It explains a great deal of Harling's decision to fly at the space elevator. He was trying to protect it, to ensure that the woman that saved his life twice would have a chance to come home.
Ace Combat Fan, but two questions remain 1. Why did the IUN even after saying 'the IUN's bid to the space elevator' try to have Gargoyle destroy it and 2. What did harling say before he got killed
@@edwardfitzpatrick3168 Maybe whoever gave that order saw the Space Elevator as a maypole of conflict. Or one of the Gray Men didn't get caught and ordered it. Who knows?
No worries I was cheesing the game with the F-22 anyways lol the old ps2 version of Ace combat 5 breaks if you fight the height altitude and stall back to earth. Did that sooo many times in the ghosts of the demons of razgriz canyon mission.
She’s Kei Nagase from AC5, it makes sense she became an Astronaut considering her love for the Arkbird and possibly space in general. When I heard her voice I was so happy, it’s like I’d run into an old friend.
I can't help but wish that Blaze should've appeared as a guest star teaming up with Trigger. Piloting the Razgriz colored FALKEN against Hugin and Mugin. The former is 01, the latter two are 11 in the ADF series. Old Vs New in a while 'nother level. Protecting Nagase's only way home. When he talks, we (the players and the characters) can only hear static, but our AWACS understood him. And of course she could hear his voice.
He's somewhere in OSEA, maybe live as a normal people along with Grimm and Snow. Blaze would be the Ace Pilot, not Trigger... If they really meet each other. Since Blaze's title is "Ace of the Aces".
That's a good idea for a fanfiction: Blaze taking up arms with Pops and Bartlett again to ensure the safe return of his old wingman, recruiting Osea's best pilots to form a new Razgriz Squadron, taking the fight to Erusea.
@@alexvanbeek7165 Nah, according to canon AC7 is a year before the Osean government declassified the events of AC5. They're all still laying low. But when Blaze realized the waifu is in danger, he'd go berserk and fly out to help. I mean, I bet a lot of us went berserk when Nagase was shot down, so I'm sure I'm not alone in this. Like Razgriz, as quickly as he appeared, he vanished afterwards. Another fanfiction idea; what where the previous player characters doing when all the nonsense in AC7 happened. Also, what Gryphus One was doing; he's the player character for ACX, a PSP Ace Combat that chronologically begins AFTER AC7.
Or maybe just maybe Trigger is Blaze. Hear me out ok? Since Osea is such a large nation Blaze was reassigned to some backwater OADF squadron under an Alias and then transferred to the IUF shortly before the Lighthouse war.
Are the end credits of the fifth game tell us what became of the war dogs squadron..... the combat journalist Jeanette stated that the war dog Squadron never flew in the skies of combat again after destroying the satellite...... president harling said that the identities of the word dog Squadron members where to be top secret and would only be released into the public in the year 2024( basically just like the FBI sealed the Reagan assassination files in real life and have them available to the public years later) we don't actually know who Blaze actually was..... nagase had her military records sealed as well to give the pilots of the war dogs squadron a fresh start in civilian life
Yea it makes the story way better. without this info, the story is so boring and dull, it makes no sense why they would leave out such critical information out of the game
@@mobius7927 to elaborate, its like the feeling of reaching to the end of a rainbow and actually finding a pot of gold.(a metaphor for getting rewarded for putting in extra effort.)
@@mobius7927 Japanese kind of reliant on secondary material for everything, which is why they can be critical if say secondary novel or photobooks deviates from game canon. They love a diverse franchise.
Yeah after 7 the time period is getting dangerously close to Ace Combat X and 3, I smell an incoming remake of the older games... If they make a new AC with Nemo already being released to the Electrosphere, I'm all for it!
Let's see, to sum them all up: AH: Nagase is a side character Infinity: The Rival to Reaper IITS: Tests that MMM! quality Shinden 2 And for Canon in order: 2: First appearance 4: Came back from 2 5: The epic pilot that fans want to see as Blaze's waifu 6: I'm sure she's somewhere 7: Came back from 5 3: In a terrorist organization trying to digitize the population... Wait... *SHE BETRAYED US?!?!?!*
uuuuh, since when does Electrosphere have a plot around mass digitization? It's a series of simulations, with the PC being and AI... or is that what the international release butchered it into...
I'm kinda sad that we didn't get more AC5 cameos. The funny thing is that Swordman's voice actor, Beau Billingslea, voiced colonel Johnson. Missed chance to get the whole Razgriz gang back.
For the first time playing the final mission, i was flying the F-14D. When I heard Nagase talking at the end, it felt like everything came full circle.
@@victuz She might get treated after the end credits in AC7. Knowing that she had played a role in rescuing the princess of Erusea and also played a role in helping Osea, I sure hope she get compensated by at least treating her leg that was caused by OSEA.
You know, when I first heard her mention the Asteroid Belt, I wondered if the mission had something to do with Ulysses and investigating potential future impacts. I wasn’t terribly far off the mark.
I teared up when I heard her voice, and she announced herself. Because ever since I first heard about the space elevator, I wondered what it was connected to on the other side. I figured it would be a space station, or space ship but they never really said anything before the game came out. So good.
The only other ace combat game I’ve played other than 7 was 5. 5 was one of my favorite games and Nagase was a character I loved. To think all these years later, that she’d appear in this game and that I remembered who she was is a testament to how memorable these games are.
Great video. Subscribed. It was so good to have Kei show up in the last mission. My silly head canon after seeing this video: Nagase was the captain of the Pilgrim One, and Blaze from AC5 was either the lead pilot or her copilot on the mission. I also imagine that the two got married afterward.
I'm REALLY glad Bandai-Namco still continues this whole Strangereal world lore for over 18 years despite Ace Combat games being their own separate stories in and of themselves. I kinda hope that they base all of their future Ace Combat games in this setting and continue the stories of all the other characters in past games while we have future characters added as well. As a player of Ace Combat games for around the same time, it's greatly appreciated.
For anyone wondering why labarthe was killed in mission 16, there's a radio line from the tag "osean awacs" that orders to kill labarthe and that anyone that escorts him aren't friendlies or something like that
That's quite a revelation! I played Ace 5 as well, and this is quite a revelation what happens to Nagase after Circum-Pacifc War. What revelation she goes from multiple-wars hero to planet-saver from another Ulysses. Keep up good work.
It would be nice if they added in a lore codex to the menus for new players like me, getting more details like this adds more to the game after the first playthrough
Am I the only one who had chills on the cutscenes leading up to the final mission? And ALSO when Nagase was speaking? Man, I miss Nagases silence that made you think she'd be the final boss in AC5.
Wonder why Bandai didn't include some of the steelbook stories in as assault records? Could have explained a lot of the story to us through those like in AC Zero.
The story of ace combat zero took place in the past, and we were watching it unfold. Most of the feeling drawn from 7 came from the present (lack of information, chaos, radicalism, ect.). IMO it prob made for a better story.
@@MiG1386 AC7 is the first game to take place in the same year it came out in (correct me if Im wrong). And Im not counting the ones in the real world. So one year later we have the events to Ace Combat X, and then in 2040 we get AC3 right?
@@Viviana088 And I am thinking a headcanon Grunder Industries merge other Belkan/former Belkan companies into General Resource. The scientists who flirt with ethical violations broke off to form Neucom. I miss the XFA-27 and R-101. So bad.
I'm glad they made a more direct connection between the games this time, but if Mihaly really took down every single exceptional pilot throughout all those years, as he claims, can we speculate previous aces from the games were shot down by him? I know how it works, I know... but it just bothers me so much that every decade or so there is a legendary pilot and no one remembers them.
YES! That's EXACTLY what I've been saying, across multiple threads and comment sections too.. Clearly the people of strangereal have very short memories...and no ANZAC spirit of "Lest we forget" "..Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.." Sigh, nevermind.. Like RAI FUKAI, i will just fly entirely for myself, and my own reasons now..just Yukikaze & me. These ungrateful earther/strangereal bastards are just not worth risking your life for.. They cant even remember you, much less still want to talk about & honour you & your heroic deeds, or your personal sacrifices..or those of your wingmen & comrades..not even less than a decade later..? Countries like that, just let the enemy have them..it's natural selection..at its finest! Soldiers fight to protect the young, innocent, loyal & currently unable.. Not the lazy, cowardly, inept or apathethic.. And for DAMN SURE NOT a bunch of bastards that didnt even think a serious commemerative memorial, right on that old jammer site in the middle of STONEHENGE, to Mobius1 !? Would be the bare minimum standard, for real appreciation & respect? Gee, for finally taking down the monstrosity that denied the airspace over nearly their entire continent..the original cause of the entire war..and keeping it going, and also the first ever downing of a Aquilla sqn. yellow (4), by allied aircraft.. Nah, nothin' about that worthy of any praise, just ask yellow 13.. And no need to remember that his own entire sqn of ace erusian top-guns got downed by this same ace, either..nah. How's that noteworthy..? Mihaly apparently downed them all..Blaze, mobius 1..(but he somehow missed Kai Nagase, oops!) Okay, enough said..
I actually love the character of Kei Nagase and I'm glad that she's back in Ace Combat 7. Interestingly, I also had a close friend in high school who I thought looked and sounded a lot like her. This was also when I was a cadet in my high school US Navel Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program, were unfortunately I was unable to get certain high achieves like reaching officers rank or at least reaching the highest enlisted rank. Despite this, I'm still prude of my accomplishments in high school and did win some good awards through my school as well in addition to earning some ribbons along with the rank of seamen. Anyway, what I meant is that seeing the character of Kei Nagase now for me doesn't just give me a sense of nostalgia since I had also played Ace Combat 5 a lot during my junior high school and high school years, but also due to me positive experiences with having a great friend from high school who's last name was Wu. I think she also had a similar empathic personality to the one that Nagase's character has as well and think she actually might have been genuinely romantically interested in me, since I'm also a pretty empathic person as well. If that was the case, then what she told me about what she felt about me was true. However, she wasn't able to act on it due to the program's rules governing fraternization between members that were of officer rank and lower ranking members. I understood this as well and had no intention of getting her in trouble with either of our instructors or any other authority figures at the school. Either way, I'm glad to have these memories and that seeing Kei Nagase show up in Ace Combat 7, helps me keep them alive as well. I also have the Ace Combat 5: Squadron leader version of that game for PS4 as well though, which I love! :)
I still have some other ac7 question: 1) why did harling turn around and go back to the space elevator? 2) what ever happened to those osean traitors? There's that F16 that shoots down that general we save in that night mission, but we never follow up on that.
1) Supposed to be that you don't know exactly. Either to save the elavator (and Nagase) (more likely) or to destroy the elevator (less likely) 2) It wasn't an osean traitor it was a drone controlled by the dr. evil doctor man I believe. Similarly to how they made it seem like trigger took out harling.
@@YhokoCaeda Why couldn't he just tell the Osean military the significance of that space elevator to him and let them take care of the rest? I'm sure they would've obliged (even though it's still deep inside Erusean territory at that point in the story). Besides, saving it from what? His plane was drawing the drones AWAY from the space elevator before he turned around and got shot down.
How PA can kick the series off again: Create another holy trinity(including AC7) based on something to do with that asteroid, giving Nagase a key role in the other 2 games, and ending it by succeeding with an inch away from Strangereal being destroyed.
@@SaltyGamer777 belkans, still sore and salty, decides to "make changes" to the asteroid redirection operation, fucks up, and put strangereal in jeopardy. assuming asteroid redirection program involves blowing chunks off it to steer it off course, belka secretly changed it so the blown off chunks will strike the planet. plan somewhat succeeds, but the broken chunk was bigger than was expected and it could cause another ulysses, so now everyone have to clean up after the nation that did nothing wrong. tada~ AC8 end game premise done.
So that means Trigger does not get a Waifu? Cause Brownie’s out of the picture. Edit: Just remembered Trigger might get Scrap Queen. Man shit. That’s hot.
So Strangreal was saved two times in 2019. Trigger, Osea and Erusea destroyed the Ravens, and Kei managed to destroy an asteroid headed towards Strangereal. Neat.
This is great and all, but I hate it when publishers pull off this kind of stuff; intentionally making a plot hole and forcing you to preorder a collector's edition because the source material that covers up said plot hole is only available there and nowhere else. That inaudible line from Harling when he was flying towards the space elevator was just lazy, pure static noise. They should have given us just a few audible words mixed in with the static, just enough bread crumbs to imply that the space elevator served a secret, second purpose. But no, instead we got the pure static that left us hanging after wondering what the fk just happened.
I just got into Ace Combat with Ace Combat 7... and I regret not finding it sooner. I already finished ace combat 7 4 times and am doing a 5th run just to get the last medals.
I just love Ace Combat 5. And i had the same feeling playing AC7. So the writer is the same. That's why. I went crazy when i saw Nagase on AC7. And i knew it was the same!
has anybody figured out who was the voice say, today was the day of her return at 9:38. it been bugging me because it does sound like any voice we heard before
I need to ask a question. I just got done playing AC5 the Unsung War. At the end of the game it clearly states that, "The Sand Island Squadron better known as the Demons of Razgriz has since disappeared without a trace." Kei's awfully public for someone who disappeared without a trace isn't she? By the way Ace Combat Fan does that book say what happened to Blaze, Snow and Grimm?
I do wonder how did she get through the debris field formed by the ablation cascade after Osea and Erusea's destroyed each other's satellites. But since she's an ace pilot, I bet it was just another normal day at work for her.
The International Space Elevator is supposedly 100,000 kilometres tall, which is well above the orbital distance of satellites. So presuming Nagase docked somewhere near the top, she would have been well above the main debris field. Plus we saw that a lot of debris fell towards the planet, so maybe the debris field was thinned out by that point.
When I first heard Nagase's voice I was positive I skipped a previous cut scene or missed some critical radio chatter. It's great to know the real story, but it's marginally irritating that the only way to learn it was from the collector's edition. (until this informative video came out of course).
0:44 damn thats a looong track record 😳 i thought i knew her from Ace Combat Infinity but didn't know she was in so many other games too wowie, a true legend to be in that many games, and battles
As a PC gamer, thank you for taking the time to explain this. I haven't had the opportunity to play the other games (minus X), so was really lost to the ending; that said, as an outsider to the franchise, I think they should have wrapped things up using the charachters and arcs showcased in the game itself rather than with something only people who have access to a Playstation would have understood.
My biggest disappointment with AC7 is the lack of different missions types. In AC6 you had a great balance between Anti Air and Anti Ground, also the ambiance of the entire war made it feel like their was an actual conflict happening, In AC7 only a small number of missions included ground engagements and air engagements, I missed the combined arms missions. Also being honest, I missed the whole wingman feature as well, choosing their aircraft and giving them orders. Felt really odd to fly in AC7 'Fleet Destruction' with a squadron of F-15C Fighter Aircraft where it was primarily a Anti-Ground/Ship mission... Maybe im bitching for no reason and maybe some of y'all agree with me. Let me know
It explains a great deal of Harling's decision to fly at the space elevator. He was trying to protect it, to ensure that the woman that saved his life twice would have a chance to come home.
Now that you mention, that makes a lot of sense!
Great explanation, mate.
Ace Combat Fan, but two questions remain 1. Why did the IUN even after saying 'the IUN's bid to the space elevator' try to have Gargoyle destroy it and 2. What did harling say before he got killed
@@edwardfitzpatrick3168 Maybe whoever gave that order saw the Space Elevator as a maypole of conflict. Or one of the Gray Men didn't get caught and ordered it. Who knows?
THE FEELSSSSS SO DEEPPPPPPPPPP.
Name a more iconic duo
Kei Nagase cameos
*Large scale conflicts in Strangereal*
Nimble fighter jets, piloted by ppl who change the course of war and tunnel runs
Belkans and Nukes
Belka and doing nothing wrong
Strangereal and having massive wars every decade or so.
food and Long Caster
I still think Nagase was a real person and probably an intern at Bandai Namco who always brought their coffee on time
namco games having short dark haired girl has been a staple at this point. Rena hirose, Ridge racer girl, Nagase, Makoto Kikuchi, Asuka from tekken.
@@01Zipang that Ridge Racer girl name is Reiko Nagase....
@@01Zipang you mean "Bob-Cuts"?
That’s funny. I hope it’s true
Or maybe just for waifus-simping dudes
Why? Because what would be an ace combat game without nagase making some kind of cameo, she's the stan lee of strangereal
Ace Combat 6
@@avragetrinidadian3787 Nah, Ace combat 6 took place in Emmeria. That doesnt count
@@SenYeon It's the same world, different continent. A corner of the map Osea doesn't care about, apparently. :)
@@kereminde Bu-buttt, the conflict was between Emmeria and Estovakia.
I think they forgot to put her in AC6
Wasn't Nagase still in space during the events of Ace Combat 6?
Has someone explained how Princess Rosette SURVIVED a Missle blast while parachuting down the elevator?
GLOCO A surprise to see the man himself here!
holy shit si GLOCO!
Gloco ka! OSEAN ACE KA PALA
Belkan Space suit
@@zeus28frenzy with reinforced plot armor
2:23 - "She was so anti-war"
Yes, she was so anti-war, and barely kills the enemy behind my tail. Still better than others though,
Haha stoopid nugget
Better than Spare and Strider
"Anti-War"
*Oh boy time to kill more Yukes!*
[Angry Chopper noises]
No worries I was cheesing the game with the F-22 anyways lol the old ps2 version of Ace combat 5 breaks if you fight the height altitude and stall back to earth. Did that sooo many times in the ghosts of the demons of razgriz canyon mission.
She’s Kei Nagase from AC5, it makes sense she became an Astronaut considering her love for the Arkbird and possibly space in general.
When I heard her voice I was so happy, it’s like I’d run into an old friend.
The last scene of them all flying in formation with Trigger at the front always gives me chills.
And the message being delivered!
He was a model fighter pilot to the end .... Join me in saluting Captain Davenport
I did not expect to see a Chopper reference here. I was mistaken
@@MiG1386 where ACE COMBAT 5 is mentioned ... chopper will always be there
Chopper is watching over us.
F
@@MiG1386 CUT HIM SOME SLACK, MAN!
I can't help but wish that Blaze should've appeared as a guest star teaming up with Trigger.
Piloting the Razgriz colored FALKEN against Hugin and Mugin. The former is 01, the latter two are 11 in the ADF series. Old Vs New in a while 'nother level.
Protecting Nagase's only way home. When he talks, we (the players and the characters) can only hear static, but our AWACS understood him. And of course she could hear his voice.
He's somewhere in OSEA, maybe live as a normal people along with Grimm and Snow.
Blaze would be the Ace Pilot, not Trigger... If they really meet each other.
Since Blaze's title is "Ace of the Aces".
That's a good idea for a fanfiction: Blaze taking up arms with Pops and Bartlett again to ensure the safe return of his old wingman, recruiting Osea's best pilots to form a new Razgriz Squadron, taking the fight to Erusea.
@@alexvanbeek7165 Nah, according to canon AC7 is a year before the Osean government declassified the events of AC5. They're all still laying low.
But when Blaze realized the waifu is in danger, he'd go berserk and fly out to help. I mean, I bet a lot of us went berserk when Nagase was shot down, so I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
Like Razgriz, as quickly as he appeared, he vanished afterwards.
Another fanfiction idea; what where the previous player characters doing when all the nonsense in AC7 happened. Also, what Gryphus One was doing; he's the player character for ACX, a PSP Ace Combat that chronologically begins AFTER AC7.
Or maybe just maybe Trigger is Blaze. Hear me out ok? Since Osea is such a large nation Blaze was reassigned to some backwater OADF squadron under an Alias and then transferred to the IUF shortly before the Lighthouse war.
Are the end credits of the fifth game tell us what became of the war dogs squadron..... the combat journalist Jeanette stated that the war dog Squadron never flew in the skies of combat again after destroying the satellite...... president harling said that the identities of the word dog Squadron members where to be top secret and would only be released into the public in the year 2024( basically just like the FBI sealed the Reagan assassination files in real life and have them available to the public years later) we don't actually know who Blaze actually was..... nagase had her military records sealed as well to give the pilots of the war dogs squadron a fresh start in civilian life
So wait... Kei Nagase and co did the movie Armageddon off screen?
Was looking for this comment. Was not disappointed.
@@eduardojimenez4979 Same here.
Remo Reyes that might mean Blaze pulled the Bruce Willis
Yeah. Essentially.
Asraf Khalid I don't wanna fall asleep
Just tell us if she married Blaze.
What happened to Blaze after AC5 is of great importance to me and I hope this happened
He joined the Legendary Aces Disappearing Squadron (L.A.D.S)
I don't think they had enough time for that. Two years with Nagase as a writer and 7 in space. Unless Blaze went with her to space.
Tim Spivy and Grimm and Capt. Snow and Bartlett lol
@Potato King Mysterious And Destructive Legendary Aces Disappearing Squadron (M.A.D.L.A.D.S)
Just in case you guys missed it, Belka did nothing wrong.
No. Belka did really wrong! Every war in Ace Combat is involved with Belka. Learn history!
@@clausesanta5042 YOU. SOLITARY. NOW!
LemmingOnCrack sorry, what was that? I missed it again
@@jozar2773 lmao
Belka did nothing wrong. Painfully proven of innocence when they were victimized by corporatocracy in Electrosphere.
Wow that explains why Oseans were rushing so hard to the space elevator!
Yea it makes the story way better. without this info, the story is so boring and dull, it makes no sense why they would leave out such critical information out of the game
@@mobius7927 probably because it would feel rewarding to the people who did the research.
@@cipher01 That makes no sense lol
@@mobius7927 to elaborate, its like the feeling of reaching to the end of a rainbow and actually finding a pot of gold.(a metaphor for getting rewarded for putting in extra effort.)
@@mobius7927 Japanese kind of reliant on secondary material for everything, which is why they can be critical if say secondary novel or photobooks deviates from game canon. They love a diverse franchise.
An extra mission with Nagase destroying Ulysses 2.0 would be interesting.
I want a DLC of this like the space mission on AC3
Ulysses 2: electric Boogaloo
This is what the Season pass is for I bet.
That sounds boring not going to lie
Yeah after 7 the time period is getting dangerously close to Ace Combat X and 3, I smell an incoming remake of the older games... If they make a new AC with Nemo already being released to the Electrosphere, I'm all for it!
ultimate fan service, there's the answer
Lol, i hope this doesn't get anymore likes because it's 108 likes!
The good type of fan service!
Let's see, to sum them all up:
AH: Nagase is a side character
Infinity: The Rival to Reaper
IITS: Tests that MMM! quality Shinden 2
And for Canon in order:
2: First appearance
4: Came back from 2
5: The epic pilot that fans want to see as Blaze's waifu
6: I'm sure she's somewhere
7: Came back from 5
3: In a terrorist organization trying to digitize the population... Wait... *SHE BETRAYED US?!?!?!*
Yeah AC3 got me good.
uuuuh, since when does Electrosphere have a plot around mass digitization? It's a series of simulations, with the PC being and AI... or is that what the international release butchered it into...
In air combat there is a copilot you can hire I think was the prototype to "Edge". That might have been her first ever appearance.
In AC6, she'd be in space, as it takes place in 2015. So Nagase is on her way back to Strangreal during the Emmerian-Estovakia War.
*confused screaming*
I'm kinda sad that we didn't get more AC5 cameos. The funny thing is that Swordman's voice actor, Beau Billingslea, voiced colonel Johnson. Missed chance to get the whole Razgriz gang back.
Not to mention the VA for the AC5 briefings returned for the LRSSG briefings (Missions 11 to 15 plus the M10 debriefing)
@@deroxxa6218 Yeah, Beau was also the guy who voiced both briefings and debriefings in AC5. Or a guy with similar voice...
There's some more info on AC5 characters in the book. I'll cover that in another video
@@AceCombatFan neat!
@@AceCombatFan Please do! I want to know what the crew is up to after 9 years
For the first time playing the final mission, i was flying the F-14D. When I heard Nagase talking at the end, it felt like everything came full circle.
I lost it when Nagase came over the radio and identified herself 😲
She accomplished her dream!!
Yeah, too bad Avril also have that dream, but now that she's a crippled woman I don't know if she can still fulfill it...
@@victuz She might get treated after the end credits in AC7. Knowing that she had played a role in rescuing the princess of Erusea and also played a role in helping Osea, I sure hope she get compensated by at least treating her leg that was caused by OSEA.
Also... Nagase is Ace Combat bae.
It had to be said.
I see you are a man of culture as well
Aka. The waifu for the weebs
*Marcela Vasquez*
@@mirrorslash028 YASSSSSSS!!!!!
But now theres Brownie, Huxian, and Princess Waifu in AC7.
From Shattered Skies to Unknown skies. Truly "Amidst the blue skies. Connects from the past to future. Under the wings of the protector"
I was screaming at the end when i hear nagase voice
Same
Haha same
You know, when I first heard her mention the Asteroid Belt, I wondered if the mission had something to do with Ulysses and investigating potential future impacts. I wasn’t terribly far off the mark.
I immediately thought ace combat 8: Space Unknown
I teared up when I heard her voice, and she announced herself. Because ever since I first heard about the space elevator, I wondered what it was connected to on the other side. I figured it would be a space station, or space ship but they never really said anything before the game came out.
So good.
“And now it’s time” (pixy would appear on screen)
(Internet shuts off) “That is what V-2 is for”
The only other ace combat game I’ve played other than 7 was 5. 5 was one of my favorite games and Nagase was a character I loved. To think all these years later, that she’d appear in this game and that I remembered who she was is a testament to how memorable these games are.
"Edge, engaging"
Great video. Subscribed. It was so good to have Kei show up in the last mission.
My silly head canon after seeing this video: Nagase was the captain of the Pilgrim One, and Blaze from AC5 was either the lead pilot or her copilot on the mission. I also imagine that the two got married afterward.
I'm REALLY glad Bandai-Namco still continues this whole Strangereal world lore for over 18 years despite Ace Combat games being their own separate stories in and of themselves. I kinda hope that they base all of their future Ace Combat games in this setting and continue the stories of all the other characters in past games while we have future characters added as well. As a player of Ace Combat games for around the same time, it's greatly appreciated.
Because AC 8 is going to be at least partially in space, they've been hinting at is pretty heavily, especially since the sequel has been announced.
1:37 But Belka DID nothing wrong. Those nukes were just a prank bruh ;^)
After watching this video, I believe Harling was trying to save the space elevator for Pilgrim One
For anyone wondering why labarthe was killed in mission 16, there's a radio line from the tag "osean awacs" that orders to kill labarthe and that anyone that escorts him aren't friendlies or something like that
I have to say the final scene with the planes just shows how much music can make a simple shot feel really cool and to give goosebumps.
played ace combat 5 came with ac7 and now I know her🤣
Isn't the ace combat universe just amazing, and now you know why her cameo at the end was a huge deal to veterans of the franchise
You should now try ace Combat 4 and zero
its kinda weird if the whole reason for having ac5 in the package with ac7 is just to introduced Nagase
The storyline is connected to AC 5 too. That's why we could recognized it
, thanks for that ACF, I read Lighthouse's article but you did it in better detail
The ending of this game makes me cry every time I watch it. Seeing that formation... just amazing
That's quite a revelation! I played Ace 5 as well, and this is quite a revelation what happens to Nagase after Circum-Pacifc War. What revelation she goes from multiple-wars hero to planet-saver from another Ulysses. Keep up good work.
It would be nice if they added in a lore codex to the menus for new players like me, getting more details like this adds more to the game after the first playthrough
0:23 Ace Combat 04 Shattered Skies Mission 15 Soundtrack.
Emancipation
Emmancipation is just an AWESOME ost
True
And Last hope is spiritual sucessor
Am I the only one who had chills on the cutscenes leading up to the final mission? And ALSO when Nagase was speaking? Man, I miss Nagases silence that made you think she'd be the final boss in AC5.
This was absolutely beautiful. Really wish I'd gotten a copy of Aces at War to experience this read myself.
But what happened to Chopper after AC5? ... oh wait ;_;
Rip Chopper..
F o7
🙁😔😪😭
Oof 😁😁😁😁
TOO SOON
He hopefully got a stadium named after him.
Great video! It has given me much needed context.
Could you please do a video on all of Nagase's appearances throughout the series?
When you spoke about the space mission at 8:45 - Ace Combat 3's mission Zero Gravity flashes in mind.
My favourite character from 5 so I was pleased to see her at the end of Skies Unknown.
Finally someone who loves ace combat as much as I do, glad I found your channel.
Wonder why Bandai didn't include some of the steelbook stories in as assault records? Could have explained a lot of the story to us through those like in AC Zero.
The story of ace combat zero took place in the past, and we were watching it unfold. Most of the feeling drawn from 7 came from the present (lack of information, chaos, radicalism, ect.). IMO it prob made for a better story.
@@MiG1386 AC7 is the first game to take place in the same year it came out in (correct me if Im wrong). And Im not counting the ones in the real world. So one year later we have the events to Ace Combat X, and then in 2040 we get AC3 right?
@@DAN007thefoxx1 Confirmed, AC3 Remake in 2040! Fully compatible with Coffin VR produced by Belk- errrr I mean Gründ- uhhh I mean *GERMANY!*
@@Viviana088
And I am thinking a headcanon Grunder Industries merge other Belkan/former Belkan companies into General Resource. The scientists who flirt with ethical violations broke off to form Neucom.
I miss the XFA-27 and R-101. So bad.
@@DAN007thefoxx1 If we completely ignore the mess that was Horizons, yes, it was.
That was without a doubt the best ending an ace combat game has ever had!!! I cried so much!!!
I'm glad they made a more direct connection between the games this time, but if Mihaly really took down every single exceptional pilot throughout all those years, as he claims, can we speculate previous aces from the games were shot down by him? I know how it works, I know... but it just bothers me so much that every decade or so there is a legendary pilot and no one remembers them.
He would never survive Blaze.
Well IMO all other ace that we play already retired from their activities,,,Due to their last sortie
YES! That's EXACTLY what I've been saying, across multiple threads and comment sections too..
Clearly the people of strangereal have very short memories...and no ANZAC spirit of "Lest we forget"
"..Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.."
Sigh, nevermind..
Like RAI FUKAI, i will just fly entirely for myself, and my own reasons now..just Yukikaze & me.
These ungrateful earther/strangereal bastards are just not worth risking your life for..
They cant even remember you, much less still want to talk about & honour you & your heroic deeds, or your personal sacrifices..or those of your wingmen & comrades..not even less than a decade later..?
Countries like that, just let the enemy have them..it's natural selection..at its finest!
Soldiers fight to protect the young, innocent, loyal & currently unable..
Not the lazy, cowardly, inept or apathethic..
And for DAMN SURE NOT a bunch of bastards that didnt even think a serious commemerative memorial, right on that old jammer site in the middle of STONEHENGE, to Mobius1 !?
Would be the bare minimum standard, for real appreciation & respect?
Gee, for finally taking down the monstrosity that denied the airspace over nearly their entire continent..the original cause of the entire war..and keeping it going, and also the first ever downing of a Aquilla sqn. yellow (4), by allied aircraft..
Nah, nothin' about that worthy of any praise, just ask yellow 13..
And no need to remember that his own entire sqn of ace erusian top-guns got downed by this same ace, either..nah.
How's that noteworthy..?
Mihaly apparently downed them all..Blaze, mobius 1..(but he somehow missed Kai Nagase, oops!)
Okay, enough said..
Cipher would have cut down Mihaly's career before it even took off.
@@nutebob1560 Not Mobius 1 though.
My first game was Ace Combat 7. I never knew who Nagase was. After playing 5, I’ve gained a new respect for this reference.
Cara minha mente explodiu *Boom!!!!*
Bom trabalho Ace Combat Fan!
I was hoping we'd get a Kei in a Swimsuit livery, aircraft skin, or themed aircraft in Ace Combat Infinity
I actually love the character of Kei Nagase and I'm glad that she's back in Ace Combat 7. Interestingly, I also had a close friend in high school who I thought looked and sounded a lot like her. This was also when I was a cadet in my high school US Navel Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program, were unfortunately I was unable to get certain high achieves like reaching officers rank or at least reaching the highest enlisted rank. Despite this, I'm still prude of my accomplishments in high school and did win some good awards through my school as well in addition to earning some ribbons along with the rank of seamen. Anyway, what I meant is that seeing the character of Kei Nagase now for me doesn't just give me a sense of nostalgia since I had also played Ace Combat 5 a lot during my junior high school and high school years, but also due to me positive experiences with having a great friend from high school who's last name was Wu. I think she also had a similar empathic personality to the one that Nagase's character has as well and think she actually might have been genuinely romantically interested in me, since I'm also a pretty empathic person as well. If that was the case, then what she told me about what she felt about me was true. However, she wasn't able to act on it due to the program's rules governing fraternization between members that were of officer rank and lower ranking members. I understood this as well and had no intention of getting her in trouble with either of our instructors or any other authority figures at the school. Either way, I'm glad to have these memories and that seeing Kei Nagase show up in Ace Combat 7, helps me keep them alive as well. I also have the Ace Combat 5: Squadron leader version of that game for PS4 as well though, which I love! :)
I got chills so hard it almost burned, reaching the end of the final mission. And not because of Nagase.
I still have some other ac7 question:
1) why did harling turn around and go back to the space elevator?
2) what ever happened to those osean traitors? There's that F16 that shoots down that general we save in that night mission, but we never follow up on that.
1) Supposed to be that you don't know exactly. Either to save the elavator (and Nagase) (more likely) or to destroy the elevator (less likely)
2) It wasn't an osean traitor it was a drone controlled by the dr. evil doctor man I believe. Similarly to how they made it seem like trigger took out harling.
@@YhokoCaeda Why couldn't he just tell the Osean military the significance of that space elevator to him and let them take care of the rest? I'm sure they would've obliged (even though it's still deep inside Erusean territory at that point in the story). Besides, saving it from what? His plane was drawing the drones AWAY from the space elevator before he turned around and got shot down.
That was some good lore.
Ace Combat really has some good storyline.
Thank you ACF.
How PA can kick the series off again: Create another holy trinity(including AC7) based on something to do with that asteroid, giving Nagase a key role in the other 2 games, and ending it by succeeding with an inch away from Strangereal being destroyed.
Ace Combat 8: The Great Beyond. A newly united Strangereal flies planes into space to fight Asteroids.
We also need to include the Belkans some how. (Sorry ACF) We could say they're the ones causing the asteroid problem with new technology.
@@SaltyGamer777 Damn belkans.... and their space tech... i swear... thy are probably the casue for Electrosphere aswell xD
@@SaltyGamer777
belkans, still sore and salty, decides to "make changes" to the asteroid redirection operation, fucks up, and put strangereal in jeopardy.
assuming asteroid redirection program involves blowing chunks off it to steer it off course, belka secretly changed it so the blown off chunks will strike the planet. plan somewhat succeeds, but the broken chunk was bigger than was expected and it could cause another ulysses, so now everyone have to clean up after the nation that did nothing wrong.
tada~ AC8 end game premise done.
so kei nagase is basically the johnny sasaki in ace combat
Wait. A. MINUTE! Kei and Reiko are SISTERS!?!? 😲
And AC2/assaunt horizon legacy's Nagase is their cousin. Sidenote: That Nagase is in AC04 as the civilian pilot.
Reiko is 1975 and nagase is 1977
Ace Combat 2/3D's Nagase is confirmed to be Reiko's sister.
So that means Trigger does not get a Waifu? Cause Brownie’s out of the picture.
Edit: Just remembered Trigger might get Scrap Queen. Man shit. That’s hot.
revolverswitch Kinda.
Thanks for letting that last cutscene run through. Goosebumps every time
I literally just finished the game 10 minutes ago, absolutely loved it and I cannot wait to unlock the x-02s
Thanks for the explanation video, as a dude who's first AC game was AC7 the video helped out quite a bit.
This was the BEST cameo and ending to AC7
SHES MY FUCKING HERO! I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL DURING AC5
Man i almost cried when i hear her voice
So Strangreal was saved two times in 2019.
Trigger, Osea and Erusea destroyed the Ravens, and Kei managed to destroy an asteroid headed towards Strangereal. Neat.
This is great and all, but I hate it when publishers pull off this kind of stuff; intentionally making a plot hole and forcing you to preorder a collector's edition because the source material that covers up said plot hole is only available there and nowhere else.
That inaudible line from Harling when he was flying towards the space elevator was just lazy, pure static noise. They should have given us just a few audible words mixed in with the static, just enough bread crumbs to imply that the space elevator served a secret, second purpose. But no, instead we got the pure static that left us hanging after wondering what the fk just happened.
WTF I played 3 and 04 and still thought she was introduced in 5. Had no idea she was a sort of MGS Johnny kind of deal.
you know what bugs me out the most? that we'll have to wait another 7ish years for the next AC :(((
Shit, you're right.
Nice work!! I got goosebumps when I heard it!!
And then we had the war in AC3.
But before that we had Leasath's Civil War and then the Aurelia-Leasath one
I just got into Ace Combat with Ace Combat 7... and I regret not finding it sooner. I already finished ace combat 7 4 times and am doing a 5th run just to get the last medals.
I just love Ace Combat 5. And i had the same feeling playing AC7. So the writer is the same. That's why. I went crazy when i saw Nagase on AC7. And i knew it was the same!
has anybody figured out who was the voice say, today was the day of her return at 9:38. it been bugging me because it does sound like any voice we heard before
This all make me wish to know what happen to the rest of Razgriz after the end of the last war.
Hope they show or write about it someday.
When I saw her in the comms, I literally paused the game in the middle of chasing the drone, and jumped like crazy.
My expectation in future Ace Combat that will set in Leasath Civil War
Well that game has already been made, though it would be great if ACX was given a remake
for some reason I want them to make use of the space elevator in the next game.
Thank you for this awesome lore. Now it all makes sense to me.
I need to ask a question. I just got done playing AC5 the Unsung War. At the end of the game it clearly states that, "The Sand Island Squadron better known as the Demons of Razgriz has since disappeared without a trace." Kei's awfully public for someone who disappeared without a trace isn't she? By the way Ace Combat Fan does that book say what happened to Blaze, Snow and Grimm?
The names of those part of the Sand Island squadron were probably hidden. Besides maybe Chopper.
Thank you for all the beautiful information!!
I do wonder how did she get through the debris field formed by the ablation cascade after Osea and Erusea's destroyed each other's satellites. But since she's an ace pilot, I bet it was just another normal day at work for her.
She left SEVEN years before Ace Combat 7.
@@alexvanbeek7165 I think he is talking about coming back
The International Space Elevator is supposedly 100,000 kilometres tall, which is well above the orbital distance of satellites. So presuming Nagase docked somewhere near the top, she would have been well above the main debris field. Plus we saw that a lot of debris fell towards the planet, so maybe the debris field was thinned out by that point.
Must be in geo-stationary orbit which is much more further from the space debris.
0:18 Technically, I'd be among one of the latter. But it's 'cause AC6 was my first.
When I first heard Nagase's voice I was positive I skipped a previous cut scene or missed some critical radio chatter. It's great to know the real story, but it's marginally irritating that the only way to learn it was from the collector's edition. (until this informative video came out of course).
Shit starts to go real again? Better call the Razgriz.
Want to save the world? A Razgriz will get the job done.
The myth
The legend
The meme
KEI NAGASE!
Now imagine
What if after nagase expressed her gratitude
Then she said “blaze, what do you think of that pilot?”
The end....
Blaze answer: Yes.
I want cipher to comeback Miss him so much
i'd like to think he and the others like phoenix retired, but that wouldnt make sense if nagase is still so young
0:44 damn thats a looong track record 😳 i thought i knew her from Ace Combat Infinity but didn't know she was in so many other games too wowie, a true legend to be in that many games, and battles
As a PC gamer, thank you for taking the time to explain this. I haven't had the opportunity to play the other games (minus X), so was really lost to the ending; that said, as an outsider to the franchise, I think they should have wrapped things up using the charachters and arcs showcased in the game itself rather than with something only people who have access to a Playstation would have understood.
after this explanation and the ending scene playing , i feel like i can see what the next ace combat game would be like after this timeline
When you gonna play multiplayer again??? huhuhu...love to see you in action
I never really even realized that's what they were referring to at the end of AC7 with her return.
ace combat would be ace combat without nagase
Hex Stridder1 nope because AC5 wouldn’t be as great as it is
AC6 actuaopy has no Nagase in it. Sad me.
I would love more dramatic readings from you, very nice.
My biggest disappointment with AC7 is the lack of different missions types. In AC6 you had a great balance between Anti Air and Anti Ground, also the ambiance of the entire war made it feel like their was an actual conflict happening, In AC7 only a small number of missions included ground engagements and air engagements, I missed the combined arms missions.
Also being honest, I missed the whole wingman feature as well, choosing their aircraft and giving them orders. Felt really odd to fly in AC7 'Fleet Destruction' with a squadron of F-15C Fighter Aircraft where it was primarily a Anti-Ground/Ship mission...
Maybe im bitching for no reason and maybe some of y'all agree with me. Let me know
I feel AC3 has the most varied missions of the franchise, with AC5 behind.
Finally somebody brings up reiko nagase