Red Wings American Aces Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

by Jim Smale · Published April 5, 2022 · Updated June 4, 2025

Our Red Wings: American Aces Review puts us in the pilot’s seat of a nostalgic, action-packed arcade shooter illustrated in a fun comic-book style with a gaming mode for every occasion—local or online, solo or multiplayer. We attempt to prove ourselves in exciting aerial battles.

Red Wings American Aces Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
3.5GB download size.
Invert axis option.
Tutorial area.
Three game modes – Story, local games, and online games.
Story mode has 30 missions.
A co-op story is possible.
Five planes to unlock, each with unique max speed, endurance, and heat resistance.
Skill tree for ace perks, dogfight perks, and mission perks.
Earn and equip plane skins.
Comic book-style cutscenes.
Can skip cutscenes.
Dogfight gameplay.
Triggering a special attack causes a cool comic book-style cutscene.
Generous hit detection.
End of a level breakdown showing score, takedown, and an overall rank of 1 – 3 stars.
Combo counter.
Fast loading times.
Fly through hoops to regain fuel.
Squadrons can attack you once the ability is charged.
Online settings – quick join, host a game, join by a game ID, and change region.
All planes are unlocked for online play.
Bonus: air balloons you can shoot down.
Night and day levels, along with weather like rain.
Two Vs modes – score team battle and time team battle.
The controls are tight.

Red Wings American Aces Review Cons:

Cannot change the controls.
No difficulties.
If you don’t do the hidden away tutorials, then you will have no idea what’s going on.
Minimal control settings.
The small number of game types.
The story takes ages to get going,g with a lot of the stages just being wave-based fighting.