{"id":1825,"date":"2026-09-09T17:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:15:17","slug":"ace-combat-8-hands-on-preview-made-for-veterans-approachable-for-newcomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1825","title":{"rendered":"Ace Combat 8 Hands-On Preview: Made For Veterans, Approachable For Newcomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never played an <em>Ace Combat<\/em> game. I am such a complete newbie that when I went to try it at a hands-on event for Bandai Namco&#8217;s upcoming <em><strong>Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve<\/strong><\/em>, I managed to fail the first tutorial mission on the lowest difficulty. But by the end of our play session, I had successfully completed a full sortie. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never played an Ace Combat game. I am such a complete newbie that when I went to try it at a hands-on event for Bandai Namco&#8217;s upcoming Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}