Most of Bandai Namco’s Ace Fight sequence is ready in its personal solely fictional setting known as Strangereal. A spot of a number of continents, quite a lot of nations and cultures, and lots of, many wars, its timeline isn’t too simple to understand from the skin. However don’t fear, Nugget is right here to assist. In a brand new video sequence, the brand new puppet mascot for Ace Fight explains Strangereal – and thus Ace Fight – historical past.

First launched on video in April 2022, Nugget is a bit of chick, named after the slang time period for rookie fighter pilots. Now Nugget is the official YouTuber for the Ace Fight official channel. Now Nugget’s first presentation focuses on making Ace Fight historical past and Strangereal a bit of extra “actual” to followers new and outdated.

The primary topic of Nugget’s “Strangereal World Setting Commentary” focuses on 2001’s Ace Fight 04: Shattered Skies. English subtitles can be found by way of closed captions.

Nugget introduces the sequence setting by framing it from the angle of the newest entry, Ace Fight 7: Skies Unknown. AC7 takes place in 2019 (of the sport timeline), however AC04 is ready in 2003-2005. Strangereal’s trendy historical past hinges on the arrival of the Ulysses Comet, an asteroid discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. To face the risk, many countries cooperated to construct the superweapon Stonehenge, a large railgun battery. Stonehenge destroyed many incoming comet fragments, however those who received via wrought havoc upon the continent of Usea. The chaos of the catastrophe triggered refugee surges, financial crises, and finally prompted a brand new warfare.

Ace Fight historical past calls Ace Fight 04‘s central battle, “The Continental Struggle”. In the course of the warfare, the nation of Erusea fought towards ISAF, a global army coalition. The participant character, “Mobius 1” turns into a hero pilot of the Continental Struggle, beating again the Erusean forces and defeating the notorious Yellow Squadron. Additionally they destroy Stonehenge. The Eruseans had captured the power to make use of as a strong anti-aircraft protection system.

Ace Fight 7 is accessible on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Bandai Namco celebrated its third birthday with Idolmaster tie-in content material.