i forgot how brutal this game is. almost every explosion has a human body flying through the air, sometimes multiple.<p>you basically go bomb buildings, there is no concept of civilian vs military targets. your job is to completely obliterate every single standing structure that is not the same color as you. the enemy pilots you fight are all suicidal, they come directly for your plan without even a hint of trying to avoid you.<p>the only way to 'win' is to triumph over a desolate landscape of complete and utter destruction, not a single standing building left in the entire area except for your hangar and fuel depot. no concept of roads, houses, anything, it presents a kind of dystopian industrial void where life only exists for one purpose - to create airplanes to blow up each others buildings.<p>not only this but it has landscape deformation, something many games still do not have in 2023. the idea of explosions without craters, a kind of sanitized version of how pressure waves work in real life. Sopwith had it realistic in that aspect at least.<p>but what a bleak and desolate lanscape. a small valley, no way out, except mass extermination of all other signs of life. a denuded pixel landscape of harsh white is all that stands after victory.<p>anyways still loads of fun. not sure what it means to have us as a species programmed to love destruction.