Sky crawlers and Ace combat : Cross rumble are gems, Sky Crawlers for being a remix of every ace combat mission and Cross Rumble for being an Ace Combat 2 remake to make it fit the lore better. Funnily enough they have extremely similar gameplay. (For Sky Crawlers you can just emulate or use a gamecube controller it plays pretty good)
Not exactly an Ace Combat but there are Ubisoft's attempts at Ace Combat with Hawx and Hawx 2 for the modern war variety and Heroes over the Pacific / Europe and Blazing Angels 1-2 for the WW2 variety. Blazing Angels 2 in particular i think is the best attempt by Ubisoft at carving out their own Ace Combat with good story, many planes and special weapons (TV missiles, defensive weapons like a frag burst behind your plane to blow up a tailing enemy, basic cannons and rockets, sound guided missiles, an EML type cannon ,etc.), and a pretty unique upgrade system that makes your plane better as you go on the campaign and incentivizes replaying missions for better score to unlock more upgrades
After you played the sky crawlers game and watching the movie,I suggest to watch it's lore by ace combat fan... You'll find out the good,the bad and the questionable motive/moment
Sky crawlers and Ace combat : Cross rumble are gems, Sky Crawlers for being a remix of every ace combat mission and Cross Rumble for being an Ace Combat 2 remake to make it fit the lore better. Funnily enough they have extremely similar gameplay. (For Sky Crawlers you can just emulate or use a gamecube controller it plays pretty good)
Not exactly an Ace Combat but there are Ubisoft's attempts at Ace Combat with Hawx and Hawx 2 for the modern war variety and Heroes over the Pacific / Europe and Blazing Angels 1-2 for the WW2 variety. Blazing Angels 2 in particular i think is the best attempt by Ubisoft at carving out their own Ace Combat with good story, many planes and special weapons (TV missiles, defensive weapons like a frag burst behind your plane to blow up a tailing enemy, basic cannons and rockets, sound guided missiles, an EML type cannon ,etc.), and a pretty unique upgrade system that makes your plane better as you go on the campaign and incentivizes replaying missions for better score to unlock more upgrades
After you played the sky crawlers game and watching the movie,I suggest to watch it's lore by ace combat fan... You'll find out the good,the bad and the questionable motive/moment
The worst enemy of all: SQUARES