Red Wings American Aces Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

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 with a lot of the stages just being wave-based fighting.

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Red Wings American Aces:

Official website.

Developer: All in! Games 

Publisher: All in! Games 

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Nintendo

  • 8/10
    Graphics - 8/10
  • 7/10
    Sound - 7/10
  • 8/10
    Accessibility - 8/10
  • 7/10
    Length - 7/10
  • 8/10
    Fun Factor - 8/10
7.6/10

Summary

Red Wings American Aces is a fantastic arcade plane shooting game. It has a very lenient lock-on system allowing even the worst aimers a fight chance at success, the graphics are crisp, the colors bright, and the gameplay as accessible as a mobile game. You can unlock new skins and planes in the single-player, multiplayer will give you all the planes upfront but you earn the skins to show off. It’s a good little package and a good arcade romp.

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!