3e IE Discs 2/2 《 Heaven and Earth 》

The work which transcends fiction

to become a new reality

will be known as...

3 D  D r a m a t i c  F l i g h t  S h o o t i n g  G a m e

"Come forth, young aspirants!"