yes to both of those. Assault Horizon Legacy's the title, but it plays nothing like AH thankfully. the "Legacy" in there i guess means that it plays like everyone has always played it, but it's got one mechanic that differs from the other main games that's straight lifted from the Wii game Sky Crawlers (Ace Combat dev team basically made an Ace Combat clone for the Wii) where you can, if you time it right, avoid missiles without having to loop in circles but just hit the direction you're told to move + R. alternatively, if you track an enemy you'll have a gauge fill up as you can then get behind them, though it's not a guarantee that you'll get a kill shot on 'em. it basically speeds up one annoying practice for the former and speeds up the game in general for the latter, with neither being that abusable or spammable in later missions or higher difficulties.
that mechanic makes it a very easy entry point to the series while also satisfying vets of it. the 3D looks pretty nice for it too overall, made the game more fun. the story's lackluster, but it's a complete remake of Ace Combat 2. kinda was expected that it wasn't going to carry something at the level of 5, 0, or 6. closest would be 4 in that regards.
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