It has been *checks* 20 days since I last recommended Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, so allow me to do so again because holy fuck it’s so good. Story? Yep. Characters? Memorable. Gameplay? Airtight. Music?
Just listen. Replayable? Try upping the difficulty, or only using machine guns. Graphics? Fighter jets never looked better.
I’ve been doing a guns only run lately, and let me tell you you know a game’s good when you can exclusively rely on backup weapons and still have fun. It’ll hopefully be on sale during Steam’s winter sale, in which case you should absolutely get it. It is easily one of my favorite games ever, if not quite my favorite outright. And don’t worry about time sink- the campaign takes only 10 hours to play once, instead of the dozens needed for other modern games. So yes, you could play it in a day.