Stumbled on this comment on youtube and I mostly agree with it.
You know, after learning about Mihaly again, through every little detail, it turns out that Mihaly is... ...A deconstructed version of an Ace Combat Player: Us.
Let's see...
-) It's been a while since there's an Ace Combat game, with Infinity released at 2014, there's a 5 year gap before AC7 came out. Technically, we have became veterans that haven't flown the skies for a while. Mihaly is an old, legendary ace, just like us.
-) "There are pilots like you in every generation, and I felled every last one of them." Yellow Squadron? Pixy? Belka's aces? Ilya Pasternak? Even Milosz Sulejmani and Andrei Markov? We have shot them all down.
-) Mihaly shot down Brownie, who's already trying to flee instead of fighting back. Some of us did that too, as Mercenary Cipher, and even Mobius 1 shot down some fleeing copters.
-) Mihaly is greatly feared by his enemies so much that people thinks no normal experienced pilots can match him. We never had problems with normal enemy planes either, only very few aces gave us trouble. Same thing at how Mihaly destroys so many Osean forces at Farbanti without the Sol squadron helping him.
-) You're saying Mihaly can survive a lot of missiles is cheating? Didn't we get the same treatment all this time? The game even explains how this is possible.
-) Notice that outside of story dialogues, most of Mihaly's radio chatters are mostly "Taking evasive action", "I have a lock", "Taking fire", "Fox 2", "Shaking bandit", and so on? That's mostly what AWACS will say to us in a dogfight.
-) I don't know about you, but there has to be a moment when you went "Huh, that's not bad, but you're dead now" to an enemy plane, similar to Mihaly 'toying' with his enemies before shooting them down.
-) If you survived for a while at mission 7, Mihaly will say "He dodged again... Interesting.". Honestly, would you say the same thing when you encounter a unique enemy that looks like any other normal fighter, but he's able to evade your missiles several times? And, when Mihaly was finally shot down, he survived, but he cannot fly again. I wonder how many of us 'gave up' and stopped playing the game when someone shot you down too many times in multiplayer...?
